In terms of prediction, I don't think anybody can accurately predict what the Naira's value will be in the next 3 days, 5 days, a week, or a month to come. However, what we can say is that if the Nigerian government does not address the current situations causing the Naira to devalue by the day, international markets will continue to witness further devaluation of the Naira. That much is certain and can be predicted.

As for the economic policies that the government needs to put in place, I can say that there are numerous options. The government can focus on key areas that can drastically strengthen the Naira in the international space and forex market.

For decades, Nigeria has been reliant on oil production, with most of our exports being oil-based. Unfortunately, there have been no other long-term sustainable strategies or policies realistically put in place to diversify our economy. To be sincere, there is no way Nigeria can weather this storm if we continue to rely solely on oil. The volatility of the oil market will always dictate the ups and downs of the Naira currency. Relying solely on oil exports means that any downturn in the oil market or decrease in demand will significantly impact Nigeria's export rates. Depending on a single source for our economy will no longer suffice for a burgeoning economy like Nigeria's.

To address this, we need to diversify our exports and move beyond oil. Agriculture, for example, is an area where Nigeria is abundantly rich. We can explore and invest in sectors such as agriculture and mineral resources like diamonds, gold, iron ore, and other resources found in our soil. Niger State, for instance, has vast fertile land for agricultural activities and the production of various food crops such as rice, beans, shea, yam, groundnuts, and sesame seeds. The state also has ample land that the government can utilize for leather and other manufacturing processes. However, much of these opportunities remain untapped.


Former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo once said that Niger has the capacity to produce assorted food crops that could feed the African continent. This shows that our leaders are aware of the potential, but as citizens, we fail to see why these opportunities are not being fully utilized. We should be exporting locally made products instead of making it difficult for Nigerians to access them. If we continue to import basic items like toothpicks and food, Nigeria cannot progress, and the Naira will continue to devalue.

It's crucial for our leaders to address the issue of expanding and diversifying our exports, investing in infrastructure, and providing support to export-oriented Lastly, reforms in fiscal and monetary policies, structural reforms, and effective management of foreign and domestic debt levels are essential aspects that need attention to strengthen our currency in the Forex market

I am more impressed with the performance of Girona in La Liga and that of Manchester United and Manchester City in the Premier League. What impresses me is the fact that both teams are managed by different managers but are performing extremely well. However, you can draw parallels between these teams because they share the same president who owns them. I believe the president is someone who knows how to conduct serious business because he understands the right players to use and the managers to appoint to achieve effectiveness and efficiency. The president's action plan has given birth to Guardiola at Manchester City and Michel at Girona. Both managers are astute and were brought in by a visionary president, which is why they have been performing exceptionally well. They are striving to win their respective leagues, although the outcome is yet to be determined.


For Girona, I believe Real Madrid is their greatest nightmare. Their current focus is on how they can break the power that Real Madrid holds over them. I think they have been able to do the same against Barcelona. However, at the moment, Real Madrid is outperforming Barcelona. They have also acquired a good manager in Salute, who has been placing all the players in the right positions and providing them with the courage and tactics to win more matches for Real Madrid. I can't help but imagine how formidable Real Madrid would be if they had players like Kylian Mbappé and Jude Bellingham to bolster their squad. It would be a daunting challenge for any club that faces them, including Girona.

This is one of the best responses and opinions I have read regarding recovering from gambling addiction. Reaching out to a healthcare provider is the best course of action. However, it's important to consider the level of addiction because every situation is unique. Therefore, my first advice would be to assess the level of addiction.

Secondly, seeking guidance and counseling from an expert is crucial. They can gently guide the individual through counseling sessions on how to stop gambling. Additionally, providing them with necessary tools and resources to resist gambling urges, such as distractions, can be helpful. Removing triggers, such as access to money and smartphones, and blocking gambling sites, may also aid in recovery.

Taking these steps should help mitigate the situation and potentially lead to overcoming the addiction. However, if the problem persists, seeking assistance from a professional psychiatric doctor for medication may be necessary. The ultimate goal should be to help the individual break free from gambling addiction, regardless of the outcome of each gambling session.

The fastest way to help your friend, the gambler, addicted to gambling is to remove them from any opportunity to gamble. This may involve restricting access to finances and smartphones, as well as blocking access to gambling sites, to prevent further gambling behavior.

Mbappe's goal in that match was significant in helping PSG win the game, but it came with another piece of sad news: Mbappé reaffirmed that he would be leaving the club at the end of the season, and the likely destination would be Real Madrid due to the interest shown by manager Ancelotti in Kylian Mbappé.

