Arrest Obasanjo, Atiku, Baraje, others now – Asari Dokubo

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, in his usual element has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the nation’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and his estranged Deputy, Atiku Abubakar, for causing unnecessary crisis in the fold of the people’s Democratic Party, PDP.
While encouraging Jonathan to confidently deal with the “New PDP” under the leadership of Kawu Baraje, especially the seven aggrieved governors by arresting them and their associates, Asari said that Jonathan was taking things unnecessarily easy with those suppressing his government.
Asari-Dokubo, who disclosed his position to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday did not say any indicting thing about former president, Ibrahim Babangida, whom he said had not taken a position in the ongoing crisis in the PDP.
“Obasanjo should be arrested and detained, yes, and Atiku (Abubakar).
” They are ordinary citizens of this country. They are nobody. They are nobody. I don’t know about Babangida, he has not come out to talk about where he belongs.”
Dokubo further asserted that those on the side of Kawo Baraje need to pity, as their action was a total violation of the party constitution, for setting up another faction of what is still in existence(PDP)

According to him, “Those political miscreants; the president should use a hammer against them. There’s no basis indulging these miscreants; they should be treated as such.

“There’s only one registered PDP known to INEC and Tukur is the chairman of that PDP. For the president to indulge them is a slap on the face of politics. He should have hit them if they go against the law.
“If you set up a secretariat for a party that’s not ready, then you should be arrested and detained. There’s no party called new PDP. They should be treated as a lawbreakers.”
Finding an alternative to the issue of immunity, Dokubo said, “Since the governors enjoy immunity, they should pick people around them, then they will know.”
He described the Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi as “a traitor” affirming that President Jonathan was protecting the governor since he goes to Port Harcourt almost every time.
“Amaechi is a traitor to all people, traitor to the interest of all members of the South-South and the South-East. He should be treated like a traitor.
“The President is shielding Amaechi; he is not fighting him, if not he shouldn’t be coming to Port Harcourt every day.”

KOFI AWOONOR: The Poet Who Dared Death

You didn’t need to meet Professor Kofi Awoonor to know him. A poet, novelist, ambassador, university teacher, government official, he was all over the place. In Kenya, where he was as a poet until death last week, he was perhaps also a seer. He saw his death and dared it.

During a poetry masterclass at the Storymoja Hay Festival he was attending in Kenya, he discussed mortality and said he was unafraid of death. Death did go to him; and what a way for such a great man to die.

The Rawlings Revolution
For someone who was at the University of Ghana, Legon, during the early years of the Jerry Rawlings revolution, Awoonor meant a lot more than a poet and novelist. He was in insider.

He explained it himself in an interview with the National Mirror: “I have a feeling that for the first time the Rawlings phenomenon –I use the word phenomenon advisedly– was a rebellion phenomenon. That is a rebellion which had fairly intelligent justification because we were taking a risk after we had adopted the so-called democratic parliamentary system since 1959. That was the last round after the overthrow of (Kwame) Nkrumah. So, 10 years after, Rawlings staged a coup d’état that was short-lived, three months and then election was organised and politicians came back again.

“Within two and half years Rawlings came back with the support of many of us from the universities, the lecturers, the writers; the academic community as a whole.

Not 100 percent but at least, those of us who had been active on the left. The post Nkrumah remnant, most of us who considered ourselves the pan-African children of Nkrumah socialist ideas supported Rawlings and we worked with him for 10 years, 1982 to 1992.

“The first ingredient was the reconstruction of the base government at the local government, we divided the country into new districts and now we have about 175 districts made up of 500,000 people where you can give them a mini parliament where they elect people…..

“In 1992 political parties were allowed to f o r m. We formed the party called the National Democratic Congress, NDC, which won power twice. We lost to John Kufour in 2000, who stayed for eight years and we won in 2008 with John Atta Mills, who passed away and (John) Mahama took over.”

Change of Name
Surprisingly, there aren’t much of Awoonor’s interviews on his writing on the Internet. Surprising! From the little info available he did explain what happened to the Williams in his name. Many of his early readers knew him as George Awoonor-Williams, and it wasn’t a pseudonym.

