Arsene Wenger to step down as Arsenal manager at the end of the season.

Arsene Wenger is to leave Arsenal at the end of the season, ending a near 22-year reign as manager. ... Wenger, 68, won three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups, including the Double in 1998 and 2002.

What is your reaction to Arsenal's manager Arsène Wenger stepping down at the end of the season?


Sir Alex Ferguson: said "He is, without doubt, one of the greatest Premier League managers and I am proud to have been a rival, a colleague and a friend to such a great man."

Antonio Conte: "He’s had a great influence on football and we are talking about one of the best managers in the world.”

Good news as Facebook to allow users 'unsend' their messages

Facebook announced on Friday that it will allow all users to pull back sent messages in the coming months.

But the questionable timing follows news that Mark Zuckerberg has already been deleting his private messages off the popular social media site.

"We have discussed this feature several times. And people using our secret message feature in the encrypted version of Messenger have the ability to set a timer — and have their messages automatically deleted," Facebook said in a statement to Business Insiders.  

"We will now be making a broader delete message feature available. This may take some time. And until this feature is ready, we will no longer be deleting any executives' messages. We should have done this sooner — and we're sorry that we did not."

Facebook received a lot of flack after some of Mark Zuckerberg's private messages were deleted off their servers.

Three sources claim old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their inbox.

The recipients were not notified - raising concerns about what the Facebook CEO could be hiding.

Facebook claims the change was made after the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, when a mass data breach at the movie studio resulted in embarrassing email histories being leaked.

However, the lack of disclosure has angered some users, along with the absence of a similar tool to recall messages for normal users.

An email receipt of a message from 2010 seen by TechCrunch proves some messages from the Facebook CEO no longer appear in chat logs or Facebook files.

The removal of these messages was not disclosed publicly and users were not informed.

Although Zuckerberg may be CEO of the company, the ability to remove messages from Messenger - now used by 1.3 billion people - is not allowed under the company's terms of service.

Users can only delete messages from their own inbox and they would still appear in the inbox of the recipient.

The fact the the company is prepared to make exceptions makes a mockery of its statement that it wants to 'make the world more open and transparent', say experts.

Facebook claimed these messages were deleted due to concerns about corporate security.

"After Sony Pictures' emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives' communications," a spokesperson told MailOnline.

"These included limiting the retention period for Mark's messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages."

The Sony hack targeted the emails of Sony film executives, revealing the inner workings of the industry.

Other Facebook-owned companies such as Instagram and WhatsApp have functions that mean users can delete messages.  

Earlier this week the company was further embroiled in the scandal over user's private data.

It was revealed Facebook scans the contents of messages that people send each other on its Messenger app, blocking any content that contravenes its rules.

What users write in messages may also be read manually if it's flagged to moderators for breaching Facebook's community guidelines.

While the intentions behind the practice may be well-meaning, the news is likely to add to users' concerns over what the social network knows about them.

It follows revelations that the Trump-affiliated consulting firm obtained data on at least 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users.

This information was used to target voters in the US, based on psychological profiling, with political adverts spreading disinformation.

Facebook is also facing criticism for collecting years of data on call and text histories from Android users.  

CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the policy during a podcast interview with Vox's editor at large, Ezra Klein.

Zuckerberg told his host a story about receiving a phone call from staff at his Mountain View firm.

He was informed that their systems had blocked attempts to send inflammatory Messenger instant messages about ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.

About the experience, the 33-year-old billionaire said: 'In that case, our systems detect what's going on.

"We stop those messages from going through."

The news has been met with mixed reactions on social media, with a number of users expressing concern.

Messenger says that it doesn't use data from messages it has scanned for the purposes of advertising, according to reports in Bloomberg.

The company told the website that it uses the same tools to prevent abuse in messages that are in place across Facebook as a whole.

Users are also able to flag posts or messages that they feel are in violation of the site's house rules.

This will either cause one of the social network's community operations team to manually review the content, or automated systems can also make decisions.

HABENGA PETER OKONDO . KENYA'S GOOD HISTORY NEVER BE ARCHIVED WITHOUT HIS NAME FOR HIS IMMENSE CONTRIBUTIONS .

PETER HABENGA OKONDO’S GIGANTIC IMPACT TO NASCENT KENYA’S DEV’T MIGHT BE BURIED IN LATE BISHOP MUGE’S DEATH. HE WAS A SCAPEGOAT. EVERYTIME HIS NAME POPS UP IS JUST ABOUT THAT MYSTERIOUS DEATH. HE CONTRIBUTED QUITE A LOT FOR THIS COUNTRY AT NATIONAL LEVEL !

