Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2018
Oluwaseun Osewa .




Brief History:
Nairaland is an online community created by Seun Osewa in March 2005. It is targeted at Nigerians







Nairaland currently has over 2,000,373 registered accounts (May 2018), and is ranked as the 9th most visited site in Nigeria as at April 2018,(and the most visited indigenous site) according to Alexa.com . Nairaland reportedly has over 55 million Internet users, corresponding to 32.9% of the entire population. With Nairaland having a considerable but unconfirmed number of users based in diaspora, this statistic suggests that a maximum 3% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland compared to Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users which corresponds to approximately 20% of the Internet population.Nairaland, however, does have a considerable number of unregistered users, as registration is only necessary for posting.

2014 Down Period:



Following a successful hacking attempt, Nairaland went offline briefly on the 22 June 2014. The hackers were able to get access to the website's host server and backup, and maliciously deleted all its content. Three days later, it was back online after some data had been recovered from a remote backup. However, data from 10 January 2014 through the date of the attack was lost.
Nairaland was stripped off its position as Nigeria and Africa's most visited website a ranking by Alexa. Nairaland's position was taken by e-commerce site
which rose a lot of issues in February 2015.



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