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@soccertorey Marroune Fellaini

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@northernassist How do I request refund… Aren’t you guys supposed to refund people automatically their trip get cancelled

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@northernassist will take your money, cancel your trip and refuse to refund you… it’s the audacity

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@northernassist I want my money back

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@northernassist I booked a ticket, trip was cancelled refunding me became a problem

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@me_zehD I can’t hear you guys

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@Chiora__ Who are you 😂😂🤣

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

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[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

If African organisational policies and procedures are largely extracted from Western values where our language, poise, and attire also come from without first grounding them in our own culture, then that lady was not wrong.

For the chairman of a global brand like UBA to say “I don’t subscribe to that Oyinbo life” is selective and inconsistent.

You cannot enjoy the benefits of Western corporate structures and then reject the parts that don’t suit you.

You can’t eat your cake and have it. Titles and respect are not the same thing. The standard should apply without exception.

This is my submission.

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

If African organisational policies and procedures are largely extracted from Western values where our language, poise, and attire also come from without first grounding them in our own culture, then that lady was not wrong.

For the chairman of a global brand like UBA to say “I don’t subscribe to that Oyinbo life” is selective and inconsistent. You cannot enjoy the benefits of Western corporate structures and then reject the parts that don’t suit you.

You can’t eat your cake and have it. Titles and respect are not the same thing. The standard should apply without exception.

This is my submission.

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@RealDonaldDoo I swear bro na personality disorder

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@tayobeats_ They’ll shout racism

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@romide60 @Dontee___ In Nigeria and an organisational setting that uses the western playbook… double standard bro!!

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

There’s a clear double standard in the Tony Elumelu “Good morning Tony” saga, and people are dancing around it.
A UBA graduate trainee called him “Tony” during the GMAP event. He corrected her publicly and said he doesn’t subscribe to that “Oyinbo life.” Online, many jumped on her: “disrespectful,” “no home training,” “this is Nigeria, we have our culture.”

But look at the full picture:
1. UBA’s own graduate training encourages first-name culture. Former GMAP staff have said trainees are taught to call colleagues (including seniors) by first name. Some even said the example given was that the GMD is “your colleague.”

2. At Stanford, a young Nigerian woman (Chisom Obi-Okoye) opened an interview with “Hi, Tony.” Elumelu replied warmly. No correction. No “Oyinbo life” lecture.
Same first-name address. Same young Nigerian woman. Different reaction depending on location and power.

Now the cultural defence: “This is Nigeria, she can’t do that, we have our culture.”
But almost every major Nigerian organisation, including UBA, runs on Western corporate structures — the suits, the policies, the performance systems, the graduate programmes, the language. Nobody is running these banks on pure traditional protocols. We copy the Western standard in almost every area, then suddenly become selective and reach for “our culture” only when a junior person addresses a big man too casually.
If the organisation has already adopted the Western playbook (suits and all), it is inconsistent to treat first-name address as culturally illegitimate only when it is directed upward.

The trainee followed what the bank taught. She misread the power distance in that specific room — that’s a situational mistake, not a lack of home training.

Elumelu has every right to prefer formal address from his staff. Framing it as a principle he rejects, while accepting the exact same behaviour abroad, is where the double standard and the misleading part come in.

That’s the honest reading.

[A͟B͟U͟J͟A͟ ͟P͟L͟U͟G͟ 🔌💯🇳🇬🇳🇬 @ABUJAPLUG]

LEFT: Tony in an interview in Stanford University, USA 🇺🇸
RIGHT: Tony at an event in Lagos Nigeria 🇳🇬

What did you observe? 🤔🚨🚨

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@orbiterP @Tope_soft Are you in the west please? Just asking ?

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@babbmclifton @BigBodyBeeva @Wakaholic_nurse How is it a different situation

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@AnglicanBeing Well that’s true tho… But the hypocrisy in how this unfolds is what I do not understand cos this is a professional gathering

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@AnglicanBeing Bro what is good for the goose is good for the gander, you don’t make policies and make an exception cos you own the place or the moment… That’s not disrespect

[Ayodeji Olujobi 💡💡👑🇬🇧🇳🇬 @BlaeizeA]

@AnglicanBeing Yes!!!! A Governor’s name is a Governors name

Here in the United Kingdom the Prime Minister is Andy Burnham and we call him Andy

Respect is not in Titles it’s in how you treat people