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Here is our Domainking review, Gigalayer review, Smartweb review, and Qservers review.

Months ago, i emptied my heartfelt frustration about my useless experience with Whogohost in this indepth review.

In this post, I’ll be aggregating a pool of reviews from all over the internet customers have to say about their experience using Domainking, Gigalayer, Smartweb, and Qservers Nigerian hosting companies.

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Allow these Nigerians’ experiences to help you decide if these hosting companies are worth your time. Here we go:

Domainking review, Gigalayer review, Smartweb review, and Qservers review.

Domainking Review

By Ijezie Ikenna Emmanuel (2/5 rating)

Domainking.ng is a fraudulent web hosting company in Nigeria. They have dupped me of my money twice. Firstly, i made a payment of N3600 for one year shared web hosting. They claimed that they didn’t see my transaction and my money was gone.

Secondly, on another occasion, I made another payment of the same amount for another shared host service on domainking.ng They gave me the service and they suspended it before 48 hours.

They don’t even have a physical address or phone number. Don’t fall victim like i did. Be careful

By Olawale Daniel (2/5 rating)

DomainKing are cheats! The reviews I have been seeing so far online are all lies! They just ripped me off my money and today marks the fourth day I have been messaging them with no one to respond. Is this what you call good customer support?

All the customer support options are dead including the in-house support ticket. They are also totally unactive on social media and it seems nobody is listening at all to customer but just for them to run series of ads to get more people to purchase without delivering the service.

This email support@domainking.ng is totally robot-friendly and no one will reply from it.

Please stay away from them or else, you will feel the pain I am feeling with this company…I just got to know they are not even domiciled in Nigeria but from India which is really bad and I will soon file a report to the federal government about them.

Imagine, if it takes a company 48-72 hours to reply customer support tickets, what is now the fate of such client in the face of downtime or issues?

By Moxie (1.0 rating)

Indeed they are the worst! I have been experiencing some down time on my website for some time now. My business is gone. Clients are on my neck. To make matter worse non of their support is responding.

What hosting should i use then?

Forget Nigerian hosting companies. They are pretty much useless. I use Siteground to host this site and here are a few benefits i enjoy using Siteground:

• Ridiculously fast load time (great for SEO).
• 60 seconds customer service response time (I’m not kidding).
• Automatic & free HTTPS install and updates.
• Dedicated WordPress hosting
• 100% uptime assurance (in over a year, my website has not gone offline once!).
• 30 day money back guarantee if you buy and later change your mind.

Host with Siteground right now and get a crazy discount on your first year when you purchase through this unique link.

Price: $3.95/month

Click here to host with Siteground.

Gigalayer Review

By Mark Holden (2.5/5 rating)

They don’t allow for month-to-month pricing. It means one cannot even say they’ll just try one month and test their services first. They literally force you to purchase a full year or more. They also don’t have live chat function on their website. That’s not very professional.

By Doris. U (2.0/5 rating)

I bought Gigalayer, hosting package of N20,000 on 1st December 2018, after I conected my new site which took some time to come live, i started having connection issues with the hosting, my site was always showing “ERROR IN NETWORK CONNECTION”.

I contacted their support several times, every day, after several days and there were failed attempts to fix the error, they migrated me to another hosting package, the connection was back for only a day and resumed the same issue, meanwhile is been up to 2 weeks, 2 weeks of no work on my new site having to wait for their silly support.

I became tired and asked for a refund only for them to call and promise tecnical fix, I was migrated to another package again but the trouble continued. And this was not the only issue, the package I bought had an upload space which couldn’t allow my theme to upload, it took 10 GOOD DAYS FOR THEM TO FIX THIS! SO FRUSTRATING!

By sebastine EDMUND (1.5/5 rating)

Imagine my website being down for 1 week…they deleted my databse and redirected my website to another site… RUN WITH YOUR MONEY, DON’T USE THEM.

What hosting should i use then?

Forget Nigerian hosting companies. They are pretty much useless. I’ve been using Bluehost to host my digital marketing company website for the oast 3 years without complain. Here are a few benefits i enjoy using Bluehost:

• Ridiculously fast load time (great for SEO).
• 10/10 rating in customer support.
• Free domain name!
• Free SSL certificate
• Dedicated WordPress hosting
• 99.97% uptime guarantee.
• Free site builder
• One click WordPress install with regular updates.

Host your website with Blue Host right now and get a crazy discount on your first year when you purchase through this unique link.

