FHA Transfers Mechanic Village And Market Land To Local Government
- Illegal occupants to be duly sanctioned
The journey of over 15years finally became a reality when the Zonal Manager, Federal Housing Authority, Southwest region, Arc. Akitoye as directed by the Managing Director, FHA Hon. Gbenga Ashafa handed over the landed properties to the Executive Chairman, Engr. Dr. Valentine Buraimoh for development and distribution to appropriate beneficiaries.
Speaking on behalf of the Managing Director, FHA, Arc. Akitoye said, "We are very much aware of the critical role these two institutions play in the economy of the state and by extension the nation. To this end, it is only expedient that we provide an enabling environment for the trades to thrive".
The Council Chairman commended the Managing Director for his visionary undertaking of handing over the land. He promised to quickly call a stakeholders meeting for necessary action in the interest of developing the property for its statutory provision.
The Residents Association, FTRA's central executive led by Mr. Shola Fakorede were present to witness the handing over ceremony. The lands are situated at the 1st avenue/6th avenue end of Festac
Apple threatened to remove Facebook's products from its App Store, after the BBC found domestic "slaves" for sale on apps, including Instagram, in 2019.
The threat was revealed in the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) Facebook Files, a series of reports based on its viewing of internal Facebook documents.
Facebook says it prohibits human exploitation "in no uncertain terms".
It says it has been "combating human trafficking on our platform for many years".
The firm added: "Our goal remains to prevent anyone who seeks to exploit others from having a home on our platform."
Hashtag slavery
The BBC News Arabic investigation exposed a booming online black market in the illegal buying and selling of domestic workers.
It shed light on a world in which women endured a life of servitude and were kept behind closed doors, deprived of their basic rights, unable to leave and at risk of being sold to the highest bidder. Experts said these conditions amounted to slavery.
The trade was carried out using a number of apps including Facebook-owned Instagram.
The posts and hashtags used for sales were mainly in Arabic, and shared by users in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The women were often categorised by race, and available to buy for a few thousand dollars.
The WSJ reported that following the BBC investigation, Apple told Facebook to do more to tackle human trafficking.
It said the social media giant only took "limited action" until "Apple Inc. threatened to remove Facebook's products from the App Store, unless it cracked down on the practice".
The BBC has approached Apple about the claim.
The paper also quoted a 2019 internal report from Facebook, suggesting that the social media giant knew about, and had been investigating, the online slave trade before the BBC got in contact.
In the report, a Facebook researcher writes: "Was this issue known to Facebook before BBC inquiry and Apple escalation?
"Yes. Throughout 2018 and [the first half of] 2019 we conducted the global Understanding Exercise in order to fully understand how domestic servitude manifests on our platform across its entire life cycle: recruitment, facilitation, and exploitation."
After the 2019 BBC report, Facebook banned the main hashtag used for the trade and removed hundreds of accounts from Instagram.
"We will continue to work with law enforcement, expert organisations and industry to prevent this behaviour on our platforms," it said in response to the investigation.
However, at the time the story was published the BBC found women were still advertised for sale on the platform.
Apple acts
The BBC also alerted Google and Apple, as apps in which women were listed for sale were available via their smartphone app stores.
The illegal sales are a clear breach of the US tech firms' rules for app developers and users - both firms said they worked with the developers to prevent illegal activity.
Google said it was "deeply troubled" by the findings, Apple said it expected developers to take "immediate corrective actions".
Facebook's response Following the concerns raised by the BBC and Apple in 2019, Facebook "began moving faster", the WSJ said.
It added that "a proactive sweep" looking for human trafficking "found more than 300,000 instances of potential violations and disabled more than 1,000 accounts".
The BBC report also prompted questions from the United Nations.
In its June 2020 response to these, Facebook wrote: "Following an investigation prompted by an inquiry from the BBC, we conducted a proactive review of our platform. We removed 700 Instagram accounts within 24 hours, and simultaneously blocked several violating hashtags."
The following month the company said it removed more than 130,000 pieces of Arabic-language speech content related to domestic servitude in Arabic on both Instagram and Facebook.
It added that it had also developed technology that can proactively find and take action on content related to domestic servitude - enabling it to "remove over 4,000 pieces of violating organic content in Arabic and English from January 2020 to date".
GeneralDae: Oparanozie alone cannot be blamed. Oshoala, Okobi, Chikwelu as well. Alozie should be moved away from the right back and tried in the midfield.
marvin906: Desire was awful but she shouldn't be the Jesus christ in the team what about asishat.. Aside from that NFF don't just like her
It's not even about that. Journalists can blame individual players, but this kind of nonsense should not come from a football federation. Even if a player has underperformed, you should deal with it internally. They shouldn't be issuing this kind of press statement at all.
I suspect that this has more to do with the protest during the 2019 World Cup and the attempt to freeze her out of the team than anything else. It seems they were stupidly trying to convince the fans that they were right to freeze her out of the team, but they later retracted the statement when they realised how stupid it was.
These are the two offensive paragraphs from the press release. It was retracted and re-issued and the two paragraphs were deleted from the new press release, but it's too late.
carbonado: ....Oga Naptu2, what say you about the way falcons got beaten today, and what do you think can be done to improve the team, i know you are a big lover of female football.
I've been trying to finish the post since our first game against Mali. I'll tag you in it when I finish.
budaatum: With all due respect - and I'm certain you know its immense since it begins with you whom I follow - but this is like this.
I thought you'd known him a long time?! Everyone knows for fuq face kayode follows the money. If he'd lived in the 17th Century he'd be a seller of slaves!
Business › Re: FHA Transfers Festac Mechanic Village And Market To Amuwo Odofin Local Govt. by naptu2(op): 10:25am On Sep 24, 2021
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