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The Jollof wars hold no prisoners.

Brutee:
I don't understand why you don't get it. They came to Yoruba land and not Nigeria, because if you asked them they'll say they came to Benin empire. Ghana have been existing and have their name as far as 10th century. Get this simple fact into your head

I say it to you that you don’t know the history of Ghana nor Benin.

I mentioned Benin because every authority on African history knows that there is no Benin empire without the Yoruba empire. Both have a common history.

The old Ghana empire was located in southeastern Mauritania, western Mali, and eastern Senegal and not in the present Ghana’s location.

You are simply attempting to twist history by claiming that Gold Coast (which was renamed to Ghana) is the original Ghana. The current Ghana is a fake one.

Brutee:
Lol, don't be ridiculous, how can Nigerian culture be older than Ghana when historically Ghana is as old as Egypt, Nigeria came into being in 1914. Ghana was already an empire way back the 10th century

So in 1914, we all dropped from the sky into Nigeria or were imported like the guys in Freetown?

Ghana is different from Gana and no, Gana is not as old as Egypt. Egypt is the oldest known civilization in Africa.

The Portuguese came to Benin in the 15th century and as at then, the Benins and the Yorubas already had over 500 years of independent and unified history in present day locations.

They were not known as Yorubas (as a group then) but by the respective confederations.

This thing would mine bitcoin well o.
M

odicity:
Hello can I have your email? Or Whatsapp? Don't know how to handle messaging here

truthcoder at protonmail dot com

If you have not spent 183 days or more in Nigeria within a fiscal year, you are not liable to taxes earned on income from another country. You would only be liable for taxes on incomes earned from rental properties or your local businesses in Nigeria.

If you are earning a lot and you want to reduce your tax burden, I would suggest you get a residence in say a 0% tax country like the UAE and spend more than 6 months there.

Then you file your tax on your income made in Nigeria.

You can discuss more with a tax consultant for a more professional opinion.

coder1205:
I never asked for your existing code which you didn't even have. I don't know where you got that from. I do not need anyone's code. I told you if I was going to get involved, it will be built from scratch. I told you i normally help founders who have not started building with development team in some cases and also help with launch of MVP for early stages with a development team and then introduce a VC investor once we have achieve some traction and commercial proof ie revenue. I didn't think your idea was a scalable idea worth investing my time or money and I was very clear about my concerns and findings. I do not mean to speak lowly about your idea, but i was very honest with you. You kept insisting and trying to convince me daily with loads of messages & calls and I told you the only way I will be investing millions of my (own) funds for building it from scratch with a world class engineering team and a marketing budget which was over 10 times of what you claim you got currently for an 80 or 70 percent stake as I saw your project as high risk and was not worth my time, resources or money. It is my funds and I can do what ever I want with it, and if you do not like the offer I gave you as I saw no commercial proof for your idea, then you can go somewhere else. It is that simple. It is better to be honest with people and say things exactly how it is. This will be my last message for you. Thank you.

Apart from the fact that you are a scam, you are also a liar.

Don’t worry. I have receipts.

To correct your lies, first i have never called you apart from your initial call which lasted almost one hour (if you didn’t find my idea interesting, why spend an hour with me) . It was all chats.

You claim my project was not worthwhile but you claim you still want to invest ‘millions’ in it. You never said you were not interested. So either you were lying then or you are lying now.

You claim you want founders who have not started building but you loiter on programming section. What do you think we do here?

If you are a real pre-seed investor, you should know that development and marketing costs is actually why we need pre-seed funding and not because we dont have codes.

Would be sharing receipts. I would not be sharing the details that discuss some of my USP for obvious reasons but the time would come for that.

NB: i think i should create a thread on how to get proper funding for ideas and to avoid hawks like this.

Real VCs dont like having relationships with these hawks from what i learnt later and i would strongly advise any innovator to steer clear of his likes.

I would be moving away from this nothingness.

I have gotten my real investors, approvals and my team plus a fully funded cloud compute all for less than a single digit %.

He who has ear, should hear.

After seeing the gaslighting attempt of the OP against airsaylongcome, I feel I owe it to members of this forum to give full disclosures about what I know about this 'acclaimed investor'.

