By Kazeem Akintunde
Facebook, a popular social media networking site in Nigeria, now known as Meta, on July 1st, announced that it would start paying money to skit makers, content creators and social media influencers with more than 5,000 followers.
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Mark Zukerberg is the owner of Facebook, which he renamed Meta, after he bought the company in 2021. Instagram and WhatsApp, two other social media networking sites are also owned by him. Zukerberg makes huge amount of money from the three media platforms through advertisements, and he gives back part of the money to those with large followers who create content that get people entertained on those platforms, but to earn the money, the content must be original and it must appeal to a wide audience. Some Nigerians, especially the youths, are making huge sums of money creating contents on several social media platforms. But since the July 1st monetization of content on Facebook, the desperation to get a chunk of the Megabox is now driving many desperate skit makers and content creators to do the unthinkable.
Just last week, a short video posted on Facebook went viral after a woman, later identified as Favour Igiebor, tore what looked like the International Passport of her husband upon their return to Nigeria from Italy. Many Nigerians were shocked that a woman could go to such an extent to embarrass her husband publicly and they called for her arrest. Many rightly believed that the passport she tore was a government property.
Following so much noise from many angry Nigerians, the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Mrs. Kemi Nandap was forced to issue a statement, assuring members of the public that the matter would be investigated. According to the statement: “The individual has been identified and invited for further
