The current episode of CSI showing this night 8pm CST Time in USA on the CBS Network was just another avenue for the western world to bash ( or expose) Nigeria-all depends on how you view it.

The CSI team is investigating a guy who runs a credit card protection company and there are complaints by his clients that their credit cards found their way to Nigeria (yes Nigeria was chosen-out of the over 198 countries in the world!).

Nick: And you know what will happen to them in Nigeria?
Katherine: Yeah, what happens in Nigeria doesn't stay in Nigeria."

Bashing or Truth?

Truth. Check out this uncyclopedia article of Nigeria

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Nigeria

Don't we profile Arabs/Muslims in Movies to be terrorists? Nothing new here. Nigeria has been mentioned in other shows too like House MD in connection with email scamming.

No be new thing! If they have something bad worth mentioning we exploit same. so which one remember i said 'if'.

Oyibos are scared of us, because naija is very talented in every ramification.
naija man can use 5 minutes to destroy/tap what an oyibo man spent years to build/create

tHOSE white guys they can never be wise.

This would have been provocating if it were mendacious, but it's not. Since it's the truth, it should be taken as a call for moral ablution.

denony:

Oyibos are scared of us, because naija is very talented in every ramification.
naija man can use 5 minutes to destroy/tap what an oyibo man spent years to build/create

Is this supposed to be a plus for Nigeria?

Bawss1:

Don't we profile Arabs/Muslims in Movies to be terrorists? Nothing new here. Nigeria has been mentioned in other shows too like House MD in connection with email scamming.

TRUE TALK. AND THE EAST DEPICTS SATAN AS BLACK!
SO, WATS NEW?

No, they are not jealous/scared of us & no we are no more positively talented than most countries of similar size.

Our reputation goes b4 us am afraid. In professional circles in Europe, I find it embarrassing telling anyone I'm Nigerian. It's that bad.

Nothing but the truth that we all must accept. It is the picture of our past actions and we have the opportunity to make our future better.


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TRUE TALK. AND THE EAST DEPICTS SATAN AS BLACK!
SO, WATS NEW?

And also depicts Jesus as white!!!     

We do a pretty good job in bashing our country anyway. 80% of Nollywood movies potray Naija in bad light, Thugs, ritualist, greedy/murderous uncles, drug barons, high class and low class whores, 419 etc.
Their is a saying in Ibo that goes" If you call your nice china plate rubbish your neigbour will use it to carry garbage".

Na lie them lie,

the 'good' results of ReBranding??

wat i shame, i hereby denounce my citizenship!

I am wondering why everytime Nigeria is potrayed (just the way it is) in foreign media, we always hala , when BBC showed the slum , when they showed Olu omo of oshodi , when they showed Mr Amos agreeing to collect $800k . Are these things lies , NOPE ! , Its just the way nigeria is , i know it is sad but we could stop deluding ourselves.

Do we need CSI to tell us what happens to a credit card when it gets into the hands of and average 9ja boy? Nobody should come here and act like Saint Goodluck ooo.

I've seen one of the classic nigerian lines here again (Oyinbo people are not smart and they are jealous because we are better than them); Now what kind of line is that , for some reason we like to think of ourselves as very smart, intelligent ,
but are we really, have u been in class with oyinbo people, they are very smart people and yes maybe a few nigerians shine abroad, thats just a minute number out of 140 million (I mean if we are so smart and there are 140million of us why cant we do something as simple as choosing the right leaders, or a least saying enough to those misleading us .)

Nigeria is what it is, either we work together to change it or we just dont, but lets not decieve ourselves

don't go around looking for the bad things said about Nigeria in films, I have seen more 100 films where Americans bash Russia, Iran even England, so whats the noise about Nigeria been mentioned in films, ask your producers to bash Americans too, it just a film no big deal; if a Nigerian producers makes a film about Charles Taylor, you don't expect him not to mention Liberia; in some film too they have mentioned Nigeria with good reasons, so talk about that too. haba

why is this a topic - we are known all over the world for fraud so why are people getting upset. I'm sure we all have our views of various countries all over the world so why the excitement!!

if we lived in a society where thieves are not revered and the "big man" syndrome did not dominate then maybe things would be different. Abeg CSI is one of my favourite shows on earth and if people are that worried about what this show is saying then write a letter to CBS and complain. But I think we should clean up our backyard first.

