Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has travelled to the United States of America for a meeting with top executives of popular microblogging site, Twitter.
According to report on Tuesday, a video showing the minister and Olusegun Adeyemi, Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, in a Delta Airline heading to the US went viral.
The Federal government on June 5, 2021 indefinitely banned Twitter, restricting it from operating in Nigeria based on “a litany of problems with the social media platform in Nigeria, where misinformation and fake news spread through it have had real world violent consequences”.
It also accused Twitter of threatening the corporate unity of Nigeria.
A top source who disclosed the destination and the mission of the government team said: “You can see Lai Mohammed trying to disguise with a face cap, he flew on seat 8A in the business class section of Delta Airline from Lagos to New York.
“He flew with his Special Assistant, Olusegun Adeyemi who took seat 8C in the business class.”
