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maybe America dey vex say we no dey fall maga for their job but them dey fall maga for Naija job.

@All contributors,
Oprah Winfrey said " All Nigerians-regardless of educational level- are corrupt" and Seun of nairaland said earlier in page 1 of the thread:

We are angry with Oprah for speaking the truth.  Isn't that rather corrupt of us?

Do you see what has been done to the psyche of an average young Nigeria adult, to the extent that they do not believe in themselves anymore but quick to agree with the whiteman/woman's or nay foreigners impression of themselves. Rather than talk about Oprah, I will suggest you spend some time 'counselling' the young man. There is no big deal in anybody having any negative opinion about you, the problem is when you now agree with that opinion. It is like a boy calling his own family 'thieves'. Isn't it?

People say na rat wey dey for house go bring de one outside come show am wey dem dey keep food. so make una no blame de woman. true ! true!! una corrupt no be small even to de last pikin wey dem born.

@batu

Oprah is not a white woman physically. She only wishes it so much that it's beginning to seem real.

@Seun

be careful O! Do you want us to effect a coup on Nairaland and overthrow you? Are you corrupt? Is your whole family corrupt, regardless of their level of education?

I love Oprah.
She has done a whole lot for mankind than any of you efulefus dissing her would ever do even if you had 20 lifetimes.
She did not say anysuch thing and that's my final answer.

Na who talk so? Na SHE

@maki.there is more hope 4 a fool than for u.u are a really wise fool.ur post is d most foolish ever posted.i pity ur father.ur school fees was a waste,slowpoke.if really oprah insulted nigerians,its a pity.but y refer to igbos as slaves,slowpoke

@babyosisi

and mankind has done a lot to the tune of $1.5 million for Oprah. So now it's time for her to rub it in our faces.

babyosisi:

I love Oprah.
She has done a whole lot for mankind than any of you efulefus dissing her would ever do even if you had 20 lifetimes.
She did not say anysuch thing and that's my final answer.

indeed

amaikama:

People say na rat wey dey for house go bring de one outside come show am wey them dey keep food. so make una no blame de woman. true ! true!! una corrupt no be small even to de last pikin wey them born.

Amen!!!!  Any other believers in the house  Please do not forget to vote for we are seriously lagging behind!!!  America is proud of you!!!

babyosisi:

I love Oprah.
She has done a whole lot for mankind than any of you efulefus dissing her would ever do even if you had 20 lifetimes.
She did not say anysuch thing and that's my final answer.

Lie lie!!  She talk am!!! Make them burst!!!!!  We will teach them what we do with noise makers who make loud noises here---to Guantanamo Bay!!!  

adrianic:

@maki.there is more hope 4 a fool than for u.u are a really wise fool.your post is d most foolish ever posted.i pity your father.your school fees was a waste,slowpoke.if really oprah insulted nigerians,its a pity.but y refer to igbos as slaves,slowpoke

Yes!!! Fire on please!!!!

What has Oprah done for mankind,all these foolish gals wey miss road dey yankee,yes she has done well for men that pay her for services which we can all call mankind,not only mankind na kindess the men show am by paying her when she was hungry,olodo

Una dey here de make noise Please leave this thread and go to the latest one posted by "Smile4Kenn" on "HOW TO BE A NIGERIAN"  Watch good 9 minutes of cinema ON YOU-TUBE about Nigeria in the "most favorable" light!  Make una no let Oprah see this one oh!!!  PLEASE YOU GUYS SHOULD MOVE TO THE NEXT THREAD AND SEE SOMETHING!!!!!   NA WAH OH!!!!! All of you making noise here---this is your chance to curse YOU-TUBE too!!! he he he he he he he!!!! Laff wan kill me oh!!!!!NAIJA!!!!

hey guys, i'm about to ''leak'' my sextape with Oprah. It is going to be up for auiction on eBay. yeye woman.