I mean sorry to sound racist to the Asians on this forum but i personally do not like doing any kind of financial business with them cos in the UK they are just as dodgy as Nigerians - abeg chill.

u might want to watch the new boondocks cartoon AND c hoow naija was bashed there, they said AS IF THE EMAIL SCAMS AND DATING FRAUDS WERENT ENOUGH, uncle ruckus also said sth bout a disease called the NIGERIAN MONKEY POT originating from blacks in Nigeria, was reali embarrassed men, in a cartoon oh imagine,

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but why are we complaining ?, . . . . .arabs are known for dia thing , so NIGERIA is also known for her own thing which is " CORRUPTION" aka SCAM . . .infact i am yet to see a nation that scams better than Naija . . we are every where

WE ARE NUMBER ONE WHEN IT COMES TO SCAMMING NOW . . . . NO B LIE , SO WHY UNA DEY VEX , EVEN GOVERNMENT DEY SCAM US ON A DAILY BASIS . . . .WE ALL DEY MAGA OURSELVES . . LOL . .

True talk

there's a warez website where i posted a request - the next thing people on the site started assuming a scammer who was trying to sell something was a nigerian - see yabbing

Whether bashed or exposed, that's what we'll continue to get until we either change, or really develop to the points that our own TV shows and cable networks become popular worldwide and we let the world see the good side of us.

Nobody will tell our stories for us, its our responsibility to impose our relevance on the world stage, or we do jeje-ly and behave well and not spoil our name as we no get power to fight back, while those we look up to for consumption of their works (media or goods and services), continue to supply us entertainment and the likes, so why the complain?

Just got this from our beloved scammers.


MR JACOBS SALAMI
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,
WEST AFRICA.
Tel:+226 78 59 58 30

Dear Friend,
                                 Greeting to you!!!

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met before. I am the Director in charge of Auditing in  Bank of Africa (B.O.A), I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of Twenty Two Million and Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars ($22.500 000mUSD) Immediately to your account.

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 11 years in our Bank here without any body coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) who died a long with his supposed next of kin in air crash since on February 16, 1998. I don't want the fund to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted you, so that my Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you the application form you will fill and send to the bank for transfer of the fund into your bank account and also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me execute this business.And also 10% had been mapped out for you for the expense you will make in this transaction and 50% is for me. I need your informations so that Iwill send you the application form.

                                   YOUR FULL INFORMATIONS
Your Name,
Your Home Addresses,  ,
City,  ,
Country,  ,
Home Telephone,  ,
Private Telephone,  ,
Fax No,  ,
Marital Status,  ,
Sex,
Age,  ,
Occupation,  ,
Religion,  ,

waiting for your urgent response so that we will proceed immediately.

Best Regards,
MR JACOBS SALAMI

Bawss1:

Just got this from our beloved scammers.


MR JACOBS SALAMI
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,
WEST AFRICA.
Tel:+226 78 59 58 30

Dear Friend,
                                 Greeting to you!!!

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met before. I am the Director in charge of Auditing in  Bank of Africa (B.O.A), I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of Twenty Two Million and Five Hundred Thousand united state dollars ($22.500 000mUSD) Immediately to your account.

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 11 years in our Bank here without any body coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account) who died a long with his supposed next of kin in air crash since on February 16, 1998. I don't want the fund to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted you, so that my Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you the application form you will fill and send to the bank for transfer of the fund into your bank account and also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me execute this business.And also 10% had been mapped out for you for the expense you will make in this transaction and 50% is for me. I need your informations so that Iwill send you the application form.

