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tellwisdom: Is this not ogbomoso bridge In ekiti??

Nah breda! Dis a di one dem call Brooklyn Bridge inna New York.

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Admiralty Way, Lekki

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Issac John, GRA

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Alimosho

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Oba Akran, Ikeja

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Admiralty Way, Lekki

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Issac John, GRA

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Alimosho

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Bonny Camp

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Oba Akran, Ikeja

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Admiralty Way, Lekki

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Issac John, GRA

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Alimosho

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Bonny Camp

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Oba Akran, Ikeja

They got the same holes in footbridges in the USA too so kini big deal. As long as it isnt big enough forba baby to fall through, I see no problems.

Eko oni baje o!

Decryptor: And what has that got to do with the emphasis she placed on her comment? It's one thing to break a law that has been constituted like moving about during sanitation which you know you shouldn't and a totally different thing to be threatened with a jail sentence just because of what does not hold water like what this hypocritical indonesian authorities are barking about. I don't believe you made the above comment. Try saying something more sensible next time in defence of your religion

The law is the law. In Germany, Holocaust denial is a crime. I think it is stupid but if I ever find myself in Germany, I will obey the stupid law. Asking grown up people not to move around for hours one Saturday a month is also dumb but if I am in Lagos, I will obey this dumb law. If you live in Indonesia where blasphemy is illegal, you will do well to obey such a law.

This kind of news is pushed by the western media to further their agenda against islam and sow more seeds of hate to further divide people.

obama4osama: It is highly commendable for a driver to have this listed especially the fan belt. I was travelling for my traditional marriage in Ondo state,family and friends were in the car on our way to Lagos,before embarking on that Journey the mechanic has done an extensive servicing of the car and he even changed the fan belt. I was at Owena when I discovered that the water in my radiator had wasted due to the fact that the fan belt cut suddenly and it affected the radiator.

My wife to be and her family had been calling and they were disturbed when they have not seen us as at 5pm,I regret what happen that day because I have to travelled down to Akure to get the specification, to get the matter worst I got it around N1000. It was not even the money but the stressed we passed through and the engagement was with a mixed feeling because we got there around 6:20pm in the evening.I hope you can learn from my lesson.

Not being rude but you have an old model car probably a 504 like Ikenna. If you drive a BMW X6 or Range Rover Sport like Yuzedo, having most of these items will be of no use as they cant be fitted at the roadside and the car will need to be towed to a garage (Coscharis).

Warning triangle (C-caution): Agree
Fire extinguisher: Shouldn't be compulsory but useful
Jack, Spare tyre and Wheel spanner: Some new cars e.g BMW have runflats and do not come equipped with these items.
Water: Stupid
Hydraulic: Dafuq is this?
Transmission fluid: Stupid
Torch light: Shouldn't be compulsory but useful
First aid kit: shouldn't be compulsory but useful
Spare fan belt: Stupid

With the list provided they might as well tell us to travel everywhere with our mechanic in the boot.

I was successful. I had given my banker a rate of 11.5% but I chickened out at the last minute and told him to go with the bank's rate which turned out to be 10.9

Not a bad result for my first go. My trip has been successful but very stressful. GT Bank is by miles the best bank in Nigeria and their staff among the best. I have exceeded my targets both in the exchange and discount rate and will be popping a bottle of Nectar Moet tonight to celebrate.

For anyone still with doubts, all I can say is go for it. I doubt if there is any better risk free 'investment' with such high returns out there.

laceonline02: Any news on today's bid

91 days 10.3%

182 days 11.59%

364 days 11.68%

Elai147: And you cannot ask them to bid at a specific rate for you as such option is not available on their T-Bill application form.

Wasteman bank! I should never have bothered!

Symphony007: Some people just have the tendency to say rubbish always. A "nigerian" fighter jet crashes and some simpletons have already started mentioning civil war era plane, no fuel etc...but just some days back a u.s military cargo plane pratically fell from the sky like a paper kite in afganistan, no stupid comments then o! Ignorancai!!

Whilt I disagree with all the infounded speculation about the crash of the Nigerian jet, it is pertinent to note that it wasnt a US military jet that crashed but a privately owned 747 contracted to transport military equipment for the US.

