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Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by YorubaLord: 11:29am On May 14
Make she come live for 9ja then... undecided
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Holluwhakemmy(f): 11:29am On May 14
Congratulations Omowale, Ifeoma Edidiong
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by IbrahimSkiba(f): 11:29am On May 14
grin

When she gets to another country she will also claim that country as her country. Nothing special
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by khattab02: 11:30am On May 14
grin grin


Make I throw jibes





In school these days, 43% no be pass mark oo



grin wink
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by optimusprime2(m): 11:32am On May 14
SmartyPants:
With over 240 distinct ethnicities in Nigeria, I wonder how a DNa test can give Nigerian as an answer. Nigerian is not an ethnicity. The test should show that her ancestry is partly traceable to a particular tribe or area within Nigeria.

Yes it did...

The DNA results localised her traces to partly south-south and south east of Nigeria tribal ancestry.
Which makes sense because those were the tribes that were predominantly shipped as slaves
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Believeintruth: 11:32am On May 14
sammirano2:
Ifeoma ko ifeidi Ni grin this minority Sabi rate themselves Sha, if she is by any means Nigerian na Yoruba cos we were the first to interact with coloniers

you really don't have sense sha
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by sammirano2: 11:33am On May 14
Believeintruth:


you really don't have sense sha

In your idile no one has sense.
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by advanceDNA: 11:34am On May 14
Nyne:
She might soon run for office

I won't be surprised cos the way she dey take this Nigerian belong-ship matter don dey too much

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Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by NairalandGOAT1: 11:34am On May 14
If only she knows that "belonging to Nigeria" means she belongs to nowhere except she narrows it down to a particular tribe or ethnicity.. 😂

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Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Omoawoke: 11:35am On May 14
sammirano2:
Ifeoma ko ifeidi Ni grin this minority Sabi rate themselves Sha, if she is by any means Nigerian na Yoruba cos we were the first to interact with coloniers

It’s slave mentality to brag about being the first to interact with colonizers
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Believeintruth: 11:36am On May 14
sammirano2:


In your idile no one has sense.

see the rubbish you wrote. does that show you have any sense at all?

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Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by advanceDNA: 11:36am On May 14
johnog4sure:
She cant be Nigerian, .

Somebody left her husband and young marriage to marry a rich prince and u said she can't be a Nigerian ....

No be Nigerian woman dey pull the that kinda stunt without remorse.... grin grin grin

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Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Blaze14k: 11:36am On May 14
sammirano2:
Ifeoma ko ifeidi Ni grin this minority Sabi rate themselves Sha, if she is by any means Nigerian na Yoruba cos we were the first to interact with coloniers

Now I see the reason you people have started hating the lady already.

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Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by SmartyPants(m): 11:39am On May 14
optimusprime2:


Yes it did...

The DNA results localised her traces to partly south-south and south east of Nigeria tribal ancestry.

Which makes sense because those were the tribes that were predominantly shipped as slaves

Makes sense. Thanks.
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by skj1377(m): 11:39am On May 14
She must be from east.
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by jaxxy(m): 11:39am On May 14
cool
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by jubrilELsudan: 11:39am On May 14
VERY PLAUSIBLE CAUSE NA ONLY 9JA WOMAN DEY MARRY JUST TO CONTROL HER HUSBAND LIKE REMOTE CONTROL CUM SKATA HER HUSBAND FAMILY

AND NA IGBO WOMEN DEY SKATA HUSBAND FAMILY PASS SO E NO SURPRISE ME WHEN SHE SAY NA IGBO SHE BE

BUT HER PLAN NO WORK NA IM MAKE DEM PURSUE DEM COMOT PALACE

Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by virginchaser(m): 11:40am On May 14
Warrior247:
What if I conduct the same test and discover that I'm an American?

Will they give me USA visa and green card?

Laughing out loud in Spanish.
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Curious345: 11:42am On May 14
Yes she looks Edo
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Btruth: 11:45am On May 14
Of what help will this be to Nigeria? 🤷
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by yad2eidi: 11:50am On May 14
this one just dey fin naija preek to Bleep
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by yad2eidi: 11:51am On May 14
advanceDNA:


Somebody left her husband and young marriage to marry a rich prince and u said she can't be a Nigerian ....

No be Nigerian woman dey pull the that kinda stunt without remorse.... grin grin grin
lol and she is planning to leave this one for better high black preek
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by ukaface(f): 11:55am On May 14
Wahala
Shey she know the shege wey Dey naija?
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by ufotunang: 11:59am On May 14
Then I declare her an Akwa ibom woman....signed and sealed 🙄
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by anonimi: 12:00pm On May 14
tym92:
Hope this will make Naira appreciate against Dollar...

Unfortunately not.
It is work by 200 million Nigerians who constantly eat less than we produce that will save the Naira ultimately.

David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

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Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by ufotunang: 12:01pm On May 14
ukaface:
Wahala
Shey she know the shege wey Dey naija?
..abi... when renewed shege enter her .she will reject being a Nigerian and run back to her country🤣🤣🤣🤣
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by solajacobs(m): 12:02pm On May 14
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by OdefaGirl(f): 12:03pm On May 14
IFY BEKEE 😁😁
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Tonnyray: 12:05pm On May 14
We don't want you.
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by OkpaNsukkaisBae(m): 12:13pm On May 14
APC will count it as their achievement
Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:26pm On May 14
Wow! 😱💸 Full story: https://trib.al/m5PeqRT

Re: 43% Nigerian Meghan Has Declared 'Nigeria Her Country' by Chicentt(f): 12:26pm On May 14
Until Dem kidnap you

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