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ezenwajosh:
When I came back from outside 2years with the intention of not building house and hostels like others do, I decided to build a company generating electricity through solar and then distributing it starting with community...in the city people were complaining NO LIGHT.....HIGH BILLS


I GOT MY LICENSE FROM NERC (national electricity regulatory commission) AND THEY WERE HAPPY ABOUT MY INTENSION....FEW MONTHS LATER INSTALLATION.... WIRINGS....A MONTHS AFTER WE KICK STARTED WITH 18HRS ELECTRICITY DAILY WE STARTED WITH ONLY FIVE SHOPS CAUSE PEOOLE THOUGHT IS WAYO SINCE YOU DONT GET 18HRS ELECTRICITY EVERYDAY IN NIGERIA...IN TWO WEEKS TIME WE WERE GETTING ABOUT 200SUSCRIBERS then more and more

A DISTRIBUTION COMAPNY STARTED PANICKING THEY APPROACHED ME TO TRY AND FRUSTRATE THE BUSINESS BECAUSE ONE OF THEIR WORKER ALREADY TOLD ME THE OGAS AT THEIR OFFICE ARE DISCUSSING THIS MY NEW IDEA AND MIGHT SHUT ME DOWN....WHEN THEY APROACHED ME I SHOWED THEM THE DOCUMENTS I GOT FROM NERC(NATIONAL ELECTRICITY REGULARLY COMISSION) THEY WERE DISAPPOINTED


THE NEXT WEEK DEVELOPMENT UNION CAME AND TOLD ME THE PLACE I MADE INSTALLATIONS ARE NOT GOOD WHICH IS IN A PLOT OF LAND I RENTED AND MOUNTED THE SOLAR PANELS I SHOULD REMOVE IT BUT AT FIRST BEFORE IS STARTED THEY WHERE THE ONES THAT GAVE ME THE GO AHEAD....BUT I KNOW MONEY HAS EXCHANGE HANDS FROM DISTRIBUTION COMPANY

The next the distribution company came and told me I shouldn't use thei pole but my license clearly gave me access to use the government installed poles.... I said ok and mounted mounted my own wooden poles because am still running a test on the young business...

Next they said its not serving enough people that i have to close it down or I should request for a DISTRIBUTION CERTIFICATE FROM NERC that it cost around 20million naira

But the electricity am generating does not require THE CERTIFICATE

THEN TRUTY I GAVE UP ON NIGERIA GOVERNMENT


PEOPLE WERE HOPING NIGERIA WILL BE BETTER WHERE AS THEY DON'T KNOW ALOT OF PEOPLE HAVE TRIED STARTING TO BETTER IT IN A SMALL WAY BUT GOT SHUT DOWN....they want Nigeria to remain primitive so they can continue milking it.


#BIAFREXIT

this country is not serious


But biafra or balkanisation of this country will not solv3 anything either


What will help us in general as black people is to CHANGE the way we think

there is too much wickedness in this continent

So where are the "tribalist" Yoruba folks now

But if it's an Igbo thread now, you will see all of them

tribalism is disgusting

resist it

wonlasewonimi:
So, who is founder? Dino Melaye?

this got me LMAO; D

Tunmise100:
Finally I don land Trump's land. Chai! See beauty.

Frm JFK i don know say na Country i dey, where i dey come from na Shithole

itiswellandwell:
When we tell them, manage with a broke guys with future potentials, they will say they can't suffer oooo that they are big girls. Their big boys done end their big gals now. They should help me greet dagrin, say I dey miss am die.

Rubbish talk.

As if dating a broke guy is a guarantee against the broke guy getting desperate and then using the unfortunate girl for "rituals"

Have we forgotten the story of the ex deputy gov daughter killed for rituals?


In Nigeria, is for one to shine eyes

That's all

adecz:

The interesting fact about all these people is that, they created something that wasn't there before.
In Nigeria, you see extremely rich people who don't have any identifiable bizness.
They simply steal from govt & hide the billions in soakaways, overhead tanks or stash it abroad, in anonymous accounts, in anonymous countries like Panama.
Them go come dey chop the money small, small with their immediate family.
Black man,,,, Tufiakwa!!!!

That is the worrisome thing
Most rich folks in Africa are just rent seekers.
Too bad

temitope06:
There's really no need for the argument, its personal preference. If someone chooses to stay in all these economic hardship, no electricity, no good infrastructure, the worst healthcare, child kidnappings, no security for lives and property, no jobs, frustrating environment even to start ur own biz even with no tax, high cost of everything, insane people, ordinary senator earning more than POTUS, and 500 other crazy situations, pls let them be. As for me and my family, we shall serve the Lord... from oyinbo land if I get the opportunity.

Godlylifeoneart:
THE BUFFET ANALOGY... CULLED FROM CNBC

Warren Buffett says index funds make the best retirement sense 'practically all the time'
Trent Gillies | @trentCNBC
Published 9:01 AM ET Sun, 14 May 2017
CNBC.com
PLAY VIDEO
On the Money 1
If you're looking for a simple plan to build your retirement savings, one of the world's most successful stock market investors has some clear advice.

"Consistently buy an S&P 500 low-cost index fund," Warren Buffett told CNBC's On The Money in an interview recently. "I think it's the thing that makes the most sense practically all of the time."

And he suggests staying the course, despite market fluctuations. "Keep buying it through thick and thin, and especially through thin," the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway said with a laugh.

On Friday, stocks dipped on mixed economic data and poor results from major retailers. Buffett suggested investors should take gloomy news with a grain of salt, however.

"The temptation when you see bad headlines in newspapers is to say, well, maybe I should skip a year or something. Just keep buying," he said. "American business is going to do fine over time, so you know the investment universe is going to do very well."

As proof of the record of long term growth, the "Oracle of Omaha" remarked that the Dow Jones Industrial Average "went from 66 to 11,497 in one century," recalling the index's exact close at the end of 1999.

"And since that century has ended it's more or less doubled again," Buffett added. Last week, the Dow closed just shy of 21,000.

Don't be a stock picker
Warren Buffett
David A. Grogan | CNBC
Warren Buffett
The question remains, which shares should investors buy exactly? Buffett says an index fund is a way to avoid the risk of picking individual stocks.

"The trick is not to pick the right company, the trick is to essentially buy all the big companies through the S&P 500 and to do it consistently and to do it in a very, very low cost way," he added.

Buffett points to the fee savings built into low-cost index funds. The largest such S&P 500 fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, boasts expense ratios of less than a percentage point.

"Costs really matter in investments," said Buffett, who in the past has taken aim at costly funds. "If returns are going to be seven or eight percent and you're paying one percent for fees that makes an enormous difference in how much money you're going to have in retirement."

He added that investors can keep more of their retirement savings by cutting investment costs, by reducing management fees or commissions charged by financial advisors.

"Just remember, the person you're talking to, your fees are their income," the billionaire said.

"And it leaves your pocket and goes to them and you'd better get something for it. And you really don't get it in investment management," he said. "The record shows that the unmanaged index fund is going to do quite well over time and active investment as a group can't beat it."

Most employer-run 401(k) retirement plans offer multiple mutual funds with different assets strategies, but Buffett warned against going with those options, saying "you'll do very well with an S&P index."

He added: "And don't let them talk to you about other index funds…and say you know, you have to have foreign or maybe you can pick a better industry. You'll almost always find it comes with bigger fees."

He conceded that luck can play a role. "Sure, some are going to have better than average just but the fact that if you flip a coin, some are going to call heads and some are going to call tails. And one or the other will be right at that time."

Still, the Oracle of Omaha warned that "you do not want to ever get the impression that you can pick stocks" and that "can enable you to have an edge. It just doesn't work that way."

Thanks for sharing

Nightmareo07:
Kunle wo ju o

Who's that?
You have started again

Nightmareo07:

Gbam!!

What is this one saying bikonu

10kbelow:
AFRICAN WHO DID NOT HELP AFRICANS: KOFI ANNAN 1938-2018.

KOFI DIED THIS MORNING AT THE AGE OF 80.

One of the most indelible horrors I ever watched was the Rwandan genocide. As I watched hotel Rwanda one question kept racing through my mind : why did the world sit idly while eight hundred thousand Tutsis were murdered by the Hutu countrymen? Why didn't the United Nations intervene? The day you watch that movie I assure you that you won't sleep with dry eyes.


But that's not all there is to that genocide ...the untold part is the Kofi part!

On January 11,1994 three months before the genocide began General Romeo Dailare head of the original UN peace keeping unit in Rwanda informed Kofi Annan of the plan by the Hutu militia to exterminate the Tutsi minority in Rwanda. He warned of the looming genocide but the man running the relevant department of the universe peace keeping mission Kofi Annan did nothing! He refused to alert the United Nations, he refused to raise any alarm to alert the UN to intervene and stop that genocide. All he did was sit down while the Hutus concluded their plans and murdered eight hundred thousand Tutsis !

Not only did Kofi not do anything to prevent the genocide bit his actions assured that the Security Council wouldn't either.

Today Kofi is dead and we may be forced to mourn him but who mourned the eight hundred Tutsis murdered because of his actions? Who will mourn all those young people who were cut in their prime because Kofi refused to act? Who will console mothers who lost their children to that inglorious incident?

God has a lot to judge and if their be life after this life Kofi will have the odious task of looking indo the eyes of the victims of his actions and tell them how it all happened.

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Chukwunonso Ikenna

Does the writer of this horseshit up there know how the U.N. operate?

Was Koffi Annan Secretary then

The answer is NO

Bill Clinton was trying to play safe because he has already burnt his hands with that failed operation on Somalia

And the U.N. security council consists of 5 permanent members of which France and U.S. are members

France would have NEVER approved of a resolution against Rwanda And that is the TRUTH

Rwanda's case was a tragedy

But don't even think of blaming Annan for it.

Blame the evil Hutu leadership

delzbaba:
this coconut man

Wetin you wan make e do na
He has to be "coconut" as African solidarity is dead

InvertedHammer:
This is why touts with no visible assets end up in politics. Many buildings were sealed or in worst case scenario demolished because of political differences in many states in Nigeria. El Rufai did the same thing in Abuja. Politics in Nigeria must be approached with the spirit of a mafian to survive. Sometimes I don't blame the Nigerian politicians because they are the products of the society where humility, meekness, empathy is misconstrued as weakness.

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you are right

blackaxe78:
Forget this western ideology. Court in Africa is the government itself. If you beat them at it, they let go willingly. If they are bent to finish you, you will even go to jail afterwards.

When I hear people talk court when the government is involved, I laugh. The judiciary is a tool in there hands.

That's why I always say that the black man is a wicked soul

But people will not agree with me.

How can something still pending in court be demolished like this?

my countty men are indeed animals

scholes0:
The only place where that particular story has made headline is Nairaland and some personal blogs....
As far as I am concerned Nairaland is the number 1 culprit of fanning the embers of tribalism in Nigeria.
A big failure on the part of Seun and his mods who are doing a lot of damage to this country all for the sake of online traffic

sometimes I think this thing is deliberate

All for traffic

SAMBARRY:
Nigeria has become a country that whenever aNyone is bold enough to challenge the stusqo of oppression or sexual harassment, she becomes a subject of sexual ridicule.

I don't know what it is with Nigerians and their masochist tendencies. SMH. That oyinbo guy talking about how " the powers that be repress intelligent people and women" wasn't lying Afterall. This is just a justification

It's a sick SOCIETY really

very sick

Daeylar:
So sad to see how she has been treated.
People denying her of jobs saying they don't want a whistle blower in their midst. People calling her home breaker, ashawo, SMH
Nigerians and victim blaming. 5&6

it's Nigeria na

COMPAQ:
And the country no get oil o! We have wasted our oil wealth for over 50 years now. Nigerian infrastructure should be far better than it is now.

well well


Ivory coast have better managers than Nigeria


Nigeria is probably one of the worst managed country in this universe

SolutionMee:
This is the end result of those who get their wealth through ungodly means

How can a human sacrificed his spinal cord at the expense of getting wealth and fame

This has already serves as a lessons to majority of Nigerians

Truly, hardworking pays

This one is not wise at all

adegeye38:
Our country is a reflection of who we are, 9ja is d most naturally blessed nation in the world, but we destroyed that

They destroyed Nigeria

not me or my family

I was raised to respect the law and believe in the dignity in labour, to be compassionate to the less privileged etc

because of that, my country man sees us as dumb and stupid for refusing to cut corners or engage in those sharp practices or glorify ill gotten wealth.


Shame

EVILFOREST:
We all should be careful.
We now live among ANGRY neighbors.
AFRICA has the highest number of angry youths in the world followed by the Middle East.

We should be careful the way we flaunt things just to intimidate others.
Nigeria is not Europe neither is it AMERICA, where 95% of their youths are healthy and well fed.
Youth joblessness, getting worse by the day.
Most wealthy people now send their kids out of the country for fear of reprisals.


RIP, young one
It’s really unfortunate.

it's true tho.

So many unemployed and idle people out there.

Suffering has multiplied

Frustration everywhere

So you that has it a little good should be careful

misery love company


especially in Nigeria that security is non existent

Any ways sha

contigiency:
I doubt if they are up to two persons in your entire community including you who are more educated and exposed like buhari. So stop looking for cheap attention here.

Buhari that cannot bring out his waec certificate?

Nigga you are TRIPPING

Lilisticlili:
Emenike was quick to reply the "Boy" see "typos". His money can buy Mavins and Reekado families

what is this one saying?

Buy which mavin bikonu?

Ezechinwa:
Nigerians are wicked people by nature, How do you define a country?

Yeah you make money in Nigeria, but how has Nigeria helped the less privileged ?

Your president is sick, he runs to UK are you not ashamed as a citizen to even be defending your country out of ignorance?

Because you benefit from Nigeria doesn't make it a good country, The fact that you live in Lekki or VI doesnt show the entire picture of Nigeria.


All my stay in UK, I haven't seen a single pot hole on their roads or interrupted power supply, this is luxury and only accessible to the rich in Abuja , Lagos and some areas in Nigeria.


Stop being self centered and think about the entire picture in general.

yea that's the thing

MOST Nigerians are having it really rough

Like big time

Dottore:
Davido has finally seen a pussy that doesn't smell that's why he's obsessed with her.
Most Afonja females seem to struggle with hygiene no matter how classy and exposed she is. They are wonderful company and good wives but personal hygiene? Forget it.
This is not about tribal bashing please.
I'm talking from experience

Will you keep quiet!

nairalanduseles:
dont be decieved i left naija 5 years ago and i have never regretted one day ........i own a house now ........and live in a civil society.....and have learnt to respect ppl.........Naija is a jungle anyone who has chance pls leave don't let ppl lie to u

a big jungle

vizkiz:
You people are mad.

Awon oloshi... Awon oloriburuku...atöle oshi... Agbaya... Olodo... Ole...òbun!

After traveling to the abroad and making money you are advising those who wants to leave this hell not to? Do you know what we go through in this shìt hole everyday?

A country without good educational system?

A country with criminals in government?

A country where you can't own a car as a young man without being tagged YAHOO BOY

A country where having a car (Toyota camry 2007) seems like an achievement and people look at you as a big man?

A country that has a currency (5 naira) that can never buy anything?

A country with the highest number of yahoo boys turn pastor?

A country where a graduate thanks God for earning 100k monthly? (Same amount people earn withing 20 hours in other counties)

A country that rather vote for specific political parties and tribes than personalities with the capability to lead it forward?

E no go better for una whey dey advice people to stay and die in poverty. You want to keep living in wealth why others suffer. Your kids will suffer same fate!

Yes, I know the grass is not always greener on the other side but isn't that better than a country (Nigeria) without no grass?

Even a country that literally has no grass (Dubia) is flourishing than this toilet seat (Nigeria).

Stop being a hypothetical simpleton.. If you wanna advise Nigerians, come back home and face the same things we do to survive everyday.

LMAO

you dey vex o

na so the thing pain you?

Iamgrey5:
Exactly! During the golf war. He believed some of Kuwait's oil fields belonged to Iraq

Saddam was a tyrant and a brutal dictator, although I don't necessarily support the American invasion of Iraq.

For me, I kind of supported the regime change

Pushing out Saddam was a good thing

The PROBLEM was that now you have pushed that muthafukka out, who will fill his shoes


that is where America/NATO missed it.


Arabs are mad people *no apologies for that) they need a guy who will hold them with iron fist

But Western policy makers decided a coalition will be better for Iraq How naive!

Now the country fell apart and they had to remain there to ensure relative stability

And that's how Iraq fell apart

Smh

abokibuhari:
Baba was a G-BOI, he was rich before the age of 20... Before you ask me stupid question, I know am wella. He get money well but the mum no collect am

that is interesting


now that he is dead, what is his gain

Iamgrey5:
United nations secretary general have no such power, the United nations security council maybe

His role is that of a peace maker

If you could recall, the United states invaded Iraq because it claimed Saddam had nuclear and other chemical weapons.

He couldn't have doubted or countered the findings of one of the strongest member of the security council.

He even annexed Kuwait in the past And had to be pushed out

ogbonti:
This was the great son of Africa who could not look Bush 43 in the face and tell him invading Iraq was wrong! He was a push over, he lost control of the UN, he supervised the kangaroo UN tribunal that judicially murdered Saddam Hussein Al Tikrit. So sad, he allowed Colin Powell to push him over.


RIP Sir.

Saddam Hussein annexing Kuwait (an American ally) was not a wide decision to make

And he paid with his life, so nothing there.

I don't feel sorry for his type

Legalese:
Shatap there. We need to eschew such primitive ways of thinking. Why would you label a human being as an outcast cos of marriage. Instead of us to preserve good aspects of our culture, it's the stupid osu system you're clamoring for.

leave am make e dey talk nonsense