I am also tired of people refering us to negative pictures or news from the US or Europe any time something bad happens in Nigeria as if itvis justified just because it happens over there too. It is a dull way of thinking.

bukahands: am new to this i have free 100k and i bank with GTBANK can i go through them and is 100k enough to get started

GT Bank are the best for this and I think 100k is the minimum so you should be okay with that.

FYI

First Bank only do 91 day bills. Ridiculous in my opinion.

yuzedo: So because you wanted to change 500 Zimbabwean dollars, [size=18pt]ALL[/size] Nigerians are now bad people, eh?!?!

English my friend! I never said all Nigerians are bad people. I am Nigerian too and suspicious of my own damn self as well. Being suspicious of everyone has always helped me. Although I must admit, I have missed out on a few real opportunities because of my suspicions.

4bobo: they kept on scamming and scamming inocent people and you sat somewhere watching them and did nothing, you too contributes to Nigeria's bad image. Why can't you systematically report them before coming here to express your anger. you are a bad Nigerian too.

Its easy for you all to say report to the authorities. These scam is going on just about 10 metres away from men and women of the customs service. You cant tell me they dont already know this is going on. I came home to do business and not be a hero. I had my life savings on me as well and my No 1 objective was keeping that safe. If these guys can operate with impunity right inside the terminal, I'd not like to think what they'd be able to do outside the terminal building.

I have just come through MMIA and there are scammers openly operating in the arrivals terminal of the airport without fear or worry.

As I walked out, a guy approached me and offered to change some money for me. We agreed on a price and then he asked that we go to a secluded area. I was already wary of him as I am suspicious of every Nigerian and this request only made my suspicions stronger.

I went with him and he gave me the equivalent of my foreign currency to count. I still had my foreign money with me. I counted the equivalent he gave me and it was N1000 short. I told him this and he took the money back from me and started to count. I didnt count with him cause I knew I was going to count it all over again. He finished counting and gave me back the bundle and said it was truly one note short and he gave me N1000 to add to the bundle that was now back with me. The first thing I noticed was that the bundle felt much lighter than earlier, probably about N20,000 lighter. Anyway as I began to count the bundle again, an accomplice of his made some noises as if to say they were being raided and the barstard grabbed his money from me and walked away. I walked away to and sat in the arrivals terminal waiting to be picked up and right before my eyes, this same barstard successfully scammed another recently arrived passenger. I also saw another syndicate scam a woman passenger. This woman was hell bent on not taking her eyes of the counting but they eventually succeeded by distracting her with a phone call.

How is this allowed to go on unchecked right in the terminal of Nigeria's premier international airport. I find it hard to believe that the authorities dont know this is going on. Why are they not fighting it, why?

Elai147: Wonders shall never end. I am beginning to get scared ooo.

@papillo.. so it is possible to convert your shares from electronic form back to paper form? If this is possible then it should be the best thing to do for long term investors instead of risking your investors with these criminals. But if you do this conversion, does it affect your E-dividend payment system? Does the E-dividend automatically convert to paper/cheque dividend form?
Please anyone with ideas on this should contribute.

To be honest, I am not sure you can do this but my suggestion is if you have susbatantial shareholdings in paper certificates, I would suggest not to dematerialise them yet. Until you have been defrauded, you will not realise the scale of fraud going on in the NSE/CSCS. I am currently trying to sort out 2 cases involving tens of millions of naira and it is very messy!

Dematerialise your shares at your own risk. The good thing is there are no sanctions for not dematerialising.

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berem: you are actually the dumb one! Why aren't you quick to blame the previous government of Ohakim who couldn't pay salaries of the health workers? Why should Rochas be blamed? Government is government my foot!

You are a total mumu. I have blamed the government and not one individual. I dont care if Okocha or Shekau is the current governor.

berem: Thank you Abagworo for clearing the air. Salaries owed by previous government and Okorocha takes the blame? Now i see that the opposition is trying to cause trouble.

Are people really this dumb. The government is the government and it matters not who the present governor is. They are owed by the government and the current governor is the head of government and is ultimately responsible.

