Oluwaseun Temitope Osewa was born on July 17th, 1982 in Sango Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun state, Nigeria. He is a programmer, and business man, known as the founder and owner of the popular Nairaland website.
Oluwaseun Osewa is 42 years old.
Growing up in a Christian home in Ota, he took keen interest in programming and the internet. He enrolled as a student in the University Of Ile Ife to study electrical engineering in 1998 but he did not finish. No, he wasn’t rusticated. Too brilliant to be. Looks like he dropped out of the school to pursue his programming dream and here he is today.
In 2003, Seun ventured into web-hosting internet business which didn’t go to well. After three months, the business died as he didn’t have enough capital to carry on. He was lucky to find a regular job but could not cope after tasting creative freedom. He kept on researching on the internet for two years until he decided to open an online web forum using python programming.
After that first failure, he was encouraged to get certifications and a regular job, but he couldn’t go back to that kind of path after tasting creative freedom, so he kept researching business ideas and presenting them to friends and family, but no capital was forthcoming to carry any of them out. He did this for less than 2 years. Although he had no capital, a family friend helped to fund his internet access and also his VPS hosting package of $15 per month. Seun created 3 forums in November 2003 (one for higher institution students, one for IT discussions, and one to cover the emerging GSM industry; the Mobile Nigeria Forum at MobileNigeria.com).
The Mobile Nigeria Forum took off, so he relaunched it in February 2005 with the assistance of Mr. John Sagai Adams, who posted a link to the forum on his mailing list and participated enthusiastically in those early days. Other mobile enthusiasts like Mr. Yomi Adegboye pitched in to make the site a success. In a month or so, the forum had about 300 members, but the growth potential didn’t satisfy him.
When Seun noticed that mobilenigeria.com was gathering much traffic and that the focus of the site was narrowed to telecommunications, he decided to create Nairaland, a forum that would cater and cover topics outside telecoms, like romance, jokes, politics, and other categories. During those days prior to when he started, most Nigerian sites were owned and dominated by Nigerians in the United States and United Kingdom. They only covered issues of interests to Nigerians abroad. There was no much competition for Nairaland Forum as he surpassed the likes of other forums like Naijaryders and Talknaija. He felt that such a forum could attract enough traffic and make money from Google adverts.
Osewa's plan was to make up to sixty thousand monthly but with the kind of traffic the site gathered, he made more than that. As the site grew, Seun had to battle with spammers who were flooding the site. Seun got help from moderators in updating the forum’s front page from the likes of Mukina2 a female mod who has been working with him since 2007 and others.
Google banned Nairaland from their ad network in 2012 due to the fact that it contained many sexual topics. This made Seun sell his own ads space on the forum. It is a known fact that Nairaland earns millions in a month than when it had Google adverts. By 2013, Forbes listed Seun among the best African successful entrepreneurs under 30.
The rich Seun is an atheist and currently lives in his hometown od Ota,Ogun state. It is said that he does not like fame and power, he doesn’t even appear like a celebrity even as he owns the largest African online forum under his watch. He is not married.
His net worth is not available.
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