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meobizy:
It has to be the white people at the helm of affairs who ensure this. Nigeria should hire some of them. Sha, our leaders love substandard products in a bid to save costs. Na the issue them go face here.

I left the grid three years ago. I dey look the average Nigerian.

They hate white people like they hate other blacks. Very wicked set. They protested to have the white man fired because they were saying he destroyed their eskom . Nonsense people. The man was only trying to help these lazy ones

IronGalaxy:
Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, their economy is booming and the rapid development of their capital Addis Ababa is testament to that.. does Ethiopia have white people? What's stopping Nigeria from looking like this ? Lack of Whites? This excuses is tired and is a way to mask your failures.

How can you boast off having human resources then lament the lack of White people in the same sentence? You guys are so disappointing..

They will then accuse me of "insulting" but what type of thinking is this?

You want Africans to appreciate black South African work when you are xenophobic to fellow Africans. Foolish. You're wicked to other blacks and you want them to be nice when you don't want them to get free healthcare in your country. Nonsense.

PulaPower:
Op, who told you Nigeria doesn’t attract tourist?

Ishowspeed is a content creator. He sure enjoyed the paparazzi

Person enter naija, hit 50m and you’re capping trash here..

Is Nigeria on the top of most visited countries in Africa?. I'm talking about about numbers here not one or two YouTubers visiting Naija. How consistent are the visits?

franchasofficia:
You made zero sense in your post.


The reasons foreigners and tourists don't like visiting Nigeria are:

1.) Corruption due to decades of successive corrupt, failed Presidents like Tinubu that plundered the collective resources of Nigeria and rendered ordinary Nigerians hopeless and rejected


2.) High level of insecurity caused by federal government of Nigeria using insecurity to play politics

3.) Corruption among ordinary Nigerians which they learnt from political leaders and also because nobody holds corrupt Nigerians accountable by making sure every corrupt Nigerian pay the full price irrespective of his or her tribe, religion or political affiliation.



These are the primary reasons Nigeria don't attract foreigners and tourists.


Every other reason is secondary.

So South Africa doesn't have
Corruption
Crime

JaceBlaze:
Lol

Go and find a job Thabo and your life will be better I promise you. Stop obsessing us

Abeg I dey ask because I no understand. Nigeria get oil and resources, but citizens no dey see any real benefit. Other African countries dey support their people, but for Naija na suffer we dey see everywhere.
Why e be like this?

familyfirst1:
According to my sister, this man targeted various African women who were in South Africa. Abeg, it happened in South Africa.

This type of thinking is why African women will never be safe, because even our brothers doubt our sisters. This is so sad.

He is saying the xenophobes don't care because it's not their women. They don't care that it happened in their godforsaken land as long as it's not one of them. Wickedness.

Ihaveleftnaija:
My friend ,Naija is very depressing and frustrating at the moment and there are no benefits for citizens. So you cannot really have pride when you are suffering. Your comparison to South Africa is silly at best. Firstly South Africans don't hold foreigners in high regard like we do. They don't go all out for strangers unless you ask politely. They also see begging foreigners for help ,not as a lifeline if you're poor but as an insult to their state who gives everyone free money monthly ,so why.beg?. Does Nigerian government offer the same benefits to the poor as South Africa?

As for Kenya, things are as bad as Nigeria over there too in many communities but they are used to foreigners because of their tourism ,so they don't see every foreigner as an ATM because they know others are broke but just saved enough to go there. And Kenya government also has some benefits for the citizens. What do we get in Nigeria to cushion the hardship ?

So you expect handouts like lazy citizens of those countries. Nigerians are hardworkers not looking for government to feed them,we can hustle for ourselves. But the useless people on.those streets need to be punish for giving Nigeria a bad name on a global stage making even lazy people to mock us ,even though everyone knows we are the most dominant and smartest Africans.

