naijamanyoutube: Few months ago, I was in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, a northeastern state in Brazil. Salvador is known for its Portuguese colonial architecture, Afro-Brazilian culture and a tropical coastline.
The Pelourinho neighborhood is its historic heart, with cobblestone alleys opening onto large squares, colorful buildings and baroque churches.
Walking around Pelourinho was fun, because of the many influences from Africa, especially the Yoruba religion. I walked by some vendors selling Acarajé, which is their version of Akara. I tried it once, and I didn't like it. Nothing compared to Naija's Akara, though Brazilians enjoy it, I tell them "Wait till you try Naija's Akara". Even coca-cola dey use Acarajé for their ads.
I spoke Yoruba to the guy talking about Orisha, and of course he had no clue of what I was talking about, they just want money. lol He wanted to do some cleansing or something like that to me, I said lai lai, no be me. lol
I met some other interesting people which you can see in the video below.
An interesting thread. Like Bahia in Brazil, like Old Havana in Cuba. Both with ancestral ties to Africa and Nigeria via mainly the Yorubas and the Angola/Congo region.
naijamanyoutube: Trading stocks is like buying and selling in any physical market in Lagos, the difference is that you have 100 of thousands of people trading at the same time, so the price moves up and down very fast.
My advice is to go to YouTube and watching videos on trading stocks. And learn all you can, but don't invest yet!!!
You then need to pick a setup you want to using for trading. Setup is kind of like say your playing style in football. Do you want to play tiki taka, or you just want to pack the bus and wait to counter attack.
Many setups exist in trading, and they all work to a degree. It's good to pick one and practice it for at least 3 months or more, before you decide to use real money. Many platform allow you to practice with fake money. tradingview dot com, will let you practice for free for a while. I cannot recommend the platform that I use, because they are US only. They are Webull and TD Ameritrade. If you are in the US, you can give them a try.
Most traders lose money, and that is because of greed and lack of discipline. Most times when I lost money, it was because I wanted more. Many times I will make money and not take it, and be waiting for more, then the stock go crash and I will then be in the red. It happens mainly because I disregard my rules. You have to have rules and stick to them. For example, before investing, I will say that I will take profits when I make $500, but when it comes to it, I might be already at $800, but then I will say I'll wait for it to reach $1,000, before I know it, it drops to $400, then to $200, and now I'm crying and still holding on, then maybe it goes up to $300, and it gives me hope, but then it goes down to $100, and later $-200
After years of that nonsense, I finally learned my lessons. Now I have a lot of patience and always waiting for my setup, before going in. I'm slowly building up. No loses, and that is because I just don't rush in, and I'm only trading one stock right now.
Impressive... The beauty is that wherever you are as a Digital Nomad (E.g., Salvador in Bahia, Brazil or Manchester in England), you can always trade. For how long have you traded online stocks?
naijamanyoutube: I was in Manchester for 2 weeks as my first stop on my Europe tour, I plan to visit over 20 European countries on this tour.
I stayed with my sister and her family in Manchester, I was treated like a king with so many delicious Nigerian food.
I took pictures of some of them and here they are. These food might look like no big deal to many on here, but it is for me, since I don’t know how to cook and I live in Las Vegas where it’s very expensive to eat Nigerian food at a restaurant.
I’m in Edinburgh, Scotland at the moment, will make my way to Glasgow, Scotland tomorrow, and then board a bus that will take me to Northern Ireland. The bus will drive onto a Ferry to cross the Irish Sea. I will stay one day in Belfast and then jump on a train to places I don’t know yet, but I have to be at the airport in Dublin on Monday the 23rd of October to catch a flight to London, where I will stay with Dj Douglas for 1 week. He’s is a childhood friend of mine. He’s the one who taught Dj Neptune how to Dj. The last time I saw Douglas face to face was back in December 2005, when he went to the airport with me when I was traveling to Amsterdam from Lagos, on vacation. Before I got back to Lagos in January of 2006, Douglas don japa go London. Lol
He’s established now with a wife and kids.
I will post more as I go about my journey. Stay tuned.
That's awesome... Some nice pics there.
