Following the recent incident in Ghana involving the shutting of Nigerian-owned shops, and general harassment of Nigerians in that country, I have been reading with increasing frustration and alarm rants and diatribes by various elements on this forum to the effect that Africans hate one another, blacks hate each other, Africans hate Nigerians etc etc etc etc.

Please, Please, Please, Gentlemen (and women too).

Let us stop this nonsense.

Africans do not hate Nigerians.

The ONLY problem we have is GHANA and SOUTH AFRICA.

FINISH.

Let nobody tell you that Africans hate Nigerians.

It is a LIE.

As I'm speaking to you now there are thousands of Nigerians working and trading in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroun, Kenya, Tanzania, Gabon, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Namibia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Angola, etc.

There are Igbo traders working in SOMALIA now, as I'm talking to you.

None of the Nigerians working in these countries has ever complained about being targeted, or of their shops being shut down, or of being asked to drop 1 million dollars before they can trade.

Nigerians are great travellers, and always will be, regardless of the fortunes of the country.

Those who say Nigerians should stay at home are conditioned. Who decided that the space known as 'Nigeria' is where we must all stay in this big world?

Some white guys in smoke-filled Berlin halls 100 years ago?

Are you kidding me?

Before those white men's grandparents were born, the people known today as 'Nigerians' had been travelling the entire world, with no restrictions on their movement.

Igbo traders travelled as far as Congo and East Africa in pre-colonial times.

Yoruba merchants traded as far as North Africa .

Hausas travelled all over the Sahel, Egypt, and as far out as Turkey and Iran.

So NOBODY can tell us all to ''remain in Nigeria''.

They are basically saying ''shut up and stay in the space your white master has allocated to you''.

A disgusting request we totally reject.

The entire world belongs to us, not just 'Nigerian' space.

Anyone who objects, go take it up with the Almighty.

So DEAL with Ghana and SA as we best see fit, but NEVER imagine that what people in those two nations do is reflective of ''all Africa', or ''black people'.

That would be according WAY too much power, influence, credit and respect to a few hapless imbeciles in 2 countries.

Maybe the older generation who traveled all over the world then didn't constitute themselves as a nuisance, criminal, and idiots who were so materialistic with no moral values but a get-rich-quick at all cost mentality. And whoever wasn't as craze as the present generation of riff-raffs are in their demonic chase of illegal wealth is automatically termed a hater, envious, lazy, or a much.

Nonsense children.

xx

when you are poor and not progressing ...you begin to look.for who to blame

oh outsiders succeeding must be taking our job n space ...leave them they can't do it

the Igbo abandoned property in Port Harcourt ...go and see who owns them today .....same igbos ...infact igbos owns 20 times more house in Port Harcourt than we did in 1970

Artiiclebeast:


This same attitude that you display here is the same thing you lots export to other people's domain and except to be respected.

You don't get it, do you? We ARE respected overseas. THAT is the point I'm making here, you dunce.

You take happenings in SA and Ghana to conclude that Nigerians are hated all over Africa and the world, because you are IGNORANT and full of self-hate.

MY EXPERIENCE from travelling the world as a Nigerian is that NIGERIANS ARE RESPECTED across the world.

For our education, intelligence, business enterprise, music, culture, football prowess, and Nollywood.

If you go to JAMAICA and tell them you're Nigerian, they will treat you like their long-lost brother.

You will receive nothing but love. They know all our movies, our actors and actresses, and they play all our music, plus many of our doctors, nurses, and teachers/lecturers work there.

We have respected Nigerian professors at the University of the West Indies doing Nigeria proud and educating our Caribbean brethren.

Go to New York City, and if you walk into a hospital and see a black doctor there, there's a 70% chance it's a Nigerian.

I mean, Nigerians have gone too far for TINY GHANA and South Africa to form the image the world has of Nigeria.

Way, way, way too far.

You don't demand respect, you earn it.

We EARNED IT And we HAVE IT.

YOU are living a DELUSION by thinking Nigerians are hated overseas.

In GHANA and SOUTH AFRICA perhaps.

NOWHERE ELSE.


This is DIRECT from the US MEDIA:


''NIGERIANS - THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ETHNIC GROUP IN THE USA''

https://www.ozy.com/around-the-world/the-most-successful-ethnic-group-in-the-u-s-may-surprise-you/86885/

Artiiclebeast:


Eff off my mentions you dimmy.

Empty vessel.

You are respected all over the world running around the world over constituting a nuisance for the best part while your stupid "all over the world respect" is a mirage in your home country.

Let's see your so-called respect felt in your home country first before you go about making a mockery of yourself in your destitution and refugee status.

