₦airaland Forum

SirIconR:
This is exactly what happens when u scrap history from your school curriculums...

your comment held me , how I enjoyed history classes back then with my teacher who can act for life.
it's painful honestly I wouldn't have mind taking history in classes.

AnonymousIP:


THAT IS WHERE XENOPHOBIA STARTED ......

IS WE ARE GETTING IT IN A HARSH WAY IN SOUTH AFRICA ... LET'S KNOW THAT WE ALL STARTED IT ....

ONLY GOD CAN HELP US

I am forced beyond reasons not to agree with you on this, I have done my research and read articles dating back to 1981 even before the orders were given.


what shehu did is or can be seen as a move trump is pulling currently on illegal immigrants, this has no element of xenophobia in it.

I came up on majority articles and journals and trust me this act in 1983 had no element of xenophobia.

listen man bead or no bead be careful of who you have sex with am no preacher but trust me you have got alot of hell hounds out there who would easily crawl into your bed just to make a mess out of your life.

SLAP44:
Soldiers will try and stop them because they know that shoprite is just the small target. Those guys are holding practice sessions for the big one, a REVOLUTIONARY UPRISING.

asin eh Nigerian.is at its tipping point

omohlexy:
You see! That's exactly what i mean. When you are insulting someone because of his opinion,You will also insult your clients.When you insult you clients, They will run and you will resort to cheating,Lying and Stealing. So i hope you can agree with me now that you are a liar,a cheat and a thief.

You crave for attention , I have decided to be sensible and let you have none of it, do have a nice morning.

Larryfest:
Not all Nigerians over there are into crime those southy are just been dumb that's all, with the way some Nigerians are into all sorts of crime in other countries how come those countries are not killing Nigerians the way South Africans are doing now Well it isn't there fault sha na because we no get better President.

one dumb SA here said 98% of Nigerians he has seen over there are criminals and drug dealers .
I guess what this man has in his shop are drugs and the dish he is also installing has drugs in them too infact we can say he is installing drug on the roof.
SmH .mtchew

FamousMonk:
About Xenophobia...
Let's quit the hypocrisy.
It is appalling..
Truth is,a typical Nigerian man doesn't care about what happened to some Nigerians in South Africa.
We are just trying to follow the trend and appear like good patriotic citizens who love each other..
Forget the posts and hate speech on twitter ,Facebook etc..
It is just for social media attention..
I repeat,as long as the killing of Nigerians do not affect the price of garri,a typical Nigerian doesn't care...
I woke up and decided to write about it too..
But I'm so sorry i cannot pretend to care when I really don't..
After the whole fracas,Nigerians will go back to their usual daily routine.
If I'm killed today,I will be buried and nobody will care.
We will post about it,empathize with the families of the victims,make it seem like we love and care about these people,but in reality,we don't ..
For me,I don't know them,and they haven't helped me in any way before so I swear,I do not care..
This is the bitter truth..
There is something fundamentally wrong with an African man's brain and way of reasoning..

I feel ashamed to bear the title "homosapien" with you.

lolly2pops:
i am a south african living in fear for my nigerian husband and kids. my kids answer nigerian names and for some days now i have stopped them from attending school. i am just being cautious. Zimbabweans are the marjority of the looters, especially the tribe known as ndebeles from Zimbabwe. see, the ndebele language which is spoken widely in zim is one of the many nguni languages spoken in south africa. many zim people have been arrested along south africans. there is a criminal element to all this. i saw them looting and i could not stop my tears from rolling down my chicks! im devasted and i know for sure that our politicians in the african continent are to blame for this. the politicians in nigeria are the reason why nigerians have forsaken their land i. search for a better life. the politicians in south africa are the cause of the current situation. oh cry my beloved africa...cry

please for the safety of your kids I suggest you hold on to them and keep them away from school and public places that you are uncertain of in terms of security.
I am truly sorry for the events that are happening and I hope they can be resolved soon, impose a curfew routine for them for now, no one is safe.
it's true the hardship here in Nigeria is a big factor to the mess we are in out there, my prayers are to all the innocents out there , things will be better someday.

. my pastor just called me the man was scared and terrified he said yesterday night he saw hoards and herds of witches aka village people heading to SA and one particular battalion of witches were sent directly to Aka's house whilst two others were sent to shop rite branches and Mtn please oh the looting is now spiritual ,I repeat the looting is now spiritual.

blindjustice13:
Lets make the hash tag go viral


#cutdiplomatictiewithsouthafrica


Enough is enough!

blindjustice13:
Lets make the hash tag go viral


#cutdiplomatictiewithsouthafrica


Enough is enough!

good idea boss but the hashtag is confusing me

apparently we now have categories of witches
white witch -present bad witch - also present fat witch- e dey here black witch - e dey progressive witch - na here xenophobic witch - South Africa corruption witch - aso rock herdsmen witch- sambisa Aka witch -South African looting witches - dem dey Reacting witches - na here Mod witches - ....( I still like my account oh) nairaland witch -..........(abeg let's know if you're here reading this)

FarahAideed:
More Nigerian shops in the malls lost to looting than ShopRite . Many of those Nigerian stores will never recover from the loss today ..how does looting Nigerian owned stores retaliate against xenophobia in South Africa .

in my village they say when two elephants fight, the victims are grasses beneath them.
this is the chain reaction of events to unfold.

