BIOGRAPHY AND INSPIRING STORY OF POPULAR NIGERIAN BLOGGER,LINDAIKEJI

WHO IS LINDAIKEJI?

Linda Ikeji is a Nigerian blogger, entrepreneur and former model who started blogging in 2006 and has built one of the biggest blogs in Nigeria.

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 Linda Ikeji was born in Imostate which is one of the states in Nigeria. 

She has seven siblings and is the second born of the family. 

When Linda Ikeji completed her secondary school education, she wanted to pursue Journalism course in the University but sad as it can be sometimes, she was offered English.  She took the chance and decided to study English at the University of Lagos. 

While at University, she took on odd jobs that she did in order to earn some extra pocket money to take care of herself and also her family members. She used to sell beer at certain entertainment outlets in Nigeria to make a living.  

She also once joined the modelling industry where she would get deals for modelling for different fashion designers and also act as ushers at different events.

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 During that time, modelling and generally the fashion industry was not paying very well in Nigeria but she did it just to make ends meet in order to survive.  

She then later decided to create her own modelling agency called the Black dove communications, where she would recruit models that she would pay whenever they got some gigs to perform at. 

She even once ventured into the magazine business she would publish and it was called FMB magazine.

  But due to lack of funds to print many copies, and the lack of sponsors, she decided to quit the magazine business. 

She came into the world of blogging when a friend told her about an article that was written about her on a blog called BellaNaija.com which is one of the biggest blogs in Nigeria being run by a powerful female entrepreneur called UchePedro.  

She decided to visit the website and discovered that she loved what was written and suddenly she realised that she could still live her dream of being journalist by simply posting news articles onto her own blog. 

In a few days, Linda Ikeji decided to launch her own blog on the blogger platform that is owned by Google. 

She decided to use the free blogging platform to build her blog. She started by writing about herself especially her love life, sex life and anything that seemed interesting to her. She then one day decided to start reporting news on her blog. 

She writes about different celebrities, their lifestyle, fashion and also politics.

 Her blog has become very popular in that she gets over a million page views per day.  Initially, she was putting up adverts on her blog for free by asking her visitors to bring their ads to her website.

 But then, people started asking her for her advertising rates and she decided to commercialise the blog. 

Her website has become one of the most visited websites in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. 

She has now got a domain name called lindaIkejisblog.com and has shifted her blog to Wordpress blogging platform. 

She has now decided to expand her online business by launching a social network called LindaIkejiSocial.com commonly known as LIS which is actually competing directly with Facebook, which she says is a combination of blogging and social networking. She also launched an online television station called LindaIkeji TV.  

She is a very inspirational person who has inspired many Nigerians to venture into the world of blogging.  It is a truly a rags to riches story. 

This is one rich and popular blogger that many Ugandan youths can learn from. You can create your own great future even if the jobs are scarce.

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