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sharpman1:
I am usually a very conservative investor, I focus on the fundamentals and my philosophy is generally buy the company rather than the market.

However, i wanted to try my hands on speculating so i just spent $700 to make two purchases.

1. DAL @ $36.10
2. MTDR @ $12

Waiting to see what will come out of it in the next couple of months.

my oga don reach here too

abeg any one with change he/she is not using? i need some lapo to invest Yer Yer,oakpearl,afroxyz

everywhere green today . More greens to you guys account! keep investing!!!

oludanobi:
Diary mode : London, Liverpool st - 2019

I decided to chat with the young Security Guard at the office today , we have been giving ourselves the "nod" since I started but I was curious to know his story. He didn’t sound like an immigrant , he is definitely British, so why is he doing this job? He sounds educated and very polite, I wonder if the older Ghanian Security Guard is his uncle and hooked him up with the job. Let's call him Young G.

I spoke to the older man too, he asked me where I was from and when I said Nigeria, he had this knowing smile and said he wasn’t surprised. A curious me asked why he wasn’t surprised and he went on to talk about how Nigerians were very ambitious and always strived to be better. He spoke about how a lot of the Nigerians that they started together many years ago were well off now. Again I asked nicely what happened to him, his response "Well a combination of things, pressure to quickly settle down from home, then pressure to build back home and before you know it, you have kids and your priorities shift and then you are stuck". I could see the regret in his eyes, I respectfully said it's never too late. We'll call him …. Old G. I didn’t register my disapproval of building back home when you have no plans to return there and you are still renting a small apartment in London. I also didn’t tell him that a lot of Nigerians were stuck too, some people move and some people don’t.

He told me he has was an Msc in Entrepreneurship student, he graduated with a 2:1 Bsc and decided to immediately enroll for his Masters and has not been able to secure a job, when I asked what he really wants to do, he said he wanted to be an entrepreneur because he liked networking. I asked if he would like for me to review his CV and he gladly agreed and sent it over. His CV was very basic so I politely made some recommendations and asked him to update and send it back to me .

Current day :

As I write this I still haven't received an updated CV from Young G, I sent him a text about 7 months later and he was still looking for work, I feel his struggle, it's slightly different for a black person in London, even though there are a lot of black people in London, most black people you see in corporate London are securing the building or cleaning it, no shame in that though, I have done both but again perhaps I got lucky. People like Young G didn’t have anyone to support them to get into the corporate world, I mean we worked in a bank so how come no one even bothered to give him a shot at an interview with his 2:1 in Accounting . I don’t want to say Young G is lazy but all I asked him to do was update the CV and send it to me , maybe he was just tired or maybe he didn’t understand why I was interested. I was interested because I was tired of being one of the 2 percent of blacks in the corporate world, in most meeting rooms I was the only black person. It is important to me that I contribute to changing those statistics and changing that narrative.

I wonder why Young G decided to go for an Msc straight after his undergrad, I mean he didn’t stay home for 3 months, it's not like he needed the Masters as a means to live in the country , he was born British for god's sake! Perhaps it was pressure from his immigrant parents, the same pressure that made him take the security job, the misconception that it is better to be doing something than stay home doing nothing. In my opinion staying home to research and improve your chances of landing a dream job is way better than starting a job you could be stuck in. Young G wasn’t even good at networking, he was polite but shy, he just liked the idea of it and he let himself get swept up by the entrepreneur buzz. We worked in a building that had at least 8 companies, surely someone good in networking would have networked with someone who would at least get him an interview.

I am still very angry at the murder of George Floyd and how black people are being treated, but of course I choose to write about what we can do to change that narrative. It is important that every black person in a position to help a fellow black does so, sometimes it's not even about money, it's sharing advice , listening and sometimes mentoring. Apathy is not an option and being complacent like Old G is not an option either. Please lend a helping hand !

PS : 90% of black people I have met in the corporate world are indeed Nigerians, It could just be me or Old G could be right, either way I remain proudly Nigerian but I am under no illusions that we are smarter than others, we are just uniquely different !

