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441  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / 5 NIGERIANS WEY DIE BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE FOR D NAIIJA AND SOUTH AFRICA MATCH on: February 10, 2024, 04:30:03 PM
During the Semi-Final between our own Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Bafana Bafana of South Africa, while I was at a viewing center where the game was aired, in the last part of the game, someone made a comment saying. "If you know say you get High BP, better dey go your house now ooo" and we all laughed about it as the statement was quite hilarious. I been no really reason the talk until today wey I just dey surf through the net come see news say that very day, over 5 persons die as a result of the tension wey the match carry come

I no really believe my eyes cos I been think say na just all these fake news wey people go just post to catch cruise because we too catch cruise for this our country, but as I come read through, I come still see other sources wey confirm the news to be true. I come dey ask myself, why e be say, some people know say them get medical issues wey fit result to them dying if their mind fly and them go still go expose themselves to danger by going to go watch that kind of match when them know already say  the match go carry plenty tension, now them don go die for nothing, because las las Super Eagles come still go win the game. Waste of death.

First person wey die na NYSC member for Adamawa wey them identify as Samuel, wey get heart attack as them award South Africans penalty wey make them equalize.
Another person na one Dr Cairo Ojougboh former member of House of Representatives, wey dey represent Ika federal constituency for Delta State.
Another person na one Alhaji Ayuba Abdullahi wey be deputy bursar for Kwara State University (KWASU).
Another person again na person wey them call Mikail Osundiji, him na sales representative for Ogun State.
Report also talk say one Chief Osondu Nwoye wey from Anambra State but him dey live for Ivory Coast also die but them never really confirm the report sha.

Tomorrow being Sunday na the final against Cote D'Ivoire, I know say everybody go wan file out to show their own support for their country, because for my life I never see Naija come out massively to showcase their support like this before, both old, young, man and woman just bring out mind for this 2023 AFCON to support our country as if say our life depend on am or as if say if we carry this trophy Naija go better. In as much as we wan come out tomorrow come show support abeg, I use God name beg everybody, anybody wey know say e no fit withstand pressure or your body no fit carry too much shock or you get High BP, make you sidan for house, after the match finish you go still hear the scores, so make una pity una health, we no wan record more death because of cup wey we go still win. Abeg make everybody take note and also tell your friends and family.

How una see this talk.
442  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HODL bitcoins, you can do it! Look at HODL camp map to build up strong hands on: February 10, 2024, 06:44:16 AM
You have provided concise explanations of the advantages and disadvantages of lump-sum investment vs DCA. While lump-sum investment can be dangerous in unfavorable market situations, it can also result in large profits in favorable circumstances. By spreading out your investments across time with DCA, you lower your chance of losing money in the event of a market collapse. However, if the market takes off, you might pass on the chance to make a significant profit

When determining which strategy is ideal for you, I believe it's critical to take your long-term objectives and risk tolerance into account. It's also important to remember that DCA may be more practical for people who lack a sizable sum of money to invest all at once.
I'd argue that DCA is the most practical way to invest for any kind of sum of money -- even if you're doing lumpsum now/today, you'll want to invest more in the future (who doesn't?). I don't think there's any case of any guy who says I'll invest $1 million in this asset today, we're done.

They're going to see it in a few years and grow it even more. Another lumpsum? Sure, then it essentially becomes DCA over time Smiley
I couldn't agree with you more there. True, a lot of people consider DCA to be a method for gradually investing small amounts of money, but it may also be applied to greater sums. Also, as you pointed out, even if you make a sizable first investment, you'll probably want to make more in the future, so it's really just another type of DCA. Actually, more than anything else, it's a mindset.

I think a common misperception about DCA is that it's only for those with little money. In actuality, though, DCA can be an effective strategy for everybody, regardless of their financial circumstances. As an illustration, suppose you have $100,000 to invest. You must choose between employing DCA and lump summing. You will immediately have $100,000 in the market if you invest it all at once, but you will also be taking on greater risk. You can lose a lot of money if the market dips soon after you make an investment.

However, you will be distributing your risk and investing your money gradually if you employ DCA and invest $10,000 every month for 10 months. Thus, even if the market dips, you will only lose a little portion of your investment. Additionally, DCAing will help you in the long run because you'll end up purchasing more Bitcoin during periods of low price and less during periods of high price. Therefore, if you employ DCA, you can ultimately wind up having more Bitcoin even if you're investing the same amount of money.

There does not need to be any kind of either or mindset, and you (Gormicsta) even mentioned earlier that guys should be attempting to align their strategy to their various goals.

