Social media giant, Twitter has removed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s post for copyright violation of Beyonce’s song.
Osinbajo had posted a video on the app, on March 8, in commemoration of international women’s day. The theme song used for the video was Beyone‘s “Run the World”.
A Twitter user notified the social media giant about the tweet, alleging that Osinbajo has “never done his job properly” and is allegedly using the American music star’s song “without permission”.
The tweet was taken down by Twitter afterward.
This is coming months after the same social media giant removed President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet in which he threatened to deal with Nigerians “misbehaving in the language they understand.”
In the tweet, Buhari cited the civil war and threatened to deal with those “bent on destroying Nigeria through insurrection.”
“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” he had tweeted.
The microblogging site deleted the message the next day after a public outcry.
Reacting to Twitter’s action, the government on June 4 announced the indefinite suspension of the microblogging site in Nigeria.
The government had, however, said the suspension had nothing to do with the deletion of the president’s tweet.
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