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This is not what we're supposed to be discussing about Benin right now.

There's a federal road that people get stuck there for days.

This was very popular In India in the 1990s
Where they defrauded people millions

Investment-farm scams are usually structured to make a financial scheme look like a real agricultural business. The farm may exist, but the investment operation is often misleading, unlicensed, or dependent on continuously attracting new money.

### Typical structure

1. The promoter creates an attractive agricultural story

The company claims it owns or manages farms, plantations, cattle, timber, orchards, or agro-processing facilities. It presents agriculture as a stable, socially useful business and uses photographs, farm visits, brochures, and projected harvest figures to build credibility.

2. It divides the investment into small packages

Instead of asking for a large amount, the promoter offers affordable plans—for example, monthly instalments or small “units” linked to a plot of land, a number of trees, livestock, or an expected harvest.

The investor may receive:

- An investment certificate
- A land-allotment document
- A tree or plantation certificate
- A membership card
- A post-dated payment schedule
- A contract promising the return of principal plus profit

These documents can look official without proving that the underlying asset exists or belongs to the investor.

3. It promises unusually predictable returns

The scheme may promise a fixed amount after a set period, such as three, five, or ten years. It may describe the payment as a harvest return, land appreciation, lease income, or maturity value.

The central warning sign is that the return is presented as nearly certain even though genuine farming income depends on weather, disease, prices, labour, theft, transport, and operating costs.

4. It builds a local sales network

Promoters recruit agents, teachers, community leaders, religious figures, former employees, or respected local businesspeople. Agents receive commissions for bringing in investors. This gives the scheme a personal and community-based appearance.

The agent may understand only the sales pitch and may not know how the company uses the money.

5. It uses early payments to establish trust

Some investors receive small payments or successful maturity payouts. Those payments may come from genuine farm revenue, but in a Ponzi-style scheme they may instead come from money collected from newer investors.

Early payouts encourage investors to reinvest and recommend the scheme to relatives and friends.

6. It expands faster than the underlying farm business

The company’s collection network grows across cities or regions, while its claimed farms may not expand at a comparable rate. At this stage, the money raised from investors can be far greater than the value of the land, crops, livestock, or equipment actually owned.

A useful investigative question is:

> Does the company’s agricultural capacity plausibly support the amount of money it has collected?

7. It delays withdrawals or maturity payments

When investors request their money, the company may blame:

- Harvest delays
- Bad weather
- Administrative problems
- New regulations
- A change in payment dates
- Land-registration issues
- Banking restrictions
- A requirement to submit additional documents

It may offer to roll the investment into a longer-term plan rather than pay cash.

8. It collapses when new money slows

If enough investors stop joining, the scheme may no longer have enough cash to pay earlier investors. The company may close offices, stop answering calls, replace its management, or enter court-supervised liquidation.

At that point, investors often discover that:

- The land was never individually allocated
- Certificates did not represent clear ownership
- The farms were overvalued
- Assets were pledged to lenders
- Related companies controlled the money
- Records were incomplete or unavailable

### Common variations

Plantation schemes: Investors supposedly own trees or plots and receive returns when the trees mature.

Land-linked schemes: Investors pay for a plot or fractional land interest, with the company promising appreciation or resale.

Livestock schemes: Investors purchase animals or animal units and receive a share of breeding or sale proceeds.

Agricultural lease schemes: The company leases farmland and promises fixed income from crop production.

Agro-processing schemes: The promoter claims to operate mills, warehouses, export businesses, or food-processing plants and sells investment contracts based on projected profits.

Membership or holiday schemes: A farm, resort, or rural property is used as the visible attraction, while the real business is collecting investment money.

### How to distinguish a genuine farm investment from a scam

A legitimate agricultural investment should be able to explain, in verifiable terms:

- Who legally owns the land
- How much land is actually under cultivation
- What crops or livestock are involved
- Historical yields and selling prices
- Operating costs and expected margins
- The identity of auditors and directors
- How investor funds are held
- Whether investors own an asset or merely hold an unsecured promise
- What regulator authorised the investment
- How investors can exit before maturity
- What happens if the farm loses money

The most important distinction is whether the investor owns a clearly identified asset or is simply promised money later. A certificate, receipt, or farm photograph does not by itself establish ownership.