And, so yeah, let's take that person with $100k.  What else do we know about him?  Maybe we can imagine that the $100k  is some kind of proportion of his overall investment portfolio, and he might be inclined towards front loading his BTC investment or maybe he just wants to get his investment out of the way so that he does not have to think about it. 

Well, if he had already told himself taht he is ONLY going in for $100k and that's it, then he has a very narrow way of thinking

We might imagine that he might want to take that size of investment into bitcoin because he wants to put 25% of his total investment portfolio into bitcoin.. so maybe his investment portfolio is $300k and if he puts $100k of bitcoin then BTC becomes 25% of his investment portfolio.

Personally I like the idea of front loading but also considering various ways to supplement any investment.  Maybe a guy like this has $100k plus he has a cashflow in which he could invest $500 per week into bitcoin for the next 26 weeks (so that would be an additional $13k)  The three categories that he has to consider for the $100k is DCA, buying on dips and lump sum.  Based on his $13k coming in in the next 6 months, he could divide into three parts which might be $33,333 in each part, or he could take some other approach.. to maybe include his cashflow into the calculation which would be $37,666 for each of the three parts ($113k / 3).  But yeah if he is a bit anxious to get in, then maybe  he puts something like $70k into front-loading by lump sum buying and the other two parts of buying on dip and DCA might therefore be $21.5k each ($43k/2). 

There are a lot of creative ways to calculate how much cash you have available now and account for your cashflow and also account for being prepared in case the BTC price goes down instead of up.. but sometimes people are so determined that the price is ulitmately gong up that they do not mind just front loading all of it and not preparing for down or sideways and their cashflow does not matter as much as it does to people who might rely more on cashflows rathe than money that they can move around from other investments. 




This proves but one thing, it shows that there's a lot of nuance involved in deciding how to choose one's investment approach. It's not as simple as choosing one approach over the other,  it's about balancing risk and reward, and finding the right mix for your personal situation. It's also very important to consider your long-term goals and how the different approaches might impact your ability to reach those goals.

The Lump Sum and DCA debate is often framed as an either/or proposition, but there are actually a lot of different options in between. It's possible to split the difference and do a combination of both strategies. For example, someone could make a large lump sum investment but then use DCA to gradually increase their position over time or they could alternatively do a smaller lump sum investment and then use DCA to add to their position if the price goes down. Because either ways one should really be prepared for everything when investing in Bitcoin, it's good to be optimistic about the price of Bitcoin going up, maybe due to your research or some circumstances that may propel it to go up, some people even make important financial decisions that would affect them just because someone else says so. Just being optimistic isn't enough, one have to also prepare for the worse too, prepare for an alternate measure, just incase things doesn't go as expected.

Some people might feel comfortable making decisions that concern their investment on their own and without involving any third party, but I Believe it's really important to consult a financial advisor who can help them weigh the different options and make a decision that's right for them. Because most investors don't even know what decision would impact their goals, some are following a strategy simply because others are doing the same thing. This is why it would be really helpful to seek the services of a financial advisor so one can start making the right decision towards choosing the right approach.
443  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Why do coaches get sacked over poor performance of players? on: February 09, 2024, 07:57:02 PM
I have followed various sporting activities and I noticed something that hardly make complete sense to me and that is the rationale behind firing a coach when the players do perform poorly. What drew my attention to this is a news flash about Jose Mourinho's case in Roma. According to the article, Mourinho left Roma angry and feeling betrayed by the players. Is it even possible that players will intentionally lose matches because they want their coach out at the expense of their own careers? If this is true, why will the club management reprimand the coach and not the players? I know some people will argue that the coach is the leader of the team and should be responsible for building the unity and love the team need to play in high morale, but in a case the players happen to have hated the coach and have decided to lose matches as punishment for their coach, is it right to fire the coach?

On one hand, it's true that the coach is responsible for setting the tone for the team, Since he calls the shots, it's only fair to hold him accountable for the team's Performance. Whether they do well or not, the Coach is mostly held responsible. But on the other hand, you're right that the players are also responsible for their own actions. I think it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. If the players aren't motivated to play well, the coach might not be able to do much to change that. But if the coach is uninspiring, the players might not be motivated to play well. So I believe that the performance of the team is dependent on not just the Coach but also the players too, so firing a coach simply because they're not doing well is absurd actually, it could mean that all he needs is time to get more acquainted with the team, study their lapses and then do something about it.
444  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: If I bet big I lose, but if I bet small I win on: February 09, 2024, 05:05:10 PM
Guys, do you often feel like me? when I raise the bet I lose and when I lower the bet I win. Does the casino system/algorithm know the betting patterns we make? So often when we bet big we are given a loss and when our bet is small we actually win, which is very annoying

I don't know if this applies to all games or not, but I feel like this often when playing table games. What do you think?

