₦airaland Forum

Hadampson:
You are as clueless as NIGERIAN president.... Smh

You Are A Very Stupid Person For Quoting Me For No Bleeping Reason, I Posted That I Won't Read The Long Epistle, How Is it Your Bleeping Business Idiot? You Are Just Too Daft To Mind Your Business! Nonsense, Go Get A Life Jorh! And Stop Mentioning Me Here!

MiztaYouneek:
Let me first of all say that I am not trying to be tribalistic here or referring to all Nigerians in diaspora as the same. I know there are many good and humble fellows out there who know why they left Nigeria and are making positive impacts.

I lived in a country years back which was dominated by the yorubas and if you see how some of them behave you will really ponder how they keep succeeding in living in that country. No respect for their host citizens, always feeling they own the country especially some that have made money. I was in a Nigerian restaurant one day and one man who was older than me came and started speaking Yoruba for me just like that. Out of respect I told him I don't understand the language and then he asked me if I wasn't a Nigerian. I told him I was a Nigerian but obviously Nigeria is not an all Yoruba country. The had the guts to open that stinking mouth of his that I know is already caused to tell me that I should question God to ask why I wasn't born a Yoruba. I know for sure they must have deported him by now or he might be in prison or something because I don't see such kind of a person making any positive impact in his life.

That aside I also had other terrible experiences with these yoruba people but I can't share all here. The main point is that not all of them had bad characters but the majority of them that did have bad characters sometimes affect all Nigerians in general even those with good characters.

Years later I have moved to a very different country which is more of a French speaking country and it is dominated more by the igbos. Over here is worse than the other country dominated by yorubas. Many of these igbo guys have no atom of respect at all for their host citizens. They feel they are making money and always trying to oppress their host citizens. Sometimes if you see how they talk and insult the citizens in English without any consideration that some of these citizens understand English a little. What surprises me most times is when some of these people will be insulting the host citizens saying things like if it was in Nigeria they can't do such and how Nigeria is better than the country, but they left the same Nigeria they say is better to another country not like if the host country invited them. It is really sad because I believe only some few people who have really travelled will understand the little points am trying to make.

Just last night, I was with an igbo guy who runs a legit business and we were on our way home because we stay in same neighborhood. On the way we noticed a lot of police presence but we just kept moving. Immediately we got close to a junction we saw two police officers who stopped us and they were speaking French so I didn't understand what they said. The guy I was walking with understands and speak french very well so he was communicating with them. The only thing I noticed was that they were pointing somewhere for us to sit down just like on the ground. I peacefully went to sit down and this other guy refused to sit and kept talking to one of the police. I didn't know what was going on as there were other people around as well but all speaking French so I signaled the other police that was close to me and told him I don't understand French but I needed to know what the problem is. Luckily for me he could understand English and he asked me for my identification. I reached out to my wallet and showed him then he asked if I was a Nigerian and I said yes. He then told me I can go because all they wanted to see was my identification so he called the other police and told him I don't understand French but I had shown him my identification and they both asked me to go. That was when I realized that all those plenty talk my friend was talking was unnecessary because they only needed to see our identification. I then called him aside and told him to calm down and speak with them gently but to my surprise he brought out his phone and said he wants to call some of his other police friends. I believe that angered one of the police and the next thing I saw was that they started pushing him to go and sit down where they initially asked us to sit. He kept on resisting while speaking French with them and the next thing I saw was two truck load policemen. Seems they were all together doing the patrol around the area and the whole story changed immediately. The environment became intense and that's how they pushed this guy into the truck with other people that they had arrested as well.

As for me, when I saw the way everything got intense I had no choice but to leave the place and started running home. Like that old saying "na who run from war dey live to tell the story". And that is what I am doing. Up till now he has not been released and no one knows yet where he is.

The bottom line of this all is that, though I know he will be released, it was just a very simple matter that would have been avoided by just being humble and able to show some respect that would have solved the problem and prevented any form of arrest in that forceful manner.

I don't see what it takes for us as Nigerians, no matter the money we are making, to always be humble to our host and respect them irrespective of age or anything. We have to learn to stop that attitude of I am better than my host and Nigerians have more sense than they do.

