{"id":44641,"date":"2021-06-07T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=44641"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:23:43","slug":"twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari","title":{"rendered":"Twitter ban: Sanwo-Olu advises Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the Federal Government can handle the Twitter ban in the country better.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu stated this while appearing on Arise TV on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s government can sign \u2018rules of engagement\u2019 with Twitter on the use of the micro-blogging platform in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sanwo-Olu, \u201cPeople are losing money but there are also security issues. Let us be circumspect and not throw the baby away with the bathwater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu commends UNILAG for sacking randy lecturers<\/p>\n<p>The Buhari government blocked Twitter on Saturday morning, citing the \u201cpersistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria\u2019s corporate existence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This followed a deletion of a controversial civil war post by the President.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu added: \u201cRegarding the specifics around Twitter, I cannot sit down here with all of the responsibilities that I have and fly (sic) the commander in chief of the armed forces. He would have the prognosis and security information that I do not have. I cannot begin to say that what he\u2019s done is right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I see is that on both sides, there are issues that can be resolved between Twitter and the (Federal) Government and I think what they\u2019ve done is not a ban but a suspension. So, in the period of suspension, let us sit down\u2026we need to have that conversation with them (Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other climes, they sign some underlying agreements on the rules of engagement. I am not sure what is happening here. Having said that, the Federal Government can also handle things a lot better because of the number of e-commerce, because of the number of youths that are doing a lot of things on the internet and we cannot throw that away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe there could be better restraint and management from both sides. In the next one or two days, let us see that happen. Lagos is hurting, our youths are hurting, Nigeria is hurting, let us understand the issues and put it behind us so that we don\u2019t politicise it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biafra: IPOB won\u2019t attack Lagos \u2013 Ohanaeze Ndigbo president assures Sanwo-Olu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the Federal Government can handle the Twitter ban in the country better. Sanwo-Olu stated this while appearing on Arise TV on Monday morning. He noted that President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s government can sign \u2018rules of engagement\u2019 with Twitter on the use of the micro-blogging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,254,687,4444],"class_list":["post-44641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria","tag-sanwo-olu","tag-twitter-ban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twitter ban: Sanwo-Olu advises Buhari - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the Federal Government can handle the Twitter ban in the count ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twitter ban: Sanwo-Olu advises Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the Federal Government can handle the Twitter ban in the count ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-07T17:08:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60be47ea3ff4a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Twitter ban: Sanwo-Olu advises Buhari\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-07T17:08:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari\"},\"wordCount\":372,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60be47ea3ff4a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\",\"Sanwo-Olu\",\"Twitter ban\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/twitter-ban-sanwo-olu-advises-buhari\",\"name\":\"Twitter ban: Sanwo-Olu advises Buhari - 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