Sometimes in a gamblers life, they often feel that way, I know you might be asking yourself why it's that way, could it be that the casino is monitoring my bets and stakes? Could that be the case? No, no one is monitoring your bets, it's just a matter of how you play and your state of mind while playing,  when you're staking small, you're only risking what you can afford to loose, so even if you loose it, you don't care or get affected the way you would, when you lost a huge sum. So while betting with the amount you can afford to loose, you gamble without any form of sentiments in your mind. So such games are likely to be a win.

While on the contrary, when you bet with a huge sum, you're being tensed while predicting the games, because you cant afford to loose such an amount so you wanna be super careful. So when you're gambling with sentiments, there's every possibility of loosing that one
445  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: February 09, 2024, 04:24:21 PM
This same South Africa we are talking about is also pissed about how Nigeria defeated them and I believe they have started threatening Nigerians living in their country that same day. Of recent they started threatening our goalkeeper (Nwabali) which we know plays for one of the clubs (Chippa United) in South Africa, I can't understand how childish they are to always pour their anger on us (Nigerians) each time we defeat them and CAF won't do anything to stop this or even our president.

Childish indeed, I really don't know what was going on in that small brains of theirs, that just because Nwabali plays for one team in their country (which is supposed to even a privilege for them) that he should not give his all to his fatherland? How preposterous. I used to love South Africans a lot and as a matter of fact I still do, but the whole threat shit is just off the hook because I know if it were to be Nigeria who lost to the South Africans ( God forbid) Nigerians ain't gonna go round dispatching cheap threats to South Africans. Instead we'll just accept our defeat, look for how to improve in case of next time and finally MEME our sorrows away and laugh over them.

No way, like he (Nwabali) should just sit and watch all the ball go past him, and come to think of it, the club side wished him well but I wonder why the people of S/A have this crazy mentality that's growing in their head to always do bad things to we Nigerians.
The thing is that they (South Africans) thinks they're the only ones that knows how to be violence, I believe we have some of them here but we don't have that time to be pouring out stupid threats. If it's how is done that means all those countries we won especially the host nation would have started looking for how to either beat the players and chase them out from their country or do the same to Nigerians living in Ivory Coast, is just sad.

It's pitiful to see how SA feels they're in a do or die competition with Nigerians. Because if you don't see yourself like that, there's no reason I can think of, that would warrant such a childish and preposterous behavior from the South Africans.

The violence against Nigerians in South Africa is completely unacceptable. No one should have to live in fear of being attacked simply because of their nationality. South Africa from time has maintained a long history of discrimination and violence, and it's not surprising that these tensions have boiled over into violence against Nigerians.

But that's just too Childish.
446  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is gambling all about luck? on: February 09, 2024, 11:45:38 AM
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It is true that gambling does not depend only on luck, experience and strategy and not being addicted, all these aspects a person who observes self-sufficiently can definitely benefit from gambling. Gambling experience and risk taking are definitely possible to win when betting on gambling. Generally in gambling if I am addicted to gambling all the time without taking any risk then surely there is a possibility of loss, because gambling needs to exist.
Yes, you are right. But at least gambling requires luck to win besides the things you mentioned.
Many gamblers don't understand this, so they don't study it and just place bets based on other people's predictions. But that means it will depend on the type of gambling game because if they gamble in luck-based gambling games, they really depend on their luck.
And it has become something that often happens where someone will continue to gamble if they have reached the stage of addiction. There is nothing else that concerns them apart from gambling so we must be able to avoid this for our own good too.

The only aspect of gambling that really doesn't require luck are those games that requires a person to use his IQ or require mathematical calculations to win, then, the person's winning doesn't depend on luck but on his skill, knowledge and experience. Games such as card games, card games depends on the player's level of skill and not on mere luck. But if it's other games such as slot games, soccer, football, basketball and others, you need luck more than you need skills.
447  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: February 09, 2024, 11:34:48 AM
This same South Africa we are talking about is also pissed about how Nigeria defeated them and I believe they have started threatening Nigerians living in their country that same day. Of recent they started threatening our goalkeeper (Nwabali) which we know plays for one of the clubs (Chippa United) in South Africa, I can't understand how childish they are to always pour their anger on us (Nigerians) each time we defeat them and CAF won't do anything to stop this or even our president.