TLDR: He claims to be a pre-seed investor and has access to UK VCs. He is just a hawk looking to fleece tech newbs off their ideas and prototypes, asking for 80% of equity for the pittance he is offering (if offering anything at all) so the person can either walk away or if dumb, be a slave to him all for nothing.

I saw one of his claims last year and I contacted him.

I have a fintech project which I am working on. Project is not generic as generic would not work in the region I intended to launch. I was on NL one day and saw his post, so I decided to contact him.

My mistake was that I assumed he was a passionate tech funder so I went into the conversation telling him bits and pieces of the project and some bits about the USPs. I did not request for details of his company, I did not sign an explicit NDA. I did not even see or know his authorisation to have such conversations on behalf of whomever he claims to be representing. He offered no legitimacy and I was dumb enough not to ask. The only 'credence' he had was a +44 WhatsApp number.

He claimed to have a team of coders ready to churn out any project at short notice. The only thing remaining was ideas.

He was interested in my project and straight-away wanted to know the 'nitty-gritty' of the idea. He was asking so many questions so I told him I would only be able to continue if we had an explicit agreement on our business relationship. If he liked my idea, he should tell me and we should discuss how the relationship would be. He said he liked the idea and is ready to be a part but can I answer just this other question.... He tried to prod around this but when I was insistent, he gave me his offer.

He proposed an agreement that takes over 80% of my company at pre-seed, with me handing over ownership and existing codes in return for him spending an undisclosed amount on getting more people interested in the business. I would still be in the company of course, pouring out my efforts into making the project work. He told me the 80% was his final offer.

It was not a buy-out. It was me simply signing away 80% of my company to a stranger who says he doesn't know how much he would spend but it is 'a lot' and I get nothing on day 1.

If I hand over 80% at pre-seed, please what will I hand over when the real VCs arrive? 80%!!!

I tried to reason with this 'investor' o but he was adamant, so I told him to move on. I saw my folly. The guy don play me street. I understood the 'catch-22' situation. No sensible person will give out 80% of a company for nothing. So he has a clean path to walk out and he leaves with the ideas you just discussed with hm. If you are dumb enough to accept, then you will be dumb enough to wait till a potential VC comes along who will take equity from his own 80% or do a buy out of the remaining 20% for chicken change.

I was lucky though, I did not share any code with him nor shared more than necessary. Some people would not be so lucky.

Now, don't get me wrong. He has a right not to like my project. He has a right to walk away. But he owes it to the the other party to say he was not interested. But asking for 80% of the company for no exact amount (which could range from cost of printing and photocopying the dumb agreement to nothing), it was an easy scam.

I moved on and was lucky enough to get real investors with proper structures from other areas and we would be launching soon. No serious investor asks for 80% for an undisclosed amount. Heck. I got $20,000 and a free USA company registration for 2% of another company.

When a girl is raped, most times she keeps quiet and the rapist feels more confident to rape another girl. When all raped girls come out to identify their abuser, maybe he would stop, maybe he won't, but other girls would know what they are entering if he invites them to his room.

NB: He opened this NL account and the email strictly for this. He is not on LinkedIn nor is associated with any company of repute in the UK or anywhere else. He is a ghost.

coder1205:
I have provided funding to a remittance platform (iOS and Android) from this site and also another platform with premium commercial features all with proof as they are still in building stages. I am not here to deliberate or validate your negative opinion or disbelief in yourself. If you know you are ready to scale or grow and you have a unique angle in your processes, then feel free to reach out. Thank you

I have also gone to Mars and come back. I met a Jennifer Lopez clone and we had a nice time.

Sending this message from the White House as a guest of Joe Biden. Putin would soon arrive as i plan to resolve the Ukraine-Russia conflict over a meal of Suya and Agege bread.

coder1205:
Hi,
Do you have a (GREAT and SCALABLE) Fintech Idea or Business/ Consumer Tech related idea which is sustainable and can impact a substantial amount of people in Nigeria and Sub-saharan Africa as a whole? I am working with a UK/US based institutional venture capital investor with vast industry experience, who is looking for a scalable opportunity to invest within the region. Investors are willing to invest up to £2.5 million in Pre-seed/Seed Round. My email is paiks12055@gmail.com

Thanks.

