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141  Economy / Economics / Re: censorship in Brazil: Twitter ban and free Starlink service as bank accounts fro on: August 31, 2024, 11:31:37 AM
Twitter was banned in Brazil yesterday,  and starlink bank accounts frozen, as Supreme Court minister tried to block right wing profiles and musk refused.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/lula-says-musk-must-respect-brazils-top-court-x-braces-shutdown-2024-08-30/

Strange as it may sound, brazil now joins a group of selected dictatorships where X is banned: China, Rússia, Venezuela, north Korea..

Musk made memes of such supreme minister:





And starlink is now free for every brazilian citizen for now, while their bank accounts are frozen

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/musk-diz-que-servico-do-starlink-sera-gratuito-em-meio-a-imbroglio-no-brasil/
Elon musk should try and do more to De-escalate the issue of Starlink in Brazil instead of making memes on his X handle. Issues like this will cause job losses for locals in Brazil, so the least he could do is to show a high level of professionalism as a chief executive officer of both X and Starlink, because I heard the Brazilian government has even gone as far as to place a fine on any Brazilian that uses VPN to bypass their local network to log into X because of this matter on ground, the Brazilian supreme court has shown seriousness, so should Elon musk also do.
142  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 31, 2024, 11:13:59 AM
The way people talk down on Jackson is just out of this world, the season is just getting started, I just believe he should be given more time, I hear Chelsea are vigorously looking for other frontliners before the end of the transfer window to help improve on what they have on ground, I believe with the combination of the new players that might come in things will certainly change. However I am hearing the likes of Jadon Sancho, victor osimhen and the rest of them might likely be joining The blues, because its obvious Raheem Sterling is off the hook with Enzo for now, so if those deals come out successful, there certainly will be enough players to rotate, but before then let's cut Nicolas Jackson so slack as the season is just getting started.
Here I agree about few things as we are having just start of the new season and things are looking pretty decent for the Chelsea with Maresca is doing good job in early games even we have few troubles for them but their strategy and depth is looking better, and we can expect them to have good end of their season Jackson is one of the important part of this squad, and we will be having good performance from him in coming matches because he is surely going to be at the top for the Chelsea.

Now we are having end of the Transfer window with all updates will be settled in few hours, and then we will have how teams are going to be had their squads most chances if we have Osimhen into Chelsea this could be more interesting even we are having reports Jadon Sancho is also coming so it's going to be one of the best squad which need to be had best results in coming matches just we have to check how coach will handle this.

Thank you for seeing things a little bit from my angle. The truth is that the season is just getting started and expectations are high and I know most of these disappointing statement on Jackson is because they haven't seen what they are expecting almost as immediately from the few games played so far, which is always the case from fans but however Jadon Sancho has already agreed on a deal to move to Chelsea, at least Fabrizio Romano posted something of that nature on his X handle affirming that move, victor osimhen on the other hand is not likely to come to Chelsea because agreement hasn't been reached, most person's are saying he is been offered a pay cut in Chelsea below what he is currently receiving in Napoli, which for me is a bad deal, so I'm not sure if Osimhen's coming will see the light of the day based on the agreement on ground.
143  Other / Off-topic / Re: The real sentiment of gambling. on: August 31, 2024, 10:53:55 AM
I couldn't agree more with those gamblers saying that they gamble just for fun because the truth is that people gamble in the hope of multiplying their money. But from what we have witnessed and seeing the sentiment of the majority, we definitely see that they feel disappointed when losing. Which is not really the behavior of gamblers who just think about entertaining themselves. A real gambler never seeks winning but pleasure and fun.

Hearing the news that some people committed suicide and crimes can also prove that my statement is right. Maybe I'm wrong, but what I've seen is enough to say that gamblers are here for money, not for fun.

I also wanted to hear opinions from others.
I disagree with you OP, a real gambler gambles with the mentality of anything can happen as his bet can be 50/50. Gambling goes beyond entertainment, gambling is a serious business where people involve their hard end money to take profit and not just for fun. Of course there are a lot of gamblers that see gambling as fun where they can put in money without expecting much in return, but that percentage cannot be compared to the greater percentage of gamblers that see it as a business where they want to take a homongous amount of profit.

