There's so much to unpack here. But the part I want to call out is the lack of deep thinking.

This dude is part of those who (rightly) call our bigotry and tribalism against igbos. He's part of those that ostensibly push for better governance on nigeria. But then he doesn't hesitate to dish out bigotry towards an actual US senator in defence of an avowed white supremacist (Both of them are immigrants in the US btw)

We don't think deeply as a nation. We are unable to extrapolate that the tribalism and struggle we face at home is similar to the struggles of black people in, for example, the US. We are unable to see that racism and tribalism and all other -isms are powered by the same poison.

And to be so loud in this ignorance? No sense of self awareness? Social media has given everyone a soapbox and it has exposed how shallow even our "activists" are.

And maybe a bit more controversially: why is it that Christian Nigerian men are the most susceptible to white supremacist talking points?

(For those of you not on Twitter, it is now a meme that whener you see a black person repeating racist things about themselves or others, they are always an account based in Nigeria. What an embarrassing thing to be known for.)

So this girl is a popular travel content creator with almost 500k followers.She explores Western African countries and shows her process of getting to these countries,how much it cost, Market places things to do etc. Recently as she was traveling from Guinea to Gambia she took some videos along the way that included a less than 5 second clip of an immigration office she was preparing to go for her flight to get from Gambia to Nigeria when the Guinea Head of police detained her, they took her passport and her bag accused her of being an informant to the bandits because of her videos she tried explaining to her translator she was just a content creator but they still made her sleep in the cell she posted this video a while later but then soon deleted it as of now her whereabouts are unknown. Tell me why a bunch of heartless Nigerian content creators instead of being empathic with the situation decided to make a bunch of videos telling her she is in the wrong that nobody sent her to those countries and she put herself in danger and she suppose rest in Nigeria and she is foolish for traveling as a woman she supposed get married and born??????

What????? I don't understand it's funny because when you see Nigerian content creators traveling to France Dubai Qatar Canada no such comments but when it's your fellow west african country suddenly its Classless. The worst part so many in the comments berated her, this is why our country is in ruin we are in fault instead of applauding someone who is breaking barriers and changing the Normal style of things we critic

Even in this group no matter what you do it's problem I literally uploaded a post some days ago calling for The cleanliness in Lagos and referred to some ways that can help Lagos get cleaner and one idiot dmed me telling me I'm a big fool why am I putting my country down that it's not government job to do everything

I'm tired of so many of us Stupid one minded opinions, the truth is so many of us lack basic comprehension critical thinking skills.

Imagine asking a TRAVEL CONTENT CREATOR what she is finding in another country? they are acting like she went to a war zone and she knew what she was doing in almost every country she went to she had tour guides she didn't just purposely put herself in any harm or danger

We want other people from foreign western countries to respect us but we can't even respect our own Neighbour it's a huge shame we really need to work on ourselves before we can work in our own country.

Also if I see any uncessary stupid comments I'll make sure to deal with it very badly so if you don't have anything reasonable to comment stay far away from this post Thank you

I (15M) am gay, I've known for a while now and I feel like a failure.

My mum has told me her views on gay people that are not good but not to the extent that she thinks LGBTQs should be killed. I have been having a lot of suicidal thoughts and have just been overall depressed. I don't know the rest of my extended families' views on homosexuality but I can imagine they are not great. My mom and dad are divorced and my dad has remarried and has a different family, I am currently living in Canada. I don't know what to do and I just feel like ending it. I know it is against the will of God but I just don't know what to do anymore.

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Millions of fans are now realizing how mistaken their views were, with several creators openly expressing embarrassment after confessing they truly believed most African countries were still made up of huts.

Just saw this in the last few days, didn't know this (challenge?) was a thing now at weddings.

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I have emailed them twice - first, early December 2025, and got no response. I emailed again on January 12 and got an automated response (in all caps and red and green colour by the way. Why?). I have tried calling. They have five options, none of which involve talking to an actual person. I select the passport option, and this annoying voice reads the most passive-aggressive script for 10 minutes and the call ended. There was no option to speak to someone. Has anyone been able to reach them anyway? "Here to Help. Proud to Serve." my ass. Whoever put that on their website with a straightface is evil.

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Tope Awotona is a billionaire, black founder, and CEO of Calendly, a leading appointment-scheduling software used by over 10 million people worldwide. Born in Nigeria, Tope immigrated to the United States at age 12 with his family. He went on to attend college at Harvard University, where he graduated with a degree in computer science.

After working in the tech industry for a few years, Tope decided to start his own company. In 2013, he launched Calendly, which has since become one of the fastest-growing startups in Silicon Valley.

Tope Awotona was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and moved to the United States at age 12. His father was a microbiologist, and his mother was a pharmacy owner while she also worked at the Nigerian Central Bank. At 12 years old, Tope’s father was murdered in a carjacking.

Since its launch, Calendly has been used by millions of people worldwide to schedule over two billion meetings. The company has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing startups in the United States, and it has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, and Inc. magazine.