Childish indeed, I really don't know what was going on in that small brains of theirs, that just because Nwabali plays for one team in their country (which is supposed to even a privilege for them) that he should not give his all to his fatherland? How preposterous. I used to love South Africans a lot and as a matter of fact I still do, but the whole threat shit is just off the hook because I know if it were to be Nigeria who lost to the South Africans ( God forbid) Nigerians ain't gonna go round dispatching cheap threats to South Africans. Instead we'll just accept our defeat, look for how to improve in case of next time and finally MEME our sorrows away and laugh over them.
448  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you have a habit of tracking your gambling progress? on: February 09, 2024, 11:22:22 AM
Do you have a habit of tracking your gambling progress?

What's the essence of even tracking my gambling progress when I already know what the outcome would be. Every gambler should always have it in mind that gambling was designed to always favor the casino more than the gamblers. There isn't a gambler who can come here and tell me that his winnings are more than his losses, because that's not the case, every gambler's losses are always more than the winnings.

It's just as if you're paying for a passage fee to come take something from someone else's house. There's no assurance that you'll take it successfully or if you'll be caught, so the chances are 50/50, I think the chances are more of 70/30, 70 for the casino and 30 for you. So you that the casino is at greater advantage than the gamblers, but the casino makes us Believe that the chances are 50/50 or that our chances winning is higher than Losing, by making gambling appear to be just too easy to win, which is rather the opposite.
This is the only reason I know anyone would want to track his gambling progress, to know if his winnings are higher than the loses. Lol... Lameeee.
449  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HODL bitcoins, you can do it! Look at HODL camp map to build up strong hands on: February 09, 2024, 10:49:38 AM
You have provided concise explanations of the advantages and disadvantages of lump-sum investment vs DCA. While lump-sum investment can be dangerous in unfavorable market situations, it can also result in large profits in favorable circumstances. By spreading out your investments across time with DCA, you lower your chance of losing money in the event of a market collapse. However, if the market takes off, you might pass on the chance to make a significant profit

When determining which strategy is ideal for you, I believe it's critical to take your long-term objectives and risk tolerance into account. It's also important to remember that DCA may be more practical for people who lack a sizable sum of money to invest all at once.

I'd argue that DCA is the most practical way to invest for any kind of sum of money -- even if you're doing lumpsum now/today, you'll want to invest more in the future (who doesn't?). I don't think there's any case of any guy who says I'll invest $1 million in this asset today, we're done.

They're going to see it in a few years and grow it even more. Another lumpsum? Sure, then it essentially becomes DCA over time Smiley

I couldn't agree with you more there. True, a lot of people consider DCA to be a method for gradually investing small amounts of money, but it may also be applied to greater sums. Also, as you pointed out, even if you make a sizable first investment, you'll probably want to make more in the future, so it's really just another type of DCA. Actually, more than anything else, it's a mindset.

I think a common misperception about DCA is that it's only for those with little money. In actuality, though, DCA can be an effective strategy for everybody, regardless of their financial circumstances. As an illustration, suppose you have $100,000 to invest. You must choose between employing DCA and lump summing. You will immediately have $100,000 in the market if you invest it all at once, but you will also be taking on greater risk. You can lose a lot of money if the market dips soon after you make an investment.

However, you will be distributing your risk and investing your money gradually if you employ DCA and invest $10,000 every month for 10 months. Thus, even if the market dips, you will only lose a little portion of your investment. Additionally, DCAing will help you in the long run because you'll end up purchasing more Bitcoin during periods of low price and less during periods of high price. Therefore, if you employ DCA, you can ultimately wind up having more Bitcoin even if you're investing the same amount of money.
450  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HODL bitcoins, you can do it! Look at HODL camp map to build up strong hands on: February 09, 2024, 10:08:09 AM
The decision of how much and how often to invest is one of the most essential elements of DCA. As an illustration, you may choose to invest a certain sum of money each week, month, or quarter. Rather of investing your entire savings all at once, the goal is to spread it out over time. This strategy can result in lower total expenses and helps to moderate market volatility. Another tactic is to automate your DCA plan, which would cause frequent automated transfers of funds from your bank account to your investing account.

This is all true, and many of the times you can take the money from a lump sum that is available or you could take the money from cashflow that is coming in, so you might measure what is the difference between the amount that you have coming in and your expenses (which would be your disposable/discretionary income), and if you try to use high portions of your DCA for buying BTC or any other investment, then you may well get yourself into trouble... so if you were to end up engaging in some kind of automatic DCA, then you would want to make sure that the amount is reasonable and not going to lead you into trouble... yet at the ame time, I am personally a little bothered by some of the automatic DCA systems since they may well not permit you to choose the exact time of your purchase, so anyone using automatic DCA might want to consider if they are doing the DCA buys at a certain time of the day or are they allowing you to customize your automated DCA buy time.

