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AutosRe: New Scammers On Auto Section by 2poundz(m): 9:49am On Jul 25, 2016
princetom1:
Oga cityhood, how make i break am again? Okay, next time, i will speak Wazobia. How is business going in the northern part (he always says, car is located in the northern part of Nigeria) of Nigeria?
FYI, i'v never met cityhood b4, though i'v bn observing his posts. Most of the cars he sells are from Zaria (MTD Junction, GRA junction and Flyover car dealers).

AutosRe: Very Clean Peugeot 308 2009 Model For Sale In Abuja... GIVE AWAY 850K .... SOLD by 2poundz(m): 4:25am On Jul 08, 2016
Nice ride bro. My dream ride.. Happy sales.
AutosRe: Get A Good And Very Clean Cars From Cotonou @ Affordable Price by 2poundz(m): 4:19am On Jul 08, 2016
I'v bn following ur posts. Please how much can i get 2007 307?
PoliticsRe: Profile Of Maikanti Kacalla Baru, NNPC GMD by 2poundz(m): 10:35pm On Jul 04, 2016
winningwinner:
Why did they forget to add that he is a Christian? Are you sure he will defend Jesus Christ in his new job and not those that appointed him? Christians in politics are something else. See Dogara and understand my point!!!!
So what if he's a xtian/muslim? If he going to pump fuel to church/mosques?
PoliticsRe: Profile Of Maikanti Kacalla Baru, NNPC GMD by 2poundz(m): 10:32pm On Jul 04, 2016
kristisking:
Ahead my foot. Pls where ABU located?
some few miles to your Village.
Computer MarketRe: Hp Envy 15x360-u437cl Convertible Pc - Core I7 16gb Ram 1tb Hdd- Pay On Delivery by 2poundz(m): 8:08pm On Jul 01, 2016
Nice system. But too expen.....
I guess that price can go for mini workstation with Nvidia gtx 960m and SSD 256 or higher
PropertiesRe: Estimating Building Costs, One Step At A Time. by 2poundz(m): 9:30am On Jun 28, 2016
Nice Topic op, i guess this is the best i'v read on NL so far. Thanx alot
CareerHistory Of Nairaland (SEUN) by 2poundz(op): 6:00am On Jun 07, 2016
I was surfing the net about entrepreneurship, and then a thought suddenly appeared to me to read about SEUN (Nigeria's Mark Zuckerberg). I don't know him personally and i have never met him before. I was only inspired by the article and i am sure after reading it, many will also be inspired.

INTRODUCTION

Seun is an Ogun state born Programmer,Webmaster and business man, he's the founder and owner of Nigeria and Africa's largest online Forum NAIRALAND the website was the most visited Nigerian and African Site untill 2015 according to Alexa ranking. Seun is a very successful online entrepreneur and a very private person.


EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND

Seun Osewa was born and raised in Sango Ota Ogun State Nigeria. He grew up learning and knowing the technological part of life.
Seun osewa has been interested in the internet business since he has known what internet is and how to use it.
Seun enrolled as a student in the University Of Ile Ife to study electrical engineering in 1998 but he did not finish. No, he wasn’t rusticated. Too brilliant to be. Looks like he dropped out of the school to pursue his programming dream and here he is today.

Even though seun never mentioned the year he was introduced to the internet it is obvious the year should be between year 1999/2000 as the the full inspiration of coming into the internet business should be around 2002. And he finally crossed into the internet business in the year 2003.

CAREER AND LIFE
Seun started his internet career in the year 2003 after going into the webhosting business.
He had attempted to start a web hosting business, but after 3 months he could only boast of one customer, so he ran out of capital and the business died.
It would probably have succeeded if he had managed his capital more wisely or raised more money as he got many hosting requests he couldn’t satisfy later that year.
After that first failure, he was encouraged to get certifications and a regular job, but he couldn’t go back to that kind of path after tasting creative freedom, so he kept researching business ideas and presenting them to friends and family, but no capital was forthcoming to carry any of them out. He did this for less than 2 years.

(The last idea was a site for sending SMS messages. He picked up Python to implement it.)
Eventually, he decided to start a web forum, because it was the only idea that required no additional capital: he already had Internet access and a $15 per month VPS graciously paid for by a family friend. He created 3 forums in November 2003 (one for higher institution students, one for IT discussions, and one to cover the emerging GSM industry; the Mobile Nigeria Forum at MobileNigeria.com).
The Mobile Nigeria Forum took off, so he relaunched it in February 2005 with the assistance of Mr. John Sagai Adams, who posted a link to the forum on his mailing list and participated enthusiastically in those early days. Other mobile enthusiasts like Mr. Yomi Adegboye pitched in to make the site a success. In a month or so, the forum had about 300 members, but the growth potential didn’t satisfy him.

He decided to start Nairaland when he 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 him 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. He felt that such a site could attract enough traffic to make enough money from Google adverts. That’s why he started the Nairaland Forum.

