ENTERTAINMENT: BLOGGING IS MORE LUCRATIVE THAN BANKING - LAILA IJEOMA, CEO, LAILASBLOG
Blogging in Nigeria has become a lucrative business for writers and journalists alike, living in a country where unemployment rate is higher than the annual budget. Many Nigerians who are either tired with long hours jobs that pays only stipend for salary or those who are still groping in the labour market for means to survive in hash economic, has deviate to other means to make a living by working online and blogging. And for some, it is out of passion they have that lands them in the blogsphere. Here is one very watery example of a blogger who quit her banking job to start blogging full time, one of the toughest decision she has to make, she said. Laila Ijeoma, CEO, lailasblog, was recently interviewed by Vanguard Saturday Woman and below is the excerpts from that interview. Excerpts: - In the Nigerian blogosphere, Laila Ijeoma commands a lot of respect, not just because she owns www.LailasBlog.com ; an entertainment website that reports trending Nigerian news read...