The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has approved the conditional lifting of microblogging site, Twitter’s ban.

President Buhari made the announcement during a broadcast to mark Nigeria’s 61st Independence Anniversary on Friday in Abuja.

The Federal Government had suspended the operations of Twitter in Nigeria on June 5.

Buhari announced that the Presidential Committee he constituted, along with its Technical Team, to engage Twitter to explore the possibility of resolving the issue that led to the suspension of Twitter’s activities in Nigeria had successfully addressed a number of key issues.

“Following the suspension of Twitter operations, Twitter Inc. reached out to the Federal Government of Nigeria to resolve the impasse. Subsequently, I constituted a Presidential Committee to engage Twitter to explore the possibility of resolving the issue.