My younger bruv lives in Manchester with his immediate fam too. A great place to stay outside of London. By the way, do you use GoPro for your YouTube videos or some other device? I enjoyed your views and images of Brasilia which you did at the beginning of 2023 and the Akara (Acaraje) delicacies (which was first brought by Yorubas to Salvador in the State of Bahia from Nigeria in the late 1700s).
TemplarLandry: English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released on Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online Encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly everywhere today.
[quote author=money121 post=127335155][/quote]Impressive updates from Lagos.
The Mobalaji Bank-Anthony Way traffic gridlock from the Domestic Airport axis right past Sheraton Hotel to Maryland intersection can be truly enervating during peak hours. The Ikeja GRA, Sonibare Estate and other adjoining highbrow residential estates also experience a spillover of the traffic gridlock on the major roads. The new bridge would make driving enjoyable along that route.
Members of the Abakaliki rice millers association have hailed Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State on a ban on scaling for the measurement of rice and the reintroduction of the 100-cup bushel.
This commendation came even as the price of rice at the Abakaliki rice mill company at the time of this report had crashed to 15.000 Naira against the 20. 000 naira which was sold barely a week after the reintroduction of the bushel measurement.
A PhD thesis is not a war because academic thesis are not for victories but for human advancement and this is why it can not be said that I started this war that I am currently in. My poems, I would rather burn in hell and Blown by bias were not aggressive, they were at the most satirical for the former and observatory or so for the latter. The aggressive or assaultive poems came after I had been informed that Enoch Adeboye and David Oyedepo had sent hired assassins after me. Enoch Adeboye therefore started the war. A PhD thesis in form of a poem is not a war. It is just an insight, something that can clear the way in a field of human endeavour. Enoch Adeboye and his RCCG therefore started the war and he was reinforced by David Oyedepo at the head of his Winners Chapel (Living Faith Church). A friend, John Audu of Eke Avrugo, Kogi state that refused to execute a contract to kill me was personally axed to death by Enoch Adeboye while a team of assassins contracted by David Oyedepo were massacred by people in my support. Enoch Adeboye and Rihanna joined hands to kill Richard Donald of Abia state who was provisioned to poison me according to his own suggestion. He died the death he planned for me as a result of wanting to extract more money from his sponsors even as his operation was not successful. The war was started by Enoch Adeboye himself when he rushed to the Catholic church to secure the go ahead or approval to remove the threat I am posing on social media once and for all. After getting this approval, he proceeded to approach a juju man to run me mad so that I can be removed from circulation and his spiritual rape of the millions of his unsuspecting victims can continue without inhibition. He drew the first blood as a result of my online activity and it did not surprise the CIA that were anticipating such a move and for which reason President George H W Bush had betrothed his first granddaughter Barbara Bush junior to me to help me win when Enoch Adeboye assured my parents in 2000 that he would make me born again before the internet was even invented. Barbara was contacting me via pseudo IDs as soon as there was Yahoo mail and as soon as I joined Facebook, her Dad was communicating with me as Mr George an elderly American based in Nigeria. When Enoch Adeboye approached the juju man, Mr George stopped contacting me and that was during the time of President Yaradua. The CIA got the Russians involved more or less from the onset but approached the Chinese when Enoch Adeboye approached his juju man. They also approached the Indians later and then nation after nation. It resulted in an array of military formations on my side and that of Enoch Adeboye who started the war. He was the first to draw a weapon and also to use a weapon and it did not surprise the CIA or the Ogboni that reported him to the CIA. He was allowed to have his fill of running me mad and the war is still on till today. However whatever begins in evil anger will always ever end in shame. A man that has been on death row since 1988 when he started using human beings for rituals want to go down in history as the holiest man that ever lived. He started the war after he tried to use Charles Kpandei to convince me to stop publishing online and I saw no reason to, he then directed Charles Kpandei to insult me which did not bother me, he then went for broke by approaching his juju man. We have been in the war since before 2009 when he used Tola Ekunsanmi his best soldier to submit character assassination videos of myself to the Nigerian DSS. He has invited overdue fire on himself and his RCCG and he can not be saved from that and people led by a fool will also reap a part of the reward of their leader's foolishness. The RCCG as an organisation will pay for Enoch Adeboye's foolishness. The children of a fool will not prosper. The video war started fourteen years ago while the juju war started earlier. The end of the whole thing can be easily deciphered by any onlooker.
