By Prince Osuagwu & Emeka Aginam
LAGOS—Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday, arrived
Nigeria unannounced. The 32-year-old tech enterpreneur surprisingly made a
sudden visit and inspection of activities at the Co-Creation Hub, Yaba Lagos.
His arrival to Nigeria is not unconnected to the ‘Facebook for developers’ workshop’ for Nigerian engineers, product managers and partners holding today in Lagos.
The event is expected to help the engineers build better
applications and monetise them more effectively.
Before his arrival, it was earlier announced that the
company’s Director of Global product Partnerships, Nigeria’s Ime Archibong was
to lead speakers to the event where Facebook would unveil a ten-year roadmap
that can help improve Nigeria’s economy
Facebook is an online social networking service based in
Menlo Park, California, United States, which Zuckerberg and his fellow Harvard
College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes formed on February 4, 2004.
After its initial public offering, IPO in February 2012,
Facebook began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an
original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13, 2015, it
became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to reach a
market cap of $250 billion.
As of March this year, Facebook had hit over 1.65 billion
monthly active users out of which 7.1 million people are daily users from
Nigeria. This makes the country Africa’s biggest user of the social media
platform.
However, Vanguard gathered that it was for security reasons
that Zuckerberg’s plan to visit Nigeria and his eventual arrival was kept top
secret.
A close source who spoke to Vanguard said: “It was a top
secret and nobody was meant to know before his arrival. It was actually for
security reasons but now that he is here, he would be able to interact with
tech professionals and other Nigerians today in a press conference at Eko Hotel
and Suites tomorrow (today, August 31st, 2016).”
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