Twitter ban costing Nigeria N90.7m every hour since shutdown - Report shows

Nigeria loses over N90 million for every hour the social media app, Twitter is shutdown by the Federal Government, a new report has estimated to show the cost of the ban.

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, had announced that the Nigerian government has decided to ban operations of Twitter within the country, without giving a specific time frame.

Former US President, Donald Trump, banned for two years by Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook.

Although, Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, said the ban was temporary, nevertheless, the decision is hurting the country's economy.