₦airaland Forum

heniford2:
all this nonsense crap you typed here like igbo's or Nigeria are that bad let me lecture you the highest crime rate in the world is from Russians,bribery, cyber crime too Asians also do more drugs than Africa but you will not see any Asian nor Russians tiring the own down, Uk is bad that bribery and gangster is so high how many of there country men have wrote bad about it, Just this month 8,967 have died in US on gun killing do you here it abeg stop all this, germany stole our heritage about 1000 Arts from benin the just apologized did you not see it must we kill ourselves are we not representing ourselves good abeg stop all this shit

Activist001:
Lol, who give a flying fućk about fox news? Now you agree media stations can create division?

I don't beat my chest over anything. Nigerians and Asians (especially east Asians) are very successful anywhere they go because of one thing, personal responsibility and not giving a Bleep until they get what they want.

While you're there crying racism day in day out, Nigerians, other Africans and Asians come into your country and succeed overwhelmingly. Next thing you do us to start hating on them instead of trying to understand why they excel so well.

Listen, I sincerely don't even want to argue with you lady. Just pick your choice out of any of the links below. Denying facts can and will never alter reality FYI.

https://www.ozy.com/around-the-world/the-most-successful-ethnic-group-in-the-u-s-may-surprise-you/86885/

https://medium.com/@joecarleton/why-nigerian-immigrants-are-the-most-successful-ethnic-group-in-the-u-s-23a7ea5a0832

https://www.ft.com/content/ca39b445-442a-4845-a07c-0f5dae5f3460

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-10-13/it-isn-t-just-asian-immigrants-who-excel-in-the-u-s-

Activist001:
No problem akata. Las Las, there is no need insulting ourselves, the news is fake and those women were fighting over baby daddy issues. You can see my comment on the first page of this thread, I've lost the link to the original news.

That said, I don't care if you call me a Niger or whatever you call it. You call me niger, I call you niger or akata too. See how that works?

Modified: Just to add, since Nigerians are "primitive" according to you, explain to me how we come to the US and become more successful than your community who have lived there for God knows how long?

Go figure the most successful groups in the US. Asians and Nigerians top the list most of the time and can you ask yourself why? I'll stop here for now.

Conner44:
Yes I am a nigger and no I don’t need your compassion. Give it to your children because obviously they would need the sympathy more than me here in my home country where I’m steady dealing with my own tribalism issues.

You rant upandan as if running to USA is an achievement in your whole lineage whereas many of us here only go there to blow cash and visit friends on our vacation. Remind me how many dead bodies you’ve washed this year again?

Mugu who managed to stowaway abroad by ship and then turn around to call the family you abandoned at home ‘primitive’ lol

So, because you can’t compete or measure up to your oyibo mates over there you puff out your flat bony chest and try to put us proud Africana people down abi?

Oya drop your phone, put your right hand on your chest and your left hand on your head and say out loud . . .
“Mugu i was - werey I am - and olodo I will always be”

Then when you’ve finished just do a simple somasault and land squarely with your coconut head.

Naijaibo:

Naijaibo:
Apologies

Activist001:
Ok. I don't think I have strength for akata argument this night.

Naijaibo:
Okay I get...I didn't mean it that way, you are kind of insinuating now

Naijaibo:
Variety is life

I like something different, opposites attract, I like one that love Africa though, cos I love the weather and food here.

Naijaibo:
Apologies...didn't mean to rub off that way...i like a woman with good libido, I mean it in a good way.

eastOFwest:
And here's one fact for you.....

I couldn't give a fvck either way! Their relationship; their problem.

Naijaibo:
Been with some...no offense, I love and respect them.

backT:
Visiting Austria for the first time and realizing that the police officers are particularly interested in the same set of people: The Nigerians. I’ve been in and out of South Africa for the last five years. On my first arrival in Johannesburg, January 2014, I was welcomed at the airport by Fr. Terry Nash. He was smiling, I was smiling, too. I was in the company of six other guys who introduced themselves – from Delta State, Akwa-Ibom, Benue, Anambra, etc.

It got to my turn and I said IMO. Fr. Nash’s smile ripened into a giggle, “I have heard about Imo, I met many people from Imo State because I’ve been in prison ministry. Nigerians generally make up a high population in the prison here. And the Imo guys make the church in prison so vibrant, those guys are great”, he said, still smiling. My own smile had left me.

Years later I would find myself suffering what seems like a stigma that comes with being Nigerian. Every time I found myself in the airport, my identity as a Nigerian is a source of worry: being asked to step aside for extra questions, being delayed by extra protocol because I’m Nigerian.

