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Ondo Church Massacre: PDP Accuses Buhari Government, APC Of Complicity In Terrorist Attacks, Killings In Nigeria

Ondo Church Massacre: PDP Accuses Buhari Government, APC Of Complicity In Terrorist Attacks, Killings In Nigeria

The party, which made the allegation on Monday in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, further condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on the incident, describing it as a lame and disconnected press statement. he opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the ruling All Progressives Congress’ (APC) silence on the heinous massacre of congregants at…

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#APC #Buhari Government #Ondo Church Massacre #PDP #Terrorist Attacks

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EDITORIAL: Buhari, governors’ row over mindless stealing of LG funds

EDITORIAL: Buhari, governors’ row over mindless stealing of LG funds

The unabashed stealing of funds belonging to local government areas by state governors was put on the front burner of national discourse by President Muhammadu Buhari recently, when he said that the criminal indulgence was responsible for the stunted growth of rural areas across the country. The heist is orchestrated through the unlawful manipulation of the monthly financial allocations to the…

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#Abuja #Federal High Court #federation account #Headline1 #National Bureau of Statistics #National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) #Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) #NIPSS #President Muhammadu Buhari #State-Local Government Joint Accounts

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President Buhari Slams Govs on Illegal Spending of Local Government Allocation ...Promises to act on NIPSS report on strengthening LG

President Buhari Slams Govs on Illegal Spending of Local Government Allocation …Promises to act on NIPSS report on strengthening LG

President Buhari   By Adetokunbo Fakeye Nigeria – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, 1st of November, 2022 slammed state governors over what he described as their unfair treatment of the local government administration across the country thereby inhibiting development at the grassroots. Mr President spoke at a parley with members of the Senior Executive Course (SEC) No. 44 (2022) of the…

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#Executive #Governance #Local Government #President Buhari

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Poverty Rises Under Buhari Government As Poor Nigerians Now 133million Persons

Poverty Rises Under Buhari Government As Poor Nigerians Now 133million Persons

The National Bureau of Statistics has stated that no fewer than 133million Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poor. In its latest National Multidimensional Poverty Index Report launched on Thursday, the NBS said that 63 per cent of Nigerians are poor due to a lack of access to health, education, and living standards, alongside unemployment and shocks. The MPI offers a multivariate form of poverty…

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#Poverty Rises Under Buhari Government As Poor Nigerians Now 133million Persons

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Davido prays for Buhari over Osun Governorship election

Davido prays for Buhari over Osun Governorship election

Davido prays for Buhari over Osun Governorship election (more…)

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#Buhari #Davido #Davido Music Worldwide (DMW) #Election #Osun state #Osun State Election #Osun State Government #Senator Ademola Adeleke

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Twitter ban: ECOWAS court rules against Buhari-led government

Twitter ban: ECOWAS court rules against Buhari-led government

By Francis IWUCHUKWU, Lagos  The ECOWAS court has declared as unlawful the suspension of Twitter by the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, led by President Muhammadu Buhari and ordered the administration never to repeat the same. The court arrived at the decision following a legal war initiated by a Lagos-based rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and 176…

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#Buhari-led government #ECOWAS court #Twitter ban

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Buhari arrives Abuja after summit in Rwanda

Buhari arrives Abuja after summit in Rwanda

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Abuja after his participation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held on 26th June 2022. This was disclosed by Mr Femi Adesina, a spokesman to the President.