Ibile77:
very sad and unfortunate but who knows whether the same lady indirectly incited hoodlums thinking the act will be limited to S,A companies alone ?

thinking correctly sir, people don't have an idea what this can cause Nigerian is already at the verge of a civil war, we just need any silly excuses to run into our neighbors house at the moment and do something crazy.

nobodytestme:
Unfortunately, not been around here lately, been busy chasing the paper, and thank goodness it’s coming in..
But if you reading, think about this, South Africans don’t do businesses here, they just they brand, the name .,. The workers, staffs are all Nigerians, so why destroying or looting from a Nigerian just like you, don’t make sense to me..it’s a simple logic, business stores in Shoprite are rented out to Nigerians like you, and you want to destroy them, it’s not logical..
The only mouthpiece here is the government, but as Usual “DULL-APO” won’t say nothing .. Been reading and following up posts and A cow has never been Involved, so why would he do anything?
I also saw a post on Nigerians arming themselves with knifes brought out from the boot of a car, and if you watched the video , you’d see that they spoke in Yoruba dialect, but some slowpokes here earlier said this was an Igbo fight and it was only igbos in South Africa being killed and whose properties were being destroyed.
I’m impressed we have finally realized that this Xenophobic attack is not on igbos , or yourbas or any other tribe , but Attack on Nigerians and everyone has been united on social media, this shows that Nigerians still have sense , it’s just frustration from the government that makes it seem otherwise..
If we can channel this togetherness on politicians and speak up with one voice irrespective of tribe or ethnic or religious affiliations, we will get there someday
I’m all in for “an eye for an eye “ , but think twice, an eye for an eye does not play out in this situation.
Don’t go stealing from a fellow Nigerian like you in the name or represal attacks

respect to you sir.

Ehizs:
Iceprince con even get sense pass MI

I am shocked and electrified by this in fact lemme go and climb pole and read ice princess comment again, see the level of maturity she has.

Bossontop:
Very good......e remain total boycott of shoprite, dstv and mtn

fully supported

Bossontop:
Very good......e remain total boycott of shoprite, dstv and mtn

fully supported

we put them there, there is no greater demon than that which resides within.


that's what is happening, we put them there, we fought friends, we turned our eyes from what is right, we went tribalistic, we went religious, we sold our future and that of the future generations for 1k when we put them there.

so let them eat it, they paid for it and we gladly sold to them.

FarahAideed:
The same AKA that housed you when Nigeria music scene wasn't favoring U for years ...

you lack brain nourishing nutrients , I suggest you save your self some respect and comment no further.

congratulations to him, he will soon be gainfully employed in the prison he can use his mathematics knowledge to calculate the prison time of the other inmates and possibly find X and Y behind bars.

Mods: please don't make racist and tribalistic comments on this section.
Me: hmmmm will comment soon once I have finished learning Swahili

Dasuks:
Much love to u bro. That's an inspiring story. Resist that narrative as u are proof of the contrary. RIP to ur Pops. Honor him with the life that u live now.

I came up good and only recently realized how hard parents worked before everything turned good. What did I know then but to play with my kid bro, argue over video games and crush on girls etc. The idea of being a thief or the loudest person in the room never occured to me. And when I tried to be mischevious in my teen years due to peer pressure it just didn't feel right or stick.

The thing that pains me is that it's those who have lived subsidized lives as govt officials and criminals off the grid (yahoo etc ) are quick to preach the "everybody is a thief" nonsense. And weak minds who don't know any better echo that BS. As if u could possibly characterize 200 million ppl Simple excuses made to deny personal responsibility.

Rather what they should say is that mischief is rewarded in Nigeria. not that all of us are one bad name or the other.

It's annoying. I have lived on three different continents and met Nigerians who are wonderful and sweet ppl. Wonder how I never met a criminal ? Cos I dont do that. I'm not ever gonna be in the same space as such ppl. even tho I know that they exist.

your words mean much brother, I still believe in my country and I won't stop trying to do my best to help those who want that opportunity to do what is right , I have seen bad people change those miscreants we are quickly to call, the touts , the rogues we are quick to label evil and all brother , I have seen people's lives change simply because someone was able to give them an opportunity, the actions of our leaders are rubbing off on all of us, I don't blame how people see us because I know the truth and that's all that matters.

Princeofasia:
yes if you got the right leader. mark that phrase.
the fact is 98% of nigerians are drug pushers or scamers outside nigeria. i spend 80% of my time aborad so i know what i am saying. proof me wrong man

do you know what religion and ignorance have I common it's the idea that what they see, think and say is the truth and their ability to want to want to always stick by it no matter the fact that is laid on the table.

