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As part of its continued commitment and ongoing investment in Africa, Facebook today announced it will be opening an office in Lagos, Nigeria - its second office on the African continent. Aimed at supporting the entire Sub-Saharan Africa region, the office is expected to become operational in H2 2021 and will be the first on the continent to house a team of expert engineers building for the future of Africa and beyond.

Facebook’s office will be home to various teams servicing the continent from across the business, including Sales, Partnerships, Policy, Communications as well as Engineers.

Commenting, Facebook's Head of New Product Experimentation said: “The opening of our new office in Lagos, Nigeria presents new and exciting opportunities in digital innovations to be developed from the continent and taken to the rest of the world. All across Africa we’re seeing immense talent in the tech ecosystem, and I’m proud that with the upcoming opening of our new office, we’ll be building products for the future of Africa, and the rest of the world, with Africans at the helm. We look forward to contributing further to the African tech ecosystem.”

The investment of the new Facebook office follows the 2018 opening of NG_Hub, its first flagship community hub space in Africa in partnership with CcHub, and the 2019 opening of a Small Business Group (SBG) Operations Centre in Lagos, in partnership with Teleperformance. Providing outsourced support to all English-speaking advertisers across Sub-Saharan Africa, the SBG office supports Small Medium Businesses (SMBs) through its Advocacy, Community & Education (ACE) programme, as well as its Marketing Expert sales programmes – all aimed at enabling SMBs to accelerate the growth and development of their businesses.

“Our new office in Nigeria presents an important milestone which further reinforces our ongoing commitment to the region”, commented Kojo Boakye, Facebook’s Director of Public Policy, Africa. “Our mission in Africa is no different to elsewhere in the world - to build community and bring the world closer together, and I’m excited about the possibilities that this will create, not just in Nigeria, but across Africa.”

Since the opening of its first office in 2015, Facebook has made a number of investments across the continent, aimed at supporting and growing the tech ecosystem, expanding and providing reliable connectivity infrastructures and helping businesses to grow locally, regionally and globally. This includes the recent rollout of its SMB Grants programme in Nigeria and South Africa, aimed at supporting over 900 businesses by providing a combination of cash and ad credits to help small businesses as they rebuild from COVID. The development of 2Africa, the world’s largest subsea cable project that will deliver much needed internet capacity and reliability across large parts of Africa, as well as its ongoing training programmes across the continent which support various communities including students, SMBs, digital creatives, female entrepreneurs, start-up’s and developers.

Nunu Ntshingila, Regional Director, Facebook Africa,said: “We’re delighted to be announcing our new office in Nigeria. Five years on from opening our first office on the continent in Johannesburg, South Africa, we’re continuing to invest in and support local talent, as well as the various communities that use our platforms. The office in Lagos will also be key in helping to expand how we service our clients across the continent.”

Source: https://www.socialnews.xyz/2020/09/18/facebook-announces-its-new-office-in-lagos-nigeria/

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Yobabad:
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These Ibos are double-mouthed.

Today Biafla, tomorrow presidency, next tomorrow restructuring.

What do you guys really want?

Kenplay:
if doing that will please your god and master then am satisfy.

Okoro don’t leave me!

Kenplay:
so you think anyone that oppose your god is from south east. Am in Benue for your information. ODE

You’re in Benue does not mean you are not Igbo.

I like the way you said it, you never said you’re from Benue, you said you’re in Benue.

You’re from the cursed erosion ravaged region and even your mouth can not deny that!

IspitonCowards:
As an Igbo man, I am ashamed of Ngige, he has no right for claiming Lagos boy and antagonizing Tinubu when our own region is in shambles.

He should rather claim Enugu instead. I cry anytime I see the Images of Enugu. We should rather develop Enugu instead of wasting our time away in Lagos!

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I think both of you are right tho!

aaaaaaaa2:
You are right my brother!

aaaaaaaa2:
Ngige is a nobody when you put him side by side with Tinubu achievements. He was so inconsequential that Tinubu did not even deem it fit to dignify him with a reply.

He should rather claim Enugu instead of claiming far away Lasgidi.

How will he claim Enugu, when his kinsmen already made it a shithole!

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Chai!

mrvitalis:
We just celebrate him

But u worship a known theif and he Lord's over u ..yet your hypocrite mind is blind to that

Get lost anumpam

Kuje prison convict is your leader in the Sad East.

Not only is he your lord, he superintend over the brain of every living Ibo man!

Tueh!

mrvitalis:
Says a tinubu supporter ....
Kalu has so many project he can point that he did in abia

Name one things tinubu did in lagos

Ibo people celebrating a known fugitive Kalu.

Wonder shall never end!

TimeManager:
Is that Peter obi, the aspiring VP ?. If that was Tinubu, ibos would have opened over a 100 threads of sleepless nights about him.

kiss the truth!

Yes o my brother. That is Obi China the one that licked Atiku rectum.

IspitonCowards:
Collect your own hoil

Collect your own yam!

IspitonCowards:
MColumo your "Menthol" is sharing rice tomorrow, endeavour to be there with your whole Family as usual

Like the crook Peter Obi sharing #5 to Anambla indigenes below!

