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You need a man with self confidence to manage a team like Chelsea not a spineless idiot like Grant. I have supported Grant until yesterday. Now I know that we cannot win anything serious with this guy. He cannot affect and change the big games. He cannot inspire the players. In extra time, Steve Clarke and John Terry were giving the team talks while he was standing there looking like an oaf.

If you noticed, he stretched out his hand to Ballack at full time but Ballack refused to shake his hand.

Also, I'm sorry but Drogba was a big disgrace yesterday (despite the freekick) and he has been for sometime. He has stopped hustling defenders and is lacking hunger, pace and effort. We played minus one yesterday. Drogba has said he wants to leave. Please let him go. I am tired of his lethargic performance and his running of his hands through his hair like a bloody white man as well as his diving and crying like a baby all the time.

We had a good striker playing at left wing yesterday. Grant tried it when he brought Anelka on at left-wing against Olympiakos and everyone could see it ain't going to work. On top of that, he left Joe Cole on the bench while Maka didn't even make the squad. Mr "I must play every game" aka Lampard was also abysmal and we should get rid of him considering the type of money he is asking for despite the fact he has no skill.

Is it just me or is Essien running less and less than he did two years ago? Maybe it is time for him to go as well. We all know that Ghanaians falsify age even worse than Nigerians. My Ghanaian friend told me he was 30 about 2 years ago.

All in all, I'm disappointed. It is very sad - - - - - very very sad. Chelsea is turning into Real Madrid of galacticos era except our Galacticos are not skilful players like Figo, Ronaldo and Zidane - - - - - they are workhorses like Drogba, Lampard and Terry - - - - - - if you notice Madrid always had shit coaches because the President wanted all the power - - - - - same at Chelsea with Avram Grant - - - - -very very sad!

I have been supporting Chelsea since 1996 but I have to say I am getting fed up with the current situation. Players are haggling over wages - the "I should get more money than him"- John Terry has a clause in his contract that he should always earn equal to the highest paid player at Chelsea - He is a fucking defender! Lampard rejected £135,000 a week. Who does he think he is? Ronaldo? Drogba wants the same as Lampard and Terry although he has only had one good season for us and his first touch is like that of a donkey. This is the same reason Gallas left - because he wanted the same as Terry who was getting £90,000 per week at the time. We spend 73% of our turnover on players wages. Even idiots like Pizarro are earning £80,000 a week. Everybody is competing with each other to see who can play Abramovic for mugu. - And this was all encouraged by Mourinho who also played Abramovic for mugu.

Chelsea is becoming a disgrace!

Pennywise:
There are no tribal issues here. No body mentioned any tribe.

Your post seem to suggest that southerners should forfeit their birthright because some Governors stole money. If you are not a northerner you surely think like one.How logical.

If things were done properly in a federation no northern state should get one billion naira (about 10million dollars) per month. What is their combined annual contribution to the national purse. Now if you take away oil money do you think you can tell the difference from an aerial view standpoint between northern Nigeria, Niger republic and Chad? I don't think so. In any case those roads 90% of them were tarred by the federal government after deductions had been made for states.

Secondly, rather than practice true federalism the north through the military adopted a unitary system of Government. They have systematically diverted resources from the south to the North by creating sundry states and local Governments for them away from the initial three regions at independence. Thus by the articles of the Nigerian constitution at Independence the current revenue sharing formula is warped. Another reason why no northern state should get any where near N1billion in a month.

One can go on and on and on. But its no use because Justice in the form of a free economy is gradually coming the way of the south. There will be unprecedented prosperity and abundance in the south and the laziness of the north will be rewarded with more poverty and abjectness. They will flock to the south in their numbers. We will take in the women and drive back the men.

Pennywise, you talk am well oh!

Let them continue with their backwardness. Soon they will find that we have left them behind since they think they are so smart and keep playing petty tribalist games insteading of focusing on moving the country forward.