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#Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting #Muhammadu Buhari

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President Buhari Inaugurates Presidential Council On e-government

President Buhari Inaugurates Presidential Council On e-government

President Muhammadu Buhari today in Abuja inaugurated the Presidential Council on Digital Economy and E-government, promising that his administration will continue to take advantage of digital technologies to transform every sector of the economy. The President directed the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami to chair the Council on his behalf and give…

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#e-government #President Buhari

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President Buhari Mourns The Dead, Condoles With Ondo State Govt And People

President Buhari Mourns The Dead, Condoles With Ondo State Govt And People

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the heinous killing of worshippers Sunday at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo Kingdom, in Ondo State. The President says only fiends from the nether region could have conceived and carried out such dastardly act, adding that eternal sorrow awaits them both on earth here, and ultimately in the hereafter. President Buhari mourns the dead,…

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#Condoles #Dead #Government #Mourn #Ondo #People #President Buhari #State

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Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has squarely rejected the idea of paying any ransom for the release of more than 280 schoolchildren who were abducted last week. Tinubu specified that "not a dime" would be spent to meet the kidnappers' demands, after the payment of ransom was made illegal in Nigeria in 2022.

Authorities may be running out of time to secure the release of the hostages in northwestern Kaduna state, as the kidnapping gangs have vowed to kill the captives if their demands are not met.

The kidnappers have asked for the equivalent of over $620,000 (about €570,000) for the release of the students and school staff — in addition to 11 Toyota Hilux pickup vehicles and 150 motorcycles.

The abductions, which took place in the town of Kuriga on March 7, are the first major kidnappings to take place in Nigeria since 2021. However, gunmen have been operating in the region for several years. Known locally as bandits, they frequently abduct individual locals, especially pupils, to demand ransom payments.

President Tinubu also stressed that the military must step in to ensure the release of the victims, according to Nigeria's Information Minister Mohammed Idris.

"The president has directed that security agencies must as a matter of urgency ensure that these children and all those who have been kidnapped are brought back to safety," Idris told reporters on Wednesday.

Kaduna Governor Uba Sani added that all authorities were "doing everything possible to ensure the safe return of the pupils and students."

Islamist militants, bandits behind kidnapping surge

This recent surge in abductions has become a growing challenge for Nigeria's embattled government. Earlier in the week, some 60 people were also abducted from another village in Kaduna state.

In the past 10 days alone, close to 400 people have been kidnapped for ransom, including 15 other students.

"We see that there are two actors [behind the kidnappings]: one are Islamist militants and then the [other are] bandit groups who have been prescribed as terrorists by the Nigerian government," security expert Ryan Cummings told DW.

Cummings, the director of Signal Risk, a security analysis organization with a focus on the African continent, added that while for the Islamists, "there are some political considerations they demand in exchange for the release of hostages, such as the release of some of their own captured militants," the local bandits operating primarily in northwestern and north-central Nigeria chiefly appear to be motivated by money and secondly by protecting their territorial interests.

"[The bandits] tend to demand financial concessions, but they also use hostages in some of their camps as the means of preventing the Nigerian military from conducting air raids on their positions, for example.

"So obviously they are using civilians as human shield," he said.

Are kidnappers 'ready for negotiation'?

Some attempts are nevertheless being made to negotiate between the government and the criminal gangs. Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a respected Islamic cleric with a strong military background, has offered to mitigate between the two camps — but there's little hope of success.

Such an intervention, however, would be difficult as the kidnappers seem to become bolder with increasingly excessive ransom demands, said Aliyu Othman, a Nigerian media analyst and journalist.

"The issue of negotiating with bandits will in a lot of the cases not bring about peace. Sheikh Gumi has been offering that opportunity since the period of [Muhammadu] Buhari as the president of Nigeria," Othman told DW.

"Are the kidnappers, the bandits, ready for negotiation or settlement? That is what is important here."

'All we have tried so far has not worked out'

While officials remain resolute in not entering into negotiations with the kidnappers, some Nigerians believe Tinubu's government must keep an open mind in dealing with the crisis.

DW took to the streets of Abuja to ask locals their views. A female resident said she believed the government had to do more to ensure the safety of families who were exposed to the activities of bandits across the country.

"We wake up to a fresh story of a kidnappings every day, when you least expect it. And the sad thing is that now the vulnerable are the victims, like children, women and entire families," she said.

A mother from Abuja, meanwhile, responded that something needs "to be done because all we have tried so far has not worked out. All the security measures that were put in place by the government have failed."

