If You Adopt Foreign Citizenship You Are No Longer Nigerian!

If they chose they can reverse the dual citizenship laws of Nigeria, it won't change the
fact that the place is a shit hole!

Its my country of origin still, I love it, and there is nothing any of you clowns will say or
do to change that fact. Whether I use the blue or green passports, I will still find a way
to get into the country - it makes no difference really.

And to those who have fallen in love with the word "Nigger" courtesy of music and videos,
and now think only African Americans are referred to as Niggers, wake up jackasses. Let
me break the sad news to you - ALL BLACK PEOPLE are considered NIGGERS!!!

and niggerettes 

no forget babeelove and co.

I will deal with you later Your own na special case!

@doyin and lovemajek - I know, it just upsets me, people tar every diasporan with the same brush and I want to know what would possess them. I hope its not jealousy? All I know is that the people who speak the worst about Nigeria in my presence are those who live there. I suppose if you secretly want to leave your country, but can't, it is painful for others who have managed to do so to turn around and tell you how rubbish the place u currently stay is. So I understand the bitterness, but before someone goes and posts something like that I thought they should think about the impact they have on diasporans who actually are just as, if not more patriotic than them. They may single handedly be responsible for the lack of progress Nigeria may make if the diasporans feel they can't return or invest without returning. I jsut don't know, it saddens me, it shouldn't but it does. It's like going home and your brother saying 'get out of our fathers house, your sister insulted the new carpet and u don't live here either so you are no longer part of this family'. Is that not painful?

So eloquently put

Gosh---------Una get power oh!!!!  See wastage of energy and human resources!

@Aloib

u r a goat.

it takes one to knw one,

@aloib - ah thank you! atleast one Nigerian loves me as much as I love them. lol. You put a smile on my face sister. I am not sure why simply_me is calling you a goat though, hope he/she can explain him/herself.

@PTH, BABEELOVE and doyin - cool

@his_grace - why are you giving people like that free advertising? I don't even joke with that N word. Can I ask you a favour - please try not to use it ok?

@lovemajek - sorry my brain has passed its functioning hours, I can't decipher what you were saying. I think my own posts are starting to lose punctuation and grammar on top of that. I'm going to sleep now, but were you telling me to stay out of Nigeria?

Compiling names of all those insulting Nigeria and will soon send to Yardua

See I do not mind questions or well thought out responses to things I post. But to think the response from people who disagree is to hurl insults, it is a testament to their limited mental faculties and inadeqacies at arguing or counterarguing. Wow, see all the sheep come out of the barn and all they can "bah" is insults. Way to show your intelligence there.

There is a different between being a Nigerian Citizen and being of Nigerian Descent. I specifically gave the example of the Italian who comes to America and by adopting American citizenship renounces his Italian citizenship. That his country may or may not have dual citizenship laws DOES NOT NEGATE THE FACT THAT HE IS NO LONGER AN ITALIAN CITIZEN. You start having children in the USA, you start restablishing your family and roots and paying taxes to another country, you work for US corporations, travel and purchase US products, HOW ARE YOU A CONTRIBUTING CITIZEN TO YOUR MOTHERLAND ANYMORE? You are still of Nigerian/Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa/whatever descent but you are no longer a citizen.

I am not talking about culture or ethnicity or norms here. Little Italy for example is probably as Italian as most Italian towns in Italy. BUT THEY ARE NO LONGER ITALIAN CITIZENS. Lookup what it means to be a citizen. It is more that having a FUCKING PASSPORT.

I could get Lebanese or Somlaian passports, does that make me a citizen?

ANd you know what is funny, me that is making this argument, I am a permanent resident in the United States. So there goes all your insults which assume that I am a Nigerian looking down on those in Diaspora. I AM AN AFRICAN IN DIASPORA. Does that fact still change the truth of what I have said? The problem with us Naijans is we can never look at ourselves or our actions critically. We just put blame on everyone else.


maybe with what I have said you can see why your question is irrelevant to the points i have raised. A mouse doesnt have citizenship and being a Nigerian Citizen is very different from being of Nigerian Descent. One connotes a status or state THAT ANYONE CAN ACQUIRE the other denotes ethnicity and "race"/descent. There are people of European descent that have Nigerian citizenship. It makes them Nigerian citizens. They are not of NIGERIAN DESCENT.

See the difference?

My point is simply if you no longer contribute anything to your former motherland you should not criticize it. Either you put up in solving Nigerians problems or you shut up. Coming to other so called 1st world or wealthier countries will never, WILL NEVER improve your motherland, it just does not work that way. If it did Mexico would be a better place than India, and Mexicans send back more money back to Mexico while working in the USA than any Nigerian ever can, partly due to geography.

I mean can we think critically and act like we can deduce logically and argue like we are not animals without hurling insults while not addressing any of the points raised. I mean damn.

Oh God!!!  Nairaland has woken up---time to go to bed!!!!  Night shift shit packers are more fun.

_{Zooooooooooms Off!}

@babeelove
These third world countries need to be thought a lesson!
Leave the 3rd world countries alone since you don't care about them. because you are just not making any sense.

@Shango
Good one.

@topic
It would not be fair to relieve people with dual citizenship of their Nigerian citizenship.
What i will suggest is that those in diaspora who badmouth Nigeria as a whole, instead of the wrong policies by the leaders should better concentrate more on the affairs of their almighty US and UK.

I don't see anything wrong if a Nigerian has a UK or US citizenship, but it becomes so senseless talking down on the same NAIJA; yet when you are told not to worry about Naija and concentrate on your good adopted country, you go crazy.

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quote from Shango

This was my issue. I don't know how things work in America but in Britain. British born Italians call themselves Italian, same with Ghanaians, Scottish and Nigerian (I guess its different there). I personally did not hurl insults to you. But can you explain why I can't be considered Nigerian. In fact, how many people even pay taxes in Nigeria, I am sure a lot do, but you will still class those who do not pay, yet live in Nigeria as Nigerian so why can't I? Atleast I don't take anything from the government of Nigeria. How many Nigerians by foreign DVD players, ipods, generators etc are they not Nigerian? I go to a Nigerian supermarket here to buy food who imports from overseas (funding your farmers). I buy Nigerian DVDs - funding Nollywood. If I pay taxes here, it is because I am forced to and this is to receive healthcare etc, basically I am paying for a service, if I did not have a work permit I will still pay for his service through private health insurance. I don't think living in a different country means you can't associate  with your country of origin.

I get what your saying about empty criticism with no offer of solutions - that's not right, the only way for Nigeria to progress is if people are able to raise solutions and act on them. But can you please look at what you post because you are using some of your bad experiences with I am sure are a lot less than 50 people in diaspora to make generalised comments effecting the millions that are abroad. We are not all like that and everyone's situation is different. Here in the UK it is hard for a Nigerian to get a work permit as they the business has to prove that they can't get employees from the host country. Applying for a job when u need a work permit is a deterrant to the business owners so perhaps that is why they go for passports also. On top of that there is the healthcare you can receive and your family. For instance if I get a work permit and I have a child it does not entitle my child to any assitancel. I can give birth in the street for all they care - I am not a citizen!