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seguno2:
Helping their lives at the cost of stolen money and unpaid taxes for inadequate and poor infrastructure, utilities and government services

Lagos state govt and other PP are handling this projects so I don’t understand where they stolen funds are coming from. This massive project is not only residential, it’s mixed development commercial and residential. So if I where u I’ll be looking forward in developing myself and looking forward to a recruitment boom. And if they companies open up for biz. Pls don’t apply as they’ve been built with stolen funds at the expense of the poor. My brother use ur no. 6 you shld start thinking how u can benefit from this project directly or indirectly!!!

smartty68:
Only book we know how to read, the practical aspect of it is capital ZERO

I'm sure this one can not on a computer like majority of the computer science students we have here in Nigeria.

Congrats though!

Oga, you don’t “on” a computer. You boot it.

EgunMogaji:
Ekotedo Iya Olobe to be exact. You don't get more Ibadan than that unless you want to talk about Foko, Idi Arere, etc

Bro, it’s like u live in the US, Texas maybe just want to ask a question. Why don’t they drive the Toyota Land Cruiser. And why is the Mercedes Benz G wagon not common in Texas, Houston specifically unlike Nigeria where it’s like one of they most common SUV. The rate at which they drive Benz here ehn!! But G wagon is not common? I don’t think it’s a price issue

EgunMogaji:
Ekotedo Iya Olobe to be exact. You don't get more Ibadan than that unless you want to talk about Foko, Idi Arere, etc

Bro... it seems ur in the US. just wondering why don’t they drive the Toyota Land Cruiser. And why is the Mercedes Benz G wagon not common in Texas, Houston specifically unlike Nigeria where it’s like one of they most common SUV. The rate at which they drive Benz here ehn!! But G wagon is not common? I don’t think it’s a price issue

It’s a shame if by now we still struggling to provide basic high speed broadband connection. Lately, I’ve been studying a lot on digital transformation with case study on amazon, alibaba, GE etc. these companies are able to operate with ease cause of the infrastructure their country have provided. These countries and companies are talking Industrial digital transformation, taking data and cloud services to another level including it to their services and bringing enormous values to their customers and themselves. I can’t but cry each time I compare them to my Country. Where we’ve not even been able to solve power problem. Power has to be in place before we even think of high speed internet connection. If you watch CNN lately. Driverless cars are ready in some countries the only thing stopping this innovation now are govt. policy’s that have allowed them to start commercial production and selling. Health care is already digitalized. Every service you can think of now is already digitalized and this is only possible with reliable broadband connection and government policies. But Nigeria is still settling with herdsmen.i don’t even think they take the power issue seriously cause I’m yet to see any political will from the government in that sector. I’m tired, I think of different ideas but no platform to initiate tum

klax:
King of money and you are not in the list of Nigeria blionaires talk less of Africa pls bro go sleep.

You are just king of money in your village.

Recent debate about blood money/yahoo plus on twitter

QuietHammer:
So this is the father of Paddy 'Gay' Adenuga

Shame on you for this ur senseless comment. Instead of you to thank God so u can become a useful being u r here defaming people that God has blessed. Ur better beg God for forgiveness so he can free u from ur village holding ur destiny

The Yoruba man quest for knowledge. If we are not careful this man may comeback and lead us. As for me I will vote for Dr. Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo anyday. He’s the best president we’ve had. More power to ur elbow Baba Iyabo

Some Nigerians are also making us proud. This man returned his passenger $700.00 after it was forgotten in his car.


https://twitter.com/lawyerrogelio/status/935263088806449152

Some Nigerians are also making us proud...God bless this man


https://twitter.com/lawyerrogelio/status/935263088806449152

ttmacoy:
I assume you know what a bond is i.e. long term debt issued by a country as opposed to Treasury Bills which are more short to medium term.

A Eurobond is just a bond raised on the international market in Euros. The name refers to the currency e.g. Yankee bonds are bonds raised in dollars, Samurai bonds are bonds raised in Yen, etc.

A simplistic example, Nigeria issues a bond of 100 Euros at 10% for 30 years means Nigeria will pay 10 Euros annually in interest to the bond holder and at year 30 return the principal of 100 Euros.

