Russia has been repeatedly accused, by Ukraine and other countries, of recruiting foreign nationals often under misleading promises - particularly from Africa and the Middle East - with little or no training and sending them into frontline assaults in Ukraine with a high risk of death.
Okay, I’m going there.
Nigerians are the last people I would expect to fall for a scam :>
Kek
Why would anyone need training in meat assault? I thought having any skills besides walking forward is a disadvantage. I mean, they are just sacrifice to satan putin worships or something, right?
I hope they translate this to the Nigerian language for the local press.
Nigerian national newspapers report in English. Nigeria is very much an Anglophone nation with a number of local languages.
There isn’t really one Nigerian language, the country is insanely linguistically diverse. There are sixteen local languages with at least a million speakers, heaps more with fewer speakers, and then a Nigerian dialect of English and a creole called Naija (or Nigerian Pidgin) on top of that
While I personally know nothing about the Nigerian media landscape, I do know that the BBC runs a Naija news service and it has an article about these two
Obviously I meant the most widespread language in Nigeria.
English is very widely spoken there, it’s the lingua franca (and one of the country’s official languages), so anyone who can read is most likely able to read English. Sadly the people Russia preys on are quite probably mostly illiterate (in any language).