Let them know we are all doing business together in the South, they are the only ones not joining us because they are so backward. By the time they wake up, we will all be educated and all equipped with skills to survive in the new globalised economy. They will just be another Chad or Niger.

Trust me Nuzo, it takes more than 47 years to learn how to run a country properly. It is not the government that runs a country, it is the people. Do you know how many centuries of feudalism and corruption they had in Europe, China, Japan etc before they came successful? You don't just put 200 + tribes together and then give them independence after only 46 years (1914 - 1960). It will take them another 300 years before they learn to live together as a nation. It takes centuries to learn democracy and to overcome tribalism and feudalism. Face facts, we were not ready for independence when we got it! When the people learn how to respect the rule of law and learn how to govern honestly and fairly (at every level of government and civil service), with proper checks and balances in place against corruption, nepotism and tribalism, then we can have independence.

BTW, if you say we should be grand professionals in running a country after 47 years, then maybe YOU are implying that we are inferior. So don't put any words in my mouth. The fact is that with the few handfuls of graduates that we had at independence, we were not ready to run our country. Full stop!

Who dash Chrisantus! Is Chrisantus young?

Best young players (Under-21)

Formation: 4-3-3


Gk - Hugo Lloris (21) - Nice, France

RB - Micah Richards (19) - Man City

LB - Armand Traore (18) - Arsenal

CB - Breno (18) - (Sao Paulo - Bayern Munich)

CB - Mahmadou Sakho (17) - PSG

DM - Miguel Veloso (20) - Sporting, Portugal

CM - Zdravko Kuzmanovic (20) - Fiorentina

AM - Anderson (19) - Man Utd

F - Alex Pato (18) - Milan

F -Sergio Aguero (20) - Athletico Madrid

CF - Karim Benzema (20) - Lyon

Just finished watching the Carling Cup final. We played with 10 men today. Drogba needs to go. He has been lazy ever since last season. He says he wants to leave anyway. Why did Avram Grant not bring him off instead of keeping Anelka on the left wing. Avram Grant is a weak spineless fool. If he cannot beat Spurs in Carling Cup, how can he beat a qualified team in the Champions League? He is trying to accomodate too many big egos. He needed to drop Drogba for this game but he is scared of hurting his feelings.

As for the rest of the Chelsea mafia (Lampard, Terry, Drogba) - they want to turn Chelsea into Real Madrid. They earn obscene wages for your meagre talent. Now they are telling the manager they must play every game - or else. Their time is up! The atmosphere in the dressing room stinks and they are the main cause of it. If they earn £135,00.00 a week, then Messi, Kaka and Ronaldo should get £500,000.00. Fecking idiots!

Chelsea needs a total clear-out this summer. Lampard, Drogba, Shevchenko, Pizarro, Malouda and Wright-Phillips need to go!

Everybodu is playing Mr Abramovich for mugu. Now Drogba wants the same as Terry. For what? Pizarro is on the bench collecting £80,000.00 a week. What nonsense! Even that business-man footballer Mike Emenalo is our Director of Football. Hehehehehehe - 419 in full effect!

Anyway, Chelsea fans can drown their sorrows here. Tell us what you think went wrong in the game.

Nuzo, you are a fool! - I will not even answer your stupid allegation.

Do you ever start a business without learning about it first?

We Nigerians have never run a country before so why shouldn't we first learn before we start running our own country?

Abi are we doing a good job of it?

Go and ask your Granmother whether she prefers living in Nigeria of 1959 or Nigeria of 2008.

It is not a racial thing. I am more pro-black than anyone. But I believe in patience and good application of wisdom not rabblerousing.

Stupid Fools! It is not "I am a Kop" - it is "I am a Kopite".

Abi you be Police?

Thats how you say it - I guess all of you are Johnny Come lately.

I hate Liverpool.

