Facebook has been under scrutiny for its less-than-diverse board, and has taken some measures to improve, but now it is expanding its diversity push in a global way.

According to CNN, Facebook is launching a tech "community hub" and training program in Nigeria, which is the social media company's biggest African market. The program will be the first of its kind in Africa and will offer tech support as well as train 50,000 young people and SMEs in digital skills.

Facebook confirmed that Nigeria — Africa's most populous nation — holds 22 million monthly Facebook users with 10 million logging on daily via mobile devices.

"What we aim to do at the incubator is to provide support for high tech startups that do not ordinarily get investments, until they can develop a proof of concept, which will attract other investors," Emeka Afigbo, Facebook's Head of platform partnerships, Middle East & Africa told CNN.

"Its creativity, large population, and that a lot of this population is young people, more important is that we think the investment in Nigeria will spread and have impact across the continent," he added, pointing to to Nigeria's well-known "entrepreneurial drive."

Facebook's Nigerian tech community hub opens in 2018!

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Emeka Afigbo

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