Google Restores Linda Ikeji Blog...

Linda Ikeji

I love this. Come on board girl! Popular news and entertainment site, Linda Ikeji Blog, has been restored by Google, after a row over the originality of the blog's contents.

Around midnight Friday, popular blog, Linda Ikeji's blog was restored on the Google blogging platform, Blogger. Embattled blogger, Linda Ikeji, announced the news on Twitter.

"And Google restores lindaikeji.blogspot.com. I hear it's a record. Normally it takes weeks or months to restore a deleted blog. But not LIB," she tweeted six minutes after midnight.

In a follow up tweets, she explained that Google had restored the blog after verifying that the allegations of plagiarism were "bogus and deliberate sabotage."

On Thursday night, a few hours before announcing the restoration of her blogger site, Ms. Ikeji had directed readers to her new site, lindaikejionline.com.

The blog was shut down on October 8, 2014.

On Thursday, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google's communication and public affairs manager for Anglophone West Africa had declined to categorically say why it shut down the blog.

Mr. Kola-Ogunlade said the company does not discuss individual accounts.

However, speaking generally, he said: "We take violations of policies very seriously as such activities diminish the experience for our users. When we are notified of the existence of content that may violate our Terms of Service, we act quickly to review it and determine whether it actually violates our policies. If we determine that it does, we remove it immediately."