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I don't know why Nigerians still doubt the opportunities in the online space — is it ignorance or frustration?

The arguments above:

Some are coming from the angle of small profit margin and the need for huge initial capital (even comparing trading with BDC). While the argument may seem sensible on the surface, it shows lack of knowledge of online trading. There's what we call leverage in financial trading. It's the ability to trade with several times your account size. It's a double-edged sword though — it can help you maximize profits but can also increase your losses if you're unlucky. So, don't compare online trading with BDC. Another point that defeats this huge initial capital argument is that family and friends give these guys money to trade for them once they notice that the person is consistently profitable.

The other group are arguing or even bragging about the enormous profit they can make from trading. While huge profits are possible, they don't come easily.

The third group arguing from the angle of position trading. Yes, some people with the foresight saw Bitcoin as a store of value with growth potential, and they may have benefited from that. But it's not easy to trust Bitcoin at that early stage. Many of us didn't, and it's one of my biggest regrets. A female friend of mine made me buy over 1m worth of Bitcoin in late 2016 @$600 per BTC, but I was impatient and sold them off in early 2017. By December 2017, it was almost $20,000/BTC. That's more than 3,333% increase — the 1m would have become over 33m.

My point is, don't doubt the opportunities in financial trading. It has made many millionaires billionaires. But it's not that easy — a lot of technical knowledge and psychological skills are required.

@ the victim, get a sound lawyer. EFCC and other security agents do this nonsense because our lawyers aren't kicking their arses. If they spend a huge percentage of their yearly budget paying damages for wrongful arrests and malpractices, nobody will tell them to sit up.

onyechez:
I have never read the poor are incredible dangerous. It coming from you, that's your assumption.
If the poor are dangerous according to you, why do European government render help to poor people from Africa who risk their life on the mediterranean sea to live with them, give them some grant like money, house, better living and opportunities for a better life.

And what do they get from that? Prostitution, drug pushing, crimes.


Don't worry. In due time, you will get to understand. I have had several experiences and had to learn my lesson.

NOwazobia:
See the way the 50kg makeup make her ugly. That bag of cement on her face will even turn off the future husband. Irritating.

If only she knows that she looks better without makeup, she will scrub the paint off her face.

Only a few people have gotten this kind of love from their people:

Winston Churchill
Mother Theresa
John Paul ii
Maradona de GFOAT

RIP Great Maradona!

Johnnyessence:
Throwback video of First day in office of Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu as Governor in 1999. Seeing Lagos state workers hailing him. watch the interesting video below.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kReKZCZBlFA

Baba himself

Laboni:
Most empowered their circle and got betrayed... Do what works for you. Don’t follow Davido, he has backup/insurance.. His father.. Know where you’re coming from, a word is enough for the wise.

My experience over the years showed how dangerous it is to be among people you are better than. The envy, jealousy, and bitterness can be out of this world. Humans are evil, but the poor are incredibly dangerous!

sapphiere:
David Adekele aka Davido has taken to his SM page to dish out one of the keys to stay rich.

He tweeted:


https://mobile.twitter.com/davido/status/1331913277769650177

Do you agree?

Yes, boss. That's the final stage of wealth creation. At that stage, "no condition is permanent" is not for you because there are people who got your back. This is why people like IBB, Tinubu, OBJ, and Dantata, and co CAN NEVER be poor under the sun. No condition is permanent don't apply here at all! They're forever rich!

But the problem with our generation now is too much envy, jealousy, and bitterness. Even the people you are trying to pull through want to push you aside — This generation see their helpers as nothing but stepping stone.

But if you find that one person who is appreciative, give all the support you can. After all, there's more joy in giving than receiving.

Tango123:
There is so much hate in this your post. If this your post is a reflection of who you are, then you meed to be pitied

Not having a child could be their choice. If you dont like it, get used to it

And even if they are incapable of having children, thats their life, not yours

Get a life!

The fellow you quoted is a lowlife.

I have learned that a lowlife will always be a lowlife. They're always filled with hatred born out of frustration.

I don't give them the honor of quoting them. Denying them the attention they seek is a lot of pain for them.

But thank you for talking some sense into the obviously empty skull that has been brutally damaged by hunger.

Wish a good Samaritan around him can get him something to eat. Poverty is the worst cancer!

Not easy o, especially for busy online soloprenuers like us. We don't even get to meet many of them.

Misslilbootay:
How many of our dark sisters are being appreciated ?

