Naija Novice Hangout {Newbies introduction & Orientation} Thread.

[Charles-Tim]

Nigeria local board is now pinned. Thanks to theymos and Cyrus for considering Nigerians to be relevant on this forum.

Thanks to CryptopreneurBrainboss for his suggestions, also thanks to Igehhh for the positive feedback, also thanks to myself  . Thanks most especially to all other Nigerians that have been active on our local board, we can not achieve this without you people.

Next is to continue our local board request.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Good day Admin, I would like to request for the Nigeria local board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121680.0) to pinned for more visibility. If there's anything I'll have to do or the community will have to do to achieve this please let me know, thank you.
Regards,
Brainboss.

Hello,
Done! Sorry for not doing it by now. I'd suggest renaming the thread to match the standard of the rest of stickied threads.
Best,
Cyrus.

I want to use this opportunity to thank you for giving us this opportunity, I was a little busy so couldn't thank you before the request thread was locked. We'll continue making the board active and try to grow more as a community. You won't regret this decision and hopefully very soon you'll find us worthy of having our own local board too.

Next is to continue our local board request.

Charle, thanks welle for coming up with such nice thread I no expect am to go well like that but you try, you do well. And thanks to Upgrade00 and igehhh for the support as usual.

No open thread yet I see some angry individual and e better to kill off the smoke before fire start. Make we give am months first like 3-6 months, as always we go strategized plans and when the time right we go just know wetin to do assuming the plan no work out. Now we go run am wey be say na dem go give us self without us asking and e gaz be by our own compass. Wetin we need do na na to make Cyrus know say e do the right thing.

Kudos to everybody wey dey give time to this thread, una well done.

[Igebotz]

Regulate cryptocurrency trading now to check high profile crimes, ICPC tells NASS

The fact that Nigerian youths are mostly into online businesses such as networking, Cryptocurrency, digital marketing and forex trading to mention few does not eqaute to doing Yahoo.

We live in a country where the government don't want you to be successful, they always want you to depend on them for food, shelter, and clothing, they feel they are the only one with such power to decide how you live, in that way they can easily manipulate you to vote for them, but when you are doing alright making legitimate money you are tagged a scammer because they do not want you to be on the saw level with them, you are either killed or sent to jail.

Am yet to believe that crypto is now being used for ransom in Nigeria by kidnappers and bandits but if true, then crypto is taking over gradually

We live in a country were the government blame anything and send negative information on something they don't like, the local fiat is the only method kidnappers and bandits uses, I've never heard of a case where they demand ransom to be paid in crypto, these people are illiterate and do not know how bitcoin or blockchain works. This is another cheap lie.

Nigeria local board is now pinned. Thanks to theymos and Cyrus for considering Nigerians to be relevant on this forum.

Thanks to CryptopreneurBrainboss for his suggestions, also thanks to Igehhh for the positive......]

That was a quick one I must say I'm impressed please let's keep it up. Thanks everyone, let's boast it to 100 pages yes we can.

[Igebotz]

Nice one Brainboss, how about we go back to our formal name but with a bit change to match the other pinned ones as Cyrus suggested? Maybe " Nigeria languages" to make it short and it makes more sense like this to me, but let see what others or what you think is the best. Charles-Tim and others what do you think?

3-6 months is far to make another request I do not want them to start thinking that we are comfortable with it being pinned, No!! This is the least and we are not comfortable with it, maybe we give it a small break then we hit it again first week of December, we are not backing down, any pikin wey talk say him mama no go small him too no go sleep

[Charles-Tim]

Nice one Brainboss, how about we go back to our formal name but with a bit change to match the other pinned ones as Cyrus suggested? Maybe " Nigeria languages" to make it short and it makes more sense like this to me, but let see what others or what you think is the best. Charles-Tim and others what do you think?

To make it standard, Nigeria is enough, we should name it 'Nigeria'.

In accordance to what we have discussed before on this local thread, even not more than a month ago. And also in accordance to the main board we are requesting for. I have also suggested this before long time ago but not changed at the time.

3-6 months is far to make another request I do not want them to start thinking that we are comfortable with it being pinned, No!! This is the least and we are not comfortable with it, maybe we give it a small break then we hit it again first week of December, we are not backing down, any pikin wey talk say him mama no go small him too no go sleep

If we increase activities with quality posts, we will have it. What happened recently indicated that.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

3-6 months is far to make another request I do not want them to start thinking that we are comfortable with it being pinned, No!! This is the least and we are not comfortable with it, maybe we give it a small break then we hit it again first week of December, we are not backing down, any pikin wey talk say him mama no go sleep him too no go sleep

December na 3 months na hahah so e goes well, d thing I dey reason na say if the community begin reason you say you dey worry, e dey hard to get wetin you want and the best way to achieve all this things na underground work. And to talk truth ehh we never plenty like dat check well we no even reach 15 genuine contributors weekly oh no be overall.

We need regroup, we don achieve first step, make we no rush dem, I believe theymos don see our request because I don write am plenty times meaning say anytime dem dey reason locals again we go follow. I noticed something about theymos, e no dey do individual something na always group compass so make we no make am like say we dey spam as that user talk. We go slowly and dey no go fit reject us as e be for pinned thread mata because we too qualify.

For the name I dun change am to country and citizens as I dey see for other thread.

[Igebotz]

December na 3 months na hahah so e goes well, d thing I dey reason na say if the community begin reason you say you dey worry, e dey hard to get wetin you want and the best way to achieve all this things na underground work. And to talk truth ehh we never plenty like dat check well we no even reach 15 genuine contributors weekly oh no be overall

Yes wetin you talk about activities na true as of recent I notice am nobe lie, the thing just dey circle within just few people and e no make sense that way say na only like 4-5 users dey cap for here everyday and on this note my statistics will only come monthly now and not longer weekly activities and I want to add more data and more flexible charts as well too. For the name I for fancy "Nigeria ( Naija)" it represents the people and the language and e sweet for ear too. But anyone is still okay.

[Charles-Tim]

And to talk truth ehh we never plenty like dat check well we no even reach 15 genuine contributors weekly oh no be overall.

Thanks for bringing that to notice, some are not also that active yet. I believe what happened recently will encourage some Nigerians to now be active while some will also now join us.

so make we no make am like say we dey spam as that user talk.

The user was wrong, we have veteran Nigerians that know what spam is, I am still among the spam reporters theymos posted recently, we have not in anyway spam anything with what we have posted. The user could be frustrated as Serbian board was not given when already stated that they are similar to Croatian because the languages are the same with only little differences, which means Serbians understand Croatians. What they should fight for is to make the language general and not restrict it to only Croatia as some Serbians are even posting on Croatian board.

For the name I dun change am to country and citizens as I dey see for other thread.

It is making sense.

But I have a suggestion, Nigeria and Nigerian are almost similar, why not just name it Nigeria? If you check others both are not similar while the ones that wants to look similar are just named the country. I think Nigeria alone will make it standard and mature, although Nigeria (Nigerian) is also still standard enough.

I am okay with either ways.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

The forum get pattern, if somebody attack you, others build on that. I just happy say the thread lock before others come in. You no notice of recent e come be like na only us dey forum as our mata been dey top meta. Anywhere you look Nigerian dis Nigerian dat of course e go pepper some people.

Ok so we dun agree for the name, Nigeria for Nigerian and next appeal in 3 months if we never get board by then?. Now na idea to drive activities na e be the focus. More attracting topic wey go motivate for discussion will be appreciated.

For the e-naira mata, anybody they reason use am, e go be better experience oh to write about for forum (economy board) when e finally launch assuming e go dey successful oh because me dey reason dem go postponed am for like next or upper yeara to come.

[Nathrixxx]

There's a saying and I quote "If you desired the moon then target the sun so that if you don't arrived at the sun you will definitely landed at your desired moon" this means it's always good to set our Target high with curious priority, if we didn't achieve all we would be close to almost achieving all.

Thanks to God and to all our local admins here in the likes of Boss of the bosses @CryptopreneurBrainboss, @CharlseTim, @Igehhh and all the active members of the naija thread for our cordial support and efforts, if we can achieve this, then we can achieve better (local board).

[Charles-Tim]

Now na idea to drive activities na e be the focus. More attracting topic wey go motivate for discussion will be appreciated.

Many of Hhampuz campaign now accept local board, I expect this to encourage more good posters like Coyster and BIT-BENDER. We should introduce our local thread to any member we introduce. The two members I introduced were active on this thread, but just that the one I introduced that came from Adamawa (I met him during NYSC) was banned, but I believe natrixxx will increase his posting quality and become full member very soon. We should be a good example to these people we are introducing, I have discussed with a Nigerian before on a WhatsApp call, he introduced one of the highest growing Nigerian on this forum, but not posting on this thread which will be because he that introduced him is not also posting here, but he told me he introduced him to the local thread, which is not enough.

For the e-naira mata, anybody they reason use am, e go be better experience oh to write about for forum (economy board) when e finally launch assuming e go dey successful oh because me dey reason dem go postponed am for like next or upper yeara to come.

I am following it, Igehhh also is following with what he has posted before on this thread, it will be good if other Nigerians also follow it. It is simply naira in another version. I do not think it will be postponed, but it can truly be otherwise.

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natrixxx, I will advise you to delete your last topic here, and post it again so we can now discussed about it. The pinned local thread discussion have overshadowed it. Also be active English boards like beginners and help, bitcoin discussion, economics and/or others that you find interesting.

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so make we no make am like say we dey spam as that user talk.

The user was wrong, we have veteran Nigerians that know what spam is, I am still among the spam reporters theymos posted recently, we have not in anyway spam anything with what we have posted. The user could be frustrated as Serbian board was not given when already stated that they are similar to Croatian because the languages are the same with only little differences, which means Serbians understand Croatians. What they should fight for is to make the language general and not restrict it to only Croatia as some Serbians are even posting on Croatian board.

you don't seem to have understood my intentions here. I have absolutely nothing against your ambition and the opening of your board, whether that will happen is certainly not my decision.
it certainly has nothing to do with a similar initiative I launched for the Serbian board on this forum. we failed, I gave up that fight (the real reason why we failed was that many ^Serbian users did not want to come out of their anonymity, and there are a lot of them with a very good reputation)

in a short time, several topics appeared with a discussion related to the Nigerian local thread, to everyone else outside of it ^Nigerian, it's not such an important topic it, therefore, seems like an exaggeration (maybe this is more appropriate than saying it’s spam  )
you already have few users, accused/banned because of plagiarism, now I saw Dragonfund is Nigerian and his topic on Reputation... all this does not create a good image of you. (Yes I know, they are individuals and there is that everywhere). this can certainly can be important when someone decides on your request, that is why it is important that "veterans" do not make beginner mistakes.

When I say about activity, compare yours to others who are also without their board. you will see a lot of them much more active, also packed into just one topic.
Unfortunately, I have not seen anyone's similar appeal succeed. who knows, maybe you'll be the first.

I believe that you should take into consideration our experience with the same problem, as well as possible advice.

@igehhh don't take this personally.
Again, I had nothing against your appeal, I have no reason for that. And I am certainly not the one who decides on resolving your matter. Are you okay with that?

let me learn something from here. 
I see you mostly write in English here. only a few words are of unknown origin to me, but even these strangers seem to me to be part of some slang.
Why you don't write in the Nigerian language here (I mean it's the local part of this forum)?
whether the English language is so used in yours country?

[Igebotz]

@igehhh don't take this personally.
Again, I had nothing against your appeal, I have no reason for that. And I am certainly not the one who decides on resolving your matter. Are you okay with that?

I'm good man maybe you didn't understand the message I sent to you  

let me learn something from here.  
I see you mostly write in English here. only a few words are of unknown origin to me, but even these strangers seem to me to be part of some slang.
Why you don't write in the Nigerian language here (I mean it's the local part of this forum)?
whether the English language is so used in yours country?

You are always welcome here, they are not slangs they are pidgin English and if you read the 1-2 pages of ^{[the local board request thread]} you will understand why pidgin and English is mostly used here, and also we try as much as possible to let other non-Nigerians contribute to our discussions just like the India local board. Alaye omoh u dey shella 4 our mata like bubu and CBN chairmo. You grab?

