Nigeria's Image Was Badly Damaged On Oprah Today!

i put nigeria in my prayers everyday cos at d end of d day after skool, i want to go back home to stay

God will destroy everyone giving this country a bad name.All Yahoo peeps will die like Abacha if they don't repent.

Yes, we are all praying for nigeria but are nigerian ready to help themselves?

@sweet t

you could have made your post without calling out any names or displaying your hatred towards the igbo (which no one really cares).

when Oprah was doing the show, did she say anything in particular about tribes?  everyone dat's seen it will only say something about NIGERIA, NOT IGBO and if you had happened to watch the other news network (dateline?) you would have noticed must of the names mentioned were yoruba or non-igbo, but dats besides the point and only to set the records straight.  instead starting a thread so we can all discuss the issue like grown folks, your running up in here pointing fingers. dats pure baloney. what do you want us to do now, carry bows and arrows and run after the igbos?

if only dey can use their God given brains 4 sometin good instead of dis 419 it would be great

Now lets get to the Nitty gritty of this issue

Why are people falling to the cheap baits of "I am the son of Sani Abacha and he has money to transfer". They are falling because some Americans have in the past earned a fortune by being part of such deals, they are falling because Mobutu once laundered money to America, they are falling because a lot of African loots have been laundered to the west and people earned a fortune for taking part is such money laundering. This goes on even today or will go on tomorrow we dont hear them, Oprah and fox news will not bring the attention of the world to Banks behind such deals.

Then when scams are designed because the above existed and Americans are at the recieving end, it becomes a media issue.
Let no one be decieved, if they abhor corruption as they so preach they should do more to expose banks aiding corrupt african leaders to launder money. As a matter of fact the boys involved in this scams are doing those out of desperation.
At least we saw what happened after hurricane katrina and how Americans where running after other people's properties. That is a pilot scenario of how they Americans will be desperate if there country is dysfunctional as Nigeria.

Oprah and Fox should focus more on the institutional corruption by the american banking industry against the African continent than than little boys in the slumps of lagos.

uhm f**k oprah.

f**k all you tribalists too.

@ sweet T

@Ikamefa
Omo ibo oni di nla.


@ topic thats where you are wrong am yoruba, all am trying to do is point out to you that your line of reasoning is wonky
but obviously  aso o ba omoye e mo oh! omoye e  ti rin ihoho woja   

LMAO!  dem send you? this thread is about 9ja and 419

gerraway jor! 

if this is the level of skill all this 419 guys' ve got ! 


then no need for all this wahala oh!

cos ol boy you no get skills at all! 

tufia!  no be me! 

if you  need to see a jiggly idi , find the nearest  gentlemens' bar 


^{i dey go sleep i no get yah time!} 

I missed the show oh.Kai na wa oh

@ Sweet T  @ omoge
i feel una, and i kinda see where u lot r comin from. However i don't think all this pointing of finger will solve the problem.
Who cares if u r Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo; in a white man's eye, "all of una the same" just like lagbaja's song.

All Nigerians spoiling OUR country's image in the diaspora will never progress!!!

I once worked in a security printing company in the UK (where they print all manner of bank cheques).
At the interview they did the normal level of security check (including police report and d full shebang) apparently because i showed em my UK passport.

Do you know that 2 weeks later when i told the Director of operations that I'm originally from Nigeria these people called a board meeting? WHY because they wanted to know about my background,  even where i lived in Lagos. Can u just imagine?

Infact the big banks in Nigeria cant afford to print their own cheques in Nigeria, simply because of 419. As a result, the money (Millions) which should have been circulated within our own economy is paid to the UK, where Nigerian Banks pay the equivalent of what European Big Boy Banks pay.

Omo men sometimes at work i feel like weeping when i see how many security features are embedded in a Nigerian cheque all for the sake of preventing 419.

In fact there was a day my colleague was mocking me at work.
After production, he simply brought a barclays bank cheque & a Nigerian bank cheque to my office and he started lecturing me about the differences and the need for so many security features, i was short of come backs.

In fact i have some friends (not igbo by the way) who simply ask me if i could steal some Bank cheques from work!
Can u Just imagine! Of course they don't give a damn about my bleak azz, all they care about is their own belly.

Omo men i sorry for that country, God help us all.

Its a lie that it just igbo boys behind dis trend
Am a yoruba boy and i know that there are so many fangerous yorubas out there.
God help us all

but y e be say na only ibos dem dey catch, i think itz majority oooo

nah, they were fully speaking igbo, when the were putting the handcuffs on, like in crying form, as in  chineke mooo, and other ibo languge, i saw it on tv, and in they said it in my class room