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CelebritiesRe: Video Of Chidimma Adetshina In SA, Chilling At A Cape Town Restaurant by Bede2u(m): 11:28am On Feb 12, 2025
EmperorCaesar:
cheesy


To be honest, she never said anything bad or negative about SA throughout the whole saga. I feel they should respect her for that

That alone makes me admire her really more. It means she's free-spirited and appreciates growing up in their midst

SA should move on
SA is as petty as randdigital and her other sister here. Their pettiness is the reason why they control only 4% of their land despite making up 80% of the country.
They even killed their biggest celebrities because they thought they were Nigerians.
My hope is that they don't kill chidimma because they are that stupid
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 8:37am On Feb 12, 2025
Lionessza6:
LMAO threats from an empty chest- beater grin grin grin grin. I own you bytch.....I have you by your dirty scrotum grin grin grin grin.

When we meet on these streets again....I want you to remember this grin grin grin
i make no threats. You have enough on your plate to deal with already.
Over here in Australia, I'm keeping it real by vucking two SA hoes. One white and one black (With condom of course wink less they give me that common SA virus) Just as we come to SA to drug your men and love-vendor out your women to them. We winning, home and away. I hear that's why you guys are mad at us.
Again make it about Igbos.....i won't even reply you again. If you have an interesting life you won't be in nairaland arguing with Nigerians.
I'd have to be the lowest scum on earth to be in an SA forum arguing with your country folks. God forbid.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 8:25am On Feb 12, 2025
Lionessza6:
LMAO ...deluded idiot grin. Who do you think you're fooling ? grin. Go through every SA thread from the last week and see how the Northerners and a lot of Yorubas are in support of SA and weep grin grin grin. Ipob generals are the major haters of SA black people and that's because we are what they wish they could be to the world. When we vomit, the world stops to check if we are fine grin grin. Igbos get massacred like rats in Nigeria and no one cares grin. An Igbo British dual citizen is in a cage as we speak abusing lawyers....the world isn't paying him and his stupid struggle any attention grin. But let Malema release a video or statement...it will make news from the USA to the UK, from Ethiopia to Nigeria grin grin.

You said I attacked your tribe and that pisses you off grin ....but it's OK for you to insult black SA when you have beef with SA....see hypocrisy? grin

Listen here you 4th class citizen of Nigeria... the North ( the most powerful group in Nigeria) and Yoruba muslims are with us on the issue of Israel and your non- entity region can't do shyt about that grin.

You said we are losing what ? Support? grin. A whole European Union has just come up in support of us and you think we should be worried that drug dealers and human traffickers are against us? grin grin. You know BRICS is always behind us. The G20 is EU grin grin. Black SA co- run the African Union with Nigeria ( the North and Yorubas grin) ,so trust me when I say ...we will back ourselves grin grin. SADC is ran by us grin grin.

Igbos run nothing in Nigeria and Africa not to mention that they have no political relevance outside of Africa. That's why you will scream "Free Biafra" for eternity because you only have enemies no allies grin...that's why Kenya bundled-up that bandit Kanu and handed it back to it's master .....Jibril grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin.No one did shyt....Britain didn't even do a follow-upgrin grin grin grin

You hate what you wish you were Flatty grin grin grin
And who will read all these trash? Keep digging. We will play the violin behind you.
Foreign AffairsRe: BRICS Can Defend South Africa Against Trump by Bede2u(m): 5:28am On Feb 12, 2025
RandDigital:
BRICS countries are richer, bigger and more influential that when they last supported South Africa's fight for freedom. Plus they have stronger ties than before with each other, hence this formal arrangement called BRICS.

Do you think BRICS can defend South Africa against (white supremacist) Trump?

BRICS are Brazil, Russia, Indian & China (plus South Africa)
Already begging? Mzansi teens undecided
PoliticsRe: Ekiti: I Don’t Need My Brother’s Support To Defeat Oyebanji – Emmanuel Fayose by Bede2u(m): 9:22am On Feb 11, 2025
Cowardigbos:
Yes we all can see how Igbos served Orji in Abia for more than 30 years!!

