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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

US Removes Visa Reciprocity Fees For Nigerian Applicants

U.S. Visa
United States has removed all visa reciprocity fees for Nigerians seeking entry visas into the country. The Donald Trump government had in August announced visa reciprocity fees against some countriesRead More

OPEC Calls For Balancing, Stability Of Global Oil Market

Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has called on oil producing countries to maintain the stability of the global oil market in the light of emerging realities ofRead More

Japan Residents To Get Free COVID-19 Vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine
Japan will give free coronavirus vaccines to all of its residents under a bill passed Wednesday, as the nation battles record numbers of daily cases. The bill, which says theRead More

OPEC Countries Disagree On January 2021 Crude Oil Output

Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
The 108th meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) yesterday failed to reach an agreement on January 2021 crude oil output, prompting the deferment of further discussions tillRead More

Suicide Car Bomb Kills 30 Afghan Security Officials

Afghan security officials
A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 30 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in recent months. TheRead More

New Study Explains Why Africa Defied Dire Predictions To Survive Deadly COVID-19

COVID-19
Experience in managing previous infectious diseases like Ebola, Tuberculosis, Lassa fever comes handy Timely lockdown, early surveillance, contact tracing at airports help Exposure to similar viruses in the past mayRead More

Ethiopia PM Orders Final Offensive Against Tigray Leaders

Ethiopia Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday ordered Ethiopia’s army to launch a final offensive against Tigray’s leaders in their regional capital Mekele, saying the window for their surrender had expired.Read More

FG Engages UK Government Over Parliamentarians’ Threat of Sanction

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama
Following the resolution of the United Kingdom parliamentarians for sanctions against top Nigerian officials and security agents involved in alleged violation of #EndSARS protesters’ rights, the Federal Government yesterday saidRead More

UK Parliamentarians Propose Sanctions Against Violators Of Protesters’ Rights

The UK parliamentarians recommend sanctions against government officials and security agents who abused the #EndSARS protesters' rights.
Denounce fine on ARISE NEWS Channel, AIT, Channels TV broadcast stations FG writes CNN, demands retraction of Lekki shooting broadcast The United Kingdom parliamentarians yesterday recommended sanctions against government officialsRead More

Boko Haram: Nigeria, US, Others Commence Move To Halt Recruitment By Terrorists

Stop terrorism
The United States and Nigeria, as well as some other countries across seven continents of the world, have commenced moves to counter recruitment of young individuals into terrorism, particularly ISISRead More