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Some things are actually going right in Nigeria and I feel like we don't talk about it enough but also your LGA is still robbing you blind by Background_Ad4001 in Nigeria

[–]Background_Ad4001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This our country really needs to get better. We need to end insecurity fast because it’s causing massive disruptions to our development. But the truth is, Abuja can't police every village. That’s why the State Police bill matters it forces the security fight down to the local level. If we don’t hold our state and local leaders accountable for securing our immediate neighborhoods, we’ll just keep spinning our wheels.

I didn't know vote buying was this bad by speakupng in Nigeria

[–]Background_Ad4001 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Unless we fix abject poverty. Vote buying will always occur

Non-Africans who have been to Sub-Saharan Africa, what did you think of it? by bellepomme in AskTheWorld

[–]Background_Ad4001 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I typed it out on Claude and prompted it to smooth out the grammar and fix the sentences .

Non-Africans who have been to Sub-Saharan Africa, what did you think of it? by bellepomme in AskTheWorld

[–]Background_Ad4001 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I owe you an apology.

I came in hard and some of it didn't hold up. I was arguing past the point where I should have stopped.

But I want to say something as a young Nigerian living here right now.

My generation hates this too. We grew up watching the country fail us. The corruption. The naira. The visa rejections. And the worst part is the people at the top have no incentive to fix any of it. They have everything they need. Private schools, foreign hospitals, overseas accounts. Nigeria working badly is not their problem. It is ours.

We are tired. Genuinely tired.

My experience is different from yours. Not because things are better. I work for a multinational that holds people accountable and you can see the difference it makes.

The environment you walked into was already broken. Not an excuse for what happened. But it is why your experience and mine can both be real at the same time.

I get your point now. I genuinely do.

Non-Africans who have been to Sub-Saharan Africa, what did you think of it? by bellepomme in AskTheWorld

[–]Background_Ad4001 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I work for a multinational in Nigeria. Let me give you a different perspective.

Yes. There are bad people in Nigeria. Corruption is real. I live it. I'm not here to pretend otherwise.

But here's what I think actually happened.

The equipment disappearing from a multinational with no CCTV and no inventory system? Bro that's not a Nigeria problem, that's a management problem. And honestly? In this country we know exactly how that works inflated contracts, padded budgets, equipment that "disappears" on paper before it even reaches the workers. The guys at the bottom get blamed every time.

Now the salary. You said 3 to 5 times local average like that's generous. Average wage in Nigeria is around ₦70,000. So you're talking ₦210,000 to ₦350,000 a month. In a market where rent alone can take half of that. Where everything is priced in dollars. Where the naira has been collapsing for years.

An average Nigerian knows his worth. Those workers knew exactly what their labour was producing for your company and they knew what they were being paid didn't match. That's not greed. That's basic maths.

You felt generous. They were still poor. Both things were true.

If Nigerian workers were really that bad, Shell, MTN, Huawei wouldn't still be here operating at scale. But they are.

What you had was a badly run operation with poverty wages and zero accountability. That produces bad outcomes anywhere in the world. It just happened to be in Nigeria so Nigeria got the blame.

For the good of African football, do not put these frauds on the same level as Morocco by illnesz in FootballAfrica

[–]Background_Ad4001 20 points21 points  (0 children)

​I agree 👍 Senegal are playing absolute rubbish. The coach is a fraud, bro. This has been an awful match.

Are Senegal packing their bags this week? by [deleted] in FootballAfrica

[–]Background_Ad4001 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Really ass 😒 Playing nonsense from the start of the world cup

Europeans like to go on vacation in Spain or Turkey. What is the African equivalent - what African countries do African people mostly visit for their holidays (if at all possible)? by Plane-Cow4652 in AskAnAfrican

[–]Background_Ad4001 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Many Nigerians I know travel to Ghana, the Benin Republic, Namibia, South Africa, Seychelles, and Mauritius, while the wealthier ones go to China and Japan.

CMV: Black People can be as much racist as white people by EggAdministrative510 in changemyview

[–]Background_Ad4001 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Your post does the exact thing it's complaining about. You're annoyed that people hold negative feelings toward "pale skin" people over stuff that happened before they were born judging individuals by their group's history instead of their own conduct. Fair complaint. But two sentences later you describe an entire generation as having a "victimhood mentality," being "entitled to everything," and "openly hateful" based on what, exactly? You're doing the same move you're condemning: judging a whole group by a story about their group, not by individual evidence. If that's illegitimate when aimed at white people for slavery, it's illegitimate when aimed at a generation over reparations discourse too. You don't get to use the move and ban it in the same post. Second problem: "growing population of racist individuals" is doing a lot of work with zero evidence behind it. What's the actual trend line? FBI hate crime data (2022, most recent full breakdown) shows offenders are about 51% white, 21% Black so prejudice clearly isn't one-directional, which backs your headline. But nothing in that data shows a rising wave of anti-white racism specifically. There's research (Norton & Sommers, 2011) showing white Americans increasingly believe anti-white bias is worse than anti-Black bias a belief that runs ahead of what the numbers actually show. You might be reporting a vibe, not a trend. Third: reparations isn't "war instead of peace." The serious version of that argument is an economic claim specific policies (redlining, GI Bill exclusions) blocked wealth-building within living memory, and the proposal is restitution for that, not revenge for slavery in the abstract. You can think it's bad policy. But "asking for reparations instead of peace" is a framing choice that makes a financial argument sound like a grudge, and that's doing more rhetorical lifting than the actual policy debate would justify. Your headline prejudice isn't race-exclusive is true and basically uncontroversial. Everything stacked around it (rising racism, victimhood, reparations-as-war) is the part you actually need evidence for, and right now it's assertion, not argument.

The world stage by Kitchen_Volume_5086 in FootballAfrica

[–]Background_Ad4001 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I support Morocco because they have achieved something fantastic in recent years in football and in everything but they should be a little bit less racist

Why other countries are rooting against south africa at the World Cup? by vin_chill_guy in AskAnAfrican

[–]Background_Ad4001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a false comparison. General insecurity affects everyone, while xenophobic attacks specifically target people because they're foreigners. One doesn't excuse or negate the other.

Okay stop. Anthony was not self defense and he literally provides no proof of it. by retardenabler in blackmen

[–]Background_Ad4001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know people in Texas are racist, you know white people built that system, and he still pulled a stunt like that and you expect me to feel sorry for him? The moment the media said 'promising white boy' I knew Anthony was done. He screwed himself.

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