He said: “That’s not my pen name really, that’s my family name. I come from Wheta, next door to Togo. We were very early Anglicised in that area of the country. My great great grandfather was a member of the people who gave land to the Presbyterians and Christianity became endemic.
“So, this was a family name but I chopped off all the Christian names for the purposes of sheer convenience. And I am a self-confessed Africanist and I don’t feel right to go around with all these ‘Anglo-Saxonist’ tags.”

Nigerian Writers
Awooner knew his contemporary writers from Nigeria very well. He said of them: “I knew Christohper Okigbo very well, he was a fantastic chap. I think we first met in 1952 in Kampala (Uganda). Chinua (Achebe) was there too. He had just published Things Fall Apart. J.P. Clarke was there as well, so was the man who wrote People of the City, Cyprian Ekwensi and Ngugi (wa Thiongu), who was still an undergraduate at Makerere University when he joined us for the conference carrying his manuscript of Weep not Child all over the place. What was also exciting was the presence of Langston Hughes, who came from the Diaspora.

“It was there that we would attempt – I use the word advisedly – to describe or define what African literature is. Resolving the whole debate of whether we, who write in these colonial languages, can actually claim any authenticity to be real Africans. The debate has matured over many decades drawing the conclusion that European languages that came into Africa came to colonise and then we took them over by force of history, we needed to use them.

“The guys who gave articulation to this brilliantly are Chinua Achebe and to a very large extent, Christopher Okigbo. In Okigbo’s hands, the English language acquired its own classical resonance from where he was coming from. And of course, Achebe’s classics, to me, he only wrote two books, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.

“The rest are monologues, dialogues sometimes of all kinds of contemporary discourse. I think Arrow of God is his best book because it generates a discourse, a debate. Things Fall Apart is too flat, it is a single directional proposition.
“The stylistics is incredible however, and I see so many people trying to imitate him over the years, but they can’t. He had mastered the English language and many people don’t know that Achebe was a master of the English language.

“He knows the English language inside out, that is why he can use it, and he can turn it around, as Caesar said, as a miraculous weapon against his naïve conquerors. Christopher on the other h a n d didn’t produce much. He has, I think, one single slim volume then a few things scattered all over.

“But the work that he did became a composition of both the linguistic and artistic cultural rostrum on which educated Africans were taught.”
If Awooner didn’t talk much about himself, others did for him. One of such rich sources is the Gale Contemporary Black Biography:

Life’s Work
One of modern West Africa’s best-known writers, the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor integrated ancient African forms of expression with the techniques of modern poetry. The resulting body of work formed a unique poetic chronicle of West African life in the late twentieth century, encompassing both the effects of European colonialism and the influence Africa exerted on other cultures around the world. Closely aligned with the preeminent leader of modern Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, Awoonor suffered imprisonment for his political beliefs but emerged as an important political figure himself in later life.

Influenced by African Heritage
The son of a tailor and the grandson of a woman who was a traditional singer of dirges or songs of lament in the Ewe culture, Kofi Awoonor was born in his grandfather’s house in Wheta, Ghana, on March 13, 1935....Awoonor’s family was poor, but when he was nine years old he was sent away from his family to attend school; he earned a place to live by working as a servant for a wealthy family. Financing his whole education in the same way, Awoonor was able to attend the University of Ghana in the country’s capital of Accra. He graduated in 1960 and continued to teach at the university and to write. His first book of poetry, Rediscovery and Other Poems, was published in Nigeria in 1964.

During this period Awoonor became allied with the charismatic Nkrumah, a symbol of the aspirations of West Africa’s newly independent countries and of African cultural pride in general. That led in 1964 to a job in Accra with Ghana’s Ministry of Information, but after Nkrumah’s government was overturned in a coup d’état Awoonor left the country. He landed for a year at the University of London, and in 1968 he came to the United States and enrolled at the State University of Stony Brook, on New York state’s Long Island.

Experimental Novel
Earning an M.A. and later (in 1973) a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Stony Brook, Awoonor both deepened his poetry and began to gain wider recognition for it. His first book of poetry was reissued, with added material, by Doubleday publishing house as Night of My Blood in 1971. He also wrote plays and an experimental novel called This Earth, My Brother.

