Linda Ikeji’s blog on Blogspot has been restored by Google after 24 hours of it being shut down.
Nigeria’s number 1 blogger Linda Ikeji has been in the eye of the storm for the past one week over alleged copyright infringement by a shadowy character called Alexander Mukhtar Dan’Iyan, the editor-in-chief of the 15Past8 Media Group based in New York City, who goes by the Twitter handle, @MrAyeDee.
The former model took to Twitter with a series of tweets to celebrate the restoration of her blog and emphasized that the claims made against her blog were bogus.
Google restores LIB 24hrs after deleting it based on bogus claims. They usually don't do this. I feel so blessed and so loved. Thanks LIBers
— Linda Ikeji Blog (@lindaikeji) October 9, 2014
They found out the claims were bogus& deliberate sabotage. Happy to get my blog back. Thanks to all the guys at Google who worked tirelesly
— Linda Ikeji Blog (@lindaikeji) October 9, 2014
And Google restores http://t.co/mW3qw0nAmW. I hear it's a record. Normally it takes weeks or months to restore a deleted blog. But not LIB.
— Linda Ikeji Blog (@lindaikeji) October 9, 2014
Before the restoration of her blog, Ikeji had registered a domain name www.lindaikejionline.com and expressed reluctance to return to Blogspot in an explosive post that exposed the motives of the enemy who tried to shutdown her business.
“I’ve been in touch with the people at Google…some of them say they may return the blog but I’m no longer interested. If they can’t protect me from people like Alex/Aye Dee, then there’s no point continuing to do business with them,” she said in a post on her new domain.
Between Linda Ikeji and Mr Aye Dee. The real shocking story: What you are about to read is quite long…and chil… http://t.co/AfGf44uUNr
— Linda Ikeji Blog (@lindaikeji) October 10, 2014
This is a sweet victory for Ikeji who says she has learnt a lesson from this episode as it turns out that her attacker is an old friend of hers who felt she ”had grown wings” and needed to be destroyed because he sent her a number of emails and did not get a response.
What a world!
