I've come across many nice under merited posts on Naija board but I've been out of smerits for quite long...
Judging by the
statistics for December '24 (the last one published), the Nigerian board ranks quite well when we talk about shared merit and has even improved compared to the previous period.
Some don't actually write out the pidgin the way it should appear hence the idea you have of it being poorly written English. In the real pidgin sense and context if I should write this reply I bet you wouldn't understand a thing.....
I believe that the language barrier and misunderstanding of other languages are some of the reasons why there are dedicated local boards on the forum and why the rest of the forum is in English.