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GeoAfrikana:
If you’re observant, you’d have noticed that hardly does any debate or divergence of opinions between Nigerians occur on social media or in the blogosphere these days without it turning into a tug of torrent abuses and personality assassination.

Too many times, the comments on internet news sites and threads on forums veer away from being constructive, intellectual and solution-oriented debates into festivals of insults and blame-sharing exercises. If you’re wondering what I’m talking about, head on to Sahara Reporters or Nairaland and see for yourself. And even many other Nigerian internet media at that.

Few days ago, a reader (whose Facebook profile says he’s a General Manager at a firm) commented on a news item about General Al-Mustapha on The Vanguard. He said Al-Mustapha deserves to be free, having wasted away in custody for more than a decade. Then another reader dropped a sledge hammer on his skull:



In the first week of this year, a friend wrote a reflection on the effects of the fuel subsidy removal one year after and published it on Sahara Reporters. As usual, the comments were divergent: some critical, others complimentary. One thing most of them shared in common was unwarranted insults and curses. For instance, one comment was,



My friend told me he was unhappy about it. My response shocked him more. “I was expecting this,” I told him. “If you don’t want your personality dragged into the mud and smeared, you don’t express your views to Nigerian netizens.” I’m not spiteful of Nigerians. I’m one of them.

But the ugly trend has become so commonplace and consistent that it has lost its ability to appall us.
We also read comments on pieces published on Aljazeera, New York Times and BBC. Many issues generate divergent views there too, but submissions are mostly intellectual responses, made with respect – or at least tolerance – for others’ views. As it turns out, others’ opinions can be respected or condoned elsewhere. Not in Nigeria. We are too intolerant, too arrogant to appreciate dissenting views.

If you post frequently on Facebook also, you know too well what I’m talking about. If you don’t, go check the Facebook page of public figures like Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and see how uncouth and disappointing the comments on most posts are. Is this how we hope to foster national integration? Is this how we hope to live by our motto of “Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress”?

This ugly trend is the rule rather than the exception on issues having the slightest connection with religion or ethnicity. The gory pictures left by the debates on Late Prof. Achebe’s There Was A Country and the proposed amendment by the Senate of section 29(4)(b) of the 1999 Constitution are still vivid in our minds. But granted that religion and ethnicity in Nigeria are potent kegs of gunpowder at which one should never attempt a shot, it’s disheartening that even debates on issues that damnify us in common like fuel subsidy removal, poverty and unemployment also most often degenerate into verbal feuds.

I think part of the problem is that the internet allows for discussants to appear faceless. So we abuse this to mean we can be rude to and blackmail anyone and get away with it. We respond to submissions by even professors and respected community leaders that we dare not stand before and look in the face, with phrases like:







simply because we’re covered by the screen of our PC or mobile device. This is unfortunate. It’s not a way to live.

God knows best why He created us to be different. Cultures and world views are bound to clash, leaving us shocked – sometimes disillusioned to the marrow. But that’s part of the beauty of heterogeneity, the very basis of human beings. God forbid that we should all always look alike, think the same and hold the same views. The world would be all too boring and monotonous. And when two people always agree on issues, one of them isn’t important.

Begging issues and attacking persons is just disgusting and uncivilized. Almost everyone has been guilty of this, however little. The Internet has done us a great good – affording everyone a fair opportunity to be heard anywhere as much as a Harvard Professor. We should appreciate this and learn: that we can disagree and still be friends. Insulting others does no one any good. It only injures the feelings of others and attracts counter attacks. Worst still, the points being passed across, however noble, would end up in the thin air as no one likes to listen to insolent people.

This is a big challenge for us all. Our strength as a nation is in appreciating and maximizing our diversity – harnessing our different potentials, values and resources to improve the lots of all. We can choose to efface the menace now and engender mutual respect and national integration – or choose to make it our culture and be consumed by what the ugly consequences will be.

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Sahara Reporters by Muhammed Tosin Abdullahi CEO [url=oxygenmat.net]Oxygenmat[/url] and Contributor on Forbes

So no to cyber bullying and keypad warriors

The y want to be forming Nigerian are savage. never mess with a Nigerian on SM yen yen yen.

They only savage matters with insult rather than sharing their view.

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Alamu1111:
See the selfie I take with the phone

Even IPhone 11 can't filter ur ugliness away, it's okay man.

Wealthierboy:
Because she never get endorsment Deals since when she finnish pass out in 2018 abi You die there

Who u be, did u know how many celebrities music video she has vixen.

Spaghetti and beans
Oau students call it SPAGHEWA.

Fake Zlatan scam Nigerian


Real Zlatan ibile scam the Whites

They are the same.

Maybe he refused to settle the OGAS, that's why he was casted.

Funniest thing, they might fare well in the future that those that have been with schools for long.

But the education fee allocated to them, where has it be going


Southern Nigeria is still the optimistic part of this country.

Seun is dealing with those bet9ja moniker up there, nice 1, kudos!

Starboytwo:
Heard light is dope over there

Yea very dope, and things are cheap unlike lagos

patorial:
That's Why I always don't like crowds in my parties

We are together on this, I don't like all this crowd stuff

Bbbwings:
So they are paying 700k

As in, and it's not that they can beat Oau and ui standard ooo

maleekfrenzy:
Which one is every year. Stop carrying false rumors. It's only Medical students that pay 700k and it commenced just this year. So this is the first year.

That's what I mean bro, maybe cos I didn't specify

MrWriter:
May I know the school you graduated from? .

Lol, why are u curious about that?

Op, what if she introduced herself as a fan and not a fellow artiste?

She's their chancellor tho



So this school didn't have a teaching hospital all this while with the 700k+ they collect from freshers per year?

VAN DIJK If English media hype u, forget am, ur glory go shine.

Wow So Ramos picked Salah.

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thesicilian:
Daylight robbery.

54 goals in 58 matches is daylight robbery?

Grow up and stop being biased.
Compared to ronaldo 28 goals last season, even Aubameyang has more goals than ronaldo last season

Like for ronaldo. share for the real goat messi

Quality20:
there is ds bad attitude and behavior many shameless girl do these days, they not just stare, they look continuously directly into ur eyes, meaning they are ready to go down with u, no need for any toasting or too much talk

Aswr, that's how a girl was looking directly into my eye while reading for an exam like that, ogbeni I had to change location.

Always a GUNNER, we ain't glory hunter.

Aubameyany doesn't disappoint, he's always scoring in every match now. His first free kick goal for arsenal

Suspect33:
Liverpool will be put to the test when they face the gunners, only when they beat us can they claim the league, COYG

What did u just spill out?
Are u truly a gunner. Where were u when they beat us 4:1 this season

OlawaleBammie:
where are dos chelsea whatever whatever??
Reeloaded
seunmohmoh

OTayobami

i heard ur willian doesn't dcv d No10 jersey

Looserpool is treating dem well

that basketmouth issa pussy niqqa,

cenaman:
Bro. afar! what is the score now?

1: 2

cenaman:
This mod... is mad ARS 1 vs 2 ASV

Dominique can't believe what is happening , I can't blame her.

Pepe scored his first arsenal goal, more to come, expect 24 from him this season.