'All Nigerians Are Corrupt', Says Oprah Winfrey

@WesleyanA

look at the issues that were treated. How many of those people are located in Nigeria?

In fact, ask Sweet T.

@Weslayan
There was a case about 3-4 years ago. There were some ibo boys and a couple of Nigerian doctors were involved in medicare fraud. They were defrauding the US govt. Millions of dollars. FBI got a tip and began investigating those guys. Do you know that they followed them to V.island in Lagos ? They video taped their parties where these guys were spraying cash like water. FBI did a very thorough and intense investigation of these guys until they have enough evidence for trial. Guee what? When those guys were arrested, they thought they could buy their way out of trouble by hiring the best lawerys available. Some of them were even boasting that they would winning the case. The case got to court and the federal prosecutors began unloading their cases. When these ibo boys saw all the videos of the parties in V.I and all other  evidence. They started pleading for a plea bargain ! Most of them got 10-15 years in prison. Ever since that case, the light of corruption has been shinning harder on Nigerians. Nigerians are tagged with financial crimes, the Asians are tagged with stealing expensive cars and the Latinos are tagged with illegal immigration ! 

@Denex
Most of the 419ers back at home just send out scandalous E-mail scams !

@mamjama
I'm tagged with hardwork, joy and P-funk. If you know what i mean ! 

@presido
How is abuja ?

@Wesleyan
Haven't  you heard that everything is big in TX. ?

they are cheap and bigger compare to other states

You guys should refrain from using Ibo boys, Hausa girl, yoruba man, diaspora e.t.c we are all Nigerians Plz. cotribute intelligently and stop attacking personalities. You guys even curse, swear,  make una cool down small. Some of una even be the yahoo yahoo boys sef.
Sweet T, is it part of your job function to discuss criminals' cases.

na wah ooo all day long? okay make someone send in Okparah head  she is done with today's show and relaxing with Mr. Stedman. so someone go get her head 

let's get our act together then everything will be all right 

I have not verified the Oprah statement but if she did say so I would say Shame on her for such a callous and ignorant comment. Any Nigerian who supports Oprah's statement shoud be ashamed of himself / herself as well. It is equal to condemning all those our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children and friends of Nigerian extraction who make an honest living in all parts of the world laboring and working and making decent and sometimes not so decent wages for their efforts.
If she did make the statement, we should boycott her shows, her products, her persona and all things related to her until she publicly apologises. If she does not do so then so be it but we need to make our feelings clear. I regret even attending one of her live tapings at Harpo Studios.

Oprah may have been wrong to brand all Nigerians as fraudsters, but we should all do a bit of soul searching. We are very corrupt. Its in our blood.

I'd actually like to see a clip of where Oprah actually made this statement. Although it may be possible that she said it, I don't believe that she actually did. WHY? Because I and most people, including Oprah, know that it is wrong to make such a statement publicly for two facts: 1) Oprah doesn't know ALL Nigerians and 2) OVER-generalization is always bad. Besides, corruption is not dependent on one's level of education, so there was not use saying "Nigerian, no matter which level of education are all currupt". So, if Oprah DID say that, then that would be very stupid on her part since of course Oprah does not know and haven't met EVERY Nigeria. And I suppose Oprah is a smart woman, so it aint really going to look good on her resume for making such a stupid statement. It's not like whoever she sent that message to would say "yeah, it's true. all Nigerians are currupt because Oprah said so." I know a majority of the people have some capablity of reasoning. In the end, Oprah's opinion on Najia don't matter. She aint really paying nobody's bills. She should keep her opinions in South Africa.



I don't really see the point you're trying to make here. 
If you consider yourself to be corrupt or feel that corruption is in YOUR blood, then you go ahead and speak for YOURSELF! I'm sure most Naija folks don't consider themselves corrupt so really, do speak for yourself. And if ALL Nigerians ARE corrupt, then the whole world is corrupt. It's fair to say so because really, I never did see what that statement (of all Nigerians being corrupt) was based on. 

Education has nothing to do with curruption nor gegraphycal location NIGERIANS are unique people bleesed and not cursed favoured beyond any comment i guess she must have been miss qouated she is too knowledgeble not to know the down side of over generalisation

and what if she dint say that never go on strike yrt ma broda some things are just not worth your emotion

I totally agree with Oprah,it is a well known fact around the world that Nigerians are indeed corrupt!Some are corrupt subconciously maybe because of the society they grew up in ,something like that.All the nigerians i`ve associated with find no fault in giving a bribe for a visa,passport,document or stuff like that.They may be good people but they contribute largely to the corruption in their country by trying to cover it up and trying to compare themselves with other nations.IF YOU CAN NOT FACE YOUR PROBLEMS AND TRY TO LIVE IN DENIAL who the hell will save Nigeria?By blaming Judge Judy and Oprah you are all being corrupt because you do not want to face the reality of the situation,instead you want to live a lie and pretend Nigeria is as good as any other nation.

shes foolish y do blacks like behavin like oyinbos,all her audience r white it is in d black blood 2 steal,mk she no come naija her shows r boring she say she gt money tell hr dangote will pay her salary bit, h