The emoji features a clenched fist in green, white, green (The Nigerian National flag colours).

The emoji appeared after was restored Thursday evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide.

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, tweeted in support of the movement on Wednesday, Jack urged all concerned to make donations in way of Bitcoin to support the cause which has seen many Nigerians take to the street in protest.