number of people of constantly plagiarizing
and lifting articles from websites without
giving credit to original sources.
After a series of accusations of plagiarism, for the
first time in eight years, popular blogger Linda
Ikeji's blog has been shut down.
The blog is was shut down today, October 8, 2014
– it is still unclear why the blog was shutdown.
The blog's url now redirects to an empty page
which reads 'Blog has been removed'.
Fans have taken to Twitter to express that shock,
tweeting at the popular blogger about the new
development.
The shutdown might however be temporary as the
blogger has responded, calming fears;
'Linda Ikeji Blog will be back in a bit...biko bear
with me...:-)', she tweeted
Linda's blog which was still active this morning
had published about 23 stories before it was shut
down at about 4:20PM.
Over the weekend, Linda was accused by a
number of people of constantly plagiarizing and
lifting articles from websites without giving credit
to original sources.
The popular blogger however responded in a
statement published on her blog, explaining that
she is just a target of a group of cyber hackers
who have been trying to shut down her blog for
over a year now.
Linda is of the opinion that just like herself, every
other website 'in the world' lifts content also.
'I admit that I take content from other sites.
Plenty of it sef, but the question is, which website
in the world doesn't?', she wrote.
Linda Ikeji's blog is currently the 10th most
visited website in Nigeria according to
commercial web traffic data company Alexa.
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