CAVEAT EMPTOR.

Do not discuss anything with him without him disclosing the VC he is working with and a certifiable power of attorney.

After that, sign a proper non disclosure agreement with him before proceeding.

You should verify any document he provides BEFORE discussing with him.

At the end of all discussions, and after getting an insight into your idea dynamics, he would offer you a very ridiculous offer so that you would either be so angry and pull out or so stupid to accept. And that is the goal, so you leave but he has the ideas.

Dont let them use baits to harvest your ideas.

You have been warned.

2 pages and almost everyone believes in this scam?

Nairaland is full of very dumb people.

Spits on thread

aktem:
I am a graphic designer and I decided to add frontend development to my skillset. I started last year, currently learning React.
I just want to know if data structure and algorithm is necessary to get a well paying job as a programmer. I am not targeting FAANG companies,
Just good programming jobs with good pay.

qtguru is right. Knowledge of DSA is important.

However, you can start with the basics.

There are some ‘coders’ who have spent their entire programming lives cramming DSA and looking for all opportunities to show off their skills at solving interview challenges. However, the practical aspects of applying such knowledge to real life issues still befuddles them.

Learn the very basics necessary and use that knowledge as you learn your language of choice. You can improve your skills as your language skills improve.

See programming as learning how to be a tailor. DSA is like learning how to cut cloth. Writing codes is like joining the clothes together, cleaning it up and presenting to the client.

A tailor who is very good at cutting clothes but cannot sew is not a full tailor. Same as a tailor who can sew but cannot cut.

But you dont become a cutting guru in one day. You cut small, you sew small. If the only thing you do is cut, no client would take you serious and at best, you can only be employed as a cutter.

If you are still a student and in a computer science class, then you have all the time in world to perfect your DSA. So learn DSA fully. However, if you are already an old horn with bills everywhere, dont waste your the next 2 years on DSA alone.

Learning never stops.

A fullstack web developer wakes up one day and realises be became a full stack developer many months ago.

It is a rubicon you cross without realising you have crossed it. It is also a rubicon you have crossed but you still believe you have not crossed it.

If you don't get it, forget about it.

Greatdand007:
Ode ni bobo yi sha

Ok. So where and when?

Choose location.

Unfortunately, i wont be present to witness your recants but i would follow up avidly.

Be a man and choose a location. My friends would like to explain phone theft laws to you.

NB: Dont forget you are traceable via your footprints but for this context, we want you to come in voluntarily.

Greatdand007:
You be mumu

From you?

LOL.

You want to buy job?

Are you ready to put your actions where your mouth is?

Set up a meet in any public place in Lagos, come with the phone. Make sure it is charged and shows current lock screen. Inform the person who gave you the phone prior because when he is invited, he should be ready to honor the invitation.

NB: You might sleep in a cell that night so wear good boxers.

Greatdand007:
Please iphone engineer in the house how can I unlock this

That iPhone is pinging its location every time it is within the location of another iPhone on Find My Network.

The translation says "iPhone has been locked by the owner, please contact owner here".

The phone was stolen in China.

Your claim that 'na Oyinbo send am' is a lie. It was stolen by a crook.

I hope any police on NL who wants to make an easy 100k should honeypot you. I am sure the real owner won't mind paying for shipping fees to return the phone.

Thief

Naijatask:
Wow, so the mode toggles automatically using your phone settings or PC settings which just this few codes?

Yep

Naijatask:
Thank you for responding.

That auto dark mode and light mode feature, is it a feature of tailwind css? Or you had to integrate it manually?

Dark mode with tailwind is simple.

Just declare two colors. One is the normal one. For example bg-red-200. The other one starts with dark:. So it would be dark:bg-red-800.

That gives you a system based dark mode.

If you want manual switches to toggle, that requires more codes.

Zhirinovsky:
Please I need somone who can write a function or script that can import the route data in the Google map below to googlesheet please.

I will pay for the service.

Google maps location with custom data https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1fOVCWQow9MHSqVY1g7qPEQRPfKPEq5iT&usp=sharing

1. Create a new Google Sheet and get its ID.
2. Enable the Google Sheets API and the Google Maps JavaScript API in the Google Cloud Console.
3. Use the Google Maps JavaScript API to access the route data from the My Maps link you provided. You can use the google.maps.KmlLayer class to load the KML file of the My Maps data, and then parse the data to extract the route information.
4. Use the Google Sheets API to insert the route data into the Google Sheet.

// Replace YOUR_SPREADSHEET_ID with the ID of your Google Sheet.
const SPREADSHEET_ID = 'YOUR_SPREADSHEET_ID';

// Load the Google Sheets API client library.
gapi.load('client', () => {
  gapi.client.init({
    apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    discoveryDocs: ['https://sheets.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v4'],
  }).then(() => {
    // Use the Google Maps JavaScript API to load the My Maps KML data.
    const kmlUrl = 'https://www.google.com/maps/d/kml?mid=1fOVCWQow9MHSqVY1g7qPEQRPfKPEq5iT';
    const kmlLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer({
      url: kmlUrl,
      suppressInfoWindows: true,
    });
    kmlLayer.addListener('metadata_changed', () => {
      // Parse the KML data to extract the route information.
      const metadata = kmlLayer.getMetadata();
      const routeData = metadata.document.placemark
        .filter(placemark => placemark.LineString)
        .map(placemark => placemark.LineString.coordinates)
        .join('\n');
      
      // Use the Google Sheets API to insert the route data into the Google Sheet.
      const range = 'A1';
      const values = [[routeData]];
      const body = { values };
      gapi.client.sheets.spreadsheets.values.update({
        spreadsheetId: SPREADSHEET_ID,
        range,
        valueInputOption: 'USER_ENTERED',
        resource: body,
      }).then(() => {
        console.log('Route data inserted successfully.');
      }, (error) => {
        console.error(`Error inserting route data: ${error}`);
      });
    });
  }, (error) => {
    console.error(`Error initializing API client: ${error}`);
  });
});

miatech:
Hi,

I need a developer to help with my app idea...

This app idea go mad gaan...

Let me know who's available

you willing to pay?

GREATIGBOMAN:
vercel/next/sveltekit, vite, Vue.

No wonder people hate JavaScript.

Hashing out children every few months like a 10/10 prostitute who doesn't use protection

That’s the beauty of js.

If you can think it, you can build it

niel63:
So, curiousity about how easy it is to switch to any frontend framework has got me thinking... where are really going? Is this all battle for reactivity and how DOM is mounted. Well, I don't care anymore... whatever gets the job done. But honestly, I see why Reactjs is the preferred candidate everywhere.

I've worked with svelte and it's kit, React and Nextjs (my favorite), Remix, and now Vue and Nuxt.

How I learn a new framework is create a project on it... Project Based Learning will always be a better way to grasp anything you're learning in programming. Because problems and bugs you encounter will always push you to learn the concepts...

Now, I'm eyeing Solid js and SolidStart which is the solid framework like Next and Nuxt.

Here's my first Nuxt project. A jamstack app, using sanity dot io as it's Headless CMS. Me I like sanity too much ooo... its easie to work with.

Here's the link: https://perfectfitinteriors.com

Note: I never really finish am, but I want to get reviews and what I can improve on it.

Styling was done with tailwind... the UI, well, I saw a free figma design and implemented it. E no hard if you know how to shake your small yansh in css.

Review and Rate over 10. I wan check something.

The pond will settle but not now.

React would be the old php with many SPAs needing updates to more robust frameworks with full server rendering and routing.

With auth.js been pushed by the guys at vercel/next/sveltekit, vite handling the back of the backends, and security becoming more in-baked, plus the new kiddo AI on the block, the season film has not even started.

It is amazing what a one-man team can now build in a weekend compared to just the last 36 months.

Good job.

GREATIGBOMAN:
Your advice/opinions always has Kleg,

GIB,

Howdy?

Opistorincos:
Hi, where can I get T480 for 150k?

Check jiji and be on the lookout. Good deals always show face.

The Tsunami is going to affect a lot of VCs.

I feel so pained right now.

How would there be zero cash reserves? USA!!!