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Nigeria orders broadcasters not to use Twitter to gather information

A man looks at newspapers at a newsstand in Abuja, Nigeria. [Reuters]

Nigerian television and radio stations should not use Twitter to gather information and have to de-activate their accounts, the broadcast authority said following the move to suspend the U.S. social media giant in Africa’s most populous country.

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