Nigeria’s Twitter Ban.

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readJul 7, 2021

A prelude to a bloody revolution?

Ayanfe Olarinde via unsplash

The banning of twitter in Africa’s largest economy took place over a month ago. Those whose businesses are inextricably linked to selling their wares online have found things pretty hard going, ever since.

The blanket ban by the Nigerian government was in retaliation to twitter’s decision to delete the post of President Muhammadu Buhari, whose incendiary comments…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible