I read everything, believe me I feel so bad for Nigeria, where did we got it all wrong ? What's the 'fons et origo' of this our colossal economic woes ? Nigeria need a total Renaissance ( Rebirth ).

bishopkay:


While I understand your point of view, I still beg to differ. It would even surprise you that she didn't even think of that. Those logos and condiments are sold in the open market. She maybe simply bought and fixed those as a fitting finish to the work.

So don't just carry out an onslaught on her because you failed to reason all corners of your argument

This is straight, if you see her shoe, do you call is fake Gucci or original?
And what's imitation without authorization?
Do you know the number of times SON has gone to raid Alaba International for fake products?

I'm just trying to correct the cloud of opinion you represent in this discussion.
There's no pills or bumper stickers to this, if you want to use a brand, get authorization. Else, float your own brand.
Little things we take has normal here are criminal offences in saner climes

Enough of these rants about what Nigerians are that you dont like about them. Good points observed and I agreed but if you do a thorough study of how things are shaped and formed you wont be so myopic in your judgement at the conclusion of your observation about Nigerians. I mean should all Nigerian are 'scammers' as you put even if it is possible, the few percent that are not thrive and succeeds. Nigerian have their names out there on several other things other than scamming, but you did not see that.
You blame the whole Nigerians for the condition brought on them by bad and vision-less leadership. Or the culture that promote many of these you mentioned. Mind you I am not being defensive about your points, but if you will do justice to your observations you will know things dont just appear the way they are.

There are fundamental factor that is cursing these, we Nigerians know and are concerned as you are, but you can close your eyes and wish all these away.

To you Nigeria who shared the views of the author of these write up, you are not in any way different from us. You found yourself in a place where there is the law and order some of yearn you can claim to be better. Given you are still in Nigeria, we probably would wonder how you survived it.

Truth is Nigerians are aware of all of the points made in this article but until these fundamntal factors that promotes the menace is gradually and consistently checked we keep having it this way.

Thanks for observing us, we still thrive and survive nonetheless. I am pretty sure the USA did not come with fully functioning system as we have it, but a careful and deliberate to make it so. We will get there.... e se gan ni.

I am unapologetically Nigerian, I may not be proud of somethings about her, but sentimentally yes I am super proud of my country...All of una go talk say una dey proud of America. I think it safe for me to say I am proud of what I know I have an identity - America no be my papa land and no matter what it is not my country of origin and birth and will never be.

1. I was stopped at a police check-point once, and they held me for expired car registration which only expired the previous week. I begged for mercy, and they asked me to bring 10k; I insisted I only had 1k, the policemen patted me down, and then proceeded to search my car for money. Checked my sun-shields, checked under and in-between the seats -searched my bag . . . all for a bribe.

2. My mechanic is in Anthony, my rewire in Ilupeju, and my A.C man in Ogba. It took me several years to get this scattered crew - not cos each workshop did not have technicians offering all of these services, but cos these people would inflate prices, still do a shitty job, so I can come back to get duped some more. I once went to fix something in my car, and my mechanic called later in the day that my carburetor had packed up and needed a replacement costing 30k; after a lenghty angry argument, my mother intervened for peace sake, and paid from her own pocket 18k to the mechanic to get it sorted. A few months later I was relasting my experience to a frend, and he looked at me puzzled - 'Your car uses an injection system - it does not have a carburettor'.

3. The previous EXCO for my estate was suspected of embezzling estate funds and voted out. The new EXCO inherited x million, and proceeded to try jacking up estate dues by 100% - their reason, the estate cannot subsist on the previous contributions (that even had enough left over to be embezzled).

4. A random fellow at work is getting married and sells aso-ebi to folks at work (I decline to buy). People complain the material is inferior (in relation to price), but dude swears on his mother's life that he added nothing on the price. Someone saunters into a shop in Balogun one sunny saturday, and finds the same fabric for 1/3 of the price it was sold to us.

5. I once resigned from a government job I got straight out of school cos everyone there was indolent and only seemed to look forward to how much they would make. I was young, and wanted to use my brain. My relatives berate me as a fool that does not want to make it in life.

