Nigeria’s leading online daily newspaper, News Express, is one today. Its website, www.newsexpressngr.com, was registered exactly a year ago and began operations immediately. Over the past one year, News Express has grown phenomenally to become an industry leader.The paper presently receives an average of 11,827 visitors daily and 16,558 daily pageviews, according to global website monitor, www.website.informer.com. This translates into over 350,000 monthly visitors and about half a million monthly pageviews.

Traffic has grown at lightning speed particularly in the past 20 days, during which News Express jumped 118,812 places – leapfrogging from 346,498 in the world to 227,686, according to www.website.informer.com.

This is besides the hundreds of thousands who read News Express stories, interviews and articles on several online communities where News Express daily posts its full content instead of providing a link that leads readers to its website as other online papers do.

Edited by Nigeria’s international award-wining journalist, Isaac Umunna, News Express is the most professional online newspaper in Africa’s most populous country and the one with the most diverse coverage, authoritatively reporting business, politics, religion, arts, sports and entertainment.

“We are grateful to Almighty God, Jehovah, for granting us rapid progress but News Express remains a work in progress,” said Umunna. “The best is yet to come.”

•Photo shows Isaac Umunna.