AIT is carried on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV service, and by late-Friday was once again seen on channel 253 on DStv in Nigeria.
Nigeria's censorship authority, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Thursday ordered the privately-owned AIT and the private radio station RayPower FM - both owned by Daar Communications plc - off the air and its licence suspended for allegedly breaching Nigeria's broadcasting code.
Daar Communications is owned by the businessman Raymond Dokpesi who happens to be a member of the opposition party, People's Democratic Party (PDP), in Nigeria.
The NBC ordering the crackdown on AIT and RayPower FM said the media outlets have "embarked on use of inflammatory, divisive, inciting broadcasts and media propaganda against the government and the NBC for performing its statutory functions of regulating the broadcast industry in Nigeria".
The shutdown notice was indefinite.
Daar Communications immediately went to court with the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria that on Friday granted an injunction and ordered that AIT and RayPower FM's signals be restored for the time being.
Judge Inyang Ekwo said AIT should go back on air for the time being until the court case can be heard. The case has been adjourned to 13 June 2019.
Meanwhile Nigerian security forces - the Nigerian police and Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) - have surrounded AIT's premises after it reopened, Tony Akiotu, AIT's group managing director told Nigeria's Premium Times.
The premises of Daar Communications was surrounded by state security who arrived "heavily fortified and carrying out surveillance on the premises,".
