Nigeria Twitter ban

Pyrrhic victory: Nigeria will pay for its punitive treatment of Twitter

Pyrrhic victory: Nigeria will pay for its punitive treatment of Twitter

By Olu Fasan LAI Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, recently struck a triumphalist tone as he announced that the Federal Government would soon lift its ban on Twitter because the social media platform had agreed to stringent government controls. That defies conventional wisdom that, due to the disciplining forces of globalisation, governments tend […]