Na brain dey pain you..

You are respected all over the world while your home country is being run and managed by dingbats and you dey tear mouth.

Olodo

Failed youth blaming others for his failed status.

In NIGERIA your JUNIORS who have never left Nigeria are establishing start-ups that are attracting funding from Silicon Valley and elsewhere to the tune of millions of dollars.

You can live like a KING in Nigeria if you are positive and apply your brain.

But no.

Stay there with your failed, disgruntled, useless self.

Did Nigeria not give you an education?

Could your great grandparents or grandparents read or write under colonial rule?

Were they not village illiterates?

Now barely a generation later you have a lifestyle they couldn't even dream of, but still expect to be living in an African version of Japan or Germany. Otherwise, it is a ''failed state''.

Don't wake up and realise you are in a developing country, like 80% of nations on earth, you hear?

Keep being angry and disgruntled and hating your country til you hit the bucket, ya hear?

Wasted life.

saying all these are happening because Nigerians are this and that are just unnecessary excuses. You're doing your legit business and progressing and they'll say you people are coming here to take all opportunities meant for us, you date their girl they will say you people are taking our women. A Nigerian will buy something #5 and sell it #6 but they will buy theirs same price and be calling it #30 by the time the Nigerian sell 1000pieces of his they'll still be struggling to sell 2pieces. At the end of the day they'll still be blaming the Nigerian for their woes. Don't let anyone deceive you that all these hatred are happening because of crimes but Envy and inability to compete with Nigerians. Speaking from personal experience.

there is God

Xpol:
saying all these are happening because Nigerians are these and that are just unnecessary excuses. You're doing your legit business and progressing and they'll say you people are coming here to take all opportunities meant for us, you date their girl they will say you people are taking our women. A Nigerian will buy something #5 and sell it #6 but they will buy theirs same price and be calling it #30 by the time the Nigerian sell 1000pieces of his they'll still be struggling to sell 2pieces. At the end of the day they'll still be blaming the Nigerian for their woes. Don't let anyone deceive you that all these hatred are happening because of crimes but Envy and inability to compete with Nigerians. Speaking from personal experience.

Thanks bro. As we speak there are thousands of Chinese mining gold illegally in Ghana, and shipping out millions of dollars every week in profits. Never heard of a single one of them being apprehended or stopped by Ghanaian authorities. Indians and Lebanese are into the deal as well. But the Ghanaians leave them all to target Nigerian petty traders on the street making 100 cedis.

Artiiclebeast:


Confused slowpoke contradicting himself repeatedly.

You are an empty barrel.

What does that mean? Come on clear out of this place. Who asked you to talk? Small boy drowning in inferiority complex.

Don't man up, you hear? Donkey.

Xpol:
saying all these are happening because Nigerians are these and that are just unnecessary excuses. You're doing your legit business and progressing and they'll say you people are coming here to take all opportunities meant for us, you date their girl they will say you people are taking our women. A Nigerian will buy something #5 and sell it #6 but they will buy theirs same price and be calling it #30 by the time the Nigerian sell 1000pieces of his they'll still be struggling to sell 2pieces. At the end of the day they'll still be blaming the Nigerian for their woes. Don't let anyone deceive you that all these hatred are happening because of crimes but Envy and inability to compete with Nigerians. Speaking from personal experience.

My dear brother, let's hope you'll understand my p.o.v.

You see how the narrative is about everyone being against or targeting Nigerians because it is Nigeria Vs. either Ghana or South Africa.

Now, what say you about the daily attacks and suspicions between the same Nigerians here on a daily with the Afonja, Southwest, Ipob, Nyamuri et al diatribes which are a daily stable here.

Think about it and you just might get my drift.

If we can't tolerate ourselves with our peculiar diversities what gives us the moral compass or right to demand tolerance and respect from our hosts in their own countries?

Rossinkky:


What does that mean? Come on clear out of this place. Who asked you to talk? Small boy drowning in inferiority complex.

Don't man up, you hear? Donkey.

Monkey...

Na me and the people wey born you suppose dey yarn. You be smallie wey never see life or one wey dey view life from him own lense.

Dundee united.

I will say this,

Nigerians broke the law they close their shop

I understand that what Ghana did, they are protecting their interests.

Imagine, if foreigners come to Nigeria and take all the jobs we are struggling for, lets see how you will cope.

Ghana is doing a good thing, Ghanaians were tailors, teachers,shoemakers in Nigeria, we drove them away.

Artiiclebeast:


Monkey...

Na me and the people wey born you suppose dey yarn. You be smallie wey never see life or one wey dey view life from him own lense.

Dundee united.

Maggot.

Crawl back under your stone where you belong.