Mbappé is a goal machine and a finisher whom every club would like to have in their starting lineup. In moments where there is a scarcity of goals, Mbappé can create opportunities for the team, boosting morale and motivating other players to strive for more goals and tighten their efforts to score.

Players like Mbappé are instrumental in tough matches because they can turn what seems to be difficult in terms of scoring goals into achievable feats. Given the opportunity, Mbappé can simplify the task of scoring goals, making him a desirable asset for ambitious clubs like Real Madrid.

Self-control, in my understanding, pertains to managing the extent to which you engage in gambling. It's essential to recognize that excessive gambling can have detrimental effects, both financially and psychologically. Therefore, it's crucial to exercise restraint and moderation in gambling activities.

One aspect of self-control is regulating the frequency and intensity of gambling. Continuously gambling or persisting in gambling when it's not yielding positive results can lead to significant losses. It's essential to have the discipline to limit the time and resources allocated to gambling.

Self-control involves making prudent decisions about the type of gambling games to participate in. Not all games offer the same odds or level of risk. It's important to choose games wisely and avoid reckless gambling practices.

For example, it's unwise of you to gamble with your last penny or essential funds. Gambling with money that is needed for necessities or obligations can lead to financial distress if losses occur. Also, using borrowed money for gambling is highly discouraged by me, as it can result in debt and financial instability.

I appreciate your reply on investing the profits from gambling into more sustainable businesses rather than solely relying on gambling as a source of income, you can explore opportunities to invest your earnings in tangible and lucrative businesses. This approach can help reduce the risks associated with gambling and provide long-term financial stability.

While gambling may offer occasional wins, it's not a reliable or sustainable means of making a living. By exercising self-control and channeling profits into prudent investments or businesses, you can safeguard your financial well-being and achieve more stable returns over time.

I think education is one of the indicators of advancement and development in a country. It is a key factor that you can use to determine the level of development in our society. What that means is if education is bad, substandard, or not up to par, it is as a result of bad leadership, which also leads to the lack of development in the society.

One key thing to consider is that only a literate society can think about development across all boards, especially to stand the test of time. This has been proven across all historical developmental studies in the past, which show that communities that were more educationally sound brought about more development and civilization. That is why you find countries like the European countries being more powerful than the African countries; it was because education was more prioritized in that part of the world than it was in the African continent. So, those are indices of development that you can use to measure it


Now, for the case of Nigeria, you cannot be so excited about the start-to-score because development is tied to our level of education. So far, our educational system is poor as you compare it to international standards. We are not really performing as a country, especially considering Nigeria as the giant of Africa. It should be showcased. That is why you find situations where students are flying out of the country to countries like Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, amongst other African countries, rather than staying in Nigeria, because they have lost the confidence that should be reposed in education. And because the government is not taking the leadership role to moderate, coordinate, and ensure that people have a sense of belonging and justice in the education system, it has now worsened.


Let me wrap this up with an example, which is the number of Nigerian students that were found to be enrolled in quack universities in Benin Republic. Now, by level of resources and history, Nigerian students are not expected to choose Benin Republic as a new option over studying at home in Nigeria but because the education system has deteriorated, and the government is not taking charge. This is due to the lack of infrastructural development, equipment, and manpower.

You find situations where there are not enough lecturers and resource people to teach, and there are also no world-class materials available for lecturers to use to educate their students at schools. This has made many parents take the decision to send their children out of the country to get a better education. And this scenario is reflected in the report that the journalist gave about how studying engineering in public schools is available and so on. So, we need to learn from that aspect and understand that education is sine qua non to development

I can't agree with you less. I think today the world is all about creative thinking. It's all about thinking without a box, not even outside the box any longer, because there is literally no box out there for you to think on. Today, the world is driven by ideas, striving by creativity and innovation. It's all about what you can think out of what is already in existence and fashion it in a way that is going to be beneficial to the people using technology.

The world experienced the era of the Industrial Revolution, which marked the transition between the predominantly agrarian era and the handicrafts period to the period where people began to use manufactured machines to make their work easier during the 18th century.

An example was during the farming period when all people knew how to do was to farm with their hands, with hoes and cutlasses. But then there was a time when all those things transitioned to tractors and tillage machines that came in as farming implements or equipment, which are still used today. Other inventions included the spinning jenny by James Hargreaves in 1764 and the steam engine by James Watt in 1776. Ever since, these machines have been redesigned to function more effectively and efficiently.


