hey guys,
recently we are being bombarded every minute with different kinds of advert or the other. If it's not one of the new generation banks showing off their prowress, it's group of passengers in a bus annoyingly displaying the new naira notes, which as must of us would have correctly predicted, are still very much abused by some of our fellow compatriots especially our market women and bus conductors - who disgustfully squeeze these notes as if their lives depended on it.

but my major concern is centred on the recent celtel advert which most of us are very much aware, was not made here in Naija, instead they took it all the way to south africa. The most annoying part was that they thought they've had all Nigerians fooled by showing us live pictures of people with closed lips and a narrator (in broken English) at the background, to me, that was so annoying, is it that there are no capable hands here in Nigeria that can do a more excellent work. We prefer stuffs when they are foreign. A nigerian and a Labanesse walks into an office for a job, just because the Nigerian is black skinned and the supposedly labaneese is white skinned and least qualified, he gets the job. Ha ba! Nigerians,what the hell is going on?

where and how advertisement is made is not suppose to be an issue but the message is what is important. at this age and time when world is now a global village you are still saying everything should be done in nigeria, grow up man

There are alot of ads that are not shot in nigeria.

cocacola, fanta, always, bank phb, omo, and several others.

Most times its becos we dont have the right cameras and eqipment here in nigeria, as u can tell the quality is much better than most locally produced ads.

And a company like celtel is present in several african countries and they all view the same commercial. If its done in nigeria nxt, it will also be seen in other african countries.

During my uni days i did a bit of modelling and for the coke and fanta billboards, models were flown to south afrca to shoot.

my main problem with d celtel adverts is dat 4 adverts shot outside nigeria they are nothing to write home about

its time we should wake up from hang over of skin colour and face the reality of what we can offer to empower nigerian youths from unemployment.else, man must survive by all means,which might affect all of us. As for advert,companies should pls look inward.

dont really seem to understand CELTEL nowadays o,

I dont understand d latest celtel ad myself, just doesnt seem to make any sense, and wats wit d talking with closed mouths?? were they supposed to be communicating telepathically? i tire for dem jare. . .

globalaid,
I mean no disrespect but next time, try reading between the lines. i never insinuated that all adverts be done here in Nigeria, but only pointed out a thorn in some of our fleshes here at home, besides everyone wants quality services or presentation when it comes to marketing.
i haven't neglected the fact that there are decays in our home-based goods (-- like the usual makosa-like adverts done by Nigerians for Nigerians) what i did was to point out a statement of fact. i am a programmer and i never invest my time criticising issues unless it's a badly coded segments of code fraught with bugs

descrimination has been an all time phenomenum in nigeria, i believe there has to be a legislation to that effect. if a business or company thinks nigeria is a viable ground for business.then it must be able to settle with nigerian on that level.

The problems we have has to do with our government. The GSM operators used to print the Recharge Card, yes, ordinary recharge card abroad, until government banned it. I dont agree that the issue is lack of adequate equipment. Government should wake up to its responsibilities. I mean, these companies can't compare what they make in Nigeria to what they make in their native African countries.

Look at what happen with DStv of a thing where they have the licence to transmit Premiership to African counties including Nigeria. But when the Minister of Information woke up, he took it upon himself and from next season local operators will transmit the matches. These are what we want from our goverment, not Ghana must Go bag, not PTDF stuff

well i feel where the advert is made is not the issue but what bothers me about celtel is that there adverts are really not interesting compared to their competitiors i mean there adverts are really not motivating. look @ the MTN one of the baby getting to walk introducing 0703 and not to talk GLOs series made in Nigeria adverts i mean celtel is no where to be found compared with the others

I just think you pple have bad Belle fro CELTEL, i would rather stick to service than adverts.

We prefer stuffs when they are foreign

so why are you complaining?

what are the advert association doing about it? i think at the end of the day the company has the right to do the advert where ever they want. there are some adverts abroad that dont make sense too, so whats the big deal?

what if a nigerian agency picked south africa as the "location"

I agree govt. has to wake up to its responsibilities. For crying out loud we can measure up to international standards in anything. We just av 2 bliv in ourselves!!!

i dont think it really matters where the adverts are shot,what matters is that they make sense and provide good service to thier subscribers.We want them to give MTN and GLO a run for thier money.