₦airaland Forum

DonBenny77:
Don't say that man
I'm sure Aka paid for his first feature with burna
I guess Aka paid for his flight ticket to SA as well, burna left Nigeria to go and squat with Aka in S.A just listen to yourself.
Aka made burna in Nigeria.
You mumu oh!
You are talking about ph boy wey don dey UK for years we we know reach house.
Lemme tell you many Nigerians never heard of Aka until few months ago. Aka should make himself first.
What nonsense!

tell them we fed Nelson Mandela and their forefathers. idiots

JaceBlaze:
A nobody being interviewed by Sway? the biggest radio presenter in New York when it comes to all things hip hop?

Get out of your village,even if it's just for a day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYb_zMY7ZE

SHUT THE FCK UP. CAN'T COMPARE AKA TO BURNA. BURNA IS MORE POPULAR, MORE INFLUENTIAL, RICHER THAN NONSENSE AKA.
BURNA BOY FEATURES THE BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTS. WHERE WAS AKA WHEN BEYONCE PICKED BURNA.
BURNA TOPPED THE CHART OF MANY COUNTRIES INCLUDING SOUTH AFRICA WITH HIS ALBUM. WHO KNOWS AKA IN AFRICA OR EVEN INTERNATIONALLY. SO WHAT D HELL ARE YOU SAYING

Madaraa1:
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due to the fact that they are ahead of us in Gdp. development. infastruture. industries.


we gap them in terms of music and just key musicians burna. and wiz


we should stop making this shithole like a better plsce the gorverment has failed even the civilians has misplaced piorities. south africa is way ahead of us currently we are not gaint rather symbiosy the gorvement feeding grom us. if you happy with this shithole goodfor you

my friend do ur research again u ain't current.

this is *trash *

AKA SHOULD NOT TRY TO ENTER NAIJA OO. anyway who's gonna attend

vaxx2:
It is not what you are seeing in video or picture, it is your flaw understanding of the word development.

lemme tell you something, if you get the street views of these places then we'll see the truth and this is like 1 /20 of Accra s maas

can we watch later on you tube

soilsista:
Like I said to Morpheus, I'm not going to comment any further about that! If they like, they can overstay their welcome. What's my own?

whats my own if you overstay your welcome on nairaland. after all it's like every black person in Nigeria is automatically a Nigerian

IronGalaxy:
is it? But your hardworking men still haven't figured out how to build roads and proper drainage and power plants for your electricity problems?

*silence *

OROSUNBOLB:
In this case,South Africans are right. Burna boy has no business in that country and he shouldn't be welcomed by the natives.

I'm a big fan of Oluwaburna,but I think he missed it this time around. I actually supported his views and shared some of his sentiments regarding the infamous xenophobia. But for him to now make a U-turn is a big NO for me.

he just wanna add salt to injury. of course he'll perform there but can aka come to Nigeria... no

soilsista:
Yes, but doesn't answer my question.

anyway that was a hunch

someone should do me a favor. after the show check the Turnout on you tube. you'll definitely see @iron galaxy there. hypocrite

soilsista:
But, who said he's South African?

you are South African right

the thing is that South Africans think that Nigeria s their only competition In Africa so they hate us without reason. they see Nigerians making history being recognized globally and it pains them. look at our entertainment industry

soilsista:
1.Lol my boyfriend is not Nigerian.
2. There's no rule that says this forum is for Nigerians only. I'm not going anywhere because I like it here

thanks for that. I like it but try to get a Nigerian boyfriend. you ll see that South African men are really laaazy like laaaaaaaazzzzzyyy

soilsista:
This is my thing! Does he think we're going to welcome him with open arms? Hell NO!

He must just stay where he is!

he s just adding salt to injury

IronGalaxy:
The usual nonsense

my father told me that silence is the best answer to a fool. especially South African fools

soilsista:
Yeah, we don't want him here!

let me ask you something. will you still go out with your Nigerian boyfriend playing burna s ye on his car?
anyway what d f are u doing on nairaland. don't you have southiland..

