FULL NAMES: Oluwaseun Osewa


DATE OF BIRTH: 17th July, 1982


OCCUPATION: Webmaster,Site Owner And Business Man


NET WORTH: Nairaland.com ranked to be worth $ 8,737,200.00 {N 1,602,839,340.00} by Page ranker


MARITAL STATUS: Not Married


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.


Seun once aspired to be a movie producer but never was, may be he is going start in future.
Some people do think seun is a (born again christian) because of some of his gentle gentle pretense but he is totally not. It looks like he is a great fan of actress tonto dikeh has he get involved with posts related to her often on Nairaland.
He is also a great fan of a popular tv series GAME OF THRONES.


AWARDS AND ENDORSEMENTS
Nominated for few awards
NO DEAL


RUMORS AND SCANDALS
He was rumored to have been involved with a criminal named Seun Noibi back then in 2011 when sahara reporters published the news..
Was said to have been uncool with one of his most hardworking mods on nairaland ever which are Sexkilz and Ogugua as he was said to have been unappreciative of their free services for Nairaland.


Source: http://howng.com/nairaland-owner-seun-osewa-full-biographylife-and-net-worth/amp/

CC; Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44...

I think he deserves some accolades

But Seun why you nor won marry naaa, abi prick de pain u

Incase contact me for herbs

Waka well oh , make dem Bobrisky and Derenle nor go kidnap u oh

More pictures...

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See seun o

Handsome nigga

Dear nairalanders, this is very inspirational. Never give up on your dreams. Keeping working at it even in the face of complicated challenges till you get results.

Seun failed several times to get it right, but he learned from his mistakes and eventually got it right.

Thanks a million Seun Osewa for making us believe we can achieve it if only we can desire it and believe in ourselves. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD.

plzzz is my eye seeing double ..som1 shld write dats amount out in capital letter "NET WORTH: Nairaland.com ranked to be worth $
8,737,200.00 {N 1,602,839,340.00} by Page ranker".. . .

Seun no go even comment

INTERESTING

Tremendously Amazing
Keep it up Brov

Thumbs up

Why are all these pictures blurred like they were all taken in 1846?
Hes a made nigga and low-key too.

Keep it up.

See research work!

Give this lucky nigger some accolades!

Kudos to the guy. Not easy standing out.

Quite inspirational, Hmmmmmm

profmsboi:
More pictures...

OShepherd:
Quite inspirational, Hmmmmmm

Thanks Man

Just want to add a bit.

Seun is an atheist, obviously from his comments here on nairaland. His parents are the owners of Ambassadors School in Ogun, the School that won cowbellpedia competition in 2016. His parents are academicians and are born again Christians. His brother is one of the maths teacher that prepared the students for the cowbellpedia competition. His is a family of intellectuals.

According to one of his comments here on nairaland, his parents and siblings are Christians but he choose different and his parents let him be because from a very young age, he was very inquisitive and questions lot of things including most of the beliefs of Christianity. In order for him not to influence his siblings, his parents choose to let him take to his own path in respect of not believing in God or anything religion. I guess his quest for knowledge has lead him thus far, though I still pray for him to he give God a chance to prove himself in his life.

Well done to Oga Seun and the nairaland community.

Nice

Waoh!

Low profile life of a high profile personality.


Seun must be a lazy youth for turning down aso rock invitation for recognition

This is serious! So that's how Seun looks?
He's actually quite young o
But wait, these pictures look like the ones taken in the Nineties.
I reserve my comment until I see a current photograph of him.
He can't hide forever joor.

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Roh50:
Just want to add a bit.

Seun is an atheist, obviously from his comments here on nairaland. His parents are the owners of Ambassadors School in Ogun, the School that won cowbellpedia competition in 2016. His parents are academicians and are born again Christians. His brother is one of the maths teacher that prepared the students for the cowbellpedia competition. His is a family of intellectuals.

According to one of his comments here on nairaland, his parents and siblings are Christians but he choose different and his parents let him be because from a very young age, he was very inquisitive and questions lot of things including most of the beliefs of Christianity. In order for him not to influence his siblings, his parents choose to let him take to his own path in respect of not believing in God or anything religion. I guess his quest for knowledge has lead him thus far, though I still pray for him to he give God a chance to prove himself in his life.

Well done to Oga Seun and the nairaland community.

I know this man.

I know his parents and his siblings very well..

His dad and my dad are close friends. Mummy and daddy Osewa are religious people, I don't know why he chose such rubbish lifestyle..

I'm an alumni of The Ambassadors college in Oju-Ore, Ota. His mum taught us the way of the Lord. They will be very disappointed in his lifestyle.

When we were little, his parents and my dad do go to a gathering of religious people they call "Gideons meeting".. Seun, oya come and deny..

Lol, I don't want to talk much.

His brother is one Maths guru tho...

Hmmmm

Wow!
So, this is the Seun, I've been hearing about

TalabiAudu:



I know this man.

I know his parents and his siblings very well..

His dad and my dad are close friends. Mummy and daddy Osewa are religious people, I don't know why he chose such rubbish lifestyle..

I'm an alumni of The Ambassadors college in Oju-Ore, Ota. His mum taught us the way of the Lord. They will be very disappointed in his lifestyle.

When we were little, his parents and my dad do go to a gathering of religious people they call "Gideons meeting".. Seun, oya come and deny..

Lol, I don't want to talk much.

His brother is one Maths guru tho...

You refer to someone's calculated choice in life as a rubbish lifestyle. That says alot about your own lifestyle.

I'm very very impressed by seun's lowkey lifestyle infact that's the way I would chose to live my life if I was a very successful person. I also understand that the nature of nairaland may have caused him to go underground for security reasons or so as not to compromise his intergrity. You know that as the owner of a very well populated online forum you possess so much power and you are capable to sway electoral votes through bais and even if you decide not to do this politician might want to lobby you or bribe you or coerce you and if you refuse, things might turn out violent so it's actually better to be low key.

My only issue with seun is that he has refused to upgrade nairaland in some required areas, I don't know if he has given up on this dream or he is just complacent with the way things are. I understand some features like the low quality graphics kind of are necessary because if nairaland required alot of MB to view the participants will reduce. But in this age of accelerated mobile pages he could do more about the graphics and also more about the android app. Seun don't give up on this project, you can even extend it to africa. If it has become boring find another CEO for it.

Am inspired

Great CV...

Just love his focus and drive.

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Oga Seun Na fine guy

Wow! Very nice