Igbos and accusing other tribes of a offense they're guilty of na 5&6, Na why no body dey take this clowns serious!

Greatest Cowards in the history of Nigeria!
orji? How was orji a dynasty
PoliticsRe: Ekiti: I Don’t Need My Brother’s Support To Defeat Oyebanji – Emmanuel Fayose by Bede2u(m): 8:08am On Feb 11, 2025
Dynasty politics can only happen in South West were people 'respect' and 'accommodate' their masters
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 2:39am On Feb 11, 2025
aswani:
Like I said, I will support a stranger over my siblings without skipping a heartbeat if the stranger is making more sense.

I have zero allegiance to President Tinubu, the poster can feel free to bash away at him.

It is people like you, who will defend your tribesman, even when they are clearly wrong, that make being a Nigerian tiresome and will not stop the corruption.

Go through their posting history and see how Ndigbo are abusing them, why should they be the bigger person? Like I said, Obidients can dish it out but squirm when they meet their match and have to take a fraction of what they give.

By the way, the first time I interacted with Lionessza6, the poster gave me wotowoto. I didn't deserve it as some other idiot had looked for her trouble and I was collateral damage. That is OK too.
wow I could have sworn i saw helinues abusing them right in this thread too. So it's about Igbos. Was it only igbos who abused them during the miss universe debacle? The whole Nigerians (except people like you) are united against the insults and xenophobic attacks of south Africa. People like you will have to be left to experience it yourselves. You reckon the guy behind that moniker would treat you any better than he would treat me in person?
Make it about igbos as usual. Scape goat your arch enemies. The reality is there for any one with basic intelligence to see. I'll leave you be now.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 2:01am On Feb 11, 2025
aswani:
The poster says she has no Nigerian friends, doesn't mix with Nigerians and knows so much about Nigerians, that is what I am intrigued about.

That poster knows more about Nigerians than a lot of Nigerians in Nigeria. I have come here to learn from people and she is one of the top 5 I pick things from here.

I know I don't hate Ndigbo, it is a shame you think I do because of what she said about Ndigbo, in response to Ndigbo abusing her, a real shame.

Even if she hates my siblings, as long as she makes sense more than them. I am ok so it's not about her hating my tribe.

Obidients in particular are good at abusing and insulting but playing victim when they meet their match.

If you take any smoke to her, Lionessza6 will give you wotowoto, the moral of the story is don't crash land into her lane and all this Obidients swarming stuff doesn't faze her one bit, she will pick you off one by one.

She is not perfect of course but who is?
I repeat, the only thing 'intriguing' about her is knowing how to garner sympathy likes by playing Nigerians like you against each other.
It would be a cold day in hell the day I will support a south African over a Nigerian. My current gf is a white south African and my ex is a black south African. I know them.
You saw how he sidestepped my post to start insulting Igbos and Biafra and tagging people like you. In another post he would insult Tinubu and yorubas and tagged Igbo fo.ols.
People like you make being a Nigerian tiring.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 11:47pm On Feb 10, 2025
aswani:
I am intrigued by the poster.

In truth not all South Africans are the same.

That poster responds to a lot of BS by some silly posters doing gra gra and saying nosense, they have a right to give their own back.
The poster has done absolutely nothing intriguing other than obsess about Nigeria because of his/her hate of us. But all the same, I know exactly why you are rooting for him/her. Interestingly his/her opinion about me and my tribe is the same with your tribe. You just don't see it yet
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 11:15pm On Feb 10, 2025
aswani:
Ah ah Anti, na only play dat small boy dey play wit you nau, why you come give am wotowoto like dat, chineke me.

If dat boy kpai himself afta he read wetin you write, we dey come South Africa come find you, Walahi talahi.

I don't know why people don't learn that you are not to be trifled with after all this while, you know your stuff and can express exactly how you feel about things.A very dangerous combination.

