Hours ago through its Ministry of Information and Culture today, the Nigerian government announced its decision to suspend the operations of social media platform Twitter in the country.

The statement, made by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, and signed off by his media aide Segun Adeyemi, could see telecoms in the country prevent Nigerians from using Twitter.

Here’s the statement issued by the ministry:

“The Federal Government has suspended indefinitely the operations of the microblogging and social networking service Twitter in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, citing the presistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.

The Minister said the Federal Government has also directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria.”

Less than 5hours after this statement was released, thousands of Nigerian migrated to a new and fast rising social media platform known as Linkup9ja (www.linkup9ja.com ) which was launched months ago . Having very similar user environment with the recently banned Twitter , Linkup9ja is slowly become the people’s choice.

Top influencers like Segalinks made tweets about the new platform before few hours ago
https://twitter.com/segalink/status/1400872476691812360?s=21
Also popular ig influencers like mr macaroni made promotions about the platform a while back

Una dey mad be that.

Forum you can't access unless you register.

How do I know if it is not some Pantanmi data mining venture?

migrating kua u n d abokis shey

even if dem dey share money i no go join

Nigerians will use their hands to destroy that site from progress just like the two mother hen above me

Who be the Nigerians u Dey talk?

To register first na turnoff.

What are you saying don’t you register on Twitter?

It’s okay to register on Twitter but the one owned by a Nigerian it’s a crime to register lol , some Nigerians have a disturbing way of submitting to everything foreign