Dozens of human rights and civil society groups have demanded an end to the Nigerian government’s ongoing blocking of Twitter in the country. The groups - including Amnesty International, the African Centre for Media & Information Literacy, and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria - have also condemned a “directive” issued by the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission for all broadcast stations to deactivate their Twitter accounts. At the same time, nine non-governmental Organisations (NGO’s) and journalists have taken the government of Nigeria before the ECOWAS Court over the decision to suspend access to Twitter. In the application with suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/29/21 filed on 16th June 2021, the Applicants which included the Media Rights Agenda, an NGO active in the promotion and protection of the press freedom and Freedom of Expression, alleged that the indefinite suspension of Twitter violates their right to freedom of expression and interferes with the professional duties of the sixth to ninth Applicants who are journalists. The president has, in what seems to be a backtrack, assembled a reconciliation team to lead negotiations with Twitter, more than two weeks after it was indefinitely suspended in the West African nation. The move came about after Twitter wrote to the President "seeking to engage with the Federal Government over the suspension.