You got Ikemba wrong though. He was a serious pan Africanist and colonialists hater that railed against the establishment, even from his King's college days, so no way could he have been indoctrinated.

His dad was extremely wealthy so not a hope anyone could try and make him feel second rate or bribe him with money to do their bidding.

Ikemba's problem was his hot headedness, about the only trait he shares with Kanu and Ekpa. That civil war should never have happened without Yoruba's also pulling out of the Federation.

Also, there was not a hope in hell Nigeria would have been left alone to be stable with all the wealth and "self respect" in the country. Look at how Obasanjo was reported to be angrily remonstrating with Thatcher over her slow stance on Ian Smith and Apartheid while other African leaders where doing their usual cooning.

Still amazed you are not Nigerian, incredible.
As for you, you are yet to understand who South Africans are. Maybe one day you will
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 11:05pm On Feb 10, 2025
Lioness5280:
I was a bit busy when I replied you earlier,but I had a nagging feeling that you were not who you said you were . I knew I wasn't dealing with a Nigerian but a confused emergency lover of Nigeria grin grin.

I went through some of your posts ......and boy are they full of hate for everyone ...from black SA to Yorubas....from Fulanis to Palestinians grin grin. This is why like most Biafrans you're trying too hard to project your hateful existence on me and my people. You have never been in any region,or country where your people have lived in peace with the people you found there,why is that ?

Everyone marginalizes you in your head ( refuses to be bullied or dominated by your weak arses) grin. The only people you seem to have some love for are the weak who don't call you out cheesy....or the Ashk*nazi S*t*nists you aspire to be but can never be ...that's why you're suddenly pro Tutsis as Biafrans ....because the Western media is hyping them as the Israelites of Africa; a title you desperately wish forgrin grin. You secretly and openly wish to be a dominant force in Nigeria and Africa at large but you're too st*pid,sentimental and greedy to outplay the likes of Yorubas and Hausas, and us on the continent.

You are a huge political liability on anyone who befriends you as you'll surely lead to their political downfall with your hot tampers, entitlement mentality, boastful nature and inferiority complex.

And what is up with you and empty threats ? grin grin grin grin grin grin grin. For years you threatened Northerners and did absolutely nothing even after their caged the maniac Kanu grin grin... instead you self-destructed to "punish" Nigeria ( sit at home) grin grin grin grin grin grin.

You promised to put Obi in Aso rock by fire by force where no Yoruba would enter cheesy grin grin cheesy....now you're sidelined by the same Yorubas and you're all over the place cussing and cursing them cheesy.

Now ,you're threatening us with economic boycotting? grin cheesy cheesy. Dummy, you're only petty traders in Nigeria...2×2 slum store owners grin. You have no way of blocking our companies from operating in that space .....when we want to negotiate we will approach those with political influence; the North and Yorubas not non-entities with a chip on their shoulder grin. You're nothing but noise makers.... Bastard Grandsons of Fulani soldiers grin grin grin grin.....I guess that's why you're such an angry tribe grin grin......you have no identity to be proud of as you were fathered by different tribes during the war grin grin grin grin grin. Jews today,Catholics tomorrow . .. pan Africans today, Self-hating coons tomorrow who wish to be recolonized by jews grin grin.........lovers of Nigeria during the election campaign time, haters and enemies of Nigeria after the results grin grin grin. This is what happens when you have self-hate issues grin grin cheesy

