AmBeautiful: This is a clear sign and proof of the fact that Arik Air clearly does not know what Customer Service/Care is all about!
I advice them to read the book, "the customer is boss".
Nigerians are clearly lacking in the area of Customer Service.
In as much as they are actually trying to use a strategy that's used only for "pain in the neck customers"
,i just think for this case of omojuwa plus all the others i read this strategy is not it. When not one, not two, not three but more than three customers have complained about the same issue repeatedly and at an increasing and alarming rate, then something must be wrong with the airline.
They have actually created trouble for themselves in the future, with the way this whole issue was handled.
One thing Nigerians do is "they see the now, but forget about later"

Time will tell!

Those are list of those whose items were stolen by staffs of arik.

next time i'll be flying i'll grow an extra eye at the back of my head.

AmBeautiful: This is a clear sign and proof of the fact that Arik Air clearly does not know what Customer Service/Care is all about!
I advice them to read the book, "the customer is boss".
Nigerians are clearly lacking in the area of Customer Service.
In as much as they are actually trying to use a strategy that's used only for "pain in the neck customers"
,i just think for this case of omojuwa plus all the others i read this strategy is not it. When not one, not two, not three but more than three customers have complained about the same issue repeatedly and at an increasing and alarming rate, then something must be wrong with the airline.
They have actually created trouble for themselves in the future, with the way this whole issue was handled.
One thing Nigerians do is "they see the now, but forget about later"

Time will tell!

I believe u r a Nigerian too, so u r liable for same offence, and hp u r quite aware of terms and condition too.

Madam give me a plate of EBA,but wait first!!the price of Garri don com down

Almost 90% of the names in that list are Yorubas. I just hope its not what am thinking.

Omojuwa didnt sneak. To fly arik he actually announced it on twitter dat day. And what if you forgot ur ipad in d plane and you go back to ask for it and one of the attendants tells you they found it and put it in your bag. Seriouslly how did they know your bag? And why is it not in the so called bag?

Omojuwa can be a nut case at times but Arik really lack customer service and we should not sit down and be bullied by any coy.

Is it wrong to stand up for one's right in this Country? If this had happened in Countries that valued their citizen, we would be screaming Yes! Yes!! Isn't it high time for us to start speaking out when Corporations ‎​Ãήϑ So called Agencies trample on our rights? Omojuwa is standing up for millions of Nigerians that have been boxed to a corner just because they Cannot speak up. Arik air should be sued for this, big time(that's if they've nt been sued already) this siddon look stance of Nigerians should stop. Let's all begin to stand up for our rights ‎​Ãήϑ see if this Nation will not rise from the shackles we roped ourselves into.

Arik air 1 - Omojuwa 1 up tp the next one...

We actually left our iPads on Arik some weeks back (myself and a colleague) and believe me you we got it back the next day...

na wa oh, who are these people sef?

OMOJUWA IS TOO FULL OF HIMSELF!!! HE IS NOT A MARTYR AND IM SURE HE DROPPED HIS IPAD CARELESSLY CUZ I DNT KNW WHY AN ADULT WILL MISPLACE HAND HELD DEVICE!! IS HE A KID?? WHY DROP IT CARELESSLY? WHAT IF ITS A FELLOW PASSENGER THAT PICKED IT AND NOT D AIRLINE!! HE CHATS SHIT ON TWITTER AND ITS GOOD FOR HIM!! THE CHANGE WILL NOT START FROM HIM SO HE NEEDS TO KEEP HIMSELF BUSY AND GET A JOB OR IF HE HAS ONE "DO " THE JOB AND STAY OFF SOCIAL MEDIA PUFFN HIMSELF UP.