Astark:
they are lazy?

They can go to great countries like united kingdom, Japan without visa.

They have 24 hours light

They have the best universities, bank's, hospitals I'm Africa

They are employment opportunities there

There's no terrorists groups like boko haram, herdsmen and co

They don't indulge in prostitutions, drug trafficking and fraud.

They aren't known for crimes.

They have hosted many world cups tournaments like football,rugby, cricket

They are among world best cities unlike Nigerians overrated slums

If that's why lazy means, then Nigerians should be lazy. They are lazy yet Nigerians want to die there instead of coming back.

They own Nigeria largest mobile network and Nigeria largest shopping malls yet you don't see the Zulus here.

South Africa is the home of crime and HIV in Africa courtesy of black South Africans
South Africa's Infrastructure devt is courtesy of white South Africans. if not why is your economy controlled by white individuals.
however you look at it even with Boko Haram, dwindling power supply etc hindering Nigeria's growth, we still tower above South Africa guess what ll happen if we fix all our problems?
and. mtn is majorly owned by whites. 55 percent of their total profits come from Nigeria alone so if we chase them out glo ll take over.
note.. Nigeria has the most educated military officers in Africa. and still has the highest number of foreign professors in America.

without Nigeria, South Africa would have continued to be a colony.


don't think with your anus boy

IMPORTANT NOTICE


Phil Tam-Al Alalibo
I have often wondered at what convention it was decided that the Nigerian is the one to be hated by the world. Perhaps, the invitation to this convention was diverted by our notorious NIPOST thinking it contained dollars since it must have had a foreign stamp. Believe it or not, the hatred for Nigerians around the world is alarming and streaming along quite well with such venom only reserved for used car salesmen (no pun intended). It is the kind of hatred that would make the average Nigerian, bemused rather than angry as it has assumed an utterly comical proportion. It appears everyone has an opinion about Nigerians and they are ever ready to passionately defend their position. In all my travels, I have never met anyone that is tittering on the fence on the matter of love/hate of the Nigerian.
In all these, there is a tinge of respect for anything Nigerian, be it in academics, sports, science, etc and there lies the silver-lining. Nigeria and Nigerians have been used as benchmarks in various spheres of human endeavors. Even in sports, the Super Eagles, no matter how mediocre the team may be, remains the team to beat on the continent, the team that accords others the right of passage to the super league. On June 2nd of this year, in an African Nations Cup qualifying tie played in Kampala , the Ugandan national team, "defeated" Nigeria in controversial circumstances garnished with suspect officiating. For the old city of Kampala , it was a standstill as the Nigerians were in town.
Of much interest was the fact that the match occasioned the resuscitation of a 14-year old abandoned railway system to ferry fans to the stadium and fetched the Ugandan Football Federation (FUFA) more than SH560 million, the most ever. Afterwards, the hosts made bold to declare that the defeat of the Nigerians has transposed them into the elite class of soccer powerhouses (never mind that they have never won a single continental glory) that had hitherto been the preserves of the 4-time African Cup winning Cameroons and Egypts of the continent. Even Ghana , our friendly neighbors, recently boasted to be African Champions after they destroyed the mouthy Nigerians 4-1 in a friendly match played in London on February 6, 2007.
Many attribute this hatred to the behavior of Nigerians seen to be annoyingly arrogant and often boastful and if the truth be told our Owamberic ways have not enhanced our reputation in this regard. To them, there is no modesty in the Nigerian lexicon. An African friend once noted to me that "Everything in Nigeria runs in the millions, when a politician embezzles, it in the millions. I have never heard of a Nigerian who embezzled thousands." I responded in jest that embezzling thousands is no longer news worthy or fashionable. This ascribed behavior and perception of Nigerians present a perfect case study for the adventurous sociologist or perhaps, an ambitious dissertation topic. It will be interesting to know why Nigerians have distinguished themselves in this manner, good or bad, why their entrepreneurship dwarfs others. On per capita basis or percentages, if you will, Nigerians remain the pioneers in education and invention in Africa . Even in the US , interesting enough, they have managed to distinguish themselves as the foreign group with the most doctorate degrees, a seemingly impossible feat in the midst of Indians and Chinese in the same US. But it is true. In the medical field, their presence is aplenty, inventing, researching and excelling. In arts, a Nigerian, Wole Soyinka, was the first African to win a Nobel Prize, indeed in any category for that matter. I am yet to read an African writer who has matched (not surpassed, but matched) the likes of Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Cyprian Ekwensi, etc.
