As Nigerian Facebook’rs Approach 1 Million…

In the beginning of the year we predicted that 0.5 million (or more) Nigerians would be on Facebook by mid-year. Today there are 585,000 on the platform with more engagements being noticed. Google Trends show that more than 50,000 Nigerians return to Facebook daily.

The effect of the growth has started manifesting in the country: lot of groups are now formed with active participations and discussions.

A very interesting group recently is the “SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL AGAINST CHILD DESTITUTION” formed to support Senator Tafidan Argungu and Forty others’ bill to stop child destitution in the country. There are more than 1,300 members on the group now. The group has certainly made an impact in this campaign which made Thisday publish an article about it (http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=145272)

In the last 2 months, Facebook attracted more than 100,000 Nigerians each month. With this rate, we should expect 1.2 million users by the end of the year and about 2.5 million by 2011. Indeed with this number, it is going to be an interesting platform for politics for the next general elections. There are numerous political groups already.

However the biggest question still remains: do we expect to see positive developments in the country through the power of information sharing and collaboration Facebook offers?

In the beginning of the year we predicted that 0.5 million (or more) Nigerians  would be on Facebook by mid-year. Today there are 573,780 on the platform with more engagements being noticed. Google Trends show that more than 50,000 Nigerians return to Facebook daily.

The effect of the growth has started manifesting in the country: lot of groups are now formed with active participations and discussions.

A very interesting group recently is the “SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL AGAINST CHILD DESTITUTION” formed to support Senator Tafidan Argungu and Forty others’ bill to stop child destitution in the country. There are more than 1,380 members on the group now. The group has certainly made an impact in this campaign which made Thisday publish an article about it.

In the last 2 months, Facebook attracted more than 100,000 Nigerians each month. With this rate, we should expect 1.2 million users by the end of the year and about 2.4 million by 2011. Indeed with this number, it is going to be an interesting platform for politics for the next general elections. There are numerous political groups already.

However the biggest question still remains: do we expect to see positive developments in the country through the power of information sharing and collaboration Facebook offers?

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