₦airaland Forum

As a civil servant working for one of the leading agencies,I have done a lot of traveling.I lived in almost every part of the country,became friends with people from all these major tribes.I've always ended up discarding my earlier notions about these tribes and what is being portrayed about them in general. Tolerance is hard to come by when you're programmed right from birth to detest anyone who isn't you. Having grown up outside the country I have been lucky to avoid such sentiments.Focusing on the individual is key rather than the collective. A funny incident in the NYSC camp in Kaduna occurred in front of me..A guy from Anambra called Emma saw a couple of women selling coke n fanta and he was like "chai,so dem get this thing for north?" Some were annoyed at the comment but I looked closely and realised it wasn't a derogatory comment.He actually was sincere in his astonishment.To him the world starts in Anambra and ends there. I lived in Abeokuta few years ago and was shocked to find indigenes who couldn't speak pidgin,not to talk of English. It was in Abeokuta I saw a few Hausa men hawking..I conversed with some of them and understood they traveled all the way from Zamfara to come n sell fruits worth less than 3k. I thought to myself if I were to judge all these tribes by these people I met then surely our country is doomed. The burden of these issues falls a great deal on parents for inculcating the hate culture. If we all treated the other as ourselves then surely there is no stopping us. I've been to Belgium and wow you ought to see the diversity..But there's so much peace..They celebrate diversity in individuals. Looking at their football national team will immediately give you a clearer picture. Let's all abandon the stereotypes..Everyone has some gift to offer.Let's Unite

Actually the main reason goalkeepers' jerseys are different is to assist the referees and linesmen to differentiate between the infield players and the goalkeeper in cases such as offside...the colourful jersey theory farfetched