Apart from the general challenges that a common blogger will face in the blogosphere, Nigerians have their usual challenges that they must face in blogging, issues like creating a profitable blog niche, choosing a blogging topic to build your articles around, choosing an ideal domain name , brands awareness, traffic generation , search engine optimization challenges among others, Nigerian bloggers have a peculiar challenges they must face , of which each and every new blogger should know:


· Lack of electricity: this may sound somehow, but believe me. This is a serious problem, lack of power to recharge your laptop is one of the problem that a typical Nigerian bloggers are facing, no one will tell you this until when you delve into world of blogging, any experienced blogger knows this, you will observe that blogging need your time as a starter, at least 8 hours a day , then tell me where will you see light to recharge your laptop and blog like your counterpart in other part of the world.

· Lack of reliable internet connectivity: in most advanced nation, this is not a problem at all, in fact there are even free internet access in some cases, but in Nigeria reverse is the case, more than 90% of Nigerian bloggers rely on internet service providers from telecommunication network like mtn, glo, airtel etc. Most of the internet services provided by this companies are slow, very exorbitant and most of the time not available and therefore are not reliable.

· Lack of reliable online payment platform: the world most trusted online payment provider is now the paypal, a company that blacklisted Nigeria, Nigerians are only allowed to spend but never allowed to receive money. There are money company that integrated paypal as their only method of payment and therefore in other way sidelining Nigerians. The only reliable alternative is make payment through proxy in paypal “white-listed” countries or to use direct credit or debit card payment which is risky.

This poses a serious challenges to most new Nigerian bloggers who may try to obtain their domain name or pay for any online services. also many successful Nigerian bloggers have one story or the other to tell, on how they get their hard earned affiliate commissions trapped in paypal .

· Social stigma; many Nigerian youths, even graduate do not know that common blogger can earn a living online, some believe that you can only make it when you indulge in fraud and internet-scams aka yahoo-yahoo. Therefore the first impression you will receive the moment that people know that you are making money online is a negative one, this has a moral implication to the blogger and his personality and this is bad for a good business.

All these challenges listed above are only faced by Nigerian bloggers, as most international bloggers faces none of the above, therefore whenever any aspiring blogger or web developer want to delve into the world of the blogosphere he/she should know that he will face challenges of electricity , internet access and may not even make a simple update not to talk of integrating seo and it its likes

source :http://sasuwa..com/2015/07/challenges-facing-nigerian-bloggers.html

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Electricity? Internet? Seriously

I think we Nigerians should set up competitions where alternative means of power generation become the focus. We're long past the era of waiting on the government to provide us electricity. The nation is not growing depending on four thousand plus megawatts of electricity only.

hmmmm

Its kinda funny to me

Lalastic wetin?

Abeg arrange ur essay up there properly 1st. Thanks!

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Na Fp we dey so?
Oya...http://edscienceblog..com as usual

Hmmm

How come linda ikeji is successful, there is no business on earth you would start without bottlenecks.
www.

K

lack of good writing skills i.e most like copy and paste

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typing...

Hi

network too bad

Overcome the challenges... poverty is a bigger challenge




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source :http://sasuwa..com/2015/07/challenges-facing-nigerian-bloggers.html

why are you still on , let me help you buy your domain name and redirect it FIR just 2000

most nigerian bloggers are plagiarist.they all lack creativity and are very lazy about getting d right information.infringing on others intellectual property is their numba one xteristics........most of dem are afta money.lack of content is anoda problem in blogging

Also most bloggers are liars it's why i dislike them anything to gain attention without confirming the source

The only challenge facing nigerian bloggers is that they lack creativity and they fail to understand that blogging is not fir every tom dick and harry. you would see someone making very silly writing mistakes and grammatical errors and call themselves bloggers. A very good example is the compiser of this post. Imagine. Some graduate rather than some graduates...smh

Abeg before you start to blog for nigeria you no see am say na so every thing be mtcheew.

No dey complain.

Those fore mentioned things are constants

the real problem facing the nigeria blogosphere is joblessness.

Person finish school no work den he hear about linda ikeji him too wan join blog

Wetin be dat ? Ma help una answer JOBLESSNESS

Poorly written article.

Yet some of them will come here on Nairaland claiming they can teach me how to make $10k per hour online. The problem with we Nigerians is that we know how to abuse things. Linda Ikeji is succesful and for that, everybody is jiving in blogging. To make it worst, they are all into entertaiment news forgetting that they can't beat Linda Ikeji and Bella Naija on that. You guys need to go into adult blogging. Adult blogs and websites grosses well too. Even education and health.

To be successful in any field today, you have to be unique and creative, that is what most bloggers lack.
Copy and paste gists from LIB or Bella Naija, how do you then expect them to grow.
Another thing I think is important is publicity or advertisement, there are thousands of blogs out there, so you have to pay in order to be known, as you all know most new bloggers are just hustling so they have no fund.
Take a look at Naij, just some years in Nigeria, they are one of the top blogs in Nigeria today even though sometimes, I get pissed off by their pop ups here and there.

There is always a way out

most bloggers make little money from advertising.

true

Bloggers fix this first

xender:

· Lack of reliable online payment platform: the world most trusted online payment provider is now the paypal, a company that blacklisted Nigeria, Nigerians are only allowed to spend but never allowed to receive money. There are money company that integrated paypal as their only method of payment and therefore in other way sidelining Nigerians. The only reliable alternative is make payment through proxy in paypal “white-listed” countries or to use direct credit or debit card payment which is risky.

smartresult how do one get paid? Is there an alternative?

never fear when faced with challenge, for it is just a bus stop in Ibadan...

Mrkelv:
Lol. A large percentage of these "Bloggers" Don't even know what blogging is all about. Most of them see it as only a money making avenue.

Some can't even write one full sentence without making grammatical blunders. That's why they result to copy and paste.

Blogging in Nigeria is becoming a BIG JOKE!. Lack of creativity is killing us. Entertainment blogs everywhere

Will you celebrate creativity?