If Odudua, Biafra, MEND, MOSSOP etc can get together, I don't think Hausa have a choice but to let them go. The fact is that there is not ONE successful country in the world with an even mix of Islami / Christian population. Nigeria can split into two if we wish. Or we can be like UAE and have small City-states. It doesn't really matter. The fact is that we are tired of living with Aboki.

My brother you speak well. It is a shame that your brothers have hung on our neck like a millstone for the past 50 years. Your leaders don't even have love or vision for your own people so how can they have love for us in the South.

Yankee go allow anybody when dey play their game do whatever they want. The Kurds have a just cause but Yankee refuse to recognise them as a people. Because Turkey let Yankee put their military installations in Turkey, they give Turkey free hand to do whatever they want. Yankee should pray that these Kurds don't get angry and start causing them havoc in Iraq as a reprisal for their actions.

@ SabiSabi, Yankee did the same to us in Biafra as the do to the Kurds now. One day they will do the same to Odudua as they do to Niger Delta too.

Read the story here

http://www.kickoffnigeria.com/static/news/article.php?id=1356

They say the fly that follows the dead body into the grave will also get buried. In my opinion, NFA dare not report to FIFA before their own falsifying of U-17 and U-20 players comes to light. What are your opinions?

IMO, they should even expose all these overaged guys so that we can have genuine aged players in Super Eagles. Not the one when you have forty year olds playing for Naija, controlling the team like Mafia.

Yeah right! Celtic defence is a shambles. Barca can never score three against a qualified team like Chelsea, Milan, Man Utd or Madrid. Plus if Celtic can score two against Barca, imagine how many any of the aforementioned teams will score. Barca will go out next round if they face any of these teams. The fact is that Barca's defence is too porous and no qualified team will allow them to score so easily. Based on their performance against Celtic, they would have lost 3-1 to a qualified team. Don't get carried away, I have been watching Spanish league and IMO they have serious problems.

The reason for our optimism is that we have reached every semi-final since 1984. We truly are an African power. All other countries respect and even fear us because they always see us in the semi-final or final.

BTW, Ghana only won ANC in the sixties. That doesn't count. Its like saying that Uruguay are a great team cos they won the WC twice. Also, we would have won the ANC 4 times if Abacha had not pulled us out of South Africa in 1996 because that was our golden era. I believe we would have won 1996 and 1998.

To be honest, looking at the present African game, only Ivory Coast should be better than us. We are the only team who have strength in depth except for Ivory Coast. We can produce two or three teams all of whom are playing at a high level in Europe. That is why much is expected of us.

Eventually it will become inevitable. All tribes will have their own state. Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Ijaw, etc

The fact is that Nigeria should have remained a British colony for the next 200 years until we get a system of government in place which regulates itself. We got independence too early, while we are still consumed by tribal feuding and 'big man' mentality. We should have waited until we were truly ready to govern ourselves. Our freedom fighters were fresh graduates from grad school who knew nothing about running countries, banks or economic systems. It is one thing to know book. It is another thing to have practical experience and for that practical experience to reach critical mass, at which point we can govern ourselves. Azikiwe, Balewa and the rest should be ashamed of themselves for the catastrophe they have brought upon us. Thousands of us die everyday, if not from bad road, then poor health services or polluted water, police brutality or armed robbers etc. We all have to admit that Nigeria is a failed state. Only God can help us now. The change in Nigeria over the past 20 - 30 years is too dramatic. No other country has gone from relative wealth to poverty as quickly as we have. I remember buying things with Kobo only 18 years ago. Now even 100 Naira is worthless.

Michael

Abeg fashi, there is no glory is winning Under-17 with 24 year olds. Anyone remember Fanny Amun? God rest his soul sha. Berti Vogts may be outdated but he did win Euro '96 as a coach and World Cup '74 as a player.

