Nigeria is tired of their reputation as cheaters and cons, so they've decided they need to rebrand themselves ... The slogan, "Nigeria, Good People, Great Country" ...


http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-18-voa24.cfm
http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2009031839042

3/19/2009 5:11:40 PM

That's going to be a hard sell.

3/19/2009 8:15:04 PM

This will end well.

3/19/2009 8:33:34 PM

shouldve posted this in chit chat for the rednecks

3/19/2009 8:47:33 PM

They should make an even better corporate marketing move and completely change their name.

3/19/2009 11:52:27 PM

HELLO

I AM A NIGERIAN MARKETER

I JUST CAME UP WITH MY COUNTRIES NEW SLOWGAN

THE GOVORNMENT WANTS TO PAY ME 21 MILLION DOLLARS

BUT NONE OF OUR BANKS WILL CASH A GOVORNMENT CHECK FOR THAT MUCH

IF YOU WILL GRANT ME THE PERMISSION TO DEPOSIT TO YOUR BANK

I WILL LET YOU KEEP TEN PERCENTAGES OF THE MONEY

3/20/2009 2:46:48 AM

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" Many Nigerians feel their country is unfairly maligned because of the criminal activities of a few hundred thousand citizens. "

I fixed it for them.

Maybe they could spend that money on cracking down on scammers instead of trying to rebrand their country.

3/20/2009 7:06:27 AM

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"They should make an even better corporate marketing move and completely change their name."

lol true.

3/20/2009 7:57:38 AM

I have to ask, what does the middle east think of the US in this sense?

3/20/2009 8:35:07 AM

As one Nigerian once told me, their nation is probably one of the best educated on the continent. Unfortunately, their economy pretty much imploded back in the 1960s and 1970s thanks to the endless string of corrupt dictatorships. With no jobs, all the smart and educated people survived as corrupt officials and con artists. I guess old habits die hard. Its a shame though because Nigeria has the raw potential to be a major global player.

3/20/2009 11:03:06 AM

Africa has a LOT of countries, but awareness of Nigeria is high. Generally, out of african nations they are:

1. In a bloody civil war requiring international pressure, so we hear about it
2. Have just plain dismal conditions but don't make news so we never hear about it
3. Actually made progress towards developing and then got held back by politicians, etc. so we hear about how messed up it is

I see Nigeria as in the last category with Zimbabwe. At least at a time in the past the country apparently had a bright future, and i'm sure even now would score much higher on development indexes than most African nations, but for something that once had a bright future it sure is messed up right now

3/20/2009 11:12:18 AM

they should just run clips of christian okoye running over people

3/20/2009 12:18:46 PM

We like pits for pets
We got giants and jets, the knicks, yanks and mets
We like much respect and 53x extra wet
And high-tech dialect you ain’t catch yet

3/20/2009 4:15:11 PM

are those baboons?!

3/20/2009 4:24:27 PM

Hyenas as well

3/20/2009 5:25:35 PM

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/13/2000-people-slaughtered-in-baga-and-the-media-doesnt-care/

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"http://In the Nigerian town of Baga, bordering on Chad, the Islamic group of Boko Haram killed as many as 2,000 civilians this past weekend, most of whom were women, children and the elderly."

(The "Let's invade Nigeria" thread was locked

1/16/2015 12:47:33 PM

^ who cares, 12 white people died at the same time, that's 2000/12 times more important.

1/16/2015 9:07:18 PM

^ you do the exact same shit...always posting about white people being raped here in the USA instead of far higher numbers of non-white people being raped elsewhere

1/16/2015 9:43:12 PM

That's a ridiculous thing to post. Non-whites aren't people.

1/17/2015 12:13:43 AM

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"^ you do the exact same shit...always posting about white people being raped here in the USA instead of far higher numbers of non-white people being raped elsewhere "

yep.

1/17/2015 10:06:56 AM

It is not the rapes I point out... beasts are everywhere.

I point out the rape cover-up culture in US universities and small US towns, with complicity going all the way to the top involving mayors, sheriffs, and police. Third world countries don't pretend to be just, or defenders of human rights, but the US does.

1/17/2015 12:43:22 PM

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" Third world countries don't pretend to be just, or defenders of human rights"

Lulz, GTFO

1/17/2015 3:25:34 PM

^ wow, I am convinced!

1/17/2015 4:52:44 PM

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"Third world countries don't pretend to be just, or defenders of human rights, but the US does."

Oh so that's your excuse. Got it.

1/17/2015 6:22:07 PM

Do you seriously think every regime that is murdering people isn't claiming they're doing so for just reasons? Hell, even Khmer Rouge claimed they were working for the betterment of mankind.

1/17/2015 6:55:38 PM

I wonder if this is the same brilliant public affairs team that Goodluck Jonathan hired right after the mass kidnapping of those girls. Or the geniuses who decided to try to make his campaign slogan #bringbackgoodluck.

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" Unfortunately, their economy pretty much imploded back in the 1960s and 1970s thanks to the endless string of corrupt dictatorships. With no jobs, all the smart and educated people survived as corrupt officials and con artists."

This is pretty much every country in Africa. The private sector here doesn't have too much demand for brains or college degrees. The home-grown African firms in Benin are limited to a couple of banks and cell-service providers. International firms here are rare, and rarely interested in hiring locals for anything above custodian duty. That only leaves you a few options. You can leave Africa, which the creme de la creme often do and which the layer right below them would do if they could. You can work for one of the international aid agencies crawling all over your country. The corruption levels here range from "You can set up your buddy with a sweet rabbit farm" to "the entire organization is just a sponge for grant money."

Or you can work for the government, which is invariably huge, sprawling, and rotten to the core. There's a reason why Africa is urbanizing at such an astonishing rate -- all moneymaking opportunities are concentrated around the central government. It's a process that started at independence, when the tiny cadre of educated (or maybe not so educated) people who were handed the reins of government then needed to start doling out all the jobs that come with a national bureaucracy.

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" At least at a time in the past the country apparently had a bright future, and i'm sure even now would score much higher on development indexes than most African nations"

I'm not sure about all this. Right after independence Nigeria underwent some border changes that led to a perceived imbalance in influence between the north and south, which led to the first in a series of coups a couple of years later, followed promptly by a civil war in which 1-3 million people died. Then it spent 30 years under military rule and emerged in 1999 with a teetering democracy based on the principle that the presidency would alternate between north and south, an unwritten rule that Goodluck Jonathan promptly violated, which did a lot to inspire the anger of Boko Haram.

Meanwhile, Nigeria has a lower life expectancy than Benin (!), is one of three countries to still have polio, is grossly overpopulated, and has an extremely young population for whom there are no jobs.

In short, I don't think Nigeria's future ever looked that bright (or if it did, there was some naive optimism involved), and its numbers aren't looking that good right now. Finding oil probably caused a glimmer of hope, but Nigeria was doomed the second it happened.

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Nigeria's fucked for all of those reasons, and one more: they don't like each other. I've lived pretty near the Nigerian border since June 2012, and met a lot of Nigerians. The conversation almost invariably follows the same track and generally ends with a request that I ask America for support for their side in a civil war.

1/20/2015 3:37:19 AM

Damn



http://mic.com/articles/108512/satellite-images-reveal-the-disturbing-scale-of-boko-haram-s-latest-bloody-attack

1/26/2015 2:51:31 AM

how Boko Haram became even more radical
http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-terrorists-katie-couric-explains-224614039.html

4/17/2015 9:47:32 AM

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40704569

Letter from Africa: Freed Boko Haram 'wives' return to captors



Complete FUBAR and SNAFU.

7/26/2017 3:35:22 PM