Oprah who she be ? she sabi book reach aluko n agbe of Ekiti.Ogun punish am.
make una read wetin perosn wey know get talk about her shallow thinking

By TRACY MCLELLAN

Another instance of the gruel that passes for culture in the United States was Oprah's fiftieth birthday celebration, an orgy of conspicuous consumption, unbridled greed, and insatiable hunger. It's been almost a week now that I saw it and I still can't get it out of my mind, nor get away from the nausea it engenders. Just as the crony capitalists probably write off on their taxes the bribes they pay to our politicians as charitable contributions, the birthday bash is probably also a tax deduction.

The party resulted in two one-hour shows. The first was before a live studio audience. The second was a weekend-long, behind the scenes look at a post-taping party, dinner for 50 close friends atop the Sears Tower, and a weekend gala at an estate in Santa Barbara.

The primary hosts were her friend, Gayle, at her sycophantic and saccharine best, and John Travolta, of Scientology fame. That religion's only apparent functions are to take psychological profiles of random passers-by on the streets, and sponsor $5000, one-night luxury cruises, probably also another tax dodge. Travolta opened the ceremony with a toast worthy of Shakespeare. Oprah hung on every word, teary-eyed and trembling, and softly moaned Travolta's first name.

Entertainment ought to be put in its compartment next to others in a rich cultural life. Being engaged in the political process as a handful of thieves and crooks loot the country, and the world teeters on the brink of apocalypse comes to mind. Instead, ours has become a society that reveres entertainers and celebrities above and to the exclusion of all else.

I kept my eyes peeled for the celebs there to beware a future emotional investment in their art or craft, such as they are. It was a disgusting display of avarice and cupidity. It's not worth naming them all, but special mention ought to go to Diane Sawyer, "Di" to Oprah, former Nixon speechwriter and Henry Kissinger consort, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, and Toni Morrison

If it was just an excuse, I give props to Maya Angelou for begging off sick. She did however send a poem, which was read aloud by a succession of the hoity-toity. The whole thing was not read on the air, unfortunately, so it was difficult to ascertain the context of the line that essentially extolled Oprah as being "able to swim effortlessly in an ocean of substance." Jay Leno arrived in a stretch-limo. Celine Dion sang in Santa Barbara, as did Tina Turner in Chicago. Since the broadcast I have heard that Oprah gave Stevie Wonder a $400,000 Rolls Royce for attending.

The amenities and party favors were worthy of Dennis Kozlowski. Ten thousand flowers were flown in, from all over the world. A four hundred-pound cake was flown in from California. Invitations were made of handmade imported silk, with individually inscribed calligraphy, and stuffed with "historic" photos of Oprah. With not a trace of narcissism, when Oprah received hers, she ordered one hundred more for family and fiends.

Wolfgang Puck too arrived by airplane to cater a dinner from a kitchen built especially for the occasion in the building that houses Oprah's studio. Thirty more chefs were also employed. More guests and trinkets also arrived by airplane, including lobsters straight from the ocean the day before.

I didn't know there were other kinds, but a master party planner saw to every last detail, scurrying around like a construction foreman, and when she was around, attending to Oprah like a drone to a queen bee. He oversaw party preparations, left fist tucked against the back of his left hip, right hand in the air, with pinkie protruding as if a fish caught on a hook. Among other fabulous perks was a rare, satin table skirt, festooned with a cover made of silk, hand-adorned with 100,000 beads, imported from India. Dinner menus were hand inscribed with calligraphy.

A construction crew of 400 "bettered" an already opulent Santa Barbara estate for the party, themed "gold, gold, gold." Chandeliers were imported from Europe. More flowers were imported from Holland, Ecuador, and Hawaii. The walls were decorated with TVs made to appear as rare paintings. Upon seeing the dinner table, Oprah exclaimed, "it looks like it was set for Louis XIV himself." In a toast to her Santa Barbara hosts over her birthday cake, Oprah lauded them as deep, wise, and strong, apparently three synonyms for fantastically wealthy.

The coup d'gras was a club assembled, please God tell me this isn't true, over a huge swimming pool. Apparently so big they didn't want to drain it, scuba divers were deployed to cobble and weld together a foundation of girders, posts, and poles for a dance floor, finished with laminate flooring. My guess is that the floor was in the garbage within a week.

