Nigeria's largest online forum is down!
Nairaland.com founder, Seun Osewa, is yet to offer an official statement about the situaton.
Millions of Nigerians the world over are still in shock and dismay as Nigeria's largest online indigenous forum, Nairaland.com, has gone offline, disappearing from the internet without an explanation or any reason offered.
Nairaland which is home to over 1,229,600 registered accounts (April 2014), and is ranked as the 7th most visited site in Nigeria (and the most visited indigenous site) according to Alexa.com, went offline on Sunday, 22 June 2014, leaving many users and advertisers concerned, and confused.
Nigeria reportedly has over 55 million Internet users, corresponding to 32.9% of the entire population. With Nairaland having a considerable but unconfirmed number of users based in diaspora, which 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.
No official word or statement has been released to explain the down time, but the situation which is in its fourth day running, has been slightly addressed on social media platform, twitter, by its founder, Seun Osewa.
The tech guru and entrepreneur who founded the platform in March 2005, took to twitter to address the issue yesterday, 3 days after the platform first went offline with the tweet below.
Without any official release, Osewa's tweets which have ranged from apologetic to cryptic and poetic have become more defeatist, giving no explanation about the cause of the Nairaland's downtime.
But late yesterday, Osewa revealed that the platform might take a week or more to come back into full functionality, saying that his team were going into a quiet period to attempt to bring it back into business.
Irrespective of its down time, Nairaland still continues to maintain its position on Alexa.
M Brothers Africa
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