Your JUNIORS are making it big in Nigeria by using their brains. Go learn from them and stop blaming the govt and other Nigerians for your failure.

Worthless.

sexylassie2:
I will say this,

Nigerians broke the law they close their shop

I understand that what Ghana did, they are protecting their interests.

Imagine, if foreigners come to Nigeria and take all the jobs we are struggling for, lets see how you will cope.

Ghana is doing a good thing, Ghanaians were tailors, teachers, shoemakers in Nigeria, we drove them away.

Do you realise there are over 1 million Ghanaians in Nigeria today, many without a passport?

Everyone seems to think that it's only Nigerians who travel abroad, and that no one migrates to Nigeria.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I put to you that there are not less than 10 million Africans of non Nigerian origin residing in NIGERIA today.

From Cameroun. From Ghana. From Niger, Ivory Coast, Chad, Togo, Liberia, Sierra leone, Benin, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Senegal and elsewhere.

Many of them speak Nigerian languages. Nobody bothers them or discriminates against them. That is why they are quiet and we don't notice them. But they are here.

Artiiclebeast:


This same attitude that you display here is the same thing you lots export to other people's domain and except to be respected.

You don't demand respect, you earn it.

Within you klootzaaks here from the same country, the stupid battle for tribal and ethnic supremacy are always unending.

You see how you just insulted the people who had the unenviable honor of bringing something a #50 condom would have prevented into the world or better still, if she had listened to taking the sperm in her mouth or shiithole, the world would have been spared a waste like you.

Ashlock

Guy, shut da eff up and get out of this Nigerian forum. Why will a well-calibrated and winning Nigerian concern himself with the opinion of Ghanaians and South Africans?

Everything people from those Nations display is driven mainly by jealousy and inferiority complex.
Only foolish Nigerians would lose sleep over the pained rants of Ghanaian and South African losers.

Rossinkky:


Do you realise there are over 1 million Ghanaians in Nigeria today, many without a passport?

Everyone seems to think that it's only Nigerians who travel abroad, and that no one migrates to Nigeria.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I put to you that there are not less than 10 million Africans of non Nigerian origin residing in NIGERIA today.

From Cameroun. From Ghana. From Niger, Ivory Coast, Chad, Togo, Liberia, Sierra leone, Benin, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Senegal and elsewhere.

Many of them speak Nigerian languages. Nobody bothers them or discriminates against them. That is why they are quiet and we don't notice them. But they are here.

There are no 1 million Ghanaians or 10 million africans in nigeria, stop cooking up numbers.

sexylassie2:
I will say this,

Nigerians broke the law they close their shop

I understand that what Ghana did, they are protecting their interests.

Imagine, if foreigners come to Nigeria and take all the jobs we are struggling for, lets see how you will cope.

Ghana is doing a good thing, Ghanaians were tailors, teachers,shoemakers in Nigeria, we drove them away.

I think that it is insane for someone to say that foreigners took "their jobs ". Where were they when those foreigners were submitting their cv's for job application? Or have you ever seen a Nigerian that was given an automatic employment as soon as he stepped his foot in South Africa? Or do Nigerians order for jobs before coming to South Africa? They are lazy. Simple

Xpol:
saying all these are happening because Nigerians are this and that are just unnecessary excuses. You're doing your legit business and progressing and they'll say you people are coming here to take all opportunities meant for us, you date their girl they will say you people are taking our women. A Nigerian will buy something #5 and sell it #6 but they will buy theirs same price and be calling it #30 by the time the Nigerian sell 1000pieces of his they'll still be struggling to sell 2pieces. At the end of the day they'll still be blaming the Nigerian for their woes. Don't let anyone deceive you that all these hatred are happening because of crimes but Envy and inability to compete with Nigerians. Speaking from personal experience.

Don't mind them. It is pure hatred. It is only in Africa that someone will lock forieners shops, disturb innocent people doing legitimate business, and justify their actions by saying that they are criminals. They don't know how stupid they sound.

sexylassie2:


There are no 1 million Ghanaians or 10 million africans in nigeria, stop cooking up numbers.

Who is this one?

Stick to the duties suggested by your name pls.

What do you know about geopolitics?

Rossinkky:


Who is this one?

Stick to the duties suggested by your name pls.

What do you know about geopolitics?

Mr sabi all, I want to believe you created this thread so as to educate people and also let them know why and where we are been hated
You don't have to go harsh on everyone and start using 'f' word around
They have opinions too and they are entitled to it
@the topic, before anyone speak of jealousy, ask yourself what do they envy about you?
Naija good nah him una run go them country?
And please there's no 1 million Ghanaians in Nigeria
Artiiclebeast has a point, even in the southern part of the country, we can't tolerate ourselves
How do you want these people to respect you then?
Charity they say begins at home
Thank you

Artiiclebeast:


My dear brother, let's hope you'll understand my p.o.v.