Euro Bonds can also be USD dominated.

This is coming from the original ganja planter mad buhdda abuser..... bless Jah the most High

Akintola Williams Deloitte is the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) member firm in Nigeria and the oldest indigenous professional services

firm in Nigeria. The firm was established in 1952 by Mr. Akintola Williams, FCA, CFR, CBE, the doyen of the accountancy profession in Nigeria.

Its Lead Tax Partner, Yomi Olugbenro, was nominated for the tax man of the year.

But according to the organizers of the Awards, the service and contributions of the nominees aren't enough.

The award won't just fall on their trophy shelves or laps. To win it, nominees have to sweat it out at the polls.

The nominee with the highest vote in each category will carry the day.

This obviously doesn't go down well with Deloitte.

They believe Awards shouldn't be an all comer affair.

If we've done well, just go ahead to recognize us.

Votes can be bought. Polls can be rigged. Fairness is not always guaranteed.

I think organizations and individuals should take a tip from what Deloitte has done, not just to jump on some awards that you know deep down in your heart that its not merited. Exs. This Day award and Forbes Africa etc recognizing individuals with shady characters and no clear history of how their journey began as entrepreneur of the year. Companies (especially banks) that have milked the public as company of the year etc. all this practices needs to stop. Also most importantly we they youth must stop glorifying this individuals and establishments and should always query such honors


Joel Pereyi via Linkedin.com

Akintola Williams Deloitte is the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) member firm in Nigeria and the oldest indigenous professional services

firm in Nigeria. The firm was established in 1952 by Mr. Akintola Williams, FCA, CFR, CBE, the doyen of the accountancy profession in Nigeria.

Its Lead Tax Partner, Yomi Olugbenro, was nominated for the tax man of the year.

But according to the organizers of the Awards, the service and contributions of the nominees aren't enough.

The award won't just fall on their trophy shelves or laps. To win it, nominees have to sweat it out at the polls.

The nominee with the highest vote in each category will carry the day.

This obviously doesn't go down well with Deloitte.

They believe Awards shouldn't be an all comer affair.

If we've done well, just go ahead to recognize us.

Votes can be bought. Polls can be rigged. Fairness is not always guaranteed.


Joel Pereyi via Linkedin.com

dorin27:
I like you and will love to go out with you..

Omoge....ur head dey there but, Let me help u rephrase it better... I love ❤️ u and want u to be the one shining my Congo.

TosinDru:
Don't tell me you're one of those with the unhealthy obsession with foreign guys

Abeg leave the gal oooo. Who no one go play for foreign league lol...� Aim high ooooo ����

Also, a piece of warning. The government is watching and focusing on hate speech emanating from SM. NLs pls take time. Don't think D govt doesn't have d tech to fish u out, you will be surprised to when these SSS guys want to do their job

SirJeffry:
I wish to remind this dude that in that same US, non violent protests such as IPOB's are simply monitored by Police until their violence gets to a certain level before the National Guard is called in.

As for discipline, I can authoritatively tell him that alot of soldiers are in military correctional facilities as I type this for different human right abuses.

I don't like ipob neither do I like Nnamdi Kanu and his arrogance, I just don't like how human lives are wasted in Nigeria like chickens.

Let me explain to u.

1. We are not the US
2. Protesters don't recruit or form armies, threaten a sitting C & C haba. This is not to be treated with kids gloves as d president knows d police might not be able to subdue d situation. Those boys will even engage the police I'm sure. Hence he will do wat can bring order in the shortest period. Note, if they even deploy mopols it might even be worse cause those guys not too normal like that.
3. Cutlass, bottles etc are deadly weapons
4. If national peace feels threatened, the C & C can deploy any unit to restore normalcy.

I just laugh at all these people shouting and reporting to UN, US etc. They will all tell u to let peace reign. All the responsibility still lies in the hands of the President.

