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Car TalkRe: Tesco Powers into 2022 with the UK’s First Commercial Electric Articulated HGVs by Konquest(op):
First Impressions Of Tesla's FSD 12.5 Update on Hardware 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlpYKZNqz3M?feature=shared
Black Tesla • April 2024


Navigating Urban City Streets With Tesla's Full Self-driving 12.5.1.5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw3MsG8tZnc?si=OHJCMqsxY3zx7dh6
Black Tesla • Aug 26 2024
#FSD #Tesla #TeslaPlaid


Loving and Hating FSD 12.5.1.5 Downtown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DPFvP1JT28?si=nu5BB9ptL9X3cWLw
Black Tesla • Aug 29 2024
#TeslaPlaid #FSD #Tesla
Join us as we take another drive downtown with Tesla latest Full Self-Driving software 12.5.1.5 for Hardware 3 and see how it handles more congested areas!


Tesla FSD 12.5.1.5 Breaks Record in Chicago w/ Zero Input - First Time in 3 Years! 🤯 🤯 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4sYT5EM5i8
TechGeek Tesla • August 24 2024


OMG I PICKED UP MY DREAM CAR | TESLA MODEL X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hpUzhALTkM?si=PmQvRP1PRaEko3IQ
Who’s Next? - Helping Agents Close More Deals
• Oct 19 2022


Xpeng sell 10,000 cars in minutes after revealing Tesla rival for half the price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci5b3GgK7OA?si=buTnOBnkGRO1en7O
The Electric Viking • Aug 29 2024
3.6K Likes 101,544 Views
#xpengg6 #xpeng #teslamodel3
Car TalkRe: Was GAZZUZZ Killed By The Petrol Mafia ? by Konquest: 6:57am On Aug 31, 2024
diamond68:
yeah bro I heard about it yesterday. A giant has fallen. I think there is more to this than meets the eye. A spiritual warfare. I always tell people if you are making big moves that is encroaching on the territory of demons you better make sure you are either blameless so you have angelic protection , and if you can’t be blameless you seek some form of spiritual fortifications
Well, yeah in the capitalist ecosystem we live in globally, such things CANNOT be discounted, but it's safe to say for now that it was a general accident until or unless more facts are unearthed. It's good you brought up this other perspective because it generated some talking points which helped to clarify some issues surrounding his translation.

I just watched a video of his now explaining (with great elocution and good English diction) how CNG works in this NL section and found out that his real names are David Omoregie which means he's of Bini-Edo descent.

Cheers!
BusinessRe: Lady Goes Viral For Her Views About Billionaires & Other Societal Issues (video) by Konquest: 6:48am On Aug 31, 2024
diamond68:
hmmm bro the folly here is in thinking some things are spiritual and some are non spiritual. It’s like saying some computers are operated by operating systems and some are operated without operating systems. It’s an impossible statement to make. Every computers runs on operating systems. Everything is spiritual. The spiritual programs are the operating systems of this 3 dimensional realm and all those people you mentioned were selected at birth to receive the wisdom they did so as to be billionaires. The rabbit hole is very deep. This life is absolutely not what you think it is. There are controllers of this realm and they have all the keys. You have to be let in . To be a billionaire? They have to let you in
Car TalkRe: The Life And Times Of Gazzuzz by Konquest:
londonerr:
Rest in peace.
David Omoregie was perhaps the most influential member of the car talk section with his readiness to assist both online and offline... A great individual....

I learnt he was in an accident as an occupant in the vehicle a few months ago.

May God grant his family the fortitude to bear the loss.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXcXM_Sd6Ds?si=gFhvGgfXudxq5mLb


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo0uzDC1OEQ?si=IUGPNsgfEFG8PJtZ
Whoa! I just got to know of his translation to a higher state a few minutes ago.

@Gazzuz, David Omoregie.

So, he was a Bini dude... Indeed, his innovative spirit and wisdom will be greatly missed in the automotive space.

My deep condolences once again go to his entire fam in Lagos, Edo, and around the world.
Car TalkRe: Was GAZZUZZ Killed By The Petrol Mafia ? by Konquest: 6:13am On Aug 31, 2024
emy77:
Pls stop spreading false narratives. A lot of us are in mourning.

It wasn't a molue. He went to deliver a car and took a bus back from Benin to Lagos. Bus somersaulted and lots of passengers died
That's a much clearer perspective. Thanks for that.
Car TalkRe: Was GAZZUZZ Killed By The Petrol Mafia ? by Konquest: 6:08am On Aug 31, 2024
diamond68:
This man was on a mission to convert every car in the country away from petrol usage and I heard he was working with many government agencies. You think the petrol mafia got to him ? Tampered with his vehicle ? He was spoiling their business. These petrol mafias are dangerous people and would go to any length to keep their money rolling in, even killing 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️
What?! OMG. So, Gazzuz has translated? I just logged in and saw this thread.

Well, in the grand scheme of things he has dropped the physical body for another higher dimension. I hope someone in his family can pick up from where he stopped in his CNG project.

