₦airaland Forum

Bini obokhian,I'm very much proud to see the Bini's here in Nairaland

Anyway i'm partly bini and partly igbo!

Once in Benin Agbor Road,Ikpoba hill Benin City,Edo state,Nigeria.

But presently out of the Country,  *i'm missing Benin City*


@omoge

u seem to be online in this thread.How re u doing?

Now i see your dwelling place is like u love this section of Nairaland

remember we have not finish our discussion on Romance section"

IBDat Attn : i need ur help

*just Coming in* Guy let's be fair here  

@fekuti

Biko Leave them alone abeg

Let focus on the topic and see how we can help the poster out of this mess!

@cute-ass

Wait! wait!! wait!!! Dear i Hold ur foot plz dont ignore me

@Omo Eko

Omo make u tell me wetin i dey na _{"See na Cute-ass is very angry with me"}

Biko help me beg her"

J-girl wat's "up long time no post" where have u been?

@Omo Eko

*laughing* Why na What have i done?

* * I'm sorry 4 calling ur friend a _bitch if that will make u feel better,

_{I never knew Cute-ass & Omo Eko were friends  *She bi wan put sand 4 my garri*}

but no way"Omo Eko i would say that again Ok

*Cheers*

Ok Sorry 4 calling you _{bitch but all girls re bitch}

mind you i didnt mean to hurt u afterall u started it all.

Hope you re not angry  with me pimkin.


@Omo Eko

Which one come be ur own inside "you don dey look 4 my trouble o"

@cute-ass  

Get ur Ass of the thread,you re the slowpoke if u dont know.

U think typing whole book will make u the best in NL u fail o

@fekuti

Guy i wonder O "Na Whole Book" i guess u read her last post teaser us

for no just cause!*angry* with the bitch.(cute-ass)

*yarwning * One thing abt u is that u talk to much why cant u just go straight to the point instead of typing too much words to confuse the guy,u didnt even ask urself if he guy will have time to read all this

_{biko try to summary ur words Ok}

Good Boy

*Sneezing* Oh Sorry i have a little fresh cold,So what did u say again:

PHEESAYOUR:
She cheated on me and i caught her, I told her it's over and we should part ways but she said she could die without me, pleading i shouldn't leave, Please ma bros and sis in DA haul. I think she will do something worse if i have her back because i don't know if she is sincere about this.

- first she cheat on you right an u let her go then why re u boring ourself about her?

its over BTW u and her calling her back will bring another disaster.

Hope you understand the simplicity of these content.

Chibuzor i suggest you help this guy instead of asking him such question'

i think this guy really need help

@topic

i refer you seek help from Seun,nairaland is not a small site as u think

ask him and he will tell you all he pass through to setup this site.

i hope this help

cheers.

Ok so tell something about ur love life?

Omo eko _{There is nothing called Love in my dictionary}

Really u mean u never fall inlove b4?

@Omo eko

don't tell me u re inlove with the Guy(poster)!



@Cute-ass

your word's show that you really inlove with him.

Omo Eko & Cute Ass i'm begining to suspect you guys

You self person no dey play with u.

wait a min what doing on here?

wow i never knew she love the song,anyway i happy 4 u,

Hey lander's the thread is open for us to interview the king of Nairaland

This was one of the past interview let start a new one with him now

One on One WIth the King:

interview : I am very excited and overjoyed just posting this interview with Seun- the Nairaland creator and administrator. Why? You may wonder. His story depicts a 24-year old Nigerian who decided to cause a change rather than being influenced by a society surrounded with all manners of issues. Seun has become an icon of “anything is possible if you believe”. I rubbed minds with him, on himself, his dreams, his popular site that registers more than 56,000 Nigerians and friends of Nigerians and on issues surrounding unemployment in Nigeria.  Please, read on

1.      May we know your full name?

ANSWER: Oluwaseun Osewa   


2.      May we meet you; primary, secondary, and university
background, where you come from, etc? ANSWER: I’m a capitalist, and I come from Nigeria.



3.      Would you say your educational background influenced your
present dispositions?

ANSWER: No.



4.      Who (anyone that influences you) would you regard as your
source of motivation?

ANSWER: Milton Friendman, the Nobel Prize winning economist. I admire his
well-researched views on the role of government, which is to maintain
law and order only.


5.      What inspires you?

ANSWER: A strong desire to be financially independent and achieve good things
that will affect millions of people and last even after I’ve died of
old age.



6.      When did the idea of Nairaland come to you?

ANSWER: I learnt that one could make money by starting a popular website and
placing adverts on it, but I couldn’t make my blog popular enough to
be profitable, so I decided to start various forums where people can
post on various topics that I have no personal interest in.

When the offtopic forum of my mobile phone forum proved popular, I
decided to start a new discussion forum named Nairaland which would
cover all topics that Nigerians care about.  I was able to get enough
traffic on this new forum to earn a decent income.   