You're correct that Automatic DCA can be a pain the a$$ sometimes because it doesn't let you choose the timing of when to make your investment but we can't also overlook the importance of automatic DCA.
The convenience associated with automatic DCA is one of its primary advantages. The system will take care of remembering to make your investments on a regular basis, so you don't have to. This might be especially useful if you're busy or have a tendency to forget to invest. We are aware of investors who, because to their hectic schedules or excessive activities, occasionally forget to DCA for the day.

The ability of automatic DCA to lessen the emotional impact of investing is another benefit. When the market is highly volatile, it can be difficult to maintain discipline and follow a strategy that you've initially set to follow, but automatic DCA can help you remain on course.


Well, It actually depends on your unique situation and choices, though. However, it can be worthwhile to think about manual DCA rather than automatic DCA if you're someone who is at ease handling your own assets and doesn't mind the additional work. In this manner, you will have greater control over your tax status and be able to select the precise timing and amount of your investment.
In as much the Automatic DCA has an advantage it must surely have disadvantages, it can never be too perfect, we are now left with the choice whether to follow such a pattern or not.
Making use of the automatic DCA strategy should be activated only when their is a close interval between the time of DCAING, like trying to DCA in every 3 to 4 days period then applying this will help reduce the work load of consistently purchasing without skipping any day.

If there was a perfect and flawless investment approach then everyone would be trooping into it. Every investment technique or approach has its disadvantages, whether you wanna DCA or you wanna Lump Sum, they all have their risks attached, but it's left for you to choose which pattern is a lot more easier for you or the one that aligns with your investment goals. For instance, if your goal is to HODL Bitcoin for the long term or the short-term. This will help you choose or decide which technique to employ, so it's not really about perfection but which is in alignment with your investment goals. Like I stated before, let's assume you wish to HODL for long term, you'll be wish enough not to choose Lump Summing because you might get caught of with the whole market tension, same thing with when you just want to HODL for a short-term with intentions of making a quick profit out of Bitcoin, this way, Lump Summing is thr best technique for you because you'll need to target a particular time in thr market and then put in all your money and if things just go according to your plan and the market takes positive turn, you'll make your profits just about immediately. So it's about choosing the right technique that suites and aligns with your goals.
451  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: A better leadership,a better Nigeria. on: February 08, 2024, 09:19:58 PM
My people with the whole economic struggles going on. I really think if we can have better leadership. Nigeria would get to the next level.our basic desire as Nigerian is good leadership. If the people at the top. Could take up their responsibilities and do what they campaign on their manifestos, it would go along way in reducing this current struggles Nigerian are going through. Our country is blessed, we just need a better and a selfless leadership. One that would stand for the masses and build a stable structure by investing on human capitalism. Rather than enriching themselves.

It's high time we stop complaining about bad leadership, we've been complaining on deaf ears for God knows how long and yet the change we crave for is yet come, so rather sitting and fantasizing how Nigeria would become great as soon as the leaders start behaving well, you can start enforcing the change you crave for in your own little way. Nigeria isn't the only country with bad governance, but it appears that we are the only people who complains more about it and use it as an excuse to be lazy. We sit down idle and doing nothing but point fingers on the government and before you know it, you're already old and gray, and when your children asks you why you're not successful, you boldly open your mouth and tell them it's because the government has failed us and are not doing what they're supposed to do, whereas if you find yourself in the dame shoes as they are, you'd do the same or even worse. So quite the complain already and do what you need to, in order to avoid telling your children stories, because you go explain tire, evidence no go dey.
452  Local / Off-topic (Naija) / Re: Do not overwork yourself on: February 08, 2024, 09:04:33 PM
So many people are too eager uncontrollably chasing after income without undermining their ages and so as considering the health fitness of themselves at ages.
Op no to blame people, wey dey do hard work to survive for Naija because e no easy for them. For Naija, if you no from a rich family, just know say you are in for yourself; nobody is coming to help you out with your financial needs. If them no hustle for themselves na hunger go just send them go early grave because them no dey get help from anywhere.

Asides Hard Work and people wey them born with silver spoon, e get other ways, I mean so many ways to make ends meet for this country, the same way hard works dey, na so soft works plenty too, just that those people wey dey kill themselves with hard works never really dey inclined, them never get the necessary knowledge wey them supposed get. Some of them na because them don already dey used to those hard works and them Believe say na the fastest way to make money. E get plenty other soft works both online and offline wey people go fit do, wey no go too stress them come affect them for old age wey people go fit do, so the fact say most people dey do hard work no really mean say them no get any other choice again, na also because say them never really dey exposed to the knowledge wey go give them access to those soft works.
453  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: February 08, 2024, 08:45:15 PM
If South Africa had better penalty takers Nigeria might not have found themselves in the finale of AFCON now.