My deep condolences to his entire fam.
PoliticsRe: Mass Poison: Canada-based Nigerian Woman Under Probe For Threatening Genocide by Konquest:
adamusuleiman3:
https://punchng.com/mass-poison-canada-based-nigerian-woman-under-probe-for-threatening-genocide/
BIAFRA IPOB-IGBO MAN WHO INSULTED OBA OF BINI/EDO DECLARED WANTED! SAYING UNA NOR FIT DO ANYTHING!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBU54X_qKg?si=GexPCs2RpG0H5VVO
VICTOR PRAISE TV • Aug 30 2024


Message To The Igbo Man That Insulted Oba of Benin + Benin Edo People Because of Peter Obi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aoK3_Tducs
Inspire With Ella Suitable • March 27 2023


The FIRST video right ABOVE shows another careless and garrulous man with links to Ipob speaking. The hateful rhetorics being spewed by that woman in Canada called Amaka echos or mirrors Ipob propaganda and influence on her because that is how the other females with Ipob affiliations that I have seen in video recordings also speak. The BBC's Global Disinformation Team also did an exclusive report in 2022 on how some Ibo women (and Ibo men) living abroad (in places such as the U.S., UK, Italy, Germany, Asia, etc) with secessionist links were spewing a lot of hate speech in online videos which are part of many secessionist "online troll farms" while calling for the outright beheadings and death of some prominent people in Anambra and elsewhere. These death threats were eventually carried out. The two BBC Weblinks and one other Weblink are right BELOW this paragraph. Second, in 2023, a male ipob member in two separate videos insulted the Oba of Benin and called Edo youths STUPID, USELESS, and un.cir.cumcised including their Oba. When told by Edo folks online (and even some Delta State people) to apologize to the Oba of Benin, the Ipob member doubled down in a second video he made and further insulted the Oba of Benin and Edo youths the more and it was totally unprovoked. Some of the criminally defamatory and inciting videos are still online and I have attached one of the video links (the second video) right after the first video ABOVE. Third, there was also another highly inciting video back in 2018 that was made by a light complexioned male Ipob member based abroad who insulted the Oba of Benin while casting aspersions on the Oba of Benin and Ile Ife where he said the Oba of Benin came from or has ancestral connections. He was irresponsibly calling for the Oba to be kicked out of Benin back to Ife where he claimed the Oba's ancestors came from over 800 years ago. This led to a push back from Bini-Edo folks and the Bini palace elders online and offline. There is a very dangerous strand among some Ibos who exhibit a lack of complete decorum when speaking and hence tar other Ibos who just want to lead their normal lives in near-absolute peace.


Ipob: Nigerian (Secessionist) 'media warriors' call for killings on social media over Biafra
=>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61354014
The BBC's investigation revealed many other influential Ipob supporters also operating outside the country, openly promoting disinformation.


Ipob: Biafra 'media warriors' call for killings on social media - BBC Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRvx2bBIj_o?si=dlOJBHjmz-3ikPOg
BBC News Africa • May 12 2022


IPOB Members Sending Me Death Threats – BBC Reporter Cries Out
=>https://saharareporters.com/2021/09/02/ipob-members-sending-me-death-threats-%25E2%2580%2593-bbc-reporter-cries-out


[b]I have to NOW step right into this convo for the FIRST time ever so that things can be really put into proper historical perspectives with video EVIDENCE and timelines or dates. I'm a veteran of the Nigerian Civil War history and I have many books in my home library written by combatants on both the Federal and rebel sides that I have had since the 1980s so as to gain proper perspectives of events. The GENESIS or ORIGINS of all these toxic hate speeches started off because of the loss of the July 1967- January 1970 Nigerian Civil War (which lasted for exactly 2 years and 6 months) and since then, Ibo irredentists have repeatedly engaged in insults and the relentless use of toxic hate speech towards other Nigerian ethnic groups (offline from the 1979 Presidential election cycle right into the 1980s) and (online right from the 1990s) towards the Ijaws, Ikweres, Yorubas, Binis, Delta State ethnicities, Hausas, Fulahs, Kanuris, Tivs, Beroms, Efiks, etc, (who they accused of alleged betrayal and so-called abandoned properties), and generally all prominent ethnic groups that featured as combatants in the Nigerian Armed Forces and civilian resistance towards the secession and illegal encroachment on non-Ibo areas or lands of the defunct Old Eastern Region (WITHOUT a referendum being carried out) by Col. Emeka Ojukwu (rtd) from May 30, 1967. It's as a result of those unprovoked toxic hate speeches online and offline that other Nigerian ethnic groups started pushing back strongly at the attacks by the Ibo irredentists.[/b] The younger generation who were born in the 1990s and 2000s do NOT know the genesis of how this toxic hatred started because they were NOT born or they were babies then, but those of us who are older can tell you how these cyber bullying and hate speeches, laced with FAKE news started because we witnessed the birth and usage of the Internet back in the early 1990s and saw how this toxic hate speech gained momentum from the late 1990s right to the point when Massob was founded in Lagos State in 1999 by a lawyer, Ralph Uwazuruike and intense hate speech, criminal defamations, and falsifications or embellishments of Nigeria Civil War history and other historical events and disinformation was taking place on those rabid Ibo-owned secessionist Websites back in the early 2000s (before even Nairaland was created and launched by Seun Osewa in 2005). I used to visit those secessionist Websites with an open mind to read some of what they were chatting about back in the early 2000s, BUT I was stunned to know that there was high-level TOXIC mind control and brainwashing of the young ones going on in order to make them fit into a false historical narrative. These young ones were then used to push out fabricated stories or half-truths on other discussion forums and platforms such as X, FB, NL, YouTube, and more.

