Diplomatic community condemns Nigeria’s Twitter ban

Lifting the ban on Twitter will boost economic growth

Estimates show that approximately 40 million Nigerians, or 20% of the country's population, have a Twitter account.

The diplomatic community in Nigeria has expressed disappointment over the country’s indefinite suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter. In a joint statement issued on Saturday, the diplomatic missions of Canada, the European Union (Delegation to

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