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Twitter Bans Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell in QAnon Purge

9Jan

By BobbyNo Comments

Lifestyle

Twitter Bans Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell in QAnon Purge

President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn and pro-Trump attorney, Sidney Powell have been banned on Twitter as part of a purge of QAnon accounts following the insurrection at U.S. Capitol by a mob of violent Trump supporters. QAnon is a disproven and discredited far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against US president Donald Trump, who is fighting the cabal. The wide-ranging, completely unfounded theory also claims that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media and this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as former presidential candidate Hill...

Kim Kardashian freezes Facebook, Instagram accounts

16Sep

By BobbyNo Comments

Celebs

Kim Kardashian freezes Facebook, Instagram accounts

Kim Kardashian is starting a pressure movement against Facebook Inc. to stop the divisive hate campaign on its platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Kim, with 188million followers on Instagram and 29 million on Facebook tweeted she would be freezing her two accounts because she can no longer, “stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation”. She said that this spread of hate only exists to sow division and split America apart only to take steps after people are killed. “Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy”, she wrote. The tweet drove Facebook stock value down by a few dollars. But it went up again to register a $6.27 increase for the day. Read her tw...

8Apr

By dthataNo Comments

News

COVID-19: Whatsapp Tightens Limits On Message Forwarding To Counter Fake News

WhatsApp is trying to stem the rapid spread of coronavirus misinformation by placing new limits on the number of times a forwarded message can be shared simultaneously. A message received by a person on the Facebook (FB)-owned platform that has already been forwarded five times can now only be passed on to one chat at a time. The new limits are WhatsApp's strictest yet. WhatsApp, like other text messaging platforms, has been used in recent months to spread messages that often contain a mixture of claims about the virus, some accurate and some that have been debunked by medical experts. The problem is now so acute that world leaders are urging people to stop sharing unverified information using the app. Experts welcomed the tighter limit announced on Tuesday but said it still ...

PDP Blasts Buhari for First Cornonavirus Case in Nigeria

28Feb

By BobbyNo Comments

Politics

PDP Blasts Buhari for First Cornonavirus Case in Nigeria

The PDP has blasted the Buhari-led government over the first confirmed case of Coronavirus in Nigeria. The party in a statement released by its, said the infection is as a result of the negligence that has characterised the Buhari administration.The party asked Nigerians to hold the government responsible should any national calamity arose from COVID-19. Read the statement below: Corona Virus: PDP Berates Buhari For Negligence...Seeks Concerted Effort, Adoption of Ebola Intervention Strategy The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the Buhari Presidency for its negligence and laidback attitude to governance and the welfare of Nigerians leading to the avoidable entrance of the deadly corona virus into our dear country. The party says it was evident that the Buhari P...

False Coronavirus Cure Claims Infect the Internet

6Feb

By BobbyNo Comments

News

False Coronavirus Cure Claims Infect the Internet

Gargle saltwater, use herbal eyedrops, steam-clean a face mask -- false claims about how to combat a deadly coronavirus epidemic emerging out of China are flooding the internet. Social media giants have promoted their strategies to combat misinformation related to the epidemic, which has claimed more than 560 lives in China and spread to 24 countries. Twitter, which reported 15 million coronavirus-related tweets in January, said it had suspended auto-suggest search results that would likely produce untrustworthy content. Facebook also said it was targeting false claims aimed at discouraging treatment or taking appropriate precautions with the respiratory virus. "This includes claims related to false cures or prevention methods -- like drinking bleach cures the coronavirus -- ...

UN reacts as Boko Haram kills humanitarian worker in Borno

19Jul

By BobbyNo Comments

News

UN reacts as Boko Haram kills humanitarian worker in Borno

The United Nations has reacted to reports of the recent killing of a Humanitarian worker in Borno state. The Action Against Hunger, a humanitarian organization based in the North East, earlier today, disclosed that one of its drivers was killed by the sect members on Wednesday July 18th. The organization in a statement released, said the humanitarian workers were in a convoy enroute Damasak in Borno state when they were attacked by the sect members. While the driver died in the attack, some other workers have been declared missing. Reacting to the development, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, in a statement released this evening, expressed concerns over the reported attack. He called on anyone who may have any form of influence to do ever...

Real Reason We Ordered May 30 As Sit-At-Home – IPOB

27May

By BobbyNo Comments

News

Real Reason We Ordered May 30 As Sit-At-Home – IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has explained that it ordered a sit-at-home for its members to serve as a reminder to the “overlords in Nigeria” that IPOB members and people of the South-East are united in the quest to actualize Biafra. In a statement by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful on Monday, the secessionist group reiterated its resolve to observe the May 30 sit-at-home order. IPOB warned that the arrest and threatening of its members won’t stop the sit-at-home order or hinder the actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra. The statement reads: “We the indomitable IPOB family worldwide wish to remind the Nigerian army, police and their collaborators within and without, that threats, lies, propaganda, misinformation, arrests, torture, illegal detention, a corrupt co...

