lavylilly:

Let's me use this opportunity to thank the founder, but to also appeal to him to listen to yearning of his forumites.

On NL, there are people from all work of life in Nigeria and in diaspora. It was in Nairalamd I got my first foreign job but unfortunately most foreigners are running as a result of no innovation, imagine Gmail without innovation.
It's was in this same forum my neighbors used to get to Canada

There should be a thread/site specially for foreigners, however they should be verified and kindly always do farewell for your mods. I understand it's business no emotions are attached but the best ship are relationships.

There should be verification badges for members 10yrs and above because you cannot genuinely help people because of 1cent scammers

Delete, user with multiple accounts

Verification!
Seun this is apt

Awesome. More Grace n Wins...

ahnie:
I m addicted to nairaland.met only one great female nairalander,intereacted with few online....but as it stands now,I m not ready to meet any nairalander offline again.

But it's a great forum I must admit.

E remain to meet u o
You’re a sweet soul

damoobaba:


What do you mean? With so much to learn on youtube, Canva, Facebook, Twitter and many other websites. Na nairaland you learn pass?

I've made quite some bucks from doing transactions on this forum, so that's the only type of knowledge that counts to me!

Happy anniversary,keep soaring higher

otokx:


Been here since 2005, congratulations Nairaland, it can only get better.

September 2005 here.

Dem suppose give us medal

Congratulations!

texazzpete:


September 2005 here.

Dem suppose give us medal

Yes o

I don't read newspapers anymore. All the news I need is on nairaland. Kudos Mr Osewa.

Joshkid:
My whole life,Except GOOGLE I've never learnt more from a website than I have on NAIRALAND, God bless you SEUN OSEWA!!!

Same here...

Happy anniversary to Nairalander, 18years so Nairaland no have PVC

Wow, 18th?

Hatrick01:
Happy 18th anniversary of nairaland.

Trolls, will u pls atleast keep today holy?

Abi

I love this forum with all my love the founder should please send me account number lemme freaky freaky him small.

nnadychuks:
I joined Nairaland 2013, and I must say it has helped me in all aspects of my life. I’m grateful to God for letting me come across this platform.
Kudos to Seun

My brother no be only you

Happy anniversary Nairaland

Happy anniversary more grace

Seun Osewa!! Long ago, on Airtel page fot jokes

Happy Anniversary to Nairaland 🏆🏆

Nuhskhut:
Nairaland Forum was founded by Mr Oluwaseun Osewa,who was a student of the prestigious institution,Obafemi Awolowo University,where he studied electrical engineering in 1998, before he left to focus on the forum.

Since its onset,when the forum was created, on the march 10,2005 (it was whe the founder registered), it has been known to be of great place to learn things that revolve around humans.

Anyways for me,I found nairaland an amazing place to conect with people around the world.And I found it an interesting one.

What about you?
How well do you appreciate Nairaland and its founder?

I'm glad to be a pioneer member since 2005.

This forum shows the difference between a white man and a black man expecially Africans. Nairaland should be at least a billion $$ business by now but Africans will never stretch themselves beyond normal by going for excellence. Once it's making "good" money, that ends thinking outside the box for the business.

I have been here since 2011. I enjoyed the political debates leading up to the 2011 elections and decided to register. Also, it had and still has relevant information from a Nigerian perspective.

Notable feats between Nairaland and myself:

- Got by first job from here (hired by a Nairalander),
- Got tips on how to attain a first class, which I didn't attain sef.
- Got invaluable tips on self development. Frequent commentary on Nairaland aided my writing skills immensely. I recalled commenting almost every single day.
- Got to know my UTME aka JAMB result on Nairaland.
- Got the relevant information I used to japa
- Got paired with good folks who have remained buddies till date.
- and many more too numerous to mention.

