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Ikenna0b:



Unless you plan to stop yoruba and their scamming/419, you'll forever be despised in USA. Take it from someone that lives in US.

Unless you plan to stop yoruba and their gang affiliation as well attacking the indigienous of UK due to religious fanatics, you'll forever be despised in UK.

Unless you plan to stop north boko haram and terrorism, you'll forever have the entire world viewing you as terrorist like Isis.

Unless you plan to stop militants from kidnapping white people you'll forever have the Europeans despise you.

Unless you plan to stop igbo from drug trafficking to Asia and SA, Asia and SS will forever despise,una

Unless you plan to stop Benin from human trafficking and prostitution in Italy, Italy forever despise una.

Unless you plan to go back in history and stop yoruba from doing the Ghana must go, Ghanaians will forever hate una.

Your entire nation is despicable and hated for a reason. Nigeria is a joke and there is nothing, I repeat NOTHING you can do to stop the terrible image as long as your nation leaders continues to create poverty this forcing ppl to seek criminal ways to survive

Your statements are all legitimate but do we then fold our hands and watch while our name is being bandied around the world with evil affiliations? Movies like Being Mary Jane and Blackish have made reference to Nigerians as scammers, other movies have made reference to the African prince scam run by 419ers. We have to change this narrative, you think America is perfect? they have a lot of issues too, they just package it better than us

mods, why is this not on front page yet? If it were a post on a celebrity now it would have been. There is a certain urgency to the post.

A message has been circulating all over whatsapp this evening encouraging people to spread the good name of our country, if you get this message do good to pass it on as this is a commendable initiative. The message is below:


*URGENT URGENT URGENT*

Good evening fellow Nigerians, My name is Ohanyere Uzochukwu and I hope this message meets you well. I am an average Nigerian like most of you, I have my misgivings about society and the government, the government has failed me in as many ways as it has failed you and for that I am angry, I've noticed that Nigerians have really low political expectations but our leaders have persistently failed to meet our meagre dreams and our country has been raped over and over again, this has led in no small part to the way our country is seen internationally. Ask an average American about Nigeria and the first thing that comes to his mind is "country of internet scammers" this was even featured in the series "Being Mary Jane " where someone was to visit Nigeria and he was warned about our 419 boys. Nigerians are being executed in countries like Indonesia, recently CNN on one of its televised shows "GPS" mocked Nigeria and Nigerians on the state of our President's health. My country, YOUR Country! Is being mocked in the International scene, we have become a laughing stock so much so that small countries like Cameroon have the guts to insult our "territorial integrity" without fear. Nigeria has been brought to its knees and can only stand again through our collective effort.
It's all about perception, America is what it is today because it has maintained a glamorous image, the American people sing the praises of their country, they have "I ❤ NY" and "Proudly American" shirts all over the world, as the Nigerian slang goes "all na packaging", we also need to package ourselves properly. There are Nigerians doing great things Internationally, achieving unattainable feats, crossing human boundaries in all corners of the world but the media won't carry this, all they focus on is Boko Haram and scammers because it's what sells but there's more to us as a people than that, the ones who do these things do not represent the entirety of the Nigerian people. We are peaceful, we are industrious, we are extremely intelligent etc. Dr Bennet Omalu, Chimamanda Adichie, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Imafidon family and a host of others are Nigerians, Nigerians in the diaspora are some of the most educated people in the world according to verifiable statistics, we are achieving great things all over the world and even at home too. The CNN insult infuriated me personally not because it is untrue but because people focus on the bad and sift out the good.
This is a call to arms, not to carry guns and machetes but to arm ourselves with all available social media outlet and tell the world that THERE IS MORE TO US AS NIGERIANS, we should forget our bigotry for a while,our individual differences and agitations. We should show the world our resolve as a nation, we should show them the Nigerian spirit, the flame of patriotism that burns within us and most importantly, we should set the world straight on its misconception of Nigerians.
This is an appeal to your inner patriotism, to get our message across I ask that we all go online tomorrow evening *6/8/2017* at 7pm and tweet using the hash tag *#perksofbeingnigerian* about the good things about being a Nigerian, the great things achieved by Nigerians in the past and present, the potential we have as a nation. If our leaders cannot help us, we should help ourselves. We should change the narrative concerning our country.
I am neither a social media influencer nor do I have ties to any political party, I own the twitter handle @KingDavid_Hans you can check for confirmation, I am just a normal person trying to do something for my country and if you feel the same way or hate the status quo, do something about it tomorrow.
God bless you and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
*Please pass on to all your contacts and groups, let's get this viral and sow the first seeds of Nigerian Nationalism.*



Lalasticlala, mods please move this to FP