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Breaking:Nigeria Suspends Twitter Indefinately
CNN ^ | 4June, 2021 | Mini Princewell

Posted on 06/04/2021 7:24:53 PM PDT by tcrlaf

The Nigerian government says it has "indefinitely suspended" Twitter's operations in the country, the Ministry of Information and Culture announced in a statement on Friday.

"The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria," it read. The statement, which was posted on the ministry's official Twitter handle on Friday evening, accused the American social media company of allowing its platform to be used "for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence." The suspension comes two days after Twitter deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that was widely perceived as offensive.

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The Irony of Twitter complaining about being suspended for censorship would be laughable, if it weren’t so damned ironic.
1 posted on 06/04/2021 7:24:53 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Next they need to ban facebook


2 posted on 06/04/2021 7:25:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: tcrlaf

NOT NIGERIA!!!!


3 posted on 06/04/2021 7:26:07 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: tcrlaf

take this one with a grain of salt. it’s nigeria.


4 posted on 06/04/2021 7:28:07 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: tcrlaf

I don’t even care about WHY twitter is being suspended. They have become an enemy to me.


5 posted on 06/04/2021 7:28:55 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: tcrlaf

Good for Nigeria. The human race had been living large without Twitter until just a few years ago. Access to Twitter
is not is essential, many times, not even benifical.


6 posted on 06/04/2021 7:29:06 PM PDT by lee martell
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NIGERIA CALLS TWITTER A SCAM!


7 posted on 06/04/2021 7:29:18 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And a lot of other countries need to get in line.

I’ve never used either of these things, and the only reason they thrive is because people DO use them.

They have no right to dictate what information people can see.


8 posted on 06/04/2021 7:31:10 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Probably Twitter to be replaced by a Nigerian national system of personal emails sent to Americans and funded by the kind generosity of those who send their banking PIN, account numbers and passwords. For a good cause.


9 posted on 06/04/2021 7:32:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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U.N. lends megaphone to Nigerian genocide
9/21/2017, 4:00:59 AM · by BeadCounter · 8 replies
The Washington Times ^ | September 20, 2017 | Bruce Fein
U.N. lends megaphone to Nigerian genocide Nigerian genocide holds Christians in bondage ANALYSIS/OPINION: The United Nations will live in infamy for lending its megaphone on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, to Nigeria’s elected military dictator Muhammadu Buhari. The Hausa-Fulani Muslim strongman is currently orchestrating genocide as defined by the Genocide Convention against Nigeria’s 50 million Igbo people because of their ethnicity and unwavering devotion to Christianity. Buhari’s genocide marks the culmination of a long train of Biafran subjugation by radical Hausa-Fulani Islamic terrorists. The dictator’s power is anchored to an illegitimate constitution decreed by a military dictator in 1999 to...


10 posted on 06/04/2021 7:33:09 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: tcrlaf

Talk about White Privilege.


11 posted on 06/04/2021 7:34:39 PM PDT by jd777
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To: tcrlaf
Twitter suspended a mohammedan for threatening Christians?

That is odd.

12 posted on 06/04/2021 7:35:37 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. (I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.))
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To: tcrlaf

Was it because he tweeted something offensive about gays or did he say something that might embarass his international associates?


13 posted on 06/04/2021 7:36:27 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Jamestown1630

Does that include adjectives?


14 posted on 06/04/2021 7:37:36 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: piasa

Obama-Backed Muslim Ex-Dictator “Wins” Nigerian Election (Boko Haram jazzed)
4/1/2015, 7:37:30 PM · by Libloather · 17 replies
Frontpage Mag ^ | 3/31/15 | Daniel Greenfield
Boko Haram was a vehicle for Muslim political interests inside and outside Nigeria to destabilize the oil-rich country. By the end, even the Obama administration made it clear that Muhammadu Buhari, the Muslim ex-dictator who had seized power in a coup before being overthrown, was their choice. Simpson reports that Secretary of State John Kerry “made a mockery of the administration’s pretext by hinting in January meetings with both Jonathan and Buhari that the Obama administration might allow weapon sales after the election.” Now the election came out their way, but the weapons sales may be surplus to requirements. Boko...


15 posted on 06/04/2021 7:40:04 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Jamestown1630
And a lot of other countries need to get in line

Half of the world needs to ban Twitter. And with half of USA not using Twitter (MAGA crowd), Twitter will be done.

16 posted on 06/04/2021 7:41:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: piasa

White mercenaries have Boko Haram on run
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/white-mercenaries-have-boko-haram-on-run/ ^ | 5-13-2015
Posted on 5/15/2015, 6:58:05 PM by UMCRevMom@aol.com

They’re Nigeria’s unlikely saviors – most being white, in their 50s and 60s and combat veterans of the former South African apartheid regime.

But, tainted resumes notwithstanding, they’ve been getting the job done in northern Nigeria, hitting the Islamist terror group Boko Haram hard enough to send the jihadists into retreat, liberating dozens of villages and freeing hundreds of women and girls held as slaves and “bush wives” during a six-year-long reign of terror, reported London Telegraph.

Boko Haram recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In recent years, Boko Haram has slaughtered entire villages, burned countless churches and targeted Christians and moderate Muslims for death. It received global attention last year for abducting nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls.

The squad of mostly-white bush-warfare experts is employed by Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection, a private army run by Colonel Eeben Barlow, a former commander in the South African Defense Force, where he defended the regime against insurrection and fought border wars 30 years ago in neighboring Angola and Namibia.

Barlow’s firm was hired by Nigeria outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan in January, as the failure of his administration to stop Boko Haram or free kidnapped schoolgirls became major campaign issues ahead of the March election.

As WND has reported, despite first lady Michelle Obama’s much-publicized Twitter campaign to #BringBackOurGirls, President Obama withheld weapons and intelligence support from Nigeria in its fight against the Islamists because Jonathan’s administration stood by the nation’s laws criminalizing homosexual acts and strictly forbidding same-sex marriage.

Jonathan was defeated in the March election by retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who ruled as dictator there from 1983 until 1985, when he was removed through a coup. Buhari’s campaign was run by the political firm founded by key Obama strategist David Axelrod.

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17 posted on 06/04/2021 7:42:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Why can’t we ban twitter like Nigeria? /s


18 posted on 06/04/2021 7:42:38 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: tcrlaf

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and its population will exceed that of the United States around 2047.

https://nigeriana.org/buzz-list/nigeria-become-worlds-third-populous-country-2050/


19 posted on 06/04/2021 7:42:39 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Fungi

I thought you had decided to no longer communicate with me.(You seemed to have gotten your nose out of joint over something or other...)


20 posted on 06/04/2021 7:42:48 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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