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Nigerians are ever too quick to critize without having examined the issue critically! $200millon from the govt is even too small for an industry that earns the country over $350million in a year even without govt support yet this same industry is the 3rd /4th largest employer of labour in Nigeria. Come to think of it, if the Enugu movie village is fully functional as well as those in Lagos, Kano etc do you know how many people will be employed directly or indirectly? Again do you know how much financial support Hollywood gets from both the Federal and State govts. in the USA? Yes we know how many roads that amount can build, yes we know how many university theatre that can also build, but again I think it is not a bad move by the govt to recognize and encourage an industry which has largely survived on the Never die hard spirit of typical Nigerian. THe only down said to all this is that Nigeria tax system is not well sructured otherwise, within 18months, Nigeria would have recouped this money back in taxes from the same industry as more movie producers with very good movies would have emerged, resulting in increased sales hence more VAT/SALES tax for the govt! Lease you guys also forget, Nollywood is not just movies moviesmovies, Nollywood also are involved in Jingles/adverts, etc

For those blaming GEJ for attending the function, I think there is no basis for critizing GEJ for attending such a functon. Afterall when Yardua was in aso rock, same Nigerians complained that he was a sidon look president and now you have a president that socializes with different sectors of the Nigerian populace, you are still complaining! ha ba naija which one una no dey?

buzugee:
amongeism ? now you are just making up words  
smelling mouth ? do you go around kissing all nigerians in diaspora ? how do you know their mouth is smelling ?

what you call amongeism ? is actually 'enlightenment'  believe it or not some of the things that you nigerians who have never left the shores of nigeria do is straight up crude and barbaric. once you step away from the shores of nigeria and then you become like an outsider looking in ? thats when all the flaws become visible to you and you bow your head in shame. i think the govt needs to organise a program to let every citizen of nigeria visit another country for a month before returning back to nigeria ( although i know such a program would not work because all man will run and not return and nigeria will become empty   ) but yeah visit somewhere else then come back enlightened. it is not amongeism. it is enlightenment.  its amazing the wisdom you acquire when you are an outsider looking in. for example ? the practice of throwing tire on a human being and burning them alive because they stole something, this is just barbaric. but those who do it think if we condemn them, it is because we want to feel amongeism with oyinbo. far from the point. when you are outside looking in ? you see the barbarism for what it is. same with this rotten whale thing. on the outside looking in ? it looks terrible. but those of you who have never left naija just see it as a natural part of life. rotten smelly shark full of mercury and pathogens lands on the shore, oowwweeeeeeee let me go cut me a piece   crazy silly nigerians.

then because of mercury poisoning if your liver shuts down or if you give birth to a kid with 9 toes on each feet, you go come say na juju dem do for you

Carry go sit don! I feel sorry for most of you NIDS! You guys often think 'cos you are a second class citizen abroad with "fake" arrangee marriage papers that means you are exposed and more intelligent! utter rubbish I say!, FYI, I have being there, and there is nothing about oyinbo life that you can convince me with! As some one who have worked among the creame la creame of engineering in the UK,France,Canada and China seen their dirty side of the daily lives of these so called oyinbos, I think it was safe for me to conclude that lots of you NIDS are truly suffering from a disease I call "amongeism". Go ask the brits why they are still fox hunting! have you been to Wales? go to rural Aberdeen and seelife for yourself! Have you been to downtown paris? Blois? Nice?, dude, like I said before, GET A LIFE YALL,  continue to listen to white man rubbish, see how they have preached global warming sermon to the lacks and at the same time they are quickly building their industeries to mass produce the so called "climate change" goods. IF YOU THINK WE CAN CHANGE NIGERIA BY LOOKING THROUGH THE WHITE MAN'S LENSES, THEN YOU MUST BE DAY DREAMING, GO ASK CHINA AND BRAZIL, AND THEIR ANSWER WILL ALWAYS REMAIN; GROW AT YOUR OWN PACE, DO NOT LET ANYONE DICTATE ANYTHING TO YOU, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, BELIEVE THAT WHAT YOU HAVE IS THE BEST THAT THE WORLD HAS GOT! Finally, let our people chop their whale jare' you smelling mouth try make you first use that mouth take fight your second class status before ou go dey worry about Naija and their whale eating people

If only people who support piracy truly have an insight into where these show of intelligence is leading the human race into! Guess some of you have heard or read about the use of "special" signs or a number to purchase and/or use things? Some call it the anti-christ number. With this ever increasing and unrelenting rate of piracy, these peeple are only creating the needed environment for a dubious govt to introduce schemes like that and when they do, large percentage of the human population would approve of it thinking it would help curb piracy hence more money for them only for it to be exploited to the detriment of humanity.

