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Raider76:
Greed, is a strong human instinct. Both the promoters and victims were trying to satisfy their greed. So none are "innocent". And just like Allen Greenspan said when asked if the 2008 financial crisis can happen again, he said that we will be here again, since we are dealing with human greed.

I have paid for the greed with my money. No problem. But the person who convinced me to invest in it, just because he or she wants to gain a Referral Bonus, will surely pay for it, with his or her blood.

jonnysessy:
I even find it difficult to introduce shares which is legit to people who have no interest, because any bear market such people will complain and run back to me. I always lay emphasis that the price of shares can go up or down. In fact i also tell any person that cares to listen that you can lose all your investment. I lost a number of investment too: Viz Bank PHB, Abosedhyde, Oceanic Bank etc. So, share business sometimes is not all about gain. There are losses too, i am not even talking about some companies you buy and not generating anything or the ones the price that crash. Every level investment has its risk.

God bless you for saying the truth. Me too, that is how I do.

KarlTom:
In addition to your loss of funds, I can guarantee that you will do some good jail time.

1. Where you forced to part with your funds? Abi na greed do you?
2. Like it's often said here, you're the manager of your portfolio so why are you trying to shift the blame?

PS: Greedy people have greedy friends and they'll suffer the aftermath of their greed.

Every mallam to his kettle...

Jail has never stopped revenge. People have revenged, then called Police by themselves and told them they killed someone. Don't think it cant happen to you too. Avoid convincing me into what you are not sure of, because if I lose my money in it, the penalty on you will be tragic.

Even on this platform, wise people after giving recommendations, will always say Do your own Due Diligence. Why? Because they are trying to make a Disclaimer. In case if something goes wrong. By that time, I will know I am the one taking the risk, and I will accept the outcomes of it.

jaephoenix:
I am glad essentialone1 now knows christianity have their own fair share of terrorism

I posted your articles so as to elicit this comment from you.

Now check the statistics and post too. Number of Muslim terrorists in the world and that of so called Christian terrorists.

We await you.

Christian terrorist who mowed down Muslim family ‘was laughing’ as he got out of blood covered truck

The Christian terrorist who mowed down a Muslim family was laughing as he got out of his blood covered truck, according to a witness.
Four members of a Canadian immigrant family were left dead and one hospitalised after Nathaniel Veltman, 20, allegedly crashed his vehicle into them deliberately as they took a walk.
A taxi driver was taking a coffee break when the suspect pulled up in his black truck and told him to call the police as he had just killed someone, Yellow Taxi London president Hassan Savehilaghi told The Free Press on the driver’s behalf.
The pickup driver was wearing what appeared to be a bullet-proof vest, a military-style helmet and clothing that possibly had swastikas on it, Mr Savehilaghi said the traumatised driver had told him.
The driver, who was even asked by the suspect to film his arrest, said that the front end of the truck had been “damaged with blood” and he immediately called the police.
The witness said that police units in London, Ontario, quickly arrived at the scene and removed the suspect from the truck.
“When they got him out of the vehicle, he was laughing,” added Mr Savehilaghi, who said that the driver has not returned to work after the incident.
The victims have been identified as Salman Afzal, 46; his wife Madiha, 44; their daughter Yumna, 15; and a 74-year-old grandmother whose name has not been made public.
The couple’s nine-year-old son, Fayez, remains in hospital.
Friends of the family say they emigrated to Canada 14 years ago from Pakistan.
The suspect has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
A friend of the suspect told the newspaper that the 20-year-old had “never said anything hateful” about any groups before.
“He’s Christian and has a great relationship with God ... He was always pretty calm towards other people,” added the unnamed friend.
A co-worker told the newspaper that the suspect had been recently distressed by the death of a family member.
“He seemed broken up over it on Friday. That’s the last time I saw him,” the unidentified co-worker said.
Earlier Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau branded the incident a “terrorist attack” aimed at the Muslim community.
“This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred, in the heart of one of our communities,” he told the country’s Parliament.
“If anyone thinks racism and hatred don’t exist in this country, I want to say this: how do we explain such violence to a child in a hospital? How can we look families in the eye and say ‘Islamophobia isn’t real?’”

