Nigeria: Laws Which Guided Nigerian Govt's Decision to Ban Twitter - Lai Mohammed

The Nigerian government suspended Twitter from operating in Nigeria on June 4.

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said the Nigerian government relied on the constitution, National Security Act, the Cybercrime law and Companies and Allied Matters Act, (CAMA) before it decided to suspend Twitter's operations.

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