> Agricultural investment scams borrow the credibility of farming while operating financially like unregulated deposit-taking or Ponzi schemes. Their strength comes from combining a tangible story, trusted local agents, small instalments, fixed returns, and early payouts that conceal the gap between the money collected and the value of the underlying farm assets.

FSBoperator:
He has been contained and his madness checked with his conviction.

Kanu is proof that prisons serve society well.

So now you're getting to understand me. If the current administration loses the next election. Until swearing in. The president can give him a pardon to roam around again knowing he will cause problems for the next administration.

emmasoft:
I don't really know the firm you are referring to but that not withstanding, the way to confirm is either you call customer care or wait to end of the month for Stanbic, if your accrued interest is reinvested then you picked reinvestment of interest if otherwise, you will get paid.

For others, check at the end of the quarter, if you see reinvestment of your accrued interest at the last day of the quarter, it means that is what you opted for, but if you didn't see that line item of reinvestment in your transaction, it means you opted otherwise.

Whatever option you prefer, you can always send an email to customer care to that effect.

Can I divide it like half of the money reinvested then the remaining half remains

FSBoperator:
Funny you.

I wish I could pry open your brain and see how it is working.


Of what benefit is pardoning Kanu to an outgoing Tinubu ?

Let Atiku come and pardon him for you .

Kanu is a problem to the country. Pardoning him will bring issues fur the next administration by promoting Biafra and seccession.

You don't understand because you can't.

JoeEeL:
It is mostly diasporan nigerians that do this thing alot. When they travel, they begin to ask their fellow japarians about any app used for sending money that gives the best transfer rates: apps like LemFi or SendWave.

Most other nationalities don't remit as much. After Nigerians, maybe some other african countries. All these mullatos and carribean people no really send anybody papa for here.

And by diasporan nigerians, Im strictly talking about nigerian men, and not women. Instead, women will not mind billing you wey dey nigeria, and them dey diaspora. If u doubt me, go ask Roby Ekpo wey cry for Daddy Freeze live' honest bunch podcast.

Liabilities both home and away!

What are you talking about? Indians make remittances too.

When Tinubu losses his election. He will pardon Nnamdi Kanu because he believes he will be a problem to the next administration.

Focusmind:
Mehn, I have stopped buying palm oil from the open market

I buy from trusted supermarkets, that receives from companies, producing palm oil or my mother in-law gets for me from the village direct from the local extraction from the palm seeds that they do.

Even the "Okpa" that I used to eat, i have stopped because most road side sellers looks like people that will be using that kind of oil in order to cut costs and corners.

The rate of kidney disease is fast becoming an epidemic, even among children, indicating that children are bein fed with contaminated and adulterated food ingredients, that affects their weak organs.

Trusted supermarkets are the ones even adding dye.

Simple test, oil and water can't mix.
Add water in a glass then add the oil, the oil will float then the dye will start sipping in small small or not so you'll know if it's real or fake.

Bmaster:
i noticed men no dey use umbrella these days,is it part of modern civilisation or are they just being stupid for nothing?

Many guys i usually see will prefer rain to beat them over them using umbrella.

I prefer not carrying an umbrella because I'll misplace it. But there are places in Nigeria where everyone goes out with a rain coat.

I don't believe this story one bit.

Imalwayshorny:
Na waste of time bro you're going to verify people's address for moniepoint they'll pay you 650 naira per verification

This is apart from salary Na.
Salary is 200k or so.
When

davidtemi:
What's wrong with the video abeg??

She's from a poor family. And was married by the governor.
That's why she wants to be seen.
She already has the money why show off?
How many first ladies do that.


There's a video of her flaunting the new iPhone when it first came out.

(Abeg I no talk say I dey rich. But when I see my fellow poor brought up I go know)

Kim Kardashian has the money to take that girl to a "finishing school" to teach her manners and make a woman out of her.

To learn etiquette.

But she won't do it.

Onitsha Owerri road is a federal government road.
If he doesn't have money why should he fix it?
Why take money from the state to fix a federal government road close to an election season?

You won't see that money again.

Same thing with Edo State.

