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Twitter will ban all political advertising on its platform, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday.

In a series of posts, Dorsey said politicians should earn their audience rather than pay for it, and that the ability for politicians to pay for reach was problematic for democracy.

"We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons

A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.

While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions.

Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.

These challenges will affect ALL internet communication, not just political ads. Best to focus our efforts on the root problems, without the additional burden and complexity taking money brings. Trying to fix both means fixing neither well, and harms our credibility.

For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want!

We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn’t fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we're stopping these too.

We’re well aware we‘re a small part of a much larger political advertising ecosystem. Some might argue our actions today could favor incumbents. But we have witnessed many social movements reach massive scale without any political advertising. I trust this will only grow.

In addition, we need more forward-looking political ad regulation (very difficult to do). Ad transparency requirements are progress, but not enough. The internet provides entirely new capabilities, and regulators need to think past the present day to ensure a level playing field.

We’ll share the final policy by 11/15, including a few exceptions (ads in support of voter registration will still be allowed, for instance). We’ll start enforcing our new policy on 11/22 to provide current advertisers a notice period before this change goes into effect.

A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address." Dorsey said.

The announcement came after social media rival Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced widespread scrutiny and criticism for its laissez-faire attitude towards politicians spreading false information on its platform.

A man is in the grip of the police for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in the presence of his children at Dansoman Shiabu in Accra.
The suspect, Prince Korley Commodore, 48, was married to his wife, Dorcas Anafi Commodore, 37, for nine years.

Their children, both girls, aged five and eight, were said to have been in the bedroom at the time of the incident, with one of them screaming and saying “daddy you are killing mummy” a number of times.

The police saw a kitchen knife suspected to have been used to stab the victim.

When contacted, the Dansoman Divisional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Isaac Kwadwo Asante, confirmed the incident and said the Ghana Police Service national control room received information that a man had killed his wife in a house at Shiabu at about 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 27, 2019.

The Dansoman Police Patrol team, upon hearing the information, followed the signal and located the house.

At the house, the suspect had locked himself up in his room and would not open it despite the police requesting him to do so.

The police then forced the door open and arrested him after the body of a woman was seen in the room with blood stains all over it.

The Crime Scene Management team from the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service was immediately called in to assess the situation.

The body has since been deposited at the Ghana Police Hospital Morgue.

When the Daily Graphic visited the compound house where the couple lived at Dansoman Shiabu, some tenants said the couple was always happy and were the envy of many.

They said the suspect made pronouncements which did not make sense on the night before the incident.

His worried wife, according to the tenants, called a pastor of their church and informed him about her husband’s weird behaviour.

After speaking to Prince Commodore, the pastor told the couple he would visit them the next morning.

Family members of both the deceased and the suspect had besieged the police station in either mourning cloths or ordinary clothes.

A relation of the deceased said he was worried about the children of the couple who had been handed over to the pastor while investigations continued.

“I cannot imagine the emotional effect of what has happened on the children. Just imagine a child as young as eight years witnessing her biological father killing her mother. It is a pity, isn’t it?” said the relation.

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DMW boss, David Adeleke, popularly known by his stage name, Davido, has added a new member, Lil Frosh to his imprint.

The announcement was made by Davido on his social media handles.

On Twitter he said: "WELCOME LIL FROSH TO DMW/AMW/30BG !!!!! LETS GO!!! It’s been 7 years since I last dropped a complete body of work. A LONG TIME. Since my first album you’ve been with me and watched me develop, grow. Progress, regress, and progress again. A TURBULENT TIME. Since then I’ve lost too many loved ones. HARD TIMES. But I have also gained 3 beautiful littles ones. A BLESSED TIME. To crown it, I found the love of my life. A BLISSFUL TIME. I’m grateful for all of this. I’m grateful to have been through this journey with all your support. And I’m grateful to be able to share this project which signifies the point of my life I am at right now. What I’m currently having. What you should always make sure you have no matter what you are going through. “A GOOD TIME!!”Special thanks to God for the grace to finish this project. Second I’d like to thank Chioma my beautiful wife to be. Thank you so much for tolerating me especially through the past 9 months. I recorded most of this album during your pregnancy. You’ve been so patient. I love you. Next I’d like to thank Asa and Bobo for all the hard work and sleepless nights in ensuring all the paperwork and music was concluded and submitted. Thank you Menace and Tycoone for all the sleepless nights in studios. I couldn’t have done all that recording without you. Thank you Dremo, Selebobo and Josh for your engineering expertise on this masterpiece. Thank you Lati for picking up all these calls! The rest of the team Banko, Special, ECool, Wale Kwame and of course my super producers Kiddominant and Shizzi for overseeing this project!God bless all the contributors - writers and producers. Lastly, thank you to my ever loving father for being supportive! I present to you, A GOOD TIME - (Pre order) p.s. this is not the album cover. Wait on that ."

Pop superstar, Wizkid has been nominated for a Soul Train Music Awards for his contribution to Beyonce`s 2019 ‘Brown Skin Girl’.

