Nigeria's Image Was Badly Damaged On Oprah Today!

 Am still suprised oh.Maybe she shld start with South Africa.Some friends of mine want to send her a note hope she gets it.Lets say she was properly not informed maybe.

exactly, south africa does it but people gotta understand that other african nations blame it all on nigeria when they do theirs too, so i blame the media 4 our shame as well, and then it's like the drug dealing system here where all the little kids wana be drug dealers, in naija all the little kids want to be yahoo boys

does any one know where i can watch the Oprah one ?

Thanks

  Thanks.You been a fantastic poster.I like ur posts on this thread

Nigeria is not the worst/best in crime.We have ogas

as Nigerians in America, we are all affected. From our names to our passports. Oprah has a loyal set of followers around the nation. Some take her word as the bible. So it's going to affect us negatively, no matter what. It might be rampant in Nigeria but others are involved, they need to take note of that.

the thing is that banning is an effort to stop inflation. Nigeria needs to learn to adapt its own technology and stop importing. By banning, we're forced - most times - to buy Nigeria made things which is actually good for the economy. But if people decide to go into scamming as a new way, it just shows that we need to find ways to increase employment.

it will be when we get a man that actually cares for the well being of his people, a good leader, but as long as money is the root of all evil, i wonder when that will happen

 Yeah i am waiting patiently too.

I'm an Igbo man and I wont tread on the path of denial, whether we admit it or not, majority of internet scams from Nigeria are from Igbo boys, but the point here is not who committed the crime or where he's from, but the reason why he did it, I don't know of any Nigerian youth 2day that you'D offer an American Visa and He wont jump at it and take off as soon as possible. The level of greed exhibited by our leaders is what has pushed these ones to the point of just wanting to grab Big dough by any means, not caring what it does to the country's image, so peeps Oprah was only doing her job and it left for us Nigerians 2 seek out the root  of the problem and bring it under control

God bress you Moondust, because na you be the ONLY Igbo man wey stand up to admit koro-koro eye say na him town people them dey plenty pass for 419 work.

For the whole 18 pages of this thread wey una don write pass, na so-so deny Igbo respondents dey deny, say no be them people dey play 419, say make we come dey discuss other crime system wey no dey get kobo effect for oversea, wey no concern other country them at all, wey no dey spoil Nigeria name like how this 419 dey spoil am dey go.

Na Igbo them start 419, and na them still dey for that work pass any other group of people. Wettin remain now be say make correct, true and honest Igbo people like Moondust stand up to admit where this problem get root pass, before we go fit uproot am once and for all, and by-force throway all those 419 bastard them put for Kirikiri cell wey sun no dey shine enter.

i fail to understand why this matter has degenerated to an Igbo thing.as a matter of i have had cause to visit so many cyber cafes during a research project and i can tell u authoritatively that Cyber crime isnt just an igbo thing but a nigerian thing. i met people from diverse tribes doing excatly the same thing.
my friend that sponsored the research also own a cyber, had problem with EFFC for the same cause and was arrested.
while in jail, this same topic incidentally was raised, he pointed out that it is hardly a tribe thing.maybe a couple of years back u could say that the igbo started it (u say this based on the fact that they exhibited their wealth more than others therefore, u can identify them easily)
but today it has gone beyound igbo case,so many youths are looking for fast cash to join the 'big boys' and unfortunately cyber seem to offer that.
there i summit that this is not an igbo issue but a general cankerworm.

on another level, i have also had cause to sample peoples's opinion regarding this issue and i have also come to the conclusion that u must be a dupe to be duped.
How can someone tell u that u provide some cash for something so silly and earn almost triple the amount and u fall for it?
it is really a huge pity.
if i had a chance on Oprah, i will tell them that if we are making laws here to prosecute our guys down here they should also promugate a law for people who actually send the cash xpecting thae same fast cash.

at the long wrong, i believe that igbo or no igbo, yoruba or no yourba, wasnt this what their fore fathers did to us?
they arrived with a bibile /quran in one hand and colonilism in the other.  thousands of years later we are still suffering from neo colonialism/imperialism.

while i don't supporu what is happening as it gives us bad image(more actually) sometimes i feel like saying it serves them right.

they have a choice; whether to send the money or not
during slave trade trade;our parents didnt have that choice

but brothers, revenge is not ours
especially when it is not even commesurate with the offence
theirs will take centuries ie if we ever get over it
ours may take years
it is not worth it

You guys should stop disturbing yourself about all this 419 reports in the American media. They just like to paint Nigeria bad because it doesn't seem logical that a black race can outsmart white people consistently. Why don't they report on the Large number of honest Nigerian professionals in America and other western nations. Most of them think Africans live on trees, illiterates and walk about naked don;t they? surprise! surprise! Nigerians have shown them they've got computers and even know how to use it.

The ones show cased happened 2 have alot of igbo names apprently but let me  tell u'all, it is all ova the tribes in Nigeria and Igbos are not the ruling ones in this. For example, the one that was showcased in Canada about 3 years ago, it was Yorubas and Edos. As a matter of fact, about 5 Edos were deported from Cananda last week.

Fraud is all rounded in Nigeria so because few cases shown on Tv happened to have igbo names past other tribe's names does not justify anything, datz ma own insight

Fraud is not all around Nigeria, Fraud is all around South of Lokoja, shikana!