I recently applied for a job in Ghanaian company and no sooner had I submitted my CV than the director opened it and said immediately 'You are a Nigerian and studied at the University of Nigeria',
I replied in the affirmative and took my leave moments later.

He called me some two weeks later and the first thing he said was 'Why should we give you this job when your people are all over Ghana scamming and defrauding people?' 'The company has gone through your credentials and they are marvelous but...'

The first statement made me feel so bad and made a surge of anger erupt within me, I had to keep my calm and explained to him that the three references on my CV could attest to my character. One of the references is a top NDC member and one time PA to the immediate past Ghanaian president; John Dramani Mahama; the other is a top preacher and prophet while the other is a business man. I also made him realize that he's committing a fallacy of hasty generalization. I made him realize that he's insulted and condemned me already for fraud despite the fact that I've never scammed anyone. I made him understand that I'm not defending my country because we're all saints neither I'm I ruling out the possibility that some Nigerians are in Ghana scamming people. I made him understand that all Ghanaians weren't saints either and that there are good and bad people in every country and all spheres of life.

You guys don't understand how critical this is, people just hearing your intonation and deducing that you are a Nigerian makes them wary about you, just mentioning that you are a Nigerian makes people to be extremely careful about you. To them, you are like a time bomb that can explode at any moment. Why won't the locals see you as a threat when countless atrocious acts are linked to Nigerians?

Just recently, a guy brought his girlfriend to Ghana and probably used her for Sakawa. The guy traveled to the northern part of Ghana (where Sakawa is prevalent), his girlfriend died some days later and all efforts to reach the guy were futile as he refused to take anyone's calls. The girl's corpse was deposited in a mortuary and her spirits has been wandering in the compound mentioning the boy's name (according to the neighbours).
Their room was ransacked and his NIN found alongside his mother's contact, calls were put through to his mother and the situation explained to her, the woman promised to assist in payment of the mortuary bills and claimed that she never knew the girl her son was dating... It's indeed a pathetic situation.


I laugh each time I come to this forum and see how you guys make a tribal war out of every topic. No one knows your tribe once you step out of the shores of Nigeria, you are known as a Nigerian ; no one knows which one is Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, Efik etc.

What exactly should we do to prevent the image of our country from deteriorating further?

Mynd44
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The campaign is to start to tell foreigners the tribes giving Nigerians this negative name.
We will also tell them how to identify them. We will mention their states also.

That is why we must include tribe in our passport

chrisxxx:
The campaign is to start to tell foreigners the tribes giving Nigerians this negative name.
We will also tell them how to identify them. We will mention their states also.

This makes little sense.
Which tribe exactly is the cause of the problem?

Kingosytex:


This makes little sense.
Which tribe exactly is the cause of the problem?

I learnt some countries know tribes in Nigeria now especially those that carry drugs to South America or Asia.

While experience on the job is important, mentality is even a far greater asset employers look forward to during interviews. Your attempt to correct the impression of your potential boss about your country and country men may have been born out of patriotism, but that was not the kind of answer expected from a potential employee. (Most employers take a quick look at your cv and try to determine the part that can put you under pressure and draw their questions from there and watch how you respond). I am sure your boss knows that every country has their negative side, throwing your country's at your face doesn't call for the type of narrations expressed. It shows how pressure can get at you really fast. Rather, you should tell your boss how you intend to make a difference, how your contributions are going to bring back value should they decide to hire you.

OneCandleAway:


I learnt some countries know tribes in Nigeria now especially those that carry drugs to South America or Asia.

Drugs aren't the only crime being committed by Nigerians. I know you are trying to share the Igbos, but it might interest you to know that other tribes are fast competing with the Igbos for the top position.

What about internet fraud and other vices? Are the Igbos also leading there?

chrisxxx:
The campaign is to start to tell foreigners the tribes giving Nigerians this negative name.
We will also tell them how to identify them. We will mention their states also.

This is because some people will find a way to blame fulani herdsmen for everycrime they commit instead of speaking sense to themselves.

Ghañaians doñ't like Nîgeriàns their perspective is too meager to base ur conclusion.

Rostikol:


Load of TRASH.

That so-called ''employer'' is a bigot and a fool, and nobody in their right mind should even WANT to work for a company like that, which practices bare-faced prejudice and discrimination.

If he asked you those questions in a developed country, ie ''Why should we give you this job when your people are all over our country scamming and defrauding people?'', you could take him to court for aggravated racial harassment and discrimination, and you would win with hefty damages and fines levelled against that company.

I see your point. But i think every question asked by an interviewer is aimed at revealing true abilities judging from what is pened down in cv's. All is nothing but attempt to hire the best hands from interviews, and has nothing of unclean intent. It shouldn't warrant litigations as far as i know

Yes, op; really it is unfortunate! However, you are in Nigeria now or later; you know those that commit 70% of Nigeria Crime at local and international scenes. Tell it to their faces maybe we will begin to see changes. They will be responsible for spoiling Nigeria in higher proportion and then call Nigeria zoo. It has affected many honest and hardworking Nigeria in many ways, untill all of us join our hands together to expose them and properbly put them on public ridicule, they won't take any step to change for better because their ways of reasoning are upside-down

Kingosytex:


This makes little sense.
Which tribe exactly is the cause of the problem?

Go to UK, US, UAE , Malaysia and others ask them about the inventories of Nigerians they have in jail. From their names you will know the predominant tribes constituting this.

Who is to blame?
When you have APCriminals in power.
What lessons have they given to Nigerians if not to tell LIES, STEAL, MAIM AND KILL PEOPLE?

Then look at the SHAMELESS INEC as represented by Festus Okoye and Mamood Yakubu?

Tufiakwa!

You're only allowed to get angry if you've never generalised another group of people.