Seun's initial plan was to be making upto 60k per month but it turned out as time goes on Nairaland got much higher traffic than expected making his income on Nairaland much more than expected.
As Nairaland grows seun had problems with spammers flooding the forum so he started getting helps from moderators he selected.
Seun got help in updating the forum's frontpage and keeping it clean by moderators like Mukina2 a female mod who has been working with seun since 2007 and others.

As time goes on seun kept enjoying his money gotten from Google ads until year 2012 when Google removed his website because nairaland has too many sexual topics. Which made seun start selling his own ads space on nairaland just like other sites like facebook.com,linkedin.com and etc.
People say seun gets more income from selling these ads spaces than money gotten from Google but he never confirmed that.

In the year 2013 seun entered the Forbes list of best African successful entrepreneurs under 30. Which got him more huge reputation amid-st other co-webmasters in Africa.

Seun was said to be earning as much as 5-6million naira per month when he still works for Google ads but as at 2014 selling ads space was calculated to be generating him as much as 3-4million naira he never confirmed that though.
In 2011 seun was approached by a group of company who wants to buy nairaland for 1 million dollars which is 155million naira but he rejected the approach, and even nairaland's estimated worth by a site ranker for the year 2011 was 512million naira making it the most expensive nigerian site.
Despite all these money seun whom is expected to be leaving in one huge mansion in estates like Banana island lagos only lives in his hometown sango ota ogun state a very close little city to lagos state.

Fame power, money we all love and seek to have. But as someone that knows Seun quite well -even if not physically yet, and may never - the guy just doesn’t appear to like the celebrity status. Some people use money to buy fame, Seun uses money to run away from it! There are people that will pay to meet Seun Osewa in person, but he has refused to show himself. With the largest African online forum under his control, more than half a million people that depend on his online website to make their day, Seun can easily wield power. But all those appear not to be his style. A case in point: when he was listed by the organizers of The Future Awards in the controversial “Nigeria’s 100 Best” list, which presented him with an opportunity to dine with the celebrities in Aso Rock (what some people will pay millions to get), it didn’t even freak the Ota-based geek. Rather, he sarcastically commented on my Facebook wall when I raised a criticism of the TFA list that, “oh, it’s a good list because I saw my name there”. Oh, he only saw his name there, he didn’t partake in anything – a free ticket to visit Aso rock but he never went. Such is Seun’s abhorrence for fame.

We shall conclude seun looks upto Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as they both have same attribute of seriousness in their field, facebbook founder wore just one tie throughout a whole year to show a sign of seriousness in making facebook a real big thing and so seun also used just one profile picture in all his online accounts including nairaland for over 2years in which he is till using as at 2014 to show a sign of seriousness in making nairaland much more huge. -

SOURCE:
http://www.takemetonaija.com/2014/08/about-seun-osewa-biography-life-and-news.html?m=1#sthash.nDHc6wti.dpuf
IslamRe: 4 Practical Tips For Healthy Ramadan Fasting by 2poundz(m): 8:30pm On Jun 05, 2016
Jazakallahu khair
Art, Graphics & VideoRe: More Drawings From My Portfolio by 2poundz(m): 11:28am On May 30, 2016
AirSultan:
viviangist, how?


jetjacky, you havnt replied me o. waiting on you..


2poundz, you havnt answered toosmiley
I'm sorry please, erhm! I guess BBM (56464EF9) or email (belomo2015@gmail.com) will be easier. Hoping to hear from you soon.
Art, Graphics & VideoRe: More Drawings From My Portfolio by 2poundz(m): 6:51pm On May 29, 2016
OP Nice work, i can put you through some of my techniques if u want. Follow me on instagram @2poundzz

AutosRe: Cars Successfuly Imported From Cotounu And Delivered With Proofs(photos) by 2poundz(m): 9:02pm On May 10, 2016
Please how much can i get peugeot 207 04/05 hatchback or Mazda3 hatchback 04/05
AutosRe: COTONOU CARS BUYERS FORUM, ORDER FOR YOU CAR(S) NOW @ AFFORDABLE PRICE by 2poundz(m): 1:08pm On May 10, 2016
Please how much can i get a tok pug 207

AutosRe: sold sold Reg Toyota Matrix by 2poundz(m): 11:14pm On May 09, 2016
cityhood:
Dnt hv 207
Except 206
okay thnx!
AutosRe: sold sold Reg Toyota Matrix by 2poundz(m): 11:10pm On May 09, 2016
Hey! I'v bn following ur posts. I know u r genuine cos i know wia these cars are always advertised at MTD Junction. Pls how much will it cost to get a good peugeot 207?

