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Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by dbaruwa(m): 4:29pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Vixlot: It so unfortunate that even uptill now, we youths are yet to realize how badly damaged our image is among comity of nations. We are being avoided more than covid-19 around the world. The earlier we wake up and stand for what is right the better for us. Let's not heap all the blame on the leaders. The question should be "what have I done as an individual in my own little to better the image of Nigeria" 5 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by MUTERIKA(m): 4:30pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Vixlot:Nigeria may be all bad and gloomy but when you finally man up and tour it, you will see wonders. Take for example, Kogi state, the state capital precisely. Go to Lokongoma market and see petty traders leaving their wares outside overnight, go to the foot of Mount Patti on a Saturday and see cars and motorcycles parked while the owners are way up on the Mountain. You can't use the attitude of a single person to judge a whole. I can categorically tell you that many including myself would have done same. Don't use your prejudiced notion about Nigeria and Nigerians to paint a picture that is mostly unreal. Thanks. 3 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Glaswegian: 4:30pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
There are many Nigerians that will do this too. |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Moneyboyz: 4:30pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
I see people talking about yahoo boy crimes etc. No one will engage in yahoo if there are jobs, many have ideas that can bring in millions but without financial backings, the banks will not borrow a NOBODY with ideas money, But the government can support. Many have dropped out of school because there are no financial backings, whatever happened to student loan that the government cannot provide. Also the issue of poor currency, we import everything which makes things worse, the 18 thousand minimum wage won't help anyone's situation now that a dollar is 450+ naira. If a dollar is around 10 naira below, no one will waste tangible amount of their time savaging for $100 chicken change cause by the time they bring it home it will amount to nothing. Ogun state has quite a large amount of manufacturing companies and none is government owned except for ewekoro which I'm sure is under private supervision. Workers are being maltreated in their own countries yet our black cow brain leaders and the labor union have done nothing about it. Hunger and the reality that no future awaits if you do nothing in the country drives people to do crazy things. I'm in no way encouraging crime, I'm just saying if resources are available for everyone, things will get better. 6 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Excuses: 4:30pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Igbochief001: You can see why your always getting it wrong..ba! People like you want every body to trust them..twisted misconceptions.. 4 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by MARKone(m): 4:30pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Opexzy: Nah, Nigerians are criminally minded. That is why Red flags are raised when you introduce yourself as a Nigerian in a foreign land, locally same thing, everyone is a suspect. Your narration, is not complete, did you see the phone repairer again, because that guy that confidently drop his phone, might as well have set the phone repairer up, you see Nigerians ehen, you need to be extra careful 2 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by proclinician: 4:30pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Truth is you met a good person there. I for one will do the same thing if I am asked to here in Nigeria. But receiving this level of gesture in both countries, the odds are against you in Nigeria. I use how I bought my car to know how it is with Nigerians. Most of he car dealers I met were just dubious and looking for who to swindle. As God will have it, I met a dealer that gave me more than I budgeted. His actions throughout the transaction proved there are good men. He told me this spare tire appears to have expired and so he will deduct some money from our agreed price so I can get a new spare tire. Most Nigerians are looking for opportunity to steal and deceive. If u open up to a total stranger about this kind of condition, first he will take this car to an unknown place and chill first to wait if any tension will arise, then off he goes to sell it. 5 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by paul100(m): 4:31pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Thank God,you had a good experience but that does not mean all citizen of Zimbabwe are like that.You were just lucky to meet a good citizen. Every country on this planet Earth has good and bad people.Even our country,Nigeria has good and bad person.The only difference between our country and other countries is that bad people in our country surpass the no of good people. So those people outside Nigeria have been filled to the brim with bad news about Nigeria.I don't really blame them 1 Like |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Nobody: 4:31pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Excuses:Don't trust me Oga I won't trust u .... |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by TheArchangel(f): 4:32pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
nanauju:causes serious breakouts. Any remedy for the face? |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Cti28(m): 4:32pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
