Motunrayo

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[Sugabelly 🌕 @sugabelly]

I know everyone jokes about this stuff a lot but it’s a very poor (and in my opinion lazy) understanding of Nigerian psychology and Nigerian social behaviour.

Nigerians are not white supremacists.

Nigerians are POWER supremacists.

They align and support every oppressive power structure in any society they find themselves in or observe.

If black people in America had been the ones to enslave and oppress white people, Nigerians would come along and tell you how white people too were the ones who provoked black people into enslaving them, and how being white is inferior and disgusting, and white people should try to be more like black people.

Nigerians mental and social orientation is to have far more sympathy for the people who wield structural power than for the people who are victims of it.

It’s the same reason they support clearly harmful African politicians and leaders.

Nigerians are sexually attracted to dictators and despots because they have power over other humans beings at scale.

[Jordan Rachel @TheJordanRachel]

I don’t even want to talk about a female president ever again after this Lindsay Clancy trial

[Chief £ne @_Ojonya]

Calling psychosis a hormonal problem is why men shouldn’t have rights to speak.

[Nancy Drew @realJenGulizio]

God knows, I WAS SAYING GUILTY, Until I listened to,complete medical science, Patrick's timeline, Prosecutions TIMELINE, Patrick told them, &the fact Lindsey didn't remember shit ,BUT, told over & over she did it! Who ODS,CUTS,WRISTS & JUMPS OUT A WINDOW! PRINTS NOWHERE AROUND

[SAY BYE BYE😊 @DonnaDkent123]

Another SMART PERSON TY JESUS !!!

[. @southernsiren__]

God.. i see what you’ve done for others. can you do it for me?

[Olamide . @olamide_adee]

Thirsty doesn’t mean one will drink gutter water .

[Izu_ManaMana @NwagbaraIzuchuk]

600 PEOPLE WERE KIDNAPPED AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS THIS QUIET!!!!

#Securethe600

[Felix @felixherbt]

Our media is in total blackout.
In case you don’t know what’s happening, yesterday over 15 NYSC members were kidnapped. Nobody is talking about it because the media is obeying Tinubu’s instructions.

These are people’s children; their parents spent years of hard work training them in university. 💔🤯

[Adetutu Balogun, MBA @Tutsy22]

I stopped taking Nigerians seriously when Mama Deola spoke as one of the panelists at a women’s conference.

[VoldemorT @sinzubaba]

That interview of Hamzat telling young Nigerians to go and stay with their parents as the answer to a housing price crisis should be everything you need to know this human will be 10x worse than Sanwo

[Olu Awolowo | Eni Oba nke | Okanlomo Oodua @Donendy2003]

When Ecobank took over Oceanic Bank, the Oceanic staff discovered that we were calling one another by our first names in Ecobank. Our MD Funke Osibodu was Funke but not Mrs. Osibodu. They were coming from a background that they were calling Mr. Adetunji, Oga Deji, Madam Ibru, Dr. Clever…. So, they had to adjust. So, if it is Mrs. Cecilia Ibru who is cautioning that lady, I may not have any issue with it. No issue because that is what she encouraged in the institution that she ran in Oceanic Bank. Majority of Nigerians who will be contributing on this discussion online will definitely not know this truth. They will not know because most of them were still in primary school or still crawling in the 1990s when Tony Elumelu and his other ‘cow boy bankers’ came to the corporate world at their tender ages. Elumelu became MD of Standard Trust Bank, STB in 1997 at age 34. Other guys who floated GT bank and Access Bank were also in their 30s. They could not do the work alone so they had to recruit staff into their Banks. They discovered that the experienced people that they were hiring were in their 40s, and 50s. They found it ridiculous to be calling their staff Mr. Lagbaja and Mr. Tamedu. They had a complex, giving instructions to someone older than them. To conquer the complex, they introduced the idea of calling all staff by their first names. It levelled the ground for everybody. Mr. Daramola Oladeji at 44 is now addressed as Deji, Mrs. Oluwole Olufunmilayo with 3 boys in the university at 48 was being called Funmi at work and she must answer. They were the one who came to destroy the work place ethics in order to satisfy their ego and help them manage their complex.
One good thing about it I must confess is that it makes you freer to relate with your colleagues without any age barrier to the overall benefit of the organization. In Ecobank during the general staff meeting which we call village meeting, you will hear people saying ‘Funke’, I have been raising my hand since and you have not given me chance to talk … that is the MD that that they are addressing. Even at that, if I am to travel with the MD to Abuja on the same flight and I want to ask her which airline to book, i will enter her office and say ‘Funke admin is asking me which airline should they book for our journey?’ Do you know that on that flight, I will carry her bag, as a mark of respect. If another big Oga is with us on the trip and we reach our destination and he ask ‘ Deji what are you doing, you are delaying us’; Do you know I can tell the Oga without any fear, "I am waiting for the conveyor belt to bring Funke's bag, but it has not come" meanwhile, the person i am calling Funke is the owner of the bag I am waiting to collect oooo.

