Diaspora Opportunities

Mark Zuckerberg's surprise visit to Nigeria is coming at a time the economy needed a JumpStart.Standing as the 7th richest man in the world.His first foray into Nigeria was a handsome $24m joint- investment in Andela with Priscilla Chan. In Nigeria,he will have a chance to visit Andela,a tech training company that has in such a small time had great traction.It has trained close to 200 tech engineers in a space of two years.It has received over 40,000 applications and with an acceptance rate of 0.97%. Mark will visit Rosemary Njoku's Coollink the owner of ExpressWifi.Facebook is in collaboration with Coollink to provide affordable internet connectivity to Africa.This week Facebook is launching a satellite into space to enable more entrepreneurs sell ExpressWifi across Africa.

Mark Zuckerbeg is in Nigeria to flag off a joint project between Facebook and  Cool Link  called EspressWifi, that will enable people living in not too privileged locations to have WiFi access at a very affordable price. Facebook is providing a software that will help local ISP providers and entrepreneur sellers provide internet with a 15% commission.It will officially be launched   in some parts of Lagos and later to other parts of Nigeria.The fees are going to be very affordable. Mark Zuckerberg in Co Creation hub,,,,,,image credit  Techcabal