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General News of Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

'Twitter agrees to open office in Nigeria' - Lai Mohammed

Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed

Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed has revealed that social media giant, Twitter has agreed to open an office in Nigeria, a few months after it opened its first African office in Ghana.

According to Lai, opening the office was one of the conditions the government gave Twitter before its operations can resume in the country.

“I know that one of the conditions that we set was that Twitter, in line with Nigeria’s Companies and Allied Matters Act, should establish a presence in Nigeria with registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission

“And we think it is the only thing, that if you want to do business in Nigeria, you must register first as a Nigerian company and of course, you must have an address,” the minister said on Wednesday, August 11, 2021.

The office in Nigeria is not expected to be operational until 2022 and may be headed by a staff of management cadre that will serve as the country representative.

Twitter was suspended in Nigeria after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari evoking the memories of the Nigerian Civil War was deleted by the platform.