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CrazyMan: But they're your friends na...after all its only N20 they requested for...I believe you're worth much more than N20 so why not give it to them.

Must you complain because of N20...smh Nigerians are stingy.

he be like say u dad na police

Yes is true

ndala: were u keep ur sense?

abeg no blame am him use am exchange garri.

Abagworo: It is BayelsaTV owned by the State Government.

yes oh

M M M: Cocaine is also good 4 d body system, becos it is used 4 drugs

where dis one come from

Besto: mehn c figure 4 militants
funi enuf dis guy jst use this dier allowance to smoke,party and carry ladies.!
Last tyme i waz in bayelsa,laptops were shared 4everi 4kin small militants
dis guys jst went ahead to sell the laptops nt even wanting TO learn or use it for the purpose it was shared.!! Bought 4rm them at 20k each sha 'brandnew ish'

wetin consine u

Nigeria’s Delano, Njoku Catching Waves On Forbes’ Young Millionaires List



ONE is just 31 years old, the other is even younger. He is 30 this year. And yet, through sheer hard work and cast-iron determination, they are known worldwide as successful entrepreneurs. Their fortune is already being measured in millions of dollars. And guess what? They are Nigerians. They are just two out of millions of Nigerian youths, to whom the future belongs, depending on how they use their youth.

Recent statistics from the Manpower Board and the Federal Bureau of Statistics show that there are about 80 million Nigerian youths, representing 60 per cent of the total population of the country. Sixty-four million of them are said to be unemployed, while 1.6 million are under-employed.

The two Nigerians, Jason Njoku and Ladi Delano, were named alongside eight others as 10 young African millionaires to watch by influential business magazine, Forbes.

Forbes is an American business magazine, which features original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. It also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, and law. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400), highest-paid stars under 30, and its list of billionaires. The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool."

The listed Africans, in their 20s and 30s, the magazine said, have built businesses and amassed million-dollar fortunes.

Delano, aged 30, is Founder and Chief Executive Officcer, Bakrie Delano Africa.

Forbes said, "The jet-setting Nigerian serial entrepreneur made his first millions as a liquor entrepreneur while living in China." In 2004, at age 22, Delano was said to have founded Solidarnosc Asia, a Chinese alcoholic beverage company that made Solid XS, a premium brand of vodka. "Solid XS went on to achieve over 50 per cent market share in China and was distributed across over 30 cities in China, and pulled in $20 million in annual revenue," said the magazine. Delano subsequently sold the company to a rival liquor company for over $15 million and ploughed his funds into his next venture - The Delano Reid Group, a real estate investment holding company focused on mainland China.

Today, Delano is said to be the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bakrie Delano Africa (BDA) - a $1 billion joint venture with the $15 billion (market cap) Bakrie Group of Indonesia. "Bakrie Delano Africa serves as the investment partner of the Bakrie Group in Nigeria. The Indonesian conglomerate has provided over $900 million worth of funds to invest in Nigeria and Bakrie Delano Africa is responsible for identifying investment opportunities in mining, agriculture and oil and gas and executing them," said Forbes.

Also, according to the magazine, thirty-one-year-old Njoku is a maverick Internet entrepreneur and founder of Iroko TV, acclaimed to be the world's largest digital distributor of African movies.

Iroko TV has been dubbed the 'Netflix of Africa'. Earlier this year, the company reportedly raised $8 million in venture capital from Tiger Global Management, a New York, United States-based private equity and hedge fund run by billionaire Chase Coleman.

IrokoTV is claimed to enjoy lucrative content distribution deals with Dailymotion, iTunes, Amazon and Vimeo. Analysts believe IrokoTV could be worth as much as $30 million. Njoku is said to be the company's largest individual shareholder.

The number of unemployed young people worldwide will reach nearly 75 million this year, according to statistics released recently by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

In Nigeria, rising unemployment and fear of unpleasant future among Nigerian youths have arguably led a sizable number of them down the slippery slope of violent crimes ranging from robbery, kidnapping and assassinations to trafficking in drugs and/or humans.

A federal cabinet member noted recently that, "Our unemployment rate is spiralling, driven by the wave of four million young people entering the workforce every year, with only a small fraction able to find formal employment."

But it has been dismissed that youth unemployment is a recent phenomenon. The rate of youth unemployment in the country was said to be high, even at periods of economic normalcy, that is, the oil boom of the 1970s, 1980s and the 1990s.

The foregoing are a bleak representation of the stark reality staring youths, especially in Nigeria, in the face. But the examples of Njoku and Delano are proving that young people can actually ride on the back of ingenuity to break political and economic barriers and live a relatively ideal life.

rafhell: great. so i should dump my iPhone for a Nokia. ??

who ask you?

Na today

Rooneyboy: cheap blackmail !
She failed.

wetin be ur own self he be like say u jos join nairaland new how u take no say na cheap blackmail ? Son of a juju priest

Rooneyboy: don't mind him, with time "he'll lick his wound of stupidity" let him keep enjoying himself while it last.
We be spectators, WATCHING!

what have u achieve so far in dis life abeg go sedown for gotta

gidiMonsta: My reference to that line of the song was an analogy, for you to infer that I meant something else says a lot about your IQ. Please keep Biafra/Massob away from this thread, this is foreign affairs abeg before you people start another tribal war on here.

another tribal war on here teacher no teach me nonscess

gidiMonsta: Your post reminds me of Rick Ross's verse in onyinye rmx; "...we talking money, u talking nonsense..."

sharap there wetin u no

aguiyi:

boko cheif for rivers

abi o.p.c chief for allua

HQ: Ah, Dino again? This must be a sad year for senators, Farouk led the train.

