'Don't call me Tony' - Tony Elumelu's correction of trainee sparks online debate

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  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    He has worked hard for himself, show him some respect.

  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    Just imagine addressing Dr Nduom, by his first name.

    Good morning Paa Kwesi!

  • Ruthan 1 week ago

    Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will not mind being addressed as Vladimir or Donny in public. Why bcoz they've a strong mentality and have already made their mark. They've so many important things to think about instead of ti ...
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  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    Go and call President Trump,

    Good morning Trump and see!

    Have you ever seen some of the names the Honourable President has used for particularly, the disrespectful CNN press men and women.

    As for Vladimir you may ha ...
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  • Ruthan 1 week ago

    President Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump will gladly accept and smile at any public event with their names being shortened. Go to any Russian University their lecturers don't use their academic titles.

  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    You don't know those two leaders well.

    The lecturers choose to allow that within the confides of the University and their audience.

    Don't you hear him say, she could have called him, 'Chairman' as he was officiating th ...
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  • Nii 1 week ago

    Late JJ Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyemang were addressed as Old Man & Madam in the 80s by PNDC octogenarian functionaries even when they were in their early 40s. Complete idiocy from Sycophants

  • Tony 1 week ago

    The use of Oldman is common in the Military, that is how we refer to our commanders irrespective of one’s age. In the battalion for example, we all refer to the CO as the old man and same applies in the Company and further ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 1 week ago

    You can call them what you want but if you work with them, for them, or under them, the professional code of conduct must be applied by addressing them as Ms and Mr. They also reciprocate the same gesture.

  • Brian 1 week ago

    Ruthan understand and do understand that custom tradition are area specific remember that same custolm tradition culture is what make group A different from group B but it cost nothing to be decorous

  • KB2 1 week ago

    In Russia you use the middle name and last name ,you can never use the first name if you are not a colleague

  • P Djamgbe 1 week ago

    @KB2, thank you, in my entire life I have never seen anyone calling Putin by his first name, not even these arrogant Western journalist pricks or their leaders

  • Adjetey 1 week ago

    We are in Africa ok.so learn your culture and that define you.

  • Kweku Tsin 1 week ago

    You may not get it if you sell dog chain on the street. Even in Africa, teachers, workers at the bank, ministries and, law enforcement address each other by last names.

  • BLACK MOSES (USA) 1 week ago

    GO TO THE WESTERN WORLD PICK AND LEARN WHAT IS WELL RESPECTED OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND RESPECT AND STOP SUPPORTING AND LEARNING THEIR STUPID STUFF.

  • Kweku Tsin 1 week ago

    Forget about his money and position. Even co-workers on the same level in a professional setting address each other as Ms/Mr plus last name. That is the general decorum. This little bitch is unprofessional and out of line. Wh ...
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  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    Fools. His name is Tony what is his problem?

  • Kweku Tsin 1 week ago

    It is a professional code of conduct, if you ain't been there, you"ll never know.

  • Atugabiig 1 week ago

    Sooo what? Can she call her small village chief by his first name???

  • Kofi 1 week ago

    But they (Trump and Putin) would not mind attacking other countries abi. Let's show respect where it is due. This girl would be calling the father or husband ...hey ......in the house when she gets money or a big appointment. ...
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  • Kay 1 week ago

    African mentality. Kofi Wayoe once said Professor Tiwiii , Doctor Nana Minim Tiiiiii ,Archbishop Emeritus Professor Kwasiapanim. Bill Gates will not mind being call Bill in any event

  • Name 1 week ago

    Kofi Wayo's case was not a formal way of calling those people. He was insulting them, which is not what we discussing here.

  • Kweku Tsin 1 week ago

    Even the late Maya Angelou, on an Oprah show, went off on a girl that called her by her first name. At the same setting she talked about going off on Tupac for cussing around her during movie shoot.

  • BLACK MOSES (USA) 1 week ago

    IS KOFI WAYO CULTURED.? KOFI WAYO IS NOT DEAD AND WHERE IS HE NOW. ? DONT SUPPORT RUBBISH IF YOU YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY DO HAVE RESPECT FOR OTHERS LET IT BE AMONG YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    Bill gates, Zuckerberg and the rest Oprah etc they never mind when you call them by their first name infact wealthy people like being called by their first name than mr gates, mr Smith mr Zuckerberg etc but this Tony guy I do ...
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  • Kwansima Matigbe 1 week ago