bigass: [size=16pt]I HATE OMOJUWA LIKE MAD HE IS TOO FULL OF HIMSELF AND HAS MANY STUPID/GULLIBLE FOLLOWERS [/size]

as in ehmmm...he and ogundamisi nd their gullible followers

AND ALL HIS GOONS NEED TO SIT DOWN!! HE IS NOT FEEDN U SO GO AND GET BUSY!! #KEEPITMOVING

preshuspee: OMOJUWA IS TOO FULL OF HIMSELF!!! HE IS NOT A MARTYR AND IM SURE HE DROPPED HIS IPAD CARELESSLY CUZ I DNT KNW WHY AN ADULT WILL MISPLACE HAND HELD DEVICE!! IS HE A KID?? WHY DROP IT CARELESSLY? WHAT IF ITS A FELLOW PASSENGER THAT PICKED IT AND NOT D AIRLINE!! HE CHATS SHIT ON TWITTER AND ITS GOOD FOR HIM!! THE CHANGE WILL NOT START FROM HIM SO HE NEEDS TO KEEP HIMSELF BUSY AND GET A JOB OR IF HE HAS ONE "DO " THE JOB AND STAY OFF SOCIAL MEDIA PUFFN HIMSELF UP.

[size=24pt]GBAM!!! HE BEHVES LIKE HE IS A LEADER WHOSE FOLLOWERS ARE PAWNS [/size]

Only in Nigeria.

chinedi: We actually left our iPads on Arik some weeks back (myself and a colleague) and believe me you we got it back the next day...

My point exactly. You see this is one of the benefit of omojuwa fight ¶ think. Otherwise the chances of ever seeing that ipad before this omojuwa saga would have been close to zero.
Those criticising him ¶ pity for you cos my take is most of you don't fly so you don't know how the staff of this airline steal people's stuff like their is no tommorrow, act when you are patronizing them like you are not paying them and feel like they are doing you a favour by attending to you.

Opoki: I thought my name is there.
Besides who is Omojuwa?

An antelope that has it root from egpyt

Thank God my name is not on the list

Well,
Assuming the said Omojuwa is actually a trainee-lunatic as someone alleged here, does that warrant Arik's response?
If you've ever had a missed luggage and all the stress associated with it, you may understand why the dude signed up for the mad protest.
What exactly does the rest of the 23 folks did to warrant a ban?
Well, may be they beat up the cabin crew

chosen04: Almost 90% of the names in that list are Yorubas. I just hope its not what am thinking.

You can't be thinking without a brain na.

Kx: Airline blacklisting "paying" customers,when did airline start selecting customers? 2 much money?

My thoughts exactly. But, come oh, was Arik flying these people for free before?

Nigerians should stand up for what is right and not shoot down those doing so! Are we really interested in making this country better or do we prefer status-quo? If you are sure you forgot your cell-phone in my house and you came back for it and i can't produce it, will you sulk and walk away or hold me responsible?
I tire for Nigerians sha!

THAT OMOJUWA IS A CREEPY HORRIBLE GOBSHITE. HIS MAA HAS A SKIN HEAD, A CREEPY ARROGANT Arrow THAT THINKS HE IS SO POPULAR BECUASE HE HAS 20K+ FOLLOWERS. IF YOU HAVE MET HIM LIKE I HAVE YOU WOULD KNOW HE HAS A TERRIBLE MOUTH ODOUR.PATHETIC HUMAN BEING

No name on dat list rings a bell,r dey nigerians I laff!

Not the G.M. of FAAN, but the very M.D./CEO of FAAN. He's second on the black list. I thought the presidency was already mediating between the two parties. Isn't it obvious that Arik Air enjoys some presidential backing, which explains the reason for their arrogant display. It's very easy to deal with Arik on the part of the MD but for the powers that be that wouldn't let him .

2 million: Heard they blacklisted the G.M of FAAN....person wey get airport na him dem blacklist...if na me u go carry your plane for head travell because no be for my airport d plane go land

Omojuwa should report Arik to Consumer Protection Commission(CPC). I DOUBT if Arik have the Right to STOP Him from Flying Arik. And they have contradicted the NCAA. License Agreement they have signed. I will buy this suit from Omojuwa and Sue Arik for Discremination=200mil. and Defermation Character=2Billion.

Peeps I think we are missing the point here!! Omojuwa (or watever is his name) is just one of the people banned, so my question is "Does ARIK or any airline for that matter have the right to refuse any Nigerian entry?"
I agree the airplane belongs to ARIK but we forget the airport, and its facilities belong to the Federal Government of Nigeria of which every tax paying Nigerian is a co-owner. I should believe that these people should challenge the legality of ARIK to ban them from any airline.
This should be taken seriously , because with the calls for ARIK to be given National Carrier status, it would be a deprivation of the rights of these Nigerians!!

