Today's Headlines:FG Threatens To Suspend Facebook, WhatsApp, Others.
Starr7 22h President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on Tuesday threatened to suspend all social media platforms that allow their apps to be used to propagate the division of Nigeria through their posts. The Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this claim on Tuesday before the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Information, Justice, and Communication at the National Assembly. The minister was invited to the House to answering questions on the ban on Twitter. Mohammed further stated that the social media platform made its platform available as a choice for people who want to destabilise and cause disunity in Nigeria. “ We want Twitter to be registered first in the country before they can operate,” he said. On whether any channel of dialogue had been opened with Twitter, the minister said “we tried to but they rebuffed us. They are not known to us. They are not registered, but we hope we will be able to engage them” The minister added that the Nigeria Governm