Whenever you travel out to wherever, please learn to show more respect and always be humble no matter how rich you think you have become.

so you just woke up this morning and decided to come one here and slander Nigerians in diaspora right? Just because you live in ivory coast doesn't give you the right to judge nigerians in diaspora. Go back to your shitty country Nigeria if you can't cope with Igbo and yoruba abroad. Get a life too because I see you committing suicide soon if you keep up with these level of hatred.

Oknm are you here.. Come read good advice

obiekunie2:
be proud of your tribal marks!
you can only keep wishing you are Igbo - sadly wishes ain't horses!

Look at this one
You think every igbo man reasons like you abi
Well I. don't
If Ugo is not an igbo name
it must be cross river abi?
Anuofia di ka gi

AntiBrutus:
Instead of some of you to read and take corrections, you will be seeing bigotry.

Which kind delusion of persecution is this?

No mind them

one punk ass is even doubting my ethnic origins for saying the truth

You see them?

safarigirl:
Some complaints here are petty and unnecessary

The fellow that did not want to give his ID probably had valid reasons you are blissfully unaware of, for not giving that ID. Just because you decided to be a good little boy and sit on the ground for thw police doesn't mean everybody should do same.

And this one you came here to report all the ethnic groups in Nigeria from the abroad, you, what are the negative traits you have equally exhibited there? It is easy to report others, while parading yourself as an epitome of a law-abiding citizen.

You missed the point

and I'm not surprised you did

dannywest:
Are foreigners "humble" in Nigeria?

if we as Nigerians do not respect our law enforcement

You really think foreigner will?

You see that is the problem

Foreigners for example saw Nigerians (well the VIPs) use law enforcement as mere body gurard
so they got in on the train too....


Until Nigeria get sense
everything will remain senseless in that NiggerLand

Ugosample:
that's not true

if you have travelled and been in different countries like some of us here

You will not be talking like this

Nigerians have to be one of the worst behaved Africans there

I live in the UK , outside London , and ALL the Nigerians I know behave very well. There are cases of Nigerians behaving loudly in London , but this is the exception rather than the norm.

MrBrownJay1:
That's a damn lie... the majority are loud, conceited, quick to show BS bravado, especially when they suddenly have some little money.

It's so easy to spot Nigerians abroad, they are exactly as they are in Nigeria.

I don't know where you got this 'majority' statistic from. The Nigerians I know in the UK are very well behaved people.

Ugosample:
[s] Look at this one

You think every igbo man reasons like you abi

Well I. don't

If Ugo is not an igbo name

it must be cross river abi?

Anuofia di ka gi [/s]

Ezi ofia desiring to be Igbo!

keep dreaming!

ozu nwuru anwu n'ekwu okwu!

safarigirl:
Some complaints here are petty and unnecessary

The fellow that did not want to give his ID probably had valid reasons you are blissfully unaware of, for not giving that ID. Just because you decided to be a good little boy and sit on the ground for thw police doesn't mean everybody should do same.

And this one you came here to report all the ethnic groups in Nigeria from the abroad, you, what are the negative traits you have equally exhibited there? It is easy to report others, while parading yourself as an epitome of a law-abiding citizen.

Forget abroad...even in your country when an officer of the law asks you for document you must show....is it that hardThank God Kenyan police brutally murder you nigerians.If you ever in kenya btw please follow orders of our law enforcers...otherwise your body will be found in one of our many national parks like your fellow brothers.

safarigirl:
Some complaints here are petty and unnecessary

The fellow that did not want to give his ID probably had valid reasons you are blissfully unaware of, for not giving that ID. Just because you decided to be a good little boy and sit on the ground for thw police doesn't mean everybody should do same.

And this one you came here to report all the ethnic groups in Nigeria from the abroad, you, what are the negative traits you have equally exhibited there? It is easy to report others, while parading yourself as an epitome of a law-abiding citizen.

You had to be the first voice of sense. #typical

I swear as non Nigerian, but a fellow African, I don't understand this kinda thread. There's good and bad in everyone and everyone agrees on that.