*Walks in on the thread, sees enslaved and unintelligent buffoons insulting someone whose actions are drawing attention to the appalling customer service culture of Nigerian companies, pulls down pants, defecates all over the thread, pulls pants up and calmly walks away*

@Omojuwa pls. Dont invite ur. Basketmouth friend(Elrufai). Do this fight Alone. Coz. Basketmouth no sabi run his mouth him go finish Arik Flawless.
@Arik pls. Beg Omojuwa to do this fight Alone.

Here is Omojuwas reaction to the blacklist issue:

In the Land of many victims, the man who dares the oppressor is seen to be mad. For that, I admit my madness.

I left my iPad in an Arik Air flight and that was my fault. I will not excuse that negligence on the fact that flying just days after the Dana crash I was still gripped by its horror. What is not my fault though is the fact that when I returned for the iPad, the Arik Air staff in charge of “Lost & Found” left to check the aircraft and came back saying “they said they found it and put it in your bag.” My response was sharp and simple. How did they match an untagged iPad that was not checked in with a bag that was checked in and tagged? Who gave them the permission to open my bag for them to put the iPad? I asked to make a written complaint but the Arik Air staff, Lanre, said that by speaking to him my complaint process had been completed, that there was no need to write anything. That did not go down well with me. Some have focused on the first part of the issue about why I’d forget my iPad in a plane, they conveniently ignore the part about the Arik Air staff saying they found the iPad and put it in my bag. Someone have even questioned why I’d even forget my iPad in the first place. These are angels and aliens who have never forgotten a thing in their lives. I am human and I forget, not to mention the fact that in about 35 flights this year, that was a first.

I hate to admit it but I live in a country where people have lived with being victims for decades, victimization has become the culture. Rather than take on their oppressors, many Nigerians are still counting on the day God would come down and personally take on that challenge. Here, people never see the principle behind anything, as most things are weighed in naira. For people of principle, my issue with Arik Air had stopped being about an iPad long ago, but for those whose only valuation of life and the decisions they make come from naira and kobo perception, this remains about an iPad and I needed to shut up because “it is only an iPad.” In the end, these are victims of years of oppression, people who have never stood for themselves, people who’d rather adjust to bullies but are now experts on how to treat oppressors. That in itself is normal because I come from a society of many paradoxes.

I do not have a problem with bloggers who would create any fiction out of this to get hits. Many have become the anomaly they report. I once saw a story about Nigeria’s First Lady concerning the Black Sunday plane crash. I knew from the word go it’d be a hit story but I refused to publish it because I could not see the possibility of its content being the truth even though it’d put the First Lady in bad light. Some others did publish and got their hits. For these ones, it is not about the society, it is about their blogs. The hits first, other things second.

Arik Air is yet to say a thing about this officially apart from their desperate Black List, but they have indeed been talking. They are speaking by proxy. A lot of those acting like they are giving personal opinion are indeed doing their job. You know personal opinion when you see one but when you see someone seemingly speaking his or her opinion, yet repeatedly attacks my person and repeatedly seeks amplification for same, it is hard to see that as opinion. Social Media is on the front burner and I am absolutely certain I helped a few people earn some money just by creating a need to defend a company. I only hope the pay is worth it because standing for my own rights has been worth it.

At the end of the day, I have done something few people have ever dared. Given the chance, I’d do it again! When the story is told, no one will remember the multi-coloured friends or the analysis, they will remember the ordinary man who stood against an organisation that even the government of the day had to let go. Rosa Parks was called names by fellow black men who felt her stand to sit when she could have stood up, walked away and avoid trouble was avoidable. There are iconoclasts and the strength of their reality is that they get to do what others never had the capacity to think about, let alone think possible.
I muted in a blog I’d seek a N50 million damage. It is my iPad and my content. It is my right and my prerogative. I never sought the damage but it has become the major line of the long abused victim who wonders how a man could first dare to go against the same people they in their normal state of being victims have learnt to bow to and then go a step further to even contemplate asking for that much. I never asked for that but yes, if I did, it’d be in order.