Pls let peace reign. We are greater together. I'm Yoruba. All my best relationships r with Igbo babes. I'm now married to an Igbo girl. She doesn't even know what is iPod or Biafra even her dad a big Igbo man doesn't have time for all this. The man just goes about his biz and money also all her brothers r not iPod or Biafra they r all doing great in their endeavors. Whenever I come to NL and see all these hate I wonder where all these people are. Cause I don't see nor meet them. Are they the regular guys we see at work, colleagues, customers or entrepreneurs. They regular Igbo boys I know r about their biz and money and enjoyment intact na dem dey plenty pass for clubs these days .... where all this NL guys are from I don't know. My advice.,,,, pls guys focus on how to better and improve ur selfs all these gra gray won't help anybody.

Lol

Data indicating how much African countries are asking for profiles on SM. Be careful

My people please watch what you say on SM. Our government has began requesting for information from SM sites. You've been warned. I got this piece from twitter: @onlyafricafacts

According to QZ, African governments are increasingly requesting for additional information on you from Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

My people please watch what you say on SM. Our government has began requesting for information from SM sites. You've been warned. I got this piece from twitter: @onlyafricafacts

According to QZ, African governments are increasingly requesting for additional information on you from Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

Here's some interesting history lessons I found on twitter @onlyafricanfacts about Nigerians that pioneered Business & large companies. Please read.

As much as u don't want ur art pirated then u shouldn't wear replica of other people's work ....

dharamanil:
oga the guy said the truth. They represent big brands we hear, but should stop disgracing us abeg with plenty fake chains and watch. one fake is cool but many is bad. them go wear for hand wear for neck like mad people wey tie iron for neck.

God bless u my bro.. I love wrist watches especially the high end ones Rolex audenars patex hublot etc but I can't afford them. The replicas are everywhere where even in high ends shops. But I won't buy them cause I can't afford the original ones. I just stick to my swatch and casio jeje and it tells me the time. But our naija artists will not hear word

marvolio2000:
Na wa everybody has priorities. I love watches but I wont buy that patech Philips it's not functional, just beautiful, my $300 watch is far more functional than it.
Hush puppy got to place his priorities right and grow up. For the guys wearing fake, my candid advice, there are original watches you can get cheap instead of buying clones and displaying it to the public.
I believe phyno can afford a $10,000 Rolex which is readily available.

Thank u my bro.... cut ur coat according to ur size but na lie they all want to ice out. They can even afford the normal patek but no they go one fill among. Very few of this artists wear original stuffs, someone has called them out now .... them come form voltron smh

Naomi Campbell’s Nigerian ‘SUGAR DADDY’ Just Got His $50 MILLION New York Penthouse . . . FORECLOSED BY THE BANK!! (The Biggest FORECLOSURE In NY History)


June 27, 2017: A wealthy Nigerian businessman named Kolawole ‘Kola’ Aluko, 48, is in the news – after having his $50 MILLION apartment in New York’s billionaire row FORECLOSED.
Kola owned the penthouse apartment in One57, New York’s most EXPENSIVE building. It will be auctioned off in July.

As of now, Kola is hiding out. Reports say that the Nigerian oil mogul is laying low on his MEGA YACHT. The same yacht that he rented to Jay Z and Beyoncé in 2015 for $900,000 a week.

Kola is known to travel in celebrity circles. He’s close friends with Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jay Z and Beyoncé. He’s also been romantically linked with supermodel Naomi Campbell.

http://mtonews.com/nigerian-millionaire-just-got-50-million-new-york-penthouse-foreclosed-bank-biggest-foreclosure-ny-history/

In between prepping the turkey and picking up last-minute necessities for the annual family feast—the first without her husband of almost 50 years—a widow in upstate New York, picked up the phone. On the other end was a fraud analyst for TD Bank.

A wire transfer the widow had made—$203,000, sent earlier that month to a new friend she had met through Match.com—had been flagged as a fraudulent transaction. (The woman, who spoke with MONEY and shared legal documents related to her case, asked that her name be withheld to preserve her privacy.) At first, the 75-year-old tried to explain that the call was an error, but it soon became apparent that this was no mistake.

It felt like a physical punch to the gut, she says. And yet, as everyone sat down onto the table on Thanksgiving, she kept the news, and her rising panic, to herself. What she didn’t yet comprehend was that the situation was not merely a theft of $200,000. Her total losses, at that point, actually exceeded $1 million.

