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The Nigerian government is upset with a new (internet only?) commercial for SONY’s PS3 video game console. The government’s ire is reserved for the character who says 8 seconds into the ad: “You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Otherwise I’d be a Nigerian millionaire by now.”
So the Nigerian government is upset about the reputation of 419 scammers?
What is missing in this conversation is the question as to why and how a pastoralist community suddenly becomes a roving insurgency across the country.
In the work of the novelist, Okey Ndibe, the influences of the United States, especially that everything is available for a price, is everywhere in Nigeria.
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment – gets mocked on Twitter – for his government’s inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
Most Nigerians don’t trust their government and overpaid public representatives with taxpayers’ money. So, they rose up.