South Africans, especially youths are known globally for killing foreign nationals and destroying their hard-earned assets. Foreign nationals have generally migrated to the country in search of greener pasture. Nigerians are among the victims of such act of cruelty and barbarity of South Africans, generally referred to as "xenophobia". According to reports in various media outlet, not less than two hundred Nigerians have lost their from 2015 to date as result of different Xenophobic attacks, hence, millions dollar Nigerians-owned business razed.

Sometimes, people may wonder why an average Nigerian leaves his homeland to look for greener pasture abroad, while his country has vast land richs in resources and wealth. The answer to this question could be determined to what, the German-based journalist Faruq Kproogi called "Naijaphobia".

In this case, xenophobia involves the assassination of a Nigerian in South Africa by a South African, while Naijaphobia refers to the killing of a Nigerian by a Nigerian in Nigeria. A UN report reveals that Nigeria is the most dangerous place live on the planet. Given the ongoing massacres, murder and growing tensions in the country, the UN report could not be rejected.

Its beyond shadow of doubt, that all types of social circles involved in the ongoing Naijaphobia which is seen more dangerous than xenophobia, the Elite/ruling class and commoners, Muslim and Christian, North and South, Igbo, Hausa Yoruba and all other tribes. In fact nobody has been left behind in making the country dangerous place to live.

Moreover, the political class could be considered as the main actors of naïjaphobia. Corruption, nepotism and mismanagement of public funds by politicians and their allies have led many Nigerians to engage in various organized crimes against their fellow citizens.

Henceforth, these politicians are not content to plunder and extort public funds alone, but they also use religion and tribalism as tools to divide and promote hatred among the majority masses, in order to maintain the status quo, while citizens continue to suffer under abject poverty. Nicholas Machiavelli, a 14th century Roman philosopher, argued that a smart ruler should use religion as a weapon to control the minds of his subjects. A typical Nigerian politician is a concrete example of this postulation.

In addition, naïjaphobia is said to be fully present everywhere in Nigeria and its implications made many Nigerians to migrate to other countries. Here are the good examples of Naijaphobia to keep in mind.

*Activities of banditry across North West
* Farmers /Herders clashes in the middle belt and South East
* Boko Haram dilemma in North East
* Tiv/Jikun ethnic crisis
* Ethno religous violence in Kaduna and Plateau state
* Shiite /Sunni clashes in some part of North
* Inflammatory statements by politicians, religious and interest groups which heat the polity
* Streotyping a particular tribe, religion to a specific crime
* Abolishment of worship places both in North and South
* Regular clash between Hausa/Yoruba traders in South West.
* Humiliation of Nigerians by unconstitutional arrest and detention for being non indigenes.

Conclusively , Naijaphobia is more disastrous to Nigeria and Nigerians than Xenophobia. When Naijaphobia eliminated by Nigerians, Xenophobia will disappear itself.
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07/09/ 2019


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u did not add kidnapping in south south, fear of military harassment and above all hunger

dollytino4real:
u did not add kidnapping in south south, fear of military harassment and above all hunger

Kidnapping in South South in 2018-2019? You must have been living in Mars for sometime now. Kidnapping is now a Northern affairs, specifically, North West (Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara)

You might be right afterall however don't make it look as if the aforementioned problems is peculiar to Nigeria.

asuustrike1:
You might be right afterall however don't make it look as if the aforementioned problems is peculiar to Nigeria.

may be he choose to do to avoid being biased.

igbobuigbo:

Kidnapping in South South in 2018-2019? You must have been living in Mars for sometime now. Kidnapping is now a Northern affairs, specifically, North West (Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara)

see Mr Jupiter do u hear anything at all