Nigeria govt opens its account on Indian made micro-blogging website Koo

Days after imposing a ban on microblogging web site Twitter within the nation, the federal government of Nigeria has joined the Indian made micro-blogging website Koo.  
On Thursday, the Federal Government of Nigeria opened its account on Koo and posted a number of posts on the platform. The account has been made with the account @nigeriagov.
Nigerian govt account on Koo
Aprameya Radhakrishna, the CEO and co-founder of the Koo platform, welcomed the Government of Nigeria on the Koo app for making its debut on the platform. He mentioned that the platform wasspreading wings past India now. The Koo app is being touted because the substitute for social media large Twitter in lots of elements at the moment.
A really heat welcome to the official deal with of the Government of Nigeria on @kooindia! Spreading wings past India now. 🙂 @mayankbidawatka pic.twitter.com/9ufSOKI7sd— Aprameya R (@aprameya) June 10, 2021
Earlier this week, Koo – the Made in India microblogging platform, had introduced that their website is now out there in Nigeria, and so they have been eager on including new native languages for customers within the West African nation. There are over 500 native languages spoken in Nigeria, together with Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.
In a submit on Koo on Saturday, its CEO and co-founder, Aprameya Radhakrishna, had formally confirmed that the platform is now out there in Nigeria.

Speaking to the media, Radhakrishnan mentioned, “We are pondering of enabling the native language there as nicely. He additional added that they’re contemplating introducing a neighborhood Nigerian language into the Koo app.
He had earlier mentioned, “Nigeria is similar to India in terms of language diversity. It has hundreds of regional languages. Koo has a global outlook and will enable micro-blogging in countries that need it the most. We have built a scalable platform, and while we are still enhancing the product, it’s already available for use in multiple countries today.”
The Koo founder has additionally mentioned that the platform is offered in Mynamar, Nambia, Nepal, Senegal, Rwanda, Philippines, Peru, Paraguay, and many others.
Early this 12 months, when the Indian authorities was in a battle with Twitter over censoring anti-Indian contents, an Indian-developed Koo was launched. The micro-blogging platform, which shares a number of options is hoping to interchange Twitter in lots of international locations, was initially designed particularly for Indians because it provided its companies in a number of native languages. 
The choice of the Nigerian authorities to maneuver to Koo got here after they’d introduced an indefinite suspension of Koo’s rival Twitter within the nation.
Nigeria indefinitely suspends Twitter
Last week, the Nigerian authorities introduced that it has indefinitely suspended Twitter’s actions. The transfer got here after Twitter had deleted a Tweet by president Muhammadu Buhari warning in opposition to secessionist actions.
The social media large had deleted a tweet by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari claiming that the tweet had threatened secessionist teams within the Biafra area.
“Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War,” Buhari had tweeted, referring to the Biafra Conflict, which killed 1 million individuals between 1967 and 1970.
“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” the tweet learn.
In addition to deleting the tweet for violating its “abusive behavior” coverage, Twitter had overtly suspended President Buhari’s account for 12 hours.
Following the suspension of Buhari’s account, Nigeria Information Minister Lai Mohammed had acted swiftly to indefinitely droop Twitter’s actions within the nation.