Around 2008 - 2009, there was a major development that the world faced in the economy industry, which was a facelift from the usual hard currencies that we were using, which you can also call fiat, to the newly invented digital currency, which was Bitcoin, invented by Satoshi Nakamoto.

 He is another inventor and a creative thinker that history must recount with because he has brought about an alternative to the centralized currency that the world is suffering today. Thereby having a situation where one currency would be dominant in the international offering market, also known as the forex market, popularizing the use of the currency above other currencies and creating scarcity around it, which makes it difficult for other developing currencies. An example of that is the internationalization of the dollar currency.

This is just one example of many other examples why the centralized currency is a problem. Another thing is the government can decide to make it difficult for enormous citizens to use the currency against their own wish, of which I think at this point it is necessary for us to classify money as an essential commodity which each and every person should own. It should have some level of independence around the use of currencies. However, that is not the case in the centralized market.

I think the advent of decentralized technology was timely. It came at a time when people needed to have some level of ownership and independence in the inflow and outflow of currencies, and therefore Bitcoin was a salvation to the situation of the fiat.

First and foremost, I will agree on the fact that in every good eggs, there is the bad egg amongst them. So, i can easily distinguish that there are good social media influencers who have done well to impact on the life of people online rather than destroy it for their own personal gains. These kinds of influencers, as I've gone to identify, need to do a good check on any content that they create, so they do not just accept advertisements for companies without doing their own due diligence as far as verifying the legitimacy of those companies is concerned.

Whereas there's this set of influencers who do not care whether the products that they are representing or the brand is reliable, what they are after is for them to make money from advertisements that are coming into their table whether it is for the benefit of those targeted audiences or not, they do not care at all. All they are out for is to make that money. So even when there are companies like Ponzi schemes that come to take people's money and run away, still, they get to represent those kinds of companies, as long as those companies can pay their bills.

So whether you are a newbie or an enthusiast online, what is the bottom line for me is that you have to be disciplined. You have to discipline yourself in a way that you don't go into doing something or believing something until you've done your own due diligence and you've put a lot of things into consideration, not simply because you want to make money out of an advertorial or an advertisement that has been made to you. I think that is very important and keen.

This is sharp!

Oga, don't forget about me, oh. What I'm interested in is the goat. I love eating goat meat like never before. It is my career path. So, whenever you are inviting people for that program where you're going to slaughter a goat, please put me on your A-list in the category of people who will eat goat because I will make sure that I eat goat for you fantastically, to the point that you would want to have someone like me who will continue to eat goat for you even without any program.

So, I want you to invite me, and I'm definitely going to turn up to make sure that I show my solidarity and eat well. To me, that aspect is my area of specialization, and I don't play with it at all. I cannot allow anybody to take my space. So, from today, you can even appoint me as the coordinator of goat meat sharing for that august occasion.

Chelsea is still at the 10th position of the Premier League table standings, which is bad for a top club like Chelsea. I expected them to have done better, but they have not been forthcoming and do not seem to be in form this season.

I have not really been motivated by the gameplay throughout the season, and Pochettino has not been able to put these guys together to deliver more. There has been a lot of inconsistency in the team, where the games that you expect them to win, they would lose, and the games you expect them to lose, they would win.

That sort of inconsistency would make it difficult for the fans' club to be happy about the way they are playing right now. Going by the table standings, it is not encouraging at all because you don't want to become the champions of the league and end up at the 10th position of the table standings right now.

They have been able to win over Crystal Palace, but I doubt if they have the capacity to win against Manchester City in their next match. Manchester City already has 52 points and is looking for 3 more points right now to catch up with Liverpool. They will not be ready to give that up for a draw or a defeat by Chelsea, so the chances of Chelsea winning the next match are very slim, and it is quite unfortunate for them.

One can see that Real Madrid are at the top of their game right now, being able to face and beat Girona in the last fixture and getting ready to beat Leipzig in this match.

Brahim did a wonderful job there, trying to make up for the absence of Jude Bellingham with a goal already. That is a good alternative to Jude in his absence.

In this Champions League, every club has tried as much as they could at this point. However, some clubs are not as strong as others, and that is why they've been displaced so far. Leipzig is one club that I would also appreciate because I didn't expect that they would be this forward-coming at this time.

Looking at the last match they had with Real Madrid in the fixtures, they were able to win three to two against Real Madrid. But I doubt that is going to happen again tonight because Real Madrid is already leading with one goal and would like to make up with more using the likes of Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo, or Valverde.