The collection of poems Awoonor had submitted as his Ph.D. dissertation was published as The Breast of the Earth in 1975. By that time Awoonor had become professor and chair of the department of comparative literature at SUNY Stony Brook. That year, the poet took a one-year sabbatical leave to return home to Ghana, intending to teach at the country’s Cape Coast University. But the trip had disastrous results--he was thrown in prison on charges of harbouring a subversive on December 31, 1975, amid rumors of a possible coup. Despite heavy international pressure organized largely by Awoonor’s U.S. colleagues, he was held for a year with little contact with the outside world.

Wrote Poetry While in Prison
Awoonor continued to write while in Ghana’s Ussher Fort prison, and his work of this period was published in 1978 as The House By the Sea. These poems marked a new and more political direction in Awoonor’s work. Unsurprisingly his life after his release from prison in 1976 became more and more entwined with the politics and government of his homeland. Awoonor taught at Cape Coast University from 1977 to 1982, but then embarked upon a period of service to the Ghanaian government in various capacities.

How I escaped death in Kenya mall attack –Soyinka

But for a stroke of luck, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, would have been among the dead in the terror attack that took place at the Nairobi Westgate mall in Kenya last weekend.

Speaking at a press conference at the Freedom Park, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Friday in honour of the late Ghanaian poet, Professor Kofi Awoonor who died in the attack, Soyinka led a group of eminent Nigerian writers to condemn the Nairobi massacre. Soyinka, who said he, like Awoonor, was invited to the Storymoja/ Hay Literature Festival, said he couldn’t attend because of other pressing engagements he had elsewhere.

M“My absence was particularly regrettable, because I had planned to make up for my failure to turn up for the immediate prior edition. Participant or absentee however, this is one edition we shall not soon forget,” said Soyinka.

The iconic writer said, considering his close relationship with Awoonor, he might have been at the same place with him and could have been shot as well. He said: “Kofi and I could have been splitting a bottle at that same watering hole in between events and at the end of each day.”

Condemning the use of religion to commit atrocities, Soyinka, who spoke on the theme, “Humanity and Against,” said: “Those who organised and carried out the outrage on innocent lives in Nairobi are carriers of the most lethal virus of corruption imaginable – corruption of the soul, corruption of the spirit, corruption of that animating humanistic essence that separates us from predatory beasts. I am no theologian of any religion, but I aver that these assailants delude themselves with vistas of paradise after life, that their delusion is born of the perverted reading of salvation and redemption.”

As the literary community mourned the deceased writer, Soyinka felt constrained to denounce his killers, who he described as “the virulent sub-species of humanity who bathe their hands in innocent blood.” He noted further: “Only cowards turn deadly weapons against the unarmed, only the depraved glorify in, or justify the act. True warriors do not wage wars against the innocent. Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life. We call on those who claim to exercise the authority of a fatwa to pronounce that very doom, with all its moral weight, upon those who engage in this serial violation of the right to life, life as a god-given possession that only the blasphemous dare contradict, and the godless wantonly curtail. This scalp that they have added to their collection was roof to a unique brain that a million of their kind can never replace.”

Lending his voice to the condemnation of the murder of Awoonor, renowned playwright, Professor JP Clark, said the late Ghanaian writer came across as a non-conformist during his encounter with him at a pan Africa literary conference in Kampala, Ugunda, in 1962

Saddened by his death, Clark said: “I was in a state of shock to hear that Kofi Awoonor could go like that by random bullets in a country far off. It really shows the absurdity of life.” He advised all to do the best they can while alive

Health: All You Need To Know About Bleeding During Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a happy moment for every woman as it shows that you are expecting a child, however, when the pregnancy is associated with bleeding, it could be terrifying. Most of us get easily upset at the sight of blood as we associate it with pain, injury, and death. So when you find blood on your underwear during pregnancy, all sorts of unpleasant scenarios tend to play out on your mind.

If you find that you are bleeding during pregnancy, do not be overtly alarmed, it is an occurrence that affects 1 in 3 women, and this could signal that something has gone wrong with your pregnancy. That is why it is best to check with your doctor each time you bleed during pregnancy as only your doctor can rule out the causes of the threat and take steps to remedy the problem in case something goes wrong.

Causes Of Bleeding During Pregnancy

Bleeding during pregnancy is quite common in the first trimester of a pregnancy. When the egg has been fertilised, it travels up the fallopian tubes into the uterus, where it promptly proceeds to nestle itself in the uterine wall and make its home for the next nine months or thereabout. This can look just like blood but will have a brownish tint. It is absolutely harmless, and a sign that the fertilised egg has settled into your womb. However, if the bleeding is severe or lasts more than a day or two, you should see a doctor.