Dimaya: Why does it seem everywhere you turn, small businesses are closing across Africa. Yet the Lebanese and Chinese are still running their malls and marts. What do they know about running a small business that we don't?
In this video, everyday Nigerians share their experiences running their businesses from beer parlours to shoe stalls to defunct cafes. They explain the kind of debt you should avoid, how to deal with jealousy from your peer competitor and how to avoid the greed that commonly plagues business relationships. If you need wisdom for today and hope for tomorrow, I highly recommend you listen till the very end.
That's an administrator who has spoken with emotional intelligence... Empathy in most situations is key.
The gentleman Olukoyede (who is also a lawyer) has been a core EFCC insider and this is why he was chosen in the first place, so he's right in his observation about NOT completely closing company bank accounts when companies are under investigations... and the insightly markings of buildings of those under investigations with giant red paint letters has to end just like Olukoyede said.
Successful prosecutions of those who are guilty based on concrete forensic evidence and within a short timeframe must be the goal of all law enforcement agencies, including the EFCC so that public confidence can be restored.
naaija: Rehabilitation of Upper Iweka Touts in ANAMBRA
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, in October reiterated that the days of touts in the state are numbered and a full blown war has been declared on them.
He maintained that in an environment where lawlessness has become a culture, bringing back law and order will be difficult.
Governor Soludo made the statement during the launching of the Anambra Special Anti-Touting Squad held at Upper Iweka, Onitsha.
Mid November, Chibuzor Okoye of ABS News reported that SASA Arrested 413 Touts, Sets Of "One Chance" Criminal Gangs, Illegal Revenue Collectors In Onitsha, Environs
The report claimed that the Anambra Anti-Touting Squad (SASA) within one week apprehended 413 touts, illegal revenue collector's and four sets of "one chance" criminal gangs in Onistha and it's environs.
In the past few days, a video of the rehabilitation of the arrested touts made rounds on social media platforms in the state as they are forced to sing the Governor’s praise by Homeland Antitouting Unit in ANAMBRA state. The de-radicalization approach has also drawn criticisms as it reflects a similar old terrifying video that showcased the experiences of Okuzu SARS inmates inmates in the state that formed part of the ENDSARS protests nationwide.
Nonetheless, the notorious activities of these touts and criminals cause loads of harms and many times cost innocent persons their lives/livelihoods.
Gandrova: You just muddled everything together. Pls can you show us an evidence where Hamas members raped Isreali women? You think they lack self control like IDF.
Do NOT trivialize my post here. What self-control are you talking about with reference to this globally known terrorist Hamas group?
I've over 4 decades of deep knowledge in international affairs and geopolitical history. I'm not one of these younger fanatics online and offline who blindly support Hamas or Israel and make outlandish claims. I STAND for humanity not these displays of fanatical support of both sides! Period.
A simple Googling of the keywords "rapes of Southern Israeli women by Hamas criminals"(who have demarketed Islam further in the eyes of many) would bring up websites, videos, pictures of bloodied Israeli women. One viral horrendous YouTube video online showed an Israeli female hostage who had blood stains in between her legs/private part, being viciously dragged by her long hair into a vehicle as she was moved into Gaza. Hamas even posted some of these vicious videos and pictures online.
What happened to taking prisoners of war by Hamas and treating them well according to international law in exchange for Palestinian prisoners?
These premeditated gang rapes are essentially war crimes committed by the criminals in Hamas against humanity!
On Nov. 29, 2023 the U.N. commission of inquiry, currently investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict, announced it would focus its investigation on sexual violence by Hamas, and launch a public appeal for evidence, according to Reuters.
Any evidence of such would be passed onto the International Criminal Court which may consider prosecutions, the U.N. commission of inquiry's chair told the public.
Masterstroke4: Muslims, Get Out Of Netherland, Leave For An Islamic Country - Dutch PM Geert Wilders.
