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Mark Zuckerberg’s two-day visit to Nigeria has
done a lot for the country; it is a pity no
government official or agency has tried to tap
into the gains of that visit. He arrived at a
time there was much talk about economic
recession, concerns about companies folding
up or retrenching staff, or international
investors leaving the country in droves, out of
frustration with the uncertainties in the
system. Zuckerberg’s arrival raised our hopes:
co-founder of Facebook and the 5 th richest
man in the world, sneaked into Nigeria to
meet with developers and entrepreneurs and to
discuss investments in Nigeria’s growing start-
up ecosystem. And for two days, he went
round the city of Lagos, visiting start-ups and
interacting with young entrepreneurs.




The way Nigeria is often painted abroad, and
in those travel advisories that foreign
ministries issue, you would think Nigeria is
such an unsafe place where kidnappers are
permanently on the prowl. Zuckerberg helped
to show the rest of the world that Nigeria is
not so bad at all, and that something really
exciting is happening here among the
country’s young population. He had no
bodyguards. He did not have to hire a lorry
load of Nigerian policemen to keep watch over
him. He trekked on the streets of Lagos,
surrounded by a few of his hosts. On
Wednesday morning, he jogged across the
Ikoyi-Lekki bridge. He ate pounded yam,
shrimps, snails (I thought they said he is a
vegan!) and jollof rice (Nigerian jollof (!) not
that one from Ghana). His visit went
smoothly. More investors may well be
encouraged to visit Nigeria too, seeing how
confidently a whole $53.7 billion walked freely
about in Nigeria, and he was not stolen or
kidnapped.
Zuckerberg’s visit also provided great publicity
for Nigeria’s emerging Silicon Valley, and the
young entrepreneurs to whom Zuckerberg paid
compliments. He has already invested in a
Nigerian start-up, Andela, and he has made
friends with other young Nigerians, the guys
behind Jobberman and C-Creation Hub
(CcHUB) and so many others. Zuckerberg cut
the picture throughout his visit of a true
inspirational figure. His simplicity and
humility was impressive. He kept going about
in a T-shirt, and interacted freely with
everyone he met.
Many young Nigerians can learn from his
example: the way some people whose biggest
possession is a laptop sometimes carry their
shoulders in the sky, if they were to be half of
what Zuckerberg is, they won’t just claim that
they are voltrons or overlords, they will look
for more intimidating labels. But Mark
Zuckerberg, who is just 32, shows that it is
not all about money, or influence, character
matters. There is no doubt that his hosts were
also impressed with him. And that probably
explains the protest that greeted the attempt
by CNN International and American artiste,
Tyrese Gibson, to refer to the visit as
Zuckerberg’s visit to sub-Saharan Africa.
Young Nigerians kept shouting back that
Zuckerberg is in Nigeria, not sub-Saharan
Africa! They wanted the publicity for their
country.











Inspired by Zuckerberg’s visit as the tech
entrepreneurs in Nigeria’s Silicon Valley may
have been, the Nigerian government should
see in the visit, and the excitement that it has
generated, the need to provide greater support
for technological innovation in the country.
There are many young Nigerians out there
who are gifted, hardworking and innovative.
They belong to the 21st Century. They are
aggressive. They want to operate at the
international level and become superstars.
They have ideas. They are ready and willing.
The basic thing that government owes them is
to provide an enabling environment for their
talents to flower. It has taken a few young
men and ladies to bring Mark Zuckerberg to
Nigeria. There are other young Nigerians doing
wonderful things in other sectors of the
economy who can save this country if they are
given the chance. There is also a large army
of untapped and yet-to-be-discovered talents,
whose future we cannot afford to waste.
Investment in education will help. Uncommon
sense will make things happen.




the most successful young men of the 21st
century. I watch Nollywood movies, but I don’t
think I have ever seen those Nollywood stars
who met with Zuckerberg smile that heartily
and broadly - not even in the movies. The
ones who did not bare their 32, were staring
at the Facebook ambassador in that typical
Nigerian fashion: “ah, see money, Mark, abi
make I send you script make you sponsor?”










