The Court held that the Federal Government's June 2021 suspension of access to Twitter was unlawful and inconsistent with the rights to freedom of expression, access to information and the media under Article 9 of the African Charter and Article 19 of the ICCPR; it ordered the suspension lifted and directed the government to guarantee non-repetition and to align its measures with those guarantees.

Leading African regional authority on platform-level internet restrictions and shutdowns, holding that a blanket suspension of a social-media platform is a disproportionate interference with expression and access to information. It provides the continent's clearest precedent for challenging content-restriction and shutdown orders. The decision rests on the African Charter and ICCPR rather than on any domestic instrument currently on file in the Instruments database, so no Instruments Cited relation has been linked.