Minister for information Lai Mohammed has said social media giant Twitter has agreed to open an office in the country, months after it opened its first African office in Ghana.
The Nigerian office is not expected to be operational until 2022 and may be headed by a staff of management cadre that will serve as the country representative.
Opening the office was one of the conditions Nigeria gave Twitter before its operations can resume in the country, Mohammed said.
Nigeria suspended the operations of the social media platform in June after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari was deleted.
The Federal Government, however, said the suspension was a matter of national security.
Mohammed blamed Twitter and its co-founder Jack Dorsey for the violence that trailed the #EndSARS protests against police brutality in many Nigerian cities last October.