The way the visit went, if Mark Zuckerberg had
wanted a Nigerian wife, or girlfriend, he would
have been met at every turn with echoes of
“Yes, Yes, Yes…come and hold something.” But
he is already married. So, don’t worry, Priscilla
Chan (Mark’s wife), your husband is safe,
Nigerian ladies will only admire him, they
don’t mean any harm, and they won’t initiate
him into coded runs. But of course you trust
him - you know he is not Justin Bieber. But
money is good oh. After money, it is money.
ha, Ori lonise, eda ko la’ropin o, Edumare funmi
ni money…












Altogether, it was a great business outing for
Zuckerberg and Facebook. Over 16 million
Nigerians are on Facebook, it is the largest
and most influential social media platform in
the country; on a daily basis, over 7 million
Nigerians log onto the website. Many more
are on whatsapp, another Facebook acquired
platform. With Zuckerberg’s visit, that number
is bound to grow. The strategic friendships
and partnerships that he has been able to
build is a demonstration of power and
influence: Facebook is on the ground in
Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa,
and he has taken that further by visiting
Kenya - look beyond the T-shirt, this young
American billionaire is building constituencies
and spheres of influence across Africa; he is
exploring new markets and staying ahead of
the competition in a continent that many
other investors may overlook, or desert for
reasons of inconvenience.










As a business strategy, Mark Zuckerberg’s
exploration of the African market is brilliant. It
may be the subject someday of a
Management, Leadership and Marketing Class.
Businesses must innovate, innovate and
innovate and the best way to do that is
through people. Nigerian entrepreneurs have
a lot to learn in this regard: the mindset of
the business leader is the soul of strategy.
There are too many thermostatic leaders in
the Nigerian business environment, and that is
why at the slightest confrontation with hard
choices, they close shop and run. Here is Mark
Zuckerberg, in the face of proven recession, he
wants to support start-ups and SMEs in
Nigeria; at a time others are fleeing, he is
coming into Nigeria and Africa. He is smart.
Wicked problems in a business environment
should inspire genius, change and innovation.
That is what leadership is all about.










[b]Beyond business and culture, there was a
small political side to the Zuckerberg visit.
The Facebook CEO had said Facebook will
promote the use of Hausa Language, some
reports indicated he had said he loves Hausa
language, and then a storm followed, resulting
in a hot, healthy spat between two friends,
colleagues and brothers of mine, Femi Fani-
Kayode (@realFFK) and Reno Omokri (@
renoomokri), with one claiming that Americans
are promoting Northern hegemony (John
Kerry, now Zuckerberg and Facebook), and the
other saying it is not a big deal, and in the
exchange, we got some lectures about
Nigeria’s ethnic and hegemonic politics.
On Wednesday at a town hall meeting,
Zuckerberg more or less edited himself by
saying “I am glad we support Hausa, and we
are planning on supporting more languages
soon.” He didn’t specify what those other
languages are. I hope he knows Nigeria has
over 400 languages and ethnic groups, and
they all form part of the Nigerian Facebook
community. He should tread carefully here,
because I am not too sure Facebook can
adopt Yoruba language before Igbo, or vice
versa, without a social media war on its
hands, and if Facebook chooses to
accommodate the three major languages in
Nigeria, it could be confronted with a major
battle over minority rights on its platform. We
are like that in this country,[/b]








Mark but the difference is that Mark Zuckerberg is
not a politician, he has voted only once (in
2008) and he doesn’t make political
statements, except when business interests are
at stake. Eyin boys, FFK and Reno, Zuckerberg
doesn’t really care about the local fights we
fight: he wants to create new markets and if
promoting Hausa on Facebook will create
more customers in that part of Nigeria, so be
it. And in case religion is part of that politics,
it doesn’t concern him either, he was born
Jewish, but he is a self-declared atheist. If he
worships any religion, it is the religion of
Facebook. In Nigeria, he has Igbos, Yorubas
and other Nigerians working for him.





