₦airaland Forum

I come to this forum as a foreigner who may soon be travelling to Nigeria for the first time. I found this thread and feel inclined to comment as some of the replies here seem very naive.

During my life, I have lived or traveled extensively on five continents and have visited many countries.

I can not think of even [i]one place [/i]where Nigerians have a positive reputation. Nightlife districts all over Asia seem to have a drug-dealing/fraud/scamming Nigerian contingent. Nigerians are drug dealing almost in the open in countries where penalty is death. It is so flagrant, tourists are amazed at how open they are about the trade considering the risks. There are other drug dealers in those countries and it is a very underground business, but Nigerians are downright brazen in this trade. It is common knowledge that Nigerians are major players in the drug trade in many countries.

And in the USA/EU, the first thing Nigerians are associated with is the "Nigerian 419 Scams."

Experience and observation tells me that most of these guys are guilty as sin. However, most Asian countries are very racist against Blacks so I'm sure they are not cutting Nigerians many brakes and maybe sometimes innocent people get caught up also. But that is not the norm. I don't know how things are on the ground in Nigeria - I heard it's a very corrupt country - but if you saw what Nigerians are trying to get away with in other countries and how brazen the Nigerian drug dealers are, you would be shocked that only 300 of them are in Chinese prison.