[b]Even Ralph Uwazuruike the founder of Massob granted an interview in 2015 as seen in the first two links right BELOW where he said he had to EXPEL Nnamdi Kanu from Massob because he was using the secessionist platform to spread a lot of TOXIC hate speech and violence targeted towards others on his secessionist pirate radio station he had reluctantly recruited Nnamdi Kanu to manage in London in 2009. Again, in a 2017 interview that Ralph Uwazuruike granted in the third Weblink BELOW, he CLEARLY said that Nnamdi Kanu was a nobody who was homeless after being kicked out by the Ghanaian woman he was staying with and he was into INTERNET FRAUD as well when he first met him in London and had to rehabilitate him.

=>https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/biafra-uwazuruike-renames-massob-2/

=>https://dailypost.ng/2015/12/05/i-remain-massob-leader-uwazuruike-laughs-off-expulsion/

=>https://www.thecable.ng/uwazuruike-nnamdi-kanu-fraudster-ghanaian-woman-left-homeless-london/

=>https://saharareporters.com/2022/12/16/uk-government-dissolves-de-registers-nnamdi-kanus-indigenous-people-biafra-organisation


Ralph Uwazuruike was already a marked man under the former President Obasanjo administration. Starting in 2003, the Department of State Services [DSS], began to monitor him and got him arrested so he had to find a new approach using a secessionist radio station.

Kanu then proceeded to use the secessionist radio station to spread a deeply sectarian and militant propaganda message, as he put it "… Biafra or Death", often referring to Nigeria as a "zoo" that was destined to go up in flames. He ALSO CLEARLY solicited for "guns and bullets" in a video BELOW when he went to the U.S.[/b]

Nnamdi Kanu Solicited Guns To Fight Nigeria At World Igbo Congress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XU2JtlUF6M


In a video that has since gone viral on social media, Nnamdi Kanu said of religious leaders from the South-West and North-Central of Nigeria's Yoruba ethnic group, “It's always Yoruba people, head of Pentecostal, head of Catholic, head of Anglican. Hausas are killing us, Yorubas are sucking our blood."

“If you’re attending a Yoruba church, you should be ashamed of yourself”, he continued. “Anybody attending a pentecostal church with a Yoruba pastor is an idiot, a complete fool, an slowpoke. They are worse than Boko Haram. If your pastor is Yoruba, you are NOT fit to be a human being.”


What Nnamdi Kanu Said About Igbos with Yoruba Pastors, Insults Yoruba Christians!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGwoq26nsIk?si=OCRalM2U9bxBh6uG
Ola-Rashy Tv • June 10 2017

It was after Nnamdi was officially EXPELLED (after a splinter group came into existence from 2009) that he created Ipob in the 2012 to continue the fabrication of history and relentless hate speech targeted at other Nigerian ethnic groups.



The reason why the Yoruba and Ibo verbal confrontations online is so pronounced is simply because both ethnicities have a much larger online presence (due to overall population size) than most Nigerian ethnic groups, so it's NOT surprising that Yoruba folks had to begin to fight back at the falsehoods, criminally defamatory posts and fake memes being relentlessly spread online by younger Ibos such as: the persistent LIE that Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, "committed suicide by drinking rat poison" after planning a coup against Gen. Ibrahim Babangida which is one of the most ASININE LIES and insults ever fabricated online because Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who was a lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) passed on peacefully and was given a national burial in 1987 being also a GCFR, with General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Ibo leaders such as Ojukwu himself greatly eulogizing Chief Awolowo, by calling him "the best President Nigeria never had." So, how did these young Ibo kids end up FABRICATING the FAKE story and online memes stating FALSELY that Awolowo "committed suicide" by rat poison? It was via those highly defamatory and toxic secessionist, propaganda Websites and blogs from the early 2000s. I was alive in 1987 when Awolowo passed on and witnessed the events of Awolowo's grand funeral in the media and I can say here and now that he was well eulogized by many Nigerian and world leaders who had worked with him back in the day. A second historical fabrication and LIE that I have been seeing online including on Nairaland is a fake meme being uploaded by younger Ibos showing General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in military uniform calling Yorubas "cowards" in 1993. That is another CLEAR EVIDENCE of secessionist fabrication of history. IBB NEVER made such a comment either in English or Hausa languages and he's still alive at over 80 years of age (though recuperating on a wheelchair) to debunk that irresponsible lie. He is a man who has close friends among Yoruba folks and wouldn't insult the people he had as friends within and outside the military. When you tell a lie online and offline, you have to keep covering it with another BIG lie but you will be found out because there is ALWAYS a digital trail leading to the TRUTH.

