Nairaland Nigeria s top website has continued to leap from glory to glory ,the website developed Mr.Oluwaseun Osewa is poised to take its position as one of the fastest growing social networking sites in the world.
Previously ranked as # 2000+ globally the website has now overtaken thousands of western websites in the popular index.
Ranked # 923 according to the most popular websites a global ranking company for web traffic with South Africa’s news24 ,Which was dislodged as Africa's top website by Nairaland early this year coming far behind at # 1538 globally.

According to Alexa a leading provider of global web metrics Nairaland still retains her No 1 position in Africa with several other Nigerian website site in putting up a good show in the top 15.

With over 1.1Million registered users and counting Nairaland is set to take the world by storm following in the footsteps of the Chinese Renren and Pengyou which has over 100 million users.
The increasing relevance of Nairaland to Nigeria's politics is the focus of this piece.
Politically Nairaland has become the political Melting point in Nigeria where National issues,Political News and events are laid bare and e-political Gladiators takes center stage in their struggle to outwit each other and promote their political Candidates, ideology or view point.
The politics section of the forum with over 200,000 views daily and several thousand comments has become one of the hottest theatre's of Political e-WARS, with Missiles flying in all Directions as members struggle to identify with one party or the other in the ensuing political ''ruforufo'' .
Interestingly the casualties of these e-Wars live to fight another day as a user who might be a villain in a particular thread might be the hero in another .
The Presidency is not left out in this drive to tap into the vista provided by Nairaland as seen in the recent sharing of a Nairaland link by Media aide of president Goodluck Jonathan ,Mr Ruben Abati, Among other threads extolling the administrations achievements thus Far .
Ignoring Nairaland is to ignore over 1 million voters mainly youths,which in today's political calculations could be suicidal, hence the increase drive by politicians and political office holders to gauge the pulse of Nigerians Via the site.
However, the anonymity provided by the site has left several rooms for Abuse ,political prostitution,ethnic and religious bigotry among others
Nevertheless, Nairaland has provided Nigerians with a platform like no other ,a forum where they can share their pains ,a platform where they can exchange Ideas, a ring where they can fight without shedding Blood and a link where Nigerians irrespective of the Location around the globe can join the Conversation in our drive towards a better Nigeria .