A male resident of Abuja told DW that the government needed more resources to tackle the crisis.

"The attacks are rampant all over. […] If we begin to ask ourselves how many security personnel we have on the ground and how well have they been taken care of, we might get somewhere. So I am appealing to the government to buy the latest technology to track down these criminals because that is the only way forward," he said.

Corruption hindering efforts to fight abduction crisis

Security analyst Cummings agreed that Nigerian authorities have to step up their efforts to stop the kidnappings.

"The Nigerian government will firstly have to enhance the resources available to state security personnel and properly train specialized units that are engaged in anti-kidnapping operations. But most members of the security forces are too inadequately resourced [to begin with], they lack ammunition and food provisions and other resources, too," he said.

Cummings said that while the tools necessary to fight terrorists and kidnappers were in sore demand across the region, corruption within the security services was also contributing to the derailing of efforts to end the crisis.

"The state is not in the position to provide additional resources. This needs to change. There needs to be a shift in strategy."

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I'm going to sound like a conspiracy theorist but bare with me

every Nigerian president that has step foot into office is a fucking puppet of the UK. oh their smart don't get me wrong but everything they do benefits the UK and lines their (that is the presidents) pocket!

why is 100 naira on the verge of being useless? once upon a time (I'm talking about 2022) I could walk into a store a get a small loaf of bread and a pepsi! not the healthiest but that shit keeps you full for four hours at least. heck in 2017 you could get a full plate of rice and stew with fried beef/fish from a "mama-put" but now in the year 2024 a 100 naira isn't even getting you a loaf of bread!!! what the fuck is happening in our country? where's all the money?

no one can afford to eat, health care is fucking expensive, insurance isn't accessible to everyone, there's a housing crisis even though houses are being built everywhere, public infrastructure is depleting, more than half the fucking population is living below the poverty line, public school education is shit, the private schools are kicking prices to the sky (2021-2022 academic school year my parents paid 1.7million naira in fees. if I was still in Nigeria, I'd be paying 2.5million but the quality of education hasn't changed!!!), all the teachers in the public universities are on strike, SARS is at an all time high, and there are NO JOBS!! EVERYTHING IS BEING RESERVED FOR THE BOURGEOIS

people are dying in cargo ships trying to cross the atlantic because facing whatever evil is out there is better than dying because of their circumstances. and then we have fucking illiterates (as the country is designed to keep us stupid) having religious and tribal wars!!!

"vote according to your tribe" "yoruba people are this" "igbo people are that" "don't vote for the fulani's" "the Islam's will force us to convert" "xxx is a babalawo" SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

how do we suffer every year with people from different tribes and it still has not clicked for people that the government is going to be shit if we continue with the system we have in place right now! we are all fucking arguing everyday as if we aren't still disenfranchised by colonial powers. we are given the illusion that we can vote but it never fucking matters!! they destroy ballot boxes, look us dead in the eye and call out a random number for votes even though it does not match what's on the voting website. how does this tie to the UK?? because every president that wins is buddies with the UK prime minister!! I don't mean cordial work relationships, I mean "flying out of the country every two weeks to rub shoulders with this asshole even though my citizens are being shot at by the police and military" type of buddies

this turned into a rant but whatever 🥴 FUCK YOU TINUBU! FUCK YOU BUHARI! FUCK YOU AS WELL JONATHAN! AND FUCK THE UK

#im sick of this shit yall #I've got shit easy #my family and I were able to get out #but what about everyone else??? #and even if we had stayed #food school and housing would never be a worry #i wanted to move back home but at the rate things are going id literally be homeless if i did #fuck our presidents #aes.txt

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Nigerian govt plans 'special intervention' in road transportation

Nigerian govt plans ‘special intervention’ in road transportation

The Nigerian government says it has set in motion plans for a special intervention that will make land transportation more seamless for Nigerians. The Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, said President Muhammadu Buhari has already approved the proposed special scheme for mass transit to be driven by transport operators for ease of transportation across the country. Mr…

