[5] In August 2020, The Daily Beast reported that some users on Nairaland were promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory.

[6] Nairaland has faced criticism for hosting content and fostering communities promoting ethnic bigotry.

This has led to the erosion of members from Nairaland to other social networks like Facebook, Nelogram and Twitter that have strict rules against abuse and hate speech.

A check on the platform showed several error messages indicating a problem with the server, a situation Osewa acknowledged was punishment for overlooking an earlier sent abuse report.

In a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, the founder explained that though the said offensive content had been removed, the server user interface was still experiencing a delay.