SpaceX:
They will use begging to chase tourists away

Exactly, look at the other African countries who attract white tourists,they behaved well and showed him the good side of their countries but Nigerians had to do nonsense 🙄

I made a thread abouts this embarrassing habit by some Nigerians. Always begging foreigners and how it's costing us our tourism and global respect especially the men .

https://www.nairaland.com/8603936/why-nigeria-doesnt-attract-tourists

Look at how the Kenyans, Ghananians, South Africans etc respected themselves when he visited them ,it come our turn and we embarass ourselves infront of the world and our enemies are having fun on the internet mocking us as hungry giants .

IronGalaxy:
The sooner we realize these people are mental the better for us guys, nowadays im teaching myself to ignore them..

Go and hustle Thabo ,no one cares what you people think. Lazy boy .

JaceBlaze:
Yah it's just too comical at this point.

What is comical is your obsession with Nigerians. You are embarrassing yourselves

If you noticed the recent videos of ishowspeed around Africa you would be embarrassed by how our people acted. Nigerians were begging and expecting handouts which sends bad signals to any visitor. I have visited Kenya and they don't beg foreigners, foreigners might give them something out of the goodness of their hearts but they don't harass them.

I have lived in South Africa for years and you will never see them begging tourists or foreigners, even the poor ones act very proud when they see you are not one of them. Why do we always want to project ourselves in bad light infront of strangers even though we are the better Africans with more pride,global respect and hustling spirit. This is why we are even getting disrespected by small small African countries that should be begging to clean our houses for free .
Let us stop the beggy beggy culture, it makes us look weak to outsiders. You can't be begging strangers in your own home. Look at what those weak South African footballers did when they were in Nigeria,giving out food from moving bus windows to humiliate us. Do you think they would take that if the Eagles did same to them? They would stone our players and accuse them of demeaning them. We need to change this behavior before it's too late .

TV01:
In as much as I can claim Nigerian, I will readily admit that Nigerians "typically", range from fraudsters to grifters. And few - even the most eminently qualified - see beyond serving themselves. The desire is mostly for their individual self-aggrandisement. And, if that is at the expense of others, then so be it. That is why "the hustle" is evident at all levels and in all strata. It's not just "the leaders". If anything they merely epitomise it.

A true sense of the collective, of commonwealth, is almost totally absent. Whether that is predicated on the tribalism that bedevils them, the sectarianism that primes much of their responses, or these in combination with other ills, I'll refrain from speculating for now.

Any notion of pan-Africanism (and pan-blackness, if that's a thing and means essentially the same?) is dead in the water. It's not a pipe or a dream. If it was a political notion, it would mean eternal minor-party opposition. With only the merest consideration and grasp of realities on the ground, can anyone really believe that pan-Africanism is achievable?

Does it include Arabs? Hope not, they simply cannot ever see themselves as equal with black people - their racism, even the merely customary kind - is off the charts.

Okay, just black people. The ethnic Somali are pretty close to being perfectly homogenous, but are so clannish, they seem to have been at war forever. And any government has to be along clan lines, not principles, not policy. They even "clanned" themselves out of the recent Minnesota mayoral election. No to mention they look down - to the point of despising - on the Bantu Somali who occupy the same space, speak the same language and have the same culture.

Back to Nigeria. The ethnic Fula are keen to eradicate or enslave every other tribe in pursuit of their ethno-religious-supremacist dream. A vast swathe of Nigerians with the wherewithal would rather be in freezing Siberia, the most racist and far-right Western nation or even China, where you can be treated like vermin.

Like islam is best for muslims outside islamic majority\dominated countries, pan-africanism would probably work best elsewhere. Or, in a very lurid imagination, that realises the wretchedness of its position but seeks some relief in an unattainable fantasy. This literally allows you to boast, be judgemental and even supremacist in your wretchedness, but nothing will ever change.