Facebook Closes Pro-Buhari Accounts Used To Attack Atiku

19May

By BobbyNo Comments

News

Facebook Closes Pro-Buhari Accounts Used To Attack Atiku

Tech giant, Facebook, has closed some accounts allegedly set up by an Israeli firm named Archimedes, used in denting the image of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and boosting the campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari, Associated Press reports. The report by United States think tank, Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which analyses misinformation online, said some sample posts removed from Facebook appeared to praise President Buhari of the All Progressives Congress and smear his leading opponent, Atiku. Many of the pages and accounts were discovered to be linked to a Tel Aviv-based political consulting and lobbying firm named Archimedes. On its sparse website of African stock images, the company advertises its deliberate...

What We’re Doing About Chibok Girls’ Release – FG

16Apr

By BobbyNo Comments

News

What We’re Doing About Chibok Girls’ Release – FG

The Federal Government has assured the international community that it is working with its Swiss partners and others, on daily basis, to track and secure the release of remaining abducted Chibok girls still in captivity. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this at a briefing at the Department of African Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC. The minister, who engaged members and students of the department on the development in the country, said that government had never for one day forgotten or closed the case of the abducted girls. “Few days ago was the fifth anniversary of the abducted girls and that means they were kidnapped more than a year before President Muhammadu Buhari adminis...

13Feb

By BobbyNo Comments

News

APC Vows to Punish Ogun Violence Promoters

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday said it would punish the promoters of the violence that engulfed its presidential rally in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Monday, saying it was an act of indiscipline too many. Its Presidential Campaign Council has also taken time to deny that President Muhammadu Buhari asked his supporters to prepare for violence as stated by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, saying what the president meant was actually a joke. The ruling party move towards its pledge to punish the perpetrators of the Monday violence when it accused Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State of sponsoring the ‘’Monday’s premeditated attacks’’ on Buhari and other party leaders at the venue of the presidential campa...

FG Yet to Make Fresh Offer over Strike, Says ASUU

25Jan

By BobbyNo Comments

News

FG Yet to Make Fresh Offer over Strike, Says ASUU

The strike embarked upon by lecturers in the country’s universities may not end soon as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Thursday said the federal government has failed to make fresh offer on funding for the revitalisation of public universities in the country. The President of the union, Prof. Biodun Oduwole, who made the disclosure in Strike Bulletin 9 sent to branches of the union and journalists in Ibadan, Oyo State, also said the government is yet to address the issue of renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement in its new offer made to the union last Monday. Ogunyemi, who disclosed that the government had improved its earlier offers, maintained that there were still critical issues currently unresolved. He called the public to disregard the misinformati...

30Oct

By BobbyNo Comments

News

NNPC Debunks Fuel Price Hike Rumour

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has debunked the trending fake news of an impending review of pump prices of petroleum products, especially petrol. A statement Tuesday in Abuja by the NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, affirmed that contrary to the misinformation in the social media, the federal government has no plan to review prices of petroleum products either downwards or upwards. Ughamadu said since October 2017, NNPC had been the sole importer of petrol into the country as the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) could not import due to the Open Market Price being much higher than the N145/litre official selling price. Government, he said, has no plan to review the market prices of products either upwards or downwards now. ...

Fedral Government Set To Register Nigerian Poor

25Oct

By BobbyNo Comments

Politics

Fedral Government Set To Register Nigerian Poor

The Ministry of Budget and National Planning, says the National Social Registry (NSR) is part of Federal Government’s effort to capture the Nigerian poor and vulnerable in the country. Mr Olajide Odewale, the ministry’s Permanent Secretary said this during an engagement meeting with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Donor partners on NSR in Abuja. Odewale, represented by Mr Kayode Obasa, the Director, Social Development of the ministry said the register would help improve services in the country. “A lot of misinformation and invalidated data are out there in the public domain. “And attempt to use the data to implement the interventions have led sometimes to undesirable outcomes, hence the need to take the right steps. “First, by warehousing details of the p...

“Why Niger Delta Will Vote Buhari For Second Term In 2019” – Richard Kpodoh

20Mar

By Czar Owolabi MarcusNo Comments

News

“Why Niger Delta Will Vote Buhari For Second Term In 2019” – Richard Kpodoh

Chief Richard Kpodoh, a kinsman of former President Goodluck Jonathan, weekend slammed Former President Goodluck Jonathan over claim that PDP will retrun to Presidency in 2019, saying the PMB has exposed the six years of PDP lies under the last administration and ready to vote massive for PMB re-election in 2019. Chief Richard Kpodoh said the recent clamp down by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on those he reffered to as “Jonathan boys” in Bayelsa and other parts of the country have shown that the former President presided over the worst administration in the history of the country. Kpodoh, who specifically described the period of Jonathan’s Presidency as the years of holocaust, said the former president short changed the people of the region in his six years in po...

Oritse Femi Lied About The Quilox Beating – Sound Sultan

14Nov

By Czar Owolabi Marcus1 Comment

Entertainment

Oritse Femi Lied About The Quilox Beating – Sound Sultan

Sound Sultan took to his Instagram page to rubbish claims by Oritsefemi’s management “MSN Gang” that Quilox bouncers refused him entry into the VIP section. He shared a picture of himself with Quilox owner, Shina Peller, and wrote: "Misinformation I was chilling in the VIP as every other time in my Cousins club."