Twitter ban, Tinubu’s tweeps, and N500bn Tantrum
After 5,328 hours, amounting to 222 days, the Nigerian government lifted the ban on Twitter operations in the country earlier in the week.
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Tracking Nigeria’s politico-economic crisis, Twitter and tighter civic spaces, and lessons from the rice and rise of Ghana
A trend analysis of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measured in constant prices shows that the country’s domestic output has been declining since 2010, after the Musa Yar’adua administration, while inflation has been rising lately.
#keepItOn: The Cost of #Twitterban in Nigeria
Nigeria has been losing 2.2 billion naira (N2,177,089,051) each day since the #Twitterban, using the exchange rate as of November 2019, according to Netblocks’ estimates.