I have got no worries or trouble with YOUR TRUTH nor with YOUR FACT I am a proud Nigerian, a computer scientist and a 3D animator and I am proud of my country , I respect the laws of nature and my priority is to the service of humanity and all that seems morally upright.
yes I am that Nigerian, my apologies if I may have over reacted and threw slew words at you, am sorry it feels terrible to have the world tag you with all the negativity they can think of when they haven't had the opportunity to see the better sides of us.

we are humans, no race, no color, no language, no culture makes us bleed a different color, what SA is doing isn't right I understand their grievances but what is right is right and we should learn to stand by it no matter what.

Dasuks:
Thanks for this. I am seriously fed up with the blanket generalization of silly platitudes concerning Nigerians.

As if everybody grew up around same things. If your parents worked hard, ran businesses and kept u comfortable thru out ur life why should u be hungry for awoof money. Or if u do ur thing and get paid based on skill, what is ur wahala ?

Chances are that u and ur fam have never been in govt, do not frolick with the wrong crowd so do not even know a yahoo or cult boy etc. Normally living ur life jejely and someone comes to tell u that you're a thief ?!?! Lol. Rebuke them.

More success to ur 3D business my compatriot. Cynics shld go and search their own hearts for their ill intentions and stop blaming everybody.

And the hole in the argument of these SA guys is that they never attack the drug dens. The so called illegal foreigners who are henched with local SA manpower. Instead they go to civilian shops.... the irony.

The biggest criminals in SA are their own ppl.numbers gang and co. They provide cover for the Naija dealers. Ppl make it seem as tho foreigners will just come and not use an existing system. They're supermen who just land and dominate a space where they make up less than 5% of the population.... false equivalencies bordering on illiteracy seems to the forte of poor SA blacks.

bro I came from a family of seven, a headmaster for a dad and a teacher for a mom, all seven are educated you can say I am the least of the seven, I have seen poverty in all its colors brother.
My dad was called a choir master because he had just one jacket and my mom was the woman no one wanted to come to her shop.

hmm today I have got four surgeons and a pharmacist for brothers with the sisters doing well.

my dad died recently his beliefs that education is the key and his and my mom's sacrifice for us has made us what we are today.

I just hate how people tend to want to white wash us all, Nigerians are survivors, we are blessed ,talented and strong individuals who if given the right opportunity can do better.

SA's problem is SA's problem ,it started even before our people began to migrate over there.

ogunladeabiodu:
why the stress then?is it a crime 8f u come to ur fatherland and do what you claim as right rather than risking your life and property emanating from attacks 8n a foreign land. Don't forget that bad eggs implicate the good ones.my token though

point of correction I am in my father's land, I work with NGO to help desensitize youths against ill vices .
I have seen the negativity that been a Nigerian causes out there and it's saddens me to a fault .
I do not blame the country people for their actions no, their country their rules, their opinions their beliefs.
I blame mine like we all Nigerians should.

Princeofasia:
shut up. when 98% the sea is occupied by dolhins , then its safe to assume the only dolphins live in the sea. i have been to almost ever country on earth and 9 out of 10 nigerians i meet are either into drugs or yahoo yahoo. safe your shit lies to someone else. naija is cursed

Search that thick bony structure up above your neck for the brain you lost, 98% really (laughs) look kid I don't know the shitty stuff you have been fed with but go get your facts right before I can put up a valid argument up.
Nigerian is a blessed country, if we have got the right leaders I bet Dubai has got nothing on us.

omohlexy:
search your conscience very well, even in that job that you are doing you still cheat,steal and lie. Lets be honest. The first step to change is admission not denial.

unfortunately I am not your typical Nigerian sir , go loathe about some one else I am a writer and a 3D designer, my joy comes from the fact that I earn what I deserve and I deserve what I earn sir, not everyone is a bad egg, I have everything got clients who still stick with me cos honesty they say pays, I am not after the money I am after doing what I love and loving what I do.

like I said go loathe about some one you have got facts about.
admission like you say is the first step towards change.
not everyone is money hungry some of us just want an opportunity to do what they can, you remember the saying hardwork pays, yes that's what I was told to live by.
so shut the hell up.

PVC2019:
Reading comments on this thread, YOU can agree with me that politics of tribalism has divided us so bad that you see a Nigerian, instead of fighting for his countryman, would out of hatred for their tribe encourage & call on foreigners to kill & roast fellow Nigerians alive. The hate has eaten up so deep that they didn't even bother to find out if the victims of these attacks are only from their most hated region

I bet most people on this forum are South-Africans, their Youths do not want to know if you're from the southeast or southwest? Instead of being a United Nigeria, you choose to invite an enemy to dinner thinking the detriment will be to a particular region.

I am saddened beyond measure ,it's pathetic and disturbing.

omohlexy:
South Africans should know that they have businesses in Nigeria and they are well received and patronised. I don't blame them sha, Nigerian youths have greed and crime flowing in their veins. Father and son are one.

Do you see a dolphin in the sea and assume only dolphins live in the sea, shut your mouth or get your facts straight , not all Nigerians are fraud,some of us sleep at 2 daily just trying to do what Is right .