People tend to judge you on what vibe you give off... I have plenty Nigerian friends through out my time, I clubbed with fraudsters and read with great minds. I've chilled with single mums and great wives. I've seen nonsense and everything in between but that is normal. Going by my experience which group do I use to judge Nigerians?

The issues I've seen in cases where Nigerian men (in particular) have troubles with the system and finding their place is due to rigid characteristics. The society is fast paced and judges on first impressions, it's brutal, if you don't look and sound right you'll experience vetting.

Long story short... This thread is DOA.

UncleJudax:
Well, we are inherently divided. So, nationally, it would be almost impossible to get people in line because everything is partisan.

I say we start locally. Smaller governments.

Regional government would be better for the country...but ofcos, may never happen, since the present status is working for the elists

from what I have discovered
sometimes it's even the stupid masses that seek the division

because really

what did your countty man from another corner of Nigeria do to you for you to despise him ?

it's that empty sense of tribal superiority and silly behaviour that fuels this division

the elite use it well to their advantage.

That is why Nigeria is the way it is.

obiekunie2:
Ezi ofia desiring to be Igbo!
keep dreaming!
ozu nwuru anwu n'ekwu okwu!

nne gi bu ozu nwuru anwu
ewu Gambia

frosbel2:
I live in the UK , outside London , and ALL the Nigerians I know behave very well. There are cases of Nigerians behaving loudly in London , but this is the exception rather than the norm.

Well
You have to be a fortunate person

frosbel2:
I don't know where you got this 'majority' statistic from. The Nigerians I know in the UK and very well behaved people.

I think you are mistaking UK born/raised Nigerians with the ones raised in Nigeria that emigrated...take the tube, and you will spot/hear them as they are speaking so loud as if they were arguing. Go to any black/african/urban club, the ones that would probably be the biggest show off would be Nigerians... and the UK is the #1 destination for Nigerians, now think of how easy it is to spot them in places like the US, France, Germany etc

MiztaYouneek:
Let me first of all say that I am not trying to be tribalistic here or referring to all Nigerians in diaspora as the same. I know there are many good and humble fellows out there who know why they left Nigeria and are making positive impacts.

I lived in a country years back which was dominated by the yorubas and if you see how some of them behave you will really ponder how they keep succeeding in living in that country. No respect for their host citizens, always feeling they own the country especially some that have made money. I was in a Nigerian restaurant one day and one man who was older than me came and started speaking Yoruba for me just like that. Out of respect I told him I don't understand the language and then he asked me if I wasn't a Nigerian. I told him I was a Nigerian but obviously Nigeria is not an all Yoruba country. The had the guts to open that stinking mouth of his that I know is already caused to tell me that I should question God to ask why I wasn't born a Yoruba. I know for sure they must have deported him by now or he might be in prison or something because I don't see such kind of a person making any positive impact in his life.

That aside I also had other terrible experiences with these yoruba people but I can't share all here. The main point is that not all of them had bad characters but the majority of them that did have bad characters sometimes affect all Nigerians in general even those with good characters.

Years later I have moved to a very different country which is more of a French speaking country and it is dominated more by the igbos. Over here is worse than the other country dominated by yorubas. Many of these igbo guys have no atom of respect at all for their host citizens. They feel they are making money and always trying to oppress their host citizens. Sometimes if you see how they talk and insult the citizens in English without any consideration that some of these citizens understand English a little. What surprises me most times is when some of these people will be insulting the host citizens saying things like if it was in Nigeria they can't do such and how Nigeria is better than the country, but they left the same Nigeria they say is better to another country not like if the host country invited them. It is really sad because I believe only some few people who have really travelled will understand the little points am trying to make.

