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Entire WhatsApp Group Turns Into Business Pitch Arena

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LAGOS — A WhatsApp group originally created in 2017 to coordinate a football viewing party has, over nine years, hosted an estimated 340 unsolicited business pitches ranging from MLM skincare to crypto to chicken farms, with no member able to recall the last actual football discussion.

The situation continues to develop.