Founder and CEO of popular social media platform, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is currently in Lagos Nigeria.

The world’s seventh wealthiest man discreetly came into Nigeria today, Tuesday, August 30 to see how Facebook works in Nigeria and to understand how to improve on the social media platform for Nigerians.

He is also checking out how it can improve on technologies in Africa. His first port of call was the CC Hub in Yaba area of Lagos state. Zuckerberg is in Nigeria for the “Facebook for Developers Workshop” for Nigerian engineers, product managers and partners in Lagos. The programme is slated for Wednesday, August 31.

Before coming to Nigeria Zuckerberg meet with Pope Francis in Italy. The Vatican said that Pope Francis, during a meeting on Monday with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and Chief Executive, discussed how social media could be used for poverty reduction.

According to a post on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page, the CEO told the Pope how much he admired his message of mercy and tenderness, as well as how he’s found new ways to communicate with people of every faith around the world.

Telegraph UK reports that Zuckerberg had previously pledged to bring disadvantaged communities online, an initiative that is currently attempting to provide refugee camps with Internet access.

The news agency reports that an increasing number of users are turning to social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to find their news, but Zuckerberg said his firm had no ambitions to become a content provider. “No, we are a tech company, not a media company,” said Zuckerberg, after a young Italian asked him whether Facebook intended to become a news website.

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