The healing process has to start from within through self-forgiveness, self-acceptance, and self-love. Nobody is gonna do it for those Ibos who are still bitter about the past and have allowed themselves to be relentlessly manipulated via mind control methods by secessionist propaganda Websites and social media platforms to hate other ethnicities and play the highly offensive arrogance and victimhood like the guys in those videos above are doing because victimhood makes them feel good. Whether those who have allowed themselves to be used for bigotry and incitements will become self-aware and change from within is another thing entirely. Justice is key in any society. Forgiveness on all sides is key as well. Period.


P.S. Chinua Achebe in his last book that he wrote before he passed on has this to say about an "offensive" strand in contemporary Ibo behavior.

“I will be the FIRST to concede that the Igbo as a group is not WITHOUT its flaws. Its success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and THOUGHTLESSNESS, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, than can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness. There is NO doubt at all that there is a STRAND in contemporary Igbo behavior that can OFFEND by its NOISY EXHIBITIONISM and DISREGARD for HUMILITY and quietness.” - Chinua Achebe


Cc: Naptu2, Mynd44, Seun, Dominique, grandstar, ecolime, Ishilove, Seunmsg
PoliticsRe: Court Freezes 13 Bank Accounts Linked To Suspected Terrorist, Henry Okocha by Konquest: 5:00am On Aug 31, 2024
adenigga:
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday issued an order to freeze 13 bank accounts linked to a suspected terrorist, Henry Okocha.

Justice Peter Lifu issued the order following an ex-parte application filed before the court by the Department of State Services, represented by its counsel, Yunus Umar.

The ex-parte application, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1036/2024, was brought under sections 5 and 81 of the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022.

In an 8-paragraph affidavit supporting the ex-parte motion, the DSS informed the court that the defendant had received substantial sums of money, amounting to millions of naira, in the accounts, and these funds were suspected to be proceeds of terrorism.

Umar requested the court to grant an order for the agency to freeze Okocha’s accounts for 90 days to allow for a thorough forensic investigation into his alleged acts of terrorism.

The DSS counsel argued that freezing the accounts would enable the agency to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice.


The banks where the accounts are domiciled include First Bank of Nigeria, Guaranty Trust Bank, United Bank for Africa, Union Bank of Nigeria, Providus Bank, Palmpay Limited, and Resolut Limited.

In his ruling, Justice Lifu granted the DSS’s request to freeze the bank accounts but reduced the period to 60 days instead of the requested 90 days for the investigation.

He ruled that the accounts, which are domiciled in seven different banks, would remain “frozen for 60 days to enable the applicant to conduct the necessary forensic investigations into the alleged acts of terrorism by the defendant.”


The DSS confirmed that Okocha had been taken into custody following his arrest for investigation.

Source: https://punchng.com/Court-freezes-13-bank-accounts-linked-to-suspected-terrorist
What kind of terrorism has this guy been alleged to be involved in? I'll have to find out more.
PoliticsRe: Can Someone Earning ₦21M Monthly Afford This Garage? by Konquest: 4:54am On Aug 31, 2024
Kobojunkieee:
All I have to work with is general knowledge. undecided
@Kobojunkie

Aha... That's impressive. Having that "general knowledge" is key to knowing one's rights and all that is needed to unearth these facts in the grand scheme of things.

Enjoy you day. wink
PoliticsRe: Can Someone Earning ₦21M Monthly Afford This Garage? by Konquest: 4:25am On Aug 31, 2024
Kobojunkieee:
Did you know that Dino Melaye had to declare his assets each time he ran for office? Do you know that the information requested is not listed on that form? You can do a FOIA to request a copy of that document to know this for yourself. undecided

If when even under oath, he did not reveal the information on said assets, what makes you think that any ideas you may have regarding the source of his new assets are valid? What makes you think any of the assets claimed by your other Nigerian billionaires equally are?
undecided

2. You have never met Elon Musk, have you? Please stop with the generalizations and start asking your so-called rich friends the right questions. Ask them for evidence of their claims and verify them all. undecided

If Nigeria were today to implement the Unexplained Wealth Orders and have it implemented as Obono Obla had attempted to back when he was still working with the last government, over 95% of your so-called billionaires in Nigeria would have been exposed as nothing but thieves and leeches on the system. There is a reason why the Nigerian government refuses to implement a lot of common sense policies even as it pretends it stands democratic. lipsrsealed
I'm fully aware of the "Unexplained Wealth Orders."

However, you made brilliant submissions in the bolded above and in the last paragraph as well.

By the way, do you have a background as an attorney or in finance?
Car TalkRe: Lagos State Governor Tested This EV Today by Konquest: 4:17am On Aug 31, 2024
Litmus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xcgj7EY-A8?si=KksW2WCtGIJ3Qy-4
That's impressive... The EV car looks compact for the e-hailing initiative of the Lagos State government. However, I'm still a big fan of hybrid cars as that's what I drive and have parked currently in my garage. EVs haven't yet hit the optimum in the United States and worldwide. EVs also have poor resale values.
BusinessRe: Aradel To Acquire NNPC, Totalenergies Oil Fields by Konquest: 4:06am On Aug 31, 2024
Morbeta11:
Aradel Holdings Plc, an indigenous energy company, through its subsidiary, Aradel Energy Limited, has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire the 100 per cent interest in the Olo and Olo West marginal fields from TotalEnergies EP Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.