Perhaps you could ignore this gluttony in a more perfect world. But half the world's population, three billion people, exists on two dollars a day. Twenty-five thousand children die daily of hunger and related easily preventable causes. There's plenty of food to feed earth's six billion inhabitants, it is rather a problem of distribution, and an unequal distribution of the world's wealth and resources. It is precisely that some have way too much, and most way too little, that is most responsible for engendering wars, strife, and bloodshed. In light of the unimaginable destructiveness of modern weaponry, the earth can simply not tolerate war anywhere.

These parties occurred simultaneously as the United States is waging and funding wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, the Occupied Territories of Palestine, and who knows where all else. Not one word, not even a gesture of acknowledgement of these crises was uttered, as is typical of Oprah's shows.

About a month earlier, Oprah had taken her entourage to South Africa to bestow on some of its destitute, shoes, clothes and other Christmas gifts. I was very moved by the show and thought that shows like that could redeem the soap operas, the home remodelings, the particulars of cosmetic surgery, in a word, the distraction that is typically the moral, spiritual, and cultural heft of her show. Now I know that the South Africa show was about Oprah, and not the desperate in South Africa. Oprah thinks she does well to occasionally condescend to the wretched in charity. She would do well better by exercising justice and divest and strip herself of ninety percent of her wealth.

This then is the state of American democracy--ever vigilant, with perfect equality, justice, and peace for all.

Tracy McLellan can be reached at: tracymacl@yahoo.com

Nigerians,please dont believe everything you read.While it is true that Nigeria has a negeative image worldwide.Oprah never said that all Nigerians are corrput.The article in question where this story seems to have started from was not a Punch article by one of its correspondents but a letter from a reader.Transcripts of every programme aired on Oprah are available on her website.
I have watched many programmes about 419 on Oprah and in the last one I watched she said :"Now please dont send letters explaining that not all Nigerians are corrupt,because I know that the majority of Nigerians are good people,that I already know'.

We do have a big problem with corruption in Nigeria and we can only solve it ourselves.

Oprah is high on drugs.Why would an educated and well placed woman like her make flimsy statements.How ignorant can one be?I tink she shld start by painting her community well to the whole world instead of trying to remove the speck in another mans land.

Maybe people shld remind her of the ills of the Black community.



Good riddance to bad rubbish

jimsawyer:

Nigerians,please don't believe everything you read.While it is true that Nigeria has a negeative image worldwide.Oprah never said that all Nigerians are corrput.The article in question where this story seems to have started from was not a Punch article by one of its correspondents but a letter from a reader.Transcripts of every programme aired on Oprah are available on her website.
I have watched many programmes about 419 on Oprah and in the last one I watched she said :"Now please don't send letters explaining that not all Nigerians are corrupt,because I know that the majority of Nigerians are good people,that I already know'.

We do have a big problem with corruption in Nigeria and we can only solve it ourselves.

I was told she said that on her show some months back bt i didnt watch it and someone started a thread like that on Nairaland

In an interview with Billy Bush, re posted by MSNBC, among other news agencies, Oprah admitted to using cocaine. "Years ago I had a woman on my show who was talking about drugs and how she was addicted to her boyfriend and I had used drugs in my 20s with this boyfriend and I was more addicted to the boyfriend than I was to the drugs," she revealed.

You know what Oprah, I'm gonna make this short and sweet. You did it. Nobody forced it on you. Don't blame others. You always preach on your show about being honest, and taking responsibilities, so do just that and stop blaming the addiction on your boyfriend.

Poor Oprah,
She has finally lost it,we can't blame her we all know that her greatest fear is about consuming her.I guess we should apply the simple law of silence for fools which states that :

SILENCE IS THE BEST ANSWER FOR A FOOL

How dare Her,refer to all Nigerians as corrupt,just imagine Wole Soyinka calling all Americans Gay simply becos a miserable lot of them are gay.Makes little sense to utter such a statement.

It beats my imagination,but seriouslly we shouldnt keep silent about Oprah's Remark,I expect Nigerian embassy in America ,Fix Nigeria Initiative,Heart of Africa act fast. Act Now !!