Three years ago I was returning to Nigeria on holiday. There was small chaos at the airport: the noise of police whistles and the barking of police dogs filled the air, “get that man”, a chubby white policeman was screaming. “Somebody has been caught with drugs again”, an unknown Black man quickly hinted me, “it is these Nigerians”. I quickly became furious.

“You can’t be sure it’s a Nigerian”, I retorted. Well, the guy was caught. Behold, he had a strong Nigerian accent while he was begging the policemen, and had the angled shape of my head: Igbo, with a rosary on his neck. I gave up on defending Nigerians’ reputation.

I gave up because shortly after a Nigerian family volunteered to do clean up in a certain Catholic parish in Johannesburg, the police stormed into the church one day and found drugs hiding behind the terbanacle.

I gave up when a Nigerian asked by an immigration officer to step aside, was scolding the officer for delaying him and raining legal threats, “I know my rights, you can’t keep me this long”, only for the immigration officer to find that his documents had all been forged.

Once, on returning to South Africa from Nigeria I was with an old Yoruba woman who couldn’t speak or read English, her son in Pretoria had a newborn baby. She had been invited, they somehow succeeded in making her a passport and got her a visa. She couldn’t read anything or understand any information at the airport, so I helped her because my Yoruba is fluent.

When finally we reached Johannesburg the immigration officers had questions about some “strange” things in her bag. I told them those were cooking ingredients, I was the translator between her and the officers. Soon she became worried and whispered into my ear, “Eyi n di isoro. Fun won ni five hundred naira” (this is becoming a problem, give them five hundred).

“Won o kiin gba five hundred (they don’t accept N500”, I replied.

“Oya fun won ni one thousand” (then give them one thousand). She squeezed a wrinkled one thousand naira note into my hand. I told her they do not use naira here. “haaaaaah” her mouth opened. I expected that, I smiled.

Bribe is a Nigerian culture, even our old people believe it works, and that there is no other way of moving past an obstacle aside from bribe, there is no other means of progress asides bribe. Bribe is a Nigerian salvation.

Weeks later I had a Nigerian friend who was in dire need. He lived with me, he talked about his two million naira which he was expecting from Nigeria, with many proves of the availability of the money. So he borrowed six thousand rand from me.

My friend, it’s now more than two years, he never paid. He fled to someplace else and never returned my calls. I learned later he had borrowed also from a Kenyan who was our neighbor, and this neighbor kept asking where my ‘brother’ was. Until today he never paid, and it doesn’t prick his conscience.

It’s important for we Nigerians to ask ourselves serious questions. What is the most important thing to a Nigerian? What kind of factors in our childhood makes us desperate and dangerously competitive? Sometimes we are under the pressure of our parents and peers to “prove ourselves”.

When the average Nigerian travels abroad he doesn’t travel to merely make a livelihood. His plan is to outshine his peers. I do not find this common among South Africans. They’re usually satisfied, they just want to have what they need, they don’t kill themselves over what is beyond them.

The first time I had a drive to Durban with a senior brother from Mariannhill we saw a Nigerian suspiciously passing a tightly-folded bag from under the counter, then they made signs to each other, then he sneaked out. Another man entered and sneakily collected it.

The Zambian brother tapped my back, “drugs, they are your brothers”. The saddest thing is that those who choose to talk about this are attacked and bullied on social media, they are regarded as unpatriotic citizens. Because Nigerian morality ends with sex and marriage. Finished.

Talk about issues on human sexuality and you’ll see the bible-thumping Nigeria saying, “hellfire, Adam and Steve, weapons of the devil, it is not our culture”, but bribery is our culture. Everything else asides from sexual activity is survival, so it’s unofficially acceptable. Our mouths are sharp when HIV is mentioned, we often think we are very moral. What shall it profit a virgin who is a thief? Nigerian morality is faux.

“What is your brother doing in Malaysia?” “He is hustling”, that is all you can say. He’s just hustling. He comes back to Nigeria and does Thanksgiving and the priest blesses him with chasuble spread out. He pays his tithes and gives huge offerings, and his name is announced in church. But nobody notices that poor man at the corner of the church who is a gateman and gives his offering from the little he earned through honest work.

What is your brother doing in Dubai? You give random and vague answers: He’s trying to find something, we are praying he succeeds, please put him in prayer. You know that kind of prayer, right?

A South African Bishop once made a joke, “it is easier to trust a stone than to trust a Nigerian. You keep a stone on this table, you’ll still find the stone when you come back. Keep a Nigerian and come back later, the Nigerian is gone”. And yet we wonder why religious orders outside Africa are afraid of considering Nigerian applications. Our brothers who were admitted into American dioceses arrived at the airport and then ran away.