The Olo and Olo West Fields were formerly part of OML 58.

The acquisition was completed for a consideration of $16m plus $3.5m of deferred and conditional payments.

In a statement on Thursday, Aradel said the Petroleum Mining Lease (for Olo) and Petroleum Prospecting License (for Olo West) will be issued after the payment of relevant ministerial consent fees and completion of approved field development plans within designated timeframes.

“The addition of Olo and Olo West marginal fields to Aradel’s portfolio of assets is a significant inorganic growth milestone in furtherance of Aradel’s vision and long-term strategy to provide sustainable energy solutions that support economic growth,” Aradel’s Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director, Adegbite Falade, said.

Falade said the acquisition of the marginal fields is a major step in our journey of promoting energy security in Nigeria through organic and inorganic growth.


“We want to commend the unwavering commitment of the Ministers of Petroleum Resources, and our regulator – the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission in supporting this acquisition, within the framework of the Petroleum Industry Act.

“We also want to commend the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and TotalEnergies for their commitment to grow Nigeria’s oil and gas production, even from marginal fields,” the CEO stated.

Olo and Olo West Fields are located within former OML 58, in the Eastern Niger Delta, 80 kilometres northwest of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

A marginal field is any field that has been discovered and has been left unattended for not less than 10 years, from the date of first discovery of such a field.


https://punchng.com/aradel-to-acquire-nnpc-totalenergies-oil-fields/
PoliticsRe: Can Someone Earning ₦21M Monthly Afford This Garage? by Konquest: 3:57am On Aug 31, 2024
TopBanter:
Precisely. Imagine you are then in a political or prominent position where you can get 500 million naira loan or more quickly, for your own private endeavours, by simply speaking with a bank manager for 5 minutes.

You'd then have the money you can use for some seriously big projects that can set you on course to be a multi billionaire in a short time.

Below is Dangote's own story where he reveals he started to import and sell agricultural produce with a $3,000 loan.

Instead of Nigerian youths to read investopedia and such news sources to be inspired and know what is achievable, many will be hating and cursing the rich and succesful every day.


Well, na dem life and dem misery at the end of the day.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100615/how-aliko-dangote-became-richest-african.asp#:~:text=Shortly%20after%20graduating%20from%20college,three%20months%20of%20starting%20operations.
I recall he said his wealthy maternal uncle from the Dantata family gave him N500,000 in 1977 to start his business. That was a lot of money back then.
PoliticsRe: Can Someone Earning ₦21M Monthly Afford This Garage? by Konquest: 3:55am On Aug 31, 2024
Kobojunkieee:
First of all, owning a McDonald's franchise may earn you about $70,000-150,000 a year before taxes depending on the location and a whole other factors. This does not support the lifestyle claimed by Dino Melaye. Second, we are still to prove that the man's claims are true, to begin with. There is no mention in all of his stories of the year, state, or city he supposedly owned these franchises, or if he still owns them to date. undecided

How many times have you heard someone tell you a story of doing business in the U.S. without at least dropping a year, a state, or even a city? Even the name of the president of the United States during the time would make sense to some. This Dino Melaye story is more likely of fraud. undecided
You made very valid points in your posts.
However, it's left for Dino to reveal the specifics of how he made his money. Some folks don't mind revealing these to the public for privacy and safety reasons, while other multimillionaires and billionaires don't mind revealing these so as to motivate or inspire others to succeed. A lot of wealthy folks that I know have investments in the global financial markets, spread across several asset classes that bring them income aside from the so-called physical businesses that people on the street level see. So, it's absolutely important NOT to jump into conclusions about wealthy folks but give them the benefit of the doubt, until proven otherwise after background checks have been made on each individual.

One last thing though, really wealthy guys don't like to show off, but I guess Dino's penchant for displaying a lot of cars might also have to do with the FACT that he came from a family that didn't have the middle-upper class lifestyle so he is just catching up on his missed years. But then, moderation is key.
PoliticsRe: Can Someone Earning ₦21M Monthly Afford This Garage? by Konquest: 3:42am On Aug 31, 2024
Kobojunkieee:
That website merely rehashes the same story told by Dino himself. Where is the verification for the claims made? Where are the McDonald's franchises supposedly owned by him? What is the EIN under which he operates/operated them? I would like to go to www.irs.gov to get information on these companies so I need you to provide me with at least one detail or another. Etc? undecided
https://senatordinomelaye.org/from-bus-conductor-to-billionaire-the-dino-melaye-story/
PoliticsRe: Can Someone Earning ₦21M Monthly Afford This Garage? by Konquest: 3:41am On Aug 31, 2024
Kobojunkieee:
No, I do not because his story never mentioned the year or location where these franchises are to be located. Also, the average American who owns McDonald's franchises— 5-10 stores — typically can't afford the lavish lifestyle this man lives in Nigeria at all. So, you please help me with information on where exactly this man's story came from? undecided
Art, Graphics & VideoRe: Today Is Bruce Onabrakpeya's 92nd Birthday by Konquest: 3:10am On Aug 31, 2024
naptu2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Onobrakpeya
I've been off this Website for some days and immediately I saw this topic on the NL frontpage, I knew it would be @Naptu2's thread.

