Tribalism is seen my most people as a way to stick together to your community or state. This term or action by individuals have never in the history of the world worked any good.

Nigeria is a country with diverse cultures and traditions, we are blessed to have different religions and regions which can equally turn out to be for a greater good of all via tourism and education.

However, instead of Nigeria utilizing the great opportunity layed down for them, the opt to curse one another, and this is more prevalent in social media platforms, which I can say Nairaland Forum has the highest rate of tribalistic hate and hateful comments.

What is their moderators doing about this? As a platform with international recognition and a national signature of Nigeria to the outside world, the biggest forum in Africa. I think by their standards, they should have set a greater pace for the good of Nigeria. Look at what is happening to Facebook at the moment, even though you are responsible for your posts there, the UN has asked Facebook to fight against fake news and hate speech. Why can't Nairaland do the same or are they waiting till it gets out of hand? Isn't it already on a scary high rise.

I am an Igbo myself, but I have hausa friends and Yoruba friends here in my state from childhood even in my professional endeavor. I only came to know and understand the bizarre terms of "Igbo" "afonja" and a host of others. Tribalism isn't the way forward, and if it is being incited by our politicians whose family members are outside the country. Then we all must be stupid in doing there bidding and nairaland who even have a rule against it and isn't even doing a thing about it is incompetent..

Drop your ideas on how we can combat this..

No mind them..you can't post on a Muslim thread. But Muslims can post on Christian thread..

It's ok.

Oga keep quiet, if you want to fight tribalism I think Aso rock is the best place for you, where Buhari asked world bank to focuse on the north, how many of his minister or high people in power are from the east or south, name one of his investment in the south east, how many operation pyton dance has been launched oh his fellow Fulani herdsmen tribe, don't tell me that you're not in nigeria all this while

GODWINLOWSKI:
Oga keep quiet, if you want to fight tribalism I think Aso rock is the best place for you, where Buhari asked world bank to focuse on the north, how many of his minister or high people in power are from the east or south, name one of his investment in the south east, how many operation pyton dance has been launched oh his fellow Fulani herdsmen tribe, don't tell me that you're not in nigeria all this while

Tribalism will soon finish us if we do the 'an eye for an eye' solution. You can correct it if you have the power, too bad you don't, but one thing you can do is create a loving place for yourself and others, manners maketh man, and charity begins at home not at the top. You wanna have a better country, go and love your family and neighbors.

GODWINLOWSKI:
Oga keep quiet, if you want to fight tribalism I think Aso rock is the best place for you, where Buhari asked world bank to focuse on the north, how many of his minister or high people in power are from the east or south, name one of his investment in the south east, how many operation pyton dance has been launched oh his fellow Fulani herdsmen tribe, don't tell me that you're not in nigeria all this while

Sir, I have been in Nigeria, in fact I was in Abia state at the heat of python dance and experienced it full time. But I can't fault those soldiers because they're from other tribe or my tribe. I only fault the government which even people from South East are part of.. No village doesn't have a bad person, no family doesn't have a good person.. But that doesn't make them all bad.
Let us forget tribalism and move forward. Nairaland should act on the tribalistic hateful comments to stop its viral spread.

SenorFax:

Tribalism will soon finish us if we do the 'an eye for an eye' solution. You can correct it if you have the power, too bad you don't, but one thing you can do is create a loving place for yourself and others, manners maketh man, and charity begins at home not at the top. You wanna have a better country, go and love your family and neighbors.

Seriously, you're right. In fact at the time of writing this comment, I am in a bus now and two Igbo men are currently helping an hausa man whose onion bag wants to fall off from the bus. If they were tribalistic, I think this hausa man would have lost thousands of naira today.. He was just saying thanks and smiling.. Isn't that the Nigeria we want?