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‘To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,’ Facebook engineering said in the statement.‘We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.’ The social media giant posted a statement to Twitter at 11.31pm, thanking millions of users impacted by the unprecedented outage which lasted around six hours ‘for bearing with us’.Facebook blamed a ‘faulty configuration change’ for the problem, which hit multiple platforms used by well over a billion people right around the world and lasted far longer than many previous outages. Facebook’s share price plummeted 4.9% amid the outage, which also came the day after a whistleblower claimed in a US interview that the company prioritises its own interests over the public good. The network problems had begun at around 4.30pm, when outage monitor Downdetector received almost 150,000 reports in just...

The importance of Youth in Nation Building cannot be over emphasized. Our youth are very pivotal in the making of a greater Lagos. Also, the presence of our police officers in the society can never be ignored as they are the reason we can sleep with our two eyes closed. While our youth have severally complained about the unjust treatment from a minority of bad police officers, It is also of a fact that a minority of our youth sometimes commit criminal acts. To this extent,the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development has taken up the responsibility of repairing the mistrust between the police and our dear youth. Part of this is to restore confidence among these important groups. This is of great essence and very important in Lagos State. In order to begin the process of restoring confidence and creating a better synergy between the police and the youth, the Lagos State Government through the Ministry of Youth and Social Development is organising a Police & Yo...