Our Capabilities

There is something about football that just makes me sooooo patriotic (Honestly). It fills me with so much adrenalin.... It even gets amazing if the country playing is my country (Nigeria) or any country I take a liking to (by now you should know I am not too crazy about footie LOL!!!). I was so wishing Nigeria was going to trash Ivory Coast but we were beaten (aww!!!). No problem, we still have many more chances and miraculously, we can still win the nations cup...That is what we need to diffuse some of the tensions lingering around in the country. There is just something that brings Nigerians together during football, we forget about our different tribes, marginalisation (Niger delta), hunger, etc. I wish it continues...

On another note, Just got in to Uni, left home some hours ago, sat on the bus and it took forever to get to city center. One reason was an African guy got on the bus, showed the driver an expired bus pass and was caught. He tried to be smart but the bus driver was smarter than him, he kept arguing and he knows he was wrong. The bus driver told him to put his name and address down and the stupid man kept saying but sir.... People started getting angry, some were already late for work... I was soo angry. At that moment the African man lived up to the stereotype...fraudulent, untrustworthy, lying, and dishonest Black man. I felt so ashamed of him. I felt he has let all the black people on the bus down. I think when Africans go to another country, they should be ambassadors of where they come from. We should stop thinking of ourselves only and see how the behaviour we display affects others. You find lots of Nigerians/Africans given great opportunities abroad and they just mess it up. There was a guy where I worked, he was very good with his job, he spoilt everything by committing credit card fraud. I ask myself why do they do this? Why can they not work hard and just live a decent life? I pray that those who think they are smart and want to defraud a country whose most citizens are law abiding to think twice. If you got away with that kind of behaviour in Africa, you cannot get away with it in developed nations. you'll end up not only in jail but degrade the substance of hard working, law abiding Africans.
When the African man couldn't just stop arguing and the bus driver threatened to call the police, I had had enough, I got up and left the bus....such a shame!!!!!!