Soon, finger print technology would be used in the purchase and usage of anything material either bought or sold and that would be at the expense of human privacy!

I am almost convinced that 70% of Nigerians abroad are suffering from a condition of amongeism! Black on the outside, white/yellowish on the inside! They come to NL and open their mouth whenever issues at home is being discussed but can't use that same smeling mouth to fight back in their various "shanties" in oyinbo land where they are classed as "second class" and/or "children of slaves"!

The fact that the pictures used in this story has been doctored and these so called african-oyinbo couldnt spot it says it all!, like someone has already said, GET A LIFE YALL!

"the current earthnos manureism composition of the present INEC can be liken to a marriage of Jerusalem and sodom and gomorrah, "

I think this is a good idea. As for the Homeland ministry, I think it is long over due! In my own opinion, I do not think having both the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry for Homeland Security is any duplication of duties. Let Ministry of Interior be responsible for other matters except SECURITY and let the Ministry of Homeland be responsible soley for security!The Ministry should only have a Minister of State ( i.e a depty Minister) and Let the President or His Vice ( whoever that maybe) head that department. Fuse all the security agencies into that Ministry including  Federal police.

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, I DO OT THINK NIGERIA IS RIPE FOR STATE POLICE! WITH THE LIKES OF OGUN STATE GOV'NOR OR OYO STATE GOV'NOR STILL IN POWER, THEN STATE POLICE IS A NO FOR NOW!

As for the National Guard, I think it is a brilliant move! Instead of having a bloated  and in efficient Police force, take about 90,000 of the current Elite in the police, get them trained for 6months and form a national guard! While these ones are ready to guard the country internal along side with the Civil Defence Corp, take the remaining police and have them trained properly for 9months. Give them 21st century training on how to police a democracy and then equip them with high tech equipment. Reach agreement with police to have their pay structure reformed within 5years (which I believe is realistic).

JUST WONDERING, DOES ANY ONE HAVE A COPY OF THE CURRENT BLUE PRINT OF POLICE REFORM WHICH IS TO LAST FOR 5YEARS ie 2010 to 2015?

@Poster;
Did any Nigerian sugar mummy on UK Benefit dumb you lately? For all I know most Nigerian women in the UK are gainfuly employed. The majority that aint that I KNOW are those who came to the UK in the late 70s or early 80s, who now have children old and rich enough to look after them in the UK in addition to their leen UK pension.

I think the poster should retract this insult as Nigerian women are known to be very hard working and not like SOME of thier asian or the MAJORITY of their UK counter part!

21 October 2010

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otumfour:
Petrodolla lol thanx for putting things right,
omo-tori, wht has GDP got to do wit this thread?,
go ahead and eat your GDP when your people are still facing power outages, when most of your peeps are suffering, when corruption is still having a blast, your leaders have u right where they want u boy u'v done well boy go ahead, SMH!
in the end these Ghanaian and Nigerian actors/actresses are still making movies togetha so whtz your beef?
this is an example boy, A Ghanaian movie starring a Nigerian actress, its happening and u can't do isshh abt it

dude, I know most Ghanaians are into construction (hence the reason Nigeria bankers dominate your landscape) as such you may not see the link between a countries GDP and your nonsensical govt idea of putting forward obnoxious economic policy. As for corruption, have you asked your President how much T.B Joshua gets as monthly stipends? I am gald that Nigeria is going through this face 'cos now we are seeing our sworn enemies, and by the time we would finally sort out infighting and corruption out, those sworn enemies would be our foot stool.