    A Jamaican will tell STGHFUO “ya idiot”. Bill Gates,Trump and Zuckerberg grew up in a different environment with different customs. Is that too difficult to understand? Wow, your teachers really suffered teaching you. Sho ...
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  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    This is. A professional, business, pubic event. Not some village or cultural platform. Such professional business speaking engagements are held across all spectrums be in in Africa or North America or Europe Asia etc.. usines ...
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  • Agyin kwaebibrim 1 week ago

    WHAT A DISRESPECTFUL AND CHILDISH COMMENT. RUTHAN HOW WERE YOU TRAINED AS A CHILD BORN BY GHANAIAN PARENTS? WHERE AND HOW WERE YOU TRAINED? ARE THERE SENSIBLE ELDERS IN YOUR FAMILY? WHICH SCHOOL DID YOU ATTEND? ANSWER THESE Q ...
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  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    This is stupid so if this man attended a businesss seminar in Canada and during the q&a session a student asks him a question and refers to him as Tony. Would he interruot and student and say don't call me Tony? This is silly ...
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  • Kwansima Matigbe 1 week ago

    STGHFUO from which tree were you carved? Is Canada Africa? Respect and customs are very big in decent circles in Nigeria. I once saw the MD of Zenith Bank in Nigeria greeting a State Governor and he almost went flat on his st ...
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  • Brian 1 week ago

    Respectfully customs and culture is not contagious remember African were brought up differently in any case if you feel comfortable calling your Tony,Kwasi,John and mum no big deal it's your own cup of tea though being respec ...
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  • Prayer 1 week ago

    @Ruthan,be careful not to take your stupidity or lack of home training everywhere.For,one day,if your are granted the rare opportunity to meet Trump you may even address him as " hey Trump." Strictly speaking,we the citizens, ...
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  • BLACK MOSES (USA) 1 week ago

    NO YOU ARE WRONG. NOT THAT YOU ARE STRONG AND HAVE MADE THEIR MARK. THE WESTERN IN THEIR OWN WAY HAVE FADED CULTURE, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS AND AT SO MANY POINTS DO RESPECT AND REGARD ACHIEVEMENTS. THE WESTERN WORLD STANDARD ...
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  • Ivory Mensah 1 week ago

    If you call president Putin casually as Vladimir, the next minute you are gone to heaven or hell. The girl messed up big time. Africans especially Nigerians have a way of addressing their elders. Respect is key i ...
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  • Complex 1 week ago

    In the west Tony is fine because they will still respect you as boss after calling you Tony but in Ghana and maybe Nigeria even a maid servant will start disrespecting you once they become familiar

  • NzemaK- Use Sec'ty Recruits to build affordable houses 1 week ago

    The man is right. Show some respect. Our culture is different. Imagine this fianga girl addressing this noble man as Tony.

    She has already lost her future job. Mind her, this man knows a lot of big men. Yooooo

  • Nana 1 week ago

    My great-grandfather father once told me that in the past they don't have Keys to their doors in the village.Why everybody respect himself and name. Today Big men with Titles don't respect their names when stealing but they ...
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  • Complex 1 week ago

    Agreed. I had a big problem with an elder and the elders said the person causing harm was older than me so he is right. The logic was basically if a forty year old man rapes a ten year old girl the man is right and the girl i ...
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  • Rush 1 week ago

    What does he need titles for. We are not able to development our continent yet we are so obsessed with titles. Nkwiasem nkoaah

  • Test2 1 week ago

    FOOLS
    DO THEY FEED THE WHOLE WORLD? THOSE SO CALLED MONEY MEN ARE ALL UNDETECTED CROOKS STEALING FROM THEIR COUNTRIES IN COLLABORATIONS WITH THE CROOK AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    If someone is a Dr you don't ever call them by their first name. Dr, presidents, this is common sense. Calling this man by his first name is not disrespectful he just has an ego he can go fk gimself

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    +Why didn't Tony wear their local. Nigeria long outfit to this event? Had he worn that long white dress with hat im sure he woukd have been accorded the necessary alhaji respect he so. Craves. Kwasia like that

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    Paa Kwesi Nduom is a Dr with a PhD therefore you address him in professional environments especially as Dr. Nduom. Im sure he is addressed differently as an elder in his village

  • Nana 1 week ago

    You guys should stop the noise! My grandpa is 86 and prefers to be called his name without titles...what is this foolish posturing, he's rich, old and so what?

