Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 Billion

Social network giant Facebook has bought instant messaging service WhatsApp for a wallet-busting $16 billion (£9.6bn). The hugely popular phone app allows users to send messages using internet connections, avoiding SMS charges. WhatsApp has 450m monthly users - 70 per cent who use the app daily - and claims to register 1m new users every day.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg weds

Yesterday, Saturday, 19^th May, 2012, Facebook’s co-founder and Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. This news was broken on Facebook.

"Mark added a life event to May 19, 2012 on his timeline: Married Priscilla Chan," the page's activity feed said. And their relationship status on the social networking site changed to ‘Married’, before he posted the marriage pix on his wall.

Happy 28th Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chairman and chief executive.

It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes... while they were students at Harvard University. His wealth is estimated as $17.5 billion dollars and he's one of the youngest richest billionaire in the world now.

Ex actress Regina Askia settling down to new life as nurse in US

Former beauty queen and actress, Regina Askia-Williams is settling down to her new life and career as a registered nurse in the U.S.

The mother of three and one time model, who relocated to the United States in the early 2000′s, recounts her first experience with a dying patient.

‘My first code experience was on a hospice patient [who] unfortunately we lost. Wilding out inside but have to be professional. Family weeping…’ she wrote on her Facebook page.

‘…OMG I should have taken that course on death and dying. How do I come to terms with losing a patient…,’ she asked rhetorically.

Pastor Abel Damina shuts down Facebook page

The Senior Pastor of Power City Int’l, Pastor Abel Damina has shut down his Facebook friends’ page. Though the PFN Youth Wing Leader didn’t state why he has made the page moribund, he urged those who are interested in his ministry to like his fanpage or follow him via twitter.

Below is his Facebook message…

ETIGHI CHAT SOARS, 8375 REGISTER

The first indigenous social networking site, Etighi chat debuted on Tuesday and the site has had an amazing number of visitors. Connoisseur.com learnt from Nature Udoh who is the brain behind etighichat that with just two days of test-run, close to nine thousand people have registered. Below is what the CEO of Nature Udoh & the Gang posted this on his Facebook wall this morning:

TONTO DIKE HAS A FOOD-FOR-THOUGH FOR HER ‘HATERS’

Controversial Nollywood actress, Tonto Dike used her Facebook fan page to give her perceived ‘haters’ a serious food-for-thought…Below is the status on her Facebook fan page….

I luv my haters so much, they make me so popular but one thing about haters on facebook is before they show you that they hate you by using abusive  words on you they’ll first of all ‘like’ your page (which is also liking you). So I think my facebook haters are really confused people by ‘liking’ and hating me at same time.

Wole Soyinka: I do not tweet nor blog

Prof Wole Soyinka

 Nigerian writer and  Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has disclosed that he is not a fan of the social media as he doesn't tweet ,blog or use facebook . A fake account was created on twitter with handle @profsoyinka which currently has 16,186 followers and many fake on facebook too.