Nairaland GeneralRe: 15 Most Mentioned Names/words On Nairaland by 2poundz(m): 8:46pm On Apr 19, 2016
Shuuu! Omo u get work oo. @Op :
PropertiesRe: VERY IMPORTANT: Mistakes Architects Make And Should Be Avoided by 2poundz(m):
I'm really impressed with all these observations. But frankly speaking, we have many quacks or CAD drafters whom ddnt go to school of Architecture @ol or have little/No experience. More so, i feel clients have a lot to contribute in this aspect too, because they always want anything CHEAP without considering the consequences, So they end up falling into wrong hands who are mere CAD DRAFTERS. Our building agencies don't do their homework as well, because there are ethics in the building industry too. I can't imagine them (building agencies) approving a design without proper check on all the necessary requirements.
My advice are these:
1. Clients should check for architects portfolio before assigning him to design.
2. Every site has its unique features, some clients are fund of buying designs from clients or quacks without knowing their site analysis. Instead of inviting an Architect to design.
3. Architects should get a brief from client, study it well to know if all will fit in the site.
4. Set backs should be provided, depending on the building agency requirements.
5. Building Agencies should check drawings before approval..........
...............
AutosRe: *toks 407 Saloon Car by 2poundz(m): 2:13am On Apr 16, 2016
I'v seen this car @ MTD Junction opposite Yusad. How much can i get a neat 307 or 206 (auto). Thnx!
CrimeRe: Secondary School Student, Stabbed Friend To Death Over Girlfriend In Kano by 2poundz(m): 8:36pm On Jan 21, 2016
End time Love.
CelebritiesRe: ★ Tuface Idibia Finally Breaks Silence On The Dammy Krane And Wizkid Fight by 2poundz(m): 8:35pm On Jan 21, 2016
Na people wey chop belle full dey fight. SMH!
FashionRe: Am Confused! Is This A Girl OR A Boy? by 2poundz(m): 7:12pm On Jan 13, 2016
She is a Boy.
Christianity EtcRe: #differences Between Boko Haram And Islam by 2poundz(m): 12:28am On Dec 20, 2015
Ameen
ogahlouiskid18:
1) ISLAM: There is no compulsion in religion.
BOKO HARAM: Everyone must adhere to our
ways else…
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2) ISLAM: Love all and be just to all regardless
of religion.
BOKO HARAM: If you are not with us you are
against us.

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3) ISLAM: Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) lived with
peaceful Christians and Jews as his neighbours.
BOKO HARAM: All non-Muslims mustleave the
North.

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4) ISLAM: You are only permitted toprotect
yourselves when you are attacked first. And you
should retaliate justly but when u gain an upper
hand, u shld better forgive and leave everything
to Allah.
BOKO HARAM: We attack all who stand in our
way.

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5) ISLAM: A true Muslim is one fromwhose
tongue and hands his community is safe.
BOKO HARAM: We do not care your religion.
Muslim or Christian we will crush any who stands
in our way.

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6) ISLAM: Killing of innocent souls is a great sin.
No human being has theright to take life except
through thedue process of the Law.

BOKO HARAM: Allah will understand.He will not
punish us.


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7) ISLAM: During war, non-combatant women
and children must not be touched. Talk less of
peace time

BOKO HARAM: We kill men, women and children.
ISLAM: At war time, all non-Muslims that run into
their places of worship ortheir homes will not be
harmed. Talk less of peace time.




BOKO HARAM: We bomb non-Muslims in their
places of worship. We also kill Muslims in
theirmosques and homes if we feel theyare a
threat to us.
So who really are these people withwarped
ideologies and intents?
I may not know what they are really out to
achieve but I do know for sure they do not
represent Islam. Rather, they are acting contrary
to it's most sublime teachings: peaceful
advocacy.
Of course, Islam strongly disapproves of
corruption and incapable leadership!
LET'S WORK TOGETHER, REGARDLESS OF
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TOMORROW FOR ALL. May Allah help us all
Art, Graphics & VideoRe: My Revit Collections... Hit Or Miss? (photo) by 2poundz(m): 9:40pm On Dec 18, 2015
aolumaxi:
no... studying Building Tech
ok great. Revit render is amazing bt if u want realistic rendering, u need additional plugins or a 3rd party app.

Art, Graphics & VideoRe: My Revit Collections... Hit Or Miss? (photo) by 2poundz(m): 6:06pm On Dec 18, 2015
Nice
work. Are you an Architect
CrimeRe: Three Konga Staff Members Arraigned To Court Over N9.6m Phone Theft by 2poundz(m): 5:53pm On Dec 18, 2015
Fast Money only leads you astray.
Foreign AffairsRe: President Yahya Jammeh Has Declared The Gambia An Islamic Republic by 2poundz(m): 12:54pm On Dec 15, 2015
huh
Jobs/VacanciesRe: The Advantage Of Having A Strong Personal Network When Job Hunting by 2poundz(m): 5:42pm On Dec 07, 2015
Nice cheesy
RomanceRe: Please Read Carefully.. by 2poundz(m): 11:44pm On Dec 01, 2015
Nice piece.
CelebritiesRe: Chicago Student Accepted In 26 Universities, Offered More Than $3 Million by 2poundz(m): 8:23pm On Jun 14, 2015
Dats a serious case.

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