Days after Twitter was suspended in Nigeria, the federal government opened an official account on Koo, an Indian microblogging platform.
The account, with the handle, “@nigeriagov”, and username, Government of Nigeria”, had over 60,000 followers as of July 5.
Candidreporters.com earlier reported that on June 4, the federal government suspended the operations of Twitter in Nigeria, accusing the microblogging site of undermining Nigeria’s existence.
The suspension came days after a post by President Muhammadu Buhari on the 1967 civil war was deleted by Twitter — even though the government claims that both events are not related.
The ban of Twitter, which has about 40 million users in Nigeria, appears to be the beginning of what the government had planned to do over the years — the regulation of social media. In fact, the federal government has since asked the house of representatives to enact a law to regulate social and online media in Nigeria.
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