BlueRayDick:


Baba, there are businesses u can do in naija but most of it u must be on ground to run it at infancy before u can think of putting other people in charge. Even if u want to run a pure legit business, u must know so much about the unethical practices in that line of business for u to be able to plan against them impacting ur business negatively.

Let me share a story.

I went to see a friend one day and from his house we went to a big hotel closeby to have a drink. He ordered Hennessey which the waiter brought, my friend opened the drink and claimed its a fake Henny. He was pissed and asked them to call the manager whom he accused of selling fake Henny for the price of original.

The manager swore upon everything he held dearly that they buy their henny straight from distributor and there's no way they will sell "apongbon" Hennessey. My friend was so convinced it was fake and asked the manager to sip to confirm. The man confirmed the drink was fake but confused how a fake Henny made it into their stock.

In order to compensate us for our trouble, the manager asked the waiter to bring another bottle but it turned out fake as well. The third bottle was brought and it turned out to be fake. At that point the manager was embarrassed and started pleading. It then struck him that some of the staff ran a racket in the past where they buy fake Henny from home, bring it to work and exchange it with the original they have in their stock.

Like do u know the negative effect the incident will have on their business if we made a big deal out of it? That is just one of the ways in which people can ruin ur business in Nigeria if u don't research well enough about the unethical practices involved in ur line of business.

raumdeuter:


This thing with fake liquor is common in Nigeria. My friend who travelled also said the same thing that after drinking that Hennesey, his tongue was stained black

I want to ask, is it possible for Hennesey to be cheaper in Nigeria than in Yankee? Or any foreign manufactured product

BlueRayDick:


They call it "Oti Apongbon".

If u go to Apongbon under bridge on Lagos Island, u will market women selling all kinds of premium alcoholic drinks/liquour ranging from Hennessy, Hennessey VSOP, Azul, Luc Belaire, Ace of spade, Don perignom etc. They are all fake drinks being sold at cheap prices. You will be shocked they even sell some drinks that are limited edition.

In fact there's a market for box/casket of the original drink. They buy the original box and put the fake drink inside. That's where people buy those drinks which can be harmful to the body.

BlueRayDick:


They call it "Oti Apongbon".

If u go to Apongbon under bridge on Lagos Island, u will market women selling all kinds of premium alcoholic drinks/liquour ranging from Hennessy, Hennessey VSOP, Azul, Luc Belaire, Ace of spade, Don perignom etc. They are all fake drinks being sold at cheap prices. You will be shocked they even sell some drinks that are limited edition.

In fact there's a market for box/casket of the original drink. They buy the original box and put the fake drink inside. That's where people buy those drinks which can be harmful to the body.

GloriousGbola:


The scams nigerians run no dey get part 2. this same thing was happening with mikano. they sell original electrical switchgear. so they are patronized by contractors. next thing, staff started switching parts bought by customers.

i did my IT in siemens in 1999 and they had a very very tedious system where a five copy form was carried from purchase to accounts to warehouse to mgr to buyer. the staff used to grumble that it was inefficent and slow - but now i know - na dem cause am.

GloriousGbola:


there is almost nothing that doesnt have a fake version in this country. i bought an hp printer some years back. one day a power surge fried its power pack. i realized it was under warranty so i took it to an HP office in ikeja. they first tok 2 days to confirm it was actually an original hp printer. Apparently Nigerians reassemble parts of damaged or discarded or used hp printers abroad, package them, import them and sell as new. so before they service your printer, they confirm the serial number

i have a modem that does not look like its model number, and several of the advertised functions that made me buy it do not work.

nigerians will tell you that luxury products are delicate and only meant to be used sparingly. this is because they are selling either fake or refurbished versions of the products that dont stand up to use. you buy a 'genuine' police wristwatch and the strap peels in a week. one time my dad was in lagos and he wanted a watch. it was very late so i could not go to park and shop in vi, so i went to one shop in mega plaza festac. as i was buying the watch i was saying i do not trust these people. this is where i bought a police watch that peeled in a week. the watch face broke in less than a week. right now, i have two or three watches whose batteries are dead, and i am waiting for someone to get me original batteries via amazon . you change battery here, and a battery that should last 2 years is gone in six months. then the repairer starts telling you - the watch engine is weak. i tire for nigerians.

adulteration of prime alcohol is very common. my guy says nigerians will be deceiving themselves they are hard guys downing bottles of henessy. go to a bar in uk and they look at you as if you're mad when you demand a full bottle.

Theflint1:
It has to be, 1 billion USD in profit from the Nigerian market, selling Indomie, sounded ludicrous.

