Sterling Bank Plc has been slammed on Twitter after its Easter message to Nigerians was considered offensive and insensitive.<\/p>\n
The message had read, \u201cLike Agege Bread, He rose,\u201d with a photo showing bread and a \u201cHappy Easter\u201d caption.<\/span><\/p>\n This was considered offensive by many who wondered if Sterling Bank was equating bread with Jesus who is the reason for the Easter season.<\/span><\/p>\n The bank later pulled down the message from its social media pages and issued another one that said, \u201cBlessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. We humbly celebrate His resurrection, the defeat of death and the hope of salvation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The new message was accompanied by a flyer that contained an apology which many also found offensive and insincere.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c\u2026let the one who has never sinned cast the first stone. For our recent errors, we sincerely apologise. Forgive us in the spirit of Easter,\u201d the bank wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n A Twitter user identified as @Oyoyonwa1 said, \u201cSeriously? Let him who has not sinned cast the first stone? And this is supposed to be some kind of apology? Who approves these things?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n @dinaudoh said, \u201cYou need to overhaul your creative department as these Easter posts have been in bad taste, insensitive and rather disturbing. For a bank that claims to care to be about each customer, you shouldn\u2019t disparage any religion or its symbols. DO BETTER!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n @NwaezeMma said, \u201cYour apology is not sincere. Try it with other religion and see. Do right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n @AdaGOkoli wrote, \u201cIf this is an apology, then it will not rise with Nigerians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n @Moolaoye said, \u201cWhoever told you that forgiveness is by arrogance and not by repentance. This is not a message to seek forgiveness but a message to justify! Don\u2019t send a message that you know nothing about. #blaspehemous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sterling Bank Plc has been slammed on Twitter after its Easter message to Nigerians was considered offensive and insensitive. The message had read, \u201cLike Agege Bread, He rose,\u201d with a photo showing bread and a \u201cHappy Easter\u201d caption. This was considered offensive by many who wondered if Sterling Bank was equating bread with Jesus who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[4306,4305,167,4304],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-agege-bread-advert","tag-knock","tag-sterling-bank","tag-tweeps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}