Price: $2.95/month

Click here to host with Blue Host.

Smartweb Review

By Joshua Bulus (2/5 rating)

If only the actual service (web hosting) was as reliable as their PR. The one thing they still haven’t been able to get right is the actual service, which is supposed to be the core of their business – the web hosting.

Their servers are a joke, to say the least. I don’t imagine that any real business who relies on website uptime will have their website on Smartweb’s crappy servers… so if you are looking for a cheap joke of a server, enjoy.

By Obasi Miracle (2.1/5 rating)

One annoying difficulty I had was navigating within my account dashboard after logging in as the site keeps on signing me out every now and then , At this point I was frustrated ‘cos I have to log in over and over again without being re-directed to where I left off before the log in issues.

Poor Customer Support : This was a total turn off for me initially when I started using their services till I learnt to get used to it, at times support tickets take like one whole week to get a cold reply that depicts inefficiency and unprofessionalism.

What hosting should i use then?

Forget Nigerian hosting companies. They are pretty much useless. I’ve been using Bluehost to host my digital marketing company website for the oast 3 years without complain. Here are a few benefits i enjoy using Bluehost:

• Ridiculously fast load time (great for SEO).
• 10/10 rating in customer support.
• Free domain name!
• Free SSL certificate
• Dedicated WordPress hosting
• 99.97% uptime guarantee.
• Free site builder
• One click WordPress install with regular updates.

Host your website with Blue Host right now and get a crazy discount on your first year when you purchase through this unique link.

Price: $2.95/month

Click here to host with Blue Host.

Qservers Review

By Victor Akan (1/5 rating)

Qservers hosting service is wack!
If you have a well to do site or blog, please I’m begging you, don’t host your domain with Qservers. They suspend accounts anyhow and you won’t be able to have access to your site again.

By Richard Juwah (1/5 rating)

Qservers was the first hosting company i ever used. Back then 2016, i was initially delighted to use it because i had had issues sending payment for foreign hosts whereas these guys accepted bank transfer. What would follow next was unexpected.

Their client services was so unresponsive. The website was slow AF! I kept getting these regular downtimes like twice a month and my blog would be out over night.

Save to say, once my one year plan elapsed, i disappeared at once with immediate alacrity.

What hosting should i use then?

Forget Nigerian hosting companies. They are pretty much useless. I use Siteground to host this site and here are a few benefits i enjoy using Siteground:

• Ridiculously fast load time (great for SEO).
• 60 seconds customer service response time (I’m not kidding).
• Automatic & free HTTPS install and updates.
• Dedicated WordPress hosting
• 100% uptime assurance (in over a year, my website has not gone offline once!).
• 30 day money back guarantee if you buy and later change your mind.

Host with Siteground right now and get a crazy discount on your first year when you purchase through this unique link.

Price: $3.95/month

Click here to host with Siteground.

I hope this review of Domainking, Gigalayer, Smartweb, and Qservers have really helped you choose what hosting service will serve you best. Yes, granted, Nigerian hosting companies are far cheaper than their foreign counterparts.

In my experience I’ve realised that its not everything that is cheap that serves you best. You may pay less now but when all the troubles begin to surface, you’ll wish you simply hosted your website with either Siteground or Blue Host. They’re the best in the world.

You won’t value peace of mind now until you understand what a terrible business decision it is to host your site on any Nigerian hosting platform.

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My Whogohost Review goes like this…

For those who don’t know, Whogohost, it’s a Web hosting company in Nigeria founded by one of the co founders of Jobber man (name). Apparently, a lot of Nigerians believe it’s probably the best Nigerian website hosting company, if only they knew better…

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Back in 2016, I’d just left one terrible Nigerian Web host, Qservers and based on several recommendations, chose Whogohost.

I subscribed for a year as I usually do to effectively manage my risk and everything was fine.

It wasn’t great but it was just fine, save for several times my website would suddenly tell me it couldn’t be reached for a few seconds when I tried to install a plugin…or the fact that their servers are as slow AF!

If you’re into SEO like me, you’d know that your hosting company plays a big role in how fast your website loads, forget using caching plugins or Genesis Framework themes.

If the core framework of your website, which is the server, is a Tortoise, you ain’t going anywhere my brother. You can place a Tortoise on a Thread mill to try to make it run fast but in the end,  it’s still a miserable Tortoise.

