{"id":1210,"date":"2026-01-02T08:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:17:05","slug":"nigeria-not-as-dangerous-as-us-american-rapper-ddg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/nigeria-not-as-dangerous-as-us-american-rapper-ddg\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria not as dangerous as US\u2019 \u2013 American rapper DDG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., popularly known as DDG, has described Western media propaganda on Nigeria as \u201cfake\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1767341661945\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The hip-hop star, who is currently holidaying in Lagos, said contrary to Western propaganda, Nigeria is \u201cnowhere near\u201d as dangerous as the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He urged foreigners to visit Nigeria to see things for themselves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1767341661941\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking in a video broadcast, DDG said, \u201cI honestly think America is the most dangerous country. I don\u2019t think Nigeria is as dangerous as America nowhere near.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo doubt, there is insecurity in Nigeria. But gun violence and gangsterism is not common in Nigeria as in America. So, if anybody is thinking about coming to Nigeria, pull up.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"a294226aacc9140b01ca0c5d86fe7701\" data-observe=\"true\" data-load=\"true\" data-id=\"1767341661943\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>DDG also revealed that he was told that Nigerian foods were unhealthy and was advised to always boil water before drinking in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said that contrary to the propaganda against Nigerian foods, he found them very healthy, especially jollof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., popularly known as DDG, has described Western media propaganda on Nigeria as \u201cfake\u201d. The hip-hop star, who is currently holidaying in Lagos, said contrary to Western propaganda, Nigeria is \u201cnowhere near\u201d as dangerous as the United States. He urged foreigners to visit Nigeria to see things for themselves. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[160],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","author-urbanafrica"],"authors":[{"term_id":160,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"urbanafrica","display_name":"URBANAFRICA","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}