People can commit suicide for any reason at all, people can commit suicide after a heartbreak, people can commit suicide because of job loss and a whole lot, so it's not just about gambling that make people commit suicide, however it is always advised that as a gambler you maintain a healthy gambling lifestyle so you don't have all of this negativity thought come into you.
144  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Hard to win against house edge in Aviator/Crash games on: August 30, 2024, 08:16:53 PM
A few weeks ago I told my brothers about Crash/Aviator games and after knowing about those games they decided to try those games and try to see if they get lucky or not. They played those crash/aviator games for a week and tried various strategies to see if they can win some money by betting on those games.

I told them that it's quite hard to win against the house edge especially in games like aviator/crash but one of my brother said that he's found the secret of those games and he'll show me that how he'll win against the house edge of the casinos. He made some profits in first day and laughed at me by saying "look I've made some profit from the crash game," I told him don't get deluded by that profit and withdraw your initial deposit plus the won amount, but he said he's going to win more and get rich by playing the game for many days.

He made some more profits with that money and was pretty excited that he'll make even more overtime, but suddenly he started losing money in the crash game but didn't said anything about the losses to me, over next few days he emptied his account and said that this time I was in hurry next time I'll win for sure.

After some days he deposited more money in belief that he'll recover his losses and make profit from the Crash game. I told him once again to be careful not to place high value bets but he didn't listen to me and used his own mind during bet placement and in a day he emptied his account once again. I told him to stop playing the game because you won't make any profit from it but you'll get addicted to it.

What do you guys think? Is it possible to win against the house edge of those crash/aviator games when your luck is exceptionally good or it's almost impossible to win against the house edge?
There are exceptionally days you can win significant money in aviator game, but the risk is way too high as you don't control the movement of the game and it can cut you short anything. The volatility in crash/ aviator games is high, that's why i only advised for people to just try their luck with any amount they can do away with and not put too much hope on it. OP your friend would have just walked away with the money he won, but that's the place greed had to take the a better part of him.
145  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Tribulations Nigerians are going through from the removal of subsidy on: August 30, 2024, 07:27:02 PM
Ever since subsidy was removed from Nigeria  cost of goods has been going up on a daily basis, and the government are saying or doing nothing about it, country that has crude oil and other mineral resources will be going through serious inflation,as big as Nigeria not one single refinery is working,if refinery's are working actively in the country there are every possibility that cost of goods will drop down,God blessed Nigeria with almost every thing except one thing which is leadership which is the most primary thing in a countries, if the government of Nigeria can be able to bring back subsidy investors will starts investing in Nigeria, take a very good look at agents that owns bet shops, two years ago they were running their shops weekly with sum of#45000 or #50000,but as we speak to run a small bet shop today in Nigeria,every week will cost you not less than #195000 .And at the end of the day your devidenc will be smaller than your expenses which is not suppose so , Nigeria government should look this subsidy issues and do something about it before it gets out of hands.

Is not only bet shop that have had increase on operational cost, literally all business are experiencing this hike in Nigeria at the moment, what most business are doing now is to adjust to the new reality. Concerning fuel subsidy the Government is overwhelmed, it's looking like they don't have solution to issues affecting fuel subsidy, because in their confused state, they've decided to give out the Kaduna and warri refinery to private organization to run it, that tells you they are not having the capacity run it hence the privatization. However the major issues affecting business is the issue of energy, once there is enough supply of electricity, businesses can easily run on low operational cost.
146  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 30, 2024, 04:19:36 PM
I might be wrong on your side but if Enzo sees these guys as second option why has he not yet tried using them to replace Jackson in any game when he knows the Jackson isn't doing well? Let's face the fact here, Chelsea only have Jackson as the number 1 striker and in the game against Wolves Jackson played more than the Nkunku and the other guy you mentioned Guiu is not even suppose to be mentioned in the first place, unless you see Jackson getting an injury which I don't see happening that's when you see the Guiu playing ahead of Jackson and as for Nkunku he can play him any where.
LOL then what's the point of buying a lot of players with a bunch of strikers if in the end Enzo Maresca will rotate Jackson with other players. It's still early and Jackson can't rest easy just because Enzo still gives him a place in the main squad. Remember there are many tasks that Enzo has to complete and he is required to continue working to rotate his strikers one by one. Like it or not there will be a lot of rotation in this club. Well for now Jackson is comfortable but without a partner like Cole Palmer there won't be many opportunities that he can take advantage of.