That’s why i eventually switched to Bluehost and since then, my site now loads 5x faster and my SEO traffic jumped from 8,000 visits a month to over 25,000! You should give them a try for just one year and see exactly what i’m talking about.

They’re currently doing a promo so you can try their smallest plan for  $7.99 $2.75/month (over 50% off!) using this special link. Thank me later. The promo will end by month end so hurry while the price is still cheap.

Anyway, back to my tragic story with Whogohost, I was prepared to manage it regardless. After all, it was about N8,500 a year and affordable. It was what my budget could cater for at the moment.

Then it happened!

You know, when Akin Alabi teaches that business must never go on break (to much criticism by people), I have to say, the man makes a strong point.

From about the 4th week of December 2018, it was just as if the company had shut it’s doors and gone for the Holidays.

My 1 year was coming to an end on the 28th and I never once got a notice. I kept quiet. We crossed into 2019, no prompt. Website still online. I kept quiet watching them and wondering what promo they were cooking.

Then just like sorcery, on the 1st of January, my website went offline.

Did I exhaust my bandwidth? Impossible because this was the beginning of month. Bandwidths renewed every 1st.

Had they finally caught on to my supposed expired hosting? Nope. My Dashboard on their site said my site was still running. Then WTF was happening?

I quickly whipped out my Gmail and being as polite as I could possibly be, kindly asked them to fix it.

They replied that they were having some technical issues that I should bear with them…4 days after.

Around this time, I had begun considering finally switching to a foreign hosting company and Bluehost caught my attention because of their incredible website speed.

By about the 9th of January, I had already bought a hosting package on Bluehost.com for as much as 60% off using this link.

I moved my domain name, Richeetech.com.ng and was about to move my database of files and posts when Whogohost gave me a blow below the belt.

Whogohost Review: My Whogohost Cpanel wahala.

Can you believe that these incompetent people had not one single backup of my site on my Cpanel? Plus, I was barred from generating and downloading any, with errors springing up every time I tried. My over 100 post, one full year’s work…gone!

Immediately, I decided I would do a whogohost review once I got this site back on so I can stop you from making the mistake I made.

In fact mine was small. Imagine if you had databases of information that was vital to the very existence of your business, say your eCommerce store inventory, or your Hotel inventory if you were a Hotel booking company and it just downright disappeared.

No apologies from the company crossed my mail, no refunds, nothing till today. Just solid, still silence from their end.

My Bluehost experience

 

Superb Customer service:

First of all, I want to thank the Bluehost customer service team in person. While moving my site (one of the scariest things I’ve ever done online), I cannot express the gratitude I have for their live chat guys.

I got connected in one minute tops and they guided me through the entire process seamlessly. Without them, I’d have quit!

Superb Speed:

I told you earlier in this Whogohost Review that Whogohost made my site very very slow. Anytime I tried page speed tests, I’d come in anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds load time (the industry standard is 3-5 seconds). My bounce rate was above 80% and time on site was not even up to 40 seconds.

Since moving to Bluehost, my site speed loads at 5 seconds max (and I’m not even using a fast theme). Bounce rate dropped to 30% and time on site increased ridiculously. Google is taking notes and my SEO is better for it.

Automatic HTTPS and lots more:

Nigerian Web hosting companies will claim to give you free HTTPS but 80% of us have no clue how to set it up. It’s a pretty technically daunting task. And in their minds, they’ve given us https encryption.

My friend and dear reader, the moment I transferred my website to Bluehost, it automatically switched all my pages to HTTPS! No need for any plugin, one time instant activation. Once again, Google is taking notes and my SEO is better for it.

Conclusion

The trick these Nigerian hosts use to capture you is to tell you you’re paying just N300 a month to host. Truth is, in this game, you truly get exactly what you pay for. You pay rubbish money and you get rubbish results. Don’t do it.

Foreign hosts are by comparison, more expensive given the dollar equivalent to Naira. But trust me, the peace of mind you’ll get in exchange is priceless!

And because of this, Bluehost is giving you over 60% off your hosting package as long as you buy through this promo link for  $7.99 $2.75/month! The promo will end by month end so hurry while the price is still cheap.

And to show how committed I am to saving all of you from the mistake that is Nigerian hosts, through this Whogohost review, I’m willing to take care of all hosting setup and transfers for free as long as you purchase your hosting plan using this unique link. If you’re  interested, please contact me right now and let’s talk business.

