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Twitter has removed a post by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari for violating its rules.

The tweet referred to the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War and to treating “those misbehaving today” in “the language they will understand”.

It follows a recent spate of attacks on offices, mainly in the south-east, blamed on regional secessionists.

Nigeria’s information minister called Twitter’s move unfair, labelling it “double standards”.

The BBC’s Joshua Ajayi in Lagos says this is the first time a tweet from the president