In the Name of the Father? Christian Militantism in Tripura, Northern Uganda, and Ambon

Although armed groups and political violence referring to Islam have attracted increasing attention since the start of the global war against terror, one particular religion can hardly be described as the main source of inspiration of what is commonly referred to as “terrorist acts of violence.” Faith-based violence occurs in different parts of the world and its perpetrators adhere to all major world faiths including Christianity. As such, this article treats three cases of non-state armed actors that explain their actions as being motivated by Christian beliefs and aimed at the creation of a new local society that is guided by religion: the National Liberation Front of Tripura, the Lord's Resistance Army, and the Ambonese Christian militias. It analyzes the way by which they instrumentalized religion against respective backgrounds of conflict rooted in social change, the erosion of traditional identities, imbalances of power, and widening communautarian faultlines.
Since you cannot speak in words about the essence of God, best is to speak about nobody at all.
—Kitab Ilahi

Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack

Police have labelled last year’s shooting of two police officers and a neighbour in the Queensland town of Wieambilla as Australia’s first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack.
In December, four junior officers who tried to enter the property of Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train for what police described as a routine missing person check were instead met with a hail of bullets, killing two, sending one running for his life with a bullet wound and the fourth hiding in long grass that her assailants set ablaze.
A neighbour was later shot and killed before a shootout with police left all three Trains dead.

The Queensland police deputy commissioner, Tracy Linford, told reporters on Thursday that in the weeks since the attack, police and security agencies had trawled through Stacey’s diary and the trio’s phones and online communications to piece together their motives for the attack.
“Our assessment has concluded that Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train acted as an autonomous cell and executed a religiously motivated terrorist attack,” she said.
“The Train family members prescribed to what we would call a broad Christian fundamentalist belief system known as premillennialism.

“I’m not an expert in that but, in its basic interpretation, is that there was a belief that Christ will return to the Earth for a thousand days, provide peace and prosperity, but it will be preceded by an era, or a period of time of tribulation and widespread destruction and suffering.”
Linford said the Covid pandemic, climate crisis, global conflict, anti-vaccine and anti-government sentiment and social disparity had seen the Trains spiral into increasingly radical theological beliefs.
“Christian extremist ideology has been linked to other attacks around the world, but this is the first time we’ve seen it occur in Australia,” she said.
“Probably the one people most might recognise was the Waco attack [in Texas in 1993].”
The Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Federal Police are also involved in the ongoing investigation, she said.
The Trains had viewed police as “monsters and demons” and had undergone “advanced preparation and planning” before the fatal shootout, Linford said.
“We don’t believe this attack was random or spontaneous. We do believe it was an attack directed at police.”
Linford said the trio had built camouflaged hides on their Wieambilla property where police believe one of the three would periodically “lie in wait”.
As well as six firearms, three compound bows and knives, the Trains had camouflage clothing, CCTV cameras and radios, and had built steel and log barriers, dirt mounds and put mirrors on trees, which police believe they used to be prepared for incoming traffic.
“We even located a trapdoor under the house which might have enabled an easy escape,” she said.
The deputy commissioner said she had personally met with the FBI as Queensland police believe a man in the US to be a “person of interest” in the shootings.

In the hours after the attack the Trains posted a chilling video to YouTube in which they appeared to address an Arizona-based conspiracist with whom the Trains had struck up an online friendship.
“We’ll see you when we get home, Don,” Gareth said at the end of the 41-second clip.
Linford said that police believed “home” referred to heaven.
“We believe ‘Don’ is a person of interest,” Linford said on Thursday.
“So we have worked with our US counterparts, provided the information that we have and they’ll determine what investigations they might make as a result of that information.”
But Linford stressed there was no evidence of any domestic link to the Trains’ “terrorist cell”.
She also said there appeared to be no connection to the sovereign citizen movement, althoughearly speculation of such a connection was “understandable” given the behaviour of the Trains.
The deputy commissioner said police had not found any communication in which the Trains declared themselves as sovereign citizens – which she said was often the case with adherents of that ideology.
The deputy commissioner said the Trains may have hoped to inspire others to follow their deadly example.
Asked if the threat of Christian extremists had been on the radar of police prior to the attack, Linford said it was “not something we’ve seen in Australia”.
Linford said police had collected more than 190 statements and recorded interviews but, it would fall to the coroner to make a final determination as to what had motivated the Trains and recommendations as to how to avoid such tragedies in the future.