He is interested in their intellect not where
they come from. One more thing: The
Nigerian government snubbed him or did he
snub our government? When he got to Kenya,
he was received at the airport by the Cabinet
Secretary of Information and Communications
and later given a delicious lunch of fish, semo
and soup , no Nigerian
government official offered him common
sachet water and yet he was here to create
jobs and markets! We shouldn’t frighten him
away with our politics! The good news,
though, is that he is a humanist even if a
secular humanist: End of story.
Thank you Marky, for the visit and for giving
us a good story to tell. mynd44 lalasticlala http://jeloser..com/2016/09/the-mark-zuckerberg-visit-by-reuben.html

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last night Femi Fani-Kayode wrote a piece
about US secretary of state John Kerry and
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's visit to
Nigeria & how it has something to do with
the Hausas. He wrote;


"Kerry comes to the north and sees
the Sultan of Sokoto, northern
governors and Buhari. One week later
Facebook founder comes to Nigeria
and says Hausa is a "unique
language" which he has included on
Facebook. Think Nigerians think".
Hours later, former presidential aide Reno
Omokri reacted to FFK's comment. He wrote;




FFK responded to Reno Omokri



Nice to hear from u. Permit me to
begin by saying that I never miss ur
write-ups and I thank God that we still
have people as discerning and as bold
as u in our country. Pls keep it up.
Now to the business of the day.
Thanks for taking your time to
respond to my post. Perrmit me to
respond to you very briefly. What Mark
Zuckerberg said about the Hausa
language being "unique" is not a fact
but an opinion. And it is an opinion
which, in fairness to him, may well be
honestly held. It is also an opinion
which you evidently share and which
both u and he u are perfectly entitled
to. I am, however, entitled to disagree
with u on that opinion especially
where I have good reason to do so.
You see unlike most I do not post,
speak or write lightly. I take my time, I
do my research and I am very precise.
That is my style and nature. The
choice of hausa being put on
Facebook is not just a matter if
"linguistic uniqueness" I assure u. And
to honestly believe that it does
borders on pure naivety. There is
nothing unique about the number of
coutries in west Africa that speak
Hausa and I do not believe that Hausa
is the most widely spoken language in
west Africa though many often say it
is. It is rather like the common refrain
that the hausas number more than
any other nationality in Nigeria when
we all know how and when that
particular dirty lie came about and
how the British constructed it by
counting the cows of the north and
adding them to the number of
northerners that they counted in the
first census. If the truth be told even
then and up until now the Igbo and
the Yoruba are more than the Fulani
and the Hausa. If u doubt my
assertion about the lack of uniqueness
of the Hausa language, please do the
research and find out how many
countries that Yoruba, for example, is
spoken in both in West Africa and
outside of the African continent in
South America and the Carribean.
Also read up on the history of the BBC
and VOA Hausa Service and why they
were set up by their respective
governments. Ditto the German hausa
radio service and others. It made
perfect sense because most hausa
men carried radios around with them
everywhere they went whilst their
southern compatriots, being far more
advanced and educated, prefered
reading newspapers and watching
television. It is not just a matter if
linguistic uniqueness I assure u but
evidence of the fact that the British
particularly always had, and still do
have, a strong partiality for the Hausa
Fulani compared to any other
nationality in Nigeria. The reasons for
that are legion so I won't go into them
here. Needless to say though, the
history on this matter is very clear and
I suggest you read up on it. It appears
that the American authorities, at least
the Obama/Kerry/Clinton brigade, are
following in the footsteps of the
British colonial masters in terms of
their preferred friends in Nigeria and
indeed American private companies
like Facebook, just like British private
companies did in the former British
colonies before them, are towing the
line of their governments. It is not too
difficult to work that one out for the
intelligent. I guess only time will tell if
I am right but these are my views. In
any case I wonder how many hausa-
speaking people are on Facebook
when compared to Yoruba and Igbo. I
read far more into this matter than u
do because I am not just a politician
but a historian. I also have my views
about the social media generally, its
link to the top western intelligence
agencies and what its ultimate
objective is. I have been proved right
in the end on most of my assertions
about unfolding events in this country
and indeed world affairs as u may or
may not know. I doubt that this will be
any different. Unlike most people I do
not let my friendship or personal-
liking or disliking of an individual
becloud my judgement. My reasons
for believing what I believe will be
made manifest at the appropiate time.
If u are really interested in knowing
what those reasons are I suggest you
exercise a little patience and u will
find out. U may even learn something
from it. By the way unlike u I think it
would be an excellent innovation if
Facebook introduced other Nigerian
languages like Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw etc..
As far as I am concerened the more
inclusive it is the better. I wish u well
and please keep writing those
excellent essays on the situation in
our country. Shalom



