Not Yet Uhuru For Nigerian Bloggers As Google AdSense Pays in Western Union for 13 additional countries

The list is insulting to say the least… you too, check out the names of latest beneficiaries of Quick Cash through Western Union by Google Adsense: Cameroon, Senegal, Libya, Mauritius, Yemen, Georgia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Remember that seven months ago, the same ‘generosity’ was first extended to four African countries: Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Alas! Nigeria is not financially or economically ripe for such mode of electronic transactions!

When you look through the list, you will see countries already tagged “Terrorist” like Yemen, you will see countries with political instability and ruled by a dictatorship or monarchy like Libya, Oman, Bahrain, etc. You will also see smaller countries than Nigeria without the comparable robust economy like Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana etc. and you are left wondering what was the strange yardstick or metrics used in determining beneficiaries by the Almighty GOOGLE AdSense.

The gleeful Google Adsense Blog announcement is no laughing matter for Nigerian bloggers as some of us have started to doubt the quality of the earnings coming and trickling down to our purses. We feel this is delibrate and exclusive policy to leave us in the financial doldrums, perhaps it is a discrimination that extends also to our AdSense income, not just Western Union payment method. Whatever it is, Nigerian webmasters and professional bloggers are not smiling with Google,

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I guess the reason why Google doesn't bother much about Nigeria is because the country already has a lot of successful adsense publishers. Perhaps they are just trying to promote their brand in countries where they seem weak.

Google Nonsense! Those guys have no reasonable reason as to why they have refused to enable Western Union payment for Nigerian publisher's. Anyway, just like Jambites waiting for their names to appear in the University admission list, let's hope Nigeria would be in the next list of countries eligible for Western Union payment.