6 modern-day Christian terrorist groups our media conveniently ignores

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently released an in-depth report on terrorism in the United States. Covering April 2009 to February 2015, the report (titled “The Age of the Wolf”) found that during that period, “more people have been killed in America by non-Islamic domestic terrorists than jihadists.” The SPLC asserted that “the jihadist threat is a tremendous one,” pointing out that al-Qaeda’s attacks of September 11, 2001 remain the deadliest in U.S. history. But the study also noted that the second deadliest was carried out not by Islamists, but by Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995—and law enforcement, the SPLC stressed, are doing the public a huge disservice if they view terrorism as an exclusively Islamist phenomenon.
The report, in a sense, echoed the assertions that President Barack Obama made when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in February and stressed that Muslims don’t have the market cornered on religious extremism. In the minds of far-right Republicans, Obama committed the ultimate sin by daring to mention that Christianity has a dark side and citing the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition as two examples from the distant past. Obama wasn’t attacking Christianity on the whole but rather, was making the point that just as not all Christians can be held responsible for the horrors of the Inquisition, not all Muslims can be blamed for the violent extremism of ISIS (the Islamic State, Iraq and Syria), the Taliban, al-Qaeda or Boko Haram. But Obama certainly didn’t need to look 800 or 900 years in the past to find examples of extreme Christianists committing atrocities. Violent Christianists are a reality in different parts of the world—including the United States—and the fact that the mainstream media don’t give them as much coverage as ISIS or Boko Haram doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.
Below are six extreme Christianist groups that have shown their capacity for violence and fanaticism.
1. The Army of God
A network of violent Christianists that has been active since the early 1980s, the Army of God openly promotes killing abortion providers—and the long list of terrorists who have been active in that organization has included Paul Jennings Hill (who was executed by lethal injection in 2003 for the 1994 killings of abortion doctor John Britton and his bodyguard James Barrett), John C. Salvi (who killed two receptionists when he attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1994) and Eric Rudolph, who is serving life in prison for his role in the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996 and other terrorist acts. Rudolph, in fact, has often been exalted as a Christian hero on the Army of God’s website, as have fellow Army of God members such as Scott Roeder (who is serving life without parole for murdering Wichita, Kansas-based abortion doctor George Tiller in 2009), Shelley Shannon (who attempted to kill Tiller in 2003) and Michael Frederick Griffin (who is serving a life sentence for the 1993 killing of Dr. David Gunn, an OB-GYN, in Pensacola, Florida).
Although primarily an anti-abortion organization, the Army of God also has a history of promoting violence against gays. And one of the terrorist acts that Rudolph confessed to was bombing a lesbian bar in Atlanta in 1997.
2. Eastern Lightning, a.k.a. the Church of the Almighty God
Founded in Henan Province, China in 1990, Eastern Lightning (also known as the Church of the Almighty God or the Church of the Gospel’s Kingdom) is a Christianist cult with an end-time/apocalypse focus: Eastern Lightning believes that the world is coming to an end, and in the meantime, its duty is to slay as many demons as possible. While most Christianists have an extremely patriarchal viewpoint (much like their Islamist counterparts) and consider women inferior to men, Eastern Lightning believe that Jesus Christ will return to Earth in the form of a Chinese woman. But they are quite capable of violence against women: in May 2014, for example, members of the cult beat a 37-year-old woman named Wu Shuoyan to death in a McDonalds in Zhaoyuan, China when she refused to give them her phone number. Eastern Lightning members Zhang Lidong and his daughter, Zhang Fan, were convicted of murder for the crime and executed in February. In a 2014 interview in prison, Lidong expressed no remorse when he said of Shuoyan, “I beat her with all my might and stamped on her too. She was a demon. We had to destroy her.”