Damn! I thought something was fishy about Yekini not scoring enough in that tournament. Finidi always supplied him though. Did they have a reason for not passing to him? They should be charged with treason and flogged. African man is always fighting with his brothers, allowing the white man to take the spoils. Stupid idiots!

Men! Segun & Tosinadeda, abeg relax yourself. I am a Chelsea fan myself but I have to say that Ronaldo is the greatest player I have ever seen and I dey watch football properly since Senegal '92 . From the first day I saw him playing Portugal Under-21 before Man Utd signed him, I wanted to write mr Abramovich and beg him to sign Ronaldo for us.

Basically, Ronaldo is a one man wrecking machine. He is the only player that plays two positions at the same time. Right wing and striker. He is so fast coming off the wing that he makes up another striker. And he also defends as well. Righ back to his eighteen yard box. Messi and Kaka don't even cross the half way line because their clubs give them the freedom. Plus they can never score or assist like Ronaldo. Man Utd IS a one man team. Let them play any game without Ronaldo and see how they struggle.

I remember when Portugal lost to France in WC. According to WorldSoccer magazine, Ronaldo launched a one-man assault on France whilst his team mates were overawed by the opposition. Roma players even said they were begging Ronaldo to take it easy on them last season. My guy, if you don't know the truth, then know it now. Ronaldo is the G.O.A.T and time will prove it. Don't blame him for playing for a weak team like Portugal.

And Segun, how dare you call Cantona's name in comparison? Cantona is not respected outside England! Even Zola outshone him when he landed in 1997. Cantona used to shine when there no foreigners in England, before the English knew anything about tricks and skills and their whole style was long ball. Look, even George Best, Man Utd's greatest ever player said: "Many players have been called the new George Best, but only till Ronaldo was it a compliment to me.". And George Best died two years ago, even before Ronaldo started shining like this. Abeg Fashi, Ronaldo is the G.O.A.T. Pele and Maradonna better watch out!

The problem is poor mentality (Jon Obi Mikel, Utaka, Yakubu), bad administration and corruption (NFA), age-cheating (all except Shittu, Etuhu and Odemwingie) and poor tactics (Berti Vogts).

Please forget Super Eagles. Don't waste your intellect on those boys. 2010 will be the same. They did not learn from Angola in 2006 WC qualifiers. You expect them to learn from this?

For real, this guy needs anger management classes. The Ghanaians game plan when they got the red card was to stop our game by fouling and Obi obliged them. Infact, it was Obi who took all the momentum out of our attacking play by strolling on the pitch and getting in fights with Ghanaian players. That is why we lost the game. We lost our composure and direction. I'm a big fan of Mikel but I am sorry, he lost us the game. We need real leaders like Oliseh and Okocha. People who drag the team from two goals down, not people like Obi who throw away comfortable positions like the one we had. Obi needs anger management to stop fighting all the time.

Of course, Berti Vogts takes most of the blame for not making an attacking substitution when Ghana got the red card. He has to go! Firstly for his stupid substitutions. Secondly, for taking Apam, Nwanneri, Nsofor and Makinwa to ANC. I am sure Naija has better players than these guys, even in Local league. Look at Egypt team. They are mostly from Al Ahly. The same Al Ahly that Enyimba used to trounce in Champions league. Where are all those Enyimba boys now? I am sure we have better right backs there. Even Emeghara that is playing Champions league. I saw him playing right back for his club and he was much better than that.

Thirdly, NFA must sack themselves for always forcing the coach to pick Nsofor. Please I have one question?

[size=14pt]HOW MANY TIMES DO NSOFOR AND MAKINWA NEED TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR EAGLES BEFORE YOU DROP THEM?! [/size] Are they paying you? Or did you marry their sister?


Uche, Shittu, Osaze, Olofinjana, Ejide, Yobo. God bless una. Una play well.

Etuhu is honest and hardworking but lacks technique.

Mikel, Taye. You guys did well except Ghana game.

Kanu, you have served us well. Thank you. Please retire.

