Measures such as showing fewer viral videos cut time spent on the social network by about 5%, or roughly 50 million hours a day, in the last three months of 2017.

However, Facebook reported better than expected results despite the fall.

Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the priority was encouraging more personal interaction among users.

“Helping people connect is more important than maximising the time they spend on Facebook,” he said.

“We can make sure the service is good for people’s well-being and for society overall.”

In January, Facebook said it would make changes to news feeds to prioritise posts from friends and family and make content from businesses and news outlets less prominent.


In the US and Canada, which generates a sizeable proportion of Facebook’s advertising revenues – the number of daily users fell about 700,000 to 184 million in the quarter.

Facebook said annual revenues soared 47% last year to more than $40bn (£28.2bn), while profits jumped 56% to nearly $16bn.

The gains came despite a $2.3bn payment triggered by recent changes to US tax law.

Analysis: Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter, San Francisco
There are politicians, academics and even former executives lining up to tell Facebook what’s wrong with it, but Mark Zuckerberg has only ever trusted his own data.

And so these tweaks to the News Feed, above all else, are a result of what Facebook’s engineers have seen for themselves.

Mr Zuckerberg’s (pretty convincing) argument is that by not fixing the News Feed, the long-term health of the company could be in jeopardy – not because of Russian propaganda or fake news, but because it just won’t be fun or useful to use.

Some residents of Magboro, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, have called on the Ogun State Government and security agencies to rein in the activities of herdsmen in the community.

A set of landlords, who spoke to PUNCH on Wednesday, lamented the presence of herdsmen in their neighbourhood at an ungodly hour, saying their activities constituted security risk.
They also said some of the men carried guns while grazing their cattle on residential areas.

A landlord, Linus Okoye, said he had seen the herdsmen entering into the community with cattle three times in January.

He said, “I saw them at Magboro town as they grazed their cows and moved to the Abule area to MFM Prayer City, Magada and Onigbagbo areas. I was shocked when I saw them grazing their cows around 3am sometime last week. For the past 10 years that I have been living in this community, I have never seen them within this neighbourhood until now.

“We don’t want cattle in Magboro because there is no farmland here. We are living in this community with our wives and children and there are schools all around. So, what business do cattle have with humans? We feel uncomfortable. If they want to graze, they should go inside the bush. This is a town. We are trying as a community to repair our roads and they want to compound the problem; that will not happen. The government should stop their activities here. If we want to buy cows, we know where to get them.”


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Another landlord, Wole Akinlowo, who is also a member of the Magboro Community Development Association, described the development as strange, saying reports from residents showed that trouble might be looming.

Akinlowo noted that on Sunday, January 21, the herdsmen were seen grazing between 4pm and 5pm, adding that they returned on Thursday, January 25.

“Around 2am on that day, they passed through every nook and cranny of the neighbourhood, searching for where to graze. After they left around 4am, cow dung littered everywhere. What would happen if anyone mistakenly threw a stone at the cows?

“The real issue is that the neighbourhood is not for grazing. Except for few houses under construction, there are houses everywhere. There is no farmland, ” he added.
Another resident, Damola Ojo, said he was returning home from work around 12am when he sighted the herdsmen with their cattle.

“I decided to drive slowly to observe the man leading them. I saw him with a gun. He did not hide it. These Fulani herdsmen are getting emboldened and it is sad that nobody is doing anything about them,” he said.

Okafor Golden Chinedu otherwise called Xbusta is a rapper, singer, song writer and all round entertainer has become the latest artist to leave Kcee’s Owned Record Label, Five Star Music 3 years after Signing With them.
Recall That Last year, the record label’s frontier, Harry Song and Singer, Skiibii Quited Five Star Music and they have since moved on to own their New different Record Labels.

Xbusta took to Instagram to appreciate Five Star Music for the Platform given to Him to Show Case His Talent to the World.

Read what he posted below:-

DJ Cuppy,daughter of Oil magnate Femi Otedola is out changing the lives of some students. The billionaire daughter revealed via twitter that she’s on a misson to sponser 10 people to University this year.

Walking in the philanthropist lane,she has began the give back as one beneficiary by name Akeem Owolabi is now off to resume at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

What a beautiful way to give back to the society. Congratultions to the beneficiary.

Source: http://www.e247mag.com/2018/02/01/dj-cuppy-sends-one-to-universitynine-more-to-go/

Singer Davido, has once again defended his O.B.O tittle,as he acquires a new whip, a bentley bentayga,2018 model. He shared photos of the new car he purchased in Atlanta yesterday .

Currently the fastest (187 mph) and most expensive SUV on the market, the Bentayga is Bentley’s opening salvo to the ever-expanding SUV ranks.
According to the singer, the car is now being shipped to Nigeria. Showing off his new Icebox luxury wristwatch and 30 billion customised chain,worth million. The flamboyant singer can be said to be balling. Congrats to him! See photos below:


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