There it is guys. I hope this Whogohost Review was enough to convince you and not confuse you as to why Siteground hosting is undoubtedly a far better choice than Whogohost, Or any other hosting company out there.

They didn’t tell me. I’m speaking from experience.

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The top Tech Blogs In Nigeria 2019 winners list is finally out!

Every year begining from 2019, Richeetech via the Richeetech Blog Awards draws up a list of the best tech blogs in Nigeria who are making a difference in the Nigerian blogosphere.

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This year’s list however has a twist to it: the addition of two new sub categories for Best Female Tech Bloggers/Blogs and Tech Influencers in Nigeria.

Tech Blogs In Nigeria 2019: The Criteria

This year, we received more than 300 submissions for the awards. After about a week plus of deliberating, we finally selected the winners.

The criteria we used in selecting this list varies from category to category. The first category is comprised of well known technology blogs by their National Alexa Rankings, the female category is comprised of the most popular female owned tech blogs also by their National Alexa Ranking while the last category highlights the next to dominate and fast rising tech blogs.

The list of winners

Without further ado, we want to congratulate the top contenders that made it to this year’s list:

Category for Top Tech Influencers in Nigeria

These comprise of the best of the best. They typically command anything from half a million visits and above on a monthly basis. They influence and lead discussions around technology in the country. In no particular order, this award goes to:

• Techpoint Africa
• Naijatechguide
• Techcabal
• Technology Times
• Techloy
• Oscarmini
• Techslize
• Naijaandroidarena
• Tech Trends
• Ogbonge Blog
• Phone Corridor
• Doncaprio
• Mobility Arena
• Techviews
• Techeconomy
• Howtotechnaija

If your blog appears here, show off your achievement to your visitors and competitors alike by embedding your award badge into a prominent place on your website (footer, sidebar, About page, Home page etc) by copying and pasting the below code in your html or text editor

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Category for the Best Tech Blogs in Nigeria

This category as said earlier is comprised of those technology blogs that are next in line to achieve mainstream recognition; the future Techpoints and Techcabals of Nigeria.

They have displayed promising traffic growth over the years and typically command anything from 50,000 to 500,000 visits a month. This award goes to:

• Lowkeytech
• Nairatips
• Naira Technology
• Naijnaira
• TechNext
• Telcoinsider
• Technigeria
• All Tech Ng
• Information Stash
• Technews.com.ng
• TechCultureNg
• Tech Africa
• Technewshub
• Technopreneur.com.ng
• Naijatechguy
• Techisp
• Techcity
• Techrez
• Bosstechy

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Category for Best Female Tech Bloggers & blogs in Nigeria

These are the pioneers of female technology blogging in our Nation. They not only survive in a male dominated niche but they also thrive. They deserve to be recognised. This award goes to:

• Misstechy
• Girls in Tech Nigeria
• Women in Technology
• High Tech Women

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We want to specially congratulate all our winners. Keep up the good work and see you next year.

Meanwhile, if there’s any tech blog you believe should have made this list, kindly comment below.

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We’re back, and you wouldn’t believe what happened to us.

On the 1st of January 2019, Richeetech went offline.

It was the peak of the new year and enjoyment was still in the air. I was over due on my Whogohost hosting by just 3 days but I had not gotten any notifications. This couldn’t have been the cause of the down time.

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Nevertheless, I sent their customer care a mail to fix it, trying to sound as polite as I could possibly be. They replied that they were experiencing some technical issues and I should be patient with them.

Mind you, I sent the mail on the 1st of January, they replied on the 6th. After their plea, one day passed. Two days, three days….(WTF!)

I was furious! What a way to start the new year! I hadn’t had any serious issues with Whogohost for a whole year and now this?

Quickly I made some research on my friend’s tech blog and settled on Bluehost hosting.

I transferred my domain to Bluehost and when it came to transferring my database of posts, plugins and the very soul of Richeetech, just guess what happened…

It was gone.

Not a trace. I didn’t find anything stored. It was as if they’d somehow deleted my entire site by mistake or intentionally for some twisted reason I still don’t get.

Then I remembered a similar story I once read like 3 years ago somewhere, perhaps on Nairaland, of a guy who also lost his entire database to the bastards.

Lesson learnt

Everything happens for a reason i believe. I can choose to go and cry in one corner for my over 100 posts and 1 whole year of work…or I can learn from the terrible experience with Nigerian web hosting companies and come back stronger. I learnt two lessons my dear readers:

1. Nigerian hosting companies (like Whogohost and Qservers both I’ve used) are useless. I will never use them again.

2. Always always always backup your website at least once monthly and everytime you want to make a technical change that can potentially break your site. Don’t rely on automatic backups, whoever your hosting company is.