Geert Wilders, the leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands, has called on Muslims who value the Quran more than secular laws to leave the country.
Dutch far-right politician and leader of the PVV party, Geert Wilders gestures as he meets with members of his party at the Dutch Parliament, after the Dutch parliamentary elections, in The Hague, Geert Wilders has urged Muslims who find the Quran more important than the law of the land to leave the country. The leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands, likely to be the next prime minister of the Netherlands, was heard saying so in an unverified video.
“There are many of those. Research by Professor Koompans shows there are 7 lakh. And, my message to them is: Get out! Leave for an Islamic country. Then, you can enjoy Islamic rules. Those are their rules, but not ours,” he added.
“Today, tomorrow or the day after, the PVV will be part of government and I will be prime minister of this beautiful country,” Wilders earlier wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Wilders declared his readiness to adjust his positions to form a government. Despite his party winning the most seats in the recent election, the PVV is projected to hold only 25% of seats in the Dutch parliament, necessitating collaboration with other parties for governance.
The conservative VVD Party, under new leader Dilan Yesilgoz, hasn’t dismissed the possibility of supporting a Wilders-led government from the outside. They’ve, however, ruled out cabinet participation. Meanwhile, Pieter Omtzigt from the centrist NSC Party sees challenges in aligning with Wilders due to his extreme views, which might conflict with the Dutch constitution’s religious freedom protections.
Coalition talks in the Netherlands often extend over several months, with shifting positions on party cooperation. If Wilders fails to form a government, more centrist alliances excluding the PVV could emerge, with new elections being a last resort, as per Reuters.
SoNature: One Indian production manager in one company I once worked for would always tell us that the day God shared d1cks and b00bs and nyashes, Africans were the first to arrive.
But the day God shared brains, African blacks were nowhere to be found. He would always call Nigérians brainless people.
The MD of the company who's a Nigerian later fired the Indian production manager and sent him back to his country.
PS: Looking at what's happening in this country now, I no blame the man. Nigerians behave like brainless people during elections.
DomPerignon: And the Talmud says Jesus is burning in a boiling vat of excrement and seamen in hell.
Jews also say Jesus was a soccerer and that his mother Mary was a prostitute and that Jesus real father was a Roman centurion who raped or patronised her as a prostitute.
Now tell me which I should accept?
The Muslim doctrine that accepts Jesus divinity as a pious prophet wrongfully murdered by the Jews but does not believe Christ resurrected or the Jewish blasphemy that says Jesus was a possessed magician born out of wedlock to a prostitute who is boiling for eternity in hell in a vat of excrement and seamen?
Now if you are a true Christian , between Muslims and Jews who will you prefer to assimilate with?
SummaryChannel: Israel's plans to immediately displace the people of Gaza to Sinai, violating promises and Henry Kissinger's dialogue on the position of Lebanon and Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3L5xdUkCI The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation is presented in this episode of Samri Channel. The beginning is with the Israeli army, which published a map dividing the Gaza Strip into “blocks” (squares), each bearing a number, explaining its movements after the end of the temporary truce period, on Friday morning, and the resumption of its operations against the Hamas movement. The Israeli army divided the Gaza Strip into blocks into two parts. The northern part includes Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Jabalia, Beach Camp, Al-Rimal, Sheikh Ajlin, Al-Sabra, and Al-Zaytoun. As for the southern part, it includes Al-Bureij, Al-Maghazi, Al-Nasr, Deir Al-Balah, Al-Qarara, Al-Nazareth, Al-Jalaa, Al-Katiba, Al-Amal, Bani Suhaila, Al-Mawasi, Al-Muharrat, and Khan Yunis.
Residents of Jabalia residing in the following blocks: 1772, 1808, 1811, 961, 963, 760... In order to preserve your safety, we call on you to evacuate your homes immediately through the Haifa and Khalil Al-Wazir axes and go to the known shelter centers and schools in the Al-Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods and west of Gaza City.” He continued. : “In the southern Gaza Strip area: Residents of Khirbet Khuza’a, Abasan, Bani Suhaila, and Ma’an... Residents of Bani Suhaila residing in Blocks 217, 218, 219, 220, 42, 45, 50... In order to preserve your safety, we call on you to evacuate your homes immediately and go to the shelter centers.” Known in Rafah... Residents of Al-Qarara residing in the following blocks: 39, 224, 2250, 2260, 2270, 2280, 2351, 132, 136, 137, 138, 139: For your safety, we call on you to evacuate your homes immediately and go to the known shelter centers. In Rafah and to the humanitarian area in the Al-Mawasi neighborhood.