Everybody else needs to question their commitment. If una no really want play for Naija, please kindly leave us like Babayaro did. Either that or you guys are too old and cannot run 90 minutes anymore.

Martins is committed but needs to learn to trap ball well.

I am a Nigerian living in UK. I just wanted to know you guys opinion on the Skyebank share offer. Is it worth it or not? Is the bank financially sound? Your input is appreciated.

Have you heard what Didier Drogba said about their game with Mali?

"We have to win all our matches but it is difficult to say what will happen. You know my wife is Malian, I don’t know but we will see what we can do."

Infact, many Ivorian players have family connection with Mali, including the Toure brothers.

WE ARE FINISHED!

Look, this thing is simple. I see a lot of people blaming Mikel and Olofinjana etc.

The fact is that Mikel and Olofinjana have sweat blood for Naija in this tournament. The only reason Olofinjana did not make the tackle on Kalou is that he was on a yellow card and he did not want to get a red card which would have jeopardised our chance of winning anyway.

The problem is simple. Our attackers are not skillful enough and we have no wingers. People say Mikel is not creative but Mikel has not been able to cross the half way line. This is because the strikers are not holding the ball up giving the midfielders time to catch up with them. You need a skillfull strong striker to be able to do this (like Amokachi). We could see that Kanoute was doing this very effectively for Mali. Martins simply does not have the technique or skill to do this (but at least he works hard unlike pregnant Yakubu who is too old and too unfit to even chase any pass played up to him). He also lacks the skill.

BTW, did you know that the man who discovered Yakubu said he was a painter and a "poor man" when he discovered him. He trained him for two years before Yakubu went on to play for Okomo oil in 1997 and Julius Berger in 1998. If he was already a painter and a "poor MAN" two years before he started playing ball in 1997, how old does that make Yakubu? No wonder he is pregnant. He didn't want to play for us when he was in his prime. Why should we accomodate him now he is finished. I have seen him play live in Premiership many times and I can tell you this guy cannot run despite his goals (which are mostly tap-ins.)

Another problem is the lack of wingers. Berti Vogts obviously does not know his squad otherwise he would know that Odemwingie and Utaka are the closest thing we have to wingers. BOTH OF THEM HAVE TO PLAY TOGETHER!!!. Odemwingie on the left and Utaka on the right.

Concerning Odiah and Obodo, there is no way they could make the squad as they have both just come back from long term 6 month + injuries. They need to win back their places at their respective clubs and they are both not fully match fit. As for Ayila, he is good but not better than Olofinjana or even Eromoigbe. I don't see how having him in the team would have changed anything. Our problem is creativity, not defending. Therefore I don't think he would have changed much. As for Oruma, he could have possibly been a solution on the left of midfield (ala Zidane for Real Madrid) but for the last two years he has hardly played much for Marseille so there are questions about his fitness and form.

My problem is this. Why do we always name a squad with ten strikers and no wingers. There is no need for people like Makinwa to be in the squad or even Nsofor sef. We already have too many of those type of players. We have Edu aka Chinedu Ogbuke who can play left midfield as well as striker if he is needed. Otherwise, let us get some home based wingers or others based in other parts of Africa who play wing.

I attended the Naija-Ghana match when they hammered us 4-1 and the same problem we had in that match is the problem we are having now. We are trying to accomodate too many strikers by playing them on the wing. Our strikers are not creative. They are greedy and they do not cross when they need to. PLEASE GET US SOME WINGERS EVEN IF THEY ARE LOCAL BOYS!!. Infact, Haruna should have made the squad at least as a back up to Utaka because we have no wingers.

On the positive side, I am impressed with Shittu, Yobo and Taiwo. Taiwo is now a proper defender unlike before when he used to leave his position open too much. Ejide looks European standard. Enyeama did some good things but I have to say that Ejide is much better at dealing with crosses and corners and that makes him a better goalkeeper. Mikel and Olofinjana have also played well. Utaka is OK, not special but not bad so far. Odemwingie the same. Martins has worked hard but is not up to scratch technically. Everyone else has been a big dissapointment. 