Thank you! That’s how the Jews did it. They went from being in extinction to being super players in the financial sector. But we blacks hoard information from each other. We would rather buy ice watches and lots of cars than empower fellow blacks. It is so sad.

This says it all.

abbey621:
Hopefully we can teach our kids to do better and hope that their kids would unite the black race.....Our own generation is already far gone especially Nigeria.

We can only hope but with this new generations being exposed to Big Brother Naija and the likes? I just hope.

Here is a typical example, a man comes to your house to beg each time and you give him every time he asks. One, he has lost his respect in your eyes because he brings nothing to your table other his begi begi. Now picture him with 2/3 kids, what comes to your mind when you see his kids? Begi Begi children, those children will never gain respect in your eyes because their father brings nothing to your table.

Dangote and Otedola respect each other because they both bring something to each other table. let one of them go poor(God forbid) and watch how he loses respect.

We need to wake up and leave past behind and tighten the Bleep off our belts like the Chinese and the Jews did.

abbey621:
We as Africans are very wasteful people, most of our budgets are spent on recurring expenditures, we earmark Billions for a particular strtch of road and 2 to 4 years later we allocate the same for the same road. We build refinieries but they are not functional, Nigeria produces crude oil but must pay outside countries to refine it for us. We import everything from matches to tomato paste and rice.

When you calculate the amount of money recovered from Abacha's loot alone, it is enough to develop half the country fully but guess what, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN! We vote in clueless and wicked leaders yet we raise our eyebrows when a black man is treated wickedly by a person of another color? Your own compatriot is robbing you blind yet you are more worrried about people on the other side.

Back to reality, the issue of racism is beyond money, in the USA we have more white people on food stamps and welfare than blacks, we have more white people living a wretched life than blacks but you won't know unless you look deep. MONEY is good but MINDSET is even better! Black Americans and blacks all over the world must see the light, we must realize knowledge is power and when you have that power silently take over things, learn how to acquire properties, how to move up within a company or create one of your own. Racism will never end, it is a constant like sunrise and sunset but what can be changed is our own mindset, the ones that are wich or financially okay among us should support those struggling, let's learn from the Jews, after the Holocaust, they tightened their belts and came toghether. From destruction to resurrection, there's nothing stopping us from doing the same if only we can learn to love one another. Like someone said earlier, THE BLACK MAN'S BIGGEST ENEMY IS THE BLACK MAN!

You have said it all, look at the Mexicans, the Latinos, the Chinese, the Indians. We are so blinded by the hate for each other. You are so right and it is disgustingly sad.

Like someone earlier commented, what does Africa bring to the table? We bring nothing to the table because we are beggars, we beg for everything from them. This Covid-19 should be an eye opener on where we stand in the world, while every country was fighting the virus with all they had, when the virus hit home, what did the most populous black country in the world result to? BEGGING!

See, for us to gain respect and prestige in the world as blacks, we need to be rich, forget all the vocabulary. How did the Jews metamorphosed from being extinct to being the most influential in finance? Jews today are being recognized for their financial prowess not for what happened in the past.

There was a tweet last year from a dude in Ireland, he said and i quote " what does Africa bring to the world other than HIV/AIDS"? People were mad and started basting him, isn't that the truth? what do we bring? nothing, absolutely nothing. Our continent has the richest mineral resources in the world but we are so blind to it. Ask yourselves, why did the french, Americans, British, Belgians and now Chinese seeing in the continent that we do not see. When we start producing and less importing and not lean on the caucasians, that is when we start to garner respect.

Lionlee216 go sleep bro

Sparrow0:
@the bolded , that's what I saw first, was about to have heart attack but thank God I spotted the "not" soon enough. Abeg make that one no come near you o.

How do you recover from a "nasty cold" when you're living in "crazy cold" state

I'm very much okay (lie ), just trying to survive this "new world" by turning to making money online (I might need your help with that )

Get better soon man, _{or we swap identities}. Your choice

Apologies @Chiggsglover

hmu make we relate then

Sparrow0:
My boss Drenimarcus spotted . How you doing man?

my ip failed me , recovering from a nasty cold(not corona ) but much better, thanks for asking. Hope you doing good too man?

