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Moro Ojomo was born in Lagos, Nigeria before his family moved to California in 2009.

He brought out his nation's flag after winning the Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles last night ❤️🇳🇬
https://www.facebook.com/share/1KcGDAJSnW/?mibextid=WC7FNe

I'm so proud of you patriotic brother. Keep making us proud

Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful
MODIFY:I don hear una.The bashing ontop my ignorance is too much

Chicagograduate:
Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful

He did not play for another country but for a club in another country, like Osinmeh who plays in Turkey for Galatasaray and not for Turkish national team.

saintokwuluora:
He did not play for another country but for a club in another country, like Osinmeh who plays in Turkey for Galatasaray and not for Turkish national team.

abeg enlighten him more.

saintokwuluora:
He did not play for another country but for a club in another country, like Osinmeh who plays in Turkey for Galatasaray and not for Turkish national team.

Baba you get time to dey reply gen Z wey be say dey don't think before talking, writing or acting on something.

That's why I don't dignify most people with response or reply because their phone is there for research but they won't use it for that, instead they ask you to prove them wrong because they are useless to make research or too proud to accept wrong.

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Chicagograduate:
Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful

Which country did he play for?

So was Kemi Badenoch.

Next!

Good for him.

If he is in Nigeria, he couldn’t have opportunity to explore. Let's develop our nation and stop celebrating.

His a tiv man.
Born and raised in Lagos
Stuupid YesDaddyTill203 will want to drag with me..

To be honest, Nigerian flag is so ugly. The government should design a new one. We can keep the colour but with a new design.

Chicagograduate:
Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful

E be like say na carrot and akamu u drink sleep yesterday night.

BS. What the hell.

Dope Omoluabi... Omoluabis always flying high, soaring with them eagles and 'em peregrines.✌️✌️✌️

Look if you're an Omoluabi and you're not working to improve your life and this around, if you're not working to later or now progressing this clan, then I don't know where your own DNA comes from o

Nice one...

Trump calls his likes DEI.

Chicagograduate:
Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful

Na American flag he suppose raise? God gave you brains for a reason, stop disgracing your God.

Kudos Moro

Chicagograduate:
Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful

yes it so disrespectful to the country he plays for. with trump in office, this will stop. let me twit it to elon musk

saintokwuluora:
He did not play for another country but for a club in another country, like Osinmeh who plays in Turkey for Galatasaray and not for Turkish national team.

Abeg teach am o....dis one no sabi English at all

Every man wants most times to identify with his root but when it gets to reward as a sportsman, America and UK pays better and that's why these sportsmen have a dual nationality. Nigeria will mess you up as a sportsman.

God bless America, the land where dreams come true and the land of the free. Russia, China or Arab hardly makes men out of boys. Very stingy people
Maybe if he de Nigeria, the government for pour am spits

iwaeda:
If he is in Nigeria, he couldn’t have opportunity to explore. Let's develop our nation and stop celebrating.

Well said sir.

anonimi:
David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

Chicagograduate:
Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful

I like how you just exposed your level of ignorance , So your favourite football player can't raise his country flag after a win with his club ? Hahaha

Proudly Nigerian for life.

Enemy of our nation must kpai las las I'm sure they are crying right now because any good news about Nigeria is poisonous to them but we do not care.

Chicagograduate:
Raising your country flag while playing for another country is a sign of hypocrisy and disrespectful

we know your like you don't see good things and you can't see good things hatred comment full ur mind

osuofia2:
God bless America, the land where dreams come true

.............................based on the non-tribal work of their citizens continuously

edet19892015:
Unless you understand your role in society, you can never make any meaningful contribution.

According to the Greeks, they are three types of people on Earth,
1. The idiots,
2. The tribesmen, and
3. The citizens.

Studies show only 10% of Africans are citizens.
The remaining 90% are either tribesmen or idiots.

1. When the Greeks used the word "Idiot", they did not use it as a curse word.
Idiots are people who just don’t care.
If they sit for exams, they will cheat.
If they are in government they will steal.

An idiot does not care at all, if he eats bananas he throws the peels anywhere instead of putting them in a trash bin.

IDIOTS won't attend monthly neighborhood meetings. They won't pay security dues. They won't contribute to community development. Even when they see or know about something that will harm others in the community they won't report it. When they see/know/have something that will benefit their community they won't share.

In fact, Idiots don't care to register for or vote in an election, yet they complain the most. If they register to vote, IDIOTS will sell their votes for peanuts.

According to the Greeks, some societies have more idiots than tribesmen and citizens.

2. The next set of people are "Tribesmen", these are people that look at everything from the point of view of their tribe.

These are people that believe in you only if you are part of their tribe.
It can be terrible to have a tribesman as a leader, he will alienate the rest.

When the Greeks talk about tribes, it’s not just about ethnicity, they also consider religion, gang membership, group membership, party membership and even cult membership as a tribe.

A great percentage of Africans are tribesmen, because they view everything from the point of view of their tribes. They trust only their tribesmen

3. The last group are "Citizens".
These are people who like to do things the right way.
They will respect traffic light rules even if no one is watching them.

They drive within speed limits.
They respect the laws, and won’t cheat in exams.
In government, they won’t steal.
They are compassionate and give to others to promote their well-being.

Citizens often promote projects that benefit everyone.
The Greeks called this group "The Citizens".

Some countries have more citizens than tribesmen and idiots, others have so many idiots.

A tribesman can become a citizen through orientation.
And an idiot can become a citizen by training and constant enforcement of the law.

But things fall apart if you elect an idiot or tribesman to lead you if he has not been reformed.

Where do you belong? Are you an idiot, a tribesman or a citizen? Reflect on your life.
Reflect about your immediate community, city, state and nation.

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AllBlack:
Na American flag he suppose raise? God gave you brains for a reason, stop disgracing your God.

Trust me, these are the reasons Trump will clamp down on you all he shouldn't have raised the flag of another country that deprived him of better life !

Whites takes these things seriously in making their foreign policies!

Loyalty and service to the country that gave you an opportunity is key in the west . It is the babe of their foreign policy