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Oct

29

2020

Mark Zuckerberg tells US Congress to upend the internet

Economy, News, PoliticsAmerica, Economy, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Metro, World News

Facebook supports rewriting Section 230, and it’s starting to lay out the changes it wants. That’s the big takeaway from a nearly four-hour grilling of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The point was quickly lost in a pre-election political scuffle — but in the coming months, it’ll be one of the most important things to watch. Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a foundational internet law. The event was supposed to examine whether Section 230 protections — which protect web services and sites of all…

Oct

29

2020

By OHAFIATV

Official: 800,000 babies die due to poor breastfeeding annually

Health, NewsEducation, Health, Metro, Reviews

The Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oyebanji Filani, has disclosed that no fewer than 800,000 babies die of poor breastfeeding yearly across the globe. Oyebanji stated that poor breastfeeding was largely responsible for high infant mortality in Nigeria, which he said was being gradually checkmated due to the advent of exclusive breastfeeding and improved medical practices. Filani spoke in Ado Ekiti on Thursday at a press parley commemorating the 2020 edition of breastfeeding week in Ekiti State. The Commissioner said Ekiti was rated as having 55.4 percent compliance with the first six months exclusive breastfeeding in 2019, saying the…

Oct

21

2020

By OHAFIATV

End SARS: ICC asked to investigate Nigerian govt, military, politicians immediately

News, Politics#EndSARS, Africa, Crime, Nigeria, Opinion, World News

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Mrs Fatou Bensouda, a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), at the Hague, to promptly investigate reports coming from Nigeria. The group wants the ICC to investigate claims that the Nigerian government, the military and some politicians were using thugs, soldiers and security agents to intimidate and kill End SARS peaceful protesters in the country. SERAP has asked the ICC to prosecute anyone that contributed to the deaths and injuries of the End SARS protesters in Nigeria. In a series of tweets via its official Twitter handle on Wednesday, SERAP…

Aug

29

2020

By OHAFIATV

Enugu Killings: No Force on Earth Will Stop OYC Panel of Inquiry report, says Coalition of Igbo Groups

News, PoliticsBiafra, Boko Haram, Herdsmen, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Opinion, Politics

Press Release ...as Preliminary reports on indicts Former Governor, Former Minister, and others. Coalition of Igbo Groups namely, World Igbo Youth Congress, Southeast Women Professionals and Igbo Students Union had asked the Seven Man Igbo Panel of Inquiry set up Independently by Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide on Monday 24th August 2020 to investigate the gruesome incident that claimed the lives of 21 Igbo Youths on the side of Dss and Ipob at Emene Enugu on 23rd August 2020,not to bow to the pressures to quit the ongoing independent investigations by some highly organised syndicate of Igbo leaders and Groups…

Jun

17

2020

By OHAFIATV

THE NORTH, “THEIR NORTH”, why huffing and puffing against Buhari now?

News, PoliticsBiafra, Boko Haram, Herdsmen, Mohammadu Buhari, Next Level, Nigeria

By Solomon Musa Why is "the North” huffing and puffing against Buhari now?; When Southern Kaduna was bleeding the “North” kept quiet;When terrorists took over Benue State, the “North” kept Mum;When Plateau State cried out, the “North” closed its ears;Chibok, Dapchi fell, no single whimper;Southern Kaduna, Benue, Plateau, Taraba are not parts of the “North”,“their North”; you Now, Northern Elders Forum, Coalition of Northern Youths, several groups in the North, “their North” are huffing and puffing;Clerics are spewing and speaking out “the truth”;Women, Youths and children are protesting because their “North” is at the receiving end;Katsina, Zamfara, Birnin Gwari Sokoto…