November 20, 2020

#EndSARS - DJ Switch Is A Fraud - Nigerian Government

#EndSARS: DJ Switch Is A Fraud – Nigerian Government

Nigerian government through the Minister of Information and Culture has said the real intention of Obianuju Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch in her footage on the Lekki toll gate shooting was to tarnish the image of the country. The government further demanded to know the alleged sponsors of the popular DJ.

DJ Switch who had live-streamed the shooting at #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll gate in October on Instagram have received a lot of condemnation from the government. The Defence Headquarters labelled videos of Massacre posted on social media as ‘photo-shopped.’

But DJ Switch’s live session amongst …

Army Marches On Tigray Region Capital

Ethiopian Conflict: Army Marches On Tigray Region Capital

Ethiopian federal government troops are currently pushing toward the regional capital of Mekelle despite effort by the international community to restore peace. According to a report, the two weeks fighting between the Ethopian federal government forces and Tigrayan regional forces has forced tens of thousands of people to flee to neighboring Sudan. Ethiopia’s federal government said Wednesday that army forces were marching on Tigray’s capital as international groups appealed for an end to the conflict in the African country.

The federal government committee established for the crisis said ‘armed forces continue to advance toward Mekelle.’

On Wednesday, Tigray’s regional authorities …

Twitter Apologises For Tagging India’s Region As China

Twitter Apologises For Tagging India’s Region As China

Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologized to an Indian parliamentary panel for ceding the northern Himalayan region to China on Twitter’s geo-tagging Reuters says.

Twitter geo-tagging is currently showing a northern Himalayan as part of China but the company has apologised with a promise to make corrections by month-end, the panel’s chief said on Wednesday. Twitter’s chief privacy officer, Damien Kieran, sent an apology letter to the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill after the company geo-tagged India’s northern territory of Ladakh as being in neighbouring China, the panel’s head Meenakashi Lekhi said.

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