hisgrace090:Sorry, it is not our original lifestyle. If that is your original life style, bad for you. Stop defending and exalting evil. How do you expect us to make progress as a Nation, when we still cling so tenaciously to crime and evil, while expecting the ruling elites to change? 3 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by sulaak(m): 4:32pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Vixlot: That's why the White's want to take back the countries, the country is clean and organised, you hardly find a shanty town in Zimbabwe. This is a country that has 90% literacy rate. Poverty is not the root cause of corruption and criminality, it's culture. 5 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Nobody: 4:32pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Are the Zimbabweans stealing and vandalising government property in South Africa from another planet? And an Airport guard was surprised he didn't find drugs on you as a Nigerian? Did he find drugs in all Nigerians or even up to 20% of Nigerians he has encountered on that route? If the answer is no, you and that airport security are mad. What an insensible post. 1 Like |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Euegene100001: 4:33pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Indeed they do ZACHIE: |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by smallsmall: 4:34pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
author= Samkay]Though, I didn't know the Jack and there was no way of tracing him except by his work ID which was not verified, my mind was at rest that he will hand over the car to the car hire. I trusted him because he's a Zimbabwean. He may be extremely poor and hungry, I know he's contented. The funny thing, even as you claim you trust the guy because he is a Zimbabwean, is that you dont trust yourself and you are actually lying that you trusted him otherwise, WHY WOULD YOU STILL TAKE A SNAP OF HIS I.D CARD, WHICH CONTAINS HIS NAME AN HIS PICTURE... You are seeing him, he was not expecting your encounter and the Car will most like have a Tracker installed, so you are certain that the picture on the I.D Card is him and his I.D is genuine and he can be traced) Please, stop this self-denigrating behaviour about Nigerians, though we have our trust issues to deal with or was it not the same Zimbabwe that Mugabe came from or is it that his crook wife called Grace that is trustworthy? 1 Like |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by SmartPolician: 4:34pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Vixlot Stop wasting your time Nigeria is damaged beyond repair |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Nobody: 4:34pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
It is because of something called CAR TRACKER...... ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Mikeiron78(m): 4:35pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
The ops sounds and looks like a fool. What's the irony of that stupid story? |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by uvie66: 4:35pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
hisgrace090:I concur.. just like we've corrupted the minds of most west African states...we try to chest in everything...exam, job allocation etc etc |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by 27Pushing30: 4:35pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Stalwert: During my school days i remember visiting some coursemates in the on campus hostel after class. My guy even in the university ... STUDENTS steal from each other , that’s how bad our moral fabric is. Fear no fit allow person hang cloth outside go inside go pick beans rotfl especially during exams/winding up of semesters. Most African currencies (even landlocked countries) better ours because we have this taste for glitter. That’s our problem now the northerners who hitherto were seen as content” have allegedly now started carrying gun and kidnapping (herdsmen) 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Nicepoker(m): 4:36pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Just say you didn't fall into wrong hands. The world is filled with the good, bad and the ugly. |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Segunsimple: 4:36pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Really two wrongs cannot make a right. If our leaders aren't showing good examples, we the citizens can summon courage to allow our consciences guide our actions. After all, everybody will be responsible for his/her actions before the judgement throne of God. |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Pavillon: 4:36pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
seunny4lif:lool you see, when you are talking about stricts and crazy armed forces in w/Africa, dont even talk about Francophone countries, esp if you dont understand French again, d speed at which dy will determine your case ehen 2 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Athemisia: 4:37pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
robinso01:funny enough some see it as being smart... smh 1 Like |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by tenderjunkie: 4:37pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Vixlot:The man who holds the key to heaven's gate will not be happy with this development |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Nobody: 4:37pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
This OP is stupid.. You went to Zimbabwe and met one good man instead of u to thank ur stars u came on here to generalize that Nigerians are all criminals ![]() |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Nobody: 4:38pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
The average Nigerian has a poverty mindset and this mindset can lead you to do very inhuman and dishonest things. It has little to do with government. 1 Like |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by lograr(m): 4:38pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Stalwert: hmmm. I read that too 2 Likes |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by showafrica(m): 4:38pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Vixlot: Nigeria is irredeemable, the British experiment didn't work. People value there integrity in their ethnicity, Nigeria is just a company, nobody cares. |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Don1985: 4:38pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Vixlot:Wow there are still some good people in this world...sir, did you got your zimbabwe visa online or at the embassy, or visa on arrival? |
Re: Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe. by Goalnaldo(m): 4:39pm On Aug 18, 2020 |
Opexzy:how is this your story more convincing than the op's own? The man in the op's story was traveling to another country entirely with possibility of not coming back again. 1 Like |
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