Nigeria, April 25 -- Towards the end of 2024, a US federal appeals court upheld legislation that could ban TikTok, the popular social media platform, in the country. The court rejected petitions by ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, which had sought relief from the ruling. The core of TikTok's legal trouble in the United States stems from national security concerns. The concerns are threefold: that the Chinese government could access data on American citizens, that the app's algorithm could be used to amplify propaganda, and that broader national security risks exist around surveillance and potential disruption of communication systems. The US government had demanded that TikTok divest its US operations to a domestic tech firm, f...