Oprah's brain is loose. After all the plastic surgery, they've pulled the skin on her head so tight that she can't think straight anymore. She's mad.

I've noticed that she doesn't even like African Americans with culture. She prefers the white wannabes: The Tiger Woods and Will Smiths. She never wants to be seen with the ice-cubes. So I knew it wouldn't take long before she completely bestialised Africans.

Ashewo 10 10 kobo, na him she be.small time dem go begin talk say she get money past Aliko.I go start petition to NBC say make dem ban hin program on cable n satellite stations in Nigeria. yeye woman.

see all these people o. If our fellow Nigerians run to tell Oprah what people are saying about her on their forums, y'all will start screaming when she does negative stuff on Nigeria,.


AND BY THE WAY OPRAH IS NOT NIGERIAN O. SHE HAS A RIGHT TO CLAIM ANYPLACE SHE WANTS, IN AFRICA. BECOS IT SEEMS TO ME THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE A BEEF WITH HER FOR IDENTIFYING WITH ZULU. ITS HER PREROGATIVE AND SHE CAN CLAIM WHEREVER SHE WANTS. NO BE BY FORCE DEM DEY CLAIM NIGERIAN O.

END OF STORY.


see as dem dey declare war on Oprah.

@ militia

u be the correct person jooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
truth dem say is bitter
for una wey d vex, una neva start oohhhhhh!!!!!

porasog:

@ militia

u be the correct person jooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
truth them say is bitter
for una wey d vex, una never start oohhhhhh!!!!!

Thank you!!!!  See these Naija haters wan kill my mama Oprah for me oh!!!!

Truth is very bitter!!!  These men are viscious oh!!!  I wish they can use all this energy to concentrate on Nigeria heh  Can you see none of them showed up in the other topic---"HOW TO BE A NIGERIAN"  See Nigerian video on You-Tube by Nigerians dissing Nigeria to the whole world?  And they are here making noise!!! Kai!!!!  Thank God I am only "half" Nigerian oh!!!  These guys--especially the men--are disgracefull!!!!!

Tell me which part of the world that is without crime that i may go there and hide, even the smallest crime. Look guys you gotta wake up. She may be entitled to her opinion but if she were her i would have stoned her to death for such a treacherous felony.

@tpia

Oprah is not Zulu, her tests and all research shows she's related to the pigmies but she vex reject am come choose tribe by herself. All in all though, Oprah generally does not like African Americans talkless of Africans.

roscodady wrote

What has Oprah done for mankind,all these foolish gals wey miss road dey yankee,yes she has done well for men that pay her for services which we can all call mankind,not only mankind na kindess the men show am by paying her when she was hungry,olodo

Rosco [b]if I no be Christian I for say make thunder fire your keyboards and the mouth wey you take call Oprah ashewo .[/b]She has never been an ashewo,OK.
mind yourself o

denex:

@tpia

Oprah is not Zulu, her tests and all research shows she's related to the pigmies but she vex reject am come choose tribe by herself. All in all though, Oprah generally does not like African Americans talkless of Africans.

since there are no records, she can claim anywhere in Africa due to her Black skin. Unless she has evidence that she's melanasian.


I dont know if she doesnt like Blacks. She's a Black female billionaire, and its always lonely at the top.

Her best friend is black, if that counts.

ozoneflake:

Tell me which part of the world that is without crime that i may go there and hide, even the smallest crime. Look guys you gotta wake up. She may be entitled to her opinion but if she were her i would have stoned her to death for such a treacherous felony.

You will not go and "stone" PHCN for not giving you electricity for almost 4 years on your street

MILITIA:

You will not go and "stone" PHCN for not giving you electricity for almost 4 years on your street

which one you dey, militia?

are you for or against Oprah, because I'm finding it difficult to know where you are on this thread.

state in plain black and white: do you hate Oprah?

tpia:

which one you dey, militia?

are you for or against Oprah, because I'm finding it difficult to know where you are on this thread.

state in plain black and white: do you hate Oprah?

Haba!!! It means you have not been following this thread!!! I say Oprah na my mama!!!! Them wan kill am for me!! Of course I am for Oprah!!!! All these Oprah haters suck!!!!!