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Nigeria Finally "Un-Bans" Twitter
It was a bit of a slow news week (unless you count in some of the raises by some startups) but the biggest news was the Nigerian government finally “un-banning” Twitter in Nigeria.
Background: Nigeria officially banned Twitter six months after the company had removed a tweet by President Buhari because it violated one of its rules.
The Nigerian government retaliated by suspending Twitter’s operations in the country, accusing the American social media giant of allowing its platform to be used “for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.”
Now it looks like Twitter kissed and made up with Nigeria.
But for how long? Nigerians had been using VPN to go around the ban. So will they keep using it with the ban lifted?
We’ll see.
On to the news for the week:
Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh has been appointed by Microsoft as its Strategic Partnership Lead for Africa in its new AfricaTransformation Office.
Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency exchange, will bring its global brand and technology to African football, as it announces its partnership with the Confederation of African Football (CAF)
The world is moving to Web3, a new iteration of the world wide web-based on decentralization with blockchain and crypto technology, allowing companies to build new things that provide unique value to society
Afrikrea, the e-commerce platform for “all things made of Africa”, has announced the successful completion of a US$6.2M pre-Series A round
SeamlessHR, the leading human resources (HR) and payroll technology company in Africa, announces it has raised $10 million in Series A funding.