Theflint1:
It's possible, depends on where you're buying from, and how you're buying...some of these stuffs might have been fapped from abroad, but fapped or not, koko be say na original.

Just like Blueray's example, staffs working in some of these big clubs could be stealing the Henny and selling them to a plugs that resells outside Nigeria in Ghana, Niger or Benin, or even within or out of state sef, and as with most stolen products, you can bet they'd sell for cheap.

As with Henny, so too with any foreign manufactured product that can be successfully stolen.

Sometimes it's also companies getting rid of old/defective stock, and they'd be willing to let them go significantly cheaper.

raumdeuter:


I know there are so many fake things from electronics, to Spare part t CD's Big boss Jigga man. But things wey dey enter your body, is even more critical, from medications, food items. This directly impact your health

How many people kidney don fry because of fake liquor, the reason they probably didnt go to drink paraga beside roadside is to ensure they are not getting bad stuffs

afrodoc2:


Na those fake drinks dey contribute to the high incidence of kidney failure with Nigerian celebrities.

izzou:




Apongbon na the HQ of all fake Assorted drinks.

Hennessey and Johnnie Walker gat nothing on them

larride:


Nigerians are just purely fraudulent with little or no consideration for the owner of the business.

afrodoc2:


Na those fake drinks dey contribute to the high incidence of kidney failure with Nigerian celebrities.

BlueRayDick:


That’s why it’s better to buy beer sometimes when u are not sure about the integrity of some bar owners . They mix those liquor inside that same Lagos island .

I remember years back when they burst a syndicate doing the mixing and corking of the fake drinks

Ibime:


Not only celebrities, and not only alcoholic drinks

Many normal citizens dey drop with kidney failure wey be teetotal. Even the soft drinks too get wahala

raumdeuter:


What do you think of liquor bought from drinks.ng? are they legit or Apogbon merchandize too?

This is the price I see Hennessey for online here, If you do the exchange rate that is 30K for VS and 42K for VSOP when you are now factoring shipping, clearing a profit margin, Should give an expectation of the prices

If you are buying your Hennessey for less than cost price in Yankee, then it might just be better to go to a Mama Alagbo wey dey sell pure ogogoro brewed in someone's bathtub or in one metallic drum only that you wont be paying thousands to get high on the same liquid just in fancy bottles that will do the same thing to your kidney

afrodoc2:


Of course i know it is not only celebrities. I was just trying to connect the dots seeing that renal failure seems to be the disease of choice amongst Naija celebrities. It's not even the alcohol that is the issue (since that one primarily hits the liver), but the unknown impurities used to adulterate those drinks. Those ones just travel to the kidney tubules to sediment and create roadblock, and before you know it the kidney don fail.

Ibime:


Omo something is wrong with what we consume in that country

I have now lost three friends to this, two were teetotal. So it goes past alcohol

OasisX:

afrodoc2:




Of course i know it is not only celebrities. I was just trying to connect the dots seeing that renal failure seems to be the disease of choice amongst Naija celebrities. It's not even the alcohol that is the issue (since that one primarily hits the liver), but the unknown impurities used to adulterate those drinks. Those ones just travel to the kidney tubules to sediment and create roadblock, and before you know it the kidney don fail.

P.S For most of the normal tetotaler people getting kidney failure it is either from strong pain killers (Ibuprofen, Diclofenac, Alabukun) or from undiagnosed/poorly controlled hypertension. Diabetes too is on the rise.

izzou:
If you want to drink anything Original, buy those that are canned

From Coke, to Malt, to Beer, to Juice, anything inside bottle (either glass or plastic) can be adulterated.

From Balogun to Lagos Island, different factories and breweries dey there dey mix.

Only canned drinks have a guarantee

Spy360:

Dey play. 😂

Unless Tinubu bribes the judges as he did to the lower courts and is used to, he can't escape justice.

The fact is that the inauguration is in a balance. 50-50

Still dey play 💥💥💥

afrodoc2:


Na those fake drinks dey contribute to the high incidence of kidney failure with Nigerian celebrities.

larride:


Thank God for those of us wey no Dey drink. 😂

BlueRayDick:


Dey play

They’ve been caught adulterating even non alcoholic malt drinks too.

Listen to the former commisioner of police in Lagos when they bursted an illegal brewery/winery in Ikorodu back then . Even malts wey some elders dey always fight for during ceremonies are not spared


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z13IMhm6xrg

larride:


Thank God for those of us wey no Dey drink. 😂

You no dey drink Malt?

Coke?

Non alcoholic wine?

Melvyn11:

It's not restricted to just alcohol o. Even soft drinks and medicine join. Medicines nowadays don't have expiring date because they keep editing them.