Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight (23:00 GMT) onward after the social media platform pledged to open a local office, among other agreements made with authorities in the West African country, a senior government official said on Wednesday.The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4 after it removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists. Telecoms companies subsequently blocked access to users in Nigeria.Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director general of the National Information Technology Development Agency, said in a statement that Buhari had given approval to lift the suspension.
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