Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Nigeria, visiting the Co-creation Hub (CcHUB)  in Lagos. Toby Shapshak   ,     CONTRIBUTOR I write about how innovation is better in Africa.     Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. FORBES - One his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa  Facebook  CEO  Mark Zuckerberg  has made a surprise visit to Nigeria, Africa’s most populace nation (170-milllion people) and  Facebook's   FB -0.56%  largest market with 16-million users. “This is my first trip to sub-Saharan Africa,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post . “I’ll be meeting with developers and entrepreneurs, and learning about the startup ecosystem in Nigeria. The energy here is amazing and I’m excited to learn as much as I can.” “Our first stop is the Co-creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB) in Yaba. I got to talk to kids at a summer coding camp and entrepreneurs who come to CcHub to ...

Comments   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email Inside Edition, Inside Edition Two friends in Canada learned this weekend that they were  switched at birth . Forty-one years after they were born in a federally run hospital in Manitoba, David Tait and Leon Swanson had their DNA tested and were handed the heavy news. Shockingly, in the last year another set of men learned they were switched at birth at the same hospital as Tait and Swanson that same year. Read: 36 Years After Giving Birth, Mom Meets Daughter, and Discovers They Were Once Co-Workers At an emotional press conference held in Winnipeg over the weekend, the men demanded to know what on Earth was going on at Norway House Hospital in 1975. "40 years gone — I don't know — distraught, confused, angry," a weeping Tait told reporters. "We want answers. We want answers. I want answers so bad." The men both liv...

What is wrong with Venezuela? Food riots. Wild inflation. But the country has the world’s largest oil reserves, even greater than Saudi Arabia. According to the CIA Factbook, this is how the  top 10 look in terms of proved reserves : Rank Country (BBL) Date of Information 1 Venezuela 298,400,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 2 Saudi Arabia 268,300,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 3 Canada 171,000,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 4 Iran 157,800,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 5 Iraq 144,200,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 6 Kuwait 104,000,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 7 Russia 103,200,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 8 UAE 97,800,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 9 Libya 48,360,000,000 1 January 2015 est. 10 Nigeria 37,070,000,000 1 January 2015 est. The United States is 11th on the list at 36,520,000,000 BBL. All the numbers are unreliable if shale deposits are taken out. Venezuela’s problem is that it cannot get oil out of the ground. If it could, crude sales might produce enough money to...

Entrepreneur Shoukat Dhanani started his business with convenience stores, then added hundreds of Burger Kings and Popeyes. (Photo courtesy of Shoukat Dhanani) Forbes - Shoukat Dhanani, 60, isn’t the type of entrepreneur who courts publicity, but his company, Dhanani Group, has gotten too big to ignore. Dhanani Group is the largest franchisee in the Popeyes system, as well as a giant Burger King franchisee, making it the nation’s third-largest restaurant franchisee, with 2015 revenues of $871 million, according to trade publication  Franchise Times.  But those numbers capture only a piece of the group’s businesses, which include convenience stores and gas delivery, as well as the franchised restaurants. In a recent conversation, Dhanani told me that “if you add everything up, it would be over $2 billion” – an amount that would likely qualify Sugar Land, Tex.-based Dhanani Group for  FORBES’ list of America’s Largest Private Companies. Dhanani’s s...