Wifeesnatcher you people failed this continent during the Civil war grin grin....I blame your grandfathers for being so merciful. Aswani and Mt if you want to blame anyone for the recapture of your country post independence....the hardwokers who brought you Jud*aism (Rothschilds dynasty)are the go- to guys. Without that stupid war ,Nigeria would have gained true independence but unfortunately the egomaniacs of your land were lured into a trap through their greed( promise of economic and political dominance). Ojukwu was indoctrinated at Oxford, he was a finished man and a weapon formed against Nigeria even before returning cheesy. Igbo deaths were his way out of the oath....and another Ojukwu is being groomed and he will take even more Igbo lives than Ojukwu, Kanu,and Ekpa combined. This boy will challenge Nigeria with the backing of Israel, Hungary and Ukraine and he will again make Igbo history books as he will bring the death toll to 9.8 million ....it must be 3 times more than the first massacre grin. This I have seen grin grin....konquest brace up and be on the lookout for a fiery returnee with a *revolutionary* spirit grin
you must be so mad at me you started to personally attack me and my tribe. Well guess what, the whole tribes in Nigeria hate you guys now, we are united in that one.
Only you guys are fighting Rwanda, Isreal, Nigeria, and U.S. And you are losing on all angles.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 2:32pm On Feb 10, 2025
Lionessza6:
grin grin grin grin

Buddy,stop capping grin

So all the years you've been on nairaland.com, you've never seen Nigerians bashing black SA for no reason without even us being present on the discussion? grin

Victim mentality and dishonesty are truly embedded in your DNA.

Many companies are vacating Nigeria not just SA companies, this has nothing to do with you boycotting them grin grin grin....the economy is simply not doing good and the people have gotten poorer.

And the 24000 are the legal ones,no one can count illegal immigrants smarty grin grin...and majority of Nigerians in SA are illegals hence they have such bad reputation, they are involved in shaddy deals to survive.

You cam cry me a river grin. Do anyhow to people, and you'll see anyhow. We never had this hatred of Nigerians until you started flooding us with criminals and justifying it with " every country has criminals " which meant you saw no problem with adding to our problems. Evil mindset . From there on,we lost whatever little respect we had for you and don't care that you wish us evil....let's hope it won't boomerang wink
whatever beef you have with Nigeria, we are winning. You are losing. You are losing both money and reputation and you have not succeeded in deporting the Nigerians in your country, which you claim as the genesis of your hate. In fact, your president has made it even easier for Nigerians to move to your country. We don't even need to do anything, all we have to do is let you keep digging.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 1:52pm On Feb 10, 2025
Lionessza6:
LMFAO. You are still speaking for Africa....let others Africans speak for themselves, youre the Nigerian, remember?grin grin grin

And nairaland.com has always been an anti- black SA site,waybefore we registered here....check threads from 2005 and so, so stop lying we are not responsible for your hate grin grin. Tell us the real reason you hate SA and the black population of SA,our presence here us not it grin. You talk as if there is something you were going to do in this situation to rescue us? grin grin grin. If we weren't such "ingrates" were you going to invade America for us big brother ? grin grin grin grin grin
until I started seeing both of your posts some years back, I and almost everyone else i know have loved South Africans and have patronised your country in many ways. As at today, you can't count up to 10% of Nigerians who would buy a south African product knowingly.
If MTN or DSTV is just trying to enter Nigeria now, they will fail so woefully because of Anti SA sentiments in Nigeria.
Someone wise once said, when you find yourself in a hole, first thing to do is to stop digging.
SA need us far more than we need you. Your own census said there were only 24,000 Nigerians in your country. A population i reckon would be similar to SA people in Nigeria. But we are a large market and for many decades, many of your products and services were destined for our markets until you guys for no reason became hostile. Now it has gotten so bad, you are all over our media spaces trying to force your news on us. Just a few decades ago, you wouldn't need to do that. How are the mighty fallen and still falling?
Stop digging.
Foreign AffairsRe: Trump Hypocrisy Against South Africa In Cartoons - PICTURES by Bede2u(m): 1:33pm On Feb 10, 2025
Lionessza6:
LMAO. Unfortunately, you're just one Nigerian,you don't speak for Africa grin. Other Africans are already all over the case because they know they are next. Trump is testing the waters with the head- strong...he is coming for the weak next. You think the countries whose budgets are subsidized by Aid aren't already on the phone with Ramaphosa? grin grin
you and your brother randdigital have made your country a pariah on nairaland.com by unwittingly joining issues with people who had nothing but love for you. You have wasted all goodwill and so has your country both in Africa and world stage. Now you must bear the consequences of not choosing your words and battles carefully. It's delusional to think any body in continental Africa currently gives a hoot if South Africa burns to ashes
RomanceRe: See What I Was Thinking About Today. by Bede2u(m): 7:33am On Feb 10, 2025
Jacktheripper:
Do you have a comprehension problem?
Your problem is beyond current remedies. Sorry
RomanceRe: See What I Was Thinking About Today. by Bede2u(m): 1:02am On Feb 10, 2025
There are many places in the global North where the sun doesn't come up in winter. So...?
Foreign AffairsRe: White Afrikaners Turn Down Trump's US Resettlement Offer (Pictures) by Bede2u(m): 6:22am On Feb 09, 2025
RandDigital:
We don't care if they leave. You're more pained they're staying😂😂😂