Deltayankeeboi:
what's up. Hope the result wasn't positive.

It was negative, having a cold. Thanks for asking man, appreciate.

Firefox01:
We are waiting for your thread too

I got you bro, but might not be soon tho, got tested for covid today, make I feel better first. Hope you good?

Danielhouston:
You really hate Nigeria hahaha. I won’t blame you. I was in Nigeria last year and I cried. When my friends told me about the struggle, I thought they were just being grumpy. But I saw it with my eyes and Nigeria is worse than when I left.

Since I returned to Germany, I’ve been restless. Any time I go out and want to party, I imagine how my €20 can pay someone’s salary in Nigeria so they won’t have to risk their lives every morning under the sun for 8 hours, sit in traffic for 2 hours and go home to darkness.
It is also part of the reason I searched and found this forum. It is well. E go better

So speechless.

Danielhouston:
Are there people who have successfully traveled out of Nigeria with the information they gathered from Nairaland? There’s a lot helpful information on this forum, so I’m curious

Did they return to Nairaland after they traveled out?

Marking register.

earnvest:
Does Robinhood pay IRS taxes on your behalf for trades made?

If you bought stock and never sold it since buying the app, you have to pay zero in taxes on them. If you have sold, and held it for less than a year (I'm assuming you haven't held shares of stock on Robinhood for >1 yr), it gets taxed exactly like job wages

Onboard1:
Alright thanks.
Do you report your earnings when you file tax returns?

If you bought stock and never sold it since buying on the app, you have to pay zero in taxes on them. If you have sold, and held it for less than a year (I'm assuming you haven't held shares of stock on Robinhood for >1 yr), it gets taxed exactly like job wages

Onboard1:
I guess you are living in US.

Do you use Trove as it is highly recommended here?
If yes, do you fund it with Nigerian or US acct?
And what did you used for your KYC verification?

Thanks

Hi, I use Robinhood and it was funded with my US account. I think I used my state id for verification

Goodman247:
are you really free in this shithole

Me no deh shithole.

lionlee216:
Yoo, I'm doing countdown for you. I expect your thread to come up next month oooo.

Sont just tell us you found yourself in the US ooo

We need details but put out personal information

We dey await your thread sir

chijiox05:
Are you "FREE"?

I am free, don’t know about ya.

Davidson5:
Guys I was thinking about this today, I wish there is this kinda of rule that will allow these western countries to colonize countries like Nigeria back. I mean look at these people, their government take their people along. See developments everywhere.
Nigeria is failed miserable state in the hands of these avarice politicians.

Oh I feel like weeping

Brother, even though I detest the Nigerian government, you should never use the “colonize” word. It is an insult to those who fought and demanded freedom.

Mr Dan, considering that Germany has this “free” education thing. What would be your percentage of high school dropouts in Germany?

Wow just wow. I am so impressed with the cops in Germany according to the op description, they ain’t like the cops over here. Thank you Dan for this thread.

Naija wey get seat of “God” look at its state. Make una carry una religious fanatics comot here biko

We all have different perspectives to this “home” thing. For me, I don’t think i can ever be comfortable in this country until I retire back home in 25/30 years. Reading about what happened to ahmaud is so disastrous. Hope everyone is staying safe. Jah bless.

Be like this Germany go make sense o, spend 2 weeks there, enjoy and go back home.

Thank you for this thread op, God bless. Learnt one or two.

Kenn55:
Bros, if you want to see how rugged tribalism is, just peep into nairaland politics section. I no say make you stay there for long ooo otherwise you won't know when you will join them and become one tribalists, Lol. The hate oozing out from our fellow country men fit boil beans. Racism dey learn work.

been following since day 1

Mizwisdom:
What about Alaska?

please dont mention this state, sun goes down by 2am and comes up by 5am. It is a badass state.