Miscarriage – the dreaded ‘M’ word that no pregnant woman wants to hear is the first thought that comes to mind when you bleed in pregnancy. It is an unfortunate truth that almost one third of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, and yes, bleeding is one of the signs of miscarriage or a threatened miscarriage. Most miscarriages will happen during the first trimester of pregnancy. Usually, once you are past the 4 month mark, your pregnancy is considered to be safe. The bleeding that signals miscarriage is usually accompanied by backache, pains in the abdomen, and cramping.

You may bleed during pregnancy right after you have had intercourse with your spouse. This is usually because your cervix is rather sensitive during pregnancy due to the increased supply of blood to your organs, and the repetitive movements of intercourse can cause you to bleed.

Breakthrough bleeding is another reason you may bleed during your pregnancy. This type of bleeding occurs around the time that your period would arrive if you were not pregnant. When you are pregnant, pregnancy hormones released by your body prevent your period from coming. However, in the early stages of pregnancy, the hormone levels may not be high enough to prevent the period altogether. So you may experience some bleeding, usually accompanied by your regular period symptoms like cramps, heaviness and bloating. There are a few cases of this kind of breakthrough bleeding occurring throughout the pregnancy with no adverse effects to the mother or the foetus.

The cervix and vagina are so sensitive that even a normal examination by your gynecologist can irritate it and cause it to bleed during pregnancy.

A more serious cause of bleeding during pregnancy is either a cervical or vaginal infection. Other symptoms of an infection would include tenderness or a smelly discharge. If bleeding is accompanied by fever, there is a very high chance that you have an infection and that needs attention right away.

Up to 10% of all pregnancies start off with multiple embryos but end up with just one healthy foetus. If you bleed during pregnancy, it may be a case of the other embryos being expelled.

A few weeks before you go into labour, the thick mucous plug that blocks your cervical opening starts to fall away. This will result in a discharge which will look like bleeding but is merely a sign of impending labour.

Placenta previa occurs in about one of every two hundred pregnancies and is a condition that is characterised by a placenta that is not properly placed. This means that the placenta may be lying too low, almost on top of the cervical opening. Only repeated ultrasounds in different stages of the pregnancy will help to accurately diagnose this condition.

Placential abruption is another abnormality of the placenta which can cause you to bleed during pregnancy. What happens here is that the placenta breaks away from the uterine wall, either partially or wholly. The bleeding from a placential abruption can be quite severe depending on your condition you may be put to bed rest or have to undergo an emergency C-section.

Ectopic pregnancy also causes bleeding during pregnancy. This is when the fertilised egg implants itself outside the uterus, usually on the fallopian tube. This can be an extremely dangerous condition for both mother and baby as the growing embryo will soon result in the bursting of the fallopian tube. Only around 2% of all pregnancies are ectopic. Bleeding will be accompanied by extreme pain in the stomach, nausea and light-headedness to the point of fainting.

Another reason that you are bleeding during pregnancy is that you are close to your due date and going into labour.

Molar pregnancy is a form of cancer and another reason why you are bleeding during pregnancy. This is when an abnormal mass instead of a foetus is growing in your uterus. The mass has been known to be malignant in a few cases and the only way to detect this is through ultrasound.

In rare cases, bleeding during pregnancy is due to a uterine rupture. As the name suggests, this is when the uterus splits open and the baby is expelled into the abdomen.

Remedies for Bleeding During Pregnancy

The remedies for bleeding during pregnancy depend on the cause of the bleeding. If it is simply bleeding because of implantation, then no remedy is required as this is natural and will stop in a day or two. But if you bleed during pregnancy for other reasons like ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage, then you will need to see your doctor and discuss the options opened to you.

Preventing Bleeding During Pregnancy

Unfortunately, there is not much you can do to avoid bleeding during pregnancy as it is a medical condition caused by your body response system. Although it is mostly out of your control, you can still do your best to stay as healthy as possible during pregnancy; get appropriate amount of rest and exercise, and stick diligently to your regular doctor’s appointments so that any abnormality will be detected on time

Please, Don’t Kill Me, Don’t Kill Me, Kidnap Kingpin Kelvin Pleads With SSS

The arrogance and bravado that characterised the reign of Kelvin Ibruvwe, the leader of a notorious gang of kidnappers that had held the entire Niger Delta region hostage for months, has turned out an anti-climax in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS).
Faced with the grim prospect of being brought to justice, the gang leader has seen his stern nature melt like ice in the hot sun, and all he can do is to plead with the law enforcement agents to spare his life.

