After Nigeria Government banned Twitter, currently known as X in Nigeria in 2021, Nigerian legal advocacy organisation SERAP, which was involved in legal efforts to overturn the ban.
According to African.business "The seven month shutdown of Twitter cost the Nigerian economy $26.1bn (N10.72trillion) the Lagos Chamber of Commerce (LCCI) and Industry has said.
“In business terms, the cost of the seven-month shutdown of Twitter operations in Nigeria is estimated to be N10.72trillion ($26.1billion) according to Netblock’s Cost of Shutdown Tool,” Chinyere Almona, the director-general, LCCI said on Friday.
"As a result of the ban, local businesses lost out both on online revenues and on potential sales to mass audiences, she said in a statement to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)."
NGOs has therefore demanded compensation as Nigerians count the cost of the seven month blackouts
Chief Dr. Patrick Osagie Eholor (FoNS) otherwise known as Ultimate Equal has quoted Femi Falana "Notwithstanding, the coordinated plan of the government to shrink the civic space, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are fighting back. For instance, on June 4, 2021, the federal government suspended the micro-blogging App Twitter across Nigeria, stating that Twitter’s operations constituted threats to the stability of Nigeria."
The SERAP, Patrick Eholor of one love foundation and a number of CSOs and 176 individuals challenged the suspension in the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja. As the government could not justify the action, the Court concluded that the Nigerian government had violated Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)