Day: September 8, 2024

MANILA: The Philippine National Police (PNP) confirmed Sunday night that it has gained custody of Apollo Quiboloy and his four aides after their surrender in Davao City. PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said the negotiation for their surrender started around 1:30 p.m. when they were issued a 24-hour ultimatum to come out of one of the buildings inside the 30-hectare Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound in Buhangin District or the police will make their move. They gave up at 5:30 p.m., a military aircraft flew them out of Davao City at 6:30 p.m. and they landed at Villamor Air Base

DAVAO CITY: The chief of the Police Regional Office in Davao (PRO-11) said Sunday night that all details on the reported arrest of Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Apollo Quiboloy will be divulged by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). It was DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos who posted around 6:30 p.m. on his personal Facebook account that NAHULI NA PO SI APOLLO QUIBOLOY (Apollo Quiboloy has been arrested). PRO-11 Director Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III told the media in an interview that he has no specific details about the arrest. ‘I don’t have any idea about

ISTANBUL: BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said artificial intelligence (AI) could play a vital role in performing the jobs of journalists in the future. But Valchev, in his opening remarks at a conference on ‘Navigating the AI and Media’ initiated by the Association of Balkan News Agencies- Southeast Europe (ABNA-SE) in Istanbul on Wednesday, pointed out that AI could never replace the natural communication among people. Valchev asked the participants to imagine having computers at a future ABNA-SE General Assembly, trying to calculate what the heads of news agencies would say or how they would vote. ‘While that may be

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Mindanao State University (MSU) System on Saturday announced it will continue offering law degrees, including in extension campuses, despite a cease and desist order from the Legal Education Board (LEB). In a statement, the MSU system maintained that LEB has no authority over MSU’s law curriculum administration as the institution is independently operating under a charter as indicated in Republic Act (RA) 1387. “Still, in accordance with the Charter of MSU and Section 12 of RA 7662 (Legal Education Reform Act), the MSU Law Program will continue to operate in all its campuses by

Manila: An inspection of a warehouse in Parañaque City has yielded around PHP85 million worth of smuggled frozen agricultural and beverage products, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported on Sunday. Commissioner Bienvenido Rubio said the operation was conducted after he issued a Letter of Authority (LOA) by the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP) on Sept. 5. Rubio said operatives of the CIIS-MICP served the LOA to a representative of the warehouse that was found containing various poultry, meat and other products from China suspected to be without proper customs duties and taxes. ‘The audacity of these