I visited a church in Johannesburg where I heard during the announcements that the guy who teaches the altar servers had been shot dead. A Nigerian. Later the circumstances surrounding his death did not match with a person who would teach mass servers how to serve Holy Mass.

It should make us ask questions about what we value the most as Nigerians: religion or integrity? Perhaps something is wrong with how we have been evangelized.

Back home in Nigeria, Nigerians who are not corrupt are seen as fools by their fellow Nigerians. Their wives mock them. Those Nigerians who studied abroad and now see the world differently, hardly ever come close to political offices in Nigeria, they just won’t fit in. And yet we love Jesus the most, we are the bastion of faith in Africa.

Do you know why your visa has been rejected many times? It’s because your passport is a Nigerian passport. Ask your friend from Tanzania, he’ll tell you how easy it is for him to get a visa.

Do you know why your admission into that European University is taking long? It’s because they’re still investigating your documents to be sure that they’re not fake. Ask your South African friend, he already got an admission.

Now that a new word has been added into the Oxford Dictionary “Nigerian Scam” (please google it) we can be sure that our position in the world is in the first place. Think Nigerian, but let it be that your reputation is important.

Identify as Nigerian, but make sure those who come after you are not denied privileges because of you. Because of those who represent us positively around the globe, because of the many Nigerians who work to earn their living, I am proudly Nigerian.

I am proudly Nigerian, because Pius Adesanmi was, Chinua Achebe was, because Anthony Cardinal Okogie is, because Chimamanda Adichie is, because Fela Kuti was, because of people such as Flora Nwapa, Ben Okri, Dora Akunyuli, Bishop Hassan Kukah, etc. There are many models you could choose from instead of adding to our dirty script. Save other Nigerians from stigma, be true.

Cc: #Life
Please, be a good Nigerian wherever you are. Thank You

eastOFwest:
I think certain people are too biased to comprehend certain things. Perhaps too much conical mass resting on the brain thus exerting udue pressure that results in randomly generated packets of electricity occasionally short circuiting the brain or "brain dey touch" syndrome

eastOFwest:
She didn't break up with him. She just didn't want to live outside the ghetto. If she couldn't stand him then the relationship would have ended all that time they lived in the ghetto.

SUPERPACK:
The rants of a dog.

Conner44:
Comprehension must be a mighty challenge for you. I understand that Oyibos have called you nigger countless times and it really pains you to spill such bile on this thread.

I am a nigger just like you but unlike you I choose to embrace the ‘negro’ tag because that is exactly what I am. I am a black azz African negroid mudafuka.

We over here call people like you ‘akata’ and believe you me it is actually a derogatory word. It is well known that you blacks over there are a higher percentage of the dregs of their society involved in all manner of vices. Believe it or not the oyibos have genuine reasons to distort their faces with disdain whenever they look at you.

I’m not the reason for your frustrations. If you need soft target then turn to your neighbor over there and vent. I’m sure it’s an akata like you.

Activist001:
You this khia lady. You never fail to bring your akata behaviour everywhere you go.

I don't blame you, there is a problem with your community and it's sad. Many years of oppression is messing with you guys.. Better work on stopping your hate for people because of the sins of their ancestors.

Also, develop a thick skin to racism. If someone insults, insult them back. If someone calls you a black monkey, call them a white pig. 1:1.

Stop whining and don't physically assault people because of words. No one gives a shit lady.

Taniaa:
African Americans are racist towards other Africans though, hypocrisy.

Bouz:
Nigerians of same race, or rather black of same race are we organised?, the black lady should have insulted the white lady same way

Conner44:
the woman is bigger and stronger than you yet you chose to abuse her because she made you angry?

a medical concoction for treating the eye should in no guise be spiced with pepper

chatinent:
You just insulted an innocent race. Are you any different?

SUPERPACK:
She is only doing that because she knows she is stronger than her. Racism is only felt when it is white on black but black on black is not an issue. She will spend her time in jail.

eastOFwest:
U can take the boy out of the shithole but u can't take the shithole out of him.

It's a pity but go to all the worst (third world-like) ghettos in USA, Brazil, Cuba etc and you see black people flourishing there in abject poverty, drugs, prostitution, single mum families, baby daddy drama, teenage pregnancy, no interest in education etc. Some of them in Brazil are even still speaking Yoruba, to show you how African they are.

I heard a story of one Igbo boy who was living in the projects in Chicago. Started dating this akata babe. Hustled well and managed to get himself an apartment in a decent area. Took this babe out of the ghetto. Within a few weeks, she was depressed. Packed her kaya and went back to the ghetto. She couldn't stand normal life.

Naijaibo:
They love dicks for sure.