Nigerians Carpet CNN Over Negative Reporting

Recall that Zuckerberg on Tuesday made his first ever visit to Africa, with his first stop being Lagos, Nigeria.

The Facebook founder visited Nigeria’s commercial capital, and interacted with Nigerian tech entrepreneurs at Yaba, regarded as the Silicon Valley of Nigeria.

“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,” Facebook said in a statement.

Despite other media companies, including the BBC reporting that the Zuckerberg made his first ever trip to Nigeria, CNN however reported that the Facebook founder visited Sub-Saharan Africa.

“Mark Zuckerberg makes first-ever visit to Sub-Saharan Africa,” CNN Africa said.

The omission of Nigeria’s name by the CNN did not go down well with Nigerians, and they have now taken on twitter to vent their anger on the media giant’s reportage.

See their reactions below:

@CNNAfrica God will punish all your staff at CNN. Foolish people.

— Shol’derika✨(@LifeBeTrippin) August 30, 2016

@4eyedmonk @LifeBeTrippin @EmiNiTybaba @CNNAfrica Baba if na Boko Haram na Nigeria but for tech advancement na sub saharan africa!

— Shobanjo Adebayo (@keduski) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica Ewo ni Sub-saharan.. Nigeria is too much for you to mention? ??

— Pretty Billionaire (@FireOFola) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica when next you need a visa to Nigeria, beta look 4 for sub Sahara embassy.

— Buki Maiya (@Bukomaiya) August 30, 2016

@FireOFola @CNNAfrica if he had visited South Africa, I’m sure they would have mention the name of the country.

— The Psychologist (@Akinkuadedare19) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica it shows you’ve incompetent reporters, the name of the country is Nigeria pls.

— Jaiye Jegede (@Usherhigh) August 30, 2016

@Akinkuadedare19 abba…CNN should be able to do better than the handler of her account in Africa

— Jaiye Jegede (@Usherhigh) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica See list of Sub-Saharan African countries. Next time be specific. @MarkZuckerbergF was in Nigeria #Dazzol pic.twitter.com/LlesBLNqQg

— Adetutu Balogun (@Tutsy22) August 30, 2016

@Tutsy22 @AfroVII @CNNAfrica @MarkZuckerbergF Funny cos if he’d gone to Egypt, Morocco or South Africa, they wouldn’t generalize like that

— O T O (@OtoEbe) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica why mention region when u hv offices in that area or ur offices is sub Sahara offices or is specific#Nigeria make correction

— Amina Usman (@AminaofAfrica) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica He visited Nigeria or what? Please be specific!!

— The Psychologist (@Akinkuadedare19) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica say it after me. Mark Zuckerberg visit the most populous African country, Nigeria. Now fix it like that.

— Àkànní-Adé™ (@all4allNuel) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA = 18 Characters.

NIGERIA = 7 Characters.

Seriously? ?

— Your Buddie (@Social_Buddie) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica awon oloriburuku. Go and look for the meaning. Idiot people

— KING MAKER (@sonia_uzama) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica Your father. Nigeria is now too difficult to spell abi?

— Daddy Kamsi (@buchishine1) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica There’s nothing wrong with the caption, The idea is to show that Nigeria was picked out of other Sub-saharan countries..

— Ricardo Tisci ⚓️ (@EldaRicardo) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica it is Yaba, Lagos in Nigeria he visited not sub – Sahara Africa. Please correct immediately…..

— MAP News (@MAPNewsroom) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica if it’s Internet fraud y’all will remember the spelling of Nigeria. Smh

— Man Of Action (@BATTLETIDE) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica Dear CNN, you make money in Nigeria. Stop this silliness really! It is unbecoming

— SunCountry (@MealdredO) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica
Ode. . He’s in Nigeria. ?

— . (@Tharyeebah) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica If it was a bad news, sure you guys will know it was a particular country

— Adimula (@AsiwajuAdeyemi) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica Nigeria!! you news twisters.. Call a spade a spade. this proves most of your news items if not all have distortions in them ??

— infobridge (@chudyc) August 30, 2016

@cnnafrica delete your account.

— Olu’Bembs (@ShortyAce) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica now your envy game is so tight you can’t even mention Nigeria?

