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General News of Wednesday, 18 August 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Lai Mohammed allegedly embarks on US trip to meet with Twitter executives

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed onboard a Delta Airline Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed onboard a Delta Airline

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed is alleged to have traveled to the U.S to meet top executives of the micro-blogging platform, Twitter, according to SaharaReporters.

While MyNigeria.com couldn't independently verify when the video was recorded and the destination of Mr. Mohammed, the U.S based online portal said it obtained an exclusive video of the minister and Olusegun Adeyemi, Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, in a Delta Airline heading to the US.

This follows an indefinite ban placed on the popular micro-blogging platform on June 5, 2021, over some deleted tweets of President Buhari warning the Southeastern people of Nigeria against secession agenda and threatening to deal with them "in the language they understand".

A top source who disclosed the destination and the mission of the government team to SaharaReporters, said, "You can see Lai Mohammed trying to disguise with a face cap, he flew on seat 8A in the business class section of Delta Airline from Lagos to New York.

"He flew with his Special Assistant, Olusegun Adeyemi who took seat 8C in the business class."

This comes after a statement by Mohammed last Wednesday that Nigeria would soon lift its ban on Twitter after resolving some of its differences with the social media platform, signaling the end of a policy widely condemned as an affront to freedom of expression.