 I can tell you that the most difficult thing that someone can ever achieve in life is success, however little that success is, because it doesn't always come with ease. It doesn't come with a platter of gold. Being successful is a long-term plan, something that you have to put intentions and actions into to facilitate whatever vision you have to become a success.

There are some quick wins for some people whom you may not necessarily call success, but then many people see them as such. But the truth of the matter is, it's not longer a success because it is just a little milestone that you had. Success, in this context, tells you about the long journey that you've passed through, across all the hurdles and roadblocks, to become who you are. And that is not achieved by every Tom, Dick, and Harry on the surface of this very serious, meticulous, and focused sector. Human beings strive to become successful in general, except in special cases.

Truth of the matter is, it is going to be a little bit difficult to have investors who do not belong to forums or groups or even small communities, you know, where they discuss about the market trends and the upturns and downturns of the trades that are going on in Bitcoin, and how the Bitcoin market is progressing.

I feel like being a lone investor in this kind of digital community is going to be a little bit difficult because there would not be a reason why you shouldn't belong to one. Since your intention is to gain good knowledge from other platforms, especially real-time information about what the market entails at that particular time, you want to be up to date with how the Bitcoin resources are moving and where and when you should put your investment or withdraw investment from. In that regard, you also want to get experience online from real experiences of other people who are also investing at a particular point in time.

It is good to mention categorically clear that being in a forum or community is not a criterion for becoming an investor. If you have the right information at the right time, you can always make the right investment plans.

Bitcointalk may not be the only platform where you would get that knowledge or the only forum where you can meet and connect with people. There are many other forums like, you mentioned, however, Bitcoin is one platform where you would get to communicate with people directly and even join trades and conversations that would help to make the right choices and take the right decisions as far as Bitcoin investment is concerned. But there are other platforms, even on social media, that you can go into to learn about Bitcoin. However, I believe Bitcointalk accommodates more real people and a diverse set of users of Bitcoin, active traders, and investors, whether they're into lump sum investment or DCA approach to investment.

In fact, I cannot imagine a world without governance, without leadership. How can we even live in this world today without having a leader who is going to lead across all spheres of what we do, whether as a state, as a community, as a family, or even as a nation at large? It would not be possible, or it would be detrimental to development and civilization to live in a world without leadership. That is one aspect. The second aspect, which is very crucial, is that a society without leaders would be a scattered society, and it would be more of a society of predatorship where there would not be peace or order in the affairs of things.

This results in an ungoverned state, which also means that there would be zero tolerance or zero discipline, zero control over affairs. The crux of the matter is that in such a state, there would not be economic activities going on because there would not be any form of administration in place. One thing that I would like you all to understand is that as a public policy analyst, there is what we call development administration. What development administration means is the development of the administration and the administration of development.

That is to say that it is the development of an administration that brings about an administration which fosters developments in society. What that also means is that a society without administration is prone to zero development or lacks developmental strides.

In science, human beings are known as the higher animals, or in other words, Homo sapiens, meaning that we are the most intelligent, the most coordinated, and the most reasoning kind of animals in this world. The only thing that distinguishes us from other animals is our levels of governance because we have the intelligence to join our hands together and build structures that lead to administrations today.

So, the baseline for me is, without the sense of leadership and the structures upon which nations are built, we won't be qualified to be called humans in the first place.

Lol... that is what it means to go into a game like gambling. Gambling is a game of prediction and speculation, and that is one fear that you cannot run away from because it will keep haunting you to make another choice. But the best gamblers, I think, are those who believe in their instincts.

If you believe that this is what your instinct tells you, go by it and stand by it 100%. It may not be the right answer, but you have no reason to regret later if it turns out to be correct.

So, I think that one aspect of gambling that people cannot run away from, rather than money, is being able to manage your instincts. Are you able to believe in your instincts and stand by them at the particular point in time?

I can agree with you on the fact that he would have tested De Gea more to see his performance on the pitch, but it didn't happen. However, bringing Onana wasn't the solution to that issue. What I expected him to do was to put Onana to the test, give him more playing time as the second goalkeeper in some games, and see how he would perform before swiftly replacing De Gea with him.

The truth of the matter is, De Gea cannot be compared to Onana because De Gea is a seasoned goalkeeper. But maybe there are some individual differences between De Gea and Eric Ten Hag, which is probably why he didn't get to play many matches.

My advice to Eric Ten Hag is for him to acquire goalkeepers like Nwabali of Nigeria, who have proven capacity and agility as far as being a goalkeeper is concerned. Nwabali could also help Manchester United regain confidence in their defense and address any existing glitches.