Oh and is this the new trend? Saying B*llshit about people using Social Media?

@The Brother In Law. Does he not know where the said senator leaves? Why does he lack the ballz to confront him? If he's so confident on twitter.

i taya oh maybe him day fear him head

You use your mouse for just about everything: you drag, you drop, you highlight, you scroll. But even if you click your mouse a thousand times a day, I bet I've got a few secret mouse tricks you've never heard of.

Click Tricks
You surely know that double clicking highlights a word, and you might even know that triple clicking highlights a paragraph. But have you ever wanted to select a column of text in a Word document, without getting all the text to the left and right of it? Here's how you can: Hold down the alt and left mouse button (on a Mac, option-left mouse), and drag the cursor over the section you want to select. The coolest thing about this trick is that the text you are selecting does not even need to be formatted as a column for this to work.

[Related: 8 Microsoft Word Shortcuts You Probably Don't Know]

Scroll Tricks
Most mice have a scroll wheel. Sure, it takes you up and down on a page, but in combination with other keys, it can do much more:

Scroll sideways: In many versions of Excel, holding down the shift key while scrolling will take you sideways. That's super helpful in a big spreadsheet.
Scroll wheel as back button: In most web browsers, if you hold the shift key while using the scroll wheel, it works like the back button: You can fly through all the sites you've recently visited. (Some mice have side buttons that work like back and forward buttons in your browser, too.)
Scroll to zoom: Holding ctrl and scrolling lets you zoom in or out of the page you're viewing. Ctrl-scroll up zooms you in; ctrl-scroll down zooms you back out. On a Mac, this trick will zoom in and out your whole screen, not just the document you're in.

Windows-Specific Tricks
While most of the tricks I've listed so far work in either Windows or Mac OS, here are a few that are specific to Windows machines:

To maximize a window: drag the title bar to the top.
To minimize all windows except the active window: "Shake" the title bar. Then if you want to restore all the windows you just minimized with this shortcut, just click again on the title bar of the window in view.
To view two windows in a 50-50 split: Drag the title bar of one document to the left edge of your screen, then drag a second document to the right edge; they will snap into position in a nifty side-by-side view.

Bonus Sneaky Trick
Suppose you want to walk away from your hyper-secure work computer for a few minutes and not have to re-log in when you get back. Sure, you could change the sleep settings, but this idea is much more clever: Set your mouse on top of your analog watch or a clock. The mouse tracks the second hand's movement and it tricks your computer into thinking you're still busy working. Of course, there are valid security reasons for NOT using this trick, but I still think it's cool that it works.

Where okija juju day na? Na him 4 answer dis quction

ismhab: ANY BODY WHO HAD HAND IN GHADDAFI'S DEAD, BY THE GRACE OF GOD HE WILL DIE THE WAY GHADDAFI WAS KILLED.

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Kslib: Hmmmn,why did he send the video to david mark? We all know politics would be played with those evidence as usual. It's high-time we all realize that our political leaders do not give a Bleep about we the citizens. All they care about is themselves,they play politics with ourlives and our future,cos they know their's and their generations to come is secured..
Just look at how many innocent lives have been lost and still they don't care.. They know the sponsors of boko haram,they know themselves.. What a pity!!
Everyday we keep complaining about bad governance,i mean EVERY SINGLE DAY and yet we the citizens don't want to force that change to happen rather we fold our arms and wait for miracle to happen... You think if the aim of boko haram is to islamize the country,they wouldn't move to other zones with time.Should we wait until the battle gets to us and cause irreversible damage before taking actions...
Our leaders are wicked souls,devils in human form,armed robbers without ammunition and heartless creatures.. One thing is for sure,when the revolution comes it will be bloody and no-one shall be spared.. All of you beasts combined and multiplied can not be a match compared to the millions of innocent Nigerians who have been deprived the right to smile. There will be no hiding place..
How can we let a bunch of fools control the lives of millions of Nigerians. Without the citizens there is no Nigeria and without these fools there will be a better Nigeria!!! We put them where they are today,we should be the one's calling the shots not the other way round....

and the revolution will be televise life

hammedkola: So who are the people on the list?

if u ask me na who i go ask?

[quote author=nwa-ngeme]PLEASE DONT WASTE OUR DATA. THIS NEWS IS TOTALLY USELESS WITHOUT THE NECESSARY DETAILS. A NUTLESS MONKEY CAN WRITE THIS UP.[/quote]i fink u just did

donigspain: EXACTLY!
Happened to me about two months ago. I tried overcoming the spooky stuff with 'mind control' method but it didn't work. I resolved to calling JESUS CHRIST and after a few 'calls' I got freed.
Phoned mum 'sharpally' and a day fasting was declared on my head in absentia.

the 9ja way

udezue: Can these foools do whatever they want without mentioning Igbo?

sharap there

I think vector deserve it

Abuja day learn 4 where bayelsa day

olumide77: Eedris Abdulmalu you calling an elder stateman and an ex-president a mugu is very wrong of you. Can you call your biological father a mugu? Hmmm! I pity your generation.

sharap there what do u no?

But no be lie na

[quote author=Beaf!]This is a legitimate work not yahoo. Probably because of power or wifi. looks to me like they are students.[/quote]ya transaction student

Becuz na america cum better pass Helarious clinton i hear u our people say see kettle day call pot black

[quote author=ndu_chucks]This old coot, Edwin Clark should be daring GEJ to name the BH sponsors in his administration as he promised to do. Nonesense.[/quote]shutup mister man

jamp: NA TODAY

he dun tay

When u smoke IGBO GO 9TH VIGIL