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 The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and different members of the global communities to straight away impose visa ban on President Muhammadu Buhari and participants of his cabinet concerned in the current suspension of the microblogging site, Twitter, in the country. The main opposition party premised its demand on what it referred to as “the violation of United Nations International Charter on Human Rights by President Muhammadu Buhari by banning the use of Twitter in Nigeria.” In a assertion issued through its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP insisted that banning Twitter in Nigeria “is a clear violation of Article 19 of the UN Charter as well as section 39 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which assured freedom of expression to all Nigerians.” The party also urged the world bodies to sanction Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami

  The joint minority caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has called on Nigerians to bypass the ban placed by the Federal Government on Twitter and proceed to use the social media platform. The National Assembly caucus, which described the ban as draconian, decried that many Nigerians are dropping their sources of livelihood to the action. The Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe; and Minority Leader of the House, Ndudi Elumelu, mentioned this in a declaration issued on Wednesday, titled ‘NASS Joint Minority Caucus Asks Nigerians to Continue Using Twitter.’ According to the statement, the joint caucus met over the ban through the All Progressives Congress authorities and “restates its condemnation of the embargo as draconian and unacceptable.” The opposition lawmakers additionally pushed aside threats with the aid of the government to arrest and prosecute Nigerians for the use of twitter, calling on Nigerians to “go beforehand and use their Twitter

  The United States of America has once more advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to rethink and rescind the Twitter ban in Nigeria. This message was once conveyed by a pinnacle American official and senior diplomat, who is the present day administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power. Power, in a tweet on her demonstrated deal with on Wednesday, wrote, “There are almost forty million Twitter customers in #Nigeria, and the united states is domestic to Africa’s greatest tech hub. “This suspension is nothing extra than state-sanctioned denial of free speech and need to be reversed immediately. #KeepItOn.” Recall that the Federal Government via the workplace of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had banned Twitter. Much later, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had criminalised every body getting access to the microblogging website online via any different means, even although he logged on t

  Nigeria’s media and activists worry of their country is slipping into repression after the authorities suspended Twitter in Africa’s most populous nation, where hyper-connected youth embraced the platform as a skill of protest. The choice on Friday, days after Twitter deleted a statement from President Muhammadu Buhari, has already provoked worldwide outcry over freedom of expression and calls for protests on line and on the street. “It is very essential we push lower back and fast, due to the fact they may want to go further,” stated a social media govt at a principal TV station who requested to stay anonymous. More than a hundred and twenty million Nigerians have get admission to to the internet, and almost forty million of them have a Twitter account — 20 percentage of the population, in accordance to Lagos-based researcher NOI Polls. France, with the aid of comparison, has solely eight million Twitter users. Nigeria’s numbers are defined in section by means of its massive and you

  A year after he was killed, the family of Alexander Kareem, the late brother of reality TV megastar Khafi Kareem are appealing for clean facts on their son’s killers. “We would do whatever to have our Alexander back, and so would the neighborhood that he was such a large part of,” the family stated in a statement on Metropolitan Police website. “In what has been an unbelievably difficult year for us as a family, the hardest part of all is that this story has not ended. “We proceed to urge anyone who is aware of what took place that night to call the police, or call Crime stoppers totally anonymously. We trust that someone inside this neighborhood is aware of what has happened, please assist us.” “This year was going to be his “his year”, a entire year of milestones he was so excited about. Kareem was fatally shot in Askew Road, Shepherd’s Bush on Monday, eight June 2020. He had been riding an e-scooter alongside Askew Road to a friend’s house. According to Met Police, it is believed