On the other hand, the Israeli "Alma" Center for Research and Education stated that "Lebanese Hezbollah is not interested in a war that it did not start after Hamas carried out the October 7 attack, but the party's intention to invade Israel is just a matter of time." The Alma report, a non-profit and independent research and education center specializing in the security challenges facing Israel on its northern border, added that “Hezbollah’s Radwan unit is fully trained and capable of launching an incursion into the Galilee at any moment.” Tal Perry, head of research at Alma, said, “The decisive question within Hezbollah today is not whether an attack on the Galilee should be launched, but rather when it will be done.” The researchers noted in the report that “on October 7, Hamas essentially borrowed The infiltration plan was carried out by the Al-Radwan unit and carried out by its forces along the southern border with the Gaza Strip.”
They explained that Hamas embarked on this path independently of Hezbollah for reasons that are not yet clear. According to the report, residents of the northern region do not enjoy adequate protection, and despite recent efforts made by Israel to strengthen the northern border with more walls and surveillance measures, there are still parts along the border that have not been developed, which may facilitate infiltration.
The report stated, “The events of October 7 proved once again that any physical or technological barrier will inevitably be breached. The mountainous terrain along the Lebanese border represents a greater challenge than the flat terrain along the Gaza border, and allows for more covert movement, and Hezbollah is well aware of the terrain.” He knows how to navigate it.” Given the large-scale mobilization of IDF reserve forces deployed along the borders of Lebanon and Syria over the past eight weeks and the military's operational and intelligence vigilance, Alma's report considers that Hezbollah's element of surprise has now been compromised. However, the researchers assert that “even today, at any moment, if Hezbollah chose to do so, it could independently implement the plan to infiltrate Israeli territory with a limited force from the Radwan unit.”
The Lebanese Hezbollah carried out 9 operations against various Israeli army sites along the border extending more than 120 kilometers between Lebanon and the occupied territories, including two attacks on the Ruwaisat Al-Alam site in the Lebanese Shebaa Farms. On the other hand, Israeli occupation aircraft launched 3 raids on the outskirts of the Naqoura area, the first of their kind since the ceasefire. Clashes with machine guns also took place between Hezbollah members and Israeli occupation soldiers stationed near the Al-Matli settlement.
turmacs: I don't know who needs to hear this but, one's you start making Better money in this country and you intend to live here, before you start building houses, or buying cars, first of all start building connection in as many places as possible, It's very very very very very important ESPECIALLY in this kind of country.
And again, weather you're rich or not, as long as you're in Nigeria, avoid anything that'll make you have problems with someone who's richer and more connected than you are, even if you're right and the person is wrong, just avoid it at all cost.
Better to end it (funding and war) now... Then move into advanced discussions with Russia so as to begin the rebuilding of what is left of Ukraine. This would be needed to allign with Russia, China, etc, to deal with the war criminals and brutal rapists of Israeli women in Hamas including the global Islamist terror threats which Russia, China, and major countries of the world have also horrendously experienced.
EDUECO: Why not charge ₦60,000( ₦60,000 × 130 passengers will give ₦7,800,000)?
₦250,000 ×6 passengers just gave the airline ₦1,500,000
The manager of this airline is clueless just like a typical Nigerian politician!
Better not to fly a large aircraft with near-empty seats for the long-term. The projection above looks simplistic and is not realistic for profitability in the long-term (in the sense that the aviation industry worldwide is U.S. dollar-denominated with employees' salaries, aviation fuel and C-Checks taking large shares of operating cost)... Even traders in the informal sector understand that principle of profit and loss.
But for that particular flight to Asaba alone, with the associated overhead costs, theoretically it would have made sense to charge that amount with 130 passengers.
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