Mark Zuckerberg makes first-ever visit to Nigeria-Africa

The Facebook founder visited Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time on Tuesday, touching down in Lagos, Nigeria. He met with local businesses and developers in an effort to understand how Facebook (FB, Tech30) could "better support tech development and entrepreneurship across Africa," the company said in a statement.

His visit included a trip to a Yaba, known as the Silicon Valley of Nigeria, where he toured a coding camp for kids and met with about 50 local startup founders and developers at CcHub, a local innovation center.

Zuckerberg said "There's so much energy and so much potential here. I just want to walk around and meet folks."

Zuckerberg express his happiness for the running of Hausa language as one of the operating languages on facebook, and said that more nigerian languages will soon be available.

s Zuckerberg walked down the street, he drew loud cheers from passersby.

"Mark's visit demonstrates to all Nigerian developers and entrepreneurs that they've caught the attention of the tech world, and they are capable of succeeding on a truly global level," 

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Mikel OBI donates his share of the Japanese largesse to Coach Siasia .

According to team’s sources, Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel, will donate part of his share of the $390,000 awarded to the bronze winning Nigeria U-23 team at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, by Japanese billionaire, Katsuya Takasu.
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A team meeting has already resolved that the $390k will be shared equally among all the 22 players and 10 officials, with Mikel agreeing to give part of his own share to Siasia, so as to get more than the rest of the squad.

source:oaktvonline

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Convention Venue Sealed

The PRO of the Nigerian Police Force, DCP Donald Amunah has defended the sealing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention venue in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, today. Speaking as a guest on Channels TV Sunrise Daily, he said;
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"The Police is an institution established by law and we obey the court orders and rule of law. In an event of conflicting court orders, what do you do? We are neutral. The IG has been served court orders in Abuja and so we have to obey the orders. If this court order has to be obeyed, what do we do about the venue? We take control of the venue to avoid two worrying parties conflicting, to protect lives and properties.”
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He emphasized the force had to be proactive to ensure that lives and properties are secured and later the issues can be later sorted out by the court itself. "In the interim, the Police will ensue that everyone is protected. So that people do not go to the venue of the convention and start fighting."
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When asked to identify which court of order the Force was following, in order to clarify on assumptions that they could be following one side, Mr. Amunah said; "We are not following one side. If there is conflict, you stand in the middle and ensure that there is no breakdown of law and order. When two parties have court orders, they will both want to implement their own motives and decision. The Police will do the essential, that is, protect lives and properties. It's not about obeying court A or B."

SOURCE:oaktv