FYI, a Nigeriam starring in a Ghanian movie is meaningless 'cos Ghana movies today have no market in Nigeria (maybe they were in the past but certainly not today), hence the producer of that movie is only using the Nigerian actress to buy into the Ghanian market which have been completely taken over by Nigeria movies. Again, I repeat, Ghana should know where she stands in the comity of nations and she should stop flexing muscles with Nigeria. Yes we have our problems numerous I hear you say, but it is on record that as a country, we have never set out to be aggressive to any other country and our govt does not promote xenophobia like your current bigot Ghana govt does!

Any by the way, you smell like a Ghanian with inferiority complex, ( well atleast most of them I know in the UK act that way) and if that is the case, can you kindly leave NL for Nigerians and those who cheris diversity, unlike Ghanians! Atleast if you had the brainto enage in xenophobia, you should also have the brain to create good forums like NairaLand!! (Expired wuk u wuku)

@PetroDollar,
Do I sound like a daft person that would carry out research + contacts on issues? I have i on reliable information on the loans/Grants Nigeria has provided for countries such as Ghana under the so called Mutual assistance pact!

"Don’t swallow everything the Nigerian media feed you. You know very well it is not that easy to take your country’s money and give it to another country like that when your own country desperately needs funds to tackle its numerous problems. Unless of course you are screwed up"
I find that comment very funny and naive indeed! If you do not know, I would recommend that you go and study the budget of Nigeria since 1999 and find out how much Nigeria earmarks every year for these so called loas/grants. As for your claims that Nigeria despirately needs funds to tackle her numerous problems, you must be kidding! Our problem is not FUNDS. Nigeria is very very liquid and our problem is putting in place good leadership to structurally manage the liquidity and turn the economy around so that the bast majority can live comfortably. Did it even occur to you that the country you claimed lack funds raised 75% of her budget needs for the year within 7-8 months in 2010 while much of the world is struggling from economic recession? Go read up the last issue report from Feeral Inland Revenue Service ( FIRS). Do not misconstrue the clamour for PPP projects to mean Nigeria govt is short of funds, rather such approach is best viewed as a viable solution to not only get infrasctructure in place but also, encourage sustainability ( which is one area Nigeria is lacking). FYI, only last week, Nigeria's House representative threw out Mr. President's request to borrow $4bn from IMF and they gave the govt. very god reasons why they think such borrowing was unwarranted in the first place.

As for Ghana, it is a known fact that she can only meet 50% of her 2010 budget and unlikely to meet 50% of her projected 2011 budget projects, hence the warning from international agency two weeks ago that Ghana's economy might suffer long time debt repayment if the present govt continue with her ambitious reforms and MASSIVE borrowing. Do I suddenly believe all of the international agencies report because the report is based on  Ghana, certainly not, however like I always say (with these agencies), there is always an element of truth in their report(s), but their weakness is that they always hype their findings to justify their report!

PetroDolla:
What the heck.Some of you guys are incredibly pathetic!

I keep hearing about how Nigerian helps or helped Ghana, bla bla.Can anyone tell me what this 'help' is all about? I am not talking about beer parlour gist-which is what most of you engage in here on this forum. I am talking about officially confirmed 'help' that Nigeria has extended to Ghana-except you want to count the mass deportation of Ghanaians and other West Africans on two ocassions in the 80s or the selective targeting of Ghanaians living in Nigeria.
I am simply curious to know,

dude check out some of these link:
Masari Justifies $45m Loan to Ghana, São Tomé :http://allafrica.com/stories/200409230152.html
Nigeria to Probe N1.8bn Loan to Ghana :http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=22315
Nigeria grants Ghana $40 Million loan:http://www.modernghana.com/news/60030/1/nigeria-grants-ghana-40-million-loan.html

phreakabit:
I am not saying the house is worth that amount or not,because i no dey there when them plan the whole thing. So, na them get their mouth. What i am saying is i doubt Jay Z would get paid as low 100k pounds as suggested by you

Dude, sorry I could not find the link to the promoter's I would have posted the link here. What some people do not understand is that most times when these guys go on tour, they do it to revive their falling popularity in sales and that is why the in thing now in the UK is every gig has a live stage mass producing mobile machine parked nicely in front of the entrance to the gig and as soon as the gig is over, dudes in uniform will start selling CDs en mass! Remember having a chat in a business meeting with the dude who was the first to introduce this idea and He said in his first gig where they tried out the idea, though it was a small gig, they raised over £10,000 in CDs sales alone in one night! And that when He did it for a few weeks and should the sales statistics to some of the leading promoters in the UK, they were very much impressed and that was how he struck his big deal that landed him mega bucks!