Well we hobnobbed with Zuck today in Nigeria you ve heard it here

— Man Utd (@badababatope) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica You can Abbreviate CABLE NETWORK NEWS to CNN but chose to Tweet Sub-Saharan Africa instead of NIGERIA. Get yourselves Google map

— i No Well (@Hisroyaldopenez) August30, 2016

@CNNAfrica or if Mark was robbed of his wristwatch while visiting “subsaharan africa” won’t your rotten head mention d country?? Olosii

— olaposi richard (@depoiseuilli) August 30, 2016

@cnnafrica Crazy people rewriting stupid narrative! How will the headline be written if he had visited xenophobic South africa first?

— Olabisi Michael (@bisimichaelng) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica idiots, it’s NIGERIA

— Aminu I. Ida (@aminu3214) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica e ya Weyrey ni? Ewo ni sub Saharan? Ogun keeh una. It’s Nigeria!

— The Fondant Queen (@lushlyebonesque) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica do you wish to be unfortunate? which one is sub-saharan country? are you saying Nigeria is too much for you to mention?

— Olufemi (@ooluphemmy) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica You only see what they want you to see…ever bias media. Sub-sahara Africa is now a country…..sarcasm pic.twitter.com/0jYejtWvz6

—Kevo (@kevostik) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica pls unfollow back and don’t forget to block me back. Awon olori buruku, omo ale jati jati

— Olufemi (@ooluphemmy) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica may God punish you! It’s your father you’re calling Sub-saharan Africa! Did you go to school sef? Better leave twitter mbok

— Ruky Tanen (@praise_blossom) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica When there’s a bomb blast in Nigeria, your headline is never “Bomb blast kill 27 in Sub-saharan Africa”.

— henry (@DedricKent) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica it’s like you people are fantastically mad ni? So if you write ‘mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria’, your account will be hacked?

— Onuorah ifenna (@Ifeka1) August 31, 2016

@CNNAfrica so if you say “visits nigeria” will it burn ur office?

— Proudly Fulani (@skywalker_16) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica
“Nigeria” has name when it’s a Negative report pic.twitter.com/9oDjiQtKfr

—henry (@DedricKent) August30, 2016

@CNNAfrica Zuckerberg visits “sub saharan Africa” but Boko Haram is in Nigeria; how convenient your framing.

— Ayo Oke (@AyoOke1) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica as una fingers dey pain una , shebi @BBCAfrica get two heads for typing NIGERIA ??? pic.twitter.com/ZbhGBnq8Jo

— THIAGHO (@iamagho) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica pic.twitter.com/kICJQd7ZqI

— Raikage Dayo (@d1raikage) August 31, 2016

@CNNAfrica d broadcasting station is afraid 2 say “Nigeria” scared 2 advertise us, cos we rock as an explosive nation of talents, creativity

— Klorin (@Semtimo) August 31, 2016

@CNNAfrica this is how you guys systemically practice racism and neocolonialism. Would you make this mistake with Australia or China? Idiots

— Mazi Odogwu (@smile_poc) August 31, 2016

@CNNAfrica the thunder that will fire you is still brewing? How can u even say sub shahara africa? Just say #naija4life..

— Kema ezeasor (@kemazeasor) August 31, 2016

@CNNAfrica Which is easier to spell, #Nigeriaor “Sub Sahara Africa”? Y’all just hating… pic.twitter.com/DWMsfEDf70

— T.O (@EarlofLibra) August31, 2016

@CNNAfrica wat has Nigeria done that 7 characters is nw too much instead 15 characters ‘sub sahara africa’ been used pic.twitter.com/V6cgxjRIFG

— Ayodeji (@haryordayjea) August31, 2016

@CNNAfrica when Mark visited Italy you people wrote Italy, now that he’s in Nigeria, N I G E R I A is missing from your keyboard abi? Ewu!

— Nene (@BVMDaugther) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica receive sense ?? pic.twitter.com/ciqEdAC9CI

— ɮʟǟɨʐe (@f_is_h_) August 30, 2016

@CNNAfrica pic.twitter.com/ty1YqBLda2

— Denzel (@KingDenzzy) August 30, 2016