In the Land of many victims, the man who dares the oppressor is seen to be mad. I am mad.

When Arik Air was called out on their over N84 billion debt by the authorities, they never argued about the content and essence of the issues, instead, they chose to blackmail the minister of aviation Stella Oduah and diverted many from the issue. In a country where many have learnt to chase shadows, diversionary tactics have always been the tools of people who are accused of one crime or the other. It is a tactic perfected by huge debtors and serial tax defaulters. Who best fits the description than one of the subjects of this issue?

Isn’t it also ironic that the same people who heard about the issue being with Consumer Protection Council for over two months without anything to show for it would now advise me to go to court. In a country where justice resides in the court of law, that’d be a natural channel to have justice now but in a country where court judgements are for sale, I’d rather not bother. I will find justice elsewhere because I don’t have N84 billion to bribe judges from and even if I did have, I’d rather justice comes to the fore without bribe incentives. This is would be the anomaly in an average court and I am not about to pretend about it.

I stood for myself and my rights, not just as a citizen but as a consumer, most of those have been beaten into the victim mentality they will always see that as an affront on the norm they have come to accept as the preferable reality.

I have been put on a Black List by Arik Air along with some 25 others including a managing director with one of the industry regulators. That illegality was not communicated even though Arik Air conveniently collected my money last week for a flight and have since not refunded. In trying to board them last week, I had my agent book me on another flight. My attempt to board their flight was my own way of fueling the issue all over again. I knew I was never going to be allowed to fly. The Black List has only just changed the hue of the issue all over again and we will indeed be on this for a while. I am not a victim, I am a fighter and no man alive would cheat me and have an easy ride doing so. Never! That they can abuse and manipulate the system does not mean they will successfully do that with me. I am but one small, ordinary citizen but I will show that sometimes, being seemingly small is not being definitely weak.

“In our quest for justice, we will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail”

~ @omojuwa

t-something:
Peeps I think we are missing the point here!! Omojuwa (or watever is his name) is just one of the people banned, so my question is "Does ARIK or any airline for that matter have the right to refuse any Nigerian entry?"
I agree the airplane belongs to ARIK but we forget the airport, and its facilities belong to the Federal Government of Nigeria of which every tax paying Nigerian is a co-owner. I should believe that these people should challenge the legality of ARIK to ban them from any airline.
This should be taken seriously , because with the calls for ARIK to be given National Carrier status, it would be a deprivation of the rights of these Nigerians!!

@Omojuwa pls. Dont invite ur. Basketmouth friend(Elrufai). Do this fight Alone. Coz. Basketmouth no sabi run his mouth him go finish Arik Flawless.
@Arik pls. Beg Omojuwa to do this fight Alone.

t-something:
Peeps I think we are missing the point here!! Omojuwa (or watever is his name) is just one of the people banned, so my question is "Does ARIK or any airline for that matter have the right to refuse any Nigerian entry?"
I agree the airplane belongs to ARIK but we forget the airport, and its facilities belong to the Federal Government of Nigeria of which every tax paying Nigerian is a co-owner. I should believe that these people should challenge the legality of ARIK to ban them from any airline.
This should be taken seriously , because with the calls for ARIK to be given National Carrier status, it would be a deprivation of the rights of these Nigerians!!

@Omojuwa pls. Dont invite ur. Basketmouth friend(Elrufai). Do this fight Alone. Coz. Basketmouth no sabi run his mouth him go finish Arik Flawless.
@Arik pls. Beg Omojuwa to do this fight Alone.

kh0lz: THAT OMOJUWA IS A CREEPY HORRIBLE GOBSHITE. HIS MAA HAS A SKIN HEAD, A CREEPY ARROGANT Arrow THAT THINKS HE IS SO POPULAR BECUASE HE HAS 20K+ FOLLOWERS. IF YOU HAVE MET HIM LIKE I HAVE YOU WOULD KNOW HE HAS A TERRIBLE MOUTH ODOUR. PATHETIC HUMAN BEING

Tehehehe