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"Nigaz name sparks racism debate A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with Russia was named Nigaz. Russia's Gazprom and Nigeria's state-operated NNPC formed the company - pronounced "nye-gaz" - last week. Nigerians No Nigaz, a group formed on the social networking site Facebook, says the name could be pronounced in a way offensive to black people. 'Bright moment' Correspondents say despite the hoo-ha caused online, newspapers in Nigeria have not picked up on the story yet. Simon Anholt, a top branding consultant who developed the National Brands Index, says this may be because such faux pas are usually "harmless". "The fact is that whenever there is a blunder like this it delights people, it gives them something to talk about and it gives them a bright moment in what might otherwise be a dull day," he told the BBC Network Africa programme. He admitted that it could be seen as offensive, but said it was fairly uncommon for companies to change their names. Such blunders are more common in government-run organisations, he said, "because they simply don't have the marketing experience to check these things out properly". But he says the fuss is likely to die down. "People will soon forget that the name sounds bad," he says."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8130334.stm

Words, I know, so to sum up; "Nigaz" and "hoo-ha"

7/2/2009 3:44:58 PM

show dem hoo-has

7/2/2009 3:48:17 PM

Nigerians No Nigaz

7/2/2009 3:49:58 PM

hah no nigaz

this is getting hilarious

man i love how laid back the country is! "o it will go away afterwhile, theyll forget it sounds bad"

i wish ou country would chill the fuck out like that

[Edited on July 2, 2009 at 3:54 PM. Reason : d]

7/2/2009 3:52:51 PM

my favorite quote was from the daily mail:

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"Many comments on the blunder were from white bloggers. But others mocked the mistake - one African-American suggested a playlist of songs from U.S. hip-hop artists for the Nigaz launch party. One Nigerian in Lagos said: 'White people are making too much of this. 'As long as the Russians pay us, they can call it what they like.'"

7/2/2009 3:54:41 PM

^ hahaha at the russian part

the africans are like wtf is the problem?

[Edited on July 2, 2009 at 3:56 PM. Reason : .]

7/2/2009 3:55:27 PM

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"man i love how laid back the country is! "o it will go away afterwhile, theyll forget it sounds bad""

That was some British dude, not the Nigerian government.

7/2/2009 3:56:12 PM

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/

7/2/2009 3:56:19 PM

fuckin quakers and white apologists and their bullshit really

why dont yall butt the fuck out

7/2/2009 3:56:40 PM

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7/2/2009 4:06:57 PM

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7/2/2009 4:25:31 PM

here, i got you another one
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7/2/2009 10:08:30 PM

yeah......this....twas my thread OK?!

7/2/2009 11:06:33 PM

^^^ No one seemed to care about your thread.

^ your use of excessive punctuation is vaguely unnerving.

7/3/2009 9:55:11 AM

AHAHAHA

"NYE GAZ" SON

7/3/2009 10:04:08 AM

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"fuckin quakers and white apologists and their bullshit"

7/3/2009 10:32:10 AM