7.      What challenges did you face and kindly give strategies
adopted to overcome such challenges?

ANSWER: Spam and scammers are a constant nuisance on the forum.  I try my best

7.      What challenges did you face and kindly give strategies
adopted to overcome such challenges?

ANSWER: Spam and scammers are a constant nuisance on the forum.  I try my best


to remove members who engage in such acts and their posts.  I also
have private messaging disabled so spamming and scamming can’t be done
covertly.

Well-intentioned members who ignore the rules of the forum are also a
problem.  I find that I have to ban them frequently to convince them
to either follow the rules or stay away.

The ‘best’ problem I experience as the administrator of Nairaland is
that sometimes, during peak periods, there’s so much traffic that my
web server can’t keep up.  This is very frustrating because it
prevents further growth of the Nairaland Forum.  After upgrading my
hosting plan once, I’ve resorted to constant modification of the
software behind the forum to make it fast enough to run under my
current hosting plan.

 

8.      Before Nairaland, what other projects have you undertaken?
Would you say they were successful?

ANSWER: All my business projects before Nairaland were failures, except the
one that became Nairaland.  My web hosting business failed after just
3 months because I ran out of money, while I couldn’t execute many
other projects I researched due to shyness and lack of capital.  My
blogs and the mobile phone forum that preceded Nairaland were
successful but not profitable.  However, it was on that foundation
that Nairaland was built.



9.      Would you say your passion and strength as a programmer
helped you create a world-class forum that Nigerians can be proud of?

ANSWER: All the programming I do today involves modification of PHP scripts
and SQL queries.  And you know what?  As a programmer, I looked down
on both languages and ignored them!  My programming experience wasn’t
very useful. Even if I wasn’t a programmer from the beginning, I’ll
have learnt just enough PHP and SQL to make Nairaland a reality.  My

determination was and is much more important.



10.  Nairaland has been a sort of refuge (information, knowledge
sharing, escapism, etc) to Nigerians especially Nigerians in diaspora.
Would you say you foresaw this when building this project?

ANSWER: Yes.  Before starting Nairaland, I noticed that other Nigerian
websites had more Nigerians abroad than Nigerians at home as members.

In fact, I sought to reverse this trend, and to a certain extent I
succeeded.  The country with the highest number of Nairaland visitors
at this time is Nigeria.  Earlier this year, it was the USA, as it is
for most Nigerian websites.



11.  I remember speaking with you five years ago and you spoke of
developing software that will beat Windows? Are you still holding that
vision?

ANSWER: No. It was a foolish vision. Linux has already beaten Windows and few
people care.




12.  I also remembered how much you loved Linux that you refused
to install Windows in you computer. Do you still have that passion for
Linux?

ANSWER: Even though I still use Linux from the command line on my web server,
my desktop operating system is Windows.  I want to experience the
Nairaland Forum the way others experience it, so when they have
problems I’ll be able to help them.




13.  What has been your driving force?

ANSWER: Survival, a strong desire for independence, and a desire to be influential.



14. The job situation in Nigeria is getting worse and worse?
Secondary School Students are dreaming of universities and avoiding
polytechnics. There is a great imbalance in the system. Jobs are few
compared with the job seekers. Would you advocate entrepreneurship?

I always tell job seekers to create their own jobs, because nobody
owes them a job.

“Look for a painful problem that others are facing, and then devise a
way to make people pay you for the solution. Look for problems that
don’t require much capital to solve. In a developing country like
Nigeria, there are so many problems waiting to be solved. One man’s
problem is another man’s profit! Competition is often weak which
means you’ll make a lot of money. So what are you waiting for?”

Unemployment is a problem of highly regulated and unionized countries
where job creation is made difficult by politicians and labor leaders.
Nigerians should not be talking about unemployment at all. There are
so many obvious opportunities around us waiting to be exploited.
Being jobless in Nigeria is a big shame indeed.

15. Taking Nigeria into consideration, you have been successful
as an entrepreneur. What secrets (strategy) would you share with
would-be entrepreneurs?

With only one success so far, I am yet to prove myself. If I am able
to start 2 or 3 other business projects and they succeed, then I will
feel confident enough to teach others how to succeed (I’m currently
looking into movie production).

However, one thing I know is that as a businessman, you have not
failed until you run out of capital or give up on your business.
Hence, one should be very careful not to spend money unecessarily.
And one should keep trying until one succeeds.

16. Just one word, phrase, clause, sentence for youths in Nigeria

Create your own job today.

17. What’s the address of your website?

www.nairaland.com

Feel free to ask the King more question!

All right reserve (c) 2007 nairaland

Omo Eko is Cute-ass ur friend?can u kindly introduce her to me plz

what kind of break my dear?i'm only trying to wish him the best of his search

Or re u The Muture mind woman he is looking for! _{just joking!}

by one idiot in this section he know himself

what this

Welcome cute-ass,we have a thread 4 u

check this out https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-56485.0.html

Hissing he think i have his time!

i see meaning that u love his meal so much and now u missing the roam

@mekoyo

Good one from you friend,u re the only best lander i have ever met

** more greese to ur elbow Mekoyo*****_{check my profile 4 new modification}

Is that all you miss? funny fella

take a look @ what the admin post and tell me what u think!

**imagine that**