However, I have one small quibble with the SA specific rebuttal to pan-africanism. Pray tell, what antecedents do the native south-Africans have the suggests they would have built modern day liberal democratic infrastructure before the advent of Europeans? How are the Bantus in the south in any way different from the Cushites on the horn, or those in the West or Central regions.

What, in the inherent make-up of black SA before the advent of white SA suggest they could natively give rise to those institutions, or the governance and the processes required? Something none of the other African tribes\nations have been able to achieve - individually or collectively.

Is there anything you can point to, if only nascent or embryonic, prior to the arrival of white SA, that suggests these structures would have arisen without white SA. Or alternatively, anything within the antecedents of the white SA that suggests wherever they rocked up, those infrastructures would not have followed - like night follows day - with or without black SA?

You whole-chestedly claim "joint enterprise" in what are clearly the artefacts of a colonialist\apartheid regime. Albeit, a regime with the make-up to build those systems. To be clear, I do not see anything that suggests the SA of recent decades was ever a partnership in the building. I stand to be corrected - if you can evidence otherwise.

Having said that you get 2 shots. You see Nigeria (and I'd guess other African countries post-colonialism), also had these same artefacts in place. From functioning railways stations (I've seen tickets) to working bureaucracies and administrative frameworks. But as inherency took a hold - nepotism, tribalism, sectarianism, clannishness, mediocrity, malfeasance and wholesale corruption - the frameworks, the structures and the governance were all degraded. And now, we are where we are.

Two shots I said, because all that has to be done to obviate the ask to evidence the joint-enterprise (and shut me up ), and gainsay all the vitriol around black SA being xenophobic, lazy, servile etc., is too maintain those artefacts - at the least.

In a simplistic way, it can be seen as SA simply coming to the end of colonialism\apartheid later, so having the artefacts for that much longer.
I'll be honest, based on what has gone before and currently persists with SA' near neighbours, I wouldn't stake my hard-earned cash on it. But I sincerely wish you all the best.


TV

Tell them bros. These black South Africans are the most delusional people on this continent.

IronGalaxy:
Ok

Why are Zulus so lazy, with all the money in your league, you people couldn't fight a stylist to dress you up like the Eagles. Turning up looking like European wannabes in an African tournament

IronGalaxy:
Exactly. Notice how they make noise and tell anyone who dgaf about how they're the "Giants of Africa" unprovoked..? They have small man syndrome and they disguise it with this excessive fake bravado.. I see through it

Everyone knows Nigeria is the Giant of Africa.whatever happens anywhere else on the continent somehow started here first, would work better if we handled it, and will eventually need our opinion to be complete. Our economy carries Africa on its back, our politics sets the tone whether people admit it or not, and on the global stage, nothing involving Africa is truly serious until Nigeria has spoken. Continue wailing Zulu boy while we continue dominating the continent and the globe. That's our destiny and right because we are far more superior than you and your ancestors .You and your irritating girlfriend must eat a humbe pie and accept reality .

KingCold:
ok. What else?

Stop begging your government for free money,go out and hustle like a man. You're embarrassing Africa with all this your weakling ways and excuses. You are not white people, stop pretending and stay real . Cowardice

Lionessza6:
Calling analysis ‘fear’ is what people do when they’ve never had anything worth protecting. Thinking through structures isn’t cowardice...it’s what you do when collapse would actually kill your future instead of just reshuffling your hustle. You survive chaos because you’ve normalized loss; we resist it because the cost is real.

You aren’t ‘the structure.’ You operate in the cracks of other people’s structures. Improvisation in disorder isn’t power...it’s dependency with good PR . If you were the structure, Nigeria wouldn’t export people faster than it exports value. You move because the ground beneath you never stabilizes.

Adjusting quickly in collapse isn’t dominance; it’s adaptation to permanent failure. Dominance is owning systems that don’t require constant escape plans. That’s why your talent thrives abroad and bleeds at home....because chaos is only survivable when someone else’s order absorbs the shock.

