A few days ago, the story of a lady named Josephine Agwu, a Lagos airport toilet cleaner who found $27,000(around N12m) in a briefcase and returned it to the owner at the airport , circulated massively in the social media and was even a big story on the cover of top Nigerian newspapers including The Nigerian Tribune and popular evening tabloid, PM News.

The story was being peddled with the above photo and everyone hailed her for such a noble act, unfortunately the lady in the photo is not in anyway an airport cleaner but a high-profile HR executive with Smooth Promotions, owners of the popular music channel Hip-TV, Hiphop World Magazine and Hip-hop World Awards. See another photo of her below at the office.

We gathered that some bloggers and journalists just went on Facebook to search for Josephine Agwu and picked up her photo,without verifying if she was the real 'Josephine Agwu' being rumoured on Twitter to have returned the large sums of money.

Infact, no one has been able to confirm up till this moment that any cleaner returned a lost briefcase of money at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport where the incident reportedly happened.

The Josephine Agwu in the photo being paraded as a cleaner at the airport is a certified associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), with 11 years working experience as a HR practitioner, and graduated with Second Class Upper Division in Agricultural Economics and Extension from the Federal University of Technology, FUTO in Imo State.

She currently holds the position of a senior manager in charge of Human Resources at Smooth Promotions in Ikeja, Lagos.

It was even gathered that as a result of the story, which trended on social media and was even retweeted by some popular people including the former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili and Ovation Publisher, Dele Momodu, the US Embassy in Lagos has reached out to Josephine Agwu to come for an award, which she declined.

The lady we gathered is greatly annoyed and embarrassed over this report by the media as her phone lines and emails have been buzzing with calls and messages from her friends, relatives and associates around the world congratulating her but baffled how she ended up becoming a cleaner at an airport despite her education and background.

If information is anything to go by, Josephine may be pressing some charges soon against these top media houses.

As at the time of writing this, the story is still trending on blogs. The CEO of Smooth Promotions, Ayo Animashaun tried to warned everyone with a tweet you'll find below, but most people didn't pay attention and only two people retweeted Ayo's warning.

http://www.splendormag.com/2015/03/photos-erroneous-branding-of-top.html

Journalists and bloggers seriously need to start comfirming their information before publishing. That's always been one of the rules of the profession, but with the advent of social media, everybody is now in a rush!

contactmorak:
A few days ago, the story of a lady named Josephine Agwu, a Lagos airport toilet cleaner who found $27,000(around N12m) in a briefcase and returned it to the owner at the airport , circulated massively in the social media and was even a big story on the cover of top Nigerian newspapers including The Nigerian Tribune and popular evening tabloid, PM News.

The story was being peddled with the above photo and everyone hailed her for such a noble act, unfortunately the lady in the photo is not in anyway an airport cleaner but a high-profile HR executive with Smooth Promotions, owners of the popular music channel Hip-TV, Hiphop World Magazine and Hip-hop World Awards. See another photo of her below at the office.

We gathered that some bloggers and journalists just went on Facebook to search for Josephine Agwu and picked up her photo,without verifying if she was the real 'Josephine Agwu' being rumoured on Twitter to have returned the large sums of money.

Infact, no one has been able to confirm up till this moment that any cleaner returned a lost briefcase of money at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport where the incident reportedly happened.

The Josephine Agwu in the photo being paraded as a cleaner at the airport is a certified associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), with 11 years working experience as a HR practitioner, and graduated with Second Class Upper Division in Agricultural Economics and Extension from the Federal University of Technology, FUTO in Imo State.

She currently holds the position of a senior manager in charge of Human Resources at Smooth Promotions in Ikeja, Lagos.

It was even gathered that as a result of the story, which trended on social media and was even retweeted by some popular people including the former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili and Ovation Publisher, Dele Momodu, the US Embassy in Lagos has reached out to Josephine Agwu to come for an award, which she declined.

The lady we gathered is greatly annoyed and embarrassed over this report by the media as her phone lines and emails have been buzzing with calls and messages from her friends, relatives and associates around the world congratulating her but baffled how she ended up becoming a cleaner at an airport despite her education and background.

If information is anything to go by, Josephine may be pressing some charges soon against these top media houses.

As at the time of writing this, the story is still trending on blogs. The CEO of Smooth Promotions, Ayo Animashaun tried to warned everyone with a tweet you'll find below, but most people didn't pay attention and only two people retweeted Ayo's warning.

http://www.splendormag.com/2015/03/photos-erroneous-branding-of-top.html

Unprofessional journalism. Only in naija can such happen. Why assume she's a cleaner @ the airport?

So many saharareporters on the loose

GogetterMD:

Unprofessional journalism. Only in naija can such happen. Why assume she's a cleaner @ the airport?

it's not even confirmed if anything of such happened at the airport. Nowadays, somebody would just Tweet something and everybody will be feeding on it

And the news was faster than the speed of light. Interesting mess it was.. Bloggers and their unconfirmed news. Smh

I expected a counter story of this sort the very day it happened or next at most, not now that too much damage has been done.

The only way to end this kind of fake journalism is for the truth to be published immediately.

This should hit the FP asap!

Journalism going hay wire....

Werey ni awon bloggers yi sha..

We are pros at trending poo



If it's bullshit, it'll sell in Nigeria!

Just look at Jonathan

Lobatan.

information la Nigeria.

I knew it! I doubted that story and the pix. Aunty Josephine was a high-flier in FUTO when we came in as freshers. Pls let's be careful not to spread falsehood on this site oooo.

Its was not even confirmed by the airport authorities about the story and they rush to publish?
Indeed Journalism has gone to the dogs.
But how in the name of everything that is good did they come up with that name.
Even if they wanted to pick her picture from the net, couldn't they easily check her profile too What is fb for?
I am not a Journalist but I can't make this type of massive unforgivable mistake

In a way they made her famous.

On behalf of all the bloggers in Nigeria, newspapers and Nairaland I tender my apology.
I just confirmed it that the airport woman has no facebook account yet!

NICE ONE


I THOUGHT AS MUCH, THE WOMAN IN THE PIX DID'NT LOOK LIKE SOMEONE EARNING N75OO


BLOGGERS!!!!!!

Case of mistaken identity.

"The lady we gathered is greatly annoyed and embarrassed over this report by the media as her phone lines and emails have been buzzing with calls and messages from her friends, relatives and associates around the world congratulating her but baffled how she ended up becoming a cleaner at an airport despite her education and background"

LOL

Hmm Nigeria and mis-information.

You see, after two dudes here almost ate each other's skull arguing over whether what the 'cleaner' did was right or wrong.

These bloggers though... if it were to be in a country where the judiciary system works well, they'd be in serious problems now.

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Nigeria is full of lies imagine, Chaiiii.
Very soon I will shot my ears to any news concerning Nigeria and believe is lie. I thought its only NTA that use to lie, but it becoming clearer that even Newspapers must especially sahara reporters and co, are into it.

.eyaaa that what we are saying the have already ridicule the woman career.

Hope she was rewarded handsomely?

Good Gal

Goes to show we still have good people

.There are no investigative journalists in this country
na only hear say journalist and politicians mouthpiece we get

hahahahahaha Sahara reporters every where .

Space for sale

[size=18pt]Ehn...when she sef dey dress like Airport Cleaner nko?[/size]