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Juventus qualify for next stage of Champions League

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Juventus have qualified for the next stage of the UEFA Champions League. They defeated Zenit St Petersburg 4-2 to achieve this feat. Paulo Dybala scored a brace and one assist . Juventus have now won 4 matches out of 4 and have qualified for the next stage with 2 games to spare.

Champions Chelsea also kept their qualification Hopes much alive after beating Malmo 1-0. It was a game where Malmo had very few chances and Chelsea wasted theirs. Hakim Ziyech scored the winner for Chelsea in the 56th from a fine cross by Hudson Odoi.

This important victory for Chelsea at Sewden means they need just a point now to qualify for the next stage.

Meta, The New Parent Company for Facebook

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Meta: new Facebook parent company

Facebook gets a new parent company called Meta. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp.

Meta is a technological company that helps people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Meta will move further into the 3D and Virtual reality world. The company will try to make people’s connectivity much more immersive.

According to the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta will venture into immersive (virtual reality) gaming, fitness, commerce, social connection, education and entertainment. 

The company will be trading under a new stock name called MVRS on December 1st.

Colin Powell dies at the age of 84

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Colin Powell

General Colin Luther Powell, a former secretary of state of the United States has died.He was aged 84 years. He was one of the highest ranking black American officials in the United States Government. 

He was secretary of state under George W. BUSH. from 2001-2005. Before then he served as chairman, joint chief of staff (1989-1993) and United States National Security Advisor. (1987-1989).

Colin Powel was a four star general of the US army , the result of his 35 years in military service.

He is regarded as one of America’s great leaders. The only dent to his career was his open support and justification for Iraq which was later found to be wrong.

Colin Powell had blood cancer and was being treated for it but died from complications of COVID-19

Woke Soyinka Hale and Hearty

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Wole Soyinka

Rumours on many social media sites were that Wole Soyinka had passed on. But this news has been confirmed to be untrue as the Nobel prize winner is hale and hearty.

In fact PM news can confirm that he is presently in Los Angeles, United States, promoting his new book titled  ”Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.” Wole Soyinka says this new latest book is his gift to Nigeria.

Facebook Chooses Profit over Safety, says Whisleblower

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Frances Haugen

Frances Haugen, former Facebook product manager, the whistleblower says Facebook is prioritizing profit over the safety of its users.

She claims that the company promotes harmful and misleading content to keep views engaged. She told the US Senate that the company has a lot of information at its disposal to analyze content and promote only those that are beneficial to people but it doing very little in this regard.

She is asking the  Senate to regulate but not ban Facebook.

‘Shocking evidence’ has she implies, have been submitted to the senate to back up her claims.Recall that yesterday Facebook and all its associated sites were completely down for over 5 hours. People were left stranded. It is reported that the company has lost over 7bn dollars because of that incident alone. Their Stocks also fell by 5 percent.

Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram are down

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Today Monday 4th of October 2021, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger are not accessible. It occured around 4pm Nigerian Monday, 4th October, 2021 and its 9pm now and these apps are still off. 

The management have reported in their Twitter handle that they are working to restore normalcy.

Over 3 billion people worldwide use these services and it must be very frustrating now.