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.
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.
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.
The Nigerian President in his Independence Day broadcast ordered the conditional lifting of the ban on Twitter only if Twitter meets the following conditions;
President Buhari reinstated why the ban was activated; that many people used the platform to disseminate fake news and hate speech, he also noted that there were so many legitimate things Twitter was used for such as socialization and business.
It will be interesting to see when and if Twitter meets all the conditions.
However the president has raised hope that the issues involving the ban of Twitter in Nigeria will soon be resolved.
Popular South Korean Minister, David Yonggi Cho has died. He was 85 years old. He died on 14 September, 2021. He was said to have died due to complications from a stroke.He was born 14 February 1936.
He is the co-founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church, the church with the World’s largest congregation. The Church is said to have over 830,000 members as of 2007.
Yonggi Cho was raised initially as a Buddhist, but converted to Christianity at the age of 17
He was a trained Bible Scholar. His Ministry concentrated on Evangelism and Church growth.
In 1979 he founded Church Growth International an organization dedicated to teaching Evangelism and Church growth to pastors all over the World. Yonggi Cho also founded several other Christian organizations including a newspaper and university.
He is a mentor to many pastors all over the World.
He retired in 2008 with Young Hoon Lee succeeding him as senior pastor.
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