I have said it before and will continue to say it, Nigeria’s enemies don’t need to do much to destroy our reputation: we (Nigerians) will do the rest for them.

Must everyone who calls himself/herself a blogger use the free platform provided by Google (Blogger) to propagate insults against Nigeria?

The other day when Ann Coulter insulted Nigeria publicity seeking bloggers were quick to propagate her insults against the country we call ‘ours’.

Now some shameless hacks who have gathered themselves together to publish an online version of a ‘rag’ called radaronline.com have joined the gang of attention seekers who throw cheap shots at Nigeria knowing very well that gossip peddlers like themselves operating within Nigeria’s cyberspace will use blogger to propagate their story.

There are over fifty million Nigerians connected to the Internet; over two million Facebook accounts belonging to Nigerians and well over a million Twitter accounts.

Nairaland.com alone receives millions of hits every single day.

The more Nigerians that share a link from a website on Facebook or retweet the link the higher the website will rank on search engines. I don’t have to explain what happens when a website ranks high on search engines.

This is the trick: “If you want your website to rank high on search engines insult Nigeria or Nigerians and they will help you spread the insult”.

Unfortunately, we fall for the trick always.

Listen: There are facts and there are opinions. All the tragic accidents, terrorist attacks and corrupt practices in Nigeria are facts that should be reported. They are actually happening even if they are negative and giving Nigeria a bad name. Covering them up will not help us deal with them properly.

However, when losers like Ted Cruz, Ann Coulter and online ‘rags’ like radaroline.com make negative comments about Nigeria they are simply expressing their racist, xenophobic and ignorant opinions about Nigeria. IT’S NOT NEWS AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO HELP THEM PROPAGATE IT!!!!!

In their recent publication, radaronline.com could not even get a simple fact right. The online ‘rag’ referred to ‘Nigerian 411 scams’. Not that we are proud of the label but it’s ‘419’ not ‘411’.

Like I said, it’s not as if we are proud of the ‘419’ label but the least an online ‘rag’ could do if they want to insult a country of over a hundred million citizens is get their facts right!

There is no shortage of negative opinions about the US and UK coming from countries like Iran and China but American and British journalists would simply not publish them.

Look, the internet is free for anybody to express their opinions but when a negative opinion about our country is expressed it not our job to help spread it. Journalists and bloggers from civilized countries don’t do that.

It smirks of desperation, desperation to be the first to spread a gossip.



- See more at: http://www.urnaija.com/re-radaronline-comments-about-mariah-careys-performance-in-nigeria/