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This post was made by a citizen of the US in his blog. I was really disturbed by it and thought to share here to see reactions. I'll also post some of the disturbing comments I saw. Please take your time to read it and comment on what you think. I have also boldened some of the important parts of the post.

Why I Don’t Like Nigerians
We run a site on Yahoo called Antiscammers. And we dealt with Nigerian scammers on there all day long, every single day. People told us that you would walk into a cafe in Nigeria and there would be 40 people sitting at computers, and 37 of them would be sitting there all day trying to steal from Americans. The number of Nigerians who are full-time Internet scammers would absolutely amaze you.

Also we were told that in Nigerian society, there was nothing wrong with being an Internet scammer. Internet scammers were heroes. In fact, they told us that most everyone was some sort of a criminal over there. You had to watch your back all the time because even your friends and lovers would try to rip you off if you turned your back.

Everyone in the government is a criminal and a thief. They finally found one guy who wasn’t a criminal (How did they find him?) and they were so shocked that he wasn’t a criminal that they put him in charge of the Nigerian Antifraud Unit. He had his hands full, but he hardly prosecuted any cases because the cops were all corrupt too and taking bribes, and they kept letting everyone off the hook. Also he couldn’t really go after any government people because he would have to lock up the whole government.

Anyway, the average people know that all the government is nothing but criminals, all the cops are crooks, and half the people on their block are crooks, so a lot of them just think, “Why shouldn’t I be a crook too?”

Scamming over there is not something a few people do. It’s a way of life practiced by 100,000’s or even millions of Nigerians. Basically the whole country runs on crime. There are so many criminals in Nigeria that there are too many for the country, so they are branching out and moving all over the world to set up shop in new countries where they start doing crimes. So now there are Nigerian crime gangs in most countries. The cops did inspections at the port in Nairobi once, and most of the ships coming in were loaded with stolen property. Plus a lot of the stuff that was legit would be ripped off at the dock or later on.

We dealt with countless Nigerian crooks all the time.

These “good Nigerians” kept trying to join the group, and we would not let them in. Finally we started letting them in. They were “concerned and wanted to fight the scammers.” We let them in, and they ruined the group. We had a lot of women in our group, and we had cam sessions all the time.

Every one of those Nigerian guys would get on cams with the women in our group and whip out their dicks right away and start jacking at the women. It really freaked out a lot of the women, and we had to ban a lot of them just for being perverts. Finally we found out that all the men were “wife scammers.” They were trying to scam a foreign wife from the West. It pretty much boiled down to pay me a lot of money to get me out of her and marry you.

We heard about a number of women who married Nigerians here in the US. All White women. They only marry White women. None of the men worked. They all lived off the women while the women worked. They stayed home all day and spent all day on the Net mostly chasing other women. They were all notorious cheaters, and they cheated on their wives constantly. They were always broke and always had their hands out. They were also very mean, cruel and controlling and, they would not allow the women any freedoms at all to do anything. In a number of cases, they set up shop here in the US, and they started running their usual scams again, this time from the US. All of these marriages failed and were disasters.

In addition to wife scamming, we caught a lot of the Nigerians engaging in other types of scamming. As soon as they got in the group, they started asking for money all the time for this, that and whatever. A lot of them started having “disasters,” home burned down, hospital bills, whatever.

Finally we threw almost all the Nigerians out of the group because frankly every single one that joined was either a scumbag or a criminal. This caused a big blowup in the group where we got accused of being “racist.” Then we got really racist, I mean like no kidding real deal discriminatory racist, and we made up a new group rule, “No Africans allowed in the group.” So we sort of hung up a Segregation Era Jim Crow sign in front of the group.

I went on some forums, and apparently almost 100% of the Nigerians who are on the Net buying stuff with credit cards are criminals. One online retailer said he had 10,000 credit card purchase attempts by Nigerians and I think all except one were with stolen cards. He said a lot of online retailers were turning Jim Crow and having “No Nigerians” and “No purchases by Nigerians allowed” policies. A lot of online retailers were blocking whole IP blocks out of Nigeria. They were banning the whole country from the site. Finally VISA and Mastercard both banned Nigeria and some other West African countries from using their cards because there was so much stolen credit card crime going on.

Nigerians and Gypsies, both, destroyed a number of Internet auction sites. The sites got taken over by Gypsies and Nigerians running fake auctions, and everyone else just left the site. They also got heavily involved in the online rentals business and seriously trashed that one too. And the banks started getting upset at them too because the Nigerians were getting into so many people’s accounts and draining them – the Nigerians would convince people to give them access to their accounts, and then the Nigerians would drain the accounts.

