Originally Posted by Palamedes 
I believe that as long as Nigerian refuses to look inward to identify our problems and solve them, it is suicidal to fight the bad press and negativity shown by outsiders towards our beloved country. We should invest our time and resources in the improvement of our well being. If we succeed, the rest of the world will come round to respect and envy us. What the world respects is money, power, economic and technological achievements. No amount of marketing will attract any tenant to a house built next to raw sewage.
That is the koko of the matter as far as I am concerned! O se jare (thank you).
We can scream Oprah all we want or blame the white man (CNN, abc, etc) but lets face facts, if we don’t give them anything to talk about there won't be any finger pointing.
Palamedes has hit the nail on its ugly head.
I saw the Oprah show (I've it on tivo for anyone that wants a copy
) and for me what stood out was the number of postal mails (not emails) that are sent from Nigeria to the US daily. The US postal service intercepts these mails. Why is Nigerian government not doing the same on their end? That is one way to help out no? Oops I forgot we don't have reliable postal system. And the wahala continues. Minus those annoying unknown phone calls I get from Nigeria that are really fax calls! Shio! We have all been victims jare. No one is denying that the Mugus were not greedy but how is that solving anything? Let’s fish out the scammers. Let’s come together and eradicate YAHOOZEE!