Happy 92nd birthday to the iconic Nigerian and global art godfather... Professor Bruce Onobrakpeya. His works of art that I first came in contact with back in the 1980s are of abstract nature and immensely original. As lover of abstract art pieces and an art collector myself, I say "many more fruitful years to Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya, the art icon."
PoliticsRe: Nigerians Paid ₦1.04bn Ransom To Kidnappers In One Year – SBM Intelligence by Konquest: 2:36am On Aug 31, 2024
EreluRoz:
See it's not funny, do you know he was kidnapped in-between two soldier's checkpoint and they were watching it happen. The kidnappers were fully on army uniform with AK-47 and according to him he said the kidnappers were actually soldiers, they kidnapped passengers in busses as well.
Second, how much was paid for the driver's release? You still have to get the IRT crack team involved if you haven't done so.

Worldwide, all security is local and the tendency to heap all the blame at the central government doesn't add up. Anybody can also put on army uniforms and claim to be legit soldiers. I've been reading since the 1990s of shady characters and criminals importing bullets and army uniforms from Ghana into Nigeria through the borders areas for distribution around Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Nigerians Paid ₦1.04bn Ransom To Kidnappers In One Year – SBM Intelligence by Konquest: 2:29am On Aug 31, 2024
EreluRoz:
We payed ransome two days ago for the release of my dad's driver who was kidnapped at Lamkpese somewhere in Edo state. It's not funny, nowhere is safe anymore.

Honestly I'm not pleased with asiwaju's government.
Did you get the Police IRT involved in the process of getting the driver released at Lampese?

Paying Ransome without contacting the IRT is a recipe for more kidnappings.
BusinessRe: Lady Goes Viral For Her Views About Billionaires & Other Societal Issues (video) by Konquest:
diamond68:
Being a billionaire is a spiritual quest and not a physical one. There are universal keys you are given in a lodge to invoke certain cosmic entities like demons who will then let you in and apportion you a higher frequency of energy which is spiritual currency. This is how you become a billionaire. It’s not a physical quest. Impossible to attain without supernatural help. All these guys know where they meet at night. They are all friends
I differ with some parts of your post... though you are partly right that some creeps try to acquire money through insidious means which do not guarantee sustainable income.

A vast number of the USD billionaires ranked on the Forbes list of billionaires largely made their financial ascendancy through the global stock exchanges, innovative thinking, first-mover advantage and their social network of associates. In time and space, the karmic cycle also determines what you have earned in this incarnation. So, it's a confluence of several factors [spiritual and non-spiritual] coming into play.

It's a well-known fact among those of us who have financial education that you CANNOT become a millionaire, multimillionaire OR billionaire if you engage in working for someone else for the rest of your working life... That is a sink-hole situation. You have to take the bull by the horns and invest early in business or the financial markets. Period.
BusinessRe: Lady Goes Viral For Her Views About Billionaires & Other Societal Issues (video) by Konquest:
officialwdhtvv:
Nigerian lady goes viral for her observation about billionaires and other societal issues in Nigeria.

Take a listen!!!

#wetindeyhappentv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dwTmPvaPJc
I just watched this video and the girl [though she spoke with a clear diction] was engaging from a very FLAWED angle. Aside from Aliko Dangote whose maternal grandfather [Alhassan Dantata] was the richest man in Nigeria and indeed the entire West Africa as of the time he passed on in the 1950s, most of the remaining Nigerian-born USD billionaires and millionaires had to work hard to get to where they are today.

The Forbes listed USD billionaire Femi Oyedola's father [Sir. Michael Otedola] from Epe, Lagos State worked with the oil and gas company now called Chevron and rose through the ranks before becoming the Governor of Lagos State back in the 1990s. Mrs. Folorunso Alakija also hailed from the wealthy Ogbara family of Ikorodu, Lagos and she was actually sent to Wales to study alongside her sister even before both of them clocked the age of 10!


The super-wealthy globally have had to really work hard and smart to become USD multi-millionaires and billionaires globally.

Last but NOT least, it is incorrect for the girl and others who are not well-informed to assume that USD billionaires who are ranked on Forbes list of billionaires have loads of physical cash at their disposal to blow. A vast amount of what they are credited with is just in stocks and are not readily in form of cash. So, it's improper to guilt-trip wealthy folks and billionaires into parting with money they do not readily have.

However, whatever wealthy folks can afford to give to folks who show great promise and genuinely need to get to the NEXT level, then they should go ahead and give them some financial aid. Anybody who feels entitled to a millionaire or billionaire's money MUST be shown out of the door ASAP. Period.
PoliticsRe: Cuban President Confers National Medal Of Honour On Soyinka by Konquest:
LegendHero:
Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/08/29/cuban-president-confers-national-medal-of-honour-on-soyinka/?amp=1
This great national award from Cuba isn't surprising. I was expecting it to happen soon.

