https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fRJJdLw5PI

Nigeria Becomes The First Nation To Ban White Models In Commercials

Lololol...our suffering approaching 3D.

I guess it is an extension of the protectionist orientation of the current regime. It is likely to do more harm than good. It would have been better to create conditions that allow local models and talent to thrive and become globally competitive to the extent that it is a no-brainer to use Nigerian talent. The use of Nigerian music stars for campaigns has become a no-brainer not because the government banned the use of foreign music stars.

The more we mindlessly close our economy and businesses to foreign exposure without creating ideal conditions for local content to develop, the worse things may get. What happens to the use of stock images and AI-generated voices?

Timekeeper452:
I swear this government no get sense. You ban them from doing all these in your country in other to promote a local community but still end up sending your children abroad to school and also going abroad for medical checkups and treatment? You buy weapons from them and borrow loans from them. Who dey mumu?

Have you ever advocated for compensation of slavery trade and colonisation which put us many centuries backward?
In the first place the whole world were at equal level in technology and innovation but the slavery trade and colonisation scattered everything. Go and make little research about those who brought knowledge of Medicine, Astronomy, Mathematics which are the basis for the contemporary knowledge we have. The same people you want to defend stole everything, they were the most illiterates people on earth before they started stealing brains. Get that excuse first before crying like a baby over the issue of your oppressors. The mental inferiority in you is out of this planet

better

BATified2023:
[b]Like seriously some people are meant to wail till death [/b]even if u are trying to stop a car from hitting them

Imagine some people still find something to wail about with this news despite d fact that it’s to promote home grown talents

I don’t blame them cos I remembered when hope uzodinma banned alcohol sales at park to void drivers from over speeding n causing accidents,some miscreants wailed about it n said he was trying to kill business despite d fact that he was just trying to help them

Must you follow your mentor even when he is wrong?

Hate has filled your little space.

Free yourself up.

Assert yourself without hate.

Connected1:
A good way to increase patronage of local contents, it should spread to other areas too, so can employment rate can increase and the youths can be encouraged too.

We depend too much on foreign things, that we assume them as superior.

But if UK had done this, it would have been called racism!

Uzomarrr12345:

But if you hear say for Europe , dem ban Nigerians or Africans from taking local jobs

Una go shout racism

That's not my business fool. Every nation has the right to enact policies to favor locals. Fck them and you.

That's how the fool enacted ghana must go in the 80s... fool always thinking of useless policies.. 1983 he did same

Nigerian government is becoming xenophobic.

Simply regul are the advertising industry

izzou:
Is this the best way to solve the issue?

Why not add more requirements and increase the fees for ads with foreign artist, voice overs and contents?

That way, you encourage clients to go local, and also make more revenue if they insist on foreign names

whichever way they will still see something wrong in every little good done as if they know it all

This government dey zuzu

That in itself is RACISM

Cmanforall:

If foreigners start banning you now, you'll start shouting racism. Creating different threads on social media to attack them.

The ban was not directed to any nation in particular, so I don't understand the fuss here.

ehinmowo:


But if UK had done this, it would have been called racism!

Relax your emotional mind, the ban was to no nation, race, tribe in particular even our neighbours, Ghana and Cameroon aren't excluded, so I don't understand the complaints I am getting.

We are trying to encourage local contents and it's a good way to start for a country that depends massively on other countries for goods and services.

081087n:
APC with balls
We need APC again for 2023.
We want experience not experiment

Funny human beings

Wetin bubu administration can't do, doesn't exist

Connected1:

The ban was not directed to any nation in particular, so I don't understand the fuss here.

Not about a nation...
The same discrimination anywhere in the world, Nigerians will complain

Cmanforall:

Not about a nation...
The same discrimination anywhere in the world, Nigerians will complain

People will always complain.

I am glad that for once Nigeria is putting her citizens first.

