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Anthony Joshua really loves Nigeria oo, he even has a tattoo of Nigeria on his arm.

The emilokan people should probably give him a big medal or honour and also commission him to ginger Nigerian sports and entertainment.

I no understand this duel national of a thing.. if U want to remain Nigerian be Nigerian, no dey parade two national around

SpencerForbes:
He’s going to have to issue an apology sooner or later. If he doesn't, he’s basically kissing his political career goodbye.

Shey?

Our Kemi "Bad-Enoch" will use am knack ground until he cry tire.

Useless people, when they win they are British born but when they lost they are African born
Nonsense people
Same thing they do to saka, Sancho and every black that have ever done sport in their land.
Thunder fire them.

Joshua never hide for one his Nigerian root, never ever.

DeepSight:
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Laugh all u want. Would u say Mother Theresa was a bad person?? Obviously there are lots of good people in the world

MEGAWATCH:
Hiaaa!

You have started liking Kemi?

Thank God o!

But on a more serious note, it's not good to be a hypocrite just like you are now.

Hypocrite how? I've always been proud of Kemi and understood she doesn't hate Nigeria. It is all POLITICS! She's black and a foreigner. It has to be totally beyond doubt that she won't sell out UK to Nigeria or Blacks!

Calling us a third works country is not even a problem, Nigerians have been running the British health care for how many decades now.....?
I lost count.
We were happy with our own country, when this so called white came and start kidnapping us to their own country.
We were not bringing them to our land, they were the ones craving for us, the blacks.
If we were that useless, why taking us forcefully to your land.....??

Without AFRICAN resources till date, the so called west and power house will fall flat.

EndBuhariNow:
I no understand this duel national of a thing.. if U want to remain Nigerian be Nigerian, no dey parade two national around

Let me ask you a question: Would you say the same if he was Igbo?

DropsMic:
Chai.. Our leaders do us this one

Obidient spotted. What concerns our leaders about it. Even SA is regarded as 3rd world country

SmartPolician:
But I don't think it's fair to get everything you need to succeed from Country A while flying the flag of Country B. That person is just a user.

You said the obvious truth.

The Conservative Party is finished politically in the UK and Kemi Badenoch will never be become PM if she runs on the platform of the Conservative party.

If a general election were to be held today in the UK, Reform would win.

FreeIgboho:
He hasn't started crying yet.
Kemi Benendoch will soon be his Prime Minister.

gigabyte13:
Joshua never hide for one his Nigerian root, never ever.

doncartel:
Anthony Joshua really loves Nigeria oo, he even has a tattoo of Nigeria on his arm.

Because his winning is not dependent on dissing Nigeria. If it were dependent on that like Kemi, you'd see him dissing Nigeria all over the place!

BannedUser:
Let me ask you a question: Would you say the same if he was Igbo?

Did he mention tribe?? You people should stop trying to insert tribe into everything. Everyone sees AJ as Nigerian descent and that's the flag he flies and tattooed, Nigeria not Yoruba!

FreeIgboho:
Because his winning is not dependent on dissing Nigeria. If it were dependent on that like Kemi, you'd see him dissing Nigeria all over the place!

Yeah what she should have said is that she likes Nigeria but the country has been having bad leaders. Anthony Joshua probably suffered racism in the UK and then found comfort in his Nigerian roots. And he probably believes that as a third world country, the country is bound to have bad leaders, so no big deal.

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FreeIgboho:
Because his winning is not dependent on dissing Nigeria. If it were dependent on that like Kemi, you'd see him dissing Nigeria all over the place!

In your own thinking, everyone is not foolish for selfish gain.
If not that Kemi is a bastard, how those dissing your own country of birth which is widely known make you a better politician abroad.
Obama never ever diss his own people ( Kenya ) not even for once in his 8 years in white House.
Does that reduce or diminish is image globally....
Only little minded people do such things

FreeIgboho:
He hasn't started crying yet.

Kemi Benendoch will soon be his Prime Minister.

Kemi that will send hypocrites and ingrates like this Joshua back to Lekki detty waters



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

donleo92:
The id*ot won use our AJ shine.

Aj should just ignore him....

It's even AJ that's doing them good.

When AJ wins, he is British

But when he loses, there trace his origins to Nigeria

How is he your Joshua if you didn’t contribute to his success?