Funny when I see comments like ''black is beautiful'' online and offline, its another story entirely....

If you are dark and maintain your natural melanin, people like us, who love natural beauty, will always appreciate you.

Blackpearlous:
Lool here I am... Back from where? Amen fire!

Back to your natural beauty.

Blackpearlous:
Black, skinny and proud

It took we a very long and rough ride through my teenage and adult years to come Into this conclusion.

Let me ride you through the beginning of time( not really just when my dad met my mum). My dad saw a very light skinned godess in Lagos and was bent on getting married to her, majorly because of her skin. He carries a distinct shade of black on every part of his body, even till now snapchat can't edit it away, so getting her was a do and die affair. Ofcourse he got her, if not there would be no one behind the phone typing now.

I was manufactured, if all of my remaining 6 siblings were manufactured in the same color, I think the world would have been a better place, Adolf Hitler would have been nicer and there would be no corruption in Nigeria. Nigeria's never ending corruption is the prove we were manufactured in different shades and sizes.
#Hint: To stop corruption in Nigeria you have to go back in time and make sure we were born with the same skin color.

The competition was mad, from my own side mostly. I wasn't only dark skinned not like my father though but I was skinny, I have two big sis lighter than and I and figure 8, cars stopped for them, I always kept trekking, no attention, no free things, I tire, even at home my mum talked about her Glory days as a young woman but I had no story. Depressing.

I blamed all of my short comings always on the color of my skin and my weight. I was in Africa and I felt left out constantly. Especially when I was left out from an ushering job because my skin wasn't that attractive and I didn't have curves and my sisters were chosen, oh what a night!

I WASNT BEAUTIFUL my conclusion. So I wanted to feel beautiful. Smart me concluded that changing my skin would get me all the attention I wanted, I just wanted to be fine and big so I used as many lighting cream available and took to drugs to gain weight and curves.

Boom I was on my way to being perfect. On the look out for knuckle creams and was eating like "you know who" at a time. Every night my solace was the advances I got to reject, people could see me or guys could see me and they loved me, I was accepted because I wasn't dark anymore and I was curvy(or round, better than being skinny). I was always jealous of skinny, dark and confident girls, mtcheew what made them glow. Any body cream that makes me dark, I will say " this is not my color, this cream is not bringing out my color", I also deleted black pictures of myself online, but some of my friends were the pain in my ass, kept theirs.

Then I developed digestive issues, and my skin was super sensitive I could almost not put my feet on the ground when it's wet, yea that sensitive. These and low esteem was my price, because some days my skin was perfect some days i Iooked like the sun and my make up wasn't blending some days.

Sat on my bed one day( actually many days and nights) and I realized that I need to start Loving me and taking care of me, wasn't easy, I started looking dark again I was losing weight, the tongues were rolling again, I was hiding till I took all the strength I had and Introduced myself as the dark, skinny girl.

Started using, natural products, moisturizers, products that promises to maintain and started gaining weight at my own pace and was walking like I owned the whole world and I worked on my short comings as an individual, it was like a rebirth I attracted more reasonable people to myself, lived healthy, killed the invisible competition even got to know my sisters beyond their skin and curves, took rejection as casual as I could then I finally got to this point of being black, skinny and proud.[color=#990000][/color]

I have been looking for you, and you want to damage your natural beauty. God will never allow that. I'm glad you're back!

One thing about black beauties is that there's no counterfeit. Nothing gladdens my heart like the cute white eyes, the popping melanin skin, and the natural lines on the neck.

Interestingly, black beauties age gracefully — they get more beautiful as they age.


It's annoying when they try to tone the skin. Once you do that, I'm off.

Black is beautiful!

They're overworked and underpaid!

TalkTalkTwins:
These are trying times
We all know things are hard, but it shouldn't lead to suicide

Talk to someone, play some music, read some books, party, pray, just do something

Everything will be alright someday

Talk to someone?

I have come to realize that it's even people that drive these guys to suicide. Share your problem with people, you become their laughing stock. Share your success with them, they become jealous.

You attain peace when you bear your problems and enjoy your success alone, until you get your second half who can share in your problem and success.

Nigerians seems to have this built-in competition spirit in them — like everyone is competing with everyone.

To the dead, RIP. I wish you had the inner strength to bear your problem. There's always a way in every situation, and every disappointment always turns out a blessing.

bestdudes:
The way they reason in that North eh... I no blame dem sha.. ma southern leaders I blame.

