muyoto:

Yes, I'm in the cyber cafe - I've nothing to be ashamed about - but I, like millions of Nigerians out there, am NOT a yahoo-yahoo boy, which is why I take very personal this blanket categorization of Nigerians as scammers.

You wey dey hide for yonder  (how you take reach there sef?)dey cuss ya country na thunder fire you!

Not all Nigerians are yahoo-yahoo boys BUT all yahoo-yahoo boys are NIGERIANS.

~Sauron~:

[size=14pt]Not all Nigerians are yahoo-yahoo boys BUT all yahoo-yahoo boys are NIGERIANS.[/size]

MBGTWL!!!!!!

~Sauron~:

Not all Nigerians are yahoo-yahoo boys BUT all yahoo-yahoo boys are NIGERIANS.

Funniest Quote of the year!

Have any of you actually checked the website to see that there is no such press release?
I can't find it anywhere on the website.
I thought it was suspect that the OP didn't provide a direct link to the press release.
Please OP (since your credibility has come into question with me) help me find the ORIGINAL press release.

~Sauron~:

Not all Nigerians are yahoo-yahoo boys BUT all yahoo-yahoo boys are NIGERIANS.

Oddly, I find myself agreeing with you. . .

~Sauron~:

Not all Nigerians are yahoo-yahoo boys BUT all yahoo-yahoo boys are NIGERIANS.

ha ha.

I don't know why nigerians are catching serious feelings over this ad.

Yes!!! Another playground with free access, where people come and talk about what they like. Sony used the metaphorical approach in the ad. The phrase went, "If you believe anything that you read on the internet, I might as well be a rich Nigerian." It means the price of the PS3 slim is ridiculous, so are the kinds of mails that the scammers send. EG:
Good afternoon sir, I'm sorry to intrude on your privacy like this but I have a rich uncle who was the former Minister of Finance in my country and he died a few months back. He has some money (millions of dollars) frozen in some Swiss account and wants you to send some money to facilitate the transfer.

I THINK IT IS A BRILLIANT AD!!!

If they ban importation of Sony products, then I would still buy them and scrape the label off.

And you same Nigerians can generalise and say that the only thing Calabar girls know how to do is to f*&k!!!
OR All Italian rich and large families are Mafia.

As long as our university under-graduates continue to sit in front of computers sending scam letters, even a Sudanese based company will deride us and there is nothing we can do about that.

@ least everyone agrees that Sony did wrong. ergo, they be punished. all these sermonizing & counter-sermonizing is bull-shit. the fact is that people like Kobojunkie, floriana, sauron, sojioguns are doing every bit as much to rubbish Nigeria as the corrupt govt. officials. how does Sony's libel help your cause as an individual nigerian. why dont you attack the corrupt nigerians directly- you know their names dont you- instead of blanketing the land of your birth/origin and condemning you and your unborn to diasporan existence where you'll die and be buried in unmarked graves.  but of course, many are too far gone e.g. kobojunkie- its a knee-jerk reaction for her, just mention nigeria and she's foaming at the mouth,

See imbeciles (folks busy with name calling, and insulting those who do not agree with them on this) who do not know their left from their right blaming the world, and everything that moves outside, for the problems that continues to fester in their own homes!!!   

jidobaba:

how does Sony's libel help your cause as an individual nigerian.

How does the perpetual scamming scheme of em yahoo-yahoo boys help my cause as an individual Nigerian?

@jidobaba, How does typing on Nairaland just because you have access to the internet at work, help the situation? You are wasting valuable time my friend. Just wake up and smell the roses and find out how rotten they are. I am a Nigerian and will never dispute that but I also have my brain out of my arse.
Let us focus on the issues at hand now. What's happening in the banking industry, for a start, rather than talking gibberish about a non-issue.
Way to go Sony!!!!

1. The advert in question currently circulating on youtube.com and facebook.com and other international websites creates the impression that Nigerians hardly do genuine business. This insinuation is in bad faith and unacceptable.






isnt it true?

muyoto:

who be this one? you just dey wake from sleep? yeye

hey just wanted to know hw many of una dey read post well so na only u reply then u check this http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2009/08/third-obama-birth-certificate-appears-in-court/ if u think there is somewhere in the world wey corruption no dey put am for nairaland and tell me where u for get ur source from

Kobojunkie:

See imbeciles (folks busy with name calling, and insulting those who do not agree with them on this) who do not know their left from their right blaming the world, and everything that moves outside, for the problems that continues to fester in their own homes!!!  

there he/she goes again

sojioguns:

@jidobaba, How does typing on Nairaland just because you have access to the internet at work, help the situation? You are wasting valuable time my friend. Just wake up and smell the roses and find out how rotten they are. I am a Nigerian and will never dispute that but I also have my brain out of my arse.
Let us focus on the issues at hand now. What's happening in the banking industry, for a start, rather than talking gibberish about a non-issue.
Way to go Sony!!!!

guy, name names. its easier to type "Nigeria" rather than James Ohanafe Ibori, Aaondaka or Olu Maintain but you need to be specific else you Bleep yourself and your country up the more.