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#Ademola Adegoroye #Minister of State for Transportation #News #Nigerian government #Nigerian news #PREMIUM TIMES #premium times news #President Muhammadu Buhari

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Assignment 3

Representation:

This photograph was taken by Sodiq Adelakun Adek, portraying a woman crying a day after two of her daughters were kidnapped by gunmen from a bandit group, who also abducted 279 other girls in the middle of the night at the Government Girls Secondary School in the village. But why did the photographer choose to take this photograph as a close-up? He wanted the viewers to resonate with what this mother in the photograph is feeling. Close-up photographs are often used to give viewers a detailed and intimate look that we would normally miss. Using close-up photographs, even the slightest glance or facial movement could convey meaning. Artists have been utilizing close-ups for centuries, way before cameras even existed (Hustle, 2022). Since the early 1900s, close-ups have been used to improve the appearance of individuals (Hustle, 2022). Some early artists, including George Albert Smith, D.W. Griffith, and James Williamson, enhanced their subjects’ appearances by taking close-up photographs (Hustle, 2022). Close-up shots were used to show an individual facial expression in the 1910s (Hustle, 2022). The close-up was first mainly utilized for dramatic effect; however, artists gradually started using it for a variety of different things, such as expressing emotion and showing the subject’s eyes and lips(Hustle, 2022). Moreover, in order to find something intriguing in even the most interesting topics, close-up photography challenges the photographer to be creative and develop your eye for a good shot (Pangburn et al., 2022). Also, it will teach you how to hunt for tiny details in other photographic genres, like landscapes and portraits, which will enable you to capture conventional topics in a unique or unusual way (Pangburn et al., 2022).

Extra information regarding the photograph: Nigeria is struggling with serious educational issues as a result of the ongoing kidnapping of children in the north of the country by armed gangs and Islamic groups for ransom (2021). According to President Muhammadu Buhari, almost 12 million youngsters, particularly girls, are traumatized and afraid to attend school (2021). According to Human Rights Watch, this may be a factor in the forced marriage or removal of many girls from school to work (2021). With 22 million women and girls married before the age of 18, according to UNICEF, Nigeria has the highest rate of child marriage in West Africa (2021).

Ideology:

This photograph was taken by Amber Bracken, whose work focuses on relationship-based and historically contextualized storytelling that places individuals at the center of their own tales as she investigates the interconnections of race, environment, culture, and decolonization (Franson, 2021). The photograph demonstrates perfectly the concept of ideologies as following the discovery of up to 215 unmarked graves, red dresses are put on crosses at the side of the road to commemorate children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, a facility built to assimilate Indigenous children (Bracken, 2021). This occurred in Kamloops, British Columbia. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, red dresses have been hung since 2011 as a symbolic response to the disproportionate violence experienced by women of indigenous origin; orange shirts are also worn, expressly to recognize the suffering caused to children brought on by Canada’s system of residential schools (Bracken, 2021). As part of a strategy to assimilate members of various indigenous nations into Western, predominantly Christian culture, residential schools were established in the 19th century (Bracken, 2021). Students were frequently forcibly taken away from their homes and parents were prohibited from speaking in their own language (Bracken, 2021). Also instead of wearing their traditional attire, they were forced to wear uniforms, had their hair cut short, were given Euro-Christian names in place of their own, and suffered from physical and occasionally sexual assault (Bracken, 2021). This photograph clearly shows the concept of ideologies as it portrays certain values and traditions as natural.

Residential schools opened their doors to more than 150,000 kids before the last one closed in 1996 (Bracken, 2021). According to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission established in 2009, at least 4,100 students died while attending school, as a result of abuse, neglect, illness, or accidents (Bracken, 2021). Having been founded in 1890, the Kamloops School grew to be the biggest in the system, serving hundreds of Secwépemc and other First Nations children (Bracken, 2021). In 1978, it shut down and in May 2021, ground-penetrating radar was used to examine Kamloops, and the results confirmed information from oral histories by identifying up to 215 possible child burial sites there (Bracken, 2021).