You see how the narrative is about everyone being against or targeting Nigerians because it is Nigeria Vs. either Ghana or South Africa.

Now, what say you about the daily attacks and suspicions between the same Nigerians here on a daily with the Afonja, Southwest, Ipob, Nyamuri et al diatribes which are a daily stable here.

Think about it and you just might get my drift.

If we can't tolerate ourselves with our peculiar diversities what gives us the moral compass or right to demand tolerance and respect from our hosts in their own countries?

It's a known fact that Nigerians are more dangerous than other nationalities, we don't love ourselves, we envy ourselves, we see nothing wrong in our internal tribalism, we don't trust ourselves, If a Yoruba man reads an headline in the news that a Nigerian robbed a bank before he clicks to read it in his mind he will be like oh lord let it be an igbo man oh, same thing happens to an Hausa or Igbo man but when other nations treat us same way we'll be shouting. But what I'm saying in particular is that what you see in Ghana and South Africa is not because of crimes it's majorly because of envy and they can't compete with Nigerians so they see them as a threat. Everyday there's robberies in Ghana or South Africa but once it's there nationals nothing wrong but if a Nigerian is among a 10 members robbery gang then problems have started. Nigerians also need to change their ways and be good Ambassadors abroad.

Igbochief001:
when you are poor and not progressing ...you begin to look.for who to blame

oh outsiders succeeding must be taking our job n space ...leave them they can't do it

the Igbo abandoned property in Port Harcourt ...go and see who owns them today .....same igbos ...infact igbos owns 20 times more house in Port Harcourt than we did in 1970

Well said

no country again nau apart from Ghana and South Africa.

Rossinkky:
Following the recent incident in Ghana involving the shutting of Nigerian-owned shops, and general harassment of Nigerians in that country, I have been reading with increasing frustration and alarm rants and diatribes by various elements on this forum to the effect that Africans hate one another, blacks hate each other, Africans hate Nigerians etc etc etc etc.

Please, Please, Please, Gentlemen (and women too).

Let us stop this nonsense.

Africans do not hate Nigerians.

The ONLY problem we have is GHANA and SOUTH AFRICA.

FINISH.

Let nobody tell you that Africans hate Nigerians.

It is a LIE.

As I'm speaking to you now there are thousands of Nigerians working and trading in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroun, Kenya, Tanzania, Gabon, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Namibia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Angola, etc.

There are Igbo traders working in SOMALIA now, as I'm talking to you.

None of the Nigerians working in these countries has ever complained about being targeted, or of their shops being shut down, or of being asked to drop 1 million dollars before they can trade.

Nigerians are great travellers, and always will be, regardless of the fortunes of the country.

Those who say Nigerians should stay at home are conditioned. Who decided that the space known as 'Nigeria' is where we must all stay in this big world?

Some white guys in smoke-filled Berlin halls 100 years ago?

Are you kidding me?

Before those white men's grandparents were born, the people known today as 'Nigerians' had been travelling the entire world, with no restrictions on their movement.

Igbo traders travelled as far as Congo and East Africa in pre-colonial times.

Yoruba merchants traded as far as North Africa .

Hausas travelled all over the Sahel, Egypt, and as far out as Turkey and Iran.

So NOBODY can tell us all to ''remain in Nigeria''.

They are basically saying ''shut up and stay in the space your white master has allocated to you''.

A disgusting request we totally reject.

The entire world belongs to us, not just 'Nigerian' space.

Anyone who objects, go take it up with the Almighty.

So DEAL with Ghana and SA as we best see fit, but NEVER imagine that what people in those two nations do is reflective of ''all Africa', or ''black people'.

That would be according WAY too much power, influence, credit and respect to a few hapless imbeciles in 2 countries.

You sound very arrogant. First of all, you claim to have the freedom to travel the whole world the way you wish. I don't have to argue this before people here will know it's wrong. Secondly, I'd like to know how much Nigerians are either making or contributing to (for themselves and to Ghanaian economy) before you can make all these claims of Ghanaians envying you. Give us very accurate numbers, not imaginative claims of how we are building Ghana and taking over the whole place. By the way, Ghana has immigration laws as Nigeria and if we choose not to enforce ours, it's not their business. They own their country, the best you can do is accuse them of envy and jealousy (that too has to be proven, you must have enough for them to envy you). I get it that you are trying to be a nationalist, i like that too but let's be truthful here, Nigeria needs to change.