Exactly!

domchike:
because it's damage control which took too long to come

Does the damage control make sense? So, Niger Deltans should drill their oil and sell to the state government.

It's illegal in the south but legal in the North.

Professor Utomi come and hear your masters who made you rich by stealing from your father.

Theirs is theirs and your father's ppty is theirs too. They give you crumbs from what belongs to your father, and you feel blessed while your people suffer.

People with the so-called international reach who should be fighting for justice and looking after their people are looking for their own stomach.

Leaders in oil-producing states should never let this slide. This is enough reason to restructure the country. The time is now!

Neddstark:
Go and buy a laptop powerbank or mini inverters that go for 40k. Generator through the midnight has successfully aided many robberies in the past that I know of. Security is very crucial this period.

@Op, do this. There are some sellers on Nairaland here; look for them.

They need to introduce financial literacy in our curriculum from SS1 to University level (Just like GES). A lot of Nigerians lack financial knowledge.

When they were asking for new minimum wage, I stated it here that before the end of 2020, the new minimum wage would be worth less than the old wage. Money has never been about the paper, it's about value. Instead of asking for more paper, they should have asked for value.

HML to them.

ILoveDemMANNA:
Decent people are not that good at manipulation .
They live in their world of old , full of ideals.
The field of approaching the opposite sex and pursuing through a fresh relationship is too much for them .
So they lag behind others in this race and obviously stay single .
They readily accept the offers they get in the hope of settling down with someone as and when it happens- they do not have the skills to push through their choices - because they never feel that skill is important in the first place.
This is because they believe in sustainable and enduring relationships , not based on physical attraction or manipulation , but based on genuine affection and understanding.

I think I agree with most of what you wrote here.

Haven't found the right person. Ebony, tall, slim, and above all, intelligent!

Op you are right. That number 2 is apt — though not necessarily about drinking, but the people you interact with. Even when you bring up a great idea, they talk it down.

No 7. Schooling abroad: Most of the guys doing things in our tech and fintech space are returnees.

Most of the time, stubborn bad breaths are not from issues in the mouth. It can be from issues with the nasopharyngeal complex, such as sinusitis, chronic but mild tonsillitis (mostly from food allergy), etc. While brushing after breakfast and dinner is a good practice, it may not entirely stop the bad breath.

>>> Op confirm the bad breath first. Let someone you trust confirm it.

Now the questions:
1. Do you get yellowish phlegm up your throat from time to time plus frequent catarrh? (chronic rhinosinusitis)
2. Do you sometimes cough out a small solid (milky/yellowish color) that smells badly. In this case, there's a background mild tonsillitis — your tonsils (a gland behind your tongue) are trapping some of the foods you eat, which trigger mild inflammation.

Either of these two can cause stubborn bad breath. If you have them, try and visit an ENT specialist.

thebosstrevor1:
Rather than brother about those ones that laugh at you. Just do your thing, continue the hard work and productivity.

Sure, just pointing out the mentality of Nigerian youths. I don't have their time.

thebosstrevor1:
Lets stop praying.

Let each Nigerian act and increase their productivity, you will see that Nigeria condition will improve

Nigerians actually abhor productivity.

When you work hard, they laugh at you, but when they see your income, they get jealous. What I call the Nigerian Paradox.

Everything is about religion and superstition for this people.

KevMitnick:
Economic and Financial Criminals Conglomerate. Op needs just be thankful to God that you are out of there.

There's nothing to be thankful here. If the fellow hasn't done anything wrong, they need to pay for damages. What arrant nonsense is this in a 21st century when the whole world is going digital.

And why should they even be with your digital gadgets in your absence or that of your representative. It's tantamount to searching someone's house in his absence — anything could have been planted.

@Victim, I hope you documented the time they took possession of your personal belongings so that any unknown files that originates from that time can be pinned down to them.

How can I be sharing a country with dumb people in this 21st century. When smart people should be thinking of digital solutions to problems in the world, some inefficient agency wants you to be worrying about false accusations.

Until these fellas are made to pay heavily for their inefficiency, they will never step up to the level required of them. Our lawyers should be up and doing! The sanity of any society rest on the lawyers!

What crappy nonsense?
Oga you need to file for damages immediately. What kind of country is this?
Our lawyers have terribly failed. I'm ashamed of them.

Just observing.
No comment!

Okay

What I don't understand is why Soludo is going for governorship instead of looking towards 2023 presidential election.