Illustration by: Nazario Graziano | Original Photographs, Man: Image Source/Getty Images; Woman: Jose Luis Peleaz—Getty Images

The worst part? She had allowed the swindle to happen. Like a number of seniors, she had been targeted—in her case, successfully—by an unscrupulous fraudster who posed as a friend in order to steal her life savings.

Unfortunately, such situations are more common than you think. Losses from elder financial fraud and abuse have been estimated to be more than $36 billion a year, according to a 2015 report by True Link Financial. In Virginia alone—where the state’s Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services has conducted the most recent comprehensive study looking at the trend—financial exploitation robs victims of an estimated $1.2 billion a year.

Yet many of these crimes go unreported, or under-reported—largely for the same reason that the widow in this case didn’t want to divulge her name. Unlike so many other crimes, financial exploitation often stems from personal relationships, and many victims feel embarrassed and guilty at having been taken in. Indeed, only one in 44 cases of financial abuse is ever reported, according to an estimate by the National Adult Protective Services Association.

The widow’s case started shortly after she joined the dating site Match.com. Her late husband, an electrical engineer who worked for over 40 years with IBM, had died in December 2014 after a six-month medical ordeal, during which a series of complications kept him in the hospital until the very end. And the widow—a retired nurse—soon found herself in a health battle of her own. The month after the funeral, doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer. A course of radiation and constant appointments left her exhausted, and a bit defeated.

So by summer, when a friend suggested the dating site as a way to take her mind off the tumult of the preceding year, she was more than ready for some entertainment. While she was not at all ready for anything “hot and heavy,” the widow says, she wanted to rejoin the world—to see what was out there.

What she found in September was a man who called himself Edward Duffey, who entered her life after he “liked” her photo on Match.com. Conversations started small, sharing basic information. He told her that he was younger, and a widower—that his wife had died of cancer two years prior. He was a retired accountant who was raised in England, living now in Texas, he said. She revealed that she had three kids and was trying to learn how to handle home repairs.

They hit it off, and the relationship moved quickly from Match.com messages to daily calls and texts. While they never met in person, she says, Duffey’s missives were sweet, and filled with poetry. And while she’s not a big poetry fan, she enjoyed the attention. Soon he told her that he loved her. Flattered, she took it as a compliment that a man 10 years her junior would be interested in her.

There was one early sign that something was amiss. After he had claimed that he worked with a Christian youth group in Texas, she called the church he referenced—but neither the receptionist nor the local priest had heard of him. When she confronted Duffey about it, however, he turned it back on her, saying she didn’t trust him and that it was a big church.

At the same time, Duffey was offering a sympathetic ear. The widow was still learning to live on her own and sifting through all the paperwork and financial documents—a daunting task for her.

As was (and still is) true for many couples of their age, her husband had taken care of all the financial aspects of their life together. She knew they had some IRAs and some IBM stock from her husband; there was also a financial advisor through Schwab—but she had never met the man. Every once in a while, she says, her husband would say she should learn some of it, but then something would come up and they’d put if off. When her husband got sick, he showed her how to access their bank account online—but that was all they managed before he died.

So, later in October, when Duffey told her that he might be able to help her with her finances, she jumped at the chance. She told Duffey that she knew her husband had valuable IBM stock, but wasn’t sure the extent of it. He told her that he managed finances for friends, and assured her that he could make her more money.

While she was comfortably situated, the idea of getting better investment returns piqued her interest—it sounded like something nice she could do for her kids and grandchildren. On Duffey’s advice, she began liquidating her assets, with the intent to pool all of her savings under his care.

When she went to make the initial wire transfer—the first one she’d ever sent—into the TD Bank account specified by Duffey, she followed his instructions to the letter. When she went into her local Bank of America, the teller questioned her reasons for processing the transfer. But she stuck to what Duffey told her to say: that it was for a family matter.

She then set about liquidating the funds from her Charles Schwab account. She called her advisor, who said selling the IBM stock that was in the account wasn’t a good idea. He suggested they meet to discuss the decision, but they were never able to get together.

