Nigeria is the most popular African nation by far and its foreign citizens are amongst
the most successful. All over the world, from the Americas to Europe, from Asia to Australia,
there is simply no continent on earth where you wouldn’t find Nigerians. It is even often said
that if you look beneath any rock at any corner on earth, there you’ll find at least one Nigerian.
Nigerians don’t just live in these places,
they thrive. Often touted as Nigeria’s most valued export are its citizens whom
are scattered throughout the world in every nook and cranny of this planet, making their
mark and making their homeland proud as well as admittedly bringing disgrace on a few occasions.
However, to fully understand the reason behind Nigerians in the diaspora’s wild success,
it’s important to understand the three basic categories of Nigerians
and I’m sure many Nigerians will relate well to this.
By the way, I’m talking about the good, the bad and the outrageous categories of Nigerians.
Let us start with the good Nigerians. Good Nigerians can be characterized by their
genuine God-Fearing demeanor, they are either genuinely God fearing or deeply religious. These
Nigerians uphold rules and are generally ethical in conduct. To put things into perspective, these
are not Nigerian autocrats or high society. They are normal everyday Nigerians who simply loathe
the indiscriminate, mindless elitist mindset that is responsible for Nigeria’s misdemeanor abroad.
These people are your dream chasers who want nothing more but to contribute to
the society they’re in. But as you’ll soon find out, when it comes to Nigeria
and its citizens there’s a huge discrepancy between the different classes of society.
Without further ado let’s move on to the bad Nigerians.
The bad Nigerians can be considered the opposite of the good ones. Most of them are the wealthier
elite and don’t really mind bending the rules to their advantage. Their conscience is lax
and they have no compulsiveness for being polite. They are simply the epitome of self-centeredness
and they don’t really care how they are viewed or seen in society as long as they can maintain
their status. This class of Nigerians is everything that is wrong with Nigeria today.
Now, let us look at the outrageous Nigerians.
The outrageous are grouped into two other classes, the outrageously good and the outrageously bad.
Don’t be fooled by anyone if the Nigerians in your country come off as territorial and
impulsive. They probably are, as most Nigerians who won’t cause you any problems don’ t even leave
the homeland while the impulsive self-absorbed ones are infiltrating every continent on earth.
Now that we’ve classified the different types of Nigerians,
let’s now get into the nitty gritty of why Nigerians abroad are able to seamlessly
succeed and leave the country’s citizens in awe at their dexterity and business aptitude.
To do this we shall further divide Nigerians abroad into three fundamental classes.
1. The grateful and progressive. As the case would be, not all Nigerians
abroad are genuinely exploitative, territorial and self-absorbed. Some Nigerians abroad are
actually grateful for the opportunities life gave them to leave Nigeria and are also often
grateful to Nigeria for the tough foundation the shambolic system of doing things in Nigeria
took them through and for how it has prepared them to excel in their new place of residence.
To put things into perspective, they were good before they left Nigeria but became much
better because of their new environment and the amazing opportunity it exposes them to.
These Nigerians are collaborative and are unlikely to go at it alone.
They’re more likely to join hands together and build their new country of residence
whilst retaining the love of the homeland in their hearts. They are bothered by the broken
walls of Nigeria and are committed critics who constructively chose to burden their minds with
issues facing the homeland and are the best thing in my opinion to happen to Nigeria. They
are the real reason why Nigeria considers its citizens its greatest export. However, these
types of Nigerians are not easy to find abroad, they are truly the rarest kind of Nigerians.
Their lives exude values, excellence and standards of the highest caliber.
2. The hybrid cum hypocrites.
Nigerians in this category are the representatives of the ills with Nigerians abroad.
The Nigerians in the Diaspora in this category were bad Nigerians or averagely fair Nigerians
before they left home. These Nigerians are probably abroad on business or vacation.
Some are just looking for new territory to forge ahead and find a new hope to do
well for themselves in their chosen fields of endeavor. Most of them are law abiding abroad
largely because of the fear of punishment as you know the system abroad Is not particularly
tolerant towards immigrants. They behave well abroad because that is what the society expects.
The bad behavior and character they left home with did not totally depart from them.
It was only pushed into the idle mode of their souls to hibernate. Anytime they have opportunity
to return home, their bad character and behavior get revived instantly and begins to rule over
them. They drive the way they won’t drive abroad whenever they are back home. They drop litters
anywhere and everywhere they like. They simply throw away the ‘good person’ they were abroad
and wear their real personality all over again. They are always ready to take advantage of the
system through their connections or the extra cash they can afford to use to oil their ways forward.
Some of the people in this category always find it easy to steal Nigeria blind if they
have access to government coffers. They embrace wasteful spending of government fund and engage in
all manner of corrupt practices whenever they are appointed into public offices in Nigeria.
They quickly return to their base after cashing out and they are never ashamed to continue to
open their mouths wide in condemnation of Nigeria whenever occasion permits.
Because most of them behave well abroad to avoid entering into trouble, they don’t
negatively affect the image of Nigeria abroad even though they don’t significantly boost it as well.
Their real nature does manifest abroad sometimes and pushes a few of them to run fowl of the law.
At such instances, they draw negative attention to Nigeria
and to other Nigerians in the diaspora. In short, the sole reason why this category of
Nigerians are successful at all abroad is due to the fact that most of them are hypocrites
and would rather push a narrative of being law abiding and decent because they want to bring out
a sort of image of themselves as being rational and business friendly in order to gain trust
and swindle their way to success. The next category of Nigerians are particularly gruesome.
3. The grumpy and garrulous.
The grumpy and garrulous are the third category of Nigerians in the diaspora.
They are simply the terribly terrible! They were not good before they left home. They were part of
the problems of Nigeria but will never acknowledge it. They left home in desperation and upon
discovering the better lives in their new country of residence, they became bitter against Nigeria
for the pain they thought Nigeria made them pass through before they got the opportunity to escape.
These Nigerians are either driven or plain lazy. They are the best example of Nigerians
who give a bad name to Nigeria as a country. Most of these Nigerians are lazy and lousy.
They hate hard work and love fast life. They are very loud in all conversation and discussions.
They are uncultured and uncivilized but they live in denial of it. They are boastful and shamelessly
arrogant. They talk too much and can break into a fight on the street. They love partying always.
They are easy target of criminal fraternities.
They are in a hurry to make money and are willing to do any dirty deal to make money.
They are into wire frauds, drug business, fake businesses and all sorts of shady things. They
are armchair critics whenever occasion permits them to discuss Nigeria openly.
No matter how many years they spend abroad, they are forever bitter but never better. They are the
perfect profile of bad Nigerians and more. They are rebels against normalcy and lawful existence.
Anytime they are privileged to come home, they are human infectious disease to their communities.
They are the people popularly known in Nigeria as,” I just got back!”. They are
the unprofitable ambassadors of Nigeria. No society becomes better because they are in it.
CONCLUSION Whether in the Grateful and Progressive
category, or in the Hybrid Hypocrites category or the Grumpy and Garrulous, they all have one thing
in common. They believe they are better than their friends and families at home and were,
at no time, part of the people whose actions and inactions reduced Nigeria to a crawling giant.
Between the three groups, their annual remittances from abroad are the chunk of the financial
lifeline that keeps Nigeria alive. In their innermost beings, most Nigerians in the diaspora,
like their kith and kin at home yearn to see the emergence of a truly great Nigeria.
Many have waited for years unending and became too discouraged to have
any hope for Nigeria’s survival again. Many of them have painfully concluded
in their hearts that nothing good can ever come out of Nigeria again.
But still, there remains within the diaspora community a remnant of Nigerians who believe
Nigeria will be great if those abroad would join hands with those who are at home to birth a truly
great Nigeria. A Nigeria where opportunities will abound for all. They always see that New
Nigeria around the corner and are amongst the Patriots actively working to make it happen.
However, Nigeria is not a lost cause. A nation is the sum total of the character of its people.
If every bad and outrageously bad Nigerians would judge themselves,
acknowledge their faults and consciously focus on self-improvement and self-transformation ideals,
they will make themselves worthy of becoming members of the good Nigerians’ team and Nigeria
would be saved by all of them working together.
The purpose of this story wasn’t entirely to detail out the individuals and make it seem like
it isn’t part of a system, a characterization that has made some Nigerians abroad very successful and
others rather a nuisance. And whether good or bad Nigerians abroad still represent the aspirations
and dreams of Africa’s most populated country and their hold on this planet is sure to keep going.
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