But the question still looms, why then do they hate Nigerians so much? Why will CNN muddle in stereotype of this tribe of over-achievers? Why would Collin Powell say that "these Nigerians are a bunch of scam artists?" Why would Oprah Winfrey, quite unfortunately, assert that "all Nigerians, no matter the level of education are corrupt?" Seen as a threat, I mean economic and intellectual threat, hating Nigerians thus appears to be a measure of self-preservation for most of these Nigerian haters. Give a Nigerian an opportunity and he would make hay of his good fortune. I am reminded of the words of Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade, who noted in frustration that there cannot be a unified and borderless West Africa as long as Nigerians are part of the arrangement. Wade was simply afraid of what Nigerians would do to the Senegalese economy given a borderless region.
There are varying levels of perception of the Nigerian on the continent and this belies, immeasurably, the ineffable intrigue of the Nigerian. In Kenya, for example, Nigerians, for the most part, are viewed with much interest as though, alien beings, mesmerized by the likes of former president Ibrahim Babangida (imagine, Babangida of all characters), football star Austin Okocha and the legion of Nigerian soccer stars who ply their trade in the envied English Premiership League and other parts of Europe. To the average Kenyan, every Nigerian is either rich or a Pele on the soccer field. A group of Nigerian journalists recently traveled to Kenya and told of their experience in an essay recently published in various Nigerian dailies. The sum of it all is that they found Kenyans to be interested in them, their ingenuity, general success and ambitious tendencies. They were more interested in Babangida than the corruption he embodied.
But the Nigerian visiting Kenya should either be equipped with a copy of the most current African map or be very aware of its territorial boundaries as not to wander into neighboring Tanzania where hell awaits with all its perfidious treaties. Tanzania , like many other African countries, being the willing and eager recipient of Nigeria 's endless largesse, is becoming notorious for its continued humiliation of Nigerians who dare to visit. A senior Tanzanian immigration officer once told a visiting and revered Nigerian clergyman that its embassy in Abuja has been instructed to encode in each visa issued to a Nigerian an invisible chip that would alert the immigration officials in Tanzania of the level of risk the visitor is likely to pose. In the case of the clergyman, his risk level was high and thus, refused entry in all his priestly regalia. But somehow, the so-called high risk level evaporated into the scorching Tanzanian air upon the revelation that he was a student at Harvard University . Wonders!
The fact that we share a common ancestry has not spared Nigerians from scorn in the hands of the African-Americans. In the US , the African-American and Caribbean communities continue to deal with Nigerians with palpable aspersion compounded by the noted unmeasured utterances of Collin Powell and Oprah Winfrey, their role models and heroes. African-American ladies are warned not to tangle romantically with Nigerians as they are domineering and insincere about their relationships (is this peculiar to Nigerians or an issue for all men?). I recall many years ago, Oprah aired a program on scam marriages, falsely, as often the case, portraying Nigerians as the main culprits. Much of this, invariably, stem from the unavoidable Nigerian factor of ambitiousness and the sky-is-the-limit attitude. To this end, an African-American is less likely to hire a Nigerian in corporate America for fear that he might replace her/him in a short few months.
A few years ago, as a member of a faculty search committee at my university, we received over one hundred and fifty resumes for two advertised faculty positions. Among those short-listed for one of the two positions was a Nigerian whose first and second degrees were from Obafemi Awolowo University , but obtained a doctorate from a Big Ten institution in the US . It is interesting to note that the members of this search committee included three African-American faculty members and two whites, totaling six, with my inclusion. As we poured over his resume, we soon reckoned that in a very short time in the US , the Nigerian candidate had accomplished far more in terms of research and publications than the other three short-listed candidates.
For good measure, he was also a recipient of a national award only given to students with exceptional academic and research abilities. None of the others had this merit. When he came on campus for his interview, being the last of the four, our suspicions of him being a good fit were well confirmed as there was abundant evidence that the job was his to refuse. We were all impressed or so I thought. But somehow, in their "infinite" wisdom, my African-American colleagues found an assortment of reasons not to extend an offer to this candidate. First, they talked about his perceived inability to socialize with other professors as though that were the primary reason for being hired; then the focus was on his accent which, if I should state, was never an issue during his phone and on-campus interviews; then they talked about his first and second degrees being from an African university with the argument that it may not enhance the overall profile of the department, blah, blah….Since the committee rules required a simple majority before an offer can be extended, and deadlocked at three against three, the candidate was overlooked for another who failed miserably in his very first year, thus, occasioning another search.
