They were given 24 hours to settle all outstanding licensing obligations or be closed down.
A review by NBC News discovered plagiarism in 11 articles written by the former political reporter.
The board has Bashir Bolarinwa as chairman.
The U.S. had issued the same threat less than two weeks ago.
New York attorney general had released report of an investigation which indicted Mr Cuomo of sexual harassment.
Peoples Gazette observed that some of Mr Atiku’s well-known children have also abandoned the micro-blogging platform.
Many Western missions in Nigeria such as Sweden, Canada and Britain have earlier condemned Abuja’s action.
The VPN server sends data to the website a user wants to visit and hides their traffic from your network provider. This allows them to visit sites that could have been previously restricted.
On Thursday, Mr Mohammed expressed doubts about Twitter’s mission in the country and accused the social media firm of double standards.
Although Facebook did not release any official statement regarding the post, observations by The Gazette indicated that the post has been removed.