Imagine if they can decline a US offer, they'll never ever move to Hunger-geria 😢😢😢
Nah you seem to care bro, it's all over your posts. But that's alright
Foreign AffairsRe: White Afrikaners Turn Down Trump's US Resettlement Offer (Pictures) by Bede2u(m): 2:20pm On Feb 08, 2025
RandDigital:
You mean we would be like Nigeria - hungry and japagerians? Rwandans eat 3 square meals a day - you dont😂😂😂

Sorry to burst your bubble o, una's self-service session under the blankets only lasted for 3 minutes because you were hoping the whites will leave SA soon. Sorry the Afrikaner ain't in a rush to leave SA like the british did with fraudgeria😢😢😢
wow it almost sounds like you are begging and hoping and praying your white savious don't leave you soon.
I feel you bro. 😪
PoliticsRe: Rotimi Amaechi Affirms Ikwerre's Igbo Identity (video) by Bede2u(m): 7:15am On Feb 07, 2025
Kreesxxx:
We know you people like Port Harcourt more than Ikwerre people. But you see ask anyone of you who live among us the feelings an average Ikwerre man has for you people. Thanks
close your mouth osiso. Pained boy
PoliticsRe: Rotimi Amaechi Affirms Ikwerre's Igbo Identity (video) by Bede2u(m): 5:23am On Feb 07, 2025
Kreesxxx:
I am yet to hear Amaechi say he is Igbo. He only talked about the similarity between the Ikwerres and Igbos. That Igbos eat garri three times a day and Ikwerres eat garri three times a day. With this analogy I am convinced that an Ogoni man is also Igbo because he eats garri three times a day.
yea I'm sure that's the only thing he said. He didn't talk about the dressing or the language
People like you are being left behind and you can't seem to grasp it.
In a few years time, your Port Harcourt will be fully integrated into Igboland. I wish Anioma state can be extended to include Ikwere and other Igbos in Rivers. Your tears is appreciated
PoliticsRe: APC Begins Sale Of Nomination Forms For Anambra Election, Sets Price At ₦‎50m by Bede2u(m): 11:14am On Feb 04, 2025
OkCornel:
Democracy indeed.

See how the competent commoners are priced out from the contest.

Democracy is a cleverly packaged scam.

It’s time we relied on divination systems (like IFÁ or AFA for example) to select the best of us to lead the rest of us.

If you’re okay with AI, but conclude divination is demonic, congrats. Your colonial overlords have done an excellent job brainwashing you.

Even the ancient Israelites relied on divination as one of the pathways to hear from God. Read up on the Urim and Thummim.

Children of Africa, wake up from your mental bondage.
lol behold an ifa worshipper performing 'sacrifice'

FamilyRe: The Systemic Bias Against African Men In U.S. Family Courts by Bede2u(m): 9:48am On Feb 04, 2025
helinues:
Do the whites have the privileges the blacks in America have in Africa?

Have the whites being appointed as Judges in Africa?

We have so many Nigerians in Trump administration, how many whites are in Nigeria government?

