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Jun

17

2020

Trump signs order pushing to reduce US police violence

News, PoliticsAmerica, Politics

US President Donald Trump issued an order to improve policing Tuesday, calling for a ban on dangerous chokeholds, but he stopped well short of demands made at nationwide protests against racism and police brutality. “We have to break old patterns of failure,” Trump said in a Rose Garden ceremony attended by police and Republican congressional allies, though no black civil rights representatives or political opponents. The president has limited power over-policing, which is run mostly at a state and local level. However, Trump said that he would use access to federal funding grants as leverage to persuade departments “to adopt…

Jun

13

2020

By OHAFIATV

Interpol breaks silence on Hushpuppi arrest, reveals next action

Economy, PoliticsAmerica, Crime, Personality, Politics

The International Police (INTERPOL) has broken silence on the arrest of Instagram celebrity, Raymond Igbalodely a.k.a. Hushpuppi Recalls that Hushpuppi was arrested in Dubai for allegedly hacking into the United States (US) unemployed database and defrauding the US of over $100 million meant for native Americans in the battle against the coronavirus. Interpol on Friday said Hushpuppi will be extradited from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Nigeria to face alleged multiple fraud charges. The Commissioner of Police (CP) INTERPOL, Garba Umar, made this known while speaking to The Nation and confirming the arrest of Hushpuppi. He said: “Yes, It…

Jun

10

2020

By OHAFIATV

The IPOB Briefing to USA that unsettled Nigeria Presidency

News, PoliticsAmerica, Biafra, IPOB, Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, Politics

Briefing for US State Department: Nigeria: A History Of Serial Genocide And The Urgent Need For US Intervention Being a Presentation by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the U.S. State Department in June 2019. IPOB Biafra Abstract:The purpose of this submission is to formally bring to the attention of the Government of the United States, the violent Islamization that is taking hold in Nigeria against Christians and Jews, especially of Biafran extraction. As shall be demonstrated, this Islamization is by both State and by non-State actors that enjoyed the patronage and tacit support of…

Jun

03

2020

By OHAFIATV

Zuckerberg backs Facebook Trump policy despite anger, dissent

PoliticsAmerica, Donald Trump, Metro, Personality, Politics

Facebook chief, Mark Zuckerberg has defended his decision not to interfere with posts by US President Donald Trump, US media reported after the social media giant’s hands-off policy sparked outrage and prompted some employees to quit. Social media platforms have faced calls to moderate the president’s comments, most recently because of the unrest gripping America in the wake of an unarmed black man’s death during arrest as a white policeman knelt on his neck. The row began last week when Zuckerberg said Facebook would not remove or flag Trump’s posts that appeared to encourage violence against those protesting police racism,…

Jun

03

2020

By OHAFIATV

Pope says racism ‘intolerable’, in reaction to Floyd killing

PoliticsAccident, America, Crime, Politics, World News

Pope Francis said on Wednesday “we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism”, in reaction to the killing of a black man by US police that has sparked nationwide protests. But the pontiff also condemned the violence that followed George Floyd’s death in the city of Minneapolis last week as “self-destructive and self-defeating”. “Nothing is gained by violence and so much is lost,” Francis said. Floyd, 46, an unarmed African-American man, suffocated as a white police officer knelled on his neck, sparking once-in-a-generation demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality. The pope said he was praying for Floyd…