Sony Apologises to Nigeria for Offending Advert!

Started by naos, Sep 27, 2009, 08:48 PM

naos

The Management of Sony Corporation has apologised to the Federal Government for its play station TV commercial which pokes fun of Nigerian scam.

The Managing Director of Sony, Gulf Middle East and Africa, Mr. Muira Osamo who led a delegation of the company to Nigeria's Minister of Information said that the company sincerely apologises to anyone the commercial may have offended.

However, the Information Minister, Professor Dora Akunyili took exception to the wordings of the apology and demanded that it should be written in clear terms.

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pii

I guess some just can't take a joke.

Not being racist here, I wouldn't mind if someone made a small joke about my country.

Nifemi Donald

that appology was needed.if they didnt do that i would have been offended.really offended.