08 July 2009 Comments

Who Advised Punch News Paper to restrict its content?

Punch News Paper, a top Nigerian Media outfit has decided to restrict its web content to paid users. The Punch first launched the restriction policy on its WAP application, people were asked to go get scratch card from their sales outlet which are not available nationwide. As someone pointed out on Nairaland that; He’s been [...]

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07 July 2009 Comments

Most visited Nigerian Sites for July 2009

Site Ranking Nigeria Ranking Overall Moves Nigeria Move nairaland.com 14 1 4 1 sunnewsonline.com 18 2 1 1 naijahotjobs.com 22 3 -2 1 ngrguardiannews.com 23 4 0 2 thisdayonline.com 25 5 4 0 vanguardngr.com 27 6 2 2 punchng.com 36 7 -20 -6 nigerianbestforum.com 39 8 6 1 nigeriagalleria.com 44 9 41 11 mtnonline.com 47 [...]

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17 June 2009 Comments

VC4Africa.com partners Appafrica.org

Talking about funding for Tech-preneurs, its the engine room for sustainable idea to launch on the internet. We cannot underestimate the importance of finance on internet business; take a look at current internet giants now (Google, Yahoo, Facebook), most were funded by VCs and following suit in Africa, will help us grow faster. VC4Africa.com and [...]

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12 June 2009 Comments

Facebook continues to soar in Nigerian

As Facebook continues it stretch worldwide, it has continued to enjoy same growth in Nigeria. We reported recently about this growth earlier the year, since then Facebook as continued to soar. SNS=Social Networking Site On alexa.com, Facebook has replaced Google as the second most visited site in Nigerian. Personally, I use Facebook virtually everday and [...]

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12 June 2009 Comments

Most Visited Nigerian Sites for June

Site Ranking Nigerian Ranking Overall Moves Nigerian Move punchng.com 16 1 – - nairaland.com 18 2 -1 – sunnewsonline.com 19 3 9 +2 naijahotjobs.com 20 4 6 -1 thisdayonline.com 22 5 9 +2 ngrguardiannews.com 23 6 4 -2 vanguardngr.com 29 7 – -1 mtnonline.com 44 8 -7 – nigerianbestforum.com 45 9 4 +2 careersnigeria.com 46 [...]

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01 June 2009 Comments

Naijaborn.com Launched, Lagosians.com moved off Ning

First public beta of the much awaited naijaborn.com has just been released. Top African developers and entrepreneurs have been working tirelessly on this project. Naijaborn.com with the aim of bringing Nigerians together and celebrate the icons, was conceived by Francis Oghuma of Qubestreet (Nigeria and South Africa) and partnered by Mambe Nanaje of Afrovision Group [...]

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22 May 2009 Comments

Naijapals.com personality of the year

In the second edition of its annual award, “Naijapals.com Personality of the year”. The contestants have been trimmed to just 2 to make them the finalist for the award. Initially started with about 10 members selected based on their activities on the site. The contestants has been having a thrilling moment has the users are [...]

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21 May 2009 Comments

Digital Life style of Connected Nigerian

This initiative is a research work lead by ‘Gbenga Sesan to bring to fore the Internet Usage of Nigerian. A good initiative for us to have straight-from-the-field stats of how Nigerians use the internet. I will call this the “Weblifestyle of Nigerians”. This research is very important for Nigeria at this point in time given [...]

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21 May 2009 Comments

Lagosians.com hots up!

A Nigerian focused Social Networking Site (SNS) launched in February this year (2009). It has grown to membership strength of over 15,770 in less than 4 months. Based on Ning Social networking platform, it aimed to bring together Nigerians/Lagosians home and abroad. The founder Seye Ajagbe, has been a passionate Nigerian with focus on positive [...]

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08 May 2009 Comments

Most Visited Nigerian sites for the month of May

We have reviewed our ranking for the month of May and saw big surprises. Naijahotjobs.com that displaced nairaland.com last month to become Nigeria’s most visited website has lost its place to third place. Punchng.com rally over both nairaland.com and naijahotjobs.com to become Nigeria’s most visited site for this month. Obviously, the Ekiti election have something [...]

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