~Sauron~:

How does the perpetual scamming scheme of em yahoo-yahoo boys help my cause as an individual Nigerian?

it doesnt

am highly disappointed in SONY

Lets all be realistic.  

Yea sony was wrong for the derogatory advert. But at the end of the day our goverment instead of wasting their energy reacting, they should instead focus on rebranding themselves and fixing this country.  How can we call our selves Giant of Africa and some of us dont even have one full day of electricity a week, even our national airports experience power cuts  and we have brown water coming out of our taps, and have a high percentage of unemployed graduates?.

Instead the nation's money is being embezzled by greedy politicians and goverment officials with their potbellies growing bigger, with houses all over the world, foreign accounts, you name it.

Dora Akinluyi and all other top goverment officials should rebrand them selves before talking about rebranding nigeria.

you guys are not getting it.

for me it is not about what they said, it is who that they are that said it.

If it is a simple opinion from a simple individual, it wouldnt have mattered at all but for a big company like sony to directly insult a country, it is  so uncool.

Take example from:
Obama's cabinet member resignation yesterday
Obama's pastors comments during his campaign
Dixie chicks comment on George bush

and many other  cases,

These things are what any other person can say and no one will even notice but when it is coming from the people it came from at the time they said it, its a whole different ball game.

Cant you see it?

@Nezan?,,

What are you dissapointed at?

Explain yourself

Noble Onye:

1. The advert in question currently circulating on youtube.com and facebook.com and other international websites creates the impression that Nigerians hardly do genuine business. This insinuation is in bad faith and unacceptable.

isnt it true?

Whose faith ? Yours or SONYs? There is NO LAW that bars SONY from making the reference it did to Nigerian online scammers. So what exactly is true/not true here?

@ Big joe.


So why is it Nigeria sony chose?

Y not other corrupt countries like pakistan? Afghanistan?, Wot does that tell you about us?

Let us not sit down and blame sony . Lets the people who govern us change things and make nigeria a better place.

@: Floriana.

Well said!

biggjoe:

you guys are not getting it.

for me it is not about what they said, it is who that they are that said it.

If it is a simple opinion from a simple individual, it wouldnt have mattered at all but for a big company like sony to directly insult a country, it is  so uncool.

I assume this is your first time of hearing Nigerians are fraudulent.
Bigger organisations have made references to the fraudulent nature of Nigerians in the past, this is not new.
Rita of Koko Mansion(Top Naija Celeb) talked about it for several minutes. The clips are on U-tube.
Should we disown Rita too?

Everybody for nairaland make una check this out http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE57H5VZ20090818 and make una check wheather the picture of the man wey do that fraud (master hacker ) resemble nigerian

donclemo:

Everybody for nairaland make una check this out http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE57H5VZ20090818 and make una check wheather the picture of the man wey do that fraud (master hacker ) resemble nigerian

You are missing the point.
The Sony ad wasn't talking about schemes like this. . . . .He was talking about: "My father is a billionaire and he has been murdered. . . ." bullshit stories Nigerian Fraudsters continue to send.
Which of the scammers shown in this LINK does not resemble a Nigerian.
There must be 100 of them giving the country a bad name.

Abeg, get some perspective.

matter of fact, we should disown Rita- and bleeping kobojunkie

@Doncelemo


Listen Bros.  Everyone does fraud.  even the english do fraud, the american's do fraud, not to even mention pakistan and india.

  BUT CAN YOU COMPARE THE STATE OF THERE COUNTRIES TO NIGERIA.  Even ghanians do fraud. But can you compare ghana to nigeria?
Why did obama go ghana and didnt even come nigeria.??

The  bottom line is our goverment shouldn't blame sony.

They should work by fixing this country, wiping out corruption and thats starts by them stopping their greed.



rgds

@Jideobaba

WHY SHOULD WE DISOWN RITA?

Is she not right?

If you think she isnt right , why dont you go online and respond to all spam emails requesting you to log into your online banking and see what happens??

*Sighs*  
How many of the oil companies plundering our wealth are Nigerians? Polluting our environment are Nigerians?
Sony should go and sidon for pawto pawto jo  
Oyibo man dem go chop your dollar and take your money disappear
419 is just a game, and our brothers in ABA are working on it hehehehehehehehehehe  

proudly naija!!!!!!!!!!! ;d ;d ;d ;d ;d

Chrisbenogor:

*Sighs*
How many of the oil companies plundering our wealth are Nigerians? Polluting our environment are Nigerians?
Sony should go and sidon for pawto pawto jo
Oyibo man dem go chop your dollar and take your money disappear
419 is just a game, and our brothers in ABA are working on it hehehehehehehehehehe

Yess oooO!!! Up Aba Boys!!! The ultimate GAMERS!!! Up 419ers!!! ( that could make for another chart topping 419 song, don't you think?)