The Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), an industry group, says it had received directives from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the industry regulator, to suspend access to Twitter. The President of ALTON, Mr Gbenga Adebayo, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, […]

Zagus Power Systems Limited, Lagos based power solutions provider has introduced Zektron, a Turkish manufactured brand of Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVR), Smart-UPS, and renewable energy systems to provide power solutions geared toward eliminating the gap of the epileptic power situation in the Nigerian market. The Zektron according to Zagus Power Systems, is aimed at providing […]

By Emmanuel Okogba The Federal Government has followed through with its decision to ban the operations of microblogging site, Twitter in Nigeria after citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining the nation’s corporate existence as its reason for the action. A directive was, Friday night, given to telecommunication […]

The Federal Government has suspended indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement in Abuja on Friday. The minister cited the persistent use of the platform for activities capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence. ALSO […]

In his reaction, Lai Mohammed, accused Twitter of double standard, saying Twitter had deliberately ignored inciting tweets by the leader of…