Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Voted Most Popular CEO.

SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has been voted America’s most popular CEO, with 99 percent of employee’s at the firm saying they ‘like’ their hoodie wearing boss.

Glassdoor reported that Zuckerberg had a 99 percent approval rating among his employees in a recent survey, jumping 14 percent from an 85 percent approval score in last year. The increase in Zuckerberg’s popularity could be attributed to the fact that Facebook had not gone public yet at the time of last year’s survey.

Or it could just be that Mark Zuckerberg has fired everyone who disliked him, or removed them from his Friends list.

“The CEOs who are most successful in gaining employee approval are those who paint a clear vision of what the company is setting out to achieve and how it’s going to get there,” Glassdoor co-founder and CEO Robert Hohman said in a statement.

“To be recognized by your employees as a strong leader also comes as a result of having a solid company culture that helps employees foster the skills necessary to move business forward and meet the needs of customers.”

Other technology CEOs to make the top 50 included Larry Page of Google, Tim Cook at Apple and Larry Ellison at Oracle. However, Tim Cook’s approval rating dropped from last year. The Apple CEO’s rating dropped from 97 percent to 93 percent.

Google’s Larry Page also ranked highly, according to Glassdoor’s survey, tipping up as the 11th most popular CEO this year. His 95 percent approval rating stayed consistent over the course of last year.

Less loved, but mostly liked CEO Larry Ellison rounded out the top 50. Oracle’s founder was ranked the 46th most well-liked CEO with an 82 percent rating. In comparison, Ellison’s former employee and nemesis, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff had a 94 percent approval rating.

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.

Askia-Williams, 45, lives in New Yorkand works with a hospital in the city. She is married to American Rudolph Williams and her eldest daughter, Stephanie Hornecker, is an aspiring model.

The award winning actress and model made her foray into the Nigerian film industry with her critically acclaimed role as Tokunbo Johnson, a gold digger, in the 1993 NTA network produced Mega Fortunes.

She then went on to star in a number of home videos, an early incarnation of what is now known as Nollywood, before quitting the scene.

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…Hello fb friends I am shutting down my friends page .....to maintain inspiration through me and updates on what's happening to my ministry and life simply go to my fan page and LIKE it at Dr Abel Damina ..or follow me on Twitter @Abeldamina

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:

Just 2 days of test running and about 8,375 people have registered as of 8 a.m today. To GOD be the Glory. The mobile application will be available next week to enable members chat with their phones. ETIGHI started as a joke, then a dance and now a social network. we're so proud of this 100% Naija and proudly Akwa Ibom brand. Be part of history. share ETIGHI CHAT on your wall and invite your family, friends and love ones. Pls we cannot succeed alone, your contributions and constructive criticism will be welcome. Lots of love, NATURE UDOH, the gang leader.

You can visit www.etighichat.com to register.

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.

    In a statement entitled: A Dangerous Game of Impersonation, the renowned playwright expressed anger over the use of his name for indecent circulation of electronic messages.

  Once again, taking advantage of a situation of national unrest, some unscrupulous individuals have taken to circulating comments, often of a most distasteful, uncouth and unprincipled nature, in my name. I wish to inform the public that I do not Tweet, Blog, Facebook etc. etc. My public statements are signed and/or go through authorized channels that the media recognize and can authenticate where in doubt. Any electronic message that purports to emanate from me for general circulation through Mobile phones or Internet should be taken as a complete concoction, in most cases by deranged minds with their private and sick agenda.I must remind the public that these are not normal times, and that extreme caution and personal responsibility are needed. It is no time to be taken in by spurious propaganda by cowards who cannot speak in their own voices or acknowledge the names given to them at birth or even acquired during their nefarious careers.Even more than the nausea one feels by being subjected to such identity embezzlement is the danger it poses generally, since it is certain that there are others who are similarly afflicted.One hopes therefore that the Security services , when called upon to assist in tracking down these felons, will recognise this goes beyond individual clamour and will act promptly, not only in unmasking, but in prosecuting them as befit criminal minds with the capacity for incalculable damage to an already fragile social fabric.

Wole Soyinka (Prof)