I’ve learnt my lesson.

 

And BTW, moving to Bluehost has been just amazing! So far so good, customer care has been fantastic (they reply live chat in seconds!), I got a bunch of freebies and the hosting is super fast!

Right off the bat, I recommend it to everyone serious about starting a new website or transferring one. And oh…I almost forgot to mention that I got about 60% off when I used this link (if you’re buying buy now because the promo will expire by this month end and the price will double).

I’ll be writing a full review of my experience with this new foreign hosting company in a subsequent post but for now…we’re back for good!

Happy new year!

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I began Richeetech on January the 1st of 2018 with the vision of publishing interesting, viral tech content that Nigerian and African millennials would love, a haven away from the boring tech news we’re currently accustomed to.

Think of it like a Buzzfeed or OMGVoice, only this time, it’s tech and not general viral content. The closest resemblance to it is Misstechy (and even she lately has begun to join the boring crowd. No offence Tobi.).

Anyway, 2018 is over and I wanted to use this opportunity to recap on the year in review. I’ll be telling you guys about our successes and failures this past year as well as our plans for 2019.

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Traffic

Richeetech brought in a total of 30,000+ visitors with pageviews of 56,000. Our average time on site was 1 minute 4 seconds while our bounce rate was good at 56%.

Of this 30k visitors, a little over 28,000 came directly to our site while 1,034 visitors came through search engines. I have our partnership deals with several international Domain registrars to thank for our massive direct visitors.

Engagements

We published a total of 101 posts in 2018. And while you may think this isn’t an impressive feat, remember that Richeetech publishes basically only evergreen content.

The fact that we don’t publish breaking tech news is reason for the number of articles. Plus when you combine blogging with keeping a full time job on the side, you pretty much start to see how little time one has to post tons of blog posts.

We have an average of 5,000 social shares per post so to get our total estimated shares for the entire year, multiplying that by our 100 posts put our social shares for the year at a little over 500k social shares, 70% of that from Facebook.

As for comments on posts, we got a total of 126 comments the entire year (if you want to leave out all the spam comments I had to flush down the toilet).

Earnings

Currently, Richeetech monetizes through sponsored content and most recently, AdSense ads. In total we earned approximately N165,000 predominantly from sponsored posts. And while our AdSense revenue is still growing, its nowhere close to being a stream of income just yet.

My lessons

Here’s what I learnt this past year while building this media tech company for the African millennial:

1. Keyword competition research:

I understood the importance of proper, in depth keyword competition research. Backlinks are great but I’ve seen sites pull in hundreds of thousands of search traffic from just a few hundred to thousands of backlinks.

How manage? Their keyword research was on point. The best tool to use for this is something called KWFinder.

2. AdSense

Its no use applying for an AdSense account if you don’t yet have traffic of at least 50,000 monthly visitors.

I see many newbie bloggers startup and are immediately hustling AdSense approval. I used to be that guy funny enough but in 2018 I took my time. In fact, I wouldn’t have applied for AdSense if It hadn’t been for that damned Google ad manager software I was trying to learn at work. This naturally brings me to my number 3 lesson learnt…

3. Blogging is not for ‘get rich quick’ people.

Except you have a ton of capital stashed somewhere to invest heavily in advertising (like Naij did when they started out), chances are you’re going to grow slowly. How slow or fast now depends on how much you know about SEO and other traffic generating strategies.

Blogging is not MMM. Blogging is not BabaIjebu.

This get rich quick thinking is the mentality behind that mindless drive for AdSense when your blog is just 30 days old with 5 posts you may or may not have copied and pasted.

If you’re not ready to stick to your blog over a long period of time and see it through, please go and just find a job. (or better still, go and steal a lady’s panties.).

It’s because I know how long it would take to turn a profit, talk more, make revenue that I added a side gig of sorts to the blogging business. I went into digital marketing. Revenue was easier to come buy. In fact, 90% of the 165k I made last year came from this side of the business. The idea was that the Digital marketing would fund the blog.

4. Diversify your traffic source

I see a lot of Nigerian bloggers over reliant on Search traffic and I cringe. If you think relying in Facebook traffic is volatile due to one algorithmic change or the other, apparently, you haven’t heard about the great SEO purge during the post Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird Google updates that tanked the SEO traffic of major players and wiped out their businesses over night.