I have gone this far to let you know that even in the midst of name calling, we used to give honor and regard to one another but not openly like they do in some other places. That girl knew which environment she was coming into. She knew people were being called and addressed by their first names. They were tutored along this line in the training school. Those who violated the policy were given penalized
She will do d same in an Access Bank. She will do it in GT and Ecobank and she will not be reprimanded. I had an Oga that came from Afribank of old to join us in Ecobank. When he would address our Group Head, he was always being fined N1,000 in those days. He would say ‘Excuse me, Sir’, here is a fine of N1,000. Mr. Lagbaja sir, another N1,000 fine but when he calls our Group Head by his first name, our group head will say ‘Yes, i am listening’. The other man was coming from a background where the culture was different from the new place he found himself.

Money has come; age has also come. Tony is seeing that lady as age mate of his own girls of yesteryears who have equally become ladies now. He and his friends who were underaged bankers were the promoters of this culture in the banking industry.

[Motunrayo @Morejoy__]

Omo!! Ha!

[Nigeria Info FM 99.3 @NigeriainfoFM]

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Thoughts?

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[Favour is locked in. @FavourYusuf1]

This is not the gotcha you think it is.

It’s an evidence of confusion and a lack of standards.

It is the elders that we need to point fingers at and ask questions.

When did you institute a policy of “first name” calling when you know you don’t like it.

Why are you so cowardly.

If you say, call me Mr. Tamedo, who will beat you.

The very idea that you will institute a policy you hate, and then go behind the back to punish a staff that adheres to it is Asinine.

It is the same reason why a Man of God must be Called Apostle, if not thunder will fall.

Yet we all open our mouth to call Bro. Hagin, Bro Hagin.

All of us are not serious.

We just like lying to ourselves.

You o, Me o, TOE, the person preaching below, we are lying to ourselves, and we don’t even know that we are doing it.

Bunch of spineless cowards.

Don’t piss me off tonight abeg

[IO @Chriss_IO]

He corrected her and she adjusted.

Piling on her is stupid. You should be congratulating her on being bold.

We encourage cowardice with our longing for respect, even when that’s not what said thing signals

[Brother Possible @BrotherPossible]

Last comment on this Tony issue:

That girl is a graduate trainee. She's just starting her career. She has made a "mistake" according to you people, but the correction on the spot there is sufficient. Oga attributed it to "geography." Oyibo thing. Some added GenZ. Generational gap. She has learned.

Whatever anyone in UBA or anywhere do to her to punish her because of that moment is pure wickedness including some of your comments here. She should not be victimized. In fact, whoever is her direct manager has the responsibility of reassuring her and the Exec needs to help her regain her confidence.

We know how to destroy things here. How to exaggerate and try to make a mountain out of a molehill, and destroy people beyond recovery. It should not be her story.

We don't know what she'll become tomorrow. She may not be a banker sef but when she succeed properly, and she tells the story of this moment, let it be that humanity won.

As you throw comments here and there, remember that this event is like something happening between a primary school student and a professor. Be kind.

Good night.

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

Money and power are the only things Nigerians respond to. We just codify respect to access it, we don't respect for respect's sake; we respect only if it affords us the possibility of access to more money or more power.

[Moe @Mochievous]

In all of these, situational cultural context matters.

It is irrelevant what you want to call the person. How does everyone else address them? That’s it. Simple.

[Esteffywill @esteffywill]

My career path is currently in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), and as an Associate, policies and SOPs are the bedrock of my work. So, it honestly amuses me seeing people casually talk about disobeying policies.

[Omotoyosi @OgunsetanO]

Exactly.
Because if I can exercise discretion for one policy, what says that I can’t for the others?

We can’t be shouting strict compliance with internal policies and then single out one that needs to be exercised with discretion.