Apparently, this Airtel Ad is offensive, according to the Twiterrati:

millionaire at 29. that's too late

fast is an attitude

We know the pace you set for yourself. hThat's why we set our Internet speeds to challenge that. So that you never have to slow down, even for a moment.

3.75g in all 36 states in Nigeria.
Speed up to 42mpbs

What's offensive about it? I'm not very sure. I don't get it.

Pls throw more light

Now am 22, I must make my first Million be my 24th birthday. This is what airtel is preaching.

I think what the poster meant was the 29 years thing....by Nigerian standards and going by the high level of challenges faced by men in this country, that standard is hard to reach. Not to now add that it's 5 years late. I think the poster felt he/she falls short going by the advert's standards.

There is certainly nothing offensive about it.

Airtel is simply targeting the yahoo boiz, and trying to tell them that if they use their (Airtel) internet, they will hammer by 24yrs, but if they use starcomms or MTN modem, oboy na 5yrs d slow internet go use take send only one mail to maga!

Sir, am yet to see the insult or offense in the advert.

abeg..abeg...abeg.....go focus on more serious tins instead of blowing hot air.....wetin do d advert?

U r clogging up cyberspace....

why is it offensive?

"Fast is an attitude." Nothing wrong with the philosophy.

Who does it offend?

if you are not a milonaire by age 25, you have lived a miserable, slow, useless and wretched life, that is the impression i get from that yeye advert.
another strong message to the youth to make it by anymeans possible and in good time too.

i cant see an offence in the advert

But come to think of it, these things that the mobile telecom companies advertise, internet speed of 42mbps, are true?

Ok, I see what is offensive (although I might not completely agree). Those who find it offensive believe that it encourages youths to go into crime and take shortcuts...the get rich quick mentality. Get rich by any means necessary.

not offensive to me at all.

yuzedo: Airtel is simply targeting the yahoo boiz, and trying to tell them that if they use their (Airtel) internet, they will hammer by 24yrs, but if they use starcomms or MTN modem, oboy na 5yrs d slow internet go use take send only one mail to maga!

i thinka along wit u8-)

I dont like that advert at all. At 24 is too late to be a millionaire? What!

offensive or defensive, they are making their money.

I totally agree that its offensive.
Though some people disagree, we are all entitle to our opinion.

@poster d thing touch u somwhere?!

AT AGE 29 WHEN MAN DONE BORN FINISH.
MARK ZUKERBEG, FACEBOOK CEO IS 29 AND HE'S A BILLIONNAIRE.THERE ARE SO MANY UNDER 20 AMERICANS LIKE THAT

Whenever I hear Nigerians calling millions, I just marvel! Its nothing but just an illusion, cos if u get the real value of the 1million naira today its less than 2500naira of 1987. Infact the 1million naira is just roughly £4000. So we shldnt get deceived by our inflated figures,its more of a slave admiring his Golden chains!

yuzedo: Airtel is simply targeting the yahoo boiz, and trying to tell them that if they use their (Airtel) internet, they will hammer by 24yrs, but if they use starcomms or MTN modem, oboy na 5yrs d slow internet go use take send only one mail to maga!

Got my ribs cracking on your comment.
While I don't see the advert as insulting in anyway, I consider it as one that can be easily misunderstood in general by people, though they drove home the basic point--we have 3.75G network to offer and up to 42MBPS speed but they also initiated another line of thought--millionaire at 24, which can be seen to be either negative or motivating, different strokes for different folks.

I beg make we follow dem enjoy the advert for the time being. We know say dem go soon sell and the new owners go give us another advert.

Not offensive at all! at list 18years old should bold enough to stand in their academy, skill and other area of specialization starting from college before age of 24 already a professional and become a millionia if not our bad leaders that Killed education and other sectors.

yuzedo: Airtel is simply targeting the yahoo boiz, and trying to tell them that if they use their (Airtel) internet, they will hammer by 24yrs, but if they use starcomms or MTN modem, oboy na 5yrs d slow internet go use take send only one mail to maga!

U got it right.

yuzedo: Airtel is simply targeting the yahoo boiz, and trying to tell them that if they use their (Airtel) internet, they will hammer by 24yrs, but if they use starcomms or MTN modem, oboy na 5yrs d slow internet go use take send only one mail to maga!

simply d answer....LOL!

No spoil business 4 Airtel na, na advert

I think its offensive.More or less berrating one for not being a millionaire at 24.In a country where at 24 you are still trying to find your feet.In developed countries fine but not in Nigeria.The ad is a recipe for 'get rich quick' mentality by whatever means.At a time when we are trying everything possible to reorientate the youths.

I guess this is what inpired the other topic about being a millionaire at 24. I think they're encouraging people to become millonaires before they clock 26 by any means possible.

For a long time, I didn't even know it was an advert for a telecomms company. I had thought it was just a motivation speaker doing his thing. Adverts for what they are are basically exaggerations, the more you exaggerate, the more you get the products to sell. Little wonder you see a billboard showing an accomplished young man in the company of some girls holding a stick of cigarrete, but before you want to be like him, you see the shocker, smokers are liable to die young...LOL!