Nicolas Jackson has only collected 1 goal, so what is his advantage at the top of the top scorers? Grin
Where is he?


The way people talk down on Jackson is just out of this world, the season is just getting started, I just believe he should be given more time, I hear Chelsea are vigorously looking for other frontliners before the end of the transfer window to help improve on what they have on ground, I believe with the combination of the new players that might come in things will certainly change. However I am hearing the likes of Jadon Sancho, victor osimhen and the rest of them might likely be joining The blues, because its obvious Raheem Sterling is off the hook with Enzo for now, so if those deals come out successful, there certainly will be enough players to rotate, but before then let's cut Nicolas Jackson so slack as the season is just getting started.
147  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Brazil Supreme Court vs Elon Musk on: August 30, 2024, 03:06:29 PM
If Brazil's supreme court is only having a problem with Starlink's finances and transactions then that's where they should stick only. But if they're going to go with X as well then there's no due process that's happening there. We may not know the roots of this but if Elon is just making fun of it, who are we to get concerned if he's the CEO of X and Starlink and is just making fun of the order of their Supreme court of Brazil?

AFAIK, most countries where their platform or product Starlink is being operational, they have an agreement with it and so they comply to whichever rules are being set on them. And if this is the kind of thing that they got rapt up with their operations, it's either not just all about their product but more of politics. We don't know, I have no idea but they'd probably deal with this while making fun on the web.
I sincerely agree with you, the case brought to table of the judge in Brazil is talking about starlink financial transactions, why are they involving X, was X mentioned in the court proceedings during the trial process, I thought in litigations that is being brought to the court, it is always said that the court will not give you what you did not ask for, why are they threatening to suspend X in Brazil when the case in hand involves Starlink, it is that they are just trying to get at Elon musk by all means by involving X.

On the other hand, Elon musk should try and resolve the issues around the Starlink financial transaction amicably, this is a countries supreme court we are talking about here, twitting about it and making it look like is Less important will not resolve it.
148  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2025 Qualifiers - CAF. on: August 29, 2024, 08:08:48 PM

Introduction: Don't you just hate it when the international break comes and as an African, you feel left out because there isn't a discussion thread for we Africans to discuss international Sport/football tournaments like our counterparts. Well that feeling should be a thing of the past as this thread will serve as a dedicated hangout joint for discussion by all forum users (both Africans and foreigners) interested in Africans in sport.
The portfolio of the current supper eagles coach is also a factor to be concerned about with news that he lacks the basic experience of heading a national team most expecially at this time when both the AFCON and the world cup qualifyer is all at stake. This journey is going to be fully fun and exciting. After following up fully on the euros and enjoying everything that comes with the journey, it's going to be an interesting one to see what happens at this year's addition of the AFCON at Morocco.
A concern every Supers Eagles  fans mutually share and to me it's worrisome that of all managers it was Bruno Labbadia that the NFF could consider picking for the job at this critical stage that Nigeria's qualification is shaking on a tread line. Does it mean the NFF don't prioritize experience as a  part of their criteria?  If the NFF were to consider taking the risk of  a coach with no national team coaching experience one would have thought it better that they had fallen back to an indigenous coach at least. We can't afford to not qualify to the AFCON and the WC again! I hope Mr Bruno Labbadia prove us wrong cause that's what a lot of us would really like to witness in the coming days.
Some persons are already pointing fingers to the NFF on being deliberate about bringing coaches they can easily manipulate for kickback's, we have the likes of Emmanuel amunike, Augustine Eguavoen, Samson siasia and the rest of the local breed coaches that have gotten experience locally and internationally to steer the wheels for the Eagles, but yet the NFF are finding it difficult to invite them for this crucial period in the super Eagles, because we are almost at the verge of not qualifying for the world cup. Let's just hope for the best with this new coach, but it will not be far fetched from what we've had before.
149  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025 on: August 29, 2024, 12:25:51 PM

Google/epl


In addition, both Man City, Liverpool, and Arsenal are still continuing their best results with wins. The competition is getting tight, they must get more goals if they win continuously.

