The Federal Government on Tuesday affirmed that Twitter has officially written to look for exchange on issues prompting the inconclusive suspension of its activities in the country.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, affirmed this when he highlighted on “Legislative issues Nationwide,” a Radio Nigeria bring in program checked by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

“I can affirm that Twitter has composed the Federal Government that they are prepared to talk. As we have consistently kept up, the entryway isn’t bolted and we are liberal yet Twitter should pursue it,” he said.

The minister repeated the public authority’s position that it would not endure any stage that would be utilized to destabilize the country.

Mohammed said among different conditions for Twitter to continue activity in Nigeria, there should be an understanding with regards to what substance it could post.

He said Twitter and different stages should likewise enlist as a Nigerian organization, acquire a permit from the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and be guided by the guidelines of the permitting just as settle charges.

According to the minister, guideline of web-based media stages is turning into a worldwide practice.

He said most nations were simply awakening to the way that the stages were getting more remarkable than even government and should have been controlled.

“Singapore, Algeria, Pakistan, Turkey manage the online media, Australia has done as such. Indeed, even EU that doesn’t have specific laws via web-based media has made proposals in a white paper,” he said.

The minister said that the United Kingdom started another law that would make web-based media organizations be fined as much as 18 million pounds (about N10.8 billion) on the off chance that they neglected to get rid of online maltreatments.

He said Google was fined 220 million Euros (about N110 billion) on June 7 by French Competition Regulator for manhandling its strength in the internet promoting market in France.

Likewise, the minister said the Federal Cabinet of Pakistan had endorsed another arrangement of rules to control online media.

In the principles, according to the minister, organizations like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even TikTok were to enlist and open workplaces in Pakistan.

He said in consistence with the new web based telecom rule of Turkey, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video had acquired licenses from that nation’s communicating authority.

Mohammed noticed that guideline of web-based media was not inseparable from smothering press opportunity.

“We should not mistake press opportunity for flightiness. How might you remain in your country and permit your own foundation to be utilized to engender battle in another country?

“The suspension of Twitter is to guarantee that no specific stage is utilized to cause battle in Nigeria. Also, it is to guarantee that whoever is bringing in cash in Nigeria should be made to settle charge.

“Our appeal to Nigerians is that they ought to comprehend where we are coming from.

We have no expectation to smother individuals’ opportunity or to remove the wellspring of vocation of anyone.

“There should be a country without battle before we can discuss opportunity and a wellspring of living,” he said.

Notwithstanding the tremendous interest in the water area by the public authority and global associations, water shortage has developed to turn into a lasting bad dream for inhabitants of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Twitter has composed FG over suspension, looks for exchange, says Lai Mohammed