It is no news that Nigerian well loved, Celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji's site lindaikeji.blogspot.com, has been shut down by the site host Google Inc, for plagiarism (copy copy in naija language), copyright infringements, blah blah. The last has not been heard about the issue, as usual Naijarazzi went to town, to get the reactions of people on ground. Most Nigerians especially the youths are of the opinion that she is just been witch hunted, and that she should be left alone to continue what she is doing. While the older professional Nigerians think that anything happening to her is well deserved
because she should have known better. And finally some other section of people are even happy, for the closure of the site.
This is Naijarazzi's take on this whole issue. Linda Ikeji has been an inspiration to most bloggers in the business of entertainment blogging, including yours truly. She is a role model and well respected, among the youths who has yearnings for celebrity gossips and gist. Truth be said, almost all website administrators are guilty of plagiarism including yours truly, but na sense we dey use do am. Her site that was shut down by google, was ranked among the top 2000 websites Globally , and the top 2 website in Nigeria coming second only to Seun's Nairaland. This is no mean feat. Her success has been attributed to her early start up, (yes she has been blogging since 2006), her consistency, and love for her by the general public. Linda has been gaining undue attention recently for perceived wrongful showoff, she began reporting herself instead of other celebrities.
We shared the story of her buying a car for 24 million naira CLICK HERE TO READ STORY, and how most of her fans reacted badly. This and more negative bad news has been responsible for the recent backleash. Linda is reported to make an annual income of 140 million naira year...yes you read correctly 140 million solely from blogging. But she had one major problem, and that was not taking her blogging business as a business. Linda still works from home after all this success, she does not have any office, does not have any substantial employees, and does not own her own domain name or website exclusively, this were her major problems. which we all knew was always going to make her susceptible to any attack from determined haters, like the now notorius Me Aye Dee. It does feel bad to have the table turned against you, instead of gossiping about others, Linda is now been the target of all the bad press and gossip which we sell (yes o we know say e dey pain sometimes) lol, and just like most celebrities without good PR, instead of seeking the thoughts of PR experts and managing the situation well, she has been handling this quite badly Naijarazzi can authoritatively tell you, from giving heavily biased and opinionated press releases, still talking about her 24 miLlion naira car, calling names and blaming people, she should just ride on, get a good website, and take the blogging business as a business, get an office, hire IT specialists, Lawyers, News agents, etcetera. Aunty Linda abeg calm down, abeg tell us how e dey be to dey get all this yabis..winks! Anyways all this attention will only do one thing more for Linda, and that is only make her more popular. Ride on Linda.
Updates*** as at 12: 27 am on Friday morning, 10:10:2014, her blog site has been restored by Google. Guess Linda has learned her lessons and will take all the necessary step to make sure that this never happens again. Welcome back Linda...****
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