His victims had included eminent persons like human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, as well as Mrs. Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour, wife of a Supreme Court judge kidnapped with her daughter and driver on their way to Benin on May 10.

And only a few days ago, he was his boastful self as he addressed a gathering of his kinsmen at his Kokori native town in Delta State, where he gave President Goodluck Jonathan a 60-day ultimatum to address the degradation of his native land and other communities in the Niger Delta or face grave consequences.

All that, however, proved to be no more than a façade that harboured the true weakling that he is, according to reliable SSS sources.

A source who spoke in confidence said that Kelvin, who was brought to Abuja for interrogation, had made substantial revelations.

“Kelvin has made useful and shocking statements which cannot be released to the public now,” the source said. “I think Nigerians, especially the media, will have the opportunity either on Monday or anytime next week.

“Contrary to his posturing, however, Kelvin is a weakling. He is afraid of death. He is downcast in detention. He does not want to experience what he had done to his victims.”

Another source who spoke on the last minutes before his arrest said: “Like criminals before him, he was always in company of girls from one location to the other. He was trailed for many days but the SSS and the Army adhered strictly to the rule of engagement to avoid recording heavy casualties. It was a clinical job.

“Before his arrest by the SSS and the Army, members of the Kelvin gang had held two youth corps members hostage. But when he was picked up, he was afraid of death and he was begging intermittently, ‘don’t kill me, don’t kill me.’

“At this point, the security agents asked him to call his gang members and ask them to release the two corps members if he did not want to die. Kelvin then placed a call to his gang to release the corps members. But the realty was done on him that the game was over.”

Responding to a question, the source added: “We have a strong suspicion that Kelvin and his gang were behind the kidnapping of Mrs. Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour, who is the wife of a judge of the Supreme Court

Drama As Suspect Escapes From Court

The suspect Ayo Adelaja, was supposed to be arraigned before Magistrate Miss Akinde, over alleged reckless driving and Ilegal U-turn.

It was gathered that Adelaja’s counsel asked the investigating police officer IPO, to let him have a discussion with the defendant, only for him to escape afterwards.

Adelaja, who was the driver of a Honda City Saloon Car with registration number KSF 32 BB, was said to have taken an ilegal U- turn along Kudirat Abiola way at Oregun area of Lagos, on September 23, 2013 at about 4:30pm.

It was also gathered that he damaged a Tricycle, belonging to one Baba Abba, when he allegedly took the Ilegal U-turn, which made him to be charged to court.

Immediately the suspect escaped, the Ipo, held the suspect’s lawyer to produce the suspect

Facebook Owner Mark Zuckerberg’s Modest Lifestyle

It is sometimes believed that someone’s financial worth can be deduced from the car they drive. Although somewhat popular, this assertion has been rubbished by the world’s youngest billionaire, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Some of his contemporaries or multi-millionaires and billionaires drive Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces, Aston Martins and Bugatti Veyrons, which come with hefty price tags running into hundreds of thousands of dollars and even millions.

Zuckerberg, 29, and currently worth $19bn, according to Forbes, drives an Acura TSX and a Honda Fit, which cost about $30,000 and $18,000, respectively.

His Acura TSX, is an entry level luxury sedan which uses a 2.4 litre in-line 4 cylinder engine. It can churn out 201 hp and 172 lb-ft torque and has a 5 -speed automatic transmission, which comes with steering-wheel paddle shifters for optional manual shifting. The car is quite packed with luxury features like leather interior, automatic climate control, a seven-speaker sound system, Satellite Radio, Bluetooth and HandsFreeLink.

Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, to Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist, and Karen (née Kempner), a psychiatrist. Even though, he was raised Jewish, Zuckerberg had since described himself as an atheist. As a junior student, Zuckerberg won prizes in science (mathematics, astronomy and physics) and classical studies. While most of his mates were busy playing games as young students, Zuckerberg was creating them.