If they can pour gravel there for the main time it's okay

badaru911:
.....they are sending it abroad.... Mostly all the mineral resources In Nigeria are owned by individuals.......

More like selling it abroad.
Rumour has it that Nigerian gold is the cheapest in Dubai and a governor owns it.

Razzness:
With the US midterm elections just around the corner, this latest escalation comes at a favourable time for Iran.

Trump doesn't care about the midterms he's no more running for elections he'll do whatever he likes.

ratcock:
The stolen childhood pictures got me laughing

😂😂😂😂

You mean this picture? That they said it was their guy

A Chinese vlogger filming at a Nigerian market is confronted by locals demanding money simply because he is foreign, with the encounter escalating into repeated shakedowns at over 20 unofficial checkpoints across roughly 10 km.

The video captures the traveler's growing frustration as he explains his tourist status and visa payment, while locals insist he must pay to eat or stand in the area, ending with his blunt advice: “Don’t come to Nigeria.”

Mario Nawfal highlights this as an example of how extortion and harassment of outsiders damage Nigeria's image, prompting replies from Nigerians acknowledging the issue and comparisons to similar practices elsewhere in Africa.



His final travel review?

“Don’t come to Nigeria.”

🇨🇳🇳🇬 A Chinese travel creator was trying local food at a market in Nigeria when a group of men stopped him and demanded money.

When he asked why, their explanation was basically: "we’re Nigerian, you’re not, so we can take money from you."

Over roughly 10 kilometers, he says he…

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 2, 2026

Penguin2:
Isn’t it pathetic that despite all his asslicking, Umahi was an afterthought in Tinubu’s campaign council?

Maybe soon Umahi will realize that the Igbo man will get nothing out of Nigeria by asslicking these people.

Azikiwe got nothing from it.

Orji Uzor Kalu got nothing from it.

Okorocha got nothing from it.

The list is endless.

But he can continue to fool himself.

Umahi got red paint in his hands that's why Tinubu was thinking twice. But at least he has something now

To achieve this you need to have children early in life.

Like teenager-early.
Only in the north you'll have something like this where you can get first hand information from your ancestors.

Not in southern Nigeria. Where they are becoming a minority because they aren't giving birth.

A lady must stay with her father until she is married.



Then the father walks with her to the marriage and hands her over to the husband so the husband can take care of her.

If you miss this then you'll have problems in marriage.

Why are we even talking about a high tension wire?

🤣🤣🤣

And not about the clash between the Hausas and Yorubas that so many people lost their lives

femi4:
lolz
Were you blind to when he fought in the plane

Were you blind to when he threaten a victim not to pursue his case

Were you blind to when he was chasing shadow on psquare matter

Abeg rest plastic fan

Bro this is just baseless excuses. VDM has done nothing wrong, you just hate him because he was invited to the NBA and he didn't wear a suit.

DeepSight:
He is and remains a low life and low class street tout and clout chaser who will NEVER have any business in such a professional conference and will be FOREVER unwelcome in our midst/.

He was invited to the NBA.

This shows his the NBA has fallen.

Reference:
I am here your honour.
To proceed on the case of:

Emphasis is given to a road that was not campaigned about. That was not promised in any manifesto, while ignoring that which is critical to the good people of Nigeria, perhaps the most important highway in Nigeria.

Because I cannot understand on what planet this is a sensible scenario. I just cannot understand this country.

No one can build a coastal road in Nigeria.

Go and write this down.

EmekaBlue:
Believe Yabaleft fake stories at your own perile

I hope you know women reach menopause and lose interest in sex altogether?

The man who is retired and still active, what does he do?

Itzlinda:
They only assemble. They do nothing. They add no value whatsoever but still kudos to them.

They know how to make money

That's what the Chinese used to do before they started manufacturing theirs. Simple

OredoPikin:
It's no longer rape when the lady started demanding money.
If odogwu asaba have a a good lawyer, he won't spend a day in prison

Guy you don mad. All this your talk Na bullshit.
Wait until the court decides.
I will save this your comment to remind you.

Court is not social media.

olowofariwo:
Doesn't this happens in every bank transaction, why did you mentioned only Opay?

Because all the people in the comment section are praise singers paid for

ImpeccableDust

Try FGN bonds