IspitonCowards:
This one na nutcase o, when did me and you discuss that there were no thugs in the SE?, You don't see thugs turning to politicians in igboland, Mcolumo and his master Tinubu belongs to the street. They are thiefs

Shut up and hear the cries of the dying people in Abia. NURTW clashes keep killing them daily.

The next Governor of Abia is the NURTW chairman Eugene Ezechiobu.

Let’s just hope he desist from sharing kerosene!

KOMOBOBO:
Yes you're right... Neyo is an Afonja by Tribe.

You can keep him if you wish..

Shut up Liar. Neyo traced his DNA to Africa. He is of European and Africa DNA and nowhere was it mentioned that he is Igbo.

Neyo Parent names are Lorraine and Shaffer Smith. Both African American!

Both of his parents are African American!

Exactly How Oprah Winfrey claimed African DNA when she said she is Cameroon and Liberian in her DNA.

Lil Wayne Claim Nigerian Ancestry DNA too

TD Jakes claim Hausa and Igbo DNA ancestry.

[quote author= post=91946423]Daniel Lebern Glover and Forest Whitaker great men from Igbo tribe

Lalasticlala[/quote]Daniel Glover and Forest Whitaker are not Igbos. You have finished grabbing the SS, now it's African American right?

Check their profile on wiki. Both their parents are African American!

Forest Steven Whitaker was born on July 15, 1961, in Longview, Texas, the son of Laura Francis (née Smith), a special education teacher who put herself through college and earned two master's degrees while raising her children, and Forest E. Whitaker Jr., an insurance salesman.

teej83:
Osun state is dead . Aregbesola has finished Osun state.He took several billion loan to build airport but he just squander and steal the money and same thing goes with opon omo scam.

You guys will just be saying nonsense online.

I am a proper Oyo State guy but I can tell you that Osun state is not dead.

Aregbesola did an all round development in that state. Yes, he borrowed a lot but we can at least see the infrastructures he built with the funds.

Yes, Ajimobi also tried in Nigeria and I am sure he is the best we have had since 1999. Lam Adesina, Ladoja, and Akala don't come close to Ajimobi i terms of project.

Makinde is a set-back to Oyo State. Just gove Oyo folks (especially Ibadan) one more year, and you will see them turn their backs on Makinde if he keeps threading the path pf non-project.

The conferment of chieftaincy title on a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode is tearing the Shinkafi Emirate Council in Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State apart.

The Emir of Shinkafi, Alhaji Mohammed Makwashe, had recently conferred on Fani-Kayode the title of Sadaukin Shinkafi. But the development has seen many of the traditional titleholders in the council resigning their position.

Among the chiefs to have tendered their resignation to Emir Isah are Hon. Bilyaminu Yusuf, Sarduauna Shinkafi; Alhaji Umar Bala Ajiya, Dan Majen Shinkafi and Hajiya Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, Iyar Shinkafi.

Tendering the resignation of their titles and position in the council in a letter dated Wednesday, July 22 and addressed to His Royal Highness, Alhaji Makwashe, the chiefs decried the conferment of such a title on Fani-Kayode.

The letter signed by one of them, Yusuf, who is also the Commissioner, North-West National Assembly Commission, Abuja, read:
“With utmost respect and obedience, we write to tender our resignation as titleholders of Shinkafi Emirate Council in view of recent out of thought chieftaincy conferment on former Minister of Aviation, Hon. Femi Fani-Kayode as Sadaukin Shinkafi.

We view this conferment against the functions and ideals of traditional councils such as contribution to the development of administration, economic policy, security, culture, customs, religious dispute and general wellbeing of the citizens.

The conferment is not in conformity with any of the above core values. Conferment should be based on these important principles and not politically instigated to divide and cause chaos to good citizens of Zamfara State, the northern part of Nigeria and Nigeria at large.

In view of the above, we hereby tender our resignation until Sadaukin Shinkafi is relinquished and we implore other titleholders to do the same.”

Two other traditional title holders, Dr Suleiman Shuaibu and Dr Tijani Usman Danfodio were said to have also pulled out of Shinkafi Emirate Council due to the same issue.

Source: https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/chieftaincy-title-conferred-on-fani-kayode-tears-zamfara-emirate-council-apart/

Leave Akpabio alone!

Even if you put another person in NDDC, they will still loot.

What have they achieved since the government established the body?

The best thing is to dismantle NDDC and credit their monthly allocation to the bank account of the Niger Delta citizen.

I come with the truth, I hope Buhari will listen!

Johnandv:
What nonsense are you talking about .
IGBOS CAME BOTH FIRST AND SECOND. You people have lost it just accept it and move on. Coward. Useless Naira Marley dunce.

You are saying nonesense. Out of a list of top 10 Jamb students, Yoruba alone are like 6 while all the students on the list schooled in the SW and they chose SW university.

The joke is on Ojuku.

Nairamarley is bigger than any living or dead Igbo man!