Just last night, I was with an igbo guy who runs a legit business and we were on our way home because we stay in same neighborhood. On the way we noticed a lot of police presence but we just kept moving. Immediately we got close to a junction we saw two police officers who stopped us and they were speaking French so I didn't understand what they said. The guy I was walking with understands and speak french very well so he was communicating with them. The only thing I noticed was that they were pointing somewhere for us to sit down just like on the ground. I peacefully went to sit down and this other guy refused to sit and kept talking to one of the police. I didn't know what was going on as there were other people around as well but all speaking French so I signaled the other police that was close to me and told him I don't understand French but I needed to know what the problem is. Luckily for me he could understand English and he asked me for my identification. I reached out to my wallet and showed him then he asked if I was a Nigerian and I said yes. He then told me I can go because all they wanted to see was my identification so he called the other police and told him I don't understand French but I had shown him my identification and they both asked me to go. That was when I realized that all those plenty talk my friend was talking was unnecessary because they only needed to see our identification. I then called him aside and told him to calm down and speak with them gently but to my surprise he brought out his phone and said he wants to call some of his other police friends. I believe that angered one of the police and the next thing I saw was that they started pushing him to go and sit down where they initially asked us to sit. He kept on resisting while speaking French with them and the next thing I saw was two truck load policemen. Seems they were all together doing the patrol around the area and the whole story changed immediately. The environment became intense and that's how they pushed this guy into the truck with other people that they had arrested as well.

As for me, when I saw the way everything got intense I had no choice but to leave the place and started running home. Like that old saying "na who run from war dey live to tell the story". And that is what I am doing. Up till now he has not been released and no one knows yet where he is.

The bottom line of this all is that, though I know he will be released, it was just a very simple matter that would have been avoided by just being humble and able to show some respect that would have solved the problem and prevented any form of arrest in that forceful manner.

I don't see what it takes for us as Nigerians, no matter the money we are making, to always be humble to our host and respect them irrespective of age or anything. We have to learn to stop that attitude of I am better than my host and Nigerians have more sense than they do.

Whenever you travel out to wherever, please learn to show more respect and always be humble no matter how rich you think you have become.

Whats sickens me most is how Nigerians play victim when the locals start repelling.Southafricans had legit arguments but as usual Nigerians were bringing weird arguments like "they hate us coz we take their women".Black people understand one word....violence.Whatever makes Nigerians think they will behave how they want and get away with it just shows the degree of naivety.Here in kenya xenophobic attacks are like two years away....im sure it will happen.

franchasng:
Honestly this is a Nigerian problem, I don't know how Nigerians became this bad, it hurts.

Tribalism and religious division in Nigeria contributed to this mess because everybody wants to show he has somebody at the top at every small opportunity.

Every Nigerian want to intimidate the other using his or her connection or whatever, its really sad

it's a clear shameful behaviour

but in typical fashion
the ones here are just exhibiting iberibeism

I realized this just recently. The best way to stay peacefully in a foreign land, if you’re not the trouble type, is to avoid other Nigerians in your city. You don’t have to relate with your compatriots to show your “Nigerianess”.

Gerrard59:
Well, the way I was brought up was to state facts clearly and not tus.h them up. I believe if we as Igbos call out our brothers and sisters (which I do online and offline) to order, it will go a long way at mitigating the issue. It's because these countries don't care which ethnic group one comes from, trust me, if they do, you know what will happen. Yet again, before one gets a Thai visa, the individual must get a clearance from NDLEA. Whose fault is that?

exactly!

Ugosample:
nne gi bu ozu nwuru anwu

ewu Gambia

asi na i'nwere nne i ka ikwanyere ndi nne ugwu!

ma na nsogbu adighi maka na amam na obu nkita ohia muru gi!

ozu rere ure n'esisi!

ifere eme ozu!

Saboteur!

Ugosample:
from what I have discovered
sometimes it's even the stupid masses that seek the division

because really

what did your countty man from another corner of Nigeria do to you for you to despise him ?

it's that empty sense of tribal superiority and silly behaviour that fuels this division

the elite use it well to their advantage.

That is why Nigeria is the way it is.

. You ae right...but it is multifactorial.
Really pathetic situation. Imagine just a few months after a general election, no one cares about governance but 2023 elections.

There is no end in sight

hisgrace090:
May you live long!

Amen to him o

Kkshanana90:
I realized this just recently. The best way to stay peacefully in a foreign land, if you’re not the trouble type, is to avoid other Nigerians in your city. You don’t have to relate with your compatriots to show your “Nigerianess”.