Anyway, my stand still remain that these guys are not worth 5000million Naira and the amount they claimed that house was worth is far less. Now I will stick to my philisophy: "GREAT MEN TALK ABOUT IDEAS, MEAN MEN DISCUSS ABOUT INDIVIDUALS, " hence I will not comment further on this thread, End of Comment.

violent:
Who started the dirty talk about what the difference between a tour and a show?

here is what you said
got a link for you!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1279229/Cheryl-Cole-paid-250k-Grisogono-Cannes-performance.html

dude i see ur problem is u just speed read and not examine the content of what is being said. MICHEAL'S TOUR IN LONDON NEVER MADE UPTO £50MILLION IN SALES OF TICKETS, RATHER HE MADE MILLIONS FROM THE INCREASE IN SALE OF HIS TITLES AND SPONSORSHIP! Think of it, Q2 areana has a capacity of ( i think ) 23,000 to 24,000 and if each person were to pay say £1000 (which in reality would not happen!) that would amount to about £2.35million x 10 = £24million approximately! Then think of how much it would cost to rent O2 for 10days!, pay ITV for a full tv time commercial, Then think of how much you would have to pay for security and of course as yo would in the UK, local police would be involved too! For real, you can see that for even a MEGA star like Micheal, it was His title sales that raised the £millions and not the ticket sales itself!

phreakabit:
mind you £1 = $1.67, and so what? Everyone knows that, do your maths well, that doesn't still mean Jay Z would get paid £100,000 guy, No neglect your brain oh!

dude, why don't you do the maths. How much do you think 2face was paid to appear at the closing ceremony of the WORLDCUP in SOUTH AFRICA? Mind you, that was even a bigger show with a global audiance of approximately 2billion people! Then come to think of it, 2face is not even in P-Square's league when it comes to sponsorship! Oh, you guys have forgotten so soon that these same P-Square abadoned their tour of Africa 'cos their so hyped popularity faded immediately they left South Africa accross the bother into Namibia!!!!

As for those you who are not into properties, you can believe the lies these guys spill out all in the name of died hard FAN! For all I know, that house aint worth 500million Naira! You brain to think ! even if you buy the land for 200million ( which cant be true anyway), then blocks, cement and labourers would cost 50million? and inside finishing another 50million/ come on guys , don't be so daft to be deceived and lied to!!!

violent:
don't mind the dumb árse!. . .Cheryl cole was paid £250,000 for a 30 minutes show at Cannes.

who gives a rat's arse what P-square's house is worth?

is Cannes a tour? and where did you get that information from that she was paid £250,000 for 30minutes show? or are you the type that flash read front page of magazines and cant be bothered to read inside for the details? Whimpies like you place FALSE value on these artist and create fake hype about them! To give you a sense of how much a tour is worth, HOW MUCH DID MICHEAL JACKSON RAISE IN HIS SALE OF TICKETS AT O2 FOR "THIS IS IT" CONCERT? I meanthe CONCERT and not the MOVIE!!

phreakabit:
I dont intend trolling here, but lets diverge from Psquare a bit. Dude last time i was on SOHH forums, I read that Nikki Minaj collects $100k not quids for shows, So what do you think JayZ would charge? Remember Jigga and Eminem just made history with their joint concert, Does are like the biggest name in Rap if not music right now.

MAKE UNA COME SEE MUMU OHHHHH! ehi ehi, come and see oh, come and seeeee!!, $100k abeg convert am to quids and tell me how much that is, mind you £1 = $1.67. oh ya.do the maths, after that, take tax away from that, or do you not know that , that income is taxable too? ye ye man. If tours are that lucrative as you seems to make it look, why dont you see very many artist engaging in tours?

violent:
you must be smoking garri!. .

