Stephanie Coker, a Nigerian on-air personality, has drawn flak for suggesting that she dislikes becoming friends with women who were reared in Nigeria.
In a podcast episode posted on Instagram, Stephanie made the allegation that she finds it challenging to make friends with Nigerian women who have never left the country due to their mentality.
She went on to give an example of a Nigerian-born woman who, when she and other males were seated at a table at an event, would only greet the guys while ignoring the other women.
These women regularly avoided making eye contact with the other women seated at the table in front of them, Stephanie noticed.
“I always say this thing about how I find it hard to make friends with women who have grown up and spent their whole lives in Nigeria just because I feel their mindsets are very different”, she said.
“When you are out and maybe you’re on a table, if a girl that’s not from abroad, never lived out of Nigeria comes to the table, she will greet all the guys and not greet the woman and I’m always like ‘why? What is your problem?’ I was here first, you should at least say ‘Oh Hi, How are you?’ They’ll just sit, they’ll now act like they can’t see you.”
“One day I had to say ‘excuse me, madam, hello, hi’ and the girl was like ‘oh’, she was shocked. Why do they think like this? I don’t understand, is there a complex? What’s going on?.”
Reacting to her interview, here is what the hosts of Wake Up Nigeria on TVC have to say.
See the video below!