[Charles-Tim]

let me learn something from here. 
I see you mostly write in English here. only a few words are of unknown origin to me, but even these strangers seem to me to be part of some slang.
Why you don't write in the Nigerian language here (I mean it's the local part of this forum)?
whether the English language is so used in yours country?

Even before Nigeria was colonized by the Britain, Pidgin (the language you meant) was used in some regions in West Africa just to be able to communicate between the English people and blacks. We are even still better to make other people to understand little of it, because if we write all our words in Pidgin, it might not look like English at all, but if spoken, English people will be able to understand it which is a successful means of communication between the our forefathers and and whites (the English people) to make trades in the olden days.

It was commonly spoken by unlearned people in the region as at then, but as level of education increased and also after independence, many educated people are also now speaking Pidgin. It is a lingua franca in some West Africa countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Cameron and Equatorial Guinea.

Even, when BBC knows how common Pidgin is in Africa, BBC Africa is in Pigin now, which was introduced in 2016/2017. You can watch this video

Pidgin - West African lingua franca
BBC starts Pidgin digital service for West Africa audiences

Pigin is a lingua franca in some West African countries even that many unlearned citizens also understand while learned people that are speaking it have significantly increased in Nigeria.

[Mpamaegbu]

Dis wan totori me die! Menh! Afraid bin hold me wen I check down there and I nor see owa thread before I come carry eye up see where we hang for up. Na ogbenge thingz be dis. We all don try to make dis thing happen. My people sey wen dem join piss for ground na im dey make am foam. I salute theymos and Cyrus wey make dis matta tanda. I sabi sey e neva reach wetin we dey find but at least na right step in d right direction. As dis thing begin happen now make una know sey more ojokokoro go com plenty for owa matta now. Make we nor lose owa head, abeg.

However, my suggestion go be make we change that "Nigerian" wey dey for bracket to "Naija"

[Smartvirus]

E shock me just now say, our talk-talk no just count for nothing but, e don dey give result even say, no be the gbege be this but then, we don dey stand well as people of caliber way we be normally. I go like tanka every person way continue to dey show face for here, dey put mouth for the talk-talk of this place way make our corner to dey top like dead body way water been swallow. Na all this una small small effort way don dey turn to bug thing so. Make we no stop to dey put in all this small small effort and this na another medium to tell everybody say, make we carry our fore eye dey look things way dey sup for our side on the forum, make when you wan shoot bird, the mama go fly. We don dey day pronounced so, make we kwa commot dirty for our side. Una weldone!

[Charles-Tim]

Regulate cryptocurrency trading now to check high profile crimes, ICPC tells NASS

The fact that Nigerian youths are mostly into online businesses such as networking, Cryptocurrency, digital marketing and forex trading to mention few does not eqaute to doing Yahoo.

Secondly Cryptocurrency on its own is self regulated, we don't need govt hand in it, govt is yet to track down the perpetrators of insurgencies, kidnapping and corrupt politicians, this were known individuals who can be traceable but yet nothing done, our youth sort for an alternative means for survival despite the government neglegence to ameliorate bad to good yet they want to track, and take control of the crypto transactions, their own economy system regulated has nothing to show forth than depreciation and yet want to regulate Cryptocurrency. (Wrong conception).

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, has asked the National Assembly to come up with legislation that would regulate cryptocurrency trading to stop operators from using it to perpetrate heinous crimes.

Am yet to believe that crypto is now being used for ransom in Nigeria by kidnappers and bandits but if true, then crypto is taking over gradually. In Nigerian market, one item of commodity can be seen with different prices from various sellers, yet claimed regulated by the govt...Who controls the buying and selling price in the market, who authenticate my source of income and other respective buyers, if I buy a fake or substandard product who Is in charge, there are many fake, substandard, foggery and scams out there, isn't there govt whom we pay duly tax, commissions and who is charged with he responsibility of the so called regulations and policy implementation failed?

If they scamedd you of fake bank alert or ATM related fraud, does the regulated body sit to ensure your fund is refunded back.... Shame, they had better leave our sustaining crypto for us as it's more safer even than their own so called regulated old traditional Fiