Hope I posted this in the right section.
I decided to make this thread for guest who usually visit here but ain't registered members yet.








Nairaland is a Nigerian English-language
internet forum and social networking website. Founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Seun Osewa on March 8, 2005, it is targeted primarily at
Nigerian domestic residents.

Type of site : Internet forum
Available in English
Headquarters Lagos , Nigeria
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) : Seun Osewa
URL : nairaland.com
IPv6 support No
Advertising Banner ads
Commercial Yes
Registration Optional [notes 1]
Users 2.58 million registered users (November 2020)
Launched March 8, 2005; 16 years ago
Current status Active.

Rankings
As of April 2020, Nairaland ranks as the 788th-most-visited website in the world and 6th most-visited website in Nigeria, according to
Alexa Internet , with 83.0% of its user base coming from Nigeria, followed by the United States at 4.3% and India at 3.8%. It is the second-most visited local website, next to
online bookmaker Bet9ja . [2][3]
It currently has over 2.64 million registered users with over 6.19 million topics created to date, and it is estimated that approximately 3% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland, compared to Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users, which corresponds to approximately 20% of the local Internet population. [4] Registration is only necessary for posting, commenting or liking posts.
2014 down period
On June 22, 2014, following a successful
hacking attempt, Nairaland went offline briefly. [5] The hackers were able to gain access to, and wipe the contents of, the website's host server and backup. Three days later, it was back online after some data had been recovered from a remote backup. However, user posts and registration data on or after January 10, 2014 was lost. Users with lost accounts were required to re-register. [6]
Notes
1. ^ Nairaland can be viewed without an account but registration is required to post, comment or like.
2. Nairaland do not allow multiple posts from their registered users like 3 to 5 posts within a space of 5 minutes in order to avoid spamming.

How to join Nairaland
1. make sure you have a valid email
2. login to nairaland.com and select join
3. submit you email in the space provide.
4. a link will be sent to your email. Go to your email and open the link to complete registration.
5. you will have to provide a password and moniker (more like the name you want to be referred to) .

NAIRALAND

The site is addictive ...walahi

Muyiwaipere:
The site is addictive ...walahi

Thoes pix remind of the good old days.
I join Nairaland because of text battle then when 2go was crashing…. since then NL is home

andyblinks05:
Hope I posted this in the right section.
I decided to make this thread for guest who usually visit here but ain't registered members yet.








Nairaland is a Nigerian English-language
internet forum and social networking website. Founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Seun Osewa on March 8, 2005, it is targeted primarily at
Nigerian domestic residents.

Type of site : Internet forum
Available in English
Headquarters Lagos , Nigeria
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) : Seun Osewa
URL : nairaland.com
IPv6 support No
Advertising Banner ads
Commercial Yes
Registration Optional [notes 1]
Users 2.58 million registered users (November 2020)
Launched March 8, 2005; 16 years ago
Current status Active.

Rankings
As of April 2020, Nairaland ranks as the 788th-most-visited website in the world and 6th most-visited website in Nigeria, according to
Alexa Internet , with 83.0% of its user base coming from Nigeria, followed by the United States at 4.3% and India at 3.8%. It is the second-most visited local website, next to
online bookmaker Bet9ja . [2][3]
It currently has over 2.64 million registered users with over 6.19 million topics created to date, and it is estimated that approximately 3% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland, compared to Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users, which corresponds to approximately 20% of the local Internet population. [4] Registration is only necessary for posting, commenting or liking posts.
2014 down period
On June 22, 2014, following a successful
hacking attempt, Nairaland went offline briefly. [5] The hackers were able to gain access to, and wipe the contents of, the website's host server and backup. Three days later, it was back online after some data had been recovered from a remote backup. However, user posts and registration data on or after January 10, 2014 was lost. Users with lost accounts were required to re-register. [6]
Notes
1. ^ Nairaland can be viewed without an account but registration is required to post, comment or like.
2. Nairaland do not allow multiple posts from their registered users like 3 to 5 posts within a space of 5 minutes in order to avoid spamming.

How to join Nairaland
1. make sure you have a valid email
2. login to nairaland.com and select join
3. submit you email in the space provide.
4. a link will be sent to your email. Go to your email and open the link to complete registration.
5. you will have to provide a password and moniker (more like the name you want to be referred to) .

Hurray