{"id":15377,"date":"2021-06-26T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndarason.com\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:46:10","slug":"kura-bari-program-twitter-suspension-what-does-that-mean-to-freedom-of-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/kura-bari-program-twitter-suspension-what-does-that-mean-to-freedom-of-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Kura Bari Program: Twitter Suspension: What does that mean to freedom of expression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Our topic today in Kura Bari Program is Twitter Suspension: What does that mean to freedom of expression?<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has suspended the use of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, in Nigeria indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s account for violating its rules.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our guests are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr Nura Ibrahim<\/strong>, head of department of information and media studies at Bayero University in Kano;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jibrin Ibrahim Usman<\/strong>, an ICT expert;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Muhammed Umaru<\/strong> Maigana, a legal practitioner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Ndarason\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-946373617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ndarason<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Kura Bari Program On Twitter Suspension In Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-946373617\/kura-bari-program-on-twitter-suspension-in-nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kura Bari Program On Twitter Suspension In Nigeria<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kura-bari","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50854,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions\/50854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}