6. I know people requesting for cash gifts from relatives to fund jacked up bills at school.

7. If you are not careful, your Uber driver would try to scam you by taking a much longer route.

8. Like clock-work, NCAN announces drug-dealers caught in Asia, and yahoo boys in South Africa - guess their nationality?

9. A number of hard-working Nigerians in America and the U.K are wary of other Nigerians so they don't gt into trouble either law enforcement.

10. The campus cult Bucaneers is steadily growing into a global criminal empire with strong presence in Italy and Spain with known rackets in woemn trafficking and drug smuggling.

11. I have been sold a car with hidden mechanical faults by a d**khead who swears that if he cheated me Ogun should ruin his life and that of his un-born children.

12. I have witnessed a catholic priest embezzling funds from the church bazaar, and heard of big-time pasterprenuers sleeping with church members.

13. We have celebrities always on vacation in Dubai and other lush locations spending money like it is going out of fashion who we all know make it from runs.

14. We have tons of prostitutes (road-side and 'runs' are the same thing) who are respected members of their clans.

15. ASUU is always on strike to arm-twist the government into increasing pay, which in turn would boost their productivity. If poor pay was the case, we could explain away Lecturers taking bribes from students - ow then do we explain females students being threatened to pull their panties off if they want to graduate?

16. A lot of female job-seekers and marketers have been told point-blank to drop panties without benefit of being considered on merit.

17. I have extra cash and want to start a side-business to be tended by a sales-boy, but I'm cautioned by folks who have had their fingers burnt. In one case, the sales boy was selling the wares and re-stocking thus keeping profits stymieing the owner who has to bear the operating expense of the shop.

. . .

thanks

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 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 wont make me to label them all as scammers.

Bunch of racist umu ndi ara

blueseacats:
There's is a call going around now to ban western union to Nigeria. Every well meaning Nigerian should support this effort until the government finds a way to sanitize the society.

For Nigerians in diaspora they know exactly how to send their loved ones money. But the effort is to curb the inflow of scam money into Nigeria.

For this who does not know how dark Nigeria's name is in the international scene please don't quote me.

I only have one question for you which you may not even answer: is Nigeria the only country that "inflow of scam money" flow to?

Amberon:
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.

Of course bro; you really got the point. I don't know why Nigerians like lying to themselves. I'm not really astounded by the reactions though; these are the same people whose behavior, the article criticized lucidly.

People that dont mind scamming their fellow Nigerians....anything involve money i am not just confident to do it with some Nigerians, cuz they will definitely scam you

sunnysunny69:
He's a hateful blogger with hateful followers, I bring you some comments on his blog.

How is it a hateful interview

LordOfNaira:


I don't care about the whites!!! It was your statement about there being hundreds of honest Nigerians to every fraudster which is an exaggeration that got my attention. Just this week alone, I have had to deal with three different dishonest electricians. The first was on Sunday. I lost my cool with the third one this morning. All just to fix a faulty ac. I never had this experience while in the US or even in Anguilla which is also full of black people of African descent. I am not trying to take sides, though.

I looked through your prior posts. They are unfortunate. Try to apply knowledge to your statements before you insult a whole nation.

In the USA the tradespeople do not easily cheat you because they have fixed prices and the Better Business Bureau(BBB) watching them. We dont. It is not they would not if they had the chance. So the problem is systemic and not individual.

In Africa and in some other parts of the world, we bargain. In Europe and America bargaining is not part of the culture. You get what you bargain for. Also, you as the customer routinely cheat the tradesman/ woman by paying peanuts. You are prepared to pay a mechanic $500 in the US but you want to pay N800 in Nigeria. How do you expect the person to survive ?

In Europe and America if you use a credit card to buy a product or service, many companies will place you on 'recurrent billing' charging you every month without your knowledge or consent. That is theft but I don't hear you criticizing it. Google 'Comcast' and read many horror stories.