Everybody jubilating for Chelsea, but how consistent can they go? Good job today in between. But how many goals can Noni Madueke contribute? Or will he fold after his first hat trick for the club. Todd Boehly must be happy but we will see how well his defense can cope. Attackers seems to be nuclear weapons.

Liverpool has just won their first two game under a new manager for the first time in a long time.  Next up will be against Manchester United. We will definitely see what happens against the two rivals. I can boast about City and Gunners, they can go five to six game unbeaten this way. Shout-out to David Raya, brilliant goalkeeping from his yesterday.




Before Manchester United fans begin lamenting and crying like emotional babies, I would want them to know that Manchester United has improved, they're not just looking close enough but allowing emotions judge Erik Ten Hag. He is no magician, the players are to execute not him. I think the call out for him to be sacked is not just a dump call but also a stupid one. With the right selections up next, I'm certain a point will be squeezed outta Liverpool or win. Give him time. Image displays expected goals from clubs, it's just that Manchester United started without a number 9
For me, I would say it's a gradual process, for now Chelsea should learn to go one step after the other, one match at a time and see how they can progress, I think the away win against Wolverhampton is a step in the right direction for them as a team because they did not allow themselves to be drenched in that loss against Manchester city on the first day but rather got back to winning ways as soon as they could by trashing wolves 6 goals to 2, it's good for the team and the manager if they can continue to get these kind of win until they meet the top four teams that may pose a threat to them, but until then, I think they are in good shape for now.
150  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25 on: August 29, 2024, 12:09:16 PM
Dani Olmo's arrival is pretty good, Barca has strengthened the team. Olmo is a player who will be worth the big money paid. When he came to La Liga after the Bundesliga, it's admirable that he adapted instantly.

Olmo's outstanding debut shut up “We don’t need him” folks. A lot of positive stuff came to Barca after he subbed in the second half. It feels like he brings back the energy he gave on Spain's national team. He can link up better with Pedri and Yamal. Even in his first game, he seems to understand his role really well and play seamlessly.

I feel so sorry for F. Torres, and it seems he is going to be untouchable on the bench.

Dani Olmo was outstanding and helped Barcelona get a win over Rayo Vallecano. They have been consistent in winning their first 3 La Liga matches. I hope this can continue to be consistent with their performance. At first I doubted they would be able to compete with Real Madrid because Barcelona really has a bad financial condition. They can hardly even bring in a single player because of their huge debt. But finally they were able to get Olmo. I think I am optimistic that Barcelona will be a title contender with Real Madrid. Barcelona's impressive performance will make El Classico interesting to watch again.
Barcelona isn't as bad a the media are portraying them to be, they may be going through some financial stress at the moment which may have denied them access to participating in the transfer market but somehow the situation has turned out to be a positive situation for the club as a whole because they have gone back to paying more attention to la masia (the club's academy) where most of the greatest players were made to source for young talents in the like of lamine yamal, pedri, cubarsi, balde, etc, and now they do not have to spend ridiculous amount of money on players who can't even defend their wages on the pitch, more also this is also good for the la liga because it goes a long way to giving more value and prestige to the world's fiercest club derby ( the el classico).
151  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is it okay if we talk about the ongoing Paralympics? on: August 29, 2024, 10:31:39 AM
Are bet for Paralympics available on bookies?

I watched some matches in Olympics but I did not bet on any one or any team. Even I did not bet on their football because it is very unpredictable.