What are you famzing about this British success story

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.

gigabyte13:
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In your own thinking, everyone is not foolish for selfish gain.
If not that Kemi is a bastard, how those dissing your own country of birth which is widely known make you a better politician abroad.
Obama never ever diss his own people ( Kenya ) not even for once in his 8 years in white House.
Does that reduce or diminish is image globally....
Only little minded people do such things

Obama did not grow up in Kenya. Obama had nothing to do with Kenya. Kemi grew up in Nigeria. She has to be seen as totally above board as to the possibility of she ever selling out UK to Nigeria, her country!

Quelme:
They are all talking shit about Nigeria because Nigeria is a disgraced country.

Before kor. An unrepentant third world country that battles epileptic power supply, dirty and oozing environment.

Nigeria is carrying a curse as a country and they don't want to do anything about it.

They can only attack the blacks but will never say pim to the Arabians who have completely taken over the UK, waving flags of the so called liberation country in the middle East.

Mcslize:
Before kor. An unrepentant third world country that battles epileptic power supply, dirty and oozing environment.

Nigeria is carrying a curse as a country and they don't want to do anything about it.

Why don’t you go ahead and tell us the details of the curse that 200 million of us are carrying, which you are doing something about since you know that the rest of us are not doing anything about it



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWUS1W_ITc

hatchy:
They can only attack the blacks but will never say pim to the Arabians who have completely taken over the UK, waving flags of the so called liberation country in the middle East.

The reason is not far fetched.

Qatar and UAE were created and colonised by the British until independence 11 years after we were left to our own devices by the same British empire in 1960.

Do you say pim to successful people in your own communities

TheBedWench:
The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).

This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]

The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.

SmartPolician:
But I don't think it's fair to get everything you need to succeed from Country A while flying the flag of Country B. That person is just a user.

The same way the criminal UK government is still using Nigeria resources to fund their economy without our knowledge

Europe and USA cannot survive without Africa. We are still the one feeding them till date

Hussein035:
The same way the criminal UK government is still using Nigeria resources to fund their economy without our knowledge

Europe and USA cannot survive without Africa. We are still the one feeding them till date

Please explain how this happens

OLAADEGBU:
In remarks posted on Saturday, December 20, via X, Buckley wrote: "Anthony Joshua is a good example of what is wrong with mass immigration."

“Secondly, he waves around a third-world flag as if it is worthy of respect and represents him."

Yeah, a third-world country according to the racist Buckley, whose resources continue to fund his corrupt and no-good country.

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epainos:
Nigeria is the reason these nations are disrespecting us. They all saw the potentials in Nigerian, but we failed to live up to it. Honestly, Nigeria could have become like the UK to the US. But it's not late. Ok. Look at how Tinubu government is correcting all the wrongs Trump pointed at. Look at the mutual respect. Even the US delegates said they appreciate our approach. Even this partial bam is not going t be for long. I predict that Trump will even remove Nigeria before the end of his tenure.

The thing is that Nigeria knows the right thing to do, but we don't do it until dem knock our coconut heads.

Even sef Kemi Badenich dey disguise. Person wey still get her friends in the federal government secondary school she attended. Though, I can't do what that girl is doing. As in...ditch and bad mouth Naija like that. That babe get mind sha. She kuku knows that we go forgive her anyhow. No be naija.

Let's just all unite to make Naija great. But wait.. eh...those Islamic terrorists. Na dem dey mess us up. And those demonic selfish politicians.

you guys are funny .

DropsMic:
Chai.. Our leaders do us this one

Na Apc gan gan do this One.
All the tiny regard wey Nija get die for Apc hand. Since 2015 na only, shame, disgrace and embarrassment them dey use baff Nija.
Imagine having your Country's govt being tagged as a terrorist group, which shame, reproach disgrace pass that one

E nor go better for Apc and all their zombie supporters.

Funny how the Brits tell David Lammy, deputy prime minister, who was born in England 53 years ago, that he is not white, unwanted and should be deported but they are suddenly in love with black Antony Joshua and angry he idenfies with the black nation of Nigeria.

You can't please hypocrites.

SpencerForbes:
He’s going to have to issue an apology sooner or later. If he doesn't, he’s basically kissing his political career goodbye.

He doesn't have any political career to begin with if you read the report to the end. So, he may not issue any apology because that's his ways