The truth is that they outplayed Nigeria during the official 90 minutes and if they where serious on winning the match they would have made better use of their chances but they couldn't.

What do you mean by if they were serious about winning? Those fellas gave their best in order to win Nigeria. About outplaying the super eagles in the match, I don't know if that happened in the first half of the game because I didn't watch the first half, I was opportune to join the game in the second half of the game and from what i saw, bro, the Bafana Bafana didn't outplay shit, yeah they played so well and I give that to them but The Super Eagles were an equal match for them.

I think the Super Eagles had more advantage in the game and they played better, this was proven when the Super Eagles scored their first goal, it was to be further proven when Victor scored the second goal, which the referee cancelled and recalled a past offense that he didn't care to look at at first, I did sense a fowl play there but regardless we still conquered. We all know that, if not for that small Ojoro, the Super Eagles would have settled the whole matter without the need of going to a Penalty shootout.
I watched the  CAF African Cup Of Nations game between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Bafana Bafana of South Africa from the first minute of the game till the last kick of the game and I can authoritatively say that it was and end to end performance and can't even say which team that's better between the two teams on the pitch yesterday.

The Nigeria team won and progressed to the final of the tournament but  anyone who saw the performance South Africa in that game I think will agree with me that the South African team could have also win that game and had their player scored the rebound of the free kick that was played in the dying minutes of normal time, South Africa would've stopped their Nigeria counterparts from reaching the final

Agreeably, The Bafana Bafana of South Africa played tremendously well and like I said, I give that to them,  and like I said, I didn't watch the first half, but from what I saw on the second half, especially after the first goal by the Super Eagles, the Bafana Bafana were working tooth nails to make sure they stop the Super Eagles and if not for the penalty they were awarded, which up till now, I still frown against the decision of the referee. If not for that penalty, you can agree with me that the game would have certainly ended in 2:0 in favor of the Super Eagles, and thereby saved everyone the tension of proceeding to a Penalty shootout. Now tell me, if that were to be the case which would have certainly been, would you still say that the game was an end to end performance? Because if you say so then you'd be saying indirectly that the 2 goals conceived in the match were both a product of luck. You're only saying this confidently simply because the game ended in a draw and they proceeded to a Penalty shootout.
454  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Nigerian System of Education on: February 08, 2024, 08:28:16 PM
Nigeria system of education is a mess unlike before starting from nursery to secondary one will see that there is discipline but now even the teachers are unserious, now coming to our high institution that one is the worst most of the  laboratory equipments are not working, students that are supposed to do practical after learning the theory you see that there is nothing in the laboratory resulting to poor knowledge of students who found them self in such department or institution and also increasing the fee of students trying to make this more difficult for knowing how the country system is but if we have a better governance I believe the Nigeria system of education will be better again.

Knowledge is the most expensive but yet valuable resources, so you can't afford to see something like that at no expense, getting education is easy and affordable but getting quality education is what can't be accessed by everyone, this isn't just the case in Nigeria alone but every other country around the world, you can't compare the Educational Standard in NYU and that of Oxford University.
You can't compare a public university to a private university, there are Standard Private universities in Nigeria that has complete lab equipments, qualified and serious Lectures and teachers as well as other materials you can't find in the private University but not everyone has access to these facilities because not everyone can afford them.

So please get your statement correct, Nigeria has all it takes, but the society favours the rich more than the poor and so does the Educational system. It's true that the government has failed us but we on the other end have a part to play and we should play our cards well rather blaming and complaining unnecessarily when we know fully well that our complains wouldn't amount to anything.
455  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Youths doing anything to survive on street of Nigeria. on: February 08, 2024, 08:12:34 PM
With the way things are going in Nigeria. Youths have decided that any way is a way oo. Nigeria youths are now taking every single opportunity to put food on their table.the economy present situation is not encouraging at all. We can now see a lot of crazy things happening on the street.

There is something our youths have failed to understand. There's a reason why there is a system in every country, go to school, get good grades and then secure yourself a good job or if you can't go through school, then you can go into business, or learn a skill, this was how it's been, forget about the fact that Our country has failed us but trust me that the system still works. The more time and resources you put into something, the better you become in it. Our youth believe the easiest way to make money now without stressing themselves is through internet fraud which is a very wrong mentality and way of seeing things. Funny enough, it's not even as easy as they make it seem, convincing someone to send you money in the midst of this global recession isn't as easy as it sounds, and this is why most youths go as far as involving themselves in certain fetish and diabolical practices just to make sure they cash out which has future repercussions, some of the repercussions even comes sooner than expected.

