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If I had the means I am talking wealthy enough. where money is not a problem

would you go the cubana way or something different


I would personally prefer a more quite maybe expensive ceremony. since its a one time occasion as a parent can't die twice.

If it were to be a birthday I would shut down the city for my parents.

What about you?

So in port Harcourt where I stay I overheard a woman in my street talking about how a young boy in her daughters class(primary school) threw a birthday party at a hotel

She was clearly offend that he invited her daughter. Guess all sort of negative thoughts is only expected. I mean boy is not even 18 and he throwing birthday in hotels.

Isn't this crazy.

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*Summary of Publication*
Chinese billionaires Jack Ma and Joe Tsai have pledged chunks of their combined $35bn stake in ecommerce group Alibaba in exchange for significant loans from investment banks, company documents show.
The share pledges, made to banks including UBS, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and others, were undertaken by offshore companies controlling more than half of the two billionaires’ stakes in Alibaba, which totalled 5.8 per cent as of December.
Share pledging, whereby banks accept stock as collateral for loans while the borrower retains ownership of the shares, is risky and most US companies limit its use by executives. Any forced selling of pledged stock can exacerbate the fall of a company’s share price. This can be precipitated by margin calls, when borrowers must pay back loans from brokers or forfeit stock.
But while US companies are required to disclose share pledges by executives — as Elon Musk at Tesla, the electric carmaker, has done — foreign groups listed there, such as Alibaba, are under no obligation to do so.
Ma and Tsai, Alibaba’s two largest individual shareholders, have used the loans to unlock vast personal fortunes tied up in the group’s shares.
Alibaba said Ma “and his affiliates” currently did not have any loans outstanding collateralised by Alibaba shares while Tsai’s loans outstanding backed by shares were “easily manageable” with “prudent loan-to-value ratios to provide [a] substantial cushion against triggering a margin call”.
The company said pledging shares for loans was part of “ordinary financial planning to provide liquidity and diversification without having to sell shares in Alibaba”.
Bankers say stock pledges are a common method for Chinese executives to raise cash without losing control of their companies or sending negative signals to the market by selling their shares. “It’s a really good business for banks, it feeds a lot of people,” said one former banker. “These founders are asset rich but cash poor.”
https://www.ft.com/content/1efa8623-4e4c-435b-8195-26b3fb9839b9

What's your favorite way to relax?
How do enjoy your leisure.

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I have a little idea on this. I may be wrong I maybe right. Please can you guys explain how a Nigerian politician will go about money laundering.

Thanks

And yes I just started watching Ozark. it's a series on this topic. still need more enlightenment.

Need to inform the mind.

Hey I'm thinking of Starting a frozen foods business mainly Turkey.

But I'm looking at going international.
An international frozen foods business.

Imagine you wanted well cooked ogbono soup or any other Nigerian food that can last being frozen for a long while.

So what do you think. ideas? is this viable? good revenue generator? challenges?

Hey guys so I am considering starting a business in a area in close proximity to a Higher Institution due to some untapped potential.

Please suggest business ideas for me

Thanks.

So there are cases where guys despise the idea of a lady they meet for the first time showing up with another female friend. it can be annoying.

My focus is on cases where you may want to see her maybe at your crib and you for example stay with a friend who may be in search of girl of his own or maybe a fling. And you tell to show up with her friend.

How has your experience been like. a friend once told me he met the girl his currently dating that way another had a terrible circumstance cause babes was forming firewall he couldn't breach.

So share yours.

In pre-wedding arrangement,
doesn't the bride sponsor her chief brides maid?

A friend of mine is confused on if she has to make ashowebi or if her host will do the necessary

You know to avoid unnecessary billing

So what do you think.

just curious to know how those girls dont get pregnant or catch diseases while hopping from D to D.

like think about it what measures do they take

Please no insult just want to see what I can learn to advise girls around me

Like whattt...