Finally,

MAKINWA AND YAKUBU, please make una go dive bush somewhere and leave Super Eagles alone.

Eguavoen was a small player and cannot command the boys. Please give to job to SiaSia. Berti Vogts, please go home. Greedy Politicians, please leave our football alone!

First of all, Berti Vogts is a German coach. His mentality is German and his style of play is German. No wonder he likes all these rubbish unskillful players like Makinwa and Nsofor and Yakubu. His style of play is to keep it simple and efficient. Naija players no sabi that one. We like to demo small before we score goal. Therefore, if we are going to have a foreign coach again, please let him be Brazilian. Otherwise, abeg give the job to SiaSia or Westerhof sef. Plus we have to do bone scan on all our players because some old men like Yakubu are messing up our team parading as youngsters when they are really 35. We have already got rid of Aghahowa (who bleeped up our last Nations cup). Now it is Yakubu's turn to go. De guy too like to score tap in. He cannot run and is unfit.


Joking aside, our country is a dissapointment. Politically, economically, everything. Even the football wey suppose distract us from all our problems sef dey mess up.

We need some real wingers, left winger and right winger. Haruna needs to be trained up. An Eagle without wings cannot fly.

Thunder fire Berti Vogts

It is obvious to everyone that Obinna Nsofor cannot play ball and Yakubu is too fat and too old. What does he do? He takes off Martins and Osaze. WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!. He should have played Utaka on the right, Odemwingie on the left (so he can cut in and shoot) and Kanu just behind Martins. Martins will stretch their defence and Kanu will drag the midfield further up so that Mikel's creative talents can come through. I feel sorry for our midfielders and defence. They work so hard only for that fat fool Yakubu to mess it up. Mikel should hurry up and come home to Chelsea.


Bleep Berti Vogts!!! Hated in Scotland, now hated in Nigeria. What does he do when we are in trouble? he brings on that donkey Makinwa, no goals this season for Lazio. Why didn't you just fucking leave Martins and Osaze on the pitch then? Tactically, this guy is a mess. I hope yahoozies and 419 raid his fucking account. Idiot. I am SOOOOOO ANGRY!

Bleep Yakubu!!!

Who is Nsofor paying to keep him in the National team? Apparently NFA asked Vogts to include him in the squad. Either play him striker or don't play him at all. He doesn't have the skills to play left wing.

upping this,

upson:
B4 i post the picks for this week, i think there is need for some education here.
my objective for initiating this thread is not to educate on the modus operandi of the Nigerian Stock Market, i guess so many threads on Nairaland are already doing that.
But i see the need to educate some seemingly NASDAQ, FTSE, NYSE knowledgeable people on how the Nigerian market operates.

@ Ibime
from your posts, its obvious you don't know a lot of things about this market, and please endeavour to add more to your knowledge base.
Firstly, i don't know of any form of Fundamental analysis that would indicate possible price movements over a duration as short as one week.

Secondly, your insinuation about the time of completion of a single transaction on the NSE obviosly lets the cat out of the bag on your level of familiarity with NSE.
A regular transaction takes only one second to execute, but the cash side of the transaction takes T+3. The meaning of this is that ownership is transferred once your broker executes your instruction, but you would not be able to cash-out (in the case of a sell mandate) until T+3.
In-fact depending on the level of rapport between you and your broker you can buy and sell the same stock on the same day, because ownership transfer is instanteneous. but that may not be available for even millionnaire clients.

Thirdly, one the issue of G-stocks. The objective here is not to identify or select Growth Stocks, but the motive as clearly stated is to identify G-Stocks that is expected to appreciate during the week. Thus, G-stocks is used here just as a nomenclature for a select category of stocks and not as a definition as you thought.