Calling decades of collapse ‘resilience’ is Stockholm syndrome . Standing still while your institutions rot isn’t strength...it’s inertia. We don’t romanticize suffering as identity. We measure outcomes. And by that metric, surviving dysfunction isn’t victory...it’s unpaid debt.

You say we ‘worship institutions’ because you’ve never experienced what happens when they disappear. Institutions aren’t comfort...they’re compounding advantage. They’re why some societies fall and recover, while others fall and scatter. You call it softness because you’ve had to make peace with instability.

You claim you don’t need fallback options because you ‘don’t fall,’ yet Nigerians build their lives around exit strategies🙆‍♀️. Your economy only ‘starts moving’ when you plug into systems someone else already stabilized. Movement without ownership is motion, not power.

Pan-Africanism doesn’t scare us...it insults our intelligence🗑. Burning down the strongest structure available to prove ideological purity is easy when you have nothing left to lose. We do. Symbolic destruction is affordable only to those already living at the bottom.

Being everywhere isn’t global power; it’s dispersion. Influence without anchor is noise. You scatter because your home system can’t hold you. We anchor because collapse would trap us, not free us.

You mock writing because planning exposes the limits of chaos culture. Real movers don’t just run....they secure supply lines, institutions, and recovery paths. You move fast because standing still would force you to confront what never got built.😅😅

You confuse survival in disorder with mastery of reality. We don’t have that luxury. When your system fails, you relocate. When ours fails, we fall with it. That’s not fear...that’s structural awareness. You gamble with chaos because you can flee it. We defend systems because we can’t.

😂😂 Madam, please calm down.

All this long grammar just to say “I’m scared to lose comfort.”
Simple English: you like rules because without them you don’t know what to do.

You keep shouting “institutions, institutions” like it’s holy water. If light goes off small, it’s panic all over your country . If system shakes, your violent men and women are disturbing the streets and calm with cries that the country is destroyed . Weak and fragile beings. We wake up, adjust, and move on. No tears.

You say we export people like it’s an insult. Madam, people are the asset. Nigerians are the engine. Drop us anywhere, economy starts breathing. Even your strong system enjoys Nigerian sweat, but let’s ignore that 😅.

You talk about chaos like it’s a curse. We eat chaos for breakfast. We don’t wait for perfect road; we create path with our legs. That’s why we survive anywhere.

This “anchor” talk is funny 😂. Anchor is for people afraid to move. We don’t tie ourselves to one place because the whole world is open. That’s freedom, not running.

Pan-Africanism annoys you because you’re comfortable with government free money. When you’re comfy and lazy, unity feels dangerous. When you're a survivor, speed becomes intelligence.

You write long essays because you need permission before action. Nigerians act first, explain later sometimes never . Results don’t need footnotes.You protect systems.
We dominate environments.You stay.We move.You analyze.We adapt.

Relax and enjoy the show 😁😁

JaceBlaze:
He started his sentence by saying "you people think too much" ,now that right there just gives full scope of why things are falling apart

You think too much nonsense. And we continue dominating not thinking about system collapse and that nonsense. We are flexible and mobile,not stagnant and enslaved.

KingCold:
ok. What else?

Go and buy some confidence Zulu boy,the white man system has turned you into a low budget white boy who can't do anything without government . That's why we dominate you and you beg your police for help

Lionessza6:
When I said “Black South Africans are an extension of a weaker Africa, while whites are an extension of Europe,” i was not talking about identity, culture, or worth. I'm talking about structural backing in the global system.

1. “Extension” does not mean loyalty or DNA
It means where power, capital, protection, and recovery capacity come from when things go wrong.

In the modern world, groups are not equal because of pride or history; they are equal because of networks and fallback options.

