Nigerians are a mob when you come after their own on social media.
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| Never ever mess with Nigerians (NETFLIX ) As Nigerians, we can be online bullies sometimes.
Take the case of Argentinian defender Nicolas Otamendi who got a barrage of hate messages on his Instagram account.
What was his offence? For shoving football wonder boy Kelechi Iheanacho during the Super Eagles friendly against Argentina.
Nigerians attack Nicolas Otamendi(Instagram/Nicolas Otamendia) 
Nigerians attack Nicolas Otamendi(Instagram/Nicolas Otamendia) 
Nigerians attack Nicolas Otamendi(Instagram/Nicolas Otamendia)
Hey,
some of us might tweet about Iheanacho’s deficiencies weekly but no one
has the right to treat any of our countrymen bad or wrong. This is the
everyday Nigerian mentality. We can abuse our own but you dare not diss
us or else...
The Twitter community in Ghana learnt this the hard way during the 2012 Olympics. The Nigerian basketball team D’Tigers had been beaten silly by the Dream Team of the United States. It was a record defeat.
The D' Tigers lost to USA 156-73(Basketball Within Borders )
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At
first, Nigerians mocked the D’Tigers but when a stray Ghanaian took
some shots at the basketball team, a West African Twitter war commenced.
It was an unfair fight, to be honest.
The number of Nigerians on Twitter surpassed the Ghanaians. And when it
comes to insults don’t mess with Nigerians.
So,
on that fateful day, Ghanaians learnt the hard way that only Nigerians
can diss Nigerians. Trust Twitter NG to tweet ‘dark things’ about our
West African brothers.
A recent example is Ghanaian (again?) act Shatta Wale. For some reason, he felt that Wizkid was an artist he could diss on social media.
Shatta Wale is not feeling Wizkid (glammynews)
Sooner than later Nigerians bashed him online for talking bad about one of the country’s favourite sons.
The
bottom line is that you don’t want to mess with Nigerians. Yes, we know
our country is it perfect and Wizkid has issues with lyrics but no one
can diss us or our countrymen.
It’s a
twisted version of hometown pride. We might not be the most patriotic
people on Earth but if you come at us, we will come at you with more
energy.
On the flip side, this can be bullying. Take the case of American singer Justine Skye who had a ‘situationship’ with Wizkid (again?!) for a few months.
Wizskid and Justin Skye(Instagram)
Whatever
the two singers had, it is most likely over but trust Nigerians to be a
bit extra. Justine Skye could tweet about cookies and there would be
bare Nigerians telling her mentions to stop subbing Wizkid.
The
beautiful singer had to say that her tweets have nothing to do with
Wizkid who she sees as just a friend. Her statement has done little to
chase away the mob.
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Justine Skye has had it up to here with the Wizkid rumours (Twitter/Bella Naija )
Nigerians
on social media have a twisted sense of hometown pride. We can bash
ourselves all day long but when a foreigner does it, it becomes a case
of us versus and them. And usually, Nigerians don’t lose these type of
battles.
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