Johnandv:
Nobel nonsense is not a yardstick to judge someone's might. 50 cent approached Chinua Achebe to help him use his "Things fall apart " name to shoot a movie and our enigma refused. Even the book things fall apart became popular that even presidents all over Africa would attest to the fact that they read those books in school when they were young. Igbos own you!!

Chimamanda remains Wole Soyinka 's role model

lol you are a comedian.

Netflix ogapatapata already chose to produce Wole Soyinka play as movies and that will be featured through Mo Abudu.

We are talking about Netflix, this one is talking or 50 cent.

Chimamanda should first lace the boot of the Yoruba woman Anne Mobolaji Evaristo the winner of Booker Prize first.

I hope you know what’s called Booker Prize Shinedu?

Woke Soyinka is too much for both Achebe & Chimamanda combined.

Johnandv:
Shut up your Nobel nonsense mouth. How many best sellers have that white haired clown wrote?? Infact how many books has he written in his entire lifetime till this day? Compare with Chinua Achebe. Igbos are your gods

Woke Soyinka is greater than Achebe and the whole Igbo combined.

You can go on google and search for his books and stop disturbing sane minds with jargons.

He is a Nobel laureate in Literature. C’mon give him the honor, it’s not such a small feat.

He earned it from his hard work and is One of the most influential Africans!

Johnandv:
ZIK was the first ever Nigerian president. Zik was the one that persuaded the queen to hand over and go back to England without going to war.

Your Awokowo's legacy drinking rat poison, giving you people half baked education and later going to prison for his stupidity. The another lagacy keeper was Abiola yeah fake check scammer, some one who forged bank check and perpetrated financial crime, those are the only legacies of average yoruba leaders, stealing stealing stealing.. Nothing useful. ZIK DESERVED TO BE WORSHIPPED BY ALL YORUBA RACE.

Lol Awolowo party was the one that moved the motion for independence. Without Awolowo party, Nigeria wouldn’t have been independent at that time.

Zik is a useless fellow, he is not even useful to his tribe let alone useful for the whole Nigeria.

What are his legacys? Even most Igbos won’t defend Zik if someone abuse him in their face because they know the Zik is a useless man.

He is the one that led Nigeria to this current state with his greed. He had no legacy and nothing whatsoever attributed to him was left standing till today.

Awolowo is miles ahead of Zik and his legacy still stand tall till now with many people attributing to them benefitting from Awolowo.

Who even remember Zik these days? You mean the slavery powerless presidency he did under a Fulani Balewa?

jagorinho:
hard working like Evans? I am waiting for a day police will post your pics for robbery, I do not trust any Igbo, they can commit crime on a live transformer.

Igbo and crime are inseparable. Even their ancestors are thieves and criminals. If you think I’m lying see the below list of each tribes in Nigeria prison during the 1950s.

The Igbo prisoner alone is more than all the major Nigeria tribe combined.

Johnandv can you see your ancestors are criminals?

Johnandv:
Igbos are not one million gang naa. People that hunger nearly consumed and the hanged up to start stealing pots of soup.
We work hard for our money, why do you think we are almost buying up all the lands your father's left you before he joined oduduwa in hellfire?
Hard work and the doggedness of am Igbo man can never be rivaled by even the Chinese talk less of a minor tribe like the entire Yoruba race .

Which land are you buying. You mean the Propaganda awareness some Yorubas are creating for the impending doom that will befall you guys in the west is what you call buying land?

If millions of Yorubas are to live and work in the East like the Igbos always do, then it is normal they also buy land in the East so no big deal. Imagine millions of Yorubas living, working, giving birth, and schooling in the East, don’t you think they will buy up your tiny erosion Region?

The main problem here is that no one want to live in the erosion ravaged East. Everyone is running away from the sad East like it’s a plaque Region.

Johnandv:
No one knows the Adekinle in war oh, let Lagos Ibadan express news not deceivw you people. He was almost smoked at Asaba together with Obasamjo.
When it comes to greatness yirubas ate perpetual cowards and fearful chameleons like women, nothing good can come out of cowardice of Afonja. Even your master Awolowo had to serve our own Ojukwu before be war released and set free from eternal damnation.

Lol Gowon released Awolowo from prison.

The major victory of the Igbos in the mid-west was won for them by a Yoruba Colonel Banjo. Shame on Igbos, na Yoeubas even Dey lead your war.

Adekunke scorpion killed a lot of Biafran such that even Nigeria army had to beg him to stop killing them like cockroaches.

The joke is on you. Ask your people why they hated Awolowo. His brainy policy put millions of Igbos on their knees.

Ojukwu will later run away cowardly like a woman while Ohillip Effiong surrender to another Yoruba man Obasanjo.

Yoruba dealt with you flateeno too much. I can feel your pain!

jagorinho:
I share your sentiments, zik is a mediocre, bang average!!! even zlatan ibile is better than him.

Walahi your brain Dey there baba mi.

Zlatan Ibile is greater than Zik and all his descendants.

Johnandv:
Better than your people scooping palm oil from guutter and the other ones hinting mere rats like game and eating them to avert starvation

Like your old women given Yam to hold while assembled on a straight line to queue like they are on assembly ground.

One yam each oooo. I feel sorry for those Igbo grandma!