They should extend this to customer care operators. They will call you and the next thing you'll hear is phoney. Lol

It means REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT, give this jobs that our people can do here to earn a living and reduce capital flights. In Kenya no body uses foreign faces for advertising. IT IS JST COMMON SENSICAL.YOU CAN ONLY GIVE FOREIGNERS HI TECH JOBS THAT YOU DONT HAVE THE TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW. E.G RAIL LINES,BRIDGES,REFINERIES ETC.
One of the things that bedevil naija people ways to misearable life for decades is their insatiable crazy tastes for anything foreign.e.g dubai this dibai that,foreign toothpaste,foreign gnut oil,foreign milk,foreign chairs,foreign wife etc.

izzou:
Is this the best way to solve the issue?

Why not add more requirements and increase the fees for ads with foreign artist, voice overs and contents?

That way, you encourage clients to go local, and also make more revenue if they insist on foreign names

You prefer to spend on foreign model who spend the money in Europe than your Nigerian brother who would spend here and reduce poverty and joblessness.

This initiative is creating jobs, yet you will still come on nairaland and be crying no jobs...cursed fellows, wired to complain wether good or bad...always sees bad in every good thing, no be juju be that.

Acidosis:


Racist country.

see am, see am...lagosian

Na una go talk say we need to grow indigenously, na una go still wail.

Na una dey talk say make dem barn importing cars for innoson and co, abi no be so?

E ko bose n seyin lo.

TCD:
Why should white models be used to advertise for the nigerian market? Good move in my opinion

Exactly!, I don't want to see white models with incomprehensible British accent used to advertise the eating of Fufu

2Radii:
see am, see am...lagosian

Na una go talk say we need to grow indigenously, na una go still wail.

Na una dey talk say make dem barn importing cars for innoson and co, abi no be so?

E ko bose n seyin lo.

Growing indigenously means providing incentives for indigenous products to thrive competitively or better than foreign goods, not banning foreigners (human faces and models) outrightly across industries. Learn the key difference (products and humans). Models are humans not commodities like rice or electronics.

You wan go do healthcare, IT, and oil and gas work for Canada as a black man but you're against white faces acting as models in your country. Make it make sense na.

How would you feel if Canada or any other country bans black faces in public and online ads?? Na you go first scream racism, you bl.oody racist!

Connected1:

People will always complain.

I am glad that for once Nigeria is putting her citizens first.

There are policies that can drive this view without placing ban.
For example, advertising with foreign models can be made extremely expensive to air, or other policies.

Cmanforall:

There are policies that can drive this view without placing ban.
For example, advertising with foreign models can be made extremely expensive to air, or other policies.

That would be worse, think about what you are saying.

We are all talking about worshipping foreign materials and here you are talking about making it expensive, when has it been cheaper? People still patronize foreign goods and services even though it's far more expensive, don't you know the more expensive an item becomes, the more valuable it becomes in the eye.

That's not a valid point, the best alternative is what the government did, we should stick to our own contents, maybe then we can even promote our own cultures, it's a gradual process.

Connected1:

That would be worse, think about what you are saying.

We are all talking about worshipping foreign materials and here you are talking about making it expensive, when has it been cheaper? People still patronize foreign goods and services even though it's far more expensive, don't you know the more expensive an item becomes, the more valuable it becomes in the eye.

That's not a valid point, the best alternative is what the government did, we should stick to our own contents, maybe then we can even promote our own cultures, it's a gradual process.

I would have continued raising valid points to contradict this Nigeria's ban of Foreign models. What we talking about here is most based on advertisement, and not the country of production.
To your point, if I should ask you, so you think a local product with foreign models will sell more than a foreign product with a Nigerian models?

To make the question clearer from your point - an example: You think a local brand of beer with Angelina Jolie as the model (more expensive) will sell more than Heineken with Ini Edo as the model?


Promote culture to where?
What is stopping the cultural promotion today?
Is it the foreign models?

I am trying to be objective here and please don't think any of those decisions affect me. I just want a better Nigeria for those in the country

Godson32:
Funny human beings

You, joker human being

A ban on foreign music? When?

adefitim:


The ban on Foreign music nko?

It really help Naija Music to grow

Enddy50ty:
That's Racism of a different kind.

I see.
When Nigerians run to overseas countries and white people start firing you with their 100% racism, SHAME will not allow the Nigerians to admit their they are suffering racism.
Them go keep quiet and be bearing white man insult.