In his early teens he created a music player named Synapse – as a school project – using some help from a friend, which used artificial intelligence to understand one’s taste in music and created a playlist accordingly. Software bigwigs like Microsoft and AOL tried to buy it and even recruit Mark. But he refused both. Instead, he went to Harvard in 2002. On February 4, 2004, with the help of his room mates, Dutsin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, and using the finance provided by another friend, Eduardo Saverin, he launched what was then called, The Facebook. It was an instant hit, and soon made Mark the next big thing.

On September 14, 2012, Facebook hit 1 billion users, a remarkable feat for a company that started in Zuckerberg’s dormitory room while he was at Harvard. Zuckerberg later dropped out of Harvard in his second year to concentrate on his project.

If you think that Zuckerberg’s home will suggest his enormous wealth, you are mistaken. The American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur owns a house in Palo Alto , California, which is his first property investment. But prior to this, he had always stayed in rented apartment. Zuckerberg lives in the house with his wife, Priscilla Chan. The young billionaire is known to be a fan of renting and a relatively modest lifestyle.

The house sits in the area of 5,1617-square-foot, was originally built in 1903. Since the house is of historic times, it boasts gorgeous historical elements, like sash windows, coffered ceilings, French doors, and deep porches. The 5-bedroom house was bought for $7m. Although the house is grand, it is still considered modest, compared to the residences of Zuckerberg’s other IT contemporaries.

Zuckerberg and his wife reportedly bought a new house in San Francisco for almost $10m recently, but the couple have neither confirmed nor denied the mansion, said to be undergoing reconstruction.

The work includes a $65,000 kitchen and bathroom remodel, a $60,000 greenhouse and the replacement of an exterior wall and stairway, plus seismic upgrades.

Zuckerberg does not own a private jet, but Facebook authorised its CEO and COO to use private aircraft for business purposes to maximise such executives’ productive time and ensure their quick availability. On some occasions, the jet could also be used for personal purposes.

On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg got married to his long time college sweetheart, Priscilla, in an astonishing ceremony at his Palo Alto home in California . The propitious wedding was kept behind the curtains in such a way that even the guests thought they were attending Priscilla’s graduation from the Univeristy of California.

Zuckerberg announced the nuptial on his social networking site ‘Facebook’, via a status update, posting his wedding picture which was liked by more than 280,000 people. Just a day before the wedding, Facebook’s fortune rose to £12bn in the stock market.

Facebook Inc CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has begun a campaign to make the United States government more transparent in its surveillance programmes.

Zuckerberg said more openness regarding the secretive programmes were required because they had been hurting users’ trust in Internet companies such as his.

During a meeting with members of Congress last week in Washington, the 29-year-old social media billionaire urged the US government to inform the public about its requests for data from Internet companies.

He said, “What I can tell from the data that I see at Facebook is that I think the more transparency and communication the government could do about how they’re requesting the data from us, the better everyone would feel about it.

“From reading in the media, you couldn’t get a sense whether the number of requests that the government makes is closer to a thousand or closer to a 100 million. I think the more transparency the government has, the better folks will feel.”

15 interesting facts about Zuckerberg

1. Type @[4:0] in a Facebook comment, and Mark Zuckerberg’s name will appear.

2. You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

3. Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg has a red-green colour-blindness.

4. In 2009, Zuckerberg wore a tie for the entire year as a symbol of how serious and important the year was, following the recession that began in 2008.

5. He says he’s not that interested in money but in connecting the world.

6. He’s spent a year trying to eat only meat that he kills.

7. By the time he turned 13, he had already created a basic computer network for his family dubbed “Zucknet,” which allowed the computers in the family and his father’s dental office to send messages to each other by pinging.

8. He designed his wife’s wedding ring.

9. At a party one Friday night, Zuckerberg met Priscilla, a Chinese American from Boston , who later became his wife.

10. To be able to communicate with Priscilla’s family members, Zuckerberg started to learn Chinese in 2010.

11. Zuckerberg’s first car was a Subaru Forester SUV.

12. Mark Zuckerberg is also on Twitter as @finkd where he has over 150,000 followers but has posted only 19 tweets in the last three and a half years.

13. Zuckerberg has also created a few computer games.

14. His favourite musicians include Daft Punk, Lady Gaga, Shakira and Rihanna.

15. Eduardo Saverin, one of the four co-founders of Facebook had provided the $1000 seed capital to start Facebook