Dee60: The question is not necessary. Even if he is not a Nigerian, there are Nigerians exhibiting WORSE behaviour. let us stop pretending. BH has been beheading people up north for the past 2 years. BH people are NIGERIANS!

Also, in Nigeria, there are people selling human heads. That rarely happens in Britain.

All mankind need salvation from sin and wickedness. The heart of man is desperately wicked.

Mad Cow: Because......... There is no Gold medal for terrorism. If he had slit the throat of a Terrorist about to attack the U.K, he would be sitting in BBC's studio right now with later appointments to appear on CNN, Al Jezerra, Fox News, Larry King Show, e.t.c.. And he would be called 'The BRITISH Hero'.

But since its not the case, he is everything but a Brit.

CAMEROONPRIDE: Wasn't late achebe an US citizen?

TheBookWorm: How hard is it for many you to understand that both men who committed this act are British of Nigerian (Yoruba) descent?

That is like saying someone who is British, but of Polish descent or even British of Turkish descent. It doesn't take away that they are British, but it recognized that those individuals cultural or ethnic heritage are found in Nigeria, not Britain.

If he has a British passport then he is British. If he was winning gold for Team GB would we call him Nigerian?

What makes him Nigerian? Is Bill Clinton Irish? Even Schwarzenegger is not Austrian? #AdebolojaisnotNigerian .@omojuwa

When Eniola Aluko scores for England she is British. The day she commits a crime she will become Nigerian

John Fashanu was British when he was scoring goals for Wimbledon, he became a Nigerian when he had match fixing charges

We cannot afford to let the world keep defining our identity

@omojuwa: JJ, the sad part of the whole issue is that Nigerians are usually in the forefront of this perceived negative media.

You cannot quantify how much Aljazeera has influenced the global conversation on Islam and the Middle East

@aninoritse A Brit of Nigerian descent? If he was winning gold for you guys would you guys add the Nigerian part of his origin? Wake up!

@dimu4ever Not about denying his Nigerian origin, this is simply asking would the Nigerian part of him be amplified in a differnt scenario?

Until you show me where the Nigerians that won medals for Team GB were called Nigerians I am done.

I watched London 2012. At no time were the British athletes answering Nigerian names get called "Nigerian"

Nigerians abroad should represent us well. Thing is when they do, they get other passports. Argh! Hard life

aysometin: British of Nigerian descent o....gosh! How else can this be explained? No one has called him a Nigerian except us.

c.fours:

the point is that they are emphasizing his Nigerian-ness even though he might have never even set foot in Nigeria before.
yet if he had won an olympic gold medal, you won't see them calling him nigerian. they will call him british and hide the nigerian part.
that's the point.

TheBookWorm:

Well maybe it is due to the "Other" factor. The government of the UK is currently having a vigorous debate about immigration.

c.fours:


of course duh! that's the point. the contradictions and hypocrisy.
i'm sure there is no mention of how almost half of all doctors in UK are foreign born. there is a reason they allow immigration in d first place. they need workers and labor.

TheBookWorm:

Well what can you do? The UK or Europe for that matter has never been considered a place that is hospitable for foreigners. When someone who is not native commits a barbaric act such as this, you better be prepared for the blowback, because to be honest, you were never wanted to be in the country in the first place.

It just that some people in the UK government had colonial guilt and that is why there were once favorable policies towards immigrants in the past.

c.fours:


yea ur right. the guy was fighting back against the system.
the system is bigger than him. he should have turned his anger toward something more positive. what a shame.
I just wonder how many people that soldier has killed himself. and who.

Akiika: That is the Western media for you.

TheBookWorm:

That is NOT what I was saying. The animal committed a despicable act.

What gives him the right to take the life of another over some perceived grievance with a government? What him and his accomplice did was PURE EVIL.

And what angers me is that many Nigerians are not condemning the act and are only worried that he is being labeled as someone who is of Nigerian descent.