DailyNews: Arabs, religious fanatics and terror sponsors.....anything from them is like a gift from mami water, don't just like them becos of their love for terror and human oppression while acting like they love peace n development.

MyIncorp: First came the Chinese, then the Turks and then the Indians. More and more foreign investors are recognising the potential in Africa's emerging economy.

playboy19:

Sir, as much as i detest terror attacks and sponsorship but i believe it is right for us all to have a better understanding of things happening around us. I believe we should not point accusing fingers on the Arabs alone, i think all oil producing countries including Nigeria are suspects of terror sponsorship. It is how the Oil business works. I am in the industry so i know what i'm saying.

Take for example, if you sell a sachet of pure water for N5 in the raining season and during the dry season, you move your product to the same market and sell it for N100 each, how would you honestly feel? How do you think the whole pure water manufacturers at the time would feel? Your answer is as good as mine. Now how would you feel if you get a news that, there is a way you could invest some few bucks into weather researches and keep the dryness for a longer or say permanent term? Would you invest or not?

That my friend, is the business of oil. All oil investors understand this, as a matter of fact, they make forecasts on this. Which country might get hit next in order to create short supply in the market, for others to hike their prices. Islam fanaticism unfortunately is the avenue they found to disrupt the market. You should ask yourself why terror attacks are only synonymous to oil producing countries? There lies your answer. So with this discovery, any oil producing country can sponsor disruption and terrorism depending on how weak the targeted country is.

Take this from me, America will be the biggest terror sponsor of the next decade as they just became the biggest oil exporter in the world. Nobody want oil prices to come down to $20 when its their turn to dominate the market, period!

Some sense in what you said, just a quick one, how much oil is produced from Crimea in Ukraine, anyone

jpphilips:


Some sense in what you said, just a quick one, how much oil is produced from Crimea in Ukraine, anyone

playboy19:

Well Crimea situation as far as i understand is another game all together. It's a political/diplomatic tussle between US (in the guise of a la UN) and Russia on who controls Crimea/Ukraine by proxy. I'll be very afraid if my enemy who lives in Ikoyi controls the Okada riders association in my area in Magodo and i'll fight tooth and nail to stop that. I don't know if this makes sense to anyone.

PS: Don't forget Crimea possesses a huge amount of natural gas

jpphilips:

I wasn't really expecting you to answer that question, its just to tell you that every conflict is not about control of oil and oil prices, like i said, you made sense in that line of thought though.

playboy19:

Nigerians wont listen to you no matter how much you try and explain the act of doing business to them. They believe they are entitled to anything just because they are Nigerians. Just because they have a lousy idea, they think banks should finance them without any track record of success.



In life generally, nobody care about you until you start showing signs of seriousness, which can only be shown through continuous success. I'm a serial entrepreneur and i invest in start ups, but you will never find me investing in someone, whose idea is his first in business. Never!

Nigerians and prospective entrepreneur the world over should understand that Investors/Banks dont lend or invest in Businesses for the most part, they invest in people. The person handling the business. The prospect of them being successful. Take for example, you come in to my office and pitch your idea to me. Though sounds very interesting and viable to me, (I) the first question i ask myself is, can this guy handle this? (II) The second is, this idea is not original, so it's something i could have come up with or someone had already pitched this to me in the past but i didn't give much attention or perhaps, someone already pitched this to me but the time wasn't right (but now, due to different changes in circumstances and life, the time is right), so why should i pay this guy for this? (III) Then the next thought is, i could get my team to develop this and make tons of money without this guy, so why do i need him?

What i'm trying to say is, if your idea is interesting and viable enough, try and source the capital within your circle first and get the business running. If you then come to me with good digits, there's no way i wont want a piece of you by investing. Haven't you heard of bankers begging or even doing extreme things just to get some people to get loan ( which they most times dont need) from them? That's because they have successfully proven that they can be successful without the banks and these banks want to make money with them from their businesses. Note that these banks at these point aren't really interested in the full details of the business(es), they just want to have a piece of the profit from whatever and however it is you are running your businesses and turning profit.

In summary, find a way to SHOW people you can do it and watch them queue at your door to do business with you. Actions they say, speaks louder than voice. I know this may sound rather harsh and unrealistic for some people who are down down the pecking order in life but hey, it's life. Life is harsh and unfair. The onus is on all of us to get up from our situations and get the ball rolling. Shalom

playboy19:

Sir, as much as i detest terror attacks and sponsorship but i believe it is right for us all to have a better understanding of things happening around us. I believe we should not point accusing fingers on the Arabs alone, i think all oil producing countries including Nigeria are suspects of terror sponsorship. It is how the Oil business works. I am in the industry so i know what i'm saying.