* Late Hon Peter Habenga Okondo, did not kill or involved in the death of outspoken Anglican Bishop Alexander Kipsang arap Muge’s death which remains a mystery to date.

* Late Okondo was a victim of bad politics of following blindly still prevalent even today 

……..Death threat Like all the Kanu boys of the time, Okondo took the war against those who were fighting for democracy personally,  to show how loyal he was to the regime for top positions he held then

 *   Kenya's good history should never archived without his name ....from constitutional making , governance , Commerce and Industry etc .....

* Bunyala should name one main Road and permanent landmarks after his name …Current MP should spearhead that .

 * Thro’ the MP ….we should organize a public event to remember him as a community .

On August 20, 1990, Kenya’s Labour Minister Peter Okondo did the unimaginable - he offered to resign during an era public officials were not known to quit. Okondo was bathing in criticism following the death of the then outspoken Anglican Bishop Alexander Kipsang arap Muge.

About three days before the bishop’s death, Okondo told Muge that he would not return home alive if he dared visit Western Kenya. The daredevil bishop took on the challenge, but true to Okondo’s threat, he did not return home alive. Some of those who were born at the time of Muge’s death now have their

Many Kenyans still remember him for his efforts in championing for democracy, fight against corruption, ethnicity and land grabbing. The clergyman was born in 1948 in Nandi County and became the first bishop of Eldoret Diocese. He joined a bandwagon of clerics who were critical of the excesses in government and as a result, became a marked man.

The fight for democracy intensified in the late 80s and early 90s when the call for a multi-party system of government reached fever pitch. Death threat Like all the Kanu boys of the time, Okondo took the war against those who were fighting for democracy personally, perhaps to show how loyal he was to the regime.

There has been speculation that Okondo did not mean it when he issued the death threat to Muge who perished in a road accident along the Eldoret-Turbo road after a visit to Busia.

 A former intelligence officer, James Lando Khwatenge, who worked with the Special Branch in Eldoret at the time, reportedly told the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) that the clergyman was killed by police officers who were sent directly from Nairobi to “finish” the outspoken bishop and to use an accident used for cover up. Khwatenge was widely quoted in the media as saying that the bishop’s death on August 14, 1990, was the final job on what police called Operation Shika Msumari.

 He said Kanu loyalists who wanted to assassinate Muge merely seized threats issued by the

former Labour minister against the bishop and used him as a scapegoat. TJRC listened to the former intelligence officer while conducting hearings on unresolved political murders since independence. The bishop was killed when a milk truck crashed into his car as he was returning home after visiting Busia. No evidence was, however, presented to show that his death was anything but an accident. The driver of the truck was charged with causing his death through reckless driving and sentenced to seven years in prison, but he died after serving only five years.

 The attorney general ordered an inquest in response to the public outcry over his death and widespread suggestions of foul play, but nothing came out of the inquiry. The clergyman was famous for fighting corruption, land grabbing, political assassinations, bureaucracy and other social ills and did not confine the fight for what he believed in to Kenya’s borders. Bishop Muge is also remembered over his open stand against homosexuality made on May 17, 1990 during a visit to the USA. He based his condemnation on classical understanding of the scriptures.

 * Additional Excerpts from The Standard sections felt gave

correct account .

Antony Muhuma

Bunyala Residence .

Larry Madowo Lands BBC Job ...God is Good

Madowo set to  work for the UK government-owned media entity, BBC.

Madowo is set to join the BBC as Business Editor for Africa, a position that was recently advertised.

The new job comes a relief to Madowo, whose alleged frigid relationship with Nation Media Group’s management and editorial leadership forced him out, with Madowo citing lack of editorial independence at the media house.

Madowo’s woes began after covering Raila Odinga’s ‘swearing in’ ceremony at Uhuru Park on January 30th, defying a government directive to give the event a media blackout.

He was forced to stay in the office alongside anchor Ken Mijungu and the then Managing editor Linus Kaikai to avoid arrest by law enforcement officers.

BREAKING NEWS: South Africa's Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is dead.

BREAKING NEWS: South Africa's Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid stalwart and wife to Nelson Mandela when he was imprisoned on Robben Island, has died her personal assistant Zodwa Zwane said. She was 81.