English premier League, blacks have dominated, how many whites are playing in EPL?
Damn kiddo I have developed a migraine trying to reconcile what the OP wrote with your responses.
A previous thread here said there are many teenagers on this forum, are you sure you are not one? Just asking cos I can't even...
PoliticsRe: Sit-at-home: Economic Activities In South-east Still At Lowest Ebb On Mondays by Bede2u(m): 9:39am On Feb 04, 2025
benuejosh:
IPOB rules the South East and it is pitiable. It is a pity the South East region is controlled by a terrorist organization.

If not, tell me why a terrorist organization will issue a command and everyone will obey?

We warned them. Boko Haram started this way.

After they will say it's herdsmen that is their problem. Which herdsmen? You mean Fulani? We have igbo herdsmen too. As long as you have plenty cows, goats, sheep and others, you're in that category of herdsmen. But those hiding under the cover of herdsmen in the South East MAY be the proscribed terrorist group called IPOB.
People sit at home because they want Kanu released not because of any enforcement.
You guys can keep lying to yourselves but try conducting a Biafran referendum and see how popular it is in SE
PoliticsRe: Trump Comes For Mzansi Teens by Bede2u(op): 10:34am On Feb 03, 2025
DeLaRue:
huh

Smh
Meanwhile in another news, BBC Rema taking Tyla to a hotel in Paris to make her sweat and water 😳

PoliticsRe: Trump Comes For Mzansi Teens by Bede2u(op): 10:31am On Feb 03, 2025
Putindbutt:
Trump is busy launching a revenge comeback, I'm pretty sure, he had it in mind to punish South Africa for dragging Isreal to ICC for genocide. Then his policy to suspend HIV aids to Africa was targeting South Africa but had to reverse it. He is going through another route to deal with South Africa.
Also because of white South Africans who are currently at the receiving end of racism after building the country.
I do not hold brief for Israel but anything to make mzansi teens 'water'
PoliticsRe: Trump Comes For Mzansi Teens by Bede2u(op): 10:02am On Feb 03, 2025
The xenophobs are about to have a poorer country than they currently have now. Anything that brings pain to SA brings joy to me grin
PoliticsTrump Comes For Mzansi Teens by Bede2u(op): 10:00am On Feb 03, 2025
Donald Trump has announced that he is cutting off aid to South Africa, pending an investigation into the country’s attempts to “confiscate” land from its citizens, particularly white farmers.

“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” Mr Trump wrote on social media.

“Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed.

“Terrible things are happening in South Africa. The leadership is doing some terrible things, horrible things. So that’s under investigation right now.”
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/us-politics-live-donald-trump-stands-by-tariffs-after-being-accused-of-launching-dumbest-trade-war-in-history/live-coverage/7b01dbb36e7a454bdb71bf03c03a20ee
PoliticsRe: No Obidient Has The Moral Authority To Criticise The Kano Mass Weddings - Reno by Bede2u(m): 8:53am On Feb 02, 2025
AMINDA:
I know they say Tinubu is a Master Strategist but from a practical point of view, I'm struggling to understand what APC thinks they stand to gain from incorporating the likes of Reno and Bwala into its fold. You ostracise political juggernauts like Elrufai who worked so hard for the party in favour of lightweights who have no base and can't even deliver their nuclear families.

From a strategic point of view, Reno and Bwala's messages are not resonating with anyone. Their messages can not convince any new voter in the North, neither is it winning over any obidient. The optics is also generally bad for the APC. Having such disloyal and fickle-minded individuals in the party lends credence to the grievance of some that the party has strayed from its original ideals. Their messages can also be easily neutralized by a simple screenshot of their previous posts about the President and the party. Take a look at the comments under Reno's posts on his handles and all you see supporting him are individuals from the Southwest only. These people would have still voted Tinubu, regardless of what he does.

So I ask again, what is the net gain of bringing them onboard? Is it that Tinubu could not afford to have them openly insulting him on social media? He already survived them in 2023. What more could they have done? Buhari paid no mind to their likes and he completed his two tenures. Rather, bringing them aboard have costed APC some loyal voters.
you are right. I remember Reno as one of the main reasons I campaigned against GEJ. He is so uncultured and represents his principal in bad light often. A political liability

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