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SPF247:
Is he OPEC??

Good evening brother....

Please in the name of God 🙏🏼
Can you please assist me with any amount you're capable of🙏🙏🙏
I'm really so down financially right now please 🙏🏼😓😓😓

Lovelydaisies:
I don't have to give but I hope you find someone who can. Shalom.

Thank you 🙏

uniquetechng:
Sorry brother, I have actually been away on a trip outside Lagos, I will be back on the 8th which is next week.

Good afternoon bro....

Please are you still interested in helping out with the loan🙏, I'm ready to meet you in person let's discuss terms and conditions please

Lovelydaisies:
Made sense.

Good morning sis

Please can you assist me financially 🙏🙏🙏

In the name of God, I know I might not deserve it probably because you really do not know me, but please I beg you in the name of God 🙏🏼

I'm actually not use to this online begging, but been in a terrible situation lately and I think I've no choice than to bring myself to this level please 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

pansophist:
Generational poverty is NOT genetic.

Good evening Sir....

I'm sorry this is off topic, but just hoping to try my luck with you, if you could please assist me with some money (any amount you can volunteer to help with) to help keep my business alive again....

Please sir🙏
Things have really been tough on me lately, I'm just hoping life gives me a second chance to raise again 🙏🏼

hagjay:
Chat me up on Whatsapp
I'll buy the account

Your contact please

MrLekan95:
I've just locked up pi for sale

And I'm desperate to sell cause I really need money badly right now

I'm in an emergency situation

xristos:
Please cook the modality verywell and Let the beneficiaries give us the news.
The so called minimum wage is just the full tank of a car

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uniquetechng:
Sorry brother, I have actually been away on a trip outside Lagos, I will be back on the 8th which is next week.

Can you help me with your WhatsApp digit please
Let's chat private 🙏

uniquetechng:
Good evening my brother, I will be free next week so that we can see to discuss the terms and conditions since you are a total stranger.

Good evening sir....
Please any update regarding our last discussion?

thatthickgurl:
Good afternoon.

I have a job which requires me to work remotely and it's not really time-consuming.

I'm not a fan of working from home, because it makes me lazy.

I'm in search of an on-site Job on the mainland, Lagos, where I can come to, three times a week. (9-4pm)

Salary is not an issue, just pay me the cost of transportation and throw in lunch. I'm good to go.

Good day sis!

First of all I'd like to apologize if this doesn't come to you in an appropriate manner, but I don't know which other best way to go about it.....

Please sis, I've really been struggling financially lately, I don't know how to come out openly to beg online, but just have to summon the courage this time around,

I've been following your success story for a very long time, and I believe if God touches your heart to want to help me, you are going to.....

I don't know how best to express myself right now for you to understand deeply what I'm going through....

Life has really been hard on me these past few years, I feel like giving it all up already, I'm scared of death, but at the same time the only thing that comes through my mind right now is just to give it all up....

I've over 500k debt to clear, this is so much on and the more it get accumulated, the more depressed and suicidal I get.....

Please sis, if there's anyway we can communicate better, I'd really appreciate 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼....
I need your help in the name of God Almighty that you serve🙏🏼

Texcyndy:
I just need 10 people to work with.
Send your WhatsApp number

09156300443

xristos:
Sorry... I'm far from those locations .

Okay, thank you

xristos:
What are ur collateral options?...

Bro can you help with a loan?

I base in lagos and work in Ogun state, anywhere convenient for you, let's meet up and talk over it please 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Please do you buy locked pi with KYC passed already?

Zik4zik:
I buy Pi at 600 Naira per Pi
Only Physical Transaction acceptable

Lagos, Ogun, Ibadan, Asaba, Only

Whatsapp 0 802 325 122 6

*** Face-To-Face Transaction Only

Do you buy lock pi?
I've about 300+ locked up and I've passed my KYC

uniquetechng:
no problem brother.

Good afternoon bro....
Any update please?

uniquetechng:
no problem brother.

Your WhatsApp number please
Or you can please chat me up if you don't want to reveal your digit (08175027586)

Thank you so much sir

uniquetechng:
Good evening my brother, I will be free next week so that we can see to discuss the terms and conditions since you are a total stranger.

Thank you so much for your consideration....