I prefer to bet on football club matches instead.
Even if they are available, I will hardly come up with odds on games to bet on, first because they are not our regular athlete's we can easily predict their performance on the games they are involved in,  except for the paralympics I hardly see any other games that involves people with disabilities perform so well. I will rather just sit and enjoy the games and the beauty of watching the incredibly things they do.
If for any reasons I will make any bet, is at the middle of the events when I've seen the strength and abilities of athletes on what they can do, then I can easily make predictions, that's if there are available bookies.
152  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025 on: August 28, 2024, 04:21:00 PM
We have the same thought. Since Arsenal failure in the previous 2 seasons I have always said that Arsenal failure to win the EPL title was due to Arteta failure to maintain team consistency. This is indeed the biggest problem but Arteta still repeated this problem last season which should have been better because Man City last season had a tighter schedule to chase the UCL title. I had thought that maybe one way Arteta could deliver the EPL title was just by not focusing too much on chasing the UCL. And focus on rotating players in every match to maintain the players' physical and mentality so that they can maintain their performance so as not to lose points in every match.
I also think that City did not have the best season last year and this is what gave Arsenal the opportunity to follow City until the very last round. And although in the last season it seemed that Arsenal became a more stable team, I am not in a hurry to say that Arteta will completely get rid of this problem, and therefore I do not think that Arsenal can become the main competitor for City this season, at least until the first decline.
Arsenal are not just a major contender in EPL but arsenal are the only teams so far in the premier League to have given Manchester City such a fierce competition for two consecutive seasons, and I think they can do better if only they can stay focus and take their chances. I expect Mikel Arteta to work more on his players mental ability than their physical abilities because if you check what led to the loss of their chances of winning the title for the past two season, you will realize that they started loosing important matches to team they had earlier beaten in the first round as a result of psychological issues which could have been better taken care of by proffessionals but was neglected by the management and the team had to pay for this by loosing the title thereafter.
153  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season on: August 28, 2024, 03:56:58 PM
What a disappointing game from Galatasaray yesterday night. What disapnpointed me more were the stats of the game as while I was expecting Galatasaray to be attacking a lot the complete opposite of that happened, Young Boys were dominating the game and they had even more chances to score goals in the early stage of the game. I guess many people have lost a lot of money through their bets yesterday in Champions League and to make an example here, I am showinglay a bet that I found many other games and lost only because of Galatasaray so I can illustrate what I say with this bet id in here :

https://stake.com/sports/home?type=sports&status=settled&iid=sport%3A219740956&modal=bet
I couldn't even figure out what went wrong with the Turkish giants last night, could it be loss of concentration, fatigue or a wrong technical approach from the Galatasaray coach, it's so hard to believe that they would have lost in front of their home fans, though it was very embarrassing for Galatasaray because they didnt even had the match under control rather it was young boys fc that dominated the home side which was what I think was so fascinating about this match and at the same time it seems like Galatasaray may not be playing in champions League after all.
154  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: August 28, 2024, 03:35:43 PM
AS Roma in the last 2 matches did not achieve good results, what's wrong with them? De Rossi who was initially expected to be able to provide a miracle for the Roma club this season but unfortunately De Rossi gave unsatisfactory results in this opening match even though De Rossi was spoiled by the management to recruit the squad he wanted including Artem Dovbyk the most expensive player he bought this season from Girona but I see him like he lost his rhythm of play he who was on the list of top scorers last season in La Liga he has not scored a goal at all in the matches he played with Roma he must find his rhythm again with the characteristics of the coach so that the club can be productive again if it continues like this how can they occupy the Champions League zone in the standings list ??
De Rossi has a very big job to do here, I believe the fans and the president of the club has his trust and are looking forward to seeing him getting the boys back to winning ways just the same way he did when they were struggling last season before he took over. Roma haven't recorded any win yet from their two league matches yet which absolutely is unexpected from a team like Roma whom are suppose to be at their best at this moment after recovering from last season's struggles.

155  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 27, 2024, 10:41:52 PM

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1828403224686072193?t=mwCeIXRnYOeAW2QA-wpQGA&s=19
At last a 30m deal until 2027.
The Romelo Lukaku deal to Napoli is almost sealed if not already by now. It appears that as the days get closer to the end of the transfer window we'll be seeing much deals sealed that were earlier lingering in controversy and uncertainty. This deal  by Napoli entails some assurance on the pet of Chelsea fans that Victor Osimhen is definitely leaving Napoli for the Blues as they are currently the only club. showing a serious interest on the striker.