American hospitals bill up to 500 times the cost of a drug and so many Americans run to Mexico to purchase drugs. They markup treatment by a factor of 20 to 100. I guess that's honest.
The American military (Pentagon) has been caught paying $254 for an 18 cent screw. They called it an enhanced metallic fastener ! And $3,000 for a $50 toilet seat.

Please we have many problems but dishonesty is not unique to us.

verygudbadguy:
Few people destroying the reputation of about 180 million others...

God dey. Almost every family has one or two amongst them.

bros its not few people . its the majority of people because 84% of nigerians are scammers either offline or online scammers. even your babe dey scam you self and papa they scam mama, pastor they scam their members . its way of life for high percentage of Nigerians.

There are certainly a very large number of Nigerians that are good and upright in all their affairs but I do agree that values have long gone in Nigeria due to perhaps pressure from parents ,for kids to be successful or the kids themselves not being content knowing fully well DAT d more money u acquire legally or illegally d more respect and most times going legit is hard in Nigeria without connection or man know man. Even those DAT are supposed to keep crime in check look the other way sometimes which I don't think exist as much in other climes cos it gives others an incentive to think crime can pay if u HV this or that which shouldn't be. Ppl say on nigerian gals are bad but most of these guys still come from US to marry them Na and d guys DAT marry whites are most times told by parents to do so or pressurized to do so, or feel its easier to get a white gal. I HV been there I could HV dated 10 white gals if I wanted but wen u think half drink or smoke u run or could even cheat at the slightest chance some are good thou but if i find a naija good gal or white good gal which one I go pick Na? . I know some naija gals are money hungry but I realise DAT it is d same everywhere if a gal can't eat wot do u expect d guy does Yahoo ,d gal sells her body to d highest bidder or not. But a lot also don't,even from poor background s and these US based abroad come and carry dem. I say to myself out of all d gals in America u couldn't find 1 and u HV been there 20 years. The same america takes all our talent away and say we are stupid ppl d ones they gave residence permit nko to work their ass off for Americans ain't dey good ones? Yes our leaders are bad very correct , and most of their kids are abroad enjoying the loot of their parents. We know dem Na and some are oblivious to it DAT as nice as their parents are to them they are r killing a lot of ppl back home with their policies and actions. The best thing in Nigeria is just to HV small brain and start lil something prolly hope to grow cos ppl HV made it DAT way and were legit.I HV encountered a white almost beat me up for looking at him coming in my direction my white friend had to fight for me becos it was just for no reason he's like" wot u looking at" u know Na trouble be DAT but I didn't say all whites are racist , did i? My best friend was white self. I HV motivated him several times becos he almost lost it on several occasions but dude saved my life DAT day. So in this life just take everybody as dey come but don't say becos some1 is Nigerian I won't talk to him or white. U never know.

Those condemning the the writer probably exhibits some of those characteristics he described about Nigerians.

God please have mercy on us. A country where when you pick up someones thing and gladly return it to him or her. Your best friend on hearing it will come ranting: you are a fool, mumu, dats why you will never succeed in life,you have just wasted an opportunity to boom. Then you will sort of be in hot dilemma. Society is not helping at all.

Bagehot:
1. I was stopped at a police check-point once, and they held me for expired car registration which only expired the previous week. I begged for mercy, and they asked me to bring 10k; I insisted I only had 1k, the policemen patted me down, and then proceeded to search my car for money. Checked my sun-shields, checked under and in-between the seats -searched my bag . . . all for a bribe.

2. My mechanic is in Anthony, my rewire in Ilupeju, and my A.C man in Ogba. It took me several years to get this scattered crew - not cos each workshop did not have technicians offering all of these services, but cos these people would inflate prices, still do a shitty job, so I can come back to get duped some more. I once went to fix something in my car, and my mechanic called later in the day that my carburetor had packed up and needed a replacement costing 30k; after a lenghty angry argument, my mother intervened for peace sake, and paid from her own pocket 18k to the mechanic to get it sorted. A few months later I was relasting my experience to a frend, and he looked at me puzzled - 'Your car uses an injection system - it does not have a carburettor'.

