If you are a #Nigerian and you are just joining steemit.com, I bet your main purpose of joining this platform is to make money from it. OK! That's cool but there is more to it and this is why, before you make your first post, take this 3 things I'm going to show you seriously.
A LOOK AT THE NIGERIAN COMMUNITY ON STEEMIT
#Nigerians on steemit has been enjoying a steady growth and you just added to the list. Congrats!
According to this report, the population has risen to 16,231 steemians and counting. Thanks to efforts from Nigerian curators 
Question is, how does this growth affect you as a new steemit user from #Nigeria?
For you to be enjoy a successful stay on Steemit and achieve your aim of making money as a new user, bear this 3 things in mind.
1. Join project #bigwaves
Project Bigwaves idea has been on for awhile and very few Nigerian users knows about it. Six (6) days ago, an official announcement was made on how it will support the growth of Nigerians on steemit. So, key into it.
They have a guideline though and here is a repost:
The Guidelines
For posts to be eligible for curation by Project Bigwaves, a few guidelines need to be adhered to. The following are a few of them:
Posts must be by Nigerian authors only. This project has been setup to grow the Nigerian community and so we will be focusing on Nigerians only.
Only original content. Please make sure sources are linked properly. Plagiarism is strongly frowned upon so if you just "copy and paste", you shouldn't expect to get any reward.
Posts must have the #nigeria tag. Using this tag makes it possible for the curators to find your posts. It is very important so make sure to use it.
A single author may be upvoted only once every 24 hours. This is to make sure that the reward is spread evenly across the board.
The higher the quality of your post, the higher the power of our votes! We are not out to reward just anything but quality. The better the quality, the better for the community.
2. Steemit Hates Ponzi
It's already a fact that you can and will make money from Steemit. Whether it's MMM, MLM schemes, Pyramid schemes, or whatever they are, do yourself a favour not to promote it here.
Fact is, Ponzi schemes always end up in people loosing their money. At such, if you ignore this warning and keep promoting such, you will be taken down by the authorities concerned. Here is a scammer who is already facing the heat.
3. Join our Steem network
Steemit is a community where your success is determined by the network of followers as well as those who follow you. Our community will guide you provide you the opportunity to maximize both your time and efforts and at the end, your aim of making money on Steemit will be a fun ride. To join, click here to follow everyone on the list.
You can also resteem this post, so as to spread the #nigeria tag gospel to your followers. You might not know if there is a Nigerian who hasn't heard about it.
WELCOME TO STEEMIT!