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Hello and welcome!

Our topic today in Kura Bari Program is Twitter Suspension: What does that mean to freedom of expression?

The federal government has suspended the use of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, in Nigeria indefinitely.

The decision, which has angered the nearly 40-million Twitter users in the country, was announced on Thursday, June 3, by the Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, just two days after Twitter deleted a comment from the president’s account for violating its rules.

Canada, the European Union, Ireland, the United States and Britain condemned the suspension. In a joint statement they urged the Nigerian government to review the decision.

Our guests are:

Dr Nura Ibrahim, head of department of information and media studies at Bayero University in Kano;

Jibrin Ibrahim Usman, an ICT expert;

Muhammed Umaru Maigana, a legal practitioner.