{"id":80069,"date":"2025-12-11T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80069"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:32:33","slug":"suspending-twitter-was-my-hardest-decision-lai-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/11\/suspending-twitter-was-my-hardest-decision-lai-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspending Twitter Was My Hardest Decision -Lai Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the 2021 suspension of Twitter was one of the toughest decisions he took in office.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on his new book, Mohammed insisted the action was taken in the national interest, not because Twitter deleted a tweet by then President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the platform had become a hub for groups \u201cdestabilising the country,\u201d making government intervention necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed also defended the administration\u2019s push to regulate social media, warning that unregulated platforms could become \u201ca disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter suspension, imposed shortly after the deletion of Buhari\u2019s civil-war-related post, lasted until January 2022, when the government lifted it after the company agreed to set conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the 2021 suspension of Twitter was one of the toughest decisions he took in office. In an interview on his new book, Mohammed insisted the action was taken in the national interest, not because Twitter deleted a tweet by then President Muhammadu Buhari. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80071,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80069\/revisions\/80071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}