Omokri responds to FFK

Dear Olufemi Olu-Kayode
Thank you for your kind rejoinder to my
response to your take on Mark Zuckerberg's
comment on the Hausa language. Here is my
response.
That Mark Zuckerberg called Hausa a unique
language is not born out of any conspiracy
against the Yoruba, Igbo or any Southern
Nigerian ethnic nationality. The Hausa
language is not an invention of the Hausa
people. The language was invented by God
and so whenever anyone praises it, they are
not praising the Hausa people, they are
praising God.
You say I am naive for accepting, as
Zuckerberg does, that the Hausa language is
unique. Really? Hausa language is the only
indigenous African language that is officially
spoken in five African nations including
Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cameroun and Sudan.
If your argument is true and I am indeed
naive then you would have to agree with me
that BBC News, Radio France Internationale,
Voice of America - VOA, DW Deutsche Welle,
China Radio International and Voice of
Russia are equally naive, because, like
Facebook, they all have a Hausa language
service.
You may be right about the British/American
conspiracy. I never delved into that and I
defer to your superior knowledge of history
and statecraft. Your father, Remilekun Fani-
Kayode, QC, was a first class statesman and
the apple did not fall far from the tree. My
point of departure from you was strictly and
solely as touching your insinuation against
Mark Zuckerberg.
By including Hausa as an official Facebook
language, Zuckerberg recognizes the fact that
while there are literally tens of millions of
Yoruba, Igbo and other indigenous Nigerian
language speakers who can communicate in
both their native language and English, the
same cannot be said about Hausa speakers.
In Benin, Togo, Brazil and other nations
where you have a large concentration of
Yoruba speakers, these omo oduduwas can
express themselves in English, French,
Spanish or Portuguese.
There are literally tens of millions of Hausa
speakers who can only communicate in
Hausa. This does not make them illiterate.
Indeed, long before we in the South could
read and write, these Hausa speakers have
been reading and writing Hausa in the
centuries old Ajami script.
It is to accommodate these particular class
of Hausa speakers that, in my opinion,
Facebook added Hausa as an official
language, and not as part of some
conspiracy of Britain and America to
undermine the Southern parts of Nigeria. You
may recall that Zuckerberg and his wife
recently invested $25 million in Andela. That
would be a most strange way to undermine
the South given that all of Andela's founders
and most of their fellows are from the South.
Talk is cheap but money makes things
happen. Zuckerberg talked about Hausa, but
he put his money in a Lagos tech hub. Does
that not say something to you?
The mistake we in the South often make is to
see ordinary Hausas as our enemies. Not
true. The Hausas as a people are some of
the most decent Nigerians and are to be
differentiated from the feudalists who have
retarded their progress as an ethnic
nationality. What they need from progressive
and freedom loving Nigerians is solidarity
not hostility. This was the point of view that
the late Aminu Kano tried to pass across to
us down South.
What Facebook has done deserves
commendation and not condemnation. Again,
having said this, I must maintain that I have
a high regard for your intellect and this
intervention should not be interpreted as a
confrontation.
God bless you.


Reno Omokri





FFK to Reno


Reno Omokri, now I am beginning to get a
little irritated by you. Is there anywhere that I
condemned you, Zuckerberg or Facebook for
having your/their views?
If so please point it out. Perhaps you don't
know the meaning of the word "condemned"
yet you seem so eager to use it.
If I wanted to condemn you, him or anyone
else I would do so loudly, openly, clearly and
gladly but I havn't done that: I simply
disagreed with you and I was very civil about
it which I really didnt have to be because you
don't deserve it.