Jay-Z accept 30,000 quid for 4 shows?. . .even Yinka Ayefele would not accept that amount

I know you are some what daft not to understand that mega artist do not make money from shows, they make money from SPONSORSHIP and sales of titles! Why do you think these guys do HEAVY marketing of their titles immediately they annouce their tours and few weeks to their tours? And yes SNOOP was paid £30,000 for 4shows in the UK! now go do your research on the Jay-Z shows and find out how much they take! And FYI, P-Square was sent packing when he asked to e paid £100,000 to appear in a show in London and the promoter had to cancel the show 'cos He knew quite well that He would not make any profit after paying that much for them to appear which is well over the top of what "Naija" local champions are paid when they come to the UK. Ask Kenny Music!!! Do you even know much to rent a stage in London? then pay security firms, pay for show permit? And at the end, you will still be given capacity restriction by the local council or local police! Dude get real, these guy's houses aint worth 500million and at worst that house would be around 80-110million naira.

globalsys7:
@Omo Tier 1- U're just being naive, how much is 500 million naira, they made at least 100 million each through their records but endorsements, concerts and shows, that is where the real money is, their tour here in the usa was very lucrative, so don't say what you don't know! These guys are twice as hard working as dbanj and tu face and if i dare say they have twice the fan base, of course they're worth more than 500 million naira.

I think you are the one who is really naive! where did you get the figure of100million each from? As for the endorsements, how many companies and/or enterprise have endorsed these twins? As for those tours, i think you really need to find out from insiders, then you will get to know that those tours do not raise as much money like you are led to believe! P-Square are not Micheal Jackson okay! Firstly, how much do you think is the worth of renting a concert hll in the UK or US? How much do you think is the cost of paying for security? Logistics? and do the sums yourself, how much is a typica ticket for a night gig? then multipl that by the possible number of people that attend such events! Then you would know why upcoming artist like P-Square can not make the sums you are imagining in their tours.

Get it real, these two dudes were kicked out of thier homes only two months ago!As for talking about people being jealous, NOT me! I can not because of some stupid blindfolded fan thingy swallow lies hook line and sinker when it is obvious that these guys are lying! 500million Naira is equivalent to $3.4millions and do you in your mind think P-Square is worth $2million? You must be kidding!!! Or is it 'cos they drive around HUMMER (that is hmmmmm how much was it again at the motor show in Germany?) tht makes you think they can own a house of 500million Naira?

This is lesson No.1, the next one to follow will be the West African Gas Pipeline, Nigeria Annual aid to Ghana! Stupid Ghanaian govt! She forgot Nigeria can strangle their economy in less than 12months and they will be paying visit to both T.B. Joshua and Aso rock for economic aid!

Nigeria has exercised enough patience with the present arrogant ghanaian govt. They have done everything they could imagine to frustarate any ECOWAS trade agreement that would truly bring free trade to the zone. This is country whose GDP is even half of ETHIOPIA! and she thinks muscle flexing is the way to go.

Yes I agree that country should be able to protect their own against foreign agression but for any govt to delibrately institutionalize Xenophobia, then I think such a govt should be treated the way Nazis were treated.

The sad part of it s that Ghana do not have any high profile business outfit like Glo, Zenith, GT etc. as such the middle income and bottom income earners would be the ones to suffer.

This is what you get when you have bad people around you!  This is a massivewaste of money and if they do not know it, they do not have what it takes to be relevant in the Nigeria music industry in 15years time and tell me how will they cope with maintaining such buildings? They are following in the wrong steps of American hip hop stars!

Am I saying it is wrong for them to own a beautiful house? of course NO! They deserve a decent house but spending money in house all in the name of showing you have money is just stupidity. And their claim the house is more than 300million Naira, do you guys seriously think P-Square is worth 500million Naira? Put all their recordings, shows  etc together and deduct the expenses that come with it and tell me if they are worth 500million Naira!10years down the line they will become like Raskimono en co and their style of music would fade 'cos that style of music isnt really Nigerian in my own opinion.
these guys are worth that much why were they asking for £100,000 to come do a show in London when the likes of Snoop, Jay-Z en co were been paid £30,000 to do 4 shows!

kura king:
2000 year has gone by and the world not better than what God planned. Has God failed? And should Christianity be based on self pity, would there not still be Christians if Jesus had not died on the cross?