Prof. Wole Soyinka was a closse friend of Fidel Castro when he was alive and is well-known in Cuba which he visits regularly every year due to the strong influence of the Yoruba religion, language and culture in Cuba in areas such as the Matanzas Province and Havana to mention a few. The Yoruba-Cuban who built the famous Campos Square on Lagos Island in Lagos State was actually born in Matanzas, Cuba. Cuba and Brazil both received the highest number of people of Yoruba ancestry during the infamous Trans-Atlantic slave trade [especially during the 1800s] with Cuba alone receiving 250,000 folks of Yoruba descent based on historical head counts. The Ibibios and Ejegbam descendants are also represented in Cuba with the Ekpe society practiced by both cultures still in existence having been deported from the Calabar area in the 1800s as well.

Congratulations to Prof. Wole Soyinka [the Godfather]. "El Negro Yoruba... A lo Cubano."
PoliticsRe: Crime Report In Nigeria by Konquest: 10:47am On Aug 28, 2024
opamoses1:
100%

The SE in SW. And I have not even added the 10 killed recently by the police in ladipo that came all the way from the SE to kidnap a business man at ladipo. I did not add the picture as it's too gory.

Take this stats from StatiSense with a pinch of salt.
Let my come in here as well.

A lot of crimes (such as traffic jam robberies, luxury bus robberies, inter-state armed robberies, kidnappings, bank robberies, fake or adulterated wine, malt, pharmaceutical drugs and fruit juice production, methamphetamine and other hard drugs production within residential estates such as Satellite Town and Victoria Garden City in Ajah, Lagos and the relentless drug trafficking through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, baby factory, etc), committed in Lagos and other parts of the South West states, Niger Delta states, and North Central states of Nigeria are committed by Ibos from the South East based on data available to me as well. The media is littered with a LOT of these heinous crimes as further evidence.

This is MAJORLY due to greed, social pressures from peers and community groups to become millionaires before the age of 30. I have kept track of crime statistics for many years now and have read and heard confessions from a minimum of 3 of these young male criminals among the Ibos (who incidentally all come from Anambra State communities) confessing that peer and community pressures pushed them to engage in these crimes otherwise they would be looked down upon in their communities for not being successful. Your post is based on FACTS. It's nice you attached or added pictures to back up your summations here.

Greed, peer group pressures, social pressures, and drug abuse are definitely key drivers for crimes in Nigeria and globally.
PoliticsRe: Bandits Mock Tinubu On Tiktok (Photo) by Konquest: 9:52am On Aug 28, 2024
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PoliticsRe: 12 Journalists Detained So Far By Tinubu Government(picture) by Konquest:
Yourprick:
No more free speech

https://x.com/SabinaNkiru/status/1828484673997087219?t=2fdPmDvPkn4WrecPkzeqCA&s=09[/quote]Some of these people have been released after publishing FABRICATED and highly defamatory stories. Some of these people are NOT fit to be called Journalists because this is NOT how iconic Journalists such as Dele Giwa, Nosa Igiebor, Ray Ekpu, Kunle Ajibade, Bayo Onanuga, Odion Akhaine, etc, behaved back in the day. These men whose publications and articles are regularly read gave FACTS in the face of oppressive military dictatorships back in the 1980s and 1990s.

The third irresponsible person with spectacles in the attached picture, I clearly remember tendered an open apology to Femi Gbajabiamila in 2024 for publishing a FAKE story about him this just a few months ago. He said he was paid to publish the fake story.

=>https://leaders.ng/2024/04/29/i-was-contracted-to-write-false-story-against-gbajabiamila-online-publisher/

The story on the apology given by that Journalist to Femi Gbajabiamila was posted on Nairaland as well. I have just added the link to the apology right BELOW and other apologies.

=>https://www.nairaland.com/8076750/segun-olatunji-contracted-write-false


There is NO absolute freedom anywhere in the world to CRIMINALLY defame people and instigate hate using crappy blogs and online outlets. You cannot publish FAKE news anywhere in the world and expect to go scot free. NEVER.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Konquest:
The Irish-Jamaican Connection

Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Jamaican descent, Harris was born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan) and Oscar Joseph Harris.
=>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Kamala_Harris


"Looking into Claims That Kamala Harris Is The Descendant Of Slave Owners"
=>https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-is-a-descendant-of-an-irish-slave-owner-in-jamaica/

https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-jamaican-heritage/

"Kamala Harris’ family history runs deep in Brown’s Town, Jamaica"
Deep roots and a powerful matriarch
The town was named after Hamilton Brown, a slave owner who came to the island from Ireland and, according to family lore, is believed to have been an ancestor of Kamala Harris’ great-grandmother, Christiana Brown, also a descendant of enslaved Jamaicans.

“Miss Chrishy,” as Christiana Brown was known, helped raise her grandson, Donald Harris, who described her in an essay first published in 2018 in the Jamaica Global Online as “reserved and stern in look, firm with ‘the strap’ but capable of the most endearing and genuine acts of love, affection, and care.”