3. The previous EXCO for my estate was suspected of embezzling estate funds and voted out. The new EXCO inherited 2m, and proceeded to try jacking up estate dues by 100% - their reason, the estate cannot subsist on the previous contributions (that even had enough left over to be embezzled). Apparently, there are people who are friends of EXCO who dont pay dues and are not harassed.

4. A random fellow at work is getting married and sells aso-ebi to folks at work (I decline to buy). People complain the material is inferior (in relation to price), but dude swears on his mother's life that he added nothing on the price. Someone saunters into a shop in Balogun one sunny saturday, and finds the same fabric for 1/3 of the price it was sold to us.

5. I once resigned from a government job I got straight out of school cos everyone there was indolent and only seemed to look forward to how much they would make. I was young, and wanted to use my brain. My relatives berate me as a fool that does not want to make it in life.

6. I know people requesting for cash gifts from relatives to fund jacked up bills at school.

7. If you are not careful, your Uber driver would try to scam you by taking a much longer route.

8. Like clock-work, NCAN announces drug-dealers caught in Asia, and yahoo boys in South Africa - guess their nationality?

9. A number of hard-working Nigerians in America and the U.K are wary of other Nigerians so they don't gt into trouble either law enforcement.

10. The campus cult Bucaneers is steadily growing into a global criminal empire with strong presence in Italy and Spain with known rackets in woemn trafficking and drug smuggling.

11. I have been sold a car with hidden mechanical faults by a d**khead who swears that if he cheated me Ogun should ruin his life and that of his un-born children.

12. I have witnessed a catholic priest embezzling funds from the church bazaar, and heard of big-time pasterprenuers sleeping with church members.

13. We have celebrities always on vacation in Dubai and other lush locations spending money like it is going out of fashion who we all know make it from runs.

14. We have tons of prostitutes (road-side and 'runs' are the same thing) who are respected members of their clans.

. . .

What have you mentioned here that does not happen in Europe and America ?

I cannot agree with her less

Seajae:
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.

this one na see finish,

GavelSlam:


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.

Its not even up to 10,000. Don't kid yourself. Its just like the identification of italians with mafia, or the chinese with kung fu. What's the percentage of chinese are kung fu masters; or what % of italians are associated with mafia? Its all stereotypes. Americans are associated with gun violence. In the early1980s (strange but true), A Nigerian father actually stopped his son from an American university scholarship because "u may be gunned down in New York, I cant risk you".

Because of the author's work on Nigerian Internet fraud, he is inundated with it, he cant see straight anymore. There is a lot wrong with Nigeria and Nigerians, but not worse than other peoples. The country seems worse because of the lack of effective Government to hold people in check. The oyibos are actually very depraved compared to us, but their Government is holding them on a tight leash else they would run a mock and destroy themselves and even the whole world. Think about it, all the corrupt and sordid things of this earth - who initiates and wallows in it? Prostitution (they have even legalized it in some countries), child pornography, child molestation, serial murder, mass murder, genocide, sexual pervertions, drug cartels, ponzi schemes,u name it. This last MMM ponzi fraud sweeping the world, is it also Nigerians?

Nigerians are just learning the ropes, and copying from the masters, just as we try to ape every other thing, good or bad.

The OP is jus indignant that whites are being made a fool of. Only a corrupt and naive fool would fall for the naija 419 scams, by attempting to gain or reap from the black man without sowing or giving back. The 419 works because the whites have gotten used to cheating the African, and now, that susceptibility is being used against them. If they didnt have that mindset of taking advantage of 'dumb' Africans, the 419 scheme wouldnt work.

Its an unfortunate turn of events.

is he lying?

Send this to Saraki and his men in the Nigerian National Assembly. Stealing from people and Government is a way of life in Nigeria.

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!

May God continue to punish you as long as you live. Bastard! you are what the writer describes: an extremely clueless person. my whole life has gone up in smoke because i was cursed to be a Nigerian who insists on remaining virtuous. You have no clue!

mansakhalifa:
@ByTeCuBe Now it is quite obvious who the "mumu" is here. The one who doesn't read carefully before quoting the other. Before you can get the full grasp of what I have written you have to be someone with an IQ higher than 25 and I strongly doubt you meet that very criterion.