Many questions to ponder now as: can Lukaku give Napoli the level of performance and achievements Victor Osimhen gave? Or is Conte just so in love with the Belgium striker over Osimhen that he had to prefer having Lukaku over Osimhen despite his records with Napoli?
Antonio conte has been emphasizing that he needs Romelo Lukaku in Napoli at least to help him strengthen his Frontliner force, however there are indications before now that Conte doesn't really have much preference on victor osimhen even though he recently renewed his contract with Napoli. As we speak, Al Ahli are pushing for a €65 release clause on osimhen with a mouth watering weekly wages, while we've heard rumors of Chelsea giving him a contract that will see him get some cut on his weekly wages compared to what Napoli is currently paying him, so I see the Chelsea move as still a very sketchy one, as it might likely not have a headway, but let's just be positive minded as anything can happen between now till the transfer window closes.
156  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Strongly Are Women Involved in Crypto? on: August 27, 2024, 10:18:36 PM
You know how sometime you're just browsing online, looking for the next big thin in crypto right and you are all there caught up, sometimes by what is happening or how someone just happen to legit make a huge sum from either gambling or trading or some sort of jackpot. 

Something silent we might not be noticing is that as I was painting this picture, we could hve the idea of a man coming to our minds and which shows that we sometime how in our subconscious have tied crypto and blockchain to men. Hear of blockchain dev and you think of a man. But we do have women out there and this is what I have just noticed, and I believe that they are there and doing well, we have some of them in this forum and if they can be participating in events such as Blockchain4Her which has $10million to aid diversity and involvement of women in blockchain and they can meet female influential leaders like Gracy Chen, Yevheniia Broshevan, and others which will help bring up their faces and voices, such that there will be a career that is lead by women in this space.

Now this make takes me to shouting out to everyone out there who is making the difference in this space and I will like to ask who is your favourite female leader in the crypto space that is your role model?
I think is not only in crypto that we don't see much women pick interest as men, in the social structure of the human race, men are the ones that are always at the leading role in most activities, they take the highest risk by involving their finance on things ordinarily on a good day you wouldn't want to invest your money in but yet they still go on to take those risk, while women are mostly modest on whatever they are involved with, which makes them find it difficult to take some certain risk even when the indicators are showing that the risk is worth taken.

So of course we have women that are in the crypto space that are doing extremely well with their investment and their trading pattern, but the percentage cannot be compared to the male counterparts.
157  Economy / Economics / Re: My view of economy on: August 27, 2024, 04:09:04 PM
I see that the way that There should be workers and not workers.
So If you are worker you mostly work and those who don't work will enjoy the life If everybody start doing this then nobody don't do it proper ways.
Those who have skills they should be working and not getting so high salary because that's the way for them financial freedom but we need skilled people to work yes they can rest and go holidays but mindset of skilled people that they try to stop working that's not accepted by me.
I don't have any skills only high ambituous and good vision how i should live life.
Me i just invest trade and enjoy life becouse Im not interested of much skills and it's difficult for me to learn any skills Im not talented... Only thing i need to know how the river of money flows so i can go with the flow.

Even those person you think have skills, if they had sat back to say they are not talented so they are not going to learn skill, they would have been defeated by now. Even though you don't have talent you can learn one high paying skill, first you have to develop the interest and follow your passion. So if you invest in trade, it then means you have passion for trade, so why not expand on it and make sure you see it as the talent your passionate about, instead of just staying and saying you don't have talent when you know you have something to work on.
158  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Bank shares are no more a great choice today. on: August 27, 2024, 03:30:23 PM
As I write this now some of the Nigerian banks like zenith and FCMB banks are currently selling their shares and are calling on the interested public to come and invest . For FCMB I think they are selling from as low as #74 per share which I am certain a good number of us would have seen.