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Twenty seven years after
starting Amazon out of his
garage and turning it into
one of the world’s most
valuable companies,
founder Jeff Bezos said on
Tuesday he is stepping
down as CEO. Bezos has
been a recurring character
in the pages for Forbes
since the days when he
was a scrappy
entrepreneur in the
crosshairs of Barnes &
Noble to a net worth of
$196 billion.
"A couple of years ago,
people were looking at
Barnes & Noble's plans to
go on-line and calling us
Amazon.toast —and I
thought they had a pretty
good argument!" Bezos
joked to Forbes in 1999.
"But what they didn't
understand is how the
Internet shifts power to
the customer.”
Here’s a retrospective , in
photos, of his path to
becoming the world’s
richest person. Below is a
look back at the pivotal
moments from his tenure,
which set the course for
the company and forever
reshaped the retail
industry:
Books were the beginning,
but certainly not the end
Jeff Bezos took on the big
bookstore chains like
Borders and Barnes &
Noble when he started
selling books online in
1994. By the time the
company went public
three years later, it carried
more than 2.5 million
titles and generated
annual sales of $148
million. Its inventory
turned over 42 times that
year, compared to only 2.1
times for Barnes & Noble.
“Amazon.com cannot exist
in the physical world,"
Bezos told Forbes in 1996,
the first year that the
company appeared in the
publication. "No
metropolitan area could
support a million-title
bookstore."
Plus, Bezos didn’t have
any intention at stopping
there. By 1998, Amazon
had begun expanding its
offering to include all
sorts of things, like CDs,
DVDs, clothing, toys and
office products. Bezos also
began to hint at his
outsized ambitions,
dropping the company’s
tagline as the “Earth’s
Biggest Bookstore” and
beginning to describe
Amazon as an online
retailer that would offer
“Earth’s Biggest
Selection.”


Welcoming third-party
sellers
In 1999, Amazon invited
third-party sellers to begin
listing merchandise on the
marketplace and compete
directly with the products
that Amazon sold itself.
These sellers (mostly small
and medium-sized
businesses) now form the
backbone of the e-
commerce giant ,
generating roughly 60% of
its product sales today,
double the percentage
they represented a decade
ago.


Making two-day shipping the
new normal
In 2005, Bezos introduced
a new loyalty program
called Amazon Prime with
an enticing perk: For $79 a
year, customers could
receive free, two-day
shipping on their orders.
That would quickly shape
customer expectations for
online shopping and send
the rest of the industry
scrambling to compete.
Amazon has remained a
step ahead, thanks to over
100 fulfillment centers
where it packages and
sends out items. It has
also built out its own
transportation fleet that
rivals the post office, with
ShipMatrix recently
estimating that it is
delivering two thirds of its
own packages. In 2019, it
said it would invest
further to bring one-day
shipping to its Prime
members.


Creating a cash cow to fund
the retail business
In 2006, Amazon began
offering cloud computing
services to other
businesses. It had built the
technology to run its own
website and figured
perhaps it could make a
buck hawking it to others.
Called Amazon Web
Services, it quickly
attracted customers from
NASA to Netflix. It has
served as a cash cow for
the company, generating
$35 billion in sales in 2019
and helping offset losses
from the retail business.
“He's taken two very
major industries, and
simultaneously, and sort
of under the nose of
competitors, he's become
in effect the leader and is
redefining them and
succeeding at really big
businesses,” said Warren
Buffett of Bezos’ success in
both the retail and cloud
competing sectors in a
2018 interview
with Forbes .


Getting into physical stores
Amazon made its first big
foray into brick-and-
mortar retail in 2017,
when it announced it was
acquiring Whole Foods for
$13.4 billion. It has since
lowered the prices on
hundreds of products,
plus rolled out special
perks to Prime members,
like free grocery delivery
from all of its stores.


Pioneering automated
checkout
Amazon opened its first
Amazon Go store to the
public in 2018, offering
shoppers the ability to
pick up items and leave
without waiting in the
checkout line. Its “Just
Walk Out” technology,
which leverages a
combination of cameras
and artificial intelligence
to automatically track
what items shoppers put
in their carts, has since
been rolled out to more
than two dozen locations.
It is also available to other
retailers; Hudson and OTG
are experimenting with
the technology at a
handful of grab-and-go
stores in the airport.