Myth of truth:

This photograph was taken by Skyseeef from Morocco with the title: “Set Your Mind Free”. It is evident that there isn't an actual bird, but the photographer added it to the photograph. He placed a pigeon in the photograph to symbolize the essence of setting your mind free and to demonstrate more clearly the irony in the photograph. The irony is that the pigeon is out of the cage and free while the individual's head is caged. Setting your mind free means letting go of whatever is holding you back from being productive and happy. What I believe he means by this is that our minds are locked up and holding ourselves back from what we want to achieve, but are scared of letting go and putting ourselves out of our comfort zones. We are scared of failing that we hold ourselves back from what we can achieve and too scared to let go of our norms. This photograph illustrates the concept of myth of truth as the pigeon shown in the photograph is not originally there, instead was placed there by the photographer to signify his idea more efficiently and clearly. 

Image icons:

This photograph taken by Amr Ezzeldin represents the concept of image icons in many ways. Firstly, his stance resembles Rineke Dijkstra’s photographs of children by the beach. Her photographs are iconic since she portrays the people in her photographs in their true vulnerable state. As an artist, Dijkstra has the patience and empathy for the subjects of her images, the ability to examine them closely and to express what she discovers; she depicts their complexities without sentiment and without downplaying the uncertainty, or even traumas they may have experienced (Phillips, 2012). She also discovers that there are no moral lessons there; instead, when we take the time to look at her photographs, we notice the flaws and unique charm she discovers in regular people, especially the youth. Her images, which are both large and intimate, offer moments of insight, glimpses at what is beautiful and fragile and ask us to look, remember, and comprehend them even to appreciate them because they are disappearing (Phillips, 2012). Moreover, another reason this photograph represents the concept of image icons is because it also includes the iconic pyramids of Giza. The pyramids are a historical and cultural part of Egypt; however, the individual getting photographed in front of the pyramids does not fit into Egyptian culture. He is wearing an outfit that is not culturally appropriate, for example the color pink is usually associated with girls and his hair color is unusual for Egyptians as well. Furthermore, looking at his stance from an Egyptian point of view, one may say that it’s considered “not manly”. Overall, the photograph is leaning more towards the feminine side; therefore it does not follow Egyptian culture and is considered iconic.

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Buhari Government To Pay Nnamdi Kanu N500m, Return Him To Kenya

Buhari Government To Pay Nnamdi Kanu N500m, Return Him To Kenya

A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, on Wednesday ordered the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to pay the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N500 million as damages following his illegal abduction and human rights abuse from Kenya. Truetells Nigeria reports that the Court also ordered the Federal government to return him to…

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Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu declared winner of presidential vote

Tinubu, though, received only 37% of the votes or nearly 8.8 million, the first time that a president takes office in Nigeria with less than 50% of the vote, analysts say.

ABUJA, Nigeria: Election officials declared Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election Wednesday, keeping the ruling party in power in Africa’s most populous nation and raising the specter of protests by opposition supporters who already have called for the vote to be voided.

Tinubu, 70, the former governor of Lagos state, appealed for reconciliation with his rivals in a pre-dawn victory speech in the capital, Abuja. The running mate of one opposition candidate, though, signaled a court challenge was imminent.

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and one of the continent’s top oil producers, has seen deadly violence erupt after previous presidential elections. Tinubu urged Nigerians to unite behind his administration after he takes office on May 29.

“I take this opportunity to appeal to my fellow contestants to let us team up together,” he said in a speech broadcast live on television. “It is the only nation we have. It is one country and we must build together.”

Tinubu, though, received only 37% of the votes or nearly 8.8 million, the first time that a president takes office in Nigeria with less than 50% of the vote, analysts say. Main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar won 29% with almost 7 million, and third-place finisher Obi took 25% with about 6.1 million, according to official results.