Can I please chat you up on WhatsApp for follow up please 🙏

uniquetechng:
Coming from a homeless dumb kid who hawks snails to survive, if you're sure of your wretched father drop your WhatsApp number here I will call you on video call then we know who is a kid and broke between me and your wretched father.

Why is it hard for you to drop your number or better still call me on video ? Simple, your poverty is on a higher level and shame wouldn't let you show your ugly face on video.

Check the my profile, I have given out these at halves their prices to naira land members and many of them were in my house to pick up themselves.

You mentioned you bought milk for 900, from 900 you mentioned 9000 then increased it to 10k, shameless dumb ninny.

My offer is still open, call me for the 200k I promised your useless father to help alleviate his condition.

Good evening bro.....
Sorry for interrupting your conversation,
Can you please help me with the loan of 200k instead to revive my business 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Can pay back in installment weekly or monthly, anyhow you choose to want it.....

I'm not a scammer, I'm ready for face to face meeting, I stay around ogba, lagos.

Here is my WhatsApp digit : 08175027586
Thank you so much for your consideration sir🙏🙏🙏🙏

God bless you abundantly

odimbannamdi:
Buying FnF PayPal funds at 1480. Contact in my signature

Good evening sir.....

Please sir
Can you assist me with some change 🙏
I'm kinda stranded at the moment please🙏🏼

Sanchez01:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

I have carefully followed Chioma Okoli's unfortunate event since last year and lost interest at some point because I thought it was buried and everyone had moved on, but not until Eric Umeofia, the founder of Erisco Foods, went on different TV stations to recklessly brag like a typical airheaded Nigerian 'money miss road' whose only strength lies in using the instrument of State to harass common people. After his interviews, I soon found out that the police had bundled Chioma Okoli, a pregnant woman, from Lagos to Abuja, forced a written apology out of her, and then revisited her home to harass her family by cutting off electricity to their apartment and denying them access to their own generator set around Christmas. All of these make you wonder if Chioma Okoli had done something beyond leaving a review/her personal experience with a product she bought with her own money. I watched Eric Umeofia's interviews with shock, disgust, and disdain. I thought, "This man's business wouldn't survive if he tried this in the United States." How does a company with supposed "40+ years of business", "100 million+ customers," and "100+ range of products" not have a corporate communications arm to handle affairs of PR rather than allow its founder to run amok and make reckless statements that could destroy the reputation of a 40 years-long business, just because he believes an aggrieved customer was sent by his enemies to 'destroy' his sweat?

Nigerian business owners and their perception of reviews

If there is something over the years I noticed that business owners hate in Nigeria, it is the feedback from customers, particularly when it is not suitable or pleasant, and this is where they miss it. Since moving to the US, I have realized how businesses in America handle reviews. They can be detrimental to businesses and can easily win them new customers. I can't recall how many times I have dined at a restaurant, shopped at a store, or even purchased an item just by reading reviews cum experiences of other customers. Nigerians work in reverse when understanding the basics of running a business. A customer has a right to be pleased or displeased about a product they purchased, and a business owner has no power to determine how and where a customer should vent. The idea of "go and patronize another brand instead of destroying someone's business" is a crude way of saying, "you either buy a product with its flaws and swallow your opinion or go and patronize a better product rather than complain."

How Gino responded to a call out amid the Erisco saga

On March 9, 2024, a tweep on X by the username @iam_temmyy posted a video calling out Gino for a bad Gino tomato paste his FRIEND (not himself) bought. It was enough for Gino to come out and blame it on their detractors/enemies and possibly get Temi arrested since he isn't the direct consumer but a friend of the consumer. Gino's official account replied with an apology immediately and asked for details on the product. And How did Gino respond? With a carton of the same brand in the video, the user posted! It was enough to be a PR disaster for Gino but they did something differently.

Plutocracy or not, the customer is always king, whether as a first-time or returning customer, a concept most business owners need help understanding.

How global brands react to reviews/callouts on social media

Brands such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and other soda brands have been called out a million times on Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok and accused of their products containing more sugar than necessary. Several content creators have warned their audience to avoid some of these brands as they harm humans. Guess what? None of these brands have arrested or filed a lawsuit against these content creators because they understand the Streisand effect and how it can ruin their stock in less than 12 hours. So, what do they do if they can't address the situation? Ignore!

So, what did Chioma Okoli do wrong?

