Nigeria’s popular online discussion forum, Nairaland, has remained off-air for the fourth consecutive day.
The popular website which has dominated Nigeria’s web rankings for almost 20 years, went down on Monday after it was “taken down” by the host of its server.
The forum’s founder, Seun Osewa, disclosed via tweets on his X profile early Tuesday that the downtime was due to an abusive report which he had “overlooked” after it was “originally sent on the 14th.”
He added that the server was taken down by the host after which he “removed the offensive content.”
However, he stated that after taking some hours to get support on how to resolve the issue, the forum was restored on the server.
Osewa added that matters took another turn when “they took the server down again with no warning.”
The forum’s founder, in a tweet early Wednesday, appealed to users and advertisers on the forum, adding that his “neglect of Nairaland is directly responsible.”
The tweet read, “Dear Nairaland members and advertisers, I’m very sorry for this unacceptable, ill-timed outage.
“My neglect of Nairaland is directly responsible. I was also unprepared to move to a new host at a moment’s notice after nine years with the current host. The process is ongoing but slow.”
A check on the site on Thursday morning by Microsecondnews shows that the forum’s server is still out of commission.