Imagine a bank refusing to give depositors their money because they deposited the money in during the tenure of a previous MD/CEO?

clemmonce: after an accident which the governor might be the person who caused it... you detain the man and the governor is been treated ........ in Africa just try as much as possible to be a governor or senator i swear you are a semi god.... rubbish

Even if the man caused a collision, why the hell do you lock him up for over 2 weeks. I can understand them asking him questions cause it involves the governor. Unless they know it was attempted murder and not a case of careless driving, the man should be released immediately

bleeping country. Lock an injured man up for over 2 weeks because he had a road traffic collision with the governor? SMMH!

@Elai47

Even if you use a large reputable broker, these mushroom brokers collude with CSCS/NSE officials to carry out their fraud.

All a fraudulent broker with connections in the CSCS has to do to take control of your shares is sign a letter of indemnity that they will be liable for any losses incured by the CSCS. They then back this letter up with your death certificate/letter of authority from you and voila, the CSCS will transfer all your holdings to the initiating fraudulent target broker without contacting your resident broker.

I am suprised, may quack brokers are not doing it with large sums and fleeing the country.

Elai147: But how is it possible to sell sombody's stock without a mandate? How can a stockbroking firm sell an investor's stock without the signature of the investor on the mandate form? Do the stockbrokers not submit a copy of this mandate form to SEC or NSE before effecting the sale? Sec should do something about this small stockbroking firms that may be of risk to investors otherwise this can destroy the renaissance and trust of the Nigeria Stock Market. Investors should embrace big stockbroking firms. Person wey don chop belle full no go wan steal your money... A word they say is enough for the wise. Me I go soon run go BGL.

The problem is CSCS and this shows that Nigeria isnt and probably will never be ready for fully automated and electronic share trading.

Because many people have converted their shares and those shares are now held electronically by resident brokers, they can do as they please with investors shareholdings.

My advice to anyone with substantial shares in any of these brokers who is not a day trader but a long term investor is to convert their shares back to paper certificates and keep under their mattress. If your paper certificate gets burnt or stolen, you will know and immediately put a block on them and get the certificates reissued. If they are held electronically with a broker, by the time you find out, the broker may be long gone.

Hi Inspired

What is the current exchange rate for £pounds i.e. I have pound and want naira

abbk000: Please see some areas in the UK... You would not expect to find places like this in a developed country like this.

We NIGERIANS are our own worst enemies, Fashola has done for Lagos what no other Governor has done. You cannot expect 100% transformation, its not possible. Rather than be critical let us learn to applaud the good in people. Shamefully you could only upload two bearly visible photos, please show us the more that is to come...

They are talking about bad roads, this one is showing us file pictures of uninhabited blocks in 70s UK.

Are you not ashamed that even the road in the ghetto you tried to depict in your post is tarred?

successking: Comparison between Nigeria and US, UK and so on comes out of unreasonable mind and display of frustration. The reason is not far fetched, US & UK have been in stably democratically elected government for over a century, and Nigeria came of the shackle of military destructive government, and yet you expect Nigeria to measure up to UK & US within fourteen years of democratically elected government. Even a five years old child cannot make such a comparison. Just a matter of time and Nigeria, not just Lagos streets will look like the streets in UK & US. Naija for life! Lagos for life!

The UAE has never had a democracy

asala1: Yes, some streets are like this in lagos, but I have come to understand that many of the untarred streets are pipeline streets. They cannot be tarred. An example is the Obawole-jojo-shaga road in agege.

Rubbish! My street has never been tarred and its nowhere near a pipeline. I can confidently say that 85% of roads/streets in Alimosho LG are untarred. I will also take some pics and post.

laceonline02: tanks for the info...its unfair oo..i tink the rate should be uniform..pls do u advise i go with my bank(gtb) bidding or i state my biddin rate
you will get your (bank's) bidding rate.

If you are a novice like me, it may be better to go with your banks bid rate as they are in the system so they will have a better lookout on what the likely successful bid rate will be.

If you are greedy again like me, then you can put in your own bid rate and keep your fingers crossed.

laceonline02: Clarification!!! If i ask my bank to bid on my behalf..ll my interest rate be the cbn stopping rate or my bank's bidding rate?

you will get your (bank's) bidding rate.

So for example if you bid 11.5% and the stop rate is 11%, you will be unsuccesful. If however the stop rate is 11.75%, you will be sold the bills at your bid rate of 11.5%.