Using borrowed funds to gamble is the most foolish advice one can ever receive on the surface of the Earth today. At first, it is improper for you to use funds that are not yours to play gambling games because it is completely unreliable and unpredictable. Therefore, it is not sensible to invest borrowed money in gambling.

Today, I saw someone who sank a sum of 3 million naira into betting that Nigeria would win the African Cup of Nations against Ivory Coast. However, at the end of the day, Nigeria lost with a two-goal defeat, despite their captain's efforts. Now, imagine if those funds were borrowed. If the people who invested in that game were to seek repayment for such a failed investment, how would you begin to source money to pay your investors? Repaying borrowed funds would be an incredibly challenging task, especially during this difficult time of inflation and rising costs of commodities in the market.

When it comes to whether Real Madrid have the capacity to buy Kylian Mbappé right now, I think they do. If they truly want him to enhance their team with his pace, they will make it happen as soon as possible. On the other hand, if Mbappé is ready to join Real Madrid to boost his career and pursue more trophies and tougher games, he would gladly accept because they are promising.

I don't think it should be all about money. Another factor that Kylian Mbappé might consider is the opportunity he used to have in the PSG club to determine who features in the starting lineup for every match. The level of autonomy given to him in PSG may influence his decision to join Real Madrid. I don't think many clubs offer such opportunities and privileges, so maybe that could be another factor he is considering. But on the brighter side, if he is ready to work towards success and fame, joining Real Madrid could be a great move.

I am really disappointed at the way the Super Eagles players are playing this game right now. This is the African Cup of Nations finals we are talking about, and all we have to do is to be defending at this time? That's not enough. We need more goals now, shown to Nigerians. They need to wake up, or else they will get it wrong this time around.

The defensive game is not going to help at all. Our players need to push out, strengthen the midfield, and tackle at this crucial time. Otherwise, with the way this game is going and considering the level of pressure Nigerian footballers are facing, they may not survive the heat from Cote d'Ivoire right now. So, if Nigeria wants to win this match, they have to tighten up, push out the ball, and make some goals while maintaining defensive positions at the same time.

To be sincere, the level of relaxation that the Nigerian players are displaying in this game is not quite all right. A 1-1 scoreline is a bad situation for the Nigerian players now that they have to face reality with a two goals to one deficit. It is at this point that they need to push out and make goals, but it may be too late for them because Cote d'Ivoire will also tighten their defense now that they are already a goal ahead of the Super Eagles, especially with very early 20 minutes left to the injury time of the final lap of the game.

All Cote d'Ivoire needs to do right now is to get the fans club to keep cheering the players on the field. They also need to waste more time to frustrate the Nigerian players further, thus maintaining the goal position they have already to win this AFCON 2023.

You see, what I understand about ethics and morality is that they are intertwined in a way that you cannot be a leader without having the ethics and morality to lead people by example. A priority should be placed on exemplary leadership. Exemplary leadership is the kind of leadership that you need to lead people in the best standards that one can ever aspire to in life.

I also want to mention that leadership starts at home. Just like charity begins at home, as a leader, you must be able to culturally and morally train your family in a way that they will positively contribute to society. Before you think of becoming a leader, you must address this issue because that is the problem we have today. We find leaders from disregarded family backgrounds, and nobody is even talking about it. Nobody is talking about where they come from, but what we're interested in is just somebody who can campaign around, bring out many crowds, or who is only protecting their own personal interests, either as politicians, businesspeople, or citizens.

My own standard of choosing a leader revolves around the character, morality, and ethics of that person as a politician before I support them as my preferred choice. I carefully check their activities and antecedents in their community, their political engagements, and their impact on society at large. I observe how their children and their neighborhood respond to their character, and what ethical values they are providing to society.

Take an example from the likes of Nelson Mandela; these are leaders who portray character, morality, and ethics in politics. Exemplary leadership is one that leads by example, a leader that you would be proud to have your child emulate, not a leader that is corrupt. These are some of the characteristics that you should look for in whoever you decide to represent you.

Representative leadership is different from any other kind of leadership. This is not monarchy; this is not barbarism; this is the modern era. You choose a leader by example, a leader who can represent you in terms of ethics, morals, character, and the right behavior that you need to instill in yourself, your children, and future generations. So, the stories of these leaders are told even in their absence, and children learn by example. This is the kind of leadership I advocate for.

With that being said, character, morality, and ethics are some of the most fundamental components of leadership, and those are the things that you must consider before choosing the right leader. Thank you.