In early June, the Nigerian government announced that it had banned the use of Twitter in the country. This followed the media platform's decision to delete a tweet by the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on the grounds that it violated the platform's rules.
The Attorney General of Nigeria, Abubakar Malami, vowed to prosecute violators of the ban, a threat that he later recanted.
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