The scams that the Nigerians ran were widely varied and changed almost by the day. They were often quite clever, and it was easy to see how some good, trusting person could be sucked into one of these things.

Almost all of the dating sites, at least the free ones, have been destroyed by Nigerians. If you go onto one of those sites now, no real woman will ever contact you, but a bunch of really beautiful fake women will contact you saying all these wonderful things.

None of these are real women. Instead they are all Nigerian males using model pics and pretending to be women. The fake women befriend men, and then somehow the fake women get the men to send money to them. So the guys send money to the fake women for plane tickets or whatever. It turns out the woman doesn’t even exist, she’s just a fake.

There are also a vast number of fake men on there often preying on older, middle aged, lonely women who are often fat and not very pretty. These are good women looking for a good man. The Nigerians use pics of very good-looking men and then make profiles turning them into dream men with good jobs, kids, big houses and whatnot. They often shower the women with gifts like flowers, candy, etc. All of the gifts are paid with stolen credit cards. Somehow they get these women to send them money, and they steal however much they can steal.

Just about anything for sale on the Net out of West Africa is a scam. Just about any service offered on the Net out of West Africa is a scam.

I had so many bad experiences with these people that I am done with them. Not only that, but we let a bunch of Nigerian noncriminals into our group and 98% of them acted awful right away, wife-scamming, begging money, jerking off at the women, etc.

And those were the supposedly good, law-abiding citizens.

I have met a couple of Nigerian PA’s here in the US, both very bright. They were good people, but they both told me that their country was a shithole. One guy invested in a medical clinic in Nigeria. He left the country for a year, and he went back and his partner had liquidated the place, torn it down, and ran off with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I realize that a few Nigerians are good, but I have had enough bad experiences with these people for 50 lifetimes, and I don’t have the time to sort through 100 Nigerians to find 2-3 good ones. I have better things to do. Since my experience, I have been avoiding everyone from that land; in fact, I have been avoiding everyone from West Africa in general because I did some research and I found out that the countries around Nigeria are just about as bad as Nigeria.

I figure 50% of population of Nairobi wakes up every morning and thinks, “Who can I rip off today?”

As far as I am concerned, these people appear to be some sort of a criminal race. How they got that way I have no idea, but I am done with them for this lifetime.

Source: https://robertlindsay./2015/06/03/why-i-dont-like-nigerians/

Does she have a valid point or just looking for traffic on her blog?
Does she hate Nigeria, West Africa or the whole African continent? She gotta make up her darn mind.

Ricardo also commented this:

I have had the misfortune to work in Nigeria for over 2 years and its not 1% of Nigerians, its like 80%.

Every interaction with a Nigerian I have, they try to rip me off of scam me in some way. This has led to me not socializing anymore with Nigerians at all its just a total pain in the ass listening to them try to clumsily ingratiate themselves themselves so they can leaver you for money, a job, too avoid work, whatever.

My local work colleagues are so lazy and incompetent I cant delegate a single thing to them as they will screw it up whether deliberate or due to utter lack of professionalism. Consequently I have to work 60+ hours a week while they nosily piss about in the office doing nothing of value.

As for scammers ‘claiming back the’loot the west took from their forefathers’…., well Nigerian are well known as being the original of slavers in African history and rather than stealing loot, the west gave them loot and gold for the other African tribes they enslaved. That’s one of the reasons other Africans can’t stand their self righteousness. Curiously enough in the city of Calabar there is a pathetic excuse for an historical exhibit called the ‘Slavery Museum’ where they blame it all on the the west and skip this particular bit of their local history…fancy that.. lying Nigerians?

Only thing that keeps me going is the 3 monthly flight out of this dump to civilization for a week, and the hope of a job outside Africa soon.

Seajae:
Does she have a valid point or just looking for traffic on her blog?

I think its a "he". I also think this was informed by racism and hate more than anything else. There are too many generalisations. There are bad eggs in Nigeria, no doubts about that, but to say ALL NIGERIANS are like that? That's an overstretching of falsity!

Emmanuel, who claimed to be a Nigerian, commented this:

I am Nigerian and I live in NIgeria at the moment. I have also lived in the US for years…earlier on.