Hours after the election result was announced by the electoral body, Obi’s running mate told reporters in Abuja that they will challenge the outcome in court on the basis that it didn’t follow the provisions of Nigeria’s electoral law.

“There is an incoming government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that is illegal and unconstitutional,” said Datti Baba-Ahmed, Obi’s running mate. “The only language we know is peace. If Nigerians are going to achieve peace through peaceful protests, (it is) welcome.”

Much of Nigeria remained calm Wednesday afternoon amid fears of protests by opposition supporters. In the Kubwa area of Abuja, Tinubu supporters flooded the streets, singing and dancing in excitement. But nearby one Obi supporter expressed her dismay.

“I will join a protest if there is one, because my vote did not count,” said Favour Ben, 29, who owns a food business in the capital.

Abubakar also finished second in the previous vote in 2019, and appealed those results in court although his lawsuit ultimately was dismissed.

Nnamdi Obasi, senior adviser on Nigeria for the International Crisis Group, said that Tinubu will have to contend with challenges to his legitimacy from the onset and will need to ensure an inclusive government and focus firmly on rebuilding national cohesion.

Tinubu “will have to strive to win the support of the larger majority who preferred one of the other candidates, particularly the youth, the Christian groups that were opposed to his Muslim-Muslim ticket and Igbos in the southeast who again feel denied the presidency.”

Tinubu is a Muslim from the south and chose a fellow Muslim as his running mate in order to secure votes from the Muslim-dominated north, which has more registered voters than the Christian south, a strategy that proved effective, analysts say.

Tinubu clinched victory in part because the opposition vote was split and because his party had the strongest push to get people out to vote, said Amaka Anku, Africa director at the Eurasia Group consultancy.

President Muhammadu Buhari congratulated his successor in a statement Wednesday, but said the election wasn’t perfect.

“Of course, there will be areas that need work to bring further transparency and credibility to the voting procedure,” he said. “However, none of the issues registered represents a challenge to the freeness and fairness of the elections.”

The parties now have three weeks to appeal results, but an election can be invalidated only if it’s proven the national electoral body largely didn’t follow the law and acted in ways that could have changed the result.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has never overturned a presidential election, though court challenges are common, including by Buhari, who doggedly fought his past election losses for months in vain.

The West African regional bloc, known as ECOWAS, called on political parties to appeal to their supporters to exercise maximum restraint and refrain from using provocative language, which would only “exacerbate political tensions, divisiveness, and violence at this critical stage,” the group said in a statement.

Observers have said Saturday’s election was mostly peaceful, though delays caused some voters to wait until the following day to cast their ballots. Many Nigerians had difficulties getting to their polling stations because of a currency redesign that resulted in a shortage of bank notes.

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It isn’t usual for the United Nations’s human rights chief to write a letter to the new owner of a technology company. But last week, that’s exactly what Volker Türk did.

In an open letter to Elon Musk days after his takeover of Twitter, Türk laid out six principles he urged Musk to keep “front and center” for the platform, including the protection of free speech, prevention of hate and violence, and effective content moderation in non-English languages. 

“As the new owner of Twitter, you have enormous responsibilities given the platform’s influential role as a digital space,” Türk wrote.

Türk was right to be concerned. A day earlier, Musk laid off half of Twitter’s global workforce—around 3,700 people—which included its entire human rights team, according to a tweet from the company’s human rights counsel, Shannon Raj Singh. According to local reports, most of Twitter’s workforce in India was let go, and Twitter’s first Africa office in Accra, Ghana, was reportedly gutted less than a year after it opened and days after employees convened in person for the first time. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment on the layoffs.

The company’s user base around the world numbers in the hundreds of millions, and while that is far smaller than social media competitors such as Meta, YouTube, and TikTok, Twitter plays an outsized role in hosting and driving the global conversation. It is used by world leaders, government agencies, dissidents, activists, and journalists—in many cases against each other. 