Take for example, if you sell a sachet of pure water for N5 in the raining season and during the dry season, you move your product to the same market and sell it for N100 each, how would you honestly feel? How do you think the whole pure water manufacturers at the time would feel? Your answer is as good as mine. Now how would you feel if you get a news that, there is a way you could invest some few bucks into weather researches and keep the dryness for a longer or say permanent term? Would you invest or not?

That my friend, is the business of oil. All oil investors understand this, as a matter of fact, they make forecasts on this. Which country might get hit next in order to create short supply in the market, for others to hike their prices. Islam fanaticism unfortunately is the avenue they found to disrupt the market. You should ask yourself why terror attacks are only synonymous to oil producing countries? There lies your answer. So with this discovery, any oil producing country can sponsor disruption and terrorism depending on how weak the targeted country is.

Take this from me, America will be the biggest terror sponsor of the next decade as they just became the biggest oil exporter in the world. Nobody want oil prices to come down to $20 when its their turn to dominate the market, period!

all4naija: Smh... I am beginning to hate Dangote's plan. Why in the good of me would he sell shares to Arabs? How many Arab companies are selling shares to Nigerians? Jeez! I am angry with this Nigerian richest man at the moment for taking that step. The same Arabs people who see Africans as sub-humans. When are Africans going to learn. I not going to admire him again as before.

The West are there who understand human rights to sell the shares to. Nigerian Dangote has started another inferiority idea in that country and I am not happy with him. I am going to remove him from my twitter very soon. I follow him there.

dellaziz:

ave always read u... and 90% of d time u reason like a BUFOON....partially daft... fully senseless... what's d diff between Arabs and d west... who invented slavery... sponsor almost all crises in Asia and Africa... build tons of nuclear destructive weapons.
DOS ARE D E,theIOTS THAT UNDERSTAND HUMAN RIGHTS BA

I c u are partially a monkey(BLACK) PARTIALLY A PIG(WHITE)... dat makes u a new hybrid animal WARTHOG I.e a MONKISH PIG OR PIGISH MONKEY...

all4naija: I just stopped following Dangote on twitter! I was among the first people to follow him there. One of the very few 10 people and now he has over 80k followers.

jerryjere: As Igbo big men dey dominate Nigeria and other African countries which of dem don be like dangote I won know

playboy19:

Well Crimea situation as far as i understand is another game all together. It's a political/diplomatic tussle between US (in the guise of a la UN) and Russia on who controls Crimea/Ukraine by proxy. I'll be very afraid if my enemy who lives in Ikoyi controls the Okada riders association in my area in Magodo and i'll fight tooth and nail to stop that. I don't know if this makes sense to anyone.

PS: Don't forget Crimea possesses a huge amount of natural gas

Nobleval: so? You think he cares?

gatiano: this is a really complicated issue that needs to be thoroughly discussed in the country as a whole for a general development.

you make a alot of sense, but your statement sounds like Oh GOD, bless the rich and let us the rich provide for the poor. like a teacher that finds pride in teaching students who already know and neglecting the once that need a little attention to know too.

heaven helps those that help themselves, true. we are all not previledged, some have access to and some will have to try a little harder.

i have seen people who have been a bank customer for more than 10 years, never filled for loan, used their hard earned salary to work up their businesses, and just a little lapse, the bank refused flatly to give the smallest loan. i know of thousands like that personally.

it will surprise you that, more than 80% of nigerians are not interested in creating businesses, they are 100% satisfied with working (being a teacher, policeman, farmer, pharmacist, and doctor etc), more than 75% don't think about buying a land and building their personal mansions, all they are satisfied with is a comfortable apartments.

now, who will provide this apartments, who will create this jobs? is it enough for dangote,otedola, ovia, and a handful of others and you to provide jobs and apartment for this 80%? if you can't and the banks won't, won't everyone of the 80% just give it all up and declare businesses for all? (which is what you are infact scared of, smart man).

should the banks give morgage and car loans to only those that earn more than 200,000 naira monthly, what about the civil-servants, the mechanics, the plumbers, drivers and conductors? don't they deserve a loan? do you see a casting system in the nigerian society? then you should never be amongst those that complain about slums and rusty roofs.

as an investor, you will check all the corners, up and down, it all come down to risk, it will be calculated, some you lose, some moderate and some a super win. banks can even support businesses and share ownership 50/50. everybody is liable and has a right to loan depending on his/her capabilities. country of 170 milion people, yet a bank from their can't boost of been the 10 top most bank of the world, that shows you the relationship they have with their customers.

Iykebestbt: God punish poverty...

all4naija:
No, he doesn't! The reason is that he is a billionaire who doesn't care about his fans in the first place! That is typical of Nigerians. I would rather be like Bill Gates than be like Dangote who admires Arabs treating Africans like sh*ts!

Nobleval: what do you mean by that?