You are absolutely right in this article. The truth is that Nigerians are generally not pleasant people. The worst part is that they actually think they are. Many Nigerians will steal from you, steal from the companies they work at. WOE UNTO THE PERSON that puts a Nigerian in charge of ‘procuring’ wares for their company. That person will triple the prices probably, and get you broke.

Many Nigerians have run the companies they worked at to the ground.

I often say to some of my Nigerian friends that ‘Nigerians have lost the straight way/. They dont even know what the straight way is anymore. I MEAN IT. They DONT KNOW WHAT THE STRAIGHT WAY OF DOING ANYTHING IS!!!” If there isnt conflict in it, drama in it, cheating in it, they get bored and they cant do it.

I tried to date several Nigerian girls. They are usually very rebellious…dont wanna change anything for the guy. Are obsessed with their UGLY FAKE HAIR ‘weavon’, they spend so much money on.

Nigerians WORSHIP MONEY, and the person that HAS MONEY.

I REPEAT, they WORSHIP MONEY, and The PERSON WHO HAS IT.

They’ll even bow to him and call him ‘Oga, Oga Sir. Sir, we are here naw…. Sir we are looking up to you”…Just because he came out of a Jeep which has tinted windows.

I vowed that I would never try to date another Nigerian girl. They are troublesome, talk back so much, and of course, are ‘blameless’. They have no pride in their natural hair…maybe one in eight does.

I think the real problem is that Nigerians aren’t RAISED. The parents think paying for a good school is raising the kid. You know, how a parent spends time with their children as they grow, teaching them values…say sorry, say please, dont steal, return things back to where you picked them up from….NIgerians dont know ANY OF THAT. They dont know how to act in ways that promote harmony.

One of my great friends whom I love very much (a Nigerian, but I love him because he has been transformed by the Bible so he doesn’t act ‘Nigerian’…so he’s just a great honest Christian). We ate some peanuts at my place yesterday…which we had bought down the road. Interestingly, he would drop the empty nylon bag they were wrapped in ON THE FLOOR. RIght in my house. I love him to much, and didnt want to offend him by asking ‘why are you dropping trash on the floor in here?’

Nigeria is a dirty country. Clogged gutters at the side of the road. No gutter covers, because the road contractors ‘ate’ the money to be used for that…Or better yet, the very state’s government that awarded that contract asked for a 40% kickback of the WHOLE AMOUNT…secretly of course. That’s how the government gives contracts. They give it to those whom they’re sure will pay them back 40% of the whole amount. Better yet, they deduct it at source. That IS Nigeria. Terible place for business. Thats why the people languish in abject poverty. They love to lie to themselves that the country is rich. Rich my a**. The elite steal a good 87% of all the wealth. So almost everybody has nothing. There are a whole generation of people from 12 years old to 35 years old on the roads, selling ‘pure water’, and bubblegum, and candy…in the middle of traffic. Nigerians, isnt’ this true??

NIgerians BLINDLY defend the country. The interesting thing is that I did not know what made Nigerians UNIQUELY Nigerian, until I lived in the U.S.

Nigerians are PAINFUL TO DO BUSINESS WITH. Here is what they ALWAYS SAY: “People are owing me. Please, I will pay you back when they pay me”. They always want to bargain down to the ROCK f-ING BOTTOm. They never wanna pay people their REAL DUES. They always want to owe. If they hire you, they love to boss you around, because they feel they are doing you SUCH A FAVOUR. They are painful to work with because they talk so much and want to bring in their over-socialization to work!

I REALLY REALLY wonder about Nigeria.

I am a Nigerian and it pains me to say – I HATE the way Nigerians are.

I avoid Nigerian women, because they have cash hungry eyes…generally speaking. Who knows if they even know how to love a man? It’s all about providing.

I was talking to a girl who attends this expensive university, Covenant University…She was in her 3rd year. She said word for word…”If God blesses me with a made man….”

Imagine that. She’s like 19 or 20, and she’s looking for a ‘made man’. A man who has the 2 or 3 cars, a house, lots of comfort..Just waiting for her to waltz into HIS world and take her place as a queen??

And guess what…every one from the poor to the rich girls are chasing after wealthy men!

Wow, let me rest my fingers on this keyboard. THIS IS NIGERIA I HAVE DESCRIBED ABOVE. Oh, the last point…

Nigerians are not deep. They are not deep thinkers. They dont enjoy deep discussions. They read their newspapers and love to ‘talk’ politics about what happening in Abuja and in senate, because the Newspapers convince them that the senators and governors give a damn. All the politicians care about is stealing more money and securing the next election.