Well said.... I personally see hanging with your own countrymen abroad as going backwards.

obiekunie2:
asi na i'nwere nne i ka ikwanyere ndi nne ugwu!
ma na nsogbu adighi maka na amam na obu nkita ohia muru gi!
ozu rere ure n'esisi!
ifere eme ozu!
Saboteur!

mechie onu dia onye asai
Ga kpo nne gi ozu nwuru anwu
umu nne gi bu ozu nwuru anwu
idiat

TempleHouse:
Most Nigerians home and abroad are guilty of grandstanding and it's quite a national epidemics, to be honest.
Bragging, boasting and showing off is a national embarrassment to which most Nigerians are fond of.
The Yorubas living in London are the worst culprit I have seen Yoruba men and women speaking inside the public Buses boasting about Babalawo and Sexual capabilities inside the buses with a loud voice with absolute disregard for other people.
Maybe, it's a way of getting attention that they're no longer illegal immigrants after so many wasted years.

it has more to do with low self esteem tho

Ugosample:
[s]mechie onu dia onye asai

Ga kpo nne gi ozu nwuru anwu

umu nne gi bu ozu nwuru anwu

idiat[/s]

ozu rere ure n'esi isi!

sabo!

amam na imaghi onye nnagi bu! sabo!

amuta atufue! ime afo ngbuke! sabo!

frosbel2:
I don't know where you got this 'majority' statistic from. The Nigerians I know in the UK and very well behaved people.

Mate... Let them beat themselves

(If I had to add) if a Nigerian could fight foreigners the way they fight each other; they'd take over the world

This is the same for everyone, a prophet is whatever is his land... I don't know the saying.

Nigerians are polite in the UK to a fault. Those who find the medium are thriving. It's about personalities rather than ethnicity or race (somewhat).

MrBrownJay1:
I think you are mistaking UK born/raised Nigerians with the ones raised in Nigeria that emigrated...take the tube, and you will spot/hear them as they are speaking so loud as if they were arguing. Go to any black/african/urban club, the ones that would probably be the biggest show off would be Nigerians... and the UK is the #1 destination for Nigerians, now think of how easy it is to spot them in places like the US, France, Germany etc

You ain't seen Romanians, somalians, Indians, all doing the same? Come now! Shi what about the chavz, the common whites and their behaviour?

Don't use the worst to judge the all!

Suspectzero:
This is the unfiltered truth i've been trying to tell people for a while now.

Blacks are far more xenophobic, prejudiced and racist than the white man in this day and age.

The only reason why we never truly had a good chance to show these "qualities"is because we've never had the upper hand. We've always been backwards so we've been the race preyed upon rather than the reverse.

What happened in South Africa is just a small microcosm of what the black man is capable of when faced with mass immigration into his Country from lesser Countries. The funny thing is that the blacks in South Africa are in no way responsible for how well the nation is doing. It's all thanks to the Apartheid Dutch Colonists (and some Indians) who built that Country up to what it is today. The black (South Africans) will destroy the Nation given half the chance.

they are destroying the country as we speak

25 years of ANC has sent that nigger country to the gutter

You know a country Is very useless when it has a higher unemployment and youth unemployment rate than NIGERIA
And that is the story of S.A.

just that they conceal it with those fancy buildings they have

let anc run the country for another 20 years
You will see what will b left of that country

MiztaYouneek:
Let me first of all say that I am not trying to be tribalistic here or referring to all Nigerians in diaspora as the same. I know there are many good and humble fellows out there who know why they left Nigeria and are making positive impacts.

I lived in a country years back which was dominated by the yorubas and if you see how some of them behave you will really ponder how they keep succeeding in living in that country. No respect for their host citizens, always feeling they own the country especially some that have made money. I was in a Nigerian restaurant one day and one man who was older than me came and started speaking Yoruba for me just like that. Out of respect I told him I don't understand the language and then he asked me if I wasn't a Nigerian. I told him I was a Nigerian but obviously Nigeria is not an all Yoruba country. The had the guts to open that stinking mouth of his that I know is already caused to tell me that I should question God to ask why I wasn't born a Yoruba. I know for sure they must have deported him by now or he might be in prison or something because I don't see such kind of a person making any positive impact in his life.

