{"id":44670,"date":"2021-06-07T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=44670"},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:51:02","slug":"fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban","title":{"rendered":"FG summons UK, US envoys over comments on Twitter ban"},"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 Federal Government on Monday summoned the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union in Nigeria over comments on the suspension of Twitter in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation was contained in a statement issued and made available to newsmen on Monday by the spokesman of the Crisis Monitoring and Public Communications Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the meeting is scheduled to take place by 12pm at the Minister\u2019s Conference Room, 8th Floor.<\/p>\n<p>NBC summons Brekete host Ahmad Isah for assaulting woman<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am directed to inform that following the recent ban on Twitter by the Federal Government and Press Statement issued by some Heads of Diplomatic Missions Accredited to Nigeria on the subject matter, the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency, Geoffrey Onyeama has invited the affected Ambassadors to a meeting today at 12 noon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that following the suspension of the microblogging platform, the invited envoys had jointly kicked against the decision of the Federal Government stressing that banning systems of expression is not the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari appoints 75-year-old Kingibe as Special Envoy to Chad, Lake Basin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government on Monday summoned the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union in Nigeria over comments on the suspension of Twitter in the country. The invitation was contained in a statement issued and made available to newsmen on Monday by the spokesman of the Crisis Monitoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,254,4442,374,373],"class_list":["post-44670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-nigeria","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-us"],"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>FG summons UK, US envoys over comments on Twitter ban - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government on Monday summoned the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union in Nig ...\" \/>\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\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FG summons UK, US envoys over comments on Twitter ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government on Monday summoned the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union in Nig ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-07T17:00:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60be4e4ab2e5a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"FG summons UK, US envoys over comments on Twitter ban\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-07T17:00:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban\"},\"wordCount\":206,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60be4e4ab2e5a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Nigeria\",\"twitter\",\"UK\",\"US\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fg-summons-uk-us-envoys-over-comments-on-twitter-ban\",\"name\":\"FG summons UK, US envoys over comments on Twitter ban - 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