“We talked about last week’s natural disaster and how the Facebook community in Italy and around the world has come together to help people recover and rebuild”, Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.
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He also met with children at a summer coding camp who came to the hub to build and launch their apps.
Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife had the honor of meeting Pope Francis, a meeting that the young couple will “never forget”. He was also spotted jogging on the Lekki Bridge on Wednesday morning.
Figures released Wednesday show Nigeria has officially dipped into recession as its second quarter GDP fell by more than 2% compared to a year ago.
The reason behind Francis’ meeting with Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook with college roommates and fellow students at Harvard in 2004, could be prompted by Zuckerberg and Chan’s decision in 2015 to give away virtually all of their $45 billion in Facebook Inc. shares.
Successful startups in Nigeria thrive against the odds of weak infrastructure, anemic power supply and general lack of funding and investment.
He said that being focused on learning would help the entrepreneurs to know new things that would enable their businesses to succeed and grow.
Vatican spokesperson, Greg Burke, said that one of the topics they discussed was “how to use communication technologies to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and make a message of hope arrive, especially to those most in need”.
“We looked into these claims and found no evidence of systematic bias”, said Facebook in a statement. Life Bank saves lives by mobilising blood donations, taking inventory of all blood available in the country, and delivering blood in the right condition to where it is needed.
Before his visit, Zuckerberg had made positive comments about Nigeria’s entrepreneurs.
“To have Mark show that kind of interest in us is a huge stamp of approval”, Adegbembo said.
During the Q&A session held at Landmark Centre, and broadcast at Eko Hotel in Lagos, it was revealed that Facebook plans to unroll its services in more Nigerian languages in the coming months. Nigeria boasts the largest number of Facebook users on the planet and quite frankly, wouldn’t you want to visit your biggest customers too?
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg has been aspiring to build an AI assistant like “Jarvis” from the famous action movie series Iron Man for a while now.
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Fourth, Facebook, reports say, are partnering with Cool Link to set up Express Wi-Fi hotspots in various parts of Lagos.
