She Pressed On With The Struggle

technetbloggers.deLINDA IKEJI, a big time blogger, how she made it to the top!!
Linda Ikeji is a famous blogger in Nigeria who in 2013 made it onto the list of Forbes influential bloggers which is no easy feat!

Her blog provides news, beauty tips, and celebrity gossip to her readers.

She started blogging when she was 17 years old with no background in journalism or writing experience.

Today, she has over 3 million followers on Facebook where she posts almost daily.

With so many people following her work, Linda has been able to make a living for herself by running the blog as well as taking advertisements from various companies.

She has been able to launch her own beauty line as well as a clothing line via print on demand.

She was also named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2014 and awarded an honorary doctorate from Babcock University.

uwec.eduLinda continues to work hard to provide her readers with the latest posts and information on entertainment news.

She has been in the spotlight for her success and achievements as an entrepreneur while being one of Nigeria's most successful bloggers to date.

Her blog began when she had just finished school with no further ideas about what career path to take until she discovered blogging.
After going through LINDA IKEJI’S story it was worthy motivating, so I decided to put more illustrations on it to serve as a guide to those of us on the same path with her not to Give Up, We Can! YOU CAN MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME THROUGH, JUST KEEP ON DON’T GIVE UP.
The popular name LINDA IKEJI had become a big name in the new age of INFORMATION COMMUNICATION internet the GLOBAL VILLAGE. Linda Ikeji had faced her ugly moments, but she stood her ground to face the challenges.
She is the owner of the all mighty blog, lindaikeji.blogspot.com, one of the top most visited Nigerian entertainment news blog of all times. She is so popular now that her name has become an asset.


"She is so popular now and her name has become an asset"
"Linda Ikeji blog owner had been saddled with the task of taking care of herself and
Fending for her family at a tender age of 17"


When it comes to blogging, Linda Ikeji has climax the best even though she started out modeling. Unfortunately, as the saying goes that nothing good comes easy, so did Linda Ikeji had it rough as she was growing up. There were all sorts of challenges coming the way of the highest paid Nigerian blogger. But she would not give up and continue to persevere.
The talented Linda Ikeji blogspot blogger grew up from a very poor family with no silver, gold or wooden spoon in her mouth and of course nobody to turn to for help. Instead, men would want to take advantage of her alluring beauty to make advances at her. Linda would not give in; she had vowed that she preferred to die than become the object of a "dump site" in the hands of any man. So, she resorted to doing all sorts of menial jobs to make a living, from ushering to being a waitress at a bar, to modeling all in her bid to survive the hard economic hardship. She pressed on with the struggle.
At a time when the Linda Ikeji was in her second year at the University of Lagos in year 2000, she had taken to occasionally modeling to support her education. Growing up was even more difficult then. Sometimes, she would miss lectures, go to the bar between 1pm to 10pm to sell beer. In spite of her pitiable condition, she had that burning desire to excel. She would want to succeed through sheer hard work and on her own terms, rather than lose her dignity to any man.
When she was much younger, she wanted to become a journalist. That was her dream. When she was about 10 years old, she was already writing. She wrote a few fiction stories in her notebooks and gave a few people and they read and they said she was a good writer. She usually enjoyed watching newscasters, people doing interviews, she looked up to them so when she was about to go into the University of Lagos, she put in for Mass Communication but she didn’t get that course, rather got English. So when she finished school, and had become a model and people knew her as a model, it was very difficult for her to go back being a journalist so she just moved on from there. Linda she discovered blogging in 2006. Incidentally, it was through www.bellanaija.blogspot.com. That was the first time ever she saw a blog. She said she didn’t know what blogging was before then, she had never heard about it until somebody referred her to Bella’s site to go and see something she wrote about her, so she went there, saw the story, the comments and liked what she saw. She said she couldn’t really remember what she posted but, it was something about her as a Nigerian based model.
From then, she started reading her blog and one day she said to herself, "I can actually live my dream, put stories together, tell people what is going on, so she created the blog in 2006 but, really started blogging early 2007"


After graduating in 2004, Linda started her own company, Blackdove Communications. It was a modeling agency and event management company. But in 2004, after she finished from the university she started her own company but stayed within her comfort zone which was modeling so instead of being in front of the camera. She went behind the camera by running an agency, recruiting models, training models, getting jobs for models. According to her she said she still have the modeling agency but not running it anymore.
Linda Ikeji is a millionaire today; she has made it big now particularly through her blogging business where she discusses so many areas of life. She talks about naija entertainment gist, celebrity gossips, fashion, news, pictures and events and so on.
She has thousands of followers on twitter and a jot more likes on Facebook. Getting like 50,000 visits a day , from 180 countries
Her naija entertainment gist fans just stick with her blog because it is one of the best ways to stay current on infos happening both home and abroad.
Linda Ikeji’s fame is not limited to just Nigeria, she is well known overseas too. Recently, she was featured on the prestigious Forbes magazine in the section that deals with Beauty and Brains, citing her as an epitome of the African woman who has taken the bull by the horn to prove that it’s not just a man’s world. Her zeal and passion for excellence are saluted.
Just as not everybody will get to like you no matter how Outstanding you are, Linda Ikeji is not without her criticism
Linda Ikeji is a wonderful lady blogger who often source news from NaijaGists.com. She is excellent at what she does. Linda Ikeji blog started rough but has aimed for the skies as she is getting the desired We rejoice with her, because she is dedicated, the sky is the limit of her achievement.
The essence of this blog is to encourage you by providing touching stories of some celebrated personality around the world. If you read carefully you get to find out that Linda was courageous and had the spirit of not giving up.