Mark
Zuckerberg coming to Nigeria got the Nigeria online community hyper. It started
with the CNN post that read “Mark Zuckerberg makes first ever visit to sub-Sahara
Africa”. The Nigerian online community blasted CNN for failing to acknowledge
that Mark came to Nigeria. Upon arrival, Mark said he could feel the energy in
the country and that he just wants to walk around and meet everyone.
Facebook
founder, left Nigeria for Kenya where he had lunch with the Cabinet Secretary
of Information and communication and the Mark returned to Nigeria and in less
than 48 hours to attend Demo day with President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President
Yemi Osinbajo, Top government functionaries and entrepreneurs at the
Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The purpose of Mark’s Visit according to a press
release from his company: “Zuckerberg is in Nigeria to listen and learn and
take ideas back to California on how Facebook can better support tech
development and entrepreneurship across Africa” this is enough business reason,
but below are some of the implication the return of the mark have on Nigeria.
1. The return of Mark indicates that Nigeria is the future
of technological investment in Africa. Mark has already shown that earlier this
year by investing $24 million in Andela and reaffirmed that by visiting where
is money and respecting the government where is money is.
2. Nigeria is a
sleeping Giant in Africa that has being undermined by lesser country. Mark
visiting Nigeria twice did not only brazenly undermined the security concerns raised by foreigners, it also reaffirmed our continental dominance.
3. There’s more to wealth than meets the eye, wealth is
who you are and not what you have or wear (Clothes). Compare Mark and Nigeria’s rich people.
4. The Power of the Nigerian President.
The unhealthy situations in the country has made it easy to ridicule the number one
seat of power in Nigeria, irrespective of that, the world recognizes the power of the Nigerian President. For Mark
to return to Nigeria on PMB’s invitation and also change is dress style,
says a lot about the Office of the Nigerian president.
5. On the downside, it became obvious that
this administration is more concerned about making noise. Mark has explore the
market, finished his business and left, I may be wrong, but this administration felt slighted that Mark didn’t pay a courtesy call to them
and they had to do all they can to get him back to score cheap points. This same
President has refused seeing protesters outside Aso rock, but made room for
Zuckerberg.
6. Nigerian is most definitely on the global
map for good, and it’s at CNN or any other news network own detriment not to
mention Nigeria or they are ignorantly assuming Nigeria to be the entire Sub
Sahara Africa, because for the CEO of the world most popular social media platform and among the first five billionaires in the world to visit Nigeria twice in one week, is no
coincident.
7. And lastly, a lot is already working in
Nigeria and needs just a few boasters to succeed. E.g. Mark’s gate crashing
into Nollywood video shoot, says that Nollywood has gained international
recognition and more should be done to create more job through it. We can safely say that
not all young people carrying laptop are scam, Mark visited Cchub where he took
pictures with some very young Nigerian nerds.
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