Linda Ifeoma Ikeji is a Nigerian blogger, writer, entrepreneur, and former model. She is known for her blog and controversial publications online.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
- Biography.
- Early life.
- Profile
- Education.
- Career.
- Personal life.
- Net worth.
- Awards and nominations.
- Social Media
LINDA IKEJI EARLY LIFE
Linda Ikeji is from Nkwerre, imo state Nigeria. She was raised in a Catholic family and the second child of the Ikeji family.
She started writing from a young age, so after her college education in 2004, she started her blog (lindaikejiblog) 2006 as a hobby but become active in 2007 when the money started rolling in.
She is from a completely humble background she was called a “failed model” at a point to give you an idea of how roughly she had it in her earlier effort to gain access to the limelight. However, she has become a phenomenon. Undoubtedly, she is one of the richest entrepreneurs in Nigeria and she even competed with some male millionaires for positions.
If you think she made it out of luck, you are wrong she put in a lot of hard labour to achieve what she had achieved today. Her riches were not acquired only through God’s Blessing; she worked for it. Do not forget that God only blesses what you already have.
One other beautiful thing about her is that she never engaged in prostitution or any such thing. She even made up her mind never to be engaged in such and she chose the uncomfortable and inconvenient path of hard labour instead of selling her body for money.
Linda Ikeji has one of the most winsome personalities you can ever come by. She has this winsome personality that makes people flock around her everywhere she goes. She is very open and she is, therefore, able to make a lot of friends. In all sense of the word, Linda Ikeji is down to earth! This is one of the factors that turned her blog into a highly sought-after, both in Nigeria and beyond.
Linda Ikeja had been in several things in her effort to make money in those early days. She was once a model and she also had several part-time engagements when she was at the university. However, she is known mostly by most people for her blogging engagements. This is because blogging is principal to bringing her so much wealth and affluence.
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LINDA IKEJI PROFILE
Full Name:
Born: 19th September 1980
Age: 41
State if origin:Imo State
Place of Birth: Imo state, Nigeria
Husband:
Children: 1
Occulation:
Net Worth
| Full Name: | Linda Ifeoma Ikeji |
| Mother: | N/A |
| Born: | 19th September 1980 |
| Age: | 41 years old |
| Place of Birth: | Imo state, Nigeria |
| State Of Origin: | Imo State |
| Nationality: | Nigerian |
| Parents: | N/A |
| Height: | 5″9 |
| Children: | 1 |
| Husband: | Sholaye Jeremi |
| Occupation: | Blogger/Model |
| Net Worth: | $800,000 |
LINDA IKEJI EDUCATION
She finished secondary school at the age of 17 and at 18, enrolled at the University of Lagos, where she studied the English language. To assist her family and support herself through school, she had part-time jobs as a waitress, model, and writer. Ikeji graduated from the University in 2004.
Linda Ikeji is the first face of blogging in Nigeria.
LINDA IKEJI CAREER
Linda began working at the age of seventeen in a bid to support her family and provide for herself. She took up gigs as a waitress, usher, model, and bartender. On graduating from college, she took a keen interest in entrepreneurship to craft her own path into Journalism, a field she had been passionate about from a young age.
Her first two companies, Black dove Communications, and FM&B however did not stand long following capital shortages and unbearable expenses. She then went back home and began her journey as a blogger. Her content is news-based giving gossip and updates on the occurrences in the world.
Blogging has gotten her to great heights receiving global awards and recognitions for her work in the African media. She then grew on that establishing a television channel, and radio station, and actively engaged in social media. Some of her recognitions include being named on Forbes Africa’s 20 most prominent women and United Nations Global Leadership Awards.
Her blogging has sometimes gotten her into trouble such as one instance when her blog was shut down for two days following controversial material being posted thereon.
LINDA IKEJI AWARD AND NOMINATION
- Nigeria Blog Awards NBA For Best Entertainment Blog 2013
- Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards For Website/blog of the year 2013
LINDA IKEJI PERSONAL LIFE
Linda has only a child from an affair he had with Sholaye Jeremi in 2015.
She has a baby boy called Jayce Jeremi though he has now changed the boy’s surname to that of her father. So he is now called Jayce Ikeji. Jayce Ikeji will be 4 years this year (2022) in September.
Popular blogger, Linda Ikeji, has denied claims that her platform is responsible for Caroline Hutchings’ divorce.
Hutchings got married to a Nigerian businessman, Musa Danjuma, in 2007. They parted ways nine years later, with three children.
Hutchings, who stars on the “Real Housewives of Lagos” show, stated in the third episode, which aired on Friday, that Ikeji’s blog was the cause of her divorce.
In a heated conversation with the blogger’s sister, Laura Ikeji, who also stars in the show, Caroline claimed Linda published lies about her age, and also wrote that her daughter is not her ex-husband’s.
Linda Ikeji’s platform, @lindaikejiblogofficial on Instagram, however, fired back at the actress asking her to provide proofs of such publications.
In the statement released on Saturday, the blog claimed that Hutchings’ statements were false as it never published stories that put the paternity of her daughter to question.
The statement read in part, “In its 16 years of blogging, Linda Ikeji Blog never ever wrote that Caroline Danjuma’s daughter is not for her husband. Not only didn’t Linda Ikeji Blog write this, but no other blog in Nigeria or beyond also wrote this.
“This story was completely made up by Caroline Danjuma. Or she could have seen it as a comment made by anonymous commenters on LIB or any other blog.”
LINDA IKEJI NET WORTH
Presently, Linda Ikeji’s net worth is estimated at $800,000 as of the period of writing this article.
LINDA IKEJI SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter: Linda Ikeji (@lindaikeji)
Instagram: Linda Ikeja (@officiallindaikeji)
Facebook: Lindaikejiblog