  • NzemaK- Use Sec'ty Recruits to build affordable houses 1 week ago

    Tell us you don't know the difference btw public and private places

  • Nana 1 week ago

    Nigerians and Ghanaians value titles more than any other thing. It's part of the reason why they buy educational titles. Unfortunately they don't consider the value of their names when stealing. Soon Mahama will not be attrac ...
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  • Tom Po 1 week ago

    If you're talking about your zoo, leave Ghana out of it, even a sitting president who was shaded by the the 'uncle Atta' accepted it when it was being used on him and never complained, he even used it on himself sometimes, re ...
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  • @Nana 1 week ago

    I'm a lawyer but eschew titles.
    I'll never call anyone by his 1st name unless he or she is my close friend.
    From Asantehene to the lowest chief in Ghana, I will not call anyone by his 1st name, not even in private.

  • THINK DEEP 1 week ago

    You're well educated both academically and by culture. My problem is why can't we factor in the value of our names when committing crime? A bad name have influence on our families

  • Kwaku 1 week ago

    Chairman lacks self-esteem

    If you ever meet people like Tony who craves for titles and recognitions in public, then inwardly you have to know that he lacks self-esteem.

  • Name 1 week ago

    Look, this has nothing to do with titles, but rather with CULTURE.

    In some cultures, it is alright to call by people by first names without restriction, even if you are not familiar with them. In others it is strongly forb ...
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  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    Thank you.

    We love to copy all the worse things without the reasons our own culture have developed standards over time.

    Do you think the west will happily embrace African ideas without putting them to test.

    Give an ...
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  • Menp3 meho as3m 1 week ago

    May be ur grandpa is a very useless old f*ck thats why he doesn't care when u disrespect him by calling him in such manner foolish girl

  • Complex 1 week ago

    Maybe you are the stupid one. I once told a girl that I was shagging not to call me bro. She thought I was a little older than her so she got to give me that respect but I explained that I shag you so no need

  • @Nana 1 week ago

    We thank God for the long life of your grandpa. Blessings abound on him. Your grandpa has a choice and you all in the family honour his request.

    My first niece started life by calling me Yaw because she grew up hearing ev ...
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  • Kofi 1 week ago

    Pls who's your grandpa?

  • kkkk 1 week ago

    It could be that the lady has been calling him Tony in private life. When old men chase small girls and tell them call me by my first name. Can anyone tell the relationship between them? The lady forgot is a formal event.

  • Kojo poku-London UK 1 week ago

    @TRUTH

    Hmmmm. I understand Chairman Tony Elumelu stand in some way and to some extent but the poor student was also abused by the way you reacted to her simple question. This is because she was torn between not projecting ...
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  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    @Kojo Poku-London,, I'm sure you know by now how Nigerians talk.

    Of course, I would have kept repeating,'Mr Chairman'quietly for the lady to correct her salutation but you know our wonderful distant neighbours love to talk ...
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  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    Let's copy good values not the ones that do nothing..

  • Nonsense 1 week ago

    How do u call Bill Gates, Elon Musk , Tony Blair, even Donald Trump ? Straight, right ?

  • Fd 1 week ago

    There’s absolutely nothing wrong with what he did. We must understand the differences in our culture

  • Nana 1 week ago

    You guys should stop the noise! My grandpa is 86 and prefers to be called his name without titles...what is this foolish posturing, he's rich, old and so?

  • Great one 1 week ago

    Who's your Grand father, what's his name and achievement to his environment, without being told, can you call your uncle his first name?

    Stop being stupid, yes Americans can call their president by his first name, can a Br ...
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  • Kofi 1 week ago

    Your grandpa doesn't know what he's about.

  • Name 1 week ago

    You are very naive indeed: your grand ALLOWED YOU because you are related.

    I never believe he would allow strangers, especially children who could be younger than his own grand children to call him by first name - never.
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  • Ojatanaa 1 week ago

    Does she call her poor father by his first name she chance in the banking sector is finished just one phone call and that's it good bye

  • Atugabiig 1 week ago

    Why should you call your senior man by his first name without first asking for permision? Even in the Western world, well bred people always ask for permision before calling people by their first names. It usually goes like t ...
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  • No wonder Africa is underdeveloped 1 week ago

    So is Mr. Elumelu telling us that if this question had been asked by an Oyibo girl in London or Washington, he would have been fine with it? I mean come on Mr. Elumelu, you could have jokingly corrected this young lady withou ...
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  • Trump 1 week ago

    We are Africans and should know how to address the elderly. He did well by correcting her.

  • Adanko 1 week ago

    The young these days have no respect for. How dare her to call the man by his first name ? Is she his class mate ?

