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His main goal was to be the Mark Zuckerberg of Nigeria. Hence the site was launched 14 months after Facebook. The site took off after a slow start and Nairaland now has over 1 million registered users and is the most popular Nigerian website today.
Forbes Magazine took note of Osewa's initiative and recognized the young brilliant Nigerian mind in 2013 as best African entrepreneurs under 30.

"I decided to start Nairaland when I noticed two odd things about MobileNigeria:

(1) Despite its narrow focus, it was the only Nigerian community that gave a voice to Nigerians at home. Most other Nigerian sites were owned and dominated by Nigerians in the US or UK. They covered only issues of interests to Nigerians abroad.

(2) The off topic section of the forum, covering topics outside telecoms, like romance and jokes, was becoming more vibrant than the Mobile Nigeria Forum itself, suggesting the need for a more general-purpose Nigerian forum.

This gave me the confidence to take forums like Naijaryders and Talknaija head on by starting a general purpose discussion forum with a strong bias towards issues of interest to Nigerians at home. I felt that such a site could attract enough traffic to make enough money from Google adverts. That’s why I started the Nairaland Forum" said Oluwaseun Osewa
Nairaland has done well. It is the seventh most visited sites in Nigeria after Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and .

Osewa shared his vision for the next five years on Nairaland against his mentor site Facebook. "If I got 5 naira every time a developer offered to help me make Nairaland like Facebook, I would be rich enough to buy the moon!

But here’s the thing. You can’t beat Facebook. even if your website is perfect. Social networks benefit from ‘network effects’, which means the bigger they are, the better the experience. Facebook has grown so big that the only thing other social networks can do is die. MySpace, Hi5, and even Google’s social network (Orkut), and Microsoft’s Live Spaces have been beaten and are still losing members every day. If Google and Microsoft can’t beat them, I don’t think I should waste my time.

There’s an element of Facebook I’d like to incorporate, though. The ‘social graph’. It’s the reason why Facebook can have 500m users on the same site and yet, unlike most big forums, doesn’t feel over-crowded. The social graph approach scales so well."
So good things do come from Nigeria and No headlines or news media overseas will stream Oluwaseun Osewa's story except osaseye. People tend to add to the Growing negative perception about Nigeria in the world

http://ventnaija..com/2014/01/nairaland-founder-oluwaseun-osewa-gets.html

ventnaija:
But here’s the thing. You can’t beat Facebook. even if your website is perfect. Social networks benefit from ‘network effects’, which means the bigger they are, the better the experience. Facebook has grown so big that the only thing other social networks can do is die. MySpace, Hi5, and even Google’s social network (Orkut), and Microsoft’s Live Spaces have been beaten and are still losing members every day. If Google and Microsoft can’t beat them, I don’t think I should waste my time.

What's the hell are you spilling @ the highlighted
Change is a constant thing and overtaking is allowed....

Congratulations Seun. But I feel dissappointed that you think you can't beat FacebOok on the level of patronage. Such mentality is'nt good for a young guy like you. Change is the only permanent thing. Just do your best and leave the rest for God. Sky is your limit. Best of luck.

@Ventnaija please whenever you copy other blogger's hard earned post. Please cite the source and stop plagiarizing. It could be damaging to your blog's page rank and review. Osaseye wrote this article under his genuine Profiling Nigerians section as credits to aspiring and well to do Nigerians. The full story can be found on http://osaseye..com/2014/01/nairaland-founder-oluwaseun-osewa-gets.html#.UsrLffRDvl8

Incase

Hmm *Make i go bring ma chair*
Bdw>>congrats mr seun#i see yu oo#

tintingz: Incase

congratulations seun bt u be handsome bobo ohhh

See him baby face ...where is sexkillz
Congrats though

Shey na only dis pic seun get

Nice one!

So u de follow chop gogle money join... Yem ego 4 boyz.

Smooyis: Congratulations Seun. But I feel dissappointed that you think you can't beat FacebOok on the level of patronage. Such mentality is'nt good for a young guy like you. Change is the only permanent thing. Just do your best and leave the rest for God. Sky is your limit. Best of luck.

#FACT# HE CAN'T BEAT FACEBOOK WITH NAIRALAND..come on Nigeria has over 170m+ people and only 1m+ are nairalanders but FACEBOOK? In Nigeria only has 11m+ people(http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cp-africa.com/2013/09/08/facebook-nigeria/&sa=U&ei=WFLLUubpEerI0wXy6YDIAQ&ved=0CA0QFjAB&usg=AFQjCNFrhTqrF4YUyIJSDXwcfW_IvGYe3Q)... Talk more of AFRICA as a whole TALK MORE MORE of the GLOBE..

Leave those change is permanent wey u dey talk..there a somethings that just can NEVER BE
EVEN IF SEUN CREATES DOLLARLAND
But the Guy try for NL SHA.

I will like to say that beating another social network is a rogue idea.The point is creating what serves a purpose.Seun did that.To be sincere,what Nairaland has,facebook doesn't.Seriously?IF you try to reason with me you'll see my view.Check this site by a naija guy.Its really cool,just new.Its a social community..www.quotehood.com.The guy is using this facebook styled system but its cool,especially on mobile