{"id":94198,"date":"2015-02-25T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=94198"},"modified":"2015-02-25T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:59:27","slug":"twitter-suspends-account-linked-to-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=94198","title":{"rendered":"Twitter suspends account linked to Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter account with the username @Urwatu_Wutqa linked to the dreaded Islamist militants, Boko Haram has been suspended, days after it started sharing videos and photos of the group.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FLtyKxxXZ4ul1lEa9iCNtuqfjC32mRoK&#8221;]This was discovered on Tuesday, February 24, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The account became popular a couple of days ago after a video, fully subtitled in both English and Arabic, was released by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in which he threatened to disrupt the upcoming general elections in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after the video was released, the same account shared photos of Boko Haram attack in Nigeria\u2019s northeastern Gombe State, before being destroyed by Nigerian troops.<\/p>\n<p>The account also denied an announcement by the Nigerian army on Sunday, February 22, 2015 that it had taken over the town of Baga from Boko Haram\u2019s control.<\/p>\n<p>The contents posted on the accounts violated Twitter regulations, which state that \u201cusers may not publish or post direct, specific threats of violence against others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Trent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter account with the username @Urwatu_Wutqa linked to the dreaded Islamist militants, Boko Haram has been suspended, days after it started sharing videos and photos of the group. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FLtyKxxXZ4ul1lEa9iCNtuqfjC32mRoK&#8221;]This was discovered on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. The account became popular a couple of days ago after a video, fully subtitled in both English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":70255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,38],"class_list":["post-94198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-akwasi-osei","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}