{"id":244426,"date":"2016-08-31T07:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244426"},"modified":"2016-08-31T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:28:05","slug":"facebooks-zuckerberg-meets-lagos-startups-in-first-nigeria-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244426","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Zuckerberg meets Lagos startups in first Nigeria trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg met with entrepreneurs and software developers in Nigeria during his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg is \u201clearning about the startup ecosystem in Nigeria,\u201d Africa\u2019s most populous country, he said Tuesday in a post on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy here is amazing and I\u2019m excited to learn as much as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg addressed entrepreneurs at the Co-Creation Hub in the Yaba neighborhood of Lagos, the commercial capital, and spoke about starting a free WiFi network in the city, Taiwo Ayanleye, a business owner who was present during the Facebook CEO\u2019s visit, said by phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg met with entrepreneurs and software developers in Nigeria during his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. Zuckerberg is \u201clearning about the startup ecosystem in Nigeria,\u201d Africa\u2019s most populous country, he said Tuesday in a post on his Facebook page. \u201cThe energy here is amazing and I\u2019m excited to learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":244428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}