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The Technical Committee raised by the government to resolve the impasse between the two parties is fine-tuning the offers by the micro blogger before making a final recommendation to President Muhammadu Buhari.

This was disclosed in a statement released by the company in Lagos on Friday. It stated that the competition had generated huge interest among the youth since it was unveiled last month, adding that hundreds of talented dancers and dance groups had uploaded their dance videos in order to qualify for the auditions.

At a joint press conference on Monday to mark 100 days since the ban, the organisations, including Enough Is Enough (EiE) Nigeria, Paradigm Initiative (PIN), the Media Rights Agenda (MRA), and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), all took a critical look at the origin of the ban, the blatant disregard for rule-of-law by the federal government and the ban’s dire consequences to the economy and the citizenry of Nigeria.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, gave the assurance while briefing State House correspondents at the end of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the First Lady’s Conference room, Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The minister, who stated this when he appeared before the House Committee on Information on Tuesday, in Abuja, cited various sections of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in support of the action that was officially taken in the light of the security challenges facing the country.

The ruling followed the suit filed against the government by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians arguing that “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter have escalated repression of human rights and unlawfully restricted the rights of Nigerians and other people to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom in the country.”