The Vatican is about to unveil a Facebook page for Pope Francis, as part of its strategy to expand the Catholic Church’s presence on social media, according to reports yesterday.
The pope already has nine different-language profiles on Twitter, attracting more than 12 million followers.

Pope Francis prays.
His predecessor, Benedict XVI, opened the accounts in December 2012.
“Francis will soon have his very own profile on the world’s favourite social network.
“ The Vatican is just working on some final technical aspects before the Pope’s Facebook page is made visible to the public,” specialised website Vatican Insider said.
The Vatican was not immediately available for comment.
The report added that IT experts are working to prevent offensive or inappropriate messages appearing on the pope’s Facebook page before it is opened to the public.
In January, Francis said that the internet can help spread God’s message, noting that it offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity.

I make more money as a model than most actress

Maryam Elisha is a model and A-list fashion designer. In this interview, she talks about her reasons for not going into acting and what to expect from her this year.

Mariam Elisha

My name is Maryam Elisha, I am a fashion designer. I was once an ex beauty queen. I have been an ex model for about two years and I am still into it. I modeled for about 8 years before I retired into fashion designing. I modeled for so many companies like, MTN. I did bill-board, and TV ads for MTN.

Presently, I am a full time fashion designer. I have not really acted, though I love acting. I do not think I am called to act. Acting takes a lot of time trying to be what you are not, and I do not really love that. You know every career has its challenges.

Way back when I started  modeling , I had several challenges of casting.Most of the time, models are not well treated you have to wait  in line,  But, all those things are not really challenges because, I would tell you that, there   was money in modelling then. I made more money and I had fun. They paid me really well then unlike now that models are giving peanuts.

Cupid flaps wings as internet dating soars

PARIS (AFP) – The Internet is powering Cupid’s wings in France, with use of online dating sites soaring, according to matchmakers preparing to help singletons maximise their seduction opportunities this Valentine’s Day.

Of the 18 million single people in France “one in two uses Internet dating” said Jessica Delpirou, director in France of the Meetic dating website, which was launched in 2001 and recently taken over by the US website Match.com.

MTN expands VALS goodwill via digital

The MTN twitter handle has been enjoying overwhelming engagement in the past one week, with record tweets and interactions following its ‘MTN Yello Valentine’ celebrity guest tweet series. Popular artistes like Praiz, Harrysong, KCee, Davido and Chidinma have all featured on the series, where they fielded questions relating to their careers, family and love lives.

This confirms the company’s promise of delivering a bold new digital world to its expansive customer base and a growing followership of over 254,000 on the social network platform.

IBM pridicts 80% growth in cloud adoption in nigeria

Multinaltional technology and consulting corporation, International Business Machine (IBM) while expanding local reach  has predicted that cloud technology adoption in Nigeria is expected to grow  to about 80 percent by 2015.

 At the commissioning of new IBM innovation centre in Nigeria recently , the Country General Manager, West Africa, Taiwo Otiti said the new facility was designed to accelerate innovation for the country and West African business and IT skills.

Tonto vs Ay

Nigerian born ace comedian, AY is on the news again but this time, it is between him and the Nollywood queen of controversy, Tonto Dikeh.

The duo are in verbal war over a link reposted by AY on his blog about about Tonto Dikeh’s attire to the just concluded Calabar Christmas Carnival.

The comedian wrote on his blogger link as follows, AY COMEDIAN,@AYCOMEDIAN, AY comedians blog photos, does this lady look like Tonto Dikeh? The lady pictured with…fb.me/147VNvYRI.  Apparently angered by the story, the actress took to her Twitter page to pour out her mind.

A visit to her twitter handle revealed thus, TONTO W.C DIKEH @Tontolet, @AY, fuck you brother, nite AY immediately responded to her tweets and a heated argument ensued.

It would be recalled that AY and Nollywood bad boy, Jim Iyke were recently engaged in Twitter war when the comedian released a very hilarious skit where he delivered comedienne, Helen Paul, apparently mocking Jim Iyke’s recent deliverance at the Synagogue Church of All Nation