$tunna:


talk about ignorance...Mexico is not in South America, K! Mexico is the poorest country in North America!! ...this poverty is attributable to the vices you mentioned.
stop talking about facts you make up, the poster has his points and the only relevant fact as he has stated is that Nigeria is one of the poorest nations on earth, hence no need to feel superior to fellow Africans and...by the way, this is the reason some of us say we are from Africa as the name Nigeria is a drag on progress even outside of its shores!
PRIDE? WHAT R YOU SO PROUD OF??

horny4u: omo ale anambra ni e!
Why spew so much hatred towards your own country....without a doubt some NIG are arrogant but some just have a sense of pride. If you think we should be looking down on ourselves because of our many vices....then charity begins from your home.
As for me i look up, shoulder high, chest own and walk with a who dey there attitude because when i was in gambia the local people could not tell me enough about the mega star osoufia, as i ate my meal they played dbanj & gongo aso.....same in ghana and in the Uk at a party talking to other Africans students they said hey see you NIG just clear all the courses...mad ass intelligence.
So despite all our vices I am queen because i am NIG. When you reach your base..tell them there that actually we are not all that.....O ba e lo.....the britons sing we are born to rule the world and my arrogance never reach their own. Our govt may be Bullsh*t but my fellow NIG are holding it ddddoooooooowwwwwnnnnn!

khukhi: trembles in the face of whites... In ur dreams. Perhaps the older generations. We went to school with those whites and remember our country has more human rights than any other. So we don't get bull shit from whites as much as u would like to believe other wise.

We can play the racism card and they know they're fuc.ked!

babaowo: .... Some people don't know what's going on globaly, that's why they portrait nigeria as a bad countyr.

solomon111: This guy is a slowpoke!

Obi1kenobi: I’ve observed Nigerians are incredibly arrogant and I’m often left wondering what makes this conceited posturing justifiable. I was reading a thread yesterday enquiring as to why South Africans and Ghanaians hate Nigerians and the predictable response from several delusional people was the usual rhetoric about how everyone envies us and what not. I think many of us have to start appreciating a few home truths:
1) Nigeria is one of the most impoverished nations on the planet and ranks extremely low on every single index measuring standard of living and development. We generally only out-perform war-torn or drought ravaged countries like Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etc.
2) No foreigner who appreciates order and security would love to come to a country like Nigeria. Expatriates in this country are some of the highest paid in the world because of the adverse, hazardous working conditions.
3) Being an overpopulated, lumbering, befuddled giant doesn’t make us the “giant of Africa”. I don’t see why any sensible person should brag about our population as some kind of virtue – else we may as well claim to be greater than every country in Europe simply cos we pop out kids like rabbits putting greater strain on scarce resources. What makes this line of reasoning even worse is that we are a contrived product of our colonial masters who have left us with a big socio-political challenge to surmount. Our size is probably more an inhibitive hindrance than an advantage to thump our chests about.
4) We’re not smarter or richer or better looking than the countries we flood with all our vices. It’s hilarious, pretentious, delusional, wishful thinking. Little separates the average Southern Nigerian from the average Ghanaian or Cameroonian or Ivorian or the average Northern Nigerian from the average Nigerien or Senegalese or Sudanese etc. Any pretentions to the contrary is just subscribing to the delusion that makes us loathed outside these shores.
5) We’re a society as mediocre as they come and applaud mediocrity from the banal music of D’banj to our embarrassing movie industry to the mediocre politicians we love to cheer for the most mundane accomplishments.

Basically, there’s absolutely nothing spectacular about us and our insufferable arrogance is totally unjustified and contributes to why citizens of many other countries find us totally contemptible. When you think of France, you think of well aged Bordeaux wine, high fashion and couture, romance, beautiful cities etc; when you think of Italy, you’re thinking of great cuisine, beautiful ancient cities of Venice, Florence, Rome, great art, opera etc; when Nigeria is heard around the world, people think of scammers and frauds, drug pushers, venal, avaricious politicians, exported prostitutes etc.

That’s why we’re blacklisted from utilizing certain web services, that’s why we’re humiliated and rejected in every embassy. I never subscribe to stereotype and judge everyone on their merits as individuals but I’d like to see a little humility and acknowledgement of our failures as a nation rather than the rabid chest thumping. It’s the first step to making progress.

And for the record, I’m a full-blooded Anambrarian pointing out some plain facts rather than a foreigner on the attack. Personal/national pride is one thing (however misguided); unbridled arrogance and hubris is on a whole different scale.

Obi1kenobi:

Like I said in the article, I'm from Anambra so I'm Nigerian. Just calling out some arrogant Nigerians who sully our name with their arrogance.

LOL nigerians: LOL you Nigerians are funny

in what way does Nigeria over perform Sudan( North ) ?

Is it in terms of literacy , poverty , health or what? well am speaking directly to this dude who said that crap

in terms of Poverty , Sudan is in a waaaay better position even though there are rebels in Darfur . in nigeria , over 60% of people live in poverty. In sudan (latest figures before south sudan independence) poverty was 45% now that figure could go as low as %30 now since south sudan left with many of the poor. 60% is like 112 million nigerians in poverty that is like 3 times the entire population of former Sudan understood?

now moving to literacy, only 60% of Nigerians are literate, in Sudan its %70 after separation wow you guys are pretty smart lol LMAO

now about health, how many of your people have diseases specially aids? how many have access to healthcare over 3.2 million nigerians had aids as of 2005 , imagine how many now as of 2013 since poverty has increased in your so called Nigeria

Sudan is a developing country, we lost over 70% of the oil therefor our economy is still recovering from the loss which continues until 2014 and Sudan continues to develop day after day

now I am not interested in bashing nigerians or anything but those likes who overestimate themselves should keep their shit together

gsaint trinity:

MAN u are very funny..... I pray make Sudan have 100% people living in Affluence and 100% Literacy level..
only one year record of graduates from Nigerian universities is more than the whole of Sudan's educated people.

horny4u:
omo ale anambra ni e!
Why spew so much hatred towards your own country....without a doubt some NIG are arrogant but some just have a sense of pride. If you think we should be looking down on ourselves because of our many vices....then charity begins from your home.
As for me i look up, shoulder high, chest own and walk with a who dey there attitude because when i was in gambia the local people could not tell me enough about the mega star osoufia, as i ate my meal they played dbanj & gongo aso.....same in ghana and in the Uk at a party talking to other Africans students they said hey see you NIG just clear all the courses...mad ass intelligence.
So despite all our vices I am queen because i am NIG. When you reach your base..tell them there that actually we are not all that.....O ba e lo.....the britons sing we are born to rule the world and my arrogance never reach their own. Our govt may be Bullsh*t but my fellow NIG are holding it ddddoooooooowwwwwnnnnn!

chi2012:
Ewwwwwwu!!! All this Grammer is too much for we undergraduate!!! You all should have mercy on us! Nigeria is bad, yes we know, but what can we do..