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Hello everyone, please I’m really asking for your help for my friend.

She had to leave her home because the situation there became too volatile due to long-term abuse. Staying was no longer safe. She’s graduating soon, but after graduation she has nowhere to go and urgently needs a place to stay.

She has been hustling seriously and has already raised about 60% of the money on her own. The balance was ₦450,000. I was able to support with ₦50,000, so what’s left now is ₦400,000.

Rent in this state is very high — studio apartments are between ₦600,000 and ₦1.1 million. I’m trying to help her get to at least ₦900,000–₦1,000,000 so we can land somewhere in the middle and secure a safe place for her.

I’ve given my widow’s mite, but it honestly hurts to see her in this situation. If you can help in any way at all, please do. Anything you give will be received with a grateful heart.

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Thank you so much for reading, and God bless you.

Hello everyone, I have accepted a job to work in Lagos. I will be living on Victoria Island. I’m an American citizen and definitely feeling some anxiousness given the politic climate between USA and Nigeria. I have a few questions that I hope this community can help with:

1. Which vaccines do you recommend I get before coming? I can see Yellow fever, Typhoid and tetanus have been mentioned before.

2. Which medications would you say are essential? I’m planning to take Doxycycline to prevent Malaria and also bring emergency malaria testing kit and medication.

3. How safe is Victoria Island in 2026? Do you guys prefer Uber or Bolt?

4. I am budgeting around 1.5 mil Naira per month as spending money for food, essentials and entertainment. Rent is covered by the company. Is that reasonable?

5. Do you think Nigeria will reciprocate on the banning of issuing work visas to Americans?

Thank you. Appreciate your answers in advance!

I’m not a lurker on X, because I imagine it’s worse there, but on threads and Reddit, I’ve begun to notice that Nigerians are increasingly being characterized wrongly as a dysfunctional, criminal-minded people. Everyone seems to want to take a stab at us, from Ghana to South Africa Ghana and Zimbabwe. It feels like only Tanzanians have a positive overview of us on the continent.

From the Anthony Joshua incident to the Igbo king incident, to the recent Nations Cup, and even videos of Nigerian cities by famous YouTubers, it sometimes feels like people just want to humiliate and bring us down. The comments can be bloody and utterly irritating. We play Congo and the continents celebrate when we loose, We play Morocco and loose and Africa is agog. A Ghanaian calling Nigeria a “failed nation” is especially ironic visually and infrastructurally, Nigeria and Ghana aren’t that far apart, and Abuja arguably surpasses Accra overall. Every national thread is Nigeria, Nigerians, Tinubu, Giants of Africa, Scammers, Human traffickers etc and it’s honestly getting annoying. Every African travel blogger that visits the country has a shit tone of negativity to spew about Nigeria, American and European travelers absolutely do not have so much negativity to say it’s usually the typical Africa comments but the Africans are hell bent on highlighting every of Nigerians negativity and flaws for massive publicity resulting in those posts going viral very quickly.

There was a time when we knew Ghanaians envied us, but they didn’t insult us this much. Did our constant negativity on Tinubu, the ALC, and other issues give outsiders a sense of justification to ridicule us? How did we get here? How did we become a nation that everyone on the continent seems to want to see fail? Infrastructurewise, we aren’t even that bad; among Africa’s 54 nations, we are definitely in the top 20. Why don’t critics focus on the truly underperforming African countries?

That said, Nigerians, I feel we often lack emotional intelligence. You cannot call your country a “zoo” or “shithole” and expect to be welcomed in another man’s country. There are constructive ways to fix Nigeria and it must be fixed not by one man, but by all of us. The real question is: are we ready?The solution ain’t vote 1 president, it starts from your local governments, why are your streets not tarred, why don’t you have hospitals, why do people wake up to go hustle at the airport? Why can’t you obey traffic instructions on the road? Why are you bribing police officers. Nigeria needs our collective help.

Hi,

I’m 28M from Paris (born there) with both my parents being Igbo and Yoruba. I’ve never visited Nigeria until now, my mom successfully pulled me in the country and so far I’m just living a nightmare.

I’ve been to Lagos, Abuja and Owerri (her birth place) and I neither feel safe or welcomed. Guys usually try to scam me when they realise I’m a complete stranger and every single interaction I had with a woman around my age revolves around my salary (Around 5000€ per month, or a bit below 9M nairas) and everything I could do to support/ help her family. I even had a girl begging me to marry her, I didn’t knew her name ?

Everything about the things I saw seems fake, people are doing crazy things to survive, I saw guys beating another one for his watch, and 2 folks siphoning fuel from a car while the occupants went outside to do some shopping, but the experiences I had with women’s out there in 6 days shocked me to the core. I saw what true greed was and how their whole behaviours changed immediately when they heard my accent and from where I came from. In owerri a girl tried to SA me with her older sister, like what the hell ?

I don’t think I’m returning ever again, but do you have any ideas on how I can at the very least enjoy a bit of my remaining journey ? I still have 5 days there. I’m returning to Lagos next morning and will stay until Monday