That aside I also had other terrible experiences with these yoruba people but I can't share all here. The main point is that not all of them had bad characters but the majority of them that did have bad characters sometimes affect all Nigerians in general even those with good characters.

Years later I have moved to a very different country which is more of a French speaking country and it is dominated more by the igbos. Over here is worse than the other country dominated by yorubas. Many of these igbo guys have no atom of respect at all for their host citizens. They feel they are making money and always trying to oppress their host citizens. Sometimes if you see how they talk and insult the citizens in English without any consideration that some of these citizens understand English a little. What surprises me most times is when some of these people will be insulting the host citizens saying things like if it was in Nigeria they can't do such and how Nigeria is better than the country, but they left the same Nigeria they say is better to another country not like if the host country invited them. It is really sad because I believe only some few people who have really travelled will understand the little points am trying to make.

Just last night, I was with an igbo guy who runs a legit business and we were on our way home because we stay in same neighborhood. On the way we noticed a lot of police presence but we just kept moving. Immediately we got close to a junction we saw two police officers who stopped us and they were speaking French so I didn't understand what they said. The guy I was walking with understands and speak french very well so he was communicating with them. The only thing I noticed was that they were pointing somewhere for us to sit down just like on the ground. I peacefully went to sit down and this other guy refused to sit and kept talking to one of the police. I didn't know what was going on as there were other people around as well but all speaking French so I signaled the other police that was close to me and told him I don't understand French but I needed to know what the problem is. Luckily for me he could understand English and he asked me for my identification. I reached out to my wallet and showed him then he asked if I was a Nigerian and I said yes. He then told me I can go because all they wanted to see was my identification so he called the other police and told him I don't understand French but I had shown him my identification and they both asked me to go. That was when I realized that all those plenty talk my friend was talking was unnecessary because they only needed to see our identification. I then called him aside and told him to calm down and speak with them gently but to my surprise he brought out his phone and said he wants to call some of his other police friends. I believe that angered one of the police and the next thing I saw was that they started pushing him to go and sit down where they initially asked us to sit. He kept on resisting while speaking French with them and the next thing I saw was two truck load policemen. Seems they were all together doing the patrol around the area and the whole story changed immediately. The environment became intense and that's how they pushed this guy into the truck with other people that they had arrested as well.

As for me, when I saw the way everything got intense I had no choice but to leave the place and started running home. Like that old saying "na who run from war dey live to tell the story". And that is what I am doing. Up till now he has not been released and no one knows yet where he is.

The bottom line of this all is that, though I know he will be released, it was just a very simple matter that would have been avoided by just being humble and able to show some respect that would have solved the problem and prevented any form of arrest in that forceful manner.

I don't see what it takes for us as Nigerians, no matter the money we are making, to always be humble to our host and respect them irrespective of age or anything. We have to learn to stop that attitude of I am better than my host and Nigerians have more sense than they do.

Whenever you travel out to wherever, please learn to show more respect and always be humble no matter how rich you think you have become.

Fake news

obiekunie2:
Ezi ofia desiring to be Igbo!

keep dreaming!

ozu nwuru anwu n'ekwu okwu!

onye Anambra nwannem.
I could tell from your igbo.
I don't know why people are misconstruing simple logic.
Nigerians show off because they are the most successful black race na.
ABI you want people that don't have anything to show off?
Ugosample,stop speaking for everyone!no be only you Don waka.
Nigerians abide to the law almost everywhere,just a few elements get involved in rough deals in other countries.
Igbos trade almost everywhere they go to and abide to the law and at times buy the law and start feeling untouchable.Its something very normal for successful humans.
I know because I am igbo and come from a very successful family and also grew up outside Nigeria(francophone africa).If you like call it bragging,I don't care and might show you how much of a braggart I am
ABI you want poor Ivorian to start showing off?they've only got basic life amenities but are very poor people.
Nigerians always change the music and make even the worst shithole habitable.chew on that.
The easiest way to get a woman here sef is just to say;je suis biafrais and you are good.