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Twitter Ban: SERAP Drags FG, Lai Mohammed to Court Over Ban on Broadcasters

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: June 14, 2025
Last updated: June 14, 2025
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Twitter Ban: SERAP Drags FG, Lai Mohammed to Court Over Ban on Broadcasters | Daily Report Nigeria
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government and the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed to a Federal High Court in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

The suit is challenging the federal government’s directive to Nigerian broadcasters to stop using micro blogging platform, Twitter, for the sharing of content.

Recall that the government had imposed a ban on the usage of Twitter in Nigeria, following the deletion of President Buhari’s tweet by the social media giants.

The ban on broadcast houses also affect all television and radio stations licenced by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

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According to SERAP, the order was a “ploy to harass, intimidate, suspend or impose criminal punishment on journalists and broadcast stations for using social media platforms.”

In the suit with number FHC/ABJ/CS/496/2021, SERAP is “seeking an order of perpetual injunction, restraining the government, Information Minister Lai Mohammed, the NBC, and others from censoring and controlling the social media operations and contents.”

The rights group is also seeking “an order declaring the NBC action unconstitutional and inconsistent with the Nigerian constitution of 1999 [as amended], and the country’s obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.”

SERAP accused the Buhari administration of crackdown on media freedom, the rights of citizens to freedom of expression and access to information.

“The court has an important role to play in the protection and preservation of the rule of law to ensure that persons and institutions operate within the defined ambit of the constitutional and statutory limitations.

“Where agencies of government are allowed to operate at large and at their whims and caprices in the guise of performing their statutory duties, the end result will be anarchy, licentiousness, authoritarianism and brigandage,” the organization warned.

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