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.
Source:
naijagist, bellanaija