This is what I call ignorance gone on rampage! Do you even know the meaning of Christianity? Have you ever read about what transpired at Anthioch? How the term "Christianity" became associated with those that follow after Jesus? Do you even know what is means to be called a "CHRISTIAN"? Before Jesus came, there was nothing like CHRISTIANS. All those who had right standing with God (i.e. RIGHTEOUSNESS) had to do so by the LAW. Meaning, you must STRICTLY obey all the do's and dont's that God commanded through the PROPHET. However, when jesus came, HE established a RIGHTEOUSNESS which is not based on the LAW rather is it based on FAITH in the son of God who took our place and after his death and resurection, HE (JESUS) became the mediator between God and Man.

What I find funny is that many people want to use their "Natural" senses to discern the things that of the Spirit! It is like someone wanting to understand aerodynamic forces but refuses to learn the basic elementary laws of physics, tell how will that work for him? So it is when an unbeliever is wanting to understand God but refusing to learn the basic elementary/introductory laws in which God operates!

to the OP. I have made up my mind and I have done what  Rom 10: 9-10 and that I did when I was 8years of age. I guess the choice is there for anyone to make and I am happy I made the right choice.

For any one who care to read. Giving your life to christ is ONLY by the act of BELIEVING by FAITH in your HEART that God raise JESUS from the dead,(which results in Gods nature of righteouness being impacted to your spirit) and CONFESSING (annoucing same thing in agreement with God) with your mouth the SALVATION that results from the beliving by faith which you did in your heart!

GOP to field only FBI screened candidates , GOP Chairman  , you are on your own says GOP , (Vanguard)

BOMBSHELL!!!, Arizona warlord promised 5 oil wells to ring Election , ,GOP scribe: "we are not aware" , (The sun )

VOTING FRAUD!, Voters machine found in Pelosi's house, GOP scribe, it is a figment of their imagination, Democrat scribe , (Tribune)

BREAKING NEWS! , triumph sighted at reids house, white house keeps silent. Aides says it was only normal visit, , (Businessday)

You thnk those mallams know what is called covert operations? Kano airport is know to be a strategic airport for arms smuggling into Nigeria! Those boko Haram apologist would rather guide the weapons from the security agences than expose those behind it!

jumobi1:
Amb Tafida didn't even say anything in regards to Lord Sugar's remark

Shall I say get a life! Which New York city are you even?I gess it's the one in Porthacourt! This was news carried by two papers here in the UK and you are hear talking nonsense, abeg go sit down eat your McD cheese burger!

I am beginning to ask myself seriouds questions if GEJ really knows what He is doing! With the revelation of this news, I am yet to hear from the Minister of Interior affairs and the Defence Ministers with any brief! Yes know investigations are on going, but in a civilized society, even while such investgations are ongoing, the relevant govt cabinet Minister would come out and brief the nation so as to calm nerves!

All I have seen GEJ do in the last two months is travel from one part of the country to another commission sub-standard projects and He can not even comment on them! Example was the kilometer stretch of road He commissioned in Jos recently and watching the tv camera zoom in on the road, you could see granites on the road without the final ashphalt overlay in most stretch of the road!

Same goes with power, there has been recent improvement in power, but in the last two weeks, three major power generating units have failed in the country and GEJ's govt did not even boter to explain to Nigerians why it failed and what was being done! To make things worse, where you would expect the oppostion to ask these questions of the govt, they are all silent and acting as though they are not aware of the break down of these multi-billion dollar plants!

I just hope that the trend of what is emerging with GEJ govt, is only a bleep!

@ that nonsense poster who claim Iran army will over run Nigeria army, I really feel sorry for you! Iranian Mmilitary are armies of propaganda! They can not even deploy beyond the iranian boarders! Thier missile technology are exaggerated, and those of us in the busiess know where Iran stands when it comes to real warfare! Funny enough, Nigeria is not even within their missile range (which is even a short range missile with old technology that can be short down as soon as it launches!) and they can not deply to launch from any waters closer to Nigeria 'cos those waters are owned by nations hostile to Iran as well.

