Our Image is that bad out there. They kept mentioning internet scam and the likes. Do you think the tech ecosystem in Nigeria has a role to play so as to overturn this? http://www.nairaland.com/2335543/what-foreigners-think-nigerias-fuel
We are indeed a strange people. Here, we are supposed to be united in grief and call out our leaders with one voice. Instead, we are engaging in fights on social media and everyone wants to be seen as right for an opinion they held in the past. A strange people we are indeed.
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But @Xolubi, dont you think it is time to let the whole world know the reasons why our young people have been like this over the last two decades? We never started like this and it was never in the blood of any young Nigerian to do scam online or engage in fraudulent practices.
Sincerely this is not funny and its no fault of the people, but of those who think they can use military might and stolen oil wealth (which is supposed to be a commonwealth of the people) to keep trashing down the poor and voiceless in this Nation. Our political rulers (Not Leaders) have been blind to life-changing and value adding economic policies in the past and this is sadly painful.
Because of frustration and joblessness see what is now happening in EDO STATE, EKITI, NIGER DELTA, BOURNO, LAGOS (Imagine the last Lekki Bank robbery) etc. If we want the world out there to keep seeing the good in us, then our new government must be given all the support- (Because, these progressives have proven that they can handle the economy better). We have young Nigerians out there representing the Nation better. But here youths suffer unjustly.
The current crop of rulers will relish the past and tell us stories of how they easily get a VolkWagen Beetle Car each after graduation from high school and how the NYSC uniforms was a unique symbol of respect, hardwork, victory, knowledge and freedom, but what did they do to us coming behind? They burnt the bridges! God help us.
I think the solution to this should first come from our families. If the immediate families of these so called scammers started on time to make it clear to their kids that its a genuine life or nothing! Then the level of online scamming would be reduced. The parents are meant to be asking the right questions.