2. Whites in South Africa are structurally linked to Europe regardless of citizenship.

*They have deep capital ties to Europe and North America
*Easier access to investment, credit, skills markets, and migration pathways
*Cultural, legal, and institutional familiarity with powerful economies

If South Africa collapses, they can exit into strong systems.This does not mean they are “foreign agents.”It means they have a continental safety net.

3. Black South Africans are structurally linked to Africa.Again, regardless of patriotism:

*Africa as a continent is weaker economically and politically in the global hierarchy
*Limited capital markets, weak currencies, fragile institutions
*Fewer global fallback options
*When things collapse, there is nowhere powerful to retreat to

If South Africa fails, Black South Africans fall with it.

4. Why this matters for policy and protest
Because of this imbalance:

Reckless disruption hurts Black citizens first.Economic collapse is not an abstract risk....it is existential.

Whites can wait, hedge, exit, or re-anchor elsewhere.Blacks must protect and reform the system they are trapped in.This is why Black South Africans are often institutionalists rather than romantic radicals.

5. Why Pan-African pressure often rings hollow.Calls to “burn it down” in the name of African pride ignore this asymmetry.

Pan-Africanists who already live in weaker states can afford symbolic destruction because the baseline is already low.South Africans cannot.

6. Black American comparison
Black Americans face a similar reality:

*Their fate is tied to the U.S. system
*They do not have a powerful “Black nation” to retreat into

So they fight for reform, rights, and inclusion...not collapse

7. The uncomfortable truth is that this isn’t cowardice.It is strategic realism.

When you are an extension of a weaker system, you must defend and improve the strongest structure you have, not destroy it to prove ideological purity.

Not self-hate.Not white worship.
Structural awareness!

😁😁you people think too much.

All this grammar just to say you’re scared. Nigerians don’t analyze structures .We ARE the structure. Before systems wake up, Nigerians have already adjusted, dominated, and moved on. That’s why the whole world knows us.

Talking about “collapse” like it’s a threat. Nigeria has been collapsing since independence and we’re still standing. That’s called resilience. You wouldn’t survive one week without comfort and institutions that’s why you worship them.

We don’t need fallback options because we don’t fall. Wherever Nigerians land, economy starts moving. That’s facts. We don’t wait for permission, policies, or perfect conditions. We move.

Pan-Africanism makes you uncomfortable because it reminds you that Africans can operate without approval. You prefer safety over greatness.

Nigeria is global by default. Our people are everywhere, influencing everything, loud or quiet. Some people are local and defensive, some are continental by nature. It’s not your fault.

Keep writing essays. Movers don’t type — they move😅.Weak cry baby. 🤡

KingCold:
LoL..of course, insults, nothing else.. 0 intellectualism.. Lionessza made miced-meat out of you.. You offer nothing . I can't take you seriously..

She is the one who admitted that your white masters will always lord over you because you are weak . Go and cry somewhere dudula agent

KingCold:
You're deluded

Timid man, have you turned what today or you are still black and lazy?

budaatum:
Why is that you mention the hard working Nigerians in UK like my sister and not those in Nigeria?

Do Nigerians become unlazy when they arrive in UK like my sister found out, or is the work culture just different and that's why even you recognise Nigerians work hard in UK?

One more question. A trick one if you may.

How do Nigerians dominate in Nigeria?

You people like talking too much drama. Hard work is not about systems, it’s about blood and spirit. Nigerians work hard everywhere, even in Nigeria. The fact that Nigeria is not working is because of colonialism, corruption imposed from outside, and bad leaders not the people.

In the UK, Nigerians work hard because they are Nigerians, not because of the system. The system only benefits from Nigeria energy and sweat

Also, Nigeria dominates Africa culturally,politically, economically , music, movies, population, confidence. That is dominance. You don’t need working trains or electricity to dominate. Hard work is suffering and resilience, not paperwork and having your time managed like a slave . We are free man in Nigeria and we control our time and money not paying taxes or having a government that enslave us like what I see here with these timid and white want to be frauds .