If crime (of some Nigerians) were to be the basis of such hatred we need no statisticians to tell us that the African-American and Caribbean communities in the US and even in Canada ( Caribbean community that is,) are awash in crime, illicit drugs, gangster activities and like vices. The numbers of African-American men in prisons across the country, it would appear, almost equal those in "freedomville", USA and let us resist the temptation of blaming it all on the overlords in a flawed and racist justice system. No one can tell the story better than our hardworking African-American sisters that struggle daily to find worthy mates in their communities. So why have they too victimized Nigerians?
In South Africa , Nigerians remain at the pinnacle of the law enforcement radar often harassed, abused and mistreated for who they are. In crime-ridden Johannesburg , that makes Lagos on its worst crime day look like a soothing paradise of pristine and angelic enclaves, Nigerians are often targeted for the slightest infraction of the law. The grouse the South Africans have with Nigerians is the solemn fact that most occupy high positions they expected to have at the end of apartheid. In South African universities, one would find Nigerian intellectuals roaming the halls, teaching and professing. They are deans, department chairs, vice presidents and highly respected professors. Nigerians are even marrying their pulchritudinous women and the South Africans are far from being pleased at this development.
The ambidextrous Nigerians have even infiltrated South African football as players, coaches and managers as well as their corporations as CEOs and top executives. The black South Africans are resentful of this upsurge of the Nigerian humanity as they ponder this new form of apartheid that has subjected them to the background in their own land. The mis-education of the South African under apartheid has regrettably yielded a tribe of unskilled and inexperienced professionals incapable of managing the affairs of the country without resorting to the highly sought skills of the Nigerians and other Africans, especially, Ghanaians, proven intellectuals in their own right. For the thousands of Nigerians who reside in Mandela's land, it is a daily struggle of survival in a society that has earmarked them as public enemy number one for no singular reason but their innate ambition.
The story however, is markedly different in Ghana , the new focus of Nigerian businessmen, students and fortune seekers. Nkrumah's land is appealing for a number of reasons and Nigerians are not waiting for a soothsayer to intimate them of this fact. Ghana , once under the nefarious clutches of corrupt leadership that occasioned untold hardship on its hardworking populace has truly turned the corner and well on its way to economic buoyancy, need I say vitality. With the recent discovery of significant oil deposits running into the millions of barrels, the possibilities for Ghana is as wide as the Atlantic Ocean that crest its southern shores. Against this enticing backdrop, Nigerians' interest in Ghanaian real estate has driven up the cost of prime land in choice areas such as East Legon, Airport Residential and other areas usually reserved for the cream of the Ghanaian crop. It appears that Ghanaians at the moment are at peace with their eastern neighbors in this seemingly quid pro quo relationship that is beneficial to all.
In Europe , like the electricity in Nigeria, sympathy for the Nigerian is in acute short supply as the story is hardly heart-warming. I had cause to travel to Nigeria recently in May 2007 to attend to some personal matters and experienced first hand how the world sees the Nigerian. On the return flight from Lagos to Amsterdam on KLM, I was taken aback when immigration officers stormed the plane eager to check the travel documents of arriving Nigerian passengers. This was highly unusual as they usually allow the passengers to make it down to the immigration desk before checks are conducted. But this flight was from Nigeria and it was special and was so treated. I should note well that this was not the case on the first leg of the trip from North America to Amsterdam .
I was the first, out of three hundred or so passengers, to disembark and unaware of their presence initially, I took a few steps and found myself in the waiting arms of the overzealous armed officers who dissected my documents as though a pathologist performing an overdue autopsy. I watched in awe as one of the officers pulled a magnifying glass and held it against my passport anxiously checking for authenticity. Unsatisfied with his initial test, he waived me aside, to free up the line, and continued his test in his make-shift lab. The questions were abundant far more than what a serial killer in the dock would have been subjected to. Much to my chagrin, I discovered that even the usual protection afforded by an American passport was brazenly thrown overboard and replaced with intense scrutiny as long as the holder was of Nigerian origin. Such was the plight of the Nigerians on that flight.