They dont read intellectual stuff, tech stuff, profound stuff, philosophy…nah. They only read stuff that helps them look more flashy (ladies), or religious literature. I bet in Nigeria only 0.0001% know who Nietzche.

Yes, maybe one in ten thousand people know who Nietzche is.

That’s why the country is not growing. Because they don’t know that true knowledge, wisdom, and honesty (or at least, accountability) are the foundations of great societies. Nigerians HATE HATE HATE discipline and order, thats why driving in most places in Nigeria is like a duel. “I got here first! I wont let u pass!” LITERALLY. LITERALLY…cars but heads, see who can make it first. Nobody can be patient to let the next car pass.

They’re too busy worshiping the guy with money to go off and read somewhere and gain true knowledge.

Mr. Lindsay, you can publish this comment as an article if you’d like. This is a true analysis of Nigeria, as I have seen it. I am currently in Nigeria as I write this…keeping guard against almost everybody because I am like…”damn, I am in a land of aggressive and dishonest people”.

The ONE GOOD THING ABOUT NIGERIA…I see is that there are SOME truly spiritual people, who live for God, and commune with God. I know some of them. To me, they are the only good things/people in Nigeria. Besides that, I’ll tell foreigners…what in the world are you looking for in Nigeria. Even we from Nigeria are appalled by our people.

Racist comment from Mel:

I agree with EVERY word you said! The Nigerian men come here to our colleges and try to date all the White, bright, and light-skinned women. I kid you not, at the undergrad I attended, the other African men dated African females, but the Nigerian was the ONLY African preying on the White and light races of women. The undergrad that I attended was extremely diverse and like dated like with the exception of the Nigerian men always trying to and sometimes succeeding to build relationships with the prettiest Caucasian girls — one a good friend of mine!

They were always throwing themselves on the prettiest blondes on campus — and I can’t believe that “beauty” was tricked into actually dating “BEAST!” I happen to be a mixed-race light-skinned female and in graduate school I had a serious problem with one Nigerian who picked me out of a whole campus full of women and DECIDED that I would be his because HE WANTED ME! Mentally ill ni993r! I can’t tell you the problems I had and still have with this stalker!

The Nigerian race is clearly the worst race walking on planet Earth. I can’t imaging why they keep letting them into the US when they know what they are capable of. The ones with Green Cards and citizenship are sneaky and underhanded and are no better than the ones stuck in Nigeria. The ones who are here as citizens help the ones back in Nigeria to defraud us all. I’ve lost count of the number of times I had to get a new debit or credit card because my account was compromised — COURTESY OF THE “NIGGERian” of course!

I wish Trump would do us all a favor and stick to his promise to deport all of them — especially the ones who have AMERICAN citizenship, consider themselves nurses, and are in US nursing homes raping our elderly! What Americans put up with and tolerate in the name of diversity and the melting pot is just ridiculous! I’m tempted to write a letter to Trump about the oxymoron and the slowpoke that someone named “good Nigerian!”

I have been avoiding everyone from that land; in fact, I have been avoiding everyone from West Africa in general because I did some research and I found out that the countries around Nigeria are just about as bad as Nigeria.

This one weak me finish. The guy is not exaggerating tho

I purchased DSTV explora2 from this dstv installer shop, he sold it for me at 42K incuding installation. When I visited Dstv office at GRA yesterday to link 2 decoders na him i ask the guys there for the Explora 2 price and he said it's 20K.

The guy scammed me almost double the price, Corruption is in our framework. Almost everybody wants to use opportunity to scam you.

fuckerstard:
I have been avoiding everyone from that land; in fact, I have been avoiding everyone from West Africa in general because I did some research and I found out that the countries around Nigeria are just about as bad as Nigeria.

This one weak me finish. The guy is not exaggerating tho

But he is generalising. The truth is that people that give Nigeria bad images are in the minority, contrary to what many think. For every internet fraudster, there are hundreds of honest Nigerians!

You may also view another thread that I created on Negative Stereotypes of Nigerian Ethnicities which I culled from an inaugural lecture publication by Prof. Chidi Maduka. It is complementary to what is contained here.

https://www.nairaland.com/3800570/some-negative-stereotypes-nigerian-ethnicities

she is entitled to her own view.meanwhile,we are not looking for people who like niigeria.we need people who can bring about a radical change in the system.