Lastly, on the comparison with the NSE index, i believe the index is public information, so you can do your evaluation in whatever context you so desire. Even the performance of the "best portfolio managers" is pubicly available so please compare the results against whatever standard you desire.

Thank you very much. You are right that I am still taking my first steps into the Naija market - just need to learn the rules. And yes, I know that fundamental analysis is a longer term approach than one week - again, my ignorance of transaction times spurred this suggestion. So abeg, no vex, my apologies. Anyway, could you then please explain your method - whether you use technical analysis, analyst reviews, news reports, gut instincts etc so that we can also apply some of these methods ourselves - I am not saying you should educate us - the reason I would like to know your methods is so that I know if they are reliable or not - as you know, there are many people on Nairaland who profess to have knowledge that they don't have. If you want to give us some insight into the best methods for short term stock picking in Naija, we no go mind as well - I am sure that your knowledge will be reciprocated somehow - after all, we are all here to learn from each other. As you say, I will continue to check your performance against the NSE over the coming weeks - however, it would be nice if you can post it up yourself so that everyone on here can see that you are doing a good job.

Also, it is good to find that you are knowledgeable about NSE. Maybe you can help with some questions I have in the thread below -

                                   https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-98270.0.html

Hi guys. I wonder if any of you can help me with one or two questions.

I run an Investment club in the UK with a few Naija friends of mine. I am Nigerian myself. So far, we have invested exclusively in Western stocks. Recently, we decided to have a look at the Naija market. I used a Bloomberg terminal to find the fundamental analysis ratios for Nigerian stocks and found that only 12 of the Nigerian Companies on NSE have balance sheets and Income statements published on the Bloomberg terminal, out of which only 8 or so were even up to date (mostly banks). There is a saying that "if any information is available, you can find it on a Bloomberg terminal" and in my experience, I find this to be true. So, unless the Bloomberg data collectors are not doing their jobs properly, this leads me to two nagging questions:

(1).  I don't live in Naija so I don't know this. Do Naija companies publish their balance sheets and Income statements? Are all these Nigerians investing in companies which are unaccountable? Please help me clarify this. Maybe the companies publish but Bloomberg just don't have their results.

(2).  Secondly, I have heard many a time that even the companies that do publish their balance and income statements may be falsifying their books. What are your views? Might this be correct? Some of the companies I studied had fantastic fundamentals but it was not reflected in the growth of their share price. Is it because investors do not have confidence in their accountability? I mean, we all remember what happened with Enron.

(3). Thirdly, if all my fears about false accounting are true, this could lead to a crash. Does anyone else foresee this or is it just me? And if so, how long before we see somethig like that? The reason is, I believe IPO's are the only viable solution to recieve large returns in Naija. Most of the stocks who did PO's have stalled since they did them. I can see that the growth in NSE is primarily down to IPO's. But I would not want to hold an IPO share if there is a danger of a stock market crash.

I need some informed opinions please. Your views will be greatly appreciated.

upson:
I have been praying not to get distracted and at least for now, my prayer would be answered.

I don't know what you mean by this. All I'm saying is that you should tell people why you pick the stocks you do. Yes, we know the volatility, but do you expect it to be negative or positive this week? If so, why? Because volatility = risk. Unless we are fairly sure that the projected volatility is positive, we don't want to invest. Also for Growth stocks, we know that the growth is long term. Therefore, you cannot have a new G-stock each week. You pick a few G-stocks each quarter or each year and you stick with it. You also know that the process of buying Naija stocks can take weeks to complete. So what is the purpose of buying your stockpick this week only to recieve ownership in a few weeks, by which time you have a new stockpick for that week?

Also, can you please compare the movement of your stock picks against the movement of the NSE as a whole so we can evaluate your performance in the right context. Anyway, I don't mean to be hard on you. Don't take it that way. Every honest effort is appreciated by Nairaland users.