 Meanwhile, the Global Rights Group Amnesty International has welcomed the lifting of the ban placed on social media platform Twitter by the federal government. The lifting of the ban, after 222 days, was announced in a press statement on Wednesday signed by the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and chairman, technical committee Nigeria Twitter engagement Kashifu Abdelahi. Amnesty stated that the Twitter ban was illegal in the first place and an attack on the rights to freedom of expression. Amnesty International welcomes the lifting of Twitter ban by Nigerian authorities after seven months of depriving Nigerians from exercising their rights to freedom of expression on a social media platform that facilitates dialogue and empowers everyone to communicate, hold useful debates and conversations, and demand accountability from the Nigerian authorities, the rights group said.