tylann:
post your roads then i will post kenyan roads so that we compare quality

could you just stop blabbing nonsense and get us the pictures of Nairobi's roads then bring Dubai s and we'll bring Nigeria's. let's check the resemblances

ChiSomtoChi:
Dear Kenyans, I live in Nigeria. In fact, Kenya is better than Nigeria. Far better.

iwu aturu. ijele Kenya mbu. ewu

how many mins left pla

please can you guys post some pics of the Nigerian navy

Problemkid1:
How can I read the comments there please.

keep scrolling down to the bottom

this is why Kenyans troll Nigerians. all because of attention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhQCHDhqnT8
go to comment section ND see

Goel:
Not surprised, that's all what an I'll educated street genius would know about India. Afros calling India poor. LOL, my @$$.

I won't say that India is poor but I'll Say that they're really wretched.
if you don't agree then research

mtisTheQubit:
First congratulations for building em fire trucks an stuff but please for Petes sake just test your jets parts in your planes before exporting them..
Ok have got ths opinion an you will not like it..Stop re-inventing the wheel..coming up with a Nigerian car which will cost more aint helping anyone...stick to what ya good at..drilling oil.. drill it so beautiful so ya can get more cash an attract foreign firms to set up camp in your country..then from there ya can have technology trasfer...if you cant make it, just join them..then like Chinese steal it....This nationalistic driven agenda of showing we can make while we know we cant is just stupid...An its not Nigeria alone..
lets just be smarter on how we use our resources

I don't know if you re just being jealous or what but your thought is really foolish. though Kenya doesn't have any influence4l in Africa

let me help u a bit . go to youtube , search for a Nigerian video including music football movie. .go to the comment section then Tell us what you see

Stevoh18:
This is where Lagos starts and ends, a "tiny" building and the bridge... these pictures have been recycled in each and every picture of Lagos #Pathetic

mumu
Lagos 139billion GDP
Kenya. 90 billion

Nairobi... world's largest slums
Lagos.... building Africa's finest city


u see they're not mates

as we have seen. innoson produces his cars but buy some parts outside. but maybe he also acquire s rights to reproduce some from other companies

suffernsmiling you'rea big LIAR. who's fooling who. from Nigeria to Kenya to Botswana maybe to Egypt. posting pictures of Benin republic as Lagos . poßting villages in ibadan. can u just quit your lies

Odunayaw:
Don't bring such nonsense here

bro you are permitted to scold me. only cause you are my brother. otherwise I wouldn't have to take it lightly with you . got it