Eastern Lightning’s other acts of violence have ranged from the killing of a grammar school student in 2010 (in retaliation, police believe, for one of the child’s relatives wanting to leave the cult) to cult member Min Yongjun using a knife to attack an elderly woman and a group of schoolchildren in Chenpeng in 2012. Christian groups are not exempt from Eastern Lightning’s fanaticism: in 2002, cult members kidnapped 34 members of a Christian group called the China Gospel Fellowship and held them captive for two months in the hope of forcing them to join their cult. Although mainly active in the communist People’s Republic of China, Eastern Lighting has been trying to expand its membership in Hong Kong.
3. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
The mainstream media have had much to say about the Islamist brutality of Boko Haram, but one terrorist group they haven’t paid nearly as much attention to is the Lord’s Resistance Army—which was founded by Joseph Kony (a radical Christianist) in Uganda in 1987 and has called for the establishment of a severe Christian fundamentalist government in that country. The LRA, according to Human Rights Watch, has committed thousands of killings and kidnappings—and along the way, its terrorism spread from Uganda to parts of the Congo, the Central African Republic (CAR) and South Sudan. The word “jihadist” is seldom used in connection with the LRA, but in fact, the LRA’s tactics are not unlike those of ISIS or Boko Haram. And the governments Kony hopes to establish in Sub-Saharan Africa would implement a Christianist equivalent of Islamic Sharia law.
4. TheNational Liberation Front of Tripura
India is not only a country of Hindus and Sikhs, but also, of Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics and Protestants. Most of India’s Christians are peaceful, but a major exception is the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT). Active in the state of Tripura in Northeastern India since 1989, NLFT is a paramilitary Christianist movement that hopes to secede from India and establish a Christian fundamentalist government in Tripura. NLFT has zero tolerance for any religion other than Christianity, and the group has repeatedly shown a willingness to kill, kidnap or torture Hindus who refuse to be converted to its extreme brand of Protestant fundamentalism.
In 2000, NLFT vowed to kill anyone who participated in Durga Puja (an annual Hindu festival) And in May 2003, at least 30 Hindus were murdered during one of NLFT’s killing sprees.
5. The Phineas Priesthood
White supremacist groups don’t necessarily have a religious orientation: some of them welcome atheists as long as they believe in white superiority. But the Christian Identity movement specifically combines white supremacist ideology with Christianist terrorism, arguing that violence against non-WASPs is ordained by God and that white Anglo Saxon Protestants are God’s chosen people. The modern Christian Identity movement in the U.S. has been greatly influenced by the Ku Klux Klan—an organization that has committed numerous acts of terrorism over the years—and in the 1970s, new Christian Identity groups like the Aryan Nations and the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) emerged. Another Christian Identity group of recent decades has been the Phineas Priesthood, whose members have been involved in violent activities ranging from abortion clinic bombings to bank robberies (mainly in the Pacific Northwest). On November 28, 2014, Phineas Priesthood member Larry Steven McQuilliams went on a violent rampage in Austin, Texas—where he fired over 100 rounds at various targets (including a federal courthouse, the local Mexican Consulate building and a police station) before being shot and killed by police.
6. The Concerned Christians
One of the ironic things about some Christianists is the fact that although they believe that Jews must be converted to Christianity, they consider themselves staunch supporters of Israel. And some of them believe in violently forcing all Muslims out of Israel. The Concerned Christians, a Christianist doomsday cult that was founded by pastor Monte “Kim” Miller in Denver in the 1980s, alarmed Colorado residents when, in 1998, at least 60 of its members suddenly quit their jobs, abandoned their homes and went missing—and it turned out there was reason for concern. In 1999, Israeli officials arrested 14 members of the Concerned Christians in Jerusalem and deported them from Israel because they suspected them of plotting terrorist attacks against Muslims. One likely target, according to Israeli police, was Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque—the same mosque that was targeted in 1969 (when a Christianist from Australia named Denis Michael Rohan unsuccessfully tried to destroy it by arson) and, Israeli police suspect, was a likely target in 2014 (when Adam Everett Livix, a Christianist from Texas, was arrested by Israeli police on suspicion of plotting to blow up Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem).
In 2008, Denver’s KUSA-TV (an NBC affiliate) reported that members of the Concerned Citizens had gone into hiding and that Miller hadn’t been seen in ten years.