You can't gamble with the devil because he will outsmart you, there's no way anyone will tell me that the devil will freely give you money and not request something in return, when the bible has already said the every good and perfect gift comes from the lord. So any gift you attain which isn't from God comes with a price and the price is even way higher than what youve initially received. Most youths are ignorant of this fact and are enticed and blinded by the temporary pleasure that the devil promises them. God help this generation because this whole thing dey carry us go where we no know.
456  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: I could have won bigger. on: February 08, 2024, 07:16:22 PM

This means that most gamblers have their own reasons why they are involved in gambling, and one of the reasons that is very likely is the "chance of winning" which is actually nothing more than a "possibility" without the certainty of actually getting it, dissatisfaction with the financial situation in real life makes them make gambling a place to improve their financial situation by putting hope in a win, as you said that if they were satisfied with what they already had then they would not gamble and I have said one of the reasons that is quite possible above.

Of course, I can honestly conclude that as I said above the reason gamblers get involved is because of the "chance of winning", they misunderstand the name "chance" they think that it is something that is easy to come true, when in fact it is very difficult unless you are really lucky but still it will only happen once in a thousand tries, so instead of becoming a rich man but what happens is getting poorer.
It is true. All gamblers have their reason for gambling in the first but no matter what the reason is it is better to always put in check our gaming buzz because there's no way gamblers that play the game only for winning purposes won't gamble beyond his/her unless he/she has plan B which is the risk management in place already.

Yes and one of the more common reasons that gamblers come to gambling in the first place is that they want to win, there are some of my friends who just got involved in gambling because they saw one of their friends who managed to hit a pretty big jackpot which basically motivated them to get involved and gamble too with the hope of winning like their friend, but their journey will not be that smooth because as I said before that winning will only happen once in a while from the dozens of tries you make and if calculated then I think maybe the amount of winning is equivalent to what you have lost.

I've already come to this realization that the gambling was designed and built to favor the casino majority of the time, and this have helped me quite chasing my loses unnecessarily, this has been the problem and downfall of many gamblers, always trying to chase their losses, they want to recover the money they've lost and by doing this, many things gets involved, they become desperate at some point and when a gambler starts to gamble out of desperation due to loss chasing, they start increasing their stakes in order to hit one big win and then recover thrones they've lost and then quite for the moment. I've been here before and I can say it's a very bad position for a gbler to find himself, and I can tell you confidently that not all gamblers makes it out in one piece. Some gamblers even goes as far as borrowing money to continue gambling, right after they've lost everything they have and this will end in frustration.
457  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Blue card to be introduced in football. on: February 08, 2024, 06:55:31 PM
There is  these news going round about blue card sin-bins that is said to be introduced as one of the rules in football.
Basically the whole idea of this blue card sin-bins is to punish players that have committed foul against another player, so when the referee shows you blue card, you are to go outside and stay for 10 minutes while the game will still be going on, you will remain there for 10 minutes then you come back afterwards and continue with the game, however this does not take the place of yellow card and the red card.

Locally in my country Nigeria we used to do this for small goal post that is normally called monkey post, if a player tackles his opponent wrongly, we used to tell the prayer to go out and stay for some minutes and then come back, because it's most times a five aside game, so we don't usually use cards. but seeing these rules wanting to be introduced on the international scene surprises me.

So guys how do you see this new intended innovation, is it going to change the face of football across the world, let's have your opinion.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/02/08/blue-cards-to-be-introduced-for-football-sin-bins/

The concept of the blue card sin-bin seems to be similar to the sin-bin in rugby, where a player is temporarily removed from the game after committing an infraction. I think the major advantage of this type of rule would be the immediate deterrent effect, players would be less likely to commit dangerous fouls if they knew they would have to leave the game for 10 minutes, but as we already know, the Yellow Card, the double yellow card and the red card has already taken care of this.

But really, What's the essence of telling a player to go out of the field and stop playing for 10 minutes and then come back after 10 minutes, I think that's just stupid, if they're gonna introduce something new in football, then it should be something a lot more sensible and not a crazy blue card. The yellow and the red card is doing a great job already in maintaining orderliness on the field so introducing an extra card isn't in any way required.

458  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: February 08, 2024, 06:00:16 PM
If South Africa had better penalty takers Nigeria might not have found themselves in the finale of AFCON now.



The truth is that they outplayed Nigeria during the official 90 minutes and if they where serious on winning the match they would have made better use of their chances but they couldn't.

