The Federal Government said it will regulate big technology micro blogging sites and platforms to generate taxes and to protect the country’s sovereignty and integrity.
The government said the move became necessary due to the far-reaching implications of leaving the platforms open at the detriment of the country’s socio-economic development and the increasing danger of platforms being hijacked to harm Nigeria’s democracy.
The government said it planned to have a Code of Conduct for all social media platforms to understand the status of online and offline activities that could amount to infractions and breaches of the rules of engagement punishable under the country’s subsidiary laws.
The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, announced the government’s plan at a media briefing in Abuja to mark the 2022 Data Privacy Week.
He said all infractions online and offline -would no longer go unpunished with the regulations in place.
