DEADLINE TO BAN TIKTOK NEARS AGAIN AS TRUMP WEIGHS FIFTH EXTENSION. (PHOTO).
Deadline to ban TikTok nears again as Trump weighs fifth extension The deadline for TikTok to be banned in the United States has arrived once again, despite months of White House messaging suggesting a deal with China was close to completion. The looming cutoff revives a familiar question: whether President Donald Trump will issue yet another extension to keep the popular social media platform operating, even as federal law requires its sale or removal. Earlier this year, the app briefly stopped functioning on U.S. phones to comply with legislation passed by Congress during the Biden administration, only to be restored days later through executive action by Trump. Since returning to office, Trump has repeatedly used executive orders to delay the enforcement of the law while his administration pursued negotiations aimed at transferring TikTok’s U.S. operations away from Chinese control. Each extension was framed as a temporary measure while talks continued with Beijing and potentia...
What could have breached the palpable peace in Ukpor town,Nnewi South LGA,Anambra state was averted on sunday,June 18 when a 'whistleblower' revealed to a particular family who owns a farmland at Umudim village,beside Gate of heaven mortuary,along Onuselogu road that he saw a man {name withheld} burying what looked like dangerous charms in their farm when he decided to answer the call of nature in the bush.The owner of the farm immediately alerted his son who resides in Onitsha of the development.According to sources,before 7am on sunday,his son arrived Ukpor in anger and vowed to deal with whoever carried out the act.The whistleblower was called upon and reminded about the consequences of false information but he swore with their village deity that he saw the man burying the charm.Just like a scene from a Nollywood movie,the owner of the farm with his son accompanied by few other people immediately proceeded to the house of the man who was accused of burying the charms.On getting there,the man denied the allegation but claimed that one of his friends from Nnewi convinced him to use the place for something he wasn't aware of the orevious day.A delegation was sentt to Nnewi to get the man but he was said to have absconded when he saw a mob approaching his house menacingly.The accused was queried on why he allowed someone to make use a land that doesn't belong to him but he claimed the man said he saw something interesting in the land and that's probably why he decided to use it.In a twinkle of an eye,the whole of Ukpor gathered in Umudim waiting for the drama to unfold.The youths equally gathered in their numbers and threatened to beat him up if he didn't want to say the truth.Sources further said that the man later confessed that he actually buried the charms there with the help of other 3 native dictors which was eventually exhumed.
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