In any case are you the spokesman of Mark
Zuckerberg and Facebook or indeed that of
the hausa people of northern Nigeria?
Is that your new job since you stopped
working under my friend and brother Reuben
Abati at the Villa and managing social media
for the Jonathan administration?
Can those you want to defend today not
explain and defend themselves adequately?
Do they need you? Could they not have
found someone more qualified? Are you
really the best they have got?
And if you insist on being their defender-in-
chief when were you appointed? Honestly
Reno my dear little brother you need to have
your little bottom spanked for being so
cheeky and naughty.
I have known the north and interacted with
northerners far more than you and for far
longer so I don't need lessons from you or
anyone else about who or what they are,
either for good or for bad.
And neither do I need to say only things that
are politically correct about them.or anyone
else because, unlike you, I have paid my dues
politically and in terms of public commentry
for over a period of 27 years.
I worked in the Presidency as President
Obasanjo's spokeman as far back as 13
years ago. I don't know where you were then.
I ran, not one, but two Federal ministries as
the Hon. Minister over 10 years ago and
since then I have been in the thick of the
political fray and drama.


I know who I am and I don't need to please
anyone with what I say. I was in NADECO
risking my life fighting against military rule
and for the late Chief MKO Abiola's June
12th mandate when you were probably still
wearing diapers.
I know the north and indeed this whole
country far better than you ever possibly
could and over the years I have gained and
gathered a lot of experience.



I have also suffered for Nigeria far more
than you have. I say this all with the greatest
humility knowing that it is only God that
made it so and that enabled me to survive it.
The result of all that is this: I do not suffer
fools gladly and I say things as they are.
I have no apology to you or anyone else for
that. If others had cultivated the courage to
be as bold and forthright as I have been on
national issues over the years we would not
be in the mess that we are in this country.
You dare to lecture me about northerners
and I wonder how many you actually know? I
wonder how many you have ever fought for
or defended in the past?
I also wonder how many you have stood up
against when they crossed the line? I have
done both over a period of 27 years and it
cost me dearly but I have never shied away
from it, whichever way, and I will continue to
do so. I have also lived in the north for the
last 13 years.
Our mutual friend Nasir El Rufai often warned
me about you but I never listened to him.
Now you have proved him right and all
because you want to please your foreign and
new-found northern friends.
Sadly your gospel of appeasement at all
costs is shared by many naive souls who
come from the same village as you but that
does not mean that we should allow you to
infect the rest of the south with it.
That slavish mindset and shameless
sentiment has brought much suffering to the
people of the south-west and south-south
and it is one of the reasons why we made the
wrong choice about which side to fight on
during the civil war.
We will never make that mistake again if it
ever comes to it no matter how hard fence-
sitters and appeasers like you try.
The more our people are killed and our
churches are burnt in the noth the more we
will protest and speak out. And the more we
will resist it and warn the radical islamists of
the core muslim north together with the
Fulani herdsmem from hell to desist from
their murderous and genocidal ways.
Not even 100 million Reno Omokiri's can
stop us from doing that and neither can they
make us love those that commit these
heinous crimes.




You are spouting the sort of drivel that you
are throwing up here about how wonderful
the core north is even though thousands of
southerners, Middle Belters and christians
are slaughtered at the drop of a hat in that
same core north for no just cause on a daily
basis. They even come down to the south in
their thousands with their cows to do it these
days.
Maybe you should come home and see what
is really going on here rather than writing
those great anti-government articles from the
relative safety of Califiornia.
If you can muster the courage to do that you
will discover that political correctness is a
very expensive luxury which we simply
cannot afford.
Some of us are right here and we have
refused to run away from the evil that has
gripped the land even when we had every
opportunity to do so.
Please endeavour to do the same then
perhaps we may take you more seriously.
Hundreds of your fellow Niger Deltans and
southerners are languishing in jails all over
the country today simply because they
supported a southern Christian called
President Jonathan during the election yet
you hsve not even cared to visit any of
them.




Have you ever reached out to their families
or tried to bail them out? Have you been to
the jails and cells to offer them care or
words of comfort and encouragement?
Have you even gone there to pray for them
and express solidarity with them? Warimpa
Dudafa your former colleague at the Villa
has been there for over 150 days now.
Have you gone to see him? What about
Ikime and Robert when they were there? What
about all the others? The answer is no
because I have asked.
Yet you were in the last government with
them and many others but you couldn't even
stand in solidarity with them when they
needed you the most. And if you did you
insisted on doing so from a safe distance. It
is a shame.




