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Mark Zuckerberg Reveals How President Biden’s Administration Pressured Meta To Censor COVID-19 Contents

Mark Zuckerberg
Meta Platforms CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has accused senior officials from the Joe Biden Administration of pressuring his company to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humour and satire, in 2021. In a statement on Monday addressed to Jim Jordan Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Jerrold Nadler, the committee’s Ranking Member, Zuckerberg revealed that his teams faced repeated demands from the White House to remove specific contents from Meta’s platforms. Zuckerberg stated that while Meta made its own decisions regarding content removal, the pressure exerted by the government was inappropriate. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regretRead More

United States Flies B-52 Stratofortress Bombers Over NATO As Russia-Ukraine War Rages

B-52 Stratofortress bomber
The United States has flown its B-52 Stratofortress bomber, the Air Force’s largest strategic bomber over NATO’s Eastern flank. CNN reports that the US on Friday conducted the exercise alongsideRead More

Russia Describes US, EU As ‘Economic Bandits’

Russian President, Vladimir Putin
Russia on Saturday described the United States and European Union as “economic bandits” following the economic sanctions against the country amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kremlin Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov,Read More

Canada: Madu, Nigerian-born Lawyer, Cleared Of Misconduct, Redeployed

Nigerian-born former Minister of Justice and Solicitor-General of Alberta, a province in Western Canada, Kaycee Madu
A Nigerian-born former Minister of Justice and Solicitor-General of Alberta, a province in Western Canada, Kaycee Madu, has been cleared of wrongdoing. Madu was, in January, asked to step asideRead More

Trump Launches ‘Truth Social’ To Rival Twitter

Truth Social is a social media platform which was created by Trump Media & Technology Group.
Former US President, Donald Trump, has launched his own social media platform, Truth social, to compete with Twitter and Facebook. Truth Social is a social media platform which was createdRead More

Uber Driver Begged For Her Life, Talked Of Four Children Before She Was Fatally Shot By Passenger

Christi Spicuzza
An Uber driver talked of her four children as she begged the customer in her backseat not to kill her. Christi Spicuzza was found dead with a single gunshot woundRead More

32 Months After, US Reintroduces Limited No-interview Visa Renewal In Nigeria

Nigeria and US Flags
The United States Mission has said that it would expand visa services to assist nonimmigrant visa applicants in Nigeria who qualify to renew their visa. This new application procedure wouldRead More

US: War Against Sleaze In Nigeria, Core Priority Of Biden Administration

United States Consul General, Claire Pierangelo
Declares American President committed to supporting Nigeria’s anti-corruption initiatives The United States Consul General, Claire Pierangelo yesterday stated that countering corruption “is not only a key concern” in Nigeria butRead More

Canada: Premier Suspends Nigerian-born Attorney General Over Traffic Fine

Canada
The Premier of Alberta, Canada, Mr. Jason Kenney, has ordered his Justice Minister and Solicitor General, Mr. Kaycee Madu, to relinquish his ministerial duties pending the outcome of an investigationRead More

Canada Says Two Cases of COVID-19 Omicron Variant Have Nigeria Travel History

Omicron COVID-19
Canada said it has confirmed two cases of COVID-19 omicron variant from persons who had recently travelled from Nigeria. According to report by Associated Press, the government of Canada hadRead More

Abba Kyari: DIG Egbunike Panel Submits Report To IG

Abba Kyari: DIG Egbunike Panel Submits Report To IG
The Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Joseph Egbunike-led panel set up by the police high command to investigate the allegations levelled against suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari,Read More