Nairaland


Nairaland is an online community created by Seun Osewa in March 2005. It is targeted at Nigerians.

Rankings

Ranked number 790 in global internet traffic and engagement in late April 2020, Nairaland.com is the sixth most visited website in Nigeria, according to Alexa.com. It is the second most visited local website in Nigeria, only next to bet9ja.com, as of April 2020, according to the recent listing by IABC Africa. It currently has over 2.4 million registered users with over 5.5million topics created to date, this statistic suggests that a maximum 3% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland compared to Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users which corresponds to approximately 20% of the Internet population. Registration is only necessary for posting.

2014 down period

Following a successful hacking attempt, Nairaland went offline briefly on the 22 June 2014. The hackers were able to get access to the website's host server and backup, and maliciously deleted all its content. Three days later, it was back online after some data had been recovered from a remote backup. However, data from 10 January 2014 through the date of the attack was unrecovered. A good number of people lost their membership and had to re-register on the forum.