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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The House of Representatives on Tuesday, summoned the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to appear before the house to explain the reasons behind the suspension of the microblogging platform, Twitter.<\/p>\n

Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, who disclosed the summons on Tuesday at plenary, said the social media platform remains important in the country particularly amongst the youths.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reports that the Minister had last Friday, announced an indefinite ban on Twitter for allegedly allowing contents that are capable of destabilising the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe House of Representatives recognises that Twitter, like other social media networks, is an important tool for communication and commerce in Nigeria, particularly amongst the younger generation who have used these networks for enterprise and innovation with great success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proper role of the legislature in circumstances like this is first to peel back the layers of the decision-making process to unravel the issues until we develop an understanding of the why and the how of executive decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing that, the legislature must make sure that regulatory and enforcement actions by the government are in accordance with the laws of the land, that due process of law has been followed to the latter and that the outcomes of regulatory decisions do not result in adverse consequences for the country and all our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House further directed the joint committees on Commerce, Information and National Ethics, as well as Justice to carry out an investigation and send in its report within 10days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The House of Representatives on Tuesday, summoned the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to appear before the house to explain the reasons behind the suspension of the microblogging platform, Twitter. Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, who disclosed the summons on Tuesday at plenary, said the social media platform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,50,254,1589,4442],"class_list":["post-44739","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-lai-mohammed","tag-nigeria","tag-reps","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"\nReps move to investigate Twitter ban, summons Lai Mohammed - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The House of Representatives on Tuesday, summoned the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to appear ...\" \/>\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\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reps move to investigate Twitter ban, summons Lai Mohammed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The House of Representatives on Tuesday, summoned the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to appear ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-08T17:50:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60bf94e5bd255.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=\"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\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Reps move to investigate Twitter ban, summons Lai Mohammed\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-08T17:50:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed\"},\"wordCount\":261,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60bf94e5bd255.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Lai Mohammed\",\"Nigeria\",\"Reps\",\"twitter\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reps-move-to-investigate-twitter-ban-summons-lai-mohammed\",\"name\":\"Reps move to investigate Twitter ban, summons Lai Mohammed - 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