NBC To License All Social Media ‘Operations’ In Nigeria – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), will immediately commence the process of licensing all social media operations in Nigeria.

NBC is the regulator of all radio and television stations in Nigeria.

The minister announced this just as he said the Federal Government has also suspended the micro-blogging platform, Twitter, which is popularly used by Nigerian youths, the elite, and the middle class.

The government’s action followed Twitter’s deletion of a ‘civil war’ post by President Muhammadu Buhari which the social media platform said violated its policies.

Other social media platforms used by Nigerians include Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, amongst others.

In a statement on Friday by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi, the minister said the measure is with immediate effect.

The minister’s statement was also silent on the time that the ban would be enforced.

The statement titled, ‘FG Suspends Twitter’s Operations in Nigeria’, read, “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria.