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InvestmentRe: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Vaughanlanrewaj: 4:06pm On Jun 23, 2022
Mpeace:
lol. SEC cannot intervene after the court have spoken. SEC can only use its powers to ensure that the court's judgment is carried out accordingly.
I honestly do not know what is funny o. IST is an equivalent of a High court sir wink
InvestmentRe: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Vaughanlanrewaj:
robobo:
while i agree with some of your assertion about impunity, if i am a lawyer and a shareholder of Oando, i would still get a court injunction against the DAYLIGHT ROBERRY about to happen and ensure SEC is joined in the injunction, not necessarily because i believe Oando and SEC would still not act with impunity but at least for it to be on record that a court of competent jurisdiction ruled against the DAYLIGHT ROBERRY but the parties still went ahead to do as they wish (there would be a time that a Pharaoh that does not know Joseph would come into place and at such point such injunction/ court pronouncement could come in handy)
My advice for you sir, don't take what you typed up there so serious enough to go ahead and break the law.
When you go break the law and bank on people , you will be shocked that when the poo hits the fan, people will abandon you to your fate. MDs of Bank PhB ,Oceanic bank, Intercontinental, Finbank etc thought they were untouchable but today are in disgrace yet it is same institution and patriots who sent them to jail.

Instead of sounding so pessimistic, just add to other creative suggestions by Seunn11 and robobo

I urge Oando minority shareholders to report Oando, Venus comstruction company, Ocean and Oil , the judge to SEC and petition the Investment and Secuties Tribunal(IST).
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Quit the lamentations and pessimism. It is not funny either. Nation building is serious business.

Here is the SEC Investor relations number 094621168. Call them , send emails, mobilize , call out that Judge who issued that kind of judgement, report the Judge to NJC, take them all to court of public opinion!Expose those 14 minority shareholders and owners of Nexus Construction.
Some of us do not have any other country so can not talk down on our fatherland.

If you are conversant with history of legal judgements in capital markets even in Western nations, this kind of strange legal judgement on high stake issues like this should not give you reason to talk down on Nigeria. This is not unexpected but I have absolute faith in SEC and NGx that they will once again beat Oando management to it.
Nigerians are not and never stupid. We just do not want Oando, our own indigenous brand dead so we will engage constructively.
To destroy is easy but to build is hardwork. Oando is bigger than Wale and Boyo.

May God bless Nigeria for ever .
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Announcing Payment Of WAEC Fees For All Lagos Students In Year 2000 by Vaughanlanrewaj:
Some bitter , hateful ungrateful non indigenes, ipob terrorists and their Igbo uncles/aunties/ parents hating on Asiwaju Tinubu today because he is not Igbo and Christian benefited a lot from this policy now copied by other states. I recall that Lagos Indigenous students under NULASS then were concerned that Asiwaju was using the Lagos state funds he should add to our bursary (to reduce our parents' financial burden) to pay waec for non indigenes but we never discriminated. Mamora was the Speaker LAHA then.

It is only one Igbo I have seen who openly declared that it is through this policy that helped his Igbo cousins sit for WAEC and will ever be grateful to Asiwaju Tinubu for this. Only one out of millions Asiwaju Tinubu supported to realise their Lagos dream for quality education.
That is why the hateful lots will always lose.
You can not hate your benefactor and get away.
Asiwaju Tinubu never discriminated against Igbos and other Nigerians yet it is the Igbo set of non indigenes who turned out the most hateful towards him to the extent that he will become President even witbout majority votes from the same Igbo he once showed so much love to.
CelebritiesRe: Kelly Hansome: My Problem Began After Timaya Introduced Me To My Baby Mama by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:09am On Jun 23, 2022
tegrianonigltd:
David is not a musician, but a journalist and doing his work, that’s what journalist do, bring up things.
journalist
/ˈdʒəːn(ə)lɪst/
noun
a person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or prepares news to be broadcast.


Musician : a person who writes/sings for people or prepares music to be broadcast.


None of the calling gives you license to be uncouth and insult your own parent online.
Both fields actually have a low bar of entry and in this era of social media, any Dick, Tom and Harry can call himself a Musician or Journalist. However, we stil have real journalists and real musicians but both of them are not.

Real journalists and musicians do not go about insulting their own parents and those old enough to be their parent.
PoliticsRe: 'Peter Obi Is IPOB Candidate' - Northerners, Others React (Pictures) by Vaughanlanrewaj: 10:59am On Jun 23, 2022
gidgiddy:
Now compare all you just said with Fulani herdsmen who massacre thousands of people every year in Southern Kaduna, Benue, Platue, Zamfara and Taraba to mention a few

But Nigerians had no problem electing a Fulani man called Buhari as President twice

But your problem is hate speech and who called Nigeria a zoo? I laugh in Chinese
You obviously did not comprehend my post. Bringing in the Fulani is one proof that you do not understand.
My problem is how degenerate the ipob terrorists are and the lives wasted because one confused sick blood-thirsty person used to have a microphone and online radio in far away UK.

Any of them does not need to be your child before knowing that you have lost him.
Right now, the ipob terrorists are killing themselves. You can see that the ipob terrorists have bigger problems than those not killing themselves.
HealthRe: Rejoinder;oauth Nurse Assault: Resident Doctors’ Narrative False, Says NANNM by Vaughanlanrewaj: 10:48am On Jun 23, 2022
House officers are interns and should not even ordinarily be left by himself to sort out the sharps. He should do so under supervision.

Rejecting to do so itself can be because he is yet to fully understand how professionally and ethically important this is. This takes few minutes to do for God's sake! If he can clean up and flush toilet after use, he should not ordinarily struggle with doing this under supervision.

If this account of NANNM is the complete truth, then the intern and his Seniors must be queried and punished.
PoliticsRe: 'Peter Obi Is IPOB Candidate' - Northerners, Others React (Pictures) by Vaughanlanrewaj: 10:18am On Jun 23, 2022
The ipob terrorists went way too far I must admit.

Igbo elders went to sleep and allowed the IPOB terrorist leader to destroy their youths with violent rhethorics, hate speeches and drugs. It was a whole generation they allowed to go to the swine and many of the wrongly indoctrinated Igbo youths died untimely as a result. They lost all; friendship, family and even their lives! They have even progressed to now killing one another.

It is really sad. I was in shock at their audacity to be referring to their own country as a zoo just because a deranged insecure pervert with dual citizenship wired them so like zombies. Honestly, I still believe that it was a spell that was cast on the ipob terrorists after burning down my Lagos city in 2020.

Apart from the lies many associate with him, these ipob terrorists are one of the sorepoint and baggages Peter Obi is bringing from the PDP to Labour party.

It is so so sad. I remember how cute LP was during the time of Iwuanyawu as Chairman and Mimiko as an elected Gov. of LP. These terrorists were then with Nnamdi Kanu supporting GEJ.
CelebritiesRe: Kelly Hansome: My Problem Began After Timaya Introduced Me To My Baby Mama by Vaughanlanrewaj: 10:02am On Jun 23, 2022
He was as uncouth then as the David Hundeyin boy of today.

Kids with poor home training as a result of horrible dysfunctional family they come from , do not need anyone to destroy them, they will destroy themselves.

Watch when that one too will start blaming an innocent person for giving him badluck .
PoliticsRe: Biafra!!!! Another Community Celebrates 54 Years Of Liberation From Biafra by Vaughanlanrewaj: 8:02am On Jun 23, 2022
Hmmm. This is worthy of note.

This is the part of history the likes of influential Igbo writers like late Prof. Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichei willfully 'swept' into their selective amnesia when writing on true account of the evils of war. They do not want their children to read and know that their forefathers playing victims and vanquished were actually the true villians out to wipe out other tribes and communities then litter their land with children born from raped widows, teenagers and mothers.

These atrocies left so much scare that 54 years after, the liberated communities still celebrate their freedom from the vicious Igbo soldiers fighting against the Federal forces during Nigerian civil war.

It was these influential half-sided narratives that emboldened the arrogance and impunity of the ipob terrorist leader to the extent that in 2020,52 years after the Igbo soldiers committed atrocities against their ND victims, he still included these liberated folks under his map of the online country. What insolence..
CrimeRe: See The Comments That Made Me Realize Yahoo Yahoo Has Finished Our Youths by Vaughanlanrewaj: 12:23pm On Jun 22, 2022
You think we are joking when we say that the responsible and excellent Nigerian youths are not online or on nairaland.
No serious Nigerian youth will idle away and waste his life away on Nairaland or Social media at the expense of building his or her career.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria's Presidential Candidates And Their Corruption Allegations - Bloomberg by Vaughanlanrewaj: 12:15pm On Jun 22, 2022
Dangrace01:
Nobody hate tinubu this case been before you were born keep shut
You are right. Those who hate Asiwaju Tinubu are nobodies and it is best for him to ignore them.
PoliticsRe: David Hundeyin by Vaughanlanrewaj: 12:00pm On Jun 22, 2022
He is from a dysfunctional background and according to him, wounded by the "world's worst bully" father; his father, who he loves to disgrace and drag online. If he can drag and insult the person he calls his own father online just know that it can nor be well with him. Remember, he is even yet to have kids. Yi o ye ni ola. If you are not from a dysfunctional background, do not open up your life to kids like him He is a victim of a dysfunctional family.

He is thriving on social media that can be taken away with a stroke of pen.
buy this book to educate him on how the Ouidah have links with the Yoruba and why it is not by accident they are in both Lagos and Ogun state https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv177thv2

Empty barrel makes the loudest noise. The Eguns are not up to 15% of Lagos population as at today and nobody discriminates against Egun because there are even Yoruba Obas under the Akran of Badagry (mo fi owo ti owo pe oriade) who is a highly revered Oba in Yorubaland. Nobody should fight him, he is his own enemy and will destroy himself at last.
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi Invested N1.96 Billion And The Value Now Is N2.24 Billion (picture) by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:38am On Jun 22, 2022
agabaI23:
Did you read? It is actually 10 years. But if you do not read, you will not understand. Now go back and read
In maths and simple arithmetric,10 is over 5 and approximately 10.
It is to give allowance that the absolute date quoted there may as well be an approximation.
PoliticsRe: Labour Party Rally At Isiala Ngwa by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:08am On Jun 22, 2022
Low- budget Olusegun Mimiko format wink They should go and ask why Mimiko used and dumped LP.
EducationRe: Photos Of Primary School Built By Udom Emmanuel In Akwa Ibom by Vaughanlanrewaj: 10:24am On Jun 22, 2022
very nice. Please remember to stock them with books , qualified dedicated teachers and admin staff and watch this building change lives.
Please remember the retired teachers too o. May God bless Akwa Ibom. May God bless my Lagos State and may God bless Nigeria for ever
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi Invested N1.96 Billion And The Value Now Is N2.24 Billion (picture) by Vaughanlanrewaj: 10:13am On Jun 22, 2022
Over 5 years!! Please what interest is this? Paltry
PoliticsRe: Lagos Was A Capital Of Nigeria For 77yrs, Tinubu Never Build Lagos. by Vaughanlanrewaj: 10:12am On Jun 22, 2022
OP and other outsiders obviously do not know why Asiwaju Tinubu earned that accolade of the one who midwived modern Lagos wink

Go and ask your elders who were in Lagos before 1999 , especially between 1993 and 1998 , to tell you what Lagos was like.

Asiwaju Tinubu did not only restore the destroyed glory of Lagos, he charted the future for Lagos and followed through with discipline, brilliance and rare ingenious acumen.
You ain't seen nothing yet. E ti ri nkankan wink
PoliticsRe: Nigeria's Presidential Candidates And Their Corruption Allegations - Bloomberg by Vaughanlanrewaj:
Talk is cheap. This is a rehash of the lies and allegations peddled by people who hate Asiwaju Tinubu because he is not from their Igbo tribe and their religion.

There is a puerile tone of stereotype misrepresentation of African leaders by the writer and the Clement Nwankwo quoted in the article as well (obviously deliberate lack of knowledge, fairness and objectivity made the writer, who is not a Nigerian, choose her resource persons from the Igbo tribe that mostly hate Tinubu because they see him as the one standing between their tribe and the much-coveted Nigeria Presidency) make the article suspicious and tainted with the allegations and fake news peddled mostly by the politically weak Tinubu-hating folks from the Igbo tribe.

In reality; a supposedly advanced US could elect a con man and IndecentStar client Mr Donald Trump as President and Russians elect a Putin as President to be one of the richest Presidents in the world and UK elected a Tony Blair, pandora papers corruption scandal tainted UK's former PM Tony Blair (and Peter Obi) yet the foreigner made a war tested decorated General like President Buhari seem as a mean feat.

If you like use pseudonyms or proxies to keep saying same lies a billion time, you will still lose.

Asiwaju Tinubu earned his position on merit and it is because of how he served meritoriously. His legacies are verifiable and stand till date.

Insha Allah, come 2023, patriotic Nigerians will elect Asiwaju Tinubu.
Asiwaju Lokan. Vote Tinubu as President. He is the most capable and most patriotic among all the aspirants.
PoliticsRe: Should I Proceed To Court Or Pay 70k Fines. by Vaughanlanrewaj: 8:42am On Jun 22, 2022
You actually admitted that she committed the act and broke the traffic law yet you are suggesting that we should enable a traffic violator. That is not a patriotic way to look at things,beside, this is Lagos. We really mean it when in Lagos Yoruba we say "Eko o ni baje".

Your admittance is enough for me to suggest that you pay unless you have time to waste while your car remains under detention.
One more thing, Lagos is building a register of traffic violators like your wife and it may be a reference point in the future especially for non-indigenes that may or do not have a permanent residence in Lagos. Indigenes can always be traced and reported through family channels and community Baale and Alaiyeluwas.

One thing about driving in Lagos, whenever you are told to take BRT or one-way or move on at red, just ignore until the officer comes close and you can capture his name and service number.
Anything short of that, you are on your own except you have a backup plan like some of us.
Go and pay o and tell your wife not to ever ever take BRT again. This lesson will help her too.
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi's $12.24m Investment In Breweries Now Worth $5.38m - TheCable by Vaughanlanrewaj: 9:07pm On Jun 21, 2022
toujurs:
Your master tinubu, that a bullion van was seen in his house, has efcc investigated him huh..
Yes perhaps you were too young then when he was investigated and cleared. Even ordinary traders still use bullion vans to move funds but your hate for Tinubu and ignorance on this kind of things won't enable you to comprehend it.
EFCC should investigate this case like they did with Asiwaju Tinubu. I am not really bothered at all if Anambra state govt lack the courage and will to do the needful like Wike is doing for Amaechi but since it is in public domain that Peter Obi is a related party to IB, he should be investigated to know if he abused his office in this transaction.
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi's $12.24m Investment In Breweries Now Worth $5.38m - TheCable by Vaughanlanrewaj: 8:13pm On Jun 21, 2022
I explained this yesterday. He should be investigated by EFCC.
CareerRe: 6 Jobs That Will Be In High Demand In The Future by Vaughanlanrewaj: 4:14pm On Jun 21, 2022
dangoteinlaw:
Same way they said Bitcoin is the future but look at them now
grin
PoliticsRe: Protest Hits Enugu Over Failure Of INEC To Register Voters (Video, Pics) by Vaughanlanrewaj: 3:31pm On Jun 21, 2022
Despite several announcements on radio and TV and multiple shifts in deadline for registration, it is incadescently shameful that some folks still waited until now to complain that they have not concluded their registration.

In my opinion, except if the person is just clocking 18 years now, others should be penalized akin to the missed NIN registration defaulters to ensure that next time they will take their civic responsibility serious.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Will Be A Good President - Doyin Okupe (2021) by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:47am On Jun 21, 2022
Komu1048:
Perhaps u r talking about the youth in your time who was the disaster that happen to Nigeria after inheriting a working system then bastardized is. Now desperately looking for ways to die in the corridor of power. I don’t think there have been any crop of youth that have been hardworking than this generation of youth. Despite benefitting zero from this crop of Elders, they paid and labour to get educated, learn skill that your own version of youth will never dare. Strategizing and ensuring they feed for themselves n their families.
But recently, they decided enough is enough and nothing your disastrous elders can do about it
Let us start with the way you have constructed your English grammar, do you really truly think it shows excellence? Look into the mirror, you are your own worst enemy. You have misplaced your life priorities and toyed with excellence for too long that you have become mediocre.
Most of the excellent Nigerian youths are not idlying away on the social media like you sir wink

Unfortunately, those excellent Nigerian youths are few and less concerned about politics for now because they want to first build successful careers and earn credible goodwill.
Go and do that too so that in your old age, you will not be serving them later in life with your grey hairs.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Will Be A Good President - Doyin Okupe (2021) by Vaughanlanrewaj:
QueenOfTheCoast:
the youths are coming

they have no manifestos to campaign with apart from their usual old tribalism and tribal card tactics.

But we'll remind them that tribalism won't bring back dollars to at least 400
tribalism won't bring back fuel to 95 naira
tribalism won't send our undergraduates back to school.
tribalism won't fix our security.
tribalism won't develop our economy.

since suffering knows no tribe or religion, since we're suffering together irrespective of our tribe and religion, it's also fair if we get it right together by sending thieves and those who thinks they can rape Nigeria TURN by TURN.
Enough is Enough!!!

2023 will be the youths vs the criminals
it won't be business as usual.
If you say this, honestly, it will sound hollow like an empty rhethoric to an empty hall.

The youths will earn it first by weaning itself of entitlement mentality and their addiction to idleness on social media.
As you 'type and go' here to type and go on other social media platforms, the reality is that it does not translate to votes.

It is only unserious youth who will wait until 8 months to an important general election .
You just confirmed that Nigerian youths are not even ready and according to you "the youths are coming" .

They should pick up books and read first, acquire a skill, build reputation for integrity, patriotism and hardwork then harness their goodwill to build the right network and mobilize based on their own personal credentials. You also need to be humble enough to submit to a period of mentorship yet many has not even come to terms with that.

If you are lazy one who plays around, idle away on nairaland, play bets and do ponzi crypto for easy money and hope to convince anyone to support you then you are decieving yourself.

If the Nigerian youth is a brand, just ask yourself why many will not buy that brand.

There is this very dangerous addiction to social media which has kept them away from the realities of life and the enormous hardwork it takes to attain genuine and sustainable success.

It is only an unserious fellow who wants to wish his or her way to success or attain success overnight. In real life, it does not work like that wink

PoliticsRe: Tinubu Will Be A Good President - Doyin Okupe (2021) by Vaughanlanrewaj:
Lanrelagboi:
From the mouth of Labor Party's Vice Presidential Candidate himself.



https://twitter.com/doyinokupe/status/1376147907724914690?t=SxEUDgI6i9Jf0yg5rPlbkA&s=19[/quote]In 2023, by the special grace of God, Nigerians will elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria and he will be sworn in to successfully steer the ship of this great nation.

May the countenance of God continue to shine upon him.
On my part, I will support Asiwaju Tinubu to succeed before, during and after his election as my President.

May God bless Nigeria today and forever.

PoliticsRe: Peter Obi Invested Anambra Money In Abinv And The State Owns 4.7 % by Vaughanlanrewaj: 12:36am On Jun 21, 2022
Vulturereloaded:
All the companies you posted including dangote are in bearish, which is normal.

Its happens with all stocks in the world.
I am not sure you really understood my post and if you really do, citing Dangote, WAPCO, MTN and JB as being bearish today indicate that you are not familiar with the capital market.

No state government of anybody who had invested in those companies would have made anything less than 100% ROI between 2017 and today even at their current prices. Even MTN that recently had a public offer this year at N170 per share is now over N200, despite paying dividends!

IB share price did not appreciate back to its 2017 price, IB never paid diviidends or issued bonus share so it is a bad investment by Anambra state under PO. He abused the trust of Anambra people.

As a matter of fact, IB just made a marginal profit in this Q2, 2022 and it is still owing $250 million to the ABinv. Peter Obi knew all this and ignored the apparent red flags and take the IB redflags as incentive to invest Anambra state funds in a company with better ROI prospect and not related to his family..Even the Nnewi based Cutix Plc that gave a 1 for 1 bonus last year would have been a better investment than the IB people are picking cheaply on NGx today.

My point is that he abused the trust in him by putting Anambra's funds there at a time you could probably get JB, WAPCO, Dangote cement for less! In fact, if he had bought Dangote flour then at less than N2, he would have cashed out for Anambra state big time when Olams paid over N20 for that same Dangotw Flour shares!

While it is possible that someday IB shares will rise and starts paying dividends and get capital appreciation, this is not going to be soon and would have been at a time intelligent states like Osun and Lagos had made several thousands of ROI from the companies they invested in .

For now it is clear that he approved Anambra funds to be invested in IB for selfish reasons and now it is Anambra paying for it. If Anambra wants to sell its IB shares today, it will be at a huge loss running into hundreds of millions of naira!
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi Invested Anambra Money In Abinv And The State Owns 4.7 % by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:51pm On Jun 20, 2022
If this is the investment PO is showing off as achievement then Anambra state must have had its investment depreciated so much significantly that you need to query the process leading to that 'investment'.

Within same period that he approved this 'investment' and today, International Breweries share price had tanked from over N60 per share to around N5.65 today ( a whopping 1000% decrease in value! shocked) yet International Breweries has not paid dividends or issued bonus shares!
As a matter of fact, last year, IB just rolled over its $250 milliion loan from its major investor which it must pay even with the liability of forex risk according to loan terms.

Curiously, about same time, some states like Lagos, Osun invested or/raised their number of shares in Airtel, MTN, WAPCO and Julius Berger. Today, those states have reaped massively in dividends, bonus and capital appreciation while Anambra has its own investment in a company with links to HE Peter Obi's family has tanked so horribly that it is now penny stocks. The decision to 'invest' Anambra money into IB requires investigation by EFCC.

It is so so sad and unfortunate that PO was a mediocre governor for 8 years and seems like he wants to get away with it. He should never be voted for. He was to an extent a related party to IB. It was immoral and illegal that he as the Gov of Anambra signed the public funds into IB. The manner he threw Anambra money into IB because of his family business link to IB and despite the avalanche of better investments, is preposterous!

Those individuals and state governments who bought the shares of NGX listed companies like Airtel Africa alone had seen their share price jump from around N200 to N1600 and earned dividends in US dollars.

Do not vote for Peter Obi on this account and the fact that he can not even win.

PoliticsRe: Battle For Delegates: How Rivalry With Govs Resulted In Huge Loss For Lawmakers by Vaughanlanrewaj: 3:00pm On Jun 20, 2022
Honestly, I am still in shock at how the whole National Assembly made that fatal flaw of even excluding themselves from voting in a democratic exercise. It is as if a spell was cast on them shocked
EducationRe: Rotimi Kukoyi Gets Accepted Into 15 Schools, Receives $2m In Scholarship Offers by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:57am On Jun 20, 2022
saintjimos:
That's were education is valued ,in my country Nigeria, students are asked to forget school and become political elements
Please stop lying and decieving the gullible and lazy ones among the Nigerian youths.

This same opportunity to get free education from primary school all the way to university with scholarships and bursary are still available and abundant in this same Nigeria as a country.

It is not anyone's fault or the fault of government if your choice of company, background and mentality embraces quick money and idleness online against the hardwork it requires to access these kinds of opportunities Rotimi just earned.

To turn your life around, change your company of negative minded people, quit the addiction to idleness on social media and face your studies squarely so you will not lament today and in your old age.
PoliticsRe: Atiku Is Broke, Elections Funded By Okowa- Fejiro by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:49am On Jun 20, 2022
If Fejiro has his facts ,he should just report Okowa to EFCC , instead of putting himself at risk of being sued and imprisoned for malicious defamation because of this seemingly beer parlour gossip.

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