  • Clanlord 1 week ago

    Yess, the boss was right in our culture ,as Africans respect for the elderly is a most.
    Thank you boss for putting her right he meant no malice but rebuke.

  • The lady is wrong, this is not a casual environment 1 week ago

    Mr Elumelu is right in all respect. The environment and nature of business demands formal addressing

  • Rasta 1 week ago

    Very good response from Mr Elumelu.
    Just address "Sir" or "Mr Elumelu" or "Mr Chairman".
    Can you address your father with his first name? Show respect in the corporate world.

    Go and call a senior officer in the militar ...
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  • MELO 1 week ago

    Stupid girl , anything they see Europeans do they want to replicate it . The African is cursed with copying

  • Shamsi 1 week ago

    Like wearing a suit and not an African attire. Hypocrites. Speaking English too. Lmao

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    Don't mind them they eat with fork n knife and wear Suite and dress shoes but want to be treated like the elders in the village..no wonder Africans are and will still remain corrupt. Even thr judged amd preachers are liars an ...
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  • Rekido 1 week ago

    Respect shld be given to ppl who deserve it
    Sir u are right ,ppl shld know reason title where given.
    ..

  • Kwame 1 week ago

    Yet you love to wear oyibo suit and tire. Typical Africans full of contradictions

  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    Comparing apples and oranges.

    Of course, people of your kind have been encouraging copying for generations until now.

    Are you surprised, of the coat, coat!

    I am sure, some Africans used to mock people using African w ...
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  • Don 1 week ago

    This is not about a gen-z thing, it's basically disrespect and uncultured swine from a poor background as child.

  • TT 1 week ago

    This generation of uncouth kids behave anyhow. Good she was cautioned well.

  • Enekpala 1 week ago

    Tony is trying so hard to become a pu.ssy. Interestingly he doesn't want the name is parents gave him anymore. What a poor guy ! SAD!

  • Enekpala 1 week ago

    Tony is trying so hard to become a pu.ssy. Interestingly he doesn't want the name his parents gave him anymore. What a poor guy ! SAD!

  • FACTS ARE SACRED 1 week ago

    CLEAR IGBO MAN
    ==============
    A Hausa like Dangote wouldn't react this way. Igbos are a very POMPOUS and unfortunatle KRIMINAL breed.Ghana has something to learn from every tribe and creed, but we must minimize Igbo influen ...
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  • Prayer 1 week ago

    Before one can call another person who is above him( your boss,your teacher for example) by his first name,permission is granted first.This applies all over the world whether in America or in Ghana or in Russia! It is only pe ...
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  • Shamsi 1 week ago

    Shut up unless otherwise stated its not wrong to call people by their first names

  • Name 1 week ago

    You MUST rather shut up because you know nothing !!!

    The whose issue is cultural dependent. If the Nigerian culture allows people to call public speakers by first name, then the girl was right.
    But I know that no African ...
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  • Gra 1 week ago

    Hypocritical

  • Kwame Nkrumah 1 week ago

    I agree with Chairman. These same children call others Honourable, reverend,Pastor, papa, etc

  • DU 1 week ago

    Hmmm. We must as well have to tell God to just add us titles to our names. Does calling somebody by first

  • Kennedy Agyepong 1 week ago

    The man was right in every sense. Let's give respect to where it is due. We are Africans not whites. Take for example addressing Asantehene in a public event as Osei Tutu or the president as Mahama. It doesn't cost anything b ...
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  • Name 1 week ago

    What's all this fuss about?

    The man has every right to insist upon been addressed in the proper manner and this has nothing to do with social status, riches etc. It is just the societal norm that dictates this.

    No Afri ...
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  • Citizen8 1 week ago

    I totally agree with Chairman Elemule.

  • Guv'ner 1 week ago

    Does Mr Elumelu look like a colleague trainee, age mate, or junior brother to her? I'm sure her parents would be embarrassed seeing this video. She has disgraced them before those who would be asking if she wasn't properly br ...
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  • Guv'ner 1 week ago

    Even me, a nobody, won't tolerate younger persons calling me by my first name, even if they're my boss.

  • Ghana My Motherland 1 week ago

    You don't want onyibo things but you're wearing oyibo suit. Hm

  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    Does Oyibo like to drink Nigga oil?

    You don't have to copy everything, especially, valueless stuff.

    There are also certain names and salutations Oyibo will not tolerate.

  • STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey do 1 week ago

    Why didn't Tony wear their local. Nigeria long outfit to this event? Had he worn that long white dress with hat im sure he woukd have been accorded the necessary alhaji respect he so. Craves. Kwasia like that

  • TRUTH 1 week ago

    @STGHFUO: Monkey see, Monkey..your name alone shows how unprincipled you are.