Regarding tribal posts, that is APC's fault. Leading up to the 2015 elections, APC went the tribal way. She sponsored propagandists to smear Igbos and other ethnic minorities, most of whom supported Jonathan. In return, they had to retaliate which led to Nairaland being very tribal. Even those in the diaspora were at the forefront. One named Dayokanu now Ramduetter whatever or Eko Ile. Seun could not do anything because the bigwigs in the APC were/are Yorubas, and as a Yoruba lad, that would be an affront on his leaders. So he overlooked. What he did was appointing mods from the two ethnic groups, who then push posts smearing the other ethnic group to the front page.

Additionally, he was threatened by islamists to reduce what they called "anti-Islam" posts on Nairaland. What they didn't say was that "anti-Islam" posts became rife because of the atrocities by Boko Haram. It's why the Islam section has a pre-warning before you comment. Unfortunately, he didn't replicate the same for Christians since he's an atheist. Funny enough, his father is a pastor (owner of Ambassadors College in Ogun aka Cowbellpedia Mathematics regulars).

Recently, he has been bromancing with El-Rufai. Just like his buddy Mark Essien (Seun once invited Mark for AMA session years back). An example is how the posts smearing David Hundeyin graced the front page but David's rebuttal wasn't. El-Rufai and David are sworn enemies. So we might begin to see less posts about the slaughtering of Christians in Northern Nigeria. Who knows? 🤷🏿‍♂️

In summary, Nairaland will still remain Nigeria's most visited forum or social media website owned by a Nigerian by any measure because there is no competitor that comes close. The website contains invaluable information from a Nigerian perspective. That is her selling and strongest point.

TheFreshVanilla:
This forum shows the difference between a white man and a black man expecially Africans. Nairaland should be at least a billion $$ business by now but Africans will never stretch themselves beyond normal by going for excellence. Once it's making "good" money, that ends thinking outside the box for the business.

Seun is like the founder of Craigslist. Craigslist was founded before Shopify or few years after Amazon, yet the owner and present CEO (who was an early member) have remained very private. The website is still very bland but easy to navigate. That has been Nairaland's strength, at least during the 2000s - 2015 when less sophisticated phones were prevalent. Maybe in the next few years when those Symbian phones stop reigning or aren't prevalent, more features will be introduced. But then, it's the founder's nature.

God1000:
Nice one, I celebrate seun for creating such an amazing forum, he's also a very good Nigerian.

creating a forum where one can see the most backward thinking Nigerians in real time.

18 years no growth, just like Nigeria. Tufia

Happy Anniversary Nairaland and kudos to Seun.

Congrats NAIRALAND!, and same goes to me as I have been here over 17yrs too and still counting.

Nuhskhut:
Nairaland Forum was founded by Mr Oluwaseun Osewa,who was a student of the prestigious institution,Obafemi Awolowo University,where he studied electrical engineering in 1998, before he left to focus on the forum.

Since its onset,when the forum was created, on the march 10,2005 (it was whe the founder registered), it has been known to be of great place to learn things that revolve around humans.

Anyways for me,I found nairaland an amazing place to conect with people around the world.And I found it an interesting one.

What about you?
How well do you appreciate Nairaland and its founder?

I joined nairaland 3 years after it was created.

I try.

I was first introduced to Nairaland that same year but becaame a registered member the following year...we deserve accolades too and appreciation gifts.

The simplest and efficient Nigerian owned wesite I have ever used, I love Nairaland...
As we celebrate the 18th Anniversary please think of adding more features and making
some improvement to the website.

Thanks to Oluwaseun Osewa

ahnie:
I m addicted to nairaland.met only one great female nairalander,intereacted with few online....but as it stands now,I m not ready to meet any nairalander offline again.

But it's a great forum I must admit.

i've you fùcked any nairalander

Happy anniversary! Joined Nairaland forum in 2013, and I can boldly say that I have learned a lot from here. Abeg make una reduce the tribal sentiment wey don too much for here, especially for this election cycles.

Som497:
WHAT HAPPENED TO LALA AND ISHILOVE BRO

ishilove, where the fùck are you? Come out of that movie thread now now before i woze you slap. Nasty gal