Becoming the richest person
on the planet along the way
Bezos first appeared on
the Forbes 400 list in 1998
after taking his company
public with a net worth of
$1.6 billion, making him
the 102nd richest person
in the nation and earning
him his first spot on
Forbes ’ cover. Nearly two
decades later, in 2017, he
overtook Bill Gates for the
first time as the richest
person in the world. His
net worth also surpassed
$100 billion that year.
He’s now the richest
person on the planet with
a net worth of $196
billion, thanks to an 11%
stake and a stock that has
continued to defy gravity.
(And this is after giving
ex-wife MacKenzie a
quarter of his shares in
the divorce.) In August
2020, he became the first
person ever to be worth
over $200 billion .

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2021/02/02/from-books-to-billions-how-amazon-made-jeff-bezos-the-worlds-richest-man/


NB: Bezos transitioning from executive to chairman

Please let me know if you tried it.
hope its not for pushing the baby to a later date.
it's a very nice concussion

Negro or Ethiopian pepper (Botanical Name-Xylopia Aethiopica) also known as Uda in the Igbo language or Eeru alamo in the Yoruba language or Chimba in the Hausa language.
1: Purchase a large quantity of UDA and put this in a pot e.g. 250 grams which should be about half the size of a tin of Milo. Step 2: Add about 60cl of water e.g. a bottle of Nestle water Step 3: Boil the UDA in this water for 5 minutes and allow it to cool. Step 4: Once the boiled UDA water has cooled down you can store it into a container of your choice e.g. you can use your plastic bottle and place it in a refrigerator. UDA water can be preserved in a refrigerator for one month at 25 degrees centigrade i.e. normal storage compartment in the refrigerator. Do not put in the freezer so that the active ingredient will be stable although is more active when is not stored for too long. Step 5: Immediately after sexual intercourse with your husband, shake the bottle very well and pour the UDA water into a glass. A glass of this contraceptive water should be just fine. Some women also prefer to take this before sex(this is because some spermatozoa are stubborn).

Or how many do I need to know to be as qualified as ever in this field.

Please share how many you have learnt so far? planning on learning? get you best jobs?

share
Thanks

Guys please share on how you got yours and experiences so far.
An area of curiosity is on how you communicate and take payments.
cheers in advance

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Last week I overheard two guys conversing on how he played local and international league at same time. don't mind my idioms. that just simply means he promised a lady back home refer to Nigeria marriage while a beautiful African American lady is hoping for more.

you ever experienced this or know someone who did.

narrate your experience do u feel guilty or is it just for fun. I mean if you could take good care of both would you.

Whats it been like. what new changes did u experience. what challenges too.

lalasticlala

What kind of benefits or perks does your company or maybe the ones you heard offer.

I have heard of an oil coy that pays for dry cleaning for all its staff.

lalasticlala

Everyone's definition of Success is different. some say it's by how much money you accumulate. some say it's by how many people you help or drop an impact in their lives.

World famous billionaire Warren Buffet when asked on his own take had this to say,

When you’re nearing your end of life, your only
measure of success should be the number of
“people you want to have love you actually do love
you,”

Guys recommend good spots I fit jam some nice girls and if compass dey drop.
if scope dey too drop

Who else has observed how bootylicious owerri girls are
those girls are seductive
spent some time at imsu and they were tripping in like baby chicks.

So what are your general experience with a regular club girl.

girls who are always out to party.
I found out they are easy to lay, well cause you both are on the same page out to have fun.

my last experience was wow though at my friends party, this babe wanted me to have sex with her there at the spot we parked our cars. but I wasn't down. So she got angry and walked off.

so what's it like for you.

Bigflamie:
Chukky Chuks, is that you? Your response will proof to me if you are the one.

2 goals down ??

who?

So I attended a friends birthday party in the club it was nice but I always notice among this set of friends when they do celebrate they is always a group of girls that are on call and they always look really good n well packaged

so just thinking out loud where do this girls come from in their numbers. mostly for club based events.