"The curious tale of Kamala Harris and the Northern Irish slave owner"
August 26 2024
=>https://news.sky.com/story/amp/the-curious-tale-of-kamala-harris-and-the-northern-irish-slave-owner-13201008


"The rise of Kamala Harris proves Indian-Americans’ winning bet on assimilation is paying off"
BY VIVEK WADHWA
Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author. His book, From Incremental to Exponential, explains how large companies can see the future and rethink innovation.
July 30, 2024 at 4:22 PM GMT+1
=>https://fortune.com/2024/07/30/rise-kamala-harris-indian-american-winning-bet-assimilation-paying-off-politics-success/

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Konquest:
Jamericans.

Kamala Harris' Jamaican paternal roots shows that Jamaicans are indeed trailblazers in the United States and elsewhere.



TAKING CHARGE! THE RISE OF JAMAICAN-AMERICANS IN US LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL POLITICS
=>https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/taking-charge-the-rise-of-jamaican-americans-in-us-local-state-and-national-politics/


"50 in hip hop with Jamaican roots."
=>https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2023/08/31/50-in-hip-hop-with-jamaican-roots/


"Hip-Hop Was Born in New York City, But Its Roots Are in the Caribbean"
=>https://time.com/6328945/hip-hop-caribbean-history/

=>https://nycaribnews.com/hip-hop-with-its-caribbean-roots-celebrating-50-years/
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by Konquest:
Watch: 5 Republicans who spoke out against Trump, endorsed Kamala Harris at DNC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K5kvfvWNRQ?si=bRxRVBGar1I3M489
Face the Nation • Aug 23 2024

Here are the Republicans who spoke out against former President Donald Trump and endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Timestamps:
0:00 Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham
2:04 Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles
4:21 Former Pence adviser Olivia Troye
7:24 Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan
11:17 Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger


Wow, this is unprecedented! They all spoke out at the 2024 DNC in Chitown (Chicago) NOT only because of their GOP historical backgrounds, but for the love of country and the survival of America's democracy.

The 2024 DNC was indeed fired-up for Harris-Walz!



Anti-Trump GOP speakers on January 6: Republicans who vote for Kamala Harris are patriots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKemF8656eg?si=62GVlE0jwRCksJzi
ABC 7 News - WJLA • August 23 2024

"Dump Trump" ~ Former GOP Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan. **Thumbs up👍💯🇺🇸**



Cc: 1stGenAmerican
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Appoints New Directors-General For DSS, NIA by Konquest:
Burob:
Nice to know that we still have open minded critical thinkers on Nairaland.
Just to add here again @Butob.

If Nigeria breaks up because of the non-challant handling of the deliberate spread of online hate speech and outright falsehoods, where will the folks of various ethnicities run to because nearby countries to Nigeria have their own economic challenges and these youngsters who spread these fabricated stories or fake news copied from several propaganda sources would also have NO where to run to as well. These youngsters seem NOT to realize that in the event of an outbreak of Civil War, it is they who would be recruited to carry the guns and kill themselves while the women in their families get molested and brutally gang raped like it happened in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean Civil Wars at various time in the 1990s. Those of us who are older have seen massive destructions from internal upheavals around the world and there are recognizable patterns of insecurity that occur in cycles due to the ignorance of a younger generation.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Appoints New Directors-General For DSS, NIA by Konquest:
Burob:
Many had already started cursing President Tinubu based on the rumor that former NIA boss Ambassador Oke was coming back.
@Burob, thanks for your input.

I'm aware that the court invalidated the removal of Ambassador Oke.

That's where information management is key on the part of the President Tinubu administration and it's been average to me. A robust Minister of Information and regular or weekly engagements with the media and online on policies being implemented are key. Barack Obama had weekly YouTube feedbacks to Americans when he was President of the United States. Rapid information management is part of total internal security and with the rise of the Internet in the early 1990s and social media gaining more prominence since the 2000s, past Nigerian governments should have worked out how to bring those who misuse the technology to justice in the courts of law to face heavy punishments.

The UK riots that took place early this month leading to the looting of stores by White hooded gangs and the arsons carried out on a few mosques and buildings emanated through the spread of fake news. The British government has already kicked in place the modalities to hold the owners of these social media platforms responsible for the spread of FALSEHOODS or FAKE news which can have dire consequences for any society. Even the last economic protests in Nigeria in early August 2024 was fueled by massive fake news to trigger violence and hate before it even started based on the upticks noticed online and offline. The sources of all the fake news are well-known because they didn't even bother to cover their tracks.

All the best.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Appoints New Directors-General For DSS, NIA by Konquest: 10:49pm On Aug 26, 2024
seunmsg:
Congratulations to Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed and Dr. Adeola Ajayi. Hopefully, they will both rejig the intelligence agencies for better and more effective result in combating insecurity.
It's time to get the DSS really fired up. The last DSS boss, though a well-trained security expert didn't give the disruption of the relentless online fake news and hate speech a top priority as a security concern. These crimes that will easily tear Nigeria to smithereens were treated with levity by the DSS and other Intel agencies.

There's a lot of online hate speech, criminal defamation, and deliberate fabrication and spread of fake news using all known social media platforms such as X, YouTube, FB, including this NL website. These relentless and criminal fabrication of fake stories online by well-known people and insidious secessionist sympathisers to defame others have the ability to destroy the democracy in Nigeria and lead to unintended consequences that would lead to the mass killings of innocent people through the deliberate spread of hate speech. Period.

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