As far as being a customer, Chioma Okoli did absolutely nothing wrong! The problem was that she had an opinion concerning a product she bought with her money. More interestingly, her major offense is that she is a nobody in a country where plutocracy reigns and instruments of state can be used unjustly against anyone by those with a few million Naira to their name. Review has no standard tone. It can be mild, harsh, or filled with regrets, depending on the reviewer's state of mind when reviewing the product or their experience.

How the Streisand Effect is Ruining Erisco/Nagiko

Had Eric Umeofia caught a whiff of the restlessness and global negative attention he and his company would get due to Chioma Okoli's review, I am sure he would have either ignored her review or handled the entire situation differently. Regardless, the disastrous PR of the company has pointed to a host of disturbing discoveries about Erisco/Nagiko products:

1. Nagiko Tomato Mix contains Food Color E129, a synthetic red dye called Allura Red AC (E129), and sugar. Are these bad? The answer is not straightforward. Red dyes in foods could trigger inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and the sugar quantity...oh well.

2. Despite Nagiko Tomato Mix containing artificial agents such as red dye and sugar, all of Nagiko's products have "100% Natural" labels on the cans, making it entirely false. Nothing is "100% Natural" about a product with artificial red dye and sugar. It's a false advertising/labeling. In the US, any consumer can easily sue a brand with such big, bold product information.

In 2011, PepsiCo agreed to pay $5 million for mislabeling their Naked Juice products as "all-natural" when they contained synthetic ingredients. The lawsuit alleged that the products contained ingredients such as a fiber additive made by Archer Daniels Midland and genetically modified soy, which are not considered natural.

In 2015, Chipotle agreed to pay $6.5 million for allegedly mislabeling their food as "GMO-free," when some of their ingredients actually contained genetically modified organisms. It was discovered that some of the ingredients, such as the cooking oil and the dairy products used in their food, did contain genetically modified organisms, even though they had been labeled GMO-free.

PS: If Erisco were to operate in the US, it would have likely filed for bankruptcy because a class-action lawsuit would have been filed against the company for its "100 Natural" label.

3. Nagiko product lines don't have nutrition facts/tables, which is weird for "100% Natural" labeling. I had to look up competitors and found that they have nutrition facts on their packages and percentages of every ingredient used. Nagiko doesn't have this. Instead, Erisco only listed what is included in making these products. It's dubious and tells a negative story about NAFDAC.

4. The barrage of negative reviews left by users worldwide on Erisco's business page on Google is unbelievable and doing damage to the business.

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For a brand that is not exactly strong and popular in the Nigerian market, Eric Umeofia was more interested in forcefully covering up and silencing Chioma Okoli for having an opinion as a first-time customer. Still, his actions have done quite the opposite and gained his brand negative global attention. Mr. Umeofia quickly realized the power of social media. He desperately engaged a PR company to clean up his mess across their social media platforms. Still, the result has been underwhelming for all the wrong reasons. If Chioma Okoli's review/rant had been ignored on Facebook, Nigerians and netizens worldwide wouldn't have noticed the discrepancies in Erisco's products. People are no longer calling for a boycott of Erisco's product lines. Rather, genuine questions are being asked about how safe their products are because there are discrepancies and deliberate missing information on their packaging.

As a businessperson, you should consider changing your line of business if you don't appreciate feedback. You can't push questionable products out and boss people around about how to or not react to what they bought with their money. You can't beat a child and tell it not to cry.

Hi, Good day sir
Please I've been following you here for long on nairaland, I don't know if you can please just spare me a little of your time to converse with you on WhatsApp (08175027586)🙏🙏🙏

I'd honestly appreciate if you can please consider this

Ab0bii:
Hope the deal did not involve pfp money. Just asking for a friend

I'm not interested in his money
Thank you

blackberrydude2:
Even when you follow the shortcut, you still have to walk.

Good day bro, can I please reach you on WhatsApp for a deal?

OgwuEgo:
I follow some very good punters na their game I dey play.

Can you link me up bro?

Rexymania:
Lovely. Tinubu is not bad o, but na people wey surround am

Lolzzz, same old story 😂😂😂

Samantha124:
Why do Nigerians call medications drugs?

Correction: "some Nigerians"
I'm quite sure you know better than this not to generalize a habit as......