The Nigeria king of afrobeats will be going home with two awards for song writer of the year and best collaboration of the year, if the award is won by American Popstar, Beyonce.
Here is the complete list of nominees for BET Presents: 2019 Soul Train Awards:

BEST NEW ARTIST

Lucky Daye
Mahalia
Nicole Bus
Pink Sweat$
Summer Walker
YK Osiris

SOUL TRAIN CERTIFIED AWARD

Ciara
Daniel Caesar
Fantasia
India.Arie
Kelly Rowland
Trevor Jackson
BEST GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL AWARD
BeBe Winans
Donald Lawrence
Erica Campbell
Kirk Franklin
Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Tori Kelly

RHYTHM & BARS (FORMERLY BEST HIP-HOP SONG OF THE YEAR)

21 Savage – “A Lot” featuring J. Cole
Cardi B – “Money”
DaBaby – “Suge”
J. Cole – “Middle Child”
Meek Mill – “Going Bad” featuring Drake
Megan Thee Stallion – “Cash Shit” featuring DaBaby

BEST R&B/SOUL FEMALE ARTIST
Ari Lennox
Beyoncé
H.E.R.
Lizzo
Mary J. Blige
Summer Walker

BEST R&B/SOUL MALE ARTIST

Anderson .Paak
Bruno Mars
Chris Brown
Daniel Caesar
Khalid
Tank

ALBUM/MIXTAPE OF THE YEAR

Ari Lennox – Shea Butter Baby
Chris Brown – Indigo
Ella Mai – Ella Mai
H.E.R. – I Used to Know Her
Khalid – Free Spirit
Lizzo – Cuz I Love You

SONG OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé – “Before I Let Go”
Chris Brown – “No Guidance” featuring Drake
Ella Mai – “Shot Clock”
Khalid – “Talk”
Lizzo – “Juice”
Summer Walker – “Girls Need Love (Remix)” featuring Drake

THE ASHFORD AND SIMPSON SONGWRITER’S AWARD

“Brown Skin Girl” – Written by Beyoncé Knowles, Carlos St. John, Adio Marchant, Shawn Carter, Stacy Barthe, Anathi Mnyango, Michael Uzowuru, Ayodeji Balogun, Richard Isong (Beyoncé featuring Saint Jhn, Wizkid & Blue Ivy Carter)
“Hard Place” – Written by H.E.R., David Harris, Sam Ashworth, Ruby Amanfu (H.E.R.)
“Juice” – Written by Theron Thomas, Sam Sumser, Sean Small, Eric Frederic, Melissa Jefferson (Lizzo)
“Make It Better” – Written by Brandon Anderson, William “Smokey” Robinson, Alaina Chenervert, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Daniel Maman, Farid Nassar (Anderson .Paak featuring Smokey Robinson)
“No Guidance” – Written by Christopher Brown, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Joshua “J-Louis” Huizar, Michee Lebrun, Nija Charles, Teddy Walton, Noah Shebib, Tyler Bryant (Chris Brown featuring Drake)
“Talk” – Written by Howard Lawrence, Guy Lawrence, Khalid Robinson (Khalid)

BEST DANCE PERFORMANCE

Beyoncé – “Spirit”
Chris Brown – “No Guidance” featuring Drake
DaniLeigh – “Easy (Remix)” featuring Chris Brown
Lizzo – “Juice”
Normani – “Motivation”
Teyana Taylor – “WTP”

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Alicia Keys – “Raise a Man”
Beyoncé – “Spirit”
Childish Gambino – “Feels Like Summer”
Chris Brown – “No Guidance” featuring Drake
Khalid – “Better”
Lizzo – “Juice”

BEST COLLABORATION

Ari Lennox – “Shea Butter Baby” featuring J. Cole
Beyoncé – “Brown Skin Girl” featuring Saint Jhn, Wizkid & Blue Ivy Carter
Cardi B & Bruno Mars – “Please Me”
Chris Brown – “No Guidance” featuring Drake
PJ Morton  – “Say So” featuring JoJo
Ty Dolla $ign – “Purple Emoji” featuring J. Cole

2019 Soul Train Awards. The ceremony will air live for the first time from the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas on Nov. 17 at 8 p.m.

Ghana’s controversial marriage counselor, George Lutterodt seems not to care about the ban imposed on him by the Ghana Psychological Council as he has dropped another serious comment about relationships.

According to Counselor Lutterodt, every man needs to spend a lot of money on their women if they want their wealth to increase.

In an interview on Rainbow Radio, Mr. Lutterodt said men who spend on their women will have their wealth increased in multiple measures.

He also added that any man who does not want his woman to apply makeup is a “big fool.”

“Quote me everywhere. Any man who does not allow a woman to make-up is a big fool,” Mr. Lutterodt said.

It would be recalled that the Psychological Council said Mr. Lutterodt does not have the proper qualification to call himself a ‘Counsellor’.

It went on further to warned him to refrain from using that title and appearing on media platforms in that capacity.

Nigerian music star, Duncan Wene Mighty, also known as Port Harcourt First Son, has come on Instagram to cry out to ex-Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha

He wrote;

"Your Excellency Because you directly paid in public . While the job was going smoothly immediately after you paid . They said you sent them to bring back money to you # LONG THROAT DIFFERENT FROM A HUNGRY PERSON ... even if na ordinary pepper I dey sell I must be good"