In the meantime, Duffey—never a big phone talker—texted to say he was heading to London to visit his daughter and his grandson, who was ill. He suggested she wire the rest of the funds to his London-based HSBC account, she says. So she called Schwab’s 1-800-number and had a call center employee based in Colorado initiate the transfer of almost $873,000—which she wired to Duffey in two installments.

About three weeks later, the alarm bells at TD went off, prompting the phone call from the fraud department—but by then, she had sent Duffey about $1.1 million to invest. She didn’t really believe she’d been victimized, she says, until the analyst told her that a woman had picked up the transfer. As she looked back at their whirlwind relationship, however, she remembered that call to the church in Texas—and realized she’d long been ignoring a niggling suspicion in the pit of her stomach.

By the time she hung up with the fraud analyst, she knew there was a good chance she’d been swindled. And her immediate reaction was anger. She texted Duffey, asking how he could “do this.” Duffey called her back right away—and, as usual, had an answer for everything. He denied that there was anything untoward going on, saying her money was safe in England, and scolded her for doubting him.

Duffey’s adamant denials made her question whether TD was right, and calmed her down enough to get through the Thanksgiving weekend without immediately going to the police. But she had begun to question her own judgment. When she confided the situation to a friend who was visiting for the weekend, the friend strongly recommended speaking to her bank and filing a police report.

After she filed a report, she found she wasn’t alone. Duffey was actually an alias for Ken Ejimofor Ezeah, a 33-year-old living in Houston—and dozens of women all over the country had contacted authorities throughout 2015, relating similar stories. A man posing as Duffey had apparently been working across several dating sites, including Match.com, ChristianMingle.com and others, according to court documents. FBI agents in Oklahoma investigated the claims and arrested Ezeah and an accomplice in January 2016.

Following the arrests, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Oklahoma indicted Ezeah and reached a plea agreement with him in February of this year. While he hasn’t yet been sentenced, the charge he pled guilty to, wire fraud, carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

But while authorities have caught up to Ezeah, it isn’t clear whether the widow will ever see a penny of her money. The incident cut her monthly income in half and drastically increased her tax bill last year, because of the capital gains she incurred. She’s also hesitant to invest what remains, fearing that additional bad financial advice will decimate what is left of her savings.

Just as important are the lingering emotional scars. She spent six months seeing a therapist, trying to come to terms with her sense of betrayal and blame. The fraud has also cut her off from many of her friends, who have no idea what she’s been through—primarily because she wants to keep it that way.

Most days, she says, she’s able to push past what’s happened. But then that feeling in the pit of her stomach will creep back in when she thinks how much money she’s lost. The financial security she once had is less certain now. The worries hit at random moments, but they’re never far from her mind.

Unlike many silent victims, though, she’s now fighting back. She has retained an attorney, New York-based Kevin Galbraith, and is going through arbitration with Schwab over the fund transfer. (Galbraith claims the transfer ran afoul of a senior protection statute in Colorado, where the call center employee works; Schwab declined to comment on the matter.) She had even planned to testify at Ezeah’s hearing until he pled out. She’s still cooperating with prosecutors on the case.

And she wants to warn others, to keep them from going through a similar ordeal. By sharing her story, she says, she hopes to shine a light on some of the tactics these scammers use to bilk their victims. Experts actually say the best way to avoid this kind of trap is to limit the amount of personal information you share online with strangers—although this can be a hard line to draw once an emotional bond has formed. The AARP even has a Fraud Watch Network that informs people about scams in their area.

But at the end of the day, the best protection may be simply to trust your own intuition. She now realizes—with deep regret—that she should have paid more attention to early clues that something was amiss. “Trust your gut,” she says.

Source: http://amp.timeinc.net/time/money/4718423/online-phony-boyfriend-scam/?source=dam

Kellibae:
Dont mind them thats how the yorubas involve igbos wen in their own crime.
I strongly support u.

U strongly support her .... both of you are fools following eachother blindly... let's see how far this tribalism thing will lead both of you. Good luck

Updates from twitter... think twice my people
https://twitter.com/i_pissvodka/status/869225748908867584

dacovajnr:
That first slap na to adjust her Destiny while the 2nd is meant for Total reset

And the summary of the slaps na for her next ex boyfriend