In the past, Twitter has stood up for freedom of expression and human rights against governments that wish to curb those rights. In India, it filed a lawsuit against the government over demands to take down numerous accounts. In Nigeria, Twitter was banned for seven months after it took down a tweet by the country’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, that was interpreted as threatening violence against protesters. (The platform was reinstated earlier this year after Twitter pledged to establish an office and appoint a representative in the country.)

“Twitter has over the last several years developed a reputation for pushing back on government demands or resisting ones that in its view seem inconsistent with either local law or human rights law, or [its] values as a company,” said David Kaye, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the former United Nations special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. 

Musk’s focus so far has been on squeezing money out of users to make up for vanishing advertising revenues, adding digital payment capabilities to Twitter and making employees return to the office. He hasn’t discussed how the platform will deal with some of the thornier issues it faces around misinformation, election security, government repression, and hate speech. 

“Musk has shown little sign of concerns for Twitter users or employees that are outside the U.S.,” said Mishi Choudhary, a lawyer and online rights activist who founded the Indian branch of the Software Freedom Law Center. “Between the claims for absolute free speech and compliance of laws, it is clear that the learning curve for the billionaire will be steep.”

Twitter’s ability to effectively moderate content and protect its most vulnerable users took several more hits on Thursday with the simultaneous departures of its chief information security officer, its chief privacy officer, and its head of trust and safety. 

“People who are in really high-security situations should not have been using Twitter for direct messages that are risky anyway, but that doesn’t mean people weren’t doing that. There’s a lot of community there,” Kaye said. “I don’t think [Musk] is thinking much about it at all, and since he fired most of the people who do that work, I don’t see how he can get up to speed on what that involves.”

Twitter and other social media platforms have long been accused of not doing enough to crack down on hate speech and misinformation around the world, including countries such as Ethiopia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and parts of the Middle East. Twitter has in some cases taken a stand to protect freedom of speech, refusing, for example, to take down hundreds of accounts last year at the behest of the Indian government during protests against controversial agricultural laws.

Twitter isn’t the only platform with a vast global reach and a problematic human rights track record that will now be operating with fewer employees. Meta, which has over a billion users around the world across platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp, laid off 11,000 workers earlier this week, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a public post. Zuckerberg did not reveal which teams and countries have been most significantly affected by the layoffs, and Meta already outsources much of its global content moderation around the world to contractors. The company has a history of missing key local context in overseas markets—often with devastating effects. In Myanmar, Facebook acknowledged that it did not do enough to prevent hate speech and violence against the Rohingya minority group, and documents leaked by a company whistleblower last year revealed it faced a similar issue in a more recent conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. (A Meta spokesperson did not comment on the recent layoffs.) 

Languages have been a particularly tricky problem for platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, with blind spots around the world that have seen them struggle to police misinformation and hate speech in many cases.

“Moderation in non-English languages is significantly poorer than it is in English, both because of the lack of language expertise on the part of people at these companies but also because even the automated tools that help with content moderation work much less better for non-English languages,” said Samir Jain, policy director at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C. “We were already in a situation where the social media companies weren’t as good at moderating speech online; the real fear is that they’re going to become materially worse.”

Even as Musk’s Twitter devolves further into internal chaos, experts point out additional vulnerabilities for the platform’s global operations stemming from his business links. Musk’s co-investors in Twitter include government entities from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and his ownership of electric carmaker Tesla and satellite company SpaceX could give governments additional leverage against Twitter. Should that come to pass, it is not clear that Musk—who has said he believes in free speech as long as it “matches the law” in the applicable country—would take a meaningful stand.

“He’s got Tesla trying to open and build markets in places like India, so how does that weigh into his desire to be more responsive to government demands?” Kaye said. “It’s all just deeply concerning in ways that I certainly didn’t fully anticipate just a couple of weeks ago.”