    The fact someone is wearing coat to an event doesn't mean you should disrespect them.

    Do you even know why he was named, chairman for the eve ...
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  • Mimi 1 week ago

    Can somebody help me here? Do the western world have culture? Culture is the shared of life of a group of people. There is nothing good to learn from their way of life. They have no shame, no discipline, no family values and ...
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  • Name 1 week ago

    Please give me the definition of CULTURE!!

  • Gaskia 1 week ago

    Just because she has fake hair and nails, she thinks she had arrived, so she can abandon the respect for elders that Nigerian culture is known for, and address the one who can open doors to her anyhow. And when doors are clos ...
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  • Bogus meaningless titles 1 week ago

    Foolish stupid animal Nigerians who the shit do you think you are with your meaningless arrogant tittle?? You are billionaire so what you? You are one of those idiots who think respect is bought She's never wrong addressing y ...
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  • kelewele 1 week ago

    You are a big fool. The Western world has no morals and values that is why little children call the elderly by their first names. Kwasia…

  • Bogus meaningless titles 1 week ago

    Foolish gutter rat kelewele.. if you think is compulsory why not sue in court anyone who calls you by your first name. Nobody is your kid to be teaching your right. Get the fck out of here with idiotic brain

  • Koti 1 week ago

    Both are correct; it's all about differences in culture. In Ghana "aunty nurse" is widely accepted but elsewhere it's a taboo.

  • Amanda C 1 week ago

    1000 per cent correct of him

  • muntari. 1 week ago

    Who are you Aboa goat ?

  • Sappey Agboh 1 week ago

    Honestly, I find it disgusting and disconcerting reading from Ghanaians who found nothing wrong with the way the young woman addressed the Chairman. Hello the Chairman's remarks had nothing to do with titles, rather it was ab ...
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  • Name 1 week ago

    @Sappey Agboh

    So do I. I don't understand why some are bashing Mr Tony Eluwelu !!

    The German culture has gone so deep into my system so much so that when I briefly worked in England, I was the odd-man-out: I would alway ...
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  • Adjetey 1 week ago

    Very inappropriate

  • abena 1 week ago

    yu cant call him tony, in the first place he is older than u,
    she has kissed her career good bye.
    ist from the girls training. she cant call her father by his first name...

  • abena 1 week ago

    at least, she could have called him sir,

    what a girl..

  • PERFECT! 1 week ago

    Now someone is teaching the youth how to respect. You come and stand in front of somone's respectable father and call him "Tony" just because you are sleeping with men double his age.
    Well done for correcting the child SIR!

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  • Tosh 1 week ago

    No african in his right senses, should address his father's age mate by his first name. If she had said 'Sir', it wouldn't have diminished the content of her presentation.

  • Kojo poku-London UK 1 week ago

    Hmmmm. I understand Chairman Tony Elumelu stand in some way and to some extent but the poor student was also abused by the way you reacted to her simple question. This is because she was torn between not projecting you as an ...
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  • We Are Tired 1 week ago

    So you mean you will stand up and address Dr Bawumia, a Muslim, as "good morning Mahamudu" at an official gathering and no Muslim will complain? Be serious when you're making public statements.

  • Nii 1 week ago

    Do we call our mothers and father's by their first names? We only pick the nonsense of the Whiteman and call it normal. The good, we never copy. How do u call ur elders by their first name?

  • Test2 1 week ago

    FOOLS SHOWOFF AND POMPOUCITY ALL THE TIME WHILST THEIR COUNTRIES BEG FOR IMF LOANS BEFORE SURVIVING STARVATION
    INCASE THERE IS AN EARTH QUAKE RIGHT NOW OVER THERE WOULDN'T YOU RAN AS ANYBODY THERE OR IF THERE IS A PLANE CRA ...
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  • Sycamore 1 week ago

    Africans are just way too stupid
    Africans copy everything the Whiteman does except his commonsense. Do we as black people and Africans for that matter have to copy everything western? Western culture,western dressing,wester ...
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  • Gordon 1 week ago

    She was wrong to call him TONY

  • OZYMANDIAS 1 week ago

    Can that silky brat call her father by his first name? The cheek of it?

  • OZYMANDIAS 1 week ago

    That SILLY and DISGUSTING Brat………

  • Nìi 1 week ago

    That lady is sick

  • Jon J 1 week ago

    Really? Fo callin somebody by his name?