Who cares

Why won't they say this? Since of these are racists who hate anything that isn't white, but some are saying the truth.

I was attacked in a thread for saying an Igbo woman shouldn't make fake gucci and versace shoes. They were mad at me because to them it is okay to make bootleg items.

With trash like that why wouldn't Nigeria be backward.

Some things written there are so true, some Nigerians are shallow minded which is why the "Churches" are thriving.

Parental guidance is at an all time like low.

most time i dont blame such people​


tho over generalized but there is a huge atom of truth in it


Nigerians only like to get offended when others(non Nigerians) say the truth...thats the only time we r united



but with the afonjeezys renowned in cybercrime and our ipod developers and our robot habokis


Nigeria has become a laughing stock among nations


sadly its the middle n lower class that feels the effect




mind you every Nigerian is racist one way or another (cutting across skin color, religion,weight/fat-shaming , NCAN-ism ) etc

Although some of their points are true but I disagree with the rest. I can't agree that all Nigerians are bad. We still have very good folks who are upright and are doing very well. Even some of these so called white people are worse than Nigerians. I won't blame them but our leaders who have failed this country through greed and selfishness. Most people doing yahoo yahoo stuff and engage in other criminal activities are doing so because of the non - availability of jobs. Let our leaders fix basic amenities like light good roads etc and create a good platform for youth development and watch unemployment decrease rapidly.

Sadly true.... Nigerians don't like the truth tho

That Blogger is a fool. A big fool, I wonder the type of things that comes out of their mouth, so almost 180 million individuals are scammers and all Americans are saints?. The worst is when fellow Nigerians support such trash. Americans have the highest rate of con artist in this world. Ponzi is actually the name of an American investment Banker......imagine the level of scam you must have done for a scam to be named after you. Nigerians are learners where Indians and Russians are when it comes to scam.

I have been scammed by a Macedonian before but that won't make me to label them all as scammers.

Bunch of racist umu ndi ara

Nigeria is losing out fast.
In fact no more hidding place at all.
There are good ones here but the rate they are joining the bad is outrageous.
Some will even stone you here for calling their son who steal a criminal by asking you is he the only one that do steal?
Arrest someone who loot they will call your action witch hunting, that if you must arrest any, you have to begins from the day Nigeria was founded. Waao! Meehn its so bad.

I am a citizen of a country without a leader, a country where every way na way as long as it leads to somewhere. The above account I believe it to be true, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. What do you expect when even the leader of the supposedly giant of Africa has scammed his subjects not once but twice! So help our country men and women, save us from evil doers Lord.




Amen.


Nota Belle: Please who has heard from our President General himself? I hope nothing untoward has taken place.

This guy is not lying at all. While I lived in eastern Europe, I got to understand these things more. I met some guys who were internet scammers. All their Nigerian friends who lived there (and i mean all with the exception of none) were internet scammers too. Eventually one got arrested (he's probably still in jail now) and several others fled the country for fear of being arrested too. One ran to Ghana after he was caught withdrawing money from western union with fake documents. He was under strict investigation and fled the country using a fake passport (which is another crime). Apparently he would create fake bank websites that are identical to the original websites. Imputing your credit card details in those websites would result in him getting all your information and subsequently he would "wire" out every penny you have. I also got to know that they did a lot of online shopping with stolen cards.

We shouldn't play the"racism card". The op is 100% correct. This op isn't exaggerating at all. Nigerians have also destroyed the reputation of Malaysia. A cyber cafe was busted in Lagos for habiting fraudsters and the locals all came out to support the fraudsters.

We don't need to lie to ourselves, the op isn't saying that EVERY Nigerian is bad, he is simply saying that an overwhelming majority of us are bad and that is the gospel truth if we mean to be truthful to ourselves. Look around and you'll find that several of your colleagues steal office property when the opportunity arises.

There is absolutely nothing racist in the op. The reason Nigeria keeps getting worse is that we fail to tell ourselves the truth and look for possible solutions to this menace.

konfused:
That Blogger is a fool. A big fool, I wonder the type of things that come out of their mouth, so almost 180 million individuals are scammers and all Americans are saints. The worst is when fellow Nigerians support such trash. Americans have he highest rate of con artist in this word. Ponzi is actually the name of an American Banker......imagine the level of scam you must have done for a scam to be named after you,. Nigerians re learners where Indians and Russians are when it comes to scam.

I have been scammed by a Macedonian before but that wont make me to label them all as scammers.

