Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile network operator, Etisalat may be experiencing a major DNS poisoning attack which redirects some websites to other websites, Techloy has learnt.

While Alexa rankings have been criticised for its inaccuracy, it still remains the most popular tool to monitor a site’s traffic health in Africa and has been regarded as the web industry’s de facto public resource for information about website’s statistics. Interestingly, Nairaland, which has been Nigeria’s most popular and visited website for several years, [...]

It might look like the ugliest web forum in the world, but, as of today, over 1 million people have registered on Nairaland, the largest website in Nigeria after its eight years of existence.

The site has been criticised for being late into the real online advertising game, being slow to adopt latest trends and being over reliant on Google Adsense over the past 7 years of its existence.

The most popular website in Nigeria, Nairaland has released details about its site’s traffic report for the first time ever which is quite revealing.

After about 20 months of launching, Baraza, Google’s Q&A service for Africa is a ghost town with less than 1,000 users and minimal user interaction and engagement.

Following the success of one of its online portals, NUR.KZ which was launched in March 2009, entered the top 10 most popular Internet resources by the summer of the same year and by July 2011 became the most visited portal in Kazakhstan, the company is now looking to replicate the same model in Nigeria.

Nairaland, the largest online forum in Nigeria has dropped off the top 10 websites in Nigeria for the first time, according to latest statistics from Alexa. The site which now ranks number 11 in Nigeria after being displaced by LinkedIn (ranked number 10) still maintains its position as 2nd most popular Nigerian site on Alexa. From [...]

Nairaland founder, Seun Osewa has officially launched an essay competition today that looks to reward the best essays on starting a chain of for-profit libraries in Nigeria. Essays will be judged based on the soundness of the business strategy and the winning essay will be the one which best demonstrates the ability and capacity to [...]

Last week, we asked our readers whether or not they would sell Nairaland, the most popular discussion site in Africa for $1 million. The survey was sequel to an unconfirmed report that MIH Internet Africa offered $1 million to buy Nairaland, which was rejected by the owner, Seun Osewa. As you can see from the [...]

In late March this year, we reported that Windows Phone 7 would be coming to Nigeria this summer, after Shina Oyetosho, Development Platform Evangelist at Microsoft Nigeria hinted this at the Bloggers’ Brunch. Well, it didn’t come as announced and anticipated. Oyetosho later revealed to TechLoy that Microsoft was hoping to launch it with Samsung devices, [...]

Nigeria has yet again disrupted the worldwide rankings of Opera Mini usage, as she now becomes the world’s 4th largest user of the Opera Mini browser, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report for June 2011. Barely three months ago, Nigeria became the 5th largest opera mini user in the world, according to [...]

We’ve learned from a reliable source that MIH Internet Africa, the owners of Dealfish and Kalahari in Nigeria made an offer to acquire a stake in Nairalist, but was rejected by founder, Seun Osewa. The deal, according to our source, would have fetched Nairalist close to $200,000 (about N30 million) last year. Our source also [...]

Nairaland, the largest online forum in Nigeria has lost its position as the most visited Nigerian site as Vanguard, a leading newspaper site becomes the number one Nigerian site. According to the latest Alexa Rankings, Vanguard displaced Nairaland to become the 8th most visited site in Nigeria just after Twitter. Nairaland, which has occupied the [...]

There are two things that you can’t take away from Nigerians: Facebook and News. If you give a Nigerian a mobile phone with internet access, he’ll most likely visit Facebook or search for news on Google. And just make your news site mobile-friendly, and they’ll show you love. That’s exactly what we can see from [...]