Just yesterday, I was watching a podcast on Istablog9ja where the guest explained how he used  #200million to buy some shares and after many years of holding, he couldn't sell the shares for up to #30million  because the bank explained they made losses all the years which means there was no profit to appreciate the shares value.  (Have you wondered on this: that everytime the banks go down the MD's and Founders go up/fat. How come?) A statement the guest speaker made in the middle

I just had to share this information, to inform us here that it's better to continue accumulating your bitcoin portfolio in a non-custodial wallet than conceiving the idea of diversifying a part of that funds into buying bank shares. If you must diversify outside bitcoin or cryptocurrency then chose real estate investment or gold. Bank shares should never be in your list in this epoch where a lot of banks are folding. Don't fall for their sugarcoated offers of ROI.
I think it pastor Matthew ashimolowo that was recently saying in an interview about how he lost hundreds of millions of naira after investing in Bank shares and that he regrets doing that. Most of the banks in Nigeria are only good for commercial activities like cash deposit and withdrawals, most of the profit they declare at the end of every year draws back to the revenue they get from deposit and withdrawals majorly from customers and and not basically investment they've divertified into and also not the profit from their shares. So I agree with you OP about investing in Bitcoin and Real estate instead of Banks shares, the toxicity in the Nigerian banking system is to overwhelming for you to waste your time investing in something you are not sure of how positive the results will be.
159  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25 on: August 26, 2024, 03:13:28 PM
Almost everyone is talking about how Mbappe, Vinicius and Rodygo could be figures who would be very scary in the front line. However, not many people pay attention to Endrick, even in several conversations on social media I read them saying that Endrick would have difficulty competing in the Real Madrid main squad. I can understand that because he is still very young, so that might be a consideration for some people.

Vini, Rodrygo, and Mbaape have proven themselves in the European top league. Endrick is a rising star, so I think it's natural everyone is still in doubt. So this season is a time to prove for Endrick at Real Madrid. This 1 goal is quite good for his mentality. He's in a very competitive team, if he can't compete, I think he will be loaned out. If you remember the stars of Japan? He's Kubo he's a good player, but he's not able to compete under pressure so he's sold. Not only Endrick, I think Guler will also have the same pressure, he has to be able to prove to Ancelotti that he is good to keep.
Well it's not about these youngsters and their prospects, rather it's about real Madrid and their long standing tradition of star players just like the clubs nickname (galacticos) they always aim for the stars, they really don't have time for young prospects, before coming to real Madrid you ought to have proven yourself else where, unlike Barcelona they really rely on their academy or youth system for talents, in 2010 FIFA world cup Barcelona had more than five players on the Spanish national team starting line up who all came through their academy, puyol,pique,xavi,iniesta,busquet,pedro,but the same can never be said about real Madrid because they don't have the perseverance for upcoming talents like Guler or Endricks and may end up sending them out on loan spell or sell them permanently to other clubs.
160  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: August 26, 2024, 02:53:46 PM
Milan and Roma are part of the top teams that started the season very badly, defeated by weak teams like Parma and Empoli. This kind of defeat may be understandable because sometimes changing players and changing coaches takes longer to adapt to build stronger performance. In this case, Milan actually has a little problem with the new coach who may also be setting the best strategy to be able to create solid cooperation. And Roma only has a few changes to some players who have just been replaced. We have to give the 2 teams another chance at least 5 more matches and if the results are bad, it is likely that Milan and Roma will not be able to compete in the top 3 positions.
AC Milan is starting this season with a new coach. Some changes have even occurred in their squad. So it will take time for this team to return to its maximum performance again. And we really have to see more matches that Milan will face before judging them as a whole. Paulo Fonseca seems to have to first build better communication with the players. Because there are rumors circulating that AC Milan players are sometimes confused by the coach's instructions. But only getting 1 point from the two weeks played is quite bad for a club as big as AC Milan. And next week an even more difficult match awaits AC Milan. Because they will face Lazio.
The presence of a new coach and the changes he makes by altering some players in the starting line up shouldn't be used as a yard stick to justify the poor performance of the team or the coach because all these measures were taken to ensure a better performance for the team, it is not rocket science, besides Milan are not the only club with a new Manager in the serie A, Napoli are also facing the same situation. Sometimes it takes a little while and a great deal of patience before things start going in the right direction, as a matter of fact, pep Guardiola suffered the same fate when he took over as coach at Barcelona and later went on to win a trebble with the team.
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