As for Nigeria, we may not have medium range missiles (only for now) and maybe the platforms to deploy them, but we have nations who would stand up WITH us to erase Iran from world map and replaced it with some mountain pictures with titles like : ONCE A HIDING PLACE FOR WORLD TERRORIST

londoner:
@Omolulu, I am not talking about where a person based physically, I AM TALKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE TYPE OF SOCIETY A PERSON IS RAISED IN, ESPECIALLY IN FORMATIVE YEARS. IT SHAPES YOUR OUTL;OOK ON LIFE AND WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU AS A PERSON.

Absolute nonsense! as someone who have lived in the UK for years, I have been involved in youth projects and taught A-Level students in the new city academies in the UK (even though teaching is not my rear of expertise), I can say without any doubt that Nigerian kids are better well behaved and manner in their formative years than those of the counter part in Britain! This is the problem we have with these British-Born Nigerians. They bring them to Nigeria to spend two wees or a month, they have one bad experience and the base their knowledge about Nigeria on the one ( and maybe) isolated experience.

The truth is, Nigeria has different type of societies, depending on which geo-political zone you live in. And even within that geo-political zone, the society is still fragmented. I could remember during my days in bording school, some dudes who have lived all of his life in posh island in lagos had never seen a live snake except on discovery channel! The dude fainted when He saw one climbing a wall close to the cashiers office! Again, the level of exposure of that dude and some other dudes like myself is completely different and yet we all live in Nigeria.

@londoner,
You have refused to answer my question! How many so called British-Nigerians have made big names for Nigeria in the UK? huh.? In fact, my findings were so shocking that majority of British-Nigerians are worse of in term of education compared to even the Brits themselves. Throughout the years I spent on campus at the university, I could barely count how many British-Nigerian were in the university and the majority I got to find out end up in colleges like their english counter part.

FYI, most of the Nigerians you see/or hear are holding exhalted positions in the UK (either at the Banks, Large Aerospace firms, or Pharm companies) they are NINs who gained most of their education in Nigeria and only had to do a top up when they migrated to the UK and began to make a name for themselves and the country at large!

Sometimes, I even feel you British-Nigerians are worse off compared to the british hoody yobs! Most of you are barely in school, and you always engage in gang war with those somalians or Pakistanis! To make things worst, you guys suffer from identity crisis. I guess if you use the freedom of Information request to ask for convicted felons of Nigeria origin you would findout that the majority are these so called British-Nigerians. And by the way was it not one of you that got killed only last week in East London?

The facts till remain that there are bad elements amongst us (NINs) but for you to come up with this shallow thinking that NINs are giving the so called British-Nigerians ( which by the way the Brits see as decedants of their slaves) is completely laughable!

londoner:
Yes, those of us here are sick and tired of Nigerians who come here and wont behave in a civilised manner. Whether there are people here doing 419 scams, false weddings, false papers, overstaying, is it British Nigerians who are the ones well known for it?, even though there are more of us here than those coming from Nigeria?

I come from good honest stock, not the "morally challenged".

Whether you like if or not, honest law abiding Nigerians must speak up and say NO! to the criminals and uncivilised among us who have hijacked what it means to be a Nigerian. Because of people like that Nigeria is a byword for everything bad.

If you dont like it then you can just lump it. I would sooner support the deportation of criminal Nigerians then to defend them just because we have roots in the same country. Yeah I said it, now have outburst number two.

Look at this one oh! FYI there is nothing like British-Nigerians ok. I asked you before, what have you so called British-Nigerians contributed to devlopment of Nigeria other than the sickening news of knife attack and gang fight we hear about especially those of you that were born to runaway dad in East London!
Like I said in my previous posts, we are not denying that there are bad elements amongst us, however, that does not give any one the moral right standing to throw insult at us like that Fraudstar Allan Sugar did.

And as for the crime you alleged are commited by NINs who come to the UK, you must be deluded to forget so qucikly how you so called British-Nigerians turn east london into a gang war zone and currently you guys are making life difficult for the people of Luton! Again, for all I care to know, most of the Nigerians making Nigeria proud in the UK are NINs who came over to study and then gain useful employment!Or those who came over under the Highly skilled migrant programme and their kids are doing wonders in schools becuse of their proper early childhood schooling in Nigeria which by the wa UKis a whimpy at!