Civic Pulse Nigeria
Quarterly civic space report
Q1 2022
January to March 2022
Complete quarter. Generated 29 Sept 2026.
- Published records
- 1
- Change on Q4 2021
- -6
- States named
- 0
- Reporting organisations
- 1
1 civic space record was published for January to March 2022, against 7 in October to December 2021. Legal and Regulatory Framework was the most frequently recorded category. 1 of these came from reports written at national level that name no state.
Records by category
- Legal & Regulatory1
- Citizen Engagement0
- Arrests & Detention0
- Government Discourse0
- Resource Access0
- Harassment0
Where records were located
No record this quarter names a state.
Plus 1 national-level record naming no state.
Who reported these incidents
- Rights monitors
- 0
- News outlets
- 1
- Official and court records
- 0
- THISDAY1
The records
- 13 Jan 2022·National·CPN-0112
Nigeria Lifts Ban on Twitter
The federal government lifted its suspension of Twitter in Nigeria from midnight on 13 January 2022, 222 days after it began. NITDA Director-General Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi said Twitter had agreed to conditions including registering a legal entity in Nigeria and managing prohibited publications in line with Nigerian law.
- THISDAY: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/01/13/nigeria-lifts-ban-on-twitter/
- TechCabal: https://techcabal.com/2022/01/13/ngeria-2023-elections-government-lifts-twitter-ban/
- Paradigm Initiative: https://paradigmhq.org/press-release-federal-government-reverses-twitter-ban-in-nigeria-after-222-days/
- BusinessDay: https://businessday.ng/lead-story/article/nigeria-government-lifts-ban-on-twitter-after-securing-agreements/
How this report was compiled
Every record in this report is compiled by hand from reports published by named rights monitors, news outlets and official bodies, and links to the source it draws on. Each record is dated to the incident where its source gives that date, and otherwise to the date the source was published. The figures show what has been recorded, not the full extent of what has happened: incidents that were never reported do not appear, and a state with few records is not necessarily a state where little took place.