This month witnessed a lot of drama on the Nigerian web scene, a lot of activities on the political scene as Nigeria celebrated its 50^th Independence anniversary. That didn’t reflect much in the ranking of the sites(most activities happen on foreign social networking sites) except for saharareporters.com that was able to break into the top ten Nigerian sites.

While most people still consume news contents, couple of jobs sites gained significant traction. Naijahotjobs.com cemented  it stand on the top ten and nothing less than 8 jobs sites made our top fifty in September.  Exam and academic activities also saw good moves with Neco exam being the top search amongst others.

All in all, nairaland.com remains the indisputable number one and showing growing power having displaced Wikipedia to break the jinx of remaining in the top 9 (of all sites visited by Nigerians Yahoo, Facebook and Google included). It now stands at 8^th most visited site in Nigeria, behind windows live.

Gtbank.com and sunnewsonline.com dropped 3 places but still in the top ten, as saharareporter.com entered the elite sites, nigeriagalleria.com also came back to lock it down on the tenth spot.

View this month’s table here.

Top Ten

1. nairaland.com
2. punchng.com
3. nigerianbestforum.com
4. naijahotjobs.com
5. 234next.com
6. vanguardngr.com
7. gtbank.com
8. sunnewsonline.com
9. nigeriagalleria.com
10. 10. Saharareporters.com

The Movers

• kwarapolytechnic.com +57
• goodlife.com.ng +49
• kalahari.com.ng +46
• Bellanaija.com +34
• flyaero.com +21

The Shakers

• compassnews.net -18
• nigeriang.com -12
• multilinks.com -11
• unilag.edu.ng -11
• smslive247.com -5

Debutants

• dragnetnigeria.com
• enownow.com

Rebounds

• goodlife.com.ng

Trends

The political scene is heating up; top Nigerian politicians are beginning to engage Nigerians via the internet by opening social media accounts. Leading the pack is President Jonathan followed by Fashola, Lagos state Governor. The world focused on Nigeria during the anniversary day as CNN and BBC engaged Nigerian bloggers and activist online.

Social media is beginning to set the pace of impact of the internet, given its ability to cause social and impactful change in the country. The president’s declaration on Facebook to contest the 2011 election is a case so significant that it made headline in local and international media.

We expect more spending from the politicians in the coming months and more user participation in the affairs of the country. A tech meetup has also been scheduled to take place with top Nigeria technology people willing to brainstorm on how to better use technology/internet to help the country conduct a free and fair election.

This is just the beginning…