                                   YOUR FULL INFORMATIONS
Your Name,
Your Home Addresses,  ,
City,  ,
Country,  ,
Home Telephone,  ,
Private Telephone,  ,
Fax No,  ,
Marital Status,  ,
Sex,
Age,  ,
Occupation,  ,
Religion,  ,

waiting for your urgent response so that we will proceed immediately.

Best Regards,
MR JACOBS SALAMI

Too bad. I have received so many notifications and requests from a bank i have no account in, asking me for some information including my bank account number. Thats how very gullible they think every1 is.

na today countless movies where naija was seriously bashed, expendables where stallone talk sey him go naija go work him come injured or x men 4 countless movies sha i tink we are gettin noticed thats all

slap1:

This would have been provocating if it were mendacious, but it's not. Since it's the truth, it should be taken as a call for moral ablution.

Yo dude, I don't think Nigeria should be slandered at every given opportunity regardless of our reputation. They are not paragons of morality themselves why do they then thrive on insulting us? If any other country painted America in such a light they'd be beside themselves with indignation. I say Bleep the USA, they can eat ma dicke (no homo). Naija boys, get your money up.

Somewhere in Wikipedia under "internet scam" or so, Nigerians are used not only in the definition, but AS the definition . In movies, they feel it won't sound authentic if they don't use Nigeria(ns) as the scammers. You want them to use Egyptians or Togolese? Nothing to be proud of but that's what u get for being "notorious" for something.

denony:

Oyibos are scared of us, because naija is very talented in every ramification.
naija man can use 5 minutes to destroy/tap what an oyibo man spent years to build/create

I agree that we are very talented and intelligent but how about us using it to improve our country and change the world like Oyibos themselves

DeLaRue:

No, they are not jealous/scared of us & no we are no more positively talented than most countries of similar size.
Our reputation goes b4 us am afraid. In professional circles in Europe, I find it embarrassing telling anyone I'm Nigerian. It's that bad. 

You know what I was talking about----"the embarrasment and shame of it all"

adedayoone:

I am wondering why everytime Nigeria is potrayed (just the way it is) in foreign media, we always hala , when BBC showed the slum , when they showed Olu omo of oshodi , when they showed Mr Amos agreeing to collect $800k . Are these things lies , NOPE ! , Its just the way nigeria is , i know it is sad but we could stop deluding ourselves.
Do we need CSI to tell us what happens to a credit card when it gets into the hands of and average 9ja boy? Nobody should come here and act like Saint Goodluck ooo. ---------I've (I mean if we are so smart and there are 140million of us why cant we do something as simple as choosing the right leaders, or a least saying enough to those misleading us .)
Nigeria is what it is, either we work together to change it or we just dont, but lets not decieve ourselves

Thanks Ayo, we either work for a change or stand aloof and watch the world mock us and make a fool of us all. Right now the inbox I use for NL is filled with numerous 419 mails from able-bodied men that wake, sit on their computer and waste precious time collecting emails from NL to deceive people and get their money. I am even tired of replying them with a "F*kc off, quit being foolish and get something useful doing before I hand you in". The whites can't stoop to using their intelligence like that.
It's high time we bring in change and change can also come when we quit being tribalistic and elect a good leader that can see to the wellbeing of the masses. If our youths have good jobs and benefit from the wealth of the nation, they will rather get busy striving positively for survival and not shaming us all around the world. I am very passionate about a change!

Dearie there is absolutely nothing they potrayed or said on CSI that isn't true. The truth hurts indeed.

This is a trend that started about 5 years ago. Its nothing against Nigeria or Nigerians per se but the result of our new found popularity in the world stage. Because the said popularity happens to be for scamming is just a by the way thing. its even a pseudo compliment Nigeria being the current most recognizable african country. that being said, i do hate it when the lazy writer cant bother to properly research Nigerian names.

if you really want to see Nigeria being used on tv then watch rubicon. where nigeria is a central plot of the series. or this episode of boondocks I watched today about ruckus trying to explain his absence by saying he caught the nigerian pox virus. then he goes ahead to say those damn nigerians with their scams and underwear bombs now this pox.lfmao.

anyway