Sometime in 2013: I make it a habit to read views of Nigerian readers on every news item or article that I read. What I have observed are as follows: 1. The Nigerian reader is generally vulgar in their comments to other people’s position on a matter. If they don’t agree with your view they would abuse you, question your education, soundness of mind, credibility, motive, and may even abuse your parents. 2. The Nigerian reader may be too hasty to comment on your views before they understand them. 3. Our poor formal education, which does not encourage debates at school, polite classroom discussion, language use and culture, and polite disagreement with another’s ideas and views, has produced many poorly educated citizens who, when they cannot stand intellectual dexterity, only reply with vulgarities. 4. The Nigerian reader leaves the issues in discourse and goes on a voyage of motive enquiry. 5. The Nigerian reader can be easily distracted. Just follow a trail of comments on an issue. After a few comments you may discover that the initial issue gets drowned up by petty hostile disagreements and quarrels by readers who have never met each other. 6. The Nigerian reader is often protective of their ethnic turf at the expense of truth.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:10:41 +0000
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