Twitter banned in Nigeria, 'Koo' makes entry | Koo CEO Exclusive

Koo founder Aprameya Radhakrishna assured that the homegrown platform has spent the last three months "majorly" building up its resources for a potential traffic surge.

Meanwhile, on Friday, a peeved Nigeria blanked out Twitter, following the platform's decision to take down President Muhammadu Buhari's tweet. The ban was imposed because of "the persistent use of the platform for activities... capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence," Abuja said in a statement.