It sounds like you're at a crossroads, and the decisions you make now will significantly impact your future. Here are some thoughts to consider:

- Your goals are ambitious: Learning C++, DSA, and math to an undergraduate level is impressive, and your LeetCode skills are a testament to your dedication. Pursuing a career in quantitative trading is a challenging but potentially rewarding path.
- Your business plan is practical: Starting a computer business center can provide a steady income stream and flexibility to continue studying. Your experience in running such a business is a plus.
- Location considerations: Moving to PH or Akwa Ibom might offer a lower cost of living, but consider factors like infrastructure, market demand, and access to resources (e.g., internet, libraries) that can support your business and studies.
- Financial planning: With 7 million naira, you'll need to budget carefully for:
- Renting a shop
- Equipment and supplies
- Living expenses
- Potential emergencies
- Time management: Balancing business responsibilities with studying will require discipline. Ensure you allocate sufficient time for both pursuits.
- Family dynamics: While your dad's concerns are understandable, it's essential to communicate your goals and plans with him. You might consider discussing how your business and studies align with your long-term objectives.

Some advice:

- Create a detailed business plan: Outline your financial projections, marketing strategies, and operational logistics.
- Set realistic goals and milestones: Break down your objectives into achievable targets, both for your business and studies.
- Prioritize your time: Allocate specific times for studying, business operations, and relaxation to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
- Stay focused and adaptable: Be prepared to adjust your plans as circumstances change, but remain committed to your goals.

By carefully planning and executing your strategy, you can set yourself up for success and create a fulfilling life.

toyeoye:
Thank you so much for the feedback, truly appreciated as always! The Hourly column was added in response to user requests for tracking short-term price movements. I understand it may not be useful to everyone, and that’s perfectly okay. The focus is on adding features that meet growing community needs.

Thanks again for sharing.

Okay please make it possible for someone to collapse, shrink, or minimise any of the Columns not needed.

Whatever you are upgrading to is ok, so long as this Nairaland remains an Anonymous platform. Once it is no longer an Anonymous platform, many of us will disappear.

If she lived a good life, may her soul Rest in Peace.

If not...

bullstriker:
I'm unsure if they take walk-ins, but you can book an appointment online, over the phone, or by email.

For online, use this link to create an account and then book the appointment.
https://www.vfsglobal.ca/IRCC-AppointmentWave1/Account/RegisteredLogin?q=shSA0YnE4pLF9Xzwon/x/CQ1P0LBKn66dLdNUfueK+yzShCR5+RPxbigEFl/W14/B2caAAJ+pjEGG2r7ohd6rA==

For an email appointment, use this link

https://www.vfsglobal.ca/IRCC-AppointmentWave1/AppointmentType/Index?message=X5%2F1cZkJrBr0iR6E0Xtr3g%3D%3D

The phone number for a phone appointment
08150199900

Whenever I try to put my Password after clicking on New User, the Password multiplies itself and becomes very long. Why? and how can it be resolved?

kppo:
You can use the link below. Click on "New User" to register and then go ahead to schedule an appointment.

https://www.vfsglobal.ca/IRCC-AppointmentWave1/Account/RegisteredLogin?q=shSA0YnE4pLF9Xzwon/x/CQ1P0LBKn66dLdNUfueK+yzShCR5+RPxbigEFl/W14/B2caAAJ+pjEGG2r7ohd6rA==

Whenever I try to put my Password after clicking on New User, the Password multiplies itself and becomes very long. Why? and how can it be resolved?

toyeoye:
As discussed, the watchlist feature has been added

Please, remove the HOUR column that was just added. I do not see it as important at all. Please.

All I see is that ladies will do anything at all, so long as they get paid for it.