Wu giv a Bleep abt ur shit

A VERY BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW, LOTS OF GENERALIZATIONS, BUT HEY...HE IS NOT FAR FROM THE TRUTH....OUR COUNTRY IS MESSED UP


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyr5LWXTRHQ

Amberon:
This guy is not lying at all.

We shouldn't play the"racism card". The op is 100% correct.

We don't have a working system in Nigeria, agreed. But saying 100% of the population are criminals is a truth stretched too far. He's a racist, simple.

KenModi:



These are exactly the excuses that we Nigerians give for our scams and other crimes the writer was talking about.

Instead of owing up to our criminality and corruption, we keep heaping blames on those at Abuja.

Lets continue decieving ourselves

Bro. if you are a criminal. Own up to your ways. why must he confess to what he isn't? You sound smart but your talk is smack.. Are you a criminal?

The dude you quoted agreed that Corruption is rife in Nigeria. He just won't agree that all Nigerians are corrupt. Which is absolutely right.

stealthtiger:

Keep buttressing the point that you're a scumbag

While you should keep massaging your ego

maasoap:

I only have one question for you which you may not even answer: is Nigeria the only country that "inflow of scam money" flow to?

No, it's no news that most internet scams in the world are traced to Nigeria or Nigerians living abroad, yet we are not the most populous country in the world. What say you.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-american-women-targeted-as-malaysia-becomes-internet-scam-haven-us-2014-08

IamaNigerianGuy:


I looked through your prior posts. They are unfortunate. Try to apply knowledge to your statements before you insult a whole nation.

In the USA the tradespeople do not easily cheat you because they have fixed prices and the Better Business Bureau watching them. We dont. It is not they would not if they had the chance. So the fault is systemic not individual.

In Africa and in some other parts of the world, we bargain. In Europe and America bargaining is not part of the culture. You get what you bargain for. Also, you as the customer routinely cheat the tradesman/ woman by paying peanuts. You are prepared to pay a mechanic $500 in the US but you want to pay N800 in Nigeria. How do you expect the person to survive ?

In Europe and America if you use a credit card to buy a product or service, many companies will place you on 'recurrent billing' charging you every month without your knowledge or consent. That is theft but I don't hear you criticizing it. Google Comcast and read stories.

American hospitals bill up to 500 times the cost of a drug and so many Americans run to Mexico to purchase drugs. They markup treatment by a factor of 20 to 100. I guess that's honest.
The American military (Pentagon) has been caught paying $254 for an 18 cent screw. They called it an enhanced metallic fastener ! And $3,000 for a $50 toilet seat.

Please we have many problems but dishonesty is not unique to us.

Well, in that case, you should revisit your first post which drew my attention and correct it.

And also, I will like to know the prior posts you are talking about. Do you mean all of my posts or just a selected few

blackprowler:


May God continue to punish you as long as you live. Bastard! you are what the writer describes: an extremely clueless person. my whole life has gone up in smoke because i was cursed to be a Nigerian who insists on remaining virtuous. You have no clue!

What has he posted that justify this outburst? I didn't get it. Is USA itself that perfect? There is no way someone who has never set his foot in Nigeria would label all the 180 million population as criminals and we the sensible one would agree.
Your whole life could go up in flame, who cares.

Well, I would say 90% of the write up is correct... Most Nigerians don't believe in doing things right... Honesty is not in their dictionaries. But I pray for a positive turn around soon

blueseacats:
There's is a call going around now to ban western union to Nigeria. Every well meaning Nigerian should support this effort until the government finds a way to sanitize the society.

For Nigerians in diaspora they know exactly how to send their loved ones money. But the effort is to curb the inflow of scam money into Nigeria.

For this who does not know how dark Nigeria's name is in the international scene please don't quote me.

I agree with you. Western Union should be banned

Omohjick:


This is really annoying because I'm going through hell with all the ecommerce site too. Once you tell them you're a Nigerian, they ban you ban your IP immediately and some you won't even see Nigeria in their options

You are right, Clickbank and Paypal come to mind.