Then you have the nerve to talk about
"southerners" making a mistake about
northerners in a disparaging and
condescending way. What a nerve you have
got!
Your sarcastic assertion about the BBC and
the other international radio stations being
"naive as well" is nothing less than asinine.
The truth is that you are the naive one. You
alone and not them. If you really believe the
garbage that you wrote here then you are not
just naive but dangerously naive and far
dumber than I first thought.
I say this because the governments that own
and control the BBC, the Voice of America
and the others know exactly what they are
doing.



If only you knew the history of imperialism in
Africa and indeed the Third World and how it
evolved and if only you were capable of
appreciating the reality of neo-colonialism
and history of the African people you would
be in a better position to comprehend and
understand what I am saying.
If only you knew what we as a people in
Nigeria and Africa suffered in the hands of
the western imperialists over the last 100
years you would appreciate this intervention
instead of attempting to treat it with
contempt just to impress your friends at
Facebook and in California.



It is the naivity and ignorance of people like
you that has put us in the mess we are in
today and that has placed us firmlyl under
the yoke of our intetnal colonial masters.
I urge you to continue to attempt to appease
those that see you and those that think like
you as nothing more than glorified monkeys
and see how far it gets you.
As for Mark Zuckerberg he may do whatever
he pleases with Facebook because he owns
it. In the final analysis it means nothing to
me.
Like I said earlier, he is entitled to his views.
I have no problem with that and neither
should you or him have any problem with
mine.
It is only in your strange Warri vocabulary
that disagreeing with someone or not sharing
that person's opinion is tantamount to
"condemning" him.

I am sure that he is very happy with you for
attempting to defend him here but surely you
could have done a far
better job than you
did.

Keep writing critical essays against the
government from California or wherever you
are because it is far easier for you to do so
from there.
Those of us that are here and that are not
just arm chair critics and political
commentators but that are actually in the
fray of politics will continue this fight right
here in the theater of war: and unlike others
we won't run and hide in Mark Zuckerberg's
California.
My regards to your family.



Omokri responds to FFK
Dear Olufemi Olu-Kayode
Thank you for your last response.


Since it has reached the stage where you are
irritated with me, I think it is best to leave
well enough alone.

Let us agree to disagree
without being irritated by each other. I have
said all I need to say on the matter of Mark
Zuckerberg's description of the Hausa
language as being unique. and I have heard
all you have to say. Thank God we are both
professing Christ followers and are thus
familiar with the advise of Saint Paul in 2
Timothy 2:24 "the servant of the Lord must

not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to
teach, patient."

I believe that affection is better than
perfection. I choose to maintain my brotherly
affection for you at the expense of perfection
in my argument.


By the way, I was in Nigeria two weeks ago. I
preached at Holyhill Church, Abuja. The
pastor Sunday Ogidigbo publicized my visit.
If I was a coward as you claim and was
speaking from the safety of California, why
would I visit Nigeria after my strong and very
public criticism of the current
administration?
Let me drop my pen here. God bless you and
yours.
Reno Omokri


http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2016/09/ffk-and-reno-omokri-spar-on-facebook.html?m=1

i love this

seriously ?

this one is mad o

beautiful women dunno how to think ,they are boring , they spit alot ,you cn easily cheat them...

huh

hmmm...what's the colour of the pant self

lols

supereagle:
myself too.

but the weather iz dark smhw..nd dere z cold asuo27 where are you?

m nor seeing anything

i know dat things is a fraud... duped my fwend 20k .
stupid people still doing it mtcheew

madness... wat if he was nt feeling fine

wow..
never seen this before ..but things they oo

that one cm look like cartoon ?? bobirisky

sanusi talks too much

is there anything like relationship !??... mtxheew

cnt do without using my phone ndt laptop. .. cnt just

dy always ugly

rokiatu:
What I want to know is which part he wants to lick.


On a more serious note, this is a bit ticky. Trying to prove to people that they are so much in love.

i want to lick you