I even saw first hand last year, a blog nosedive from 120k+ monthly visitors to 40k in 2 months after Google came knocking with a penalty.

Word for the wise? Diversify your traffic. Right now over 95% of Richeetech traffic is Direct and we plan to fix that this year. Throw in a few referral and social traffic in there.

Richeetech 2019 plans

1. Separate the companies.

First if all, the company will be split into two as originally founded. We’re going to keep the tech blog which you know very well to be located here as is and transplant the Digital marketing side of it elsewhere. I still haven’t figured out what to name it but you can offer your suggestions.

2. Change web hosting

I’m just going to put it out there – Nigerian web hosting companies are dead. Period. I’m switching from Whogohost to Bluehost  because i heard their services are excellent and they’re are currently doing a heavy price slash promo and selling their plans from just $2.75/month (down from a whole $8). In fact, I wrote a follow up article to this where I totally blasted Whogohost for the crappy service they gave me.

3. Facebook traffic

I talked about diversifying traffic sources earlier. This year we’re going to be paying for Facebook ads to drive social traffic to Richeetech.

4. Referral traffic

We’ll probably need to pay for sponsored posts on other tech sites to drive qualified traffic from their site to ours. I tried to do this without paying last year and it didn’t work.

Now your turn!

Do you have any opinions or questions about this post? Please feel free to comment below.

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They are the top gossip blogs in Nigeria. They are unapologetic. They are brutal. They are candid and blunt AF, without a second thought, they will out your deepest darkest secrets for the world to to see…all for the sake of page views.

Ladies and gentlemen, you probably know them already. Meet the top 5 gossip blogs in Nigeria that don’t care who your father is:

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5 Gossip Blogs In Nigeria That Don’t Send Your Fada.

#1. Linda Ikeji’s Blog

The Mother of them all! Linda is the undisputed champion of this Mean Girls club. Whether it’s publicly outing the owner of Instablog, or picking a fight with Wizkid, she sure knows how to cook dem stories well and serve dem cold. And hey Linda, no one likes snitches.

#2. Instablog

Yes, yes, yes! If it isn’t the king of gossip and all the bad news that happens in Nigeria himself! Finally, you got dragged into the light by Miss Linda…Mr. John Abayomi Aruleba. Apparently, Instablog broke into the media scene in 2015 and has since been a thorn in the flesh of many Nigerian celebrities.

From ridiculously controversial posts like I only raped one and fingered the other – Teacher arrested for defiling 2 students to Tonto Dikeh opens up about the lingering Cold War between her feet and harmattan, these guys have rightly earned the title of the most notorious of gossip blogs in Nigeria.

#3. Tori

As it turns out (shocking to me), this Nigerian gossip blog is owned by Cyclofoss Technologies…the same company that owns Latestnigeriannews.com (i discovered during one of my many failed attempts at getting Richeetech syndicated on their platform. Now i know where their terrible UI/UX website design comes from  😀 ).

Of course, most Nigerians have no clue about this. It’s like how they also have no clue that Naij (or Legit if you will  😕 ) was not founded nor is it owned by a Nigerian company.  8-). Why don’t you chew on that for a while.

#4. Lailas News

Laila Ijeoma, unknown to most, actually quit her N5 million/year banking job in 2016 to blog full time (many would rather die than do such an ‘absurd’ thing).

Speaking about quitting one’s job in favour of running a blog, kudos to my SEO and blogging mentor, Paul Aroloye for also taking that bold leap.

#5. The Net

According to The Net, they claim on their website to have 20 million users across all their web platforms and cumulative views of a staggering 6 billion (I think they mean page and video views).

Well there you have it, people! The top 5 gossip blogs in Nigeria.

How to make your own Gossip Blog

Many of you aspire to be like Linda Ikeji and the likes. Problem is many of you don’t usually know where to start. The first step in making your own Gossip blog like the ones i mentioned above are as follows in 3 easy steps:

• First get a domain name and website hosting. You can get affordable and fast hosting on Bluehost for a promo price of just $2.75/month (a discount from $7.99/month using this special promo link.)
• Build your WordPress website using the Generatepress wordpress theme (this is because this theme is made fast and it will boost our SEO greatly).
• Start writing Gossip stories

Is there any one I forgot to mention? Write it in the comments section below.

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