What do you mean by if they were serious about winning? Those fellas gave their best in order to win Nigeria. About outplaying the super eagles in the match, I don't know if that happened in the first half of the game because I didn't watch the first half, I was opportune to join the game in the second half of the game and from what i saw, bro, the Bafana Bafana didn't outplay shit, yeah they played so well and I give that to them but The Super Eagles were an equal match for them.

I think the Super Eagles had more advantage in the game and they played better, this was proven when the Super Eagles scored their first goal, it was to be further proven when Victor scored the second goal, which the referee cancelled and recalled a past offense that he didn't care to look at at first, I did sense a fowl play there but regardless we still conquered. We all know that, if not for that small Ojoro, the Super Eagles would have settled the whole matter without the need of going to a Penalty shootout.
459  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HODL bitcoins, you can do it! Look at HODL camp map to build up strong hands on: February 08, 2024, 04:21:41 PM
The decision of how much and how often to invest is one of the most essential elements of DCA. As an illustration, you may choose to invest a certain sum of money each week, month, or quarter. Rather of investing your entire savings all at once, the goal is to spread it out over time. This strategy can result in lower total expenses and helps to moderate market volatility. Another tactic is to automate your DCA plan, which would cause frequent automated transfers of funds from your bank account to your investing account.

This is all true, and many of the times you can take the money from a lump sum that is available or you could take the money from cashflow that is coming in, so you might measure what is the difference between the amount that you have coming in and your expenses (which would be your disposable/discretionary income), and if you try to use high portions of your DCA for buying BTC or any other investment, then you may well get yourself into trouble... so if you were to end up engaging in some kind of automatic DCA, then you would want to make sure that the amount is reasonable and not going to lead you into trouble... yet at the ame time, I am personally a little bothered by some of the automatic DCA systems since they may well not permit you to choose the exact time of your purchase, so anyone using automatic DCA might want to consider if they are doing the DCA buys at a certain time of the day or are they allowing you to customize your automated DCA buy time.

You're correct that Automatic DCA can be a pain the a$$ sometimes because it doesn't let you choose the timing of when to make your investment but we can't also overlook the importance of automatic DCA.
The convenience associated with automatic DCA is one of its primary advantages. The system will take care of remembering to make your investments on a regular basis, so you don't have to. This might be especially useful if you're busy or have a tendency to forget to invest. We are aware of investors who, because to their hectic schedules or excessive activities, occasionally forget to DCA for the day.

The ability of automatic DCA to lessen the emotional impact of investing is another benefit. When the market is highly volatile, it can be difficult to maintain discipline and follow a strategy that you've initially set to follow, but automatic DCA can help you remain on course.


Well, It actually depends on your unique situation and choices, though. However, it can be worthwhile to think about manual DCA rather than automatic DCA if you're someone who is at ease handling your own assets and doesn't mind the additional work. In this manner, you will have greater control over your tax status and be able to select the precise timing and amount of your investment.
460  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: February 08, 2024, 03:06:42 PM
South Africa off course played a beautiful game in the first half and kept good ball possession to control the game, Nigeria although did come in well into the second half but failed to defend that one goal until the final whistle blew.

The penalty shoot out was the most interesting and yet breathtaking for me, Nigerians did well to win and earn the game as they was the first side to earn them place in the African Cup of Nations Competitions Finals.
They really deserves the trophy, because they've faced one of the toughest sides in this Competition. We've won against Ivory Coast already in the group stage, this would be yet again another win for em in the finals.

In all of the opponent Nigeria has face in this tournament, this is the most interesting one and this is the most celebrated one because Nigeria has met South African in the Semi finals 4 times and has never lose to them, they were ready for Nigerians and Nigerians were ready for them. It took the grace of our players to get Penalty lead goal which was later neutralize by their own penalties as well. The first half of the game was well played by South Africa but the second half after that goal, they weren't making much to score goals but the plan was to lead Nigeria to Penalties which of course favoured Nigeria because of Nwabali.

I don't know if it was just my mind playing tricks on me or maybe I'm Nigerian, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who thinks that even the referee and some other folks didn't want the match to end in the favor or Nigeria, I didn't follow up the match from the first half, but I was opportune to join the thrill in second half and from what I saw, right from the first goal scored by the Eagles down to the second goal Victor ( Which was later cancelled and advantage was given to the South Africans). That and other things I noticed while watching the game made me conclude that something fishy was cooking there, but we thank God who was on our side and for using Nwabali to rescue us, because if not for him, the unthinkable would have happened and Nigerians would have returned back home with nothing. Now we've qualified to play in the finals and one thing I'm sure of is that Nigeria can never make it to the final and lose.
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