By Omar Fernando

DAVAO CITY – Netizens who read an article published by the state-run Philippine News Agency (PNA) expressed disgust with the narrations made by Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III, director of the Police Regional Office-Davao (PRO-11), in a press briefing on Sept. 9.

The story, headlined “PNP: Quiboloy cornered, forced to surrender,” was posted on the PNA's Facebook page the same day.

As of 11:26 p.m. on Sept. 9, the article gained 373 reactions, 92 comments, and 11 shares.

Has the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) pronounced a curse on Philippine Presidents whose administrations, inaugurated in its confines, ended prematurely?

According to Wikipedia, the neoclassical building was built in 1921 and was the home of the bicameral Congress from 1926 to 1972, hence its name as the Old Legislative Building.

There is one intriguing detail about the NMP that many Filipinos may find interesting: four Philippine Presidents took their oaths in it and the first three failed to finish their terms.

The students of Jose Maria College Foundation, Inc. (JMCFI) called on the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Legal Education Board (LEB), and the Department of Education (DepEd) to stand on the right side of history amid the ongoing tensions caused by a police raid in search for Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Apollo C. Quiboloy.

“Your silence amid these attacks on academic freedom and the right to education is complicit in emboldening these abuses,” a group statement issued on Wednesday read.