Abujafood: For many young Nigerians making money as a blogger is a pipe dream, better to get a full time job that pays a good salary such as a bank job than just sitt behind a computer with internet access and upload information to share with an online audience. But that may be utter rubbish going by the impressive incomes these Nigerian bloggers earn from their blogs. We profile them in descending order.
Top 5 Bloggers in Nigeria by Income
Here's our list of top 5 money making bloggers in Nigeria;
Linda Ikeji: Earns between N3 million – N4 million monthly
If you’re looking for an example of how to earn money absolutely free of charge with zero investment online here in Nigeria then Linda Ikeji’s story provides ample proof. She practically runs a blog on a free platform – blogger – without paying for domain or web hosting or even better yet a professional SEO consultant to help her optimize her blog to build an online audience that runs into millions of fans. She’s what you’ll call the Arianna huffington of Nigerian blogosphere except that she’s more biased towards entertainment gist and human angle stories. She recently completed a second house for her parents in addition to the 2 flashy cars she owns worth over N10 million, Linda can prove many wrong you can succeed in Nigeria without being born with a Silver spoon in your mouth and from doing something trivial as well – blogging.
Her blog: www.lindaikeji..com
Oluwaseun Osewa: Earns more than N2 million monthly
Innocent and cute looking Seun founded Nairaland in 2005 and was so confident of building wealth with it that he dared anyone interested in buying his website to pay N25 billion for it. Today Seun can afford to sleep all day at home as his website runs on auto-pilot – he hardly creates topics nor does he moderate topics posted – and the best part of it he doesn’t need to hire anyone for any reason. We could nickname Seun the Mark Zukerberg of Nairaland except that by page views and may be layout nairaland still has a long way to go when compared to facebook.
His blog: www.nairaland.com
Bamidele Onibalusi – at least N1.6 million monthly
Young but very hard working Bamidele Onibalusi is one of the quiet money making bloggers in Nigeria that very few people will ever hear about. He knows only too well that making the money and building a reliable brand means more to him than being seen and heard hence why he’s strictly about freelance writing and his private life but the young Nigerian article writer has made a name for himself with US based companies that hire him to write for them through hard work and perseverance. 6 months of consistent guest blogging has made him the world’s leading expert on guest blogging and why he has a huge number of aspiring writers as fans.
His Blog: www.writersincharge.com
Uche Eze Pedro – at least N1.5 million monthly
She started Bella Naija as a hobby, sharing magazine publications, mostly lifestyle to her audience like Linda Ikeji using blogger. But having built such a large audience it dawned on her to take on a more corporate brand hence why she registered “Bella Naija” domain. Today she’s Nigeria’s 4th highest earning blogger and an employer of labour as well.
Her Blog: www.bellanaija.com
Japheth Omojuwa: at least N500,000 monthly
Japheth may not be a household name to many Nigerians on the regular blogosphere but find your way down to micro-blogging platform twitter and a powerful personality emerges in @omojuwa with 95,000 plus followers and commanding an influence that has made brands trust his power to influence consumer choices. Japheth gets paid to make brands trend on twitter or simply just for talking about football via: #MTNFootball. His regular blog: www.omojuwa.com is among Nigeria’s 100 most visited websites although nothing to compare with a few others making mega bucks by the side.
http://the-nigerian..com/2014/01/nigerias-top-5-earning-bloggers-by.html

martha: Nairaland is not a blog

Abujafood:

Yeah it's a forum but also has a lot in common with a blog!

Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.

rutchiekens:

What is dis one saying, How does it have a lot in common with a blog?

The answers to your questions on what they have in common.

can users make posts in a blog?
Can users comment on blogs?

can users follow topics in a blog?
Of course depends on the blog you can be updated by email

can users create profiles in a blog?
No! Except as a guest blogger where you may get a brief bio

can users upload attachments in a blog?
Depends!

can users be banned from a blog?
I can block you on twitter - in case you don't know twitter is a micro blogging website.

can users quote other users in a blog?
Ask twitter.

can users like other users post in a blog?
Visit more blogs often, of course you can like other people's comments

can users send pm to other users in a blog?
Stop using Nairaland as a Yardstick for other forums. But for micro-blogging sites like twitter yes indeed you can use a DM


The list is endless? Done arguing with you!

Nairaplus: How come you are privy to their account transaction? Or how were you ablr to come up with these figures. Let me quote Seun:

Abujafood:

Yeah it's a forum but also has a lot in common with a blog!

Abujafood:

Who said I must have access to their transactions to estimate their potential incomes? Does Forbes have access to the account transactions of folks it profiles? Simple investigations can enable you piece info together.

*Hope you learned something today*

rutchiekens:

stop trying to defend your ignorance, stop using twitter as a yardstick for blogs cos it is not a blogging platform, comparing nairaland to not twitter, there is a big difference between a social network with microblogging capabilities and a blog.

Abujafood:

Seems you made the wrong quote here, I was replying him on how reliable the figures I posted were.

Now about the twitter, nairaland ish that's your opinion, there's no standard definition of what a blog should be or shouldn't be. You're entitled to yours I have mine, no need to shout "ignorance"

rutchiekens:


You are still been IGNORANT in your response. A blog is an informational site
published on the World Wide Web and
consisting of discrete entries ("posts".

Abujafood:

Yeah whatever by the way blogs are also social networking sites contrary to your earlier posture!

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