Bunch of racist umu ndi ara

He's a hateful blogger with hateful followers, I bring you some comments on his blog.

pls don't bring racism into this. The writer has obviously made thorough research and has revealed things that made me suprised as to how he managed to know.

I saw that comment of yours and I almost wept for the mindset of some people. They kept attacking and raining insults on you when you spoke the plain truth. They were openly supporting piracy and plagiarism. Which way Nigeria?

fallout87:
Why won't they say this? Since of these are racists who hate anything that isn't white, but some are saying the truth.

I was attacked in a thread for saying an Igbo woman shouldn't make fake gucci and versace shoes. They were mad at me because to them it is okay to make bootleg items.

With trash like that why wouldn't Nigeria be backward.

This is awkward...

An ignorant racist writes nonsense and some Nigerians are accepting it as gospel truth.

While we accept that Nigeria is a country bedevilled by corruption, this kind of generalisation has rendered the article nonsensical. How can you say 'every Nigerian is a scammer'? The most notorious scammers in history are Americans, Europeans and Asians. Every crook hiding in cyberspace can claim to be Nigerian because we already have a bad rep.

I dismissed the entire article when the silly writer inferred that Nairobi is in West Africa. I cannot take the thoughts of such an ignorant person seriously, whether black or white.

As for the Emmanuel who commented on the blog, he evidently belongs to that class of Nigerians in Diaspora who display their rock bottom self esteem and inferiority complex by being more American than the Americans.

Crap!

fratermathy:
But he is generalising. The truth is that people that give Nigeria bad images are in the minority, contrary to what many think. For every internet fraudster, there are hundreds of honest Nigerians!

Is he really?

Can you actually say the number of people involved in 419 is less than a million?

If you have to debate that in your head then that's not generalising.

Ololade1999:
Although some of their points are true but I disagree with the rest. I can't agree that all Nigerians are bad. We still have very good folks who are upright and are doing very well. Even some of these so called white people are worse than Nigerians. I won't blame them but our leaders who have failed this country through greed and selfishness. Most people doing yahoo yahoo stuff and engage in other criminal activities are doing so because of the non - availability of jobs. Let our leaders fix basic amenities like light good roads etc and create a good platform for youth development and watch unemployment decrease rapidly.

I disagree.

I know quite a number of Nigerians based in UK and US, with all the opportunities such societies provide, still doing yahoo or credit card fraud. Realise some of these people have masters degrees and all.

Also, the leaders we get are products of the society. Our society thrives on tribe, religion, nepotism. Value of hardwork and scholarship has long been abandoned.

Think about the sheer number of people MMM slapped. That's our society. When you find university professors, Church clerics involved in such ponzi schemes you know your society has failed on many counts. Funny, they were all warned.

fratermathy:
I think its a "he". I also think this was informed by racism and hate more than anything else. There are too many generalisations. There are bad eggs in Nigeria, no doubts about that, but to say ALL NIGERIANS are like that? That's an overstretching of falsity!

oniovo be truthful to yourself, isn't this country corrupt?.. the youths are criminals.. yes I said so.. about 20-15% are into fraud.. go to other countries, Nigerians there are I. e pushing drugs or doing yahoo.

and funny enough we don't see anything wrong with that.. how can we develop with this kind of mentality?, Just take a trip to warri , abraka, Lagos, owerri and see for your self.

Sometimes I regret been a Nigerian.. how many times have you heard of other countries been persecuted due to drugs trafficking? , 60% of all reported case in Africa are Nigeria.

although the guy op generalized a lot..

The writer sure used a lot of generalisation in his article which is quite wrong because tying up an entire people with a single shoestring is completely improper. Having said that, I think the writer was right in most of the issues he highlighted. The name 'Nigeria' has been brutally murdered on the alter of corruption and greed by our politicians, 'yahoo-yahoo' boys and girls, and drug dealers. Nigeria has become the scum of the earth because of the shameless activities of these criminals who commit crime without any remorse. We live in country where criminals are worshipped rather than shamed and prosecuted. These days in Nigeria, it's not uncommon to find young boys /men who proudly proclaim themselves as "yahoo boys" without the slightest of shame. How did we get to this point as a people? Why are Nigerians dotting almost every prisons in China, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam ...? How did we get to this unenviable low as a people ? Let's stop playing the race card whenever a white person refers to Nigeria as a country full of crooks. Rather, Nigeria should begin to look for ways to redeem its shameful image in the international community.

Hmm, nawa oo!