Per the Nigerian government’s orders, the country’s telecommunications operators are going to shut down whatever access is left to Twitter by Saturday, coming after the tech giant deleted a post by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Our members received formal instruction from the Nigerian Communications Commission, the industry regulator, to suspend access to Twitter,” Gbenga Awonuga, executive secretary of the Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ATLON) told NewsMax. “We are only following the directive of the government, as we are licensees of the government.” The indefinite ban was carried out by network providers on Friday, and albeit in some instances the platform was still accessible by the next morning, Awonuga said that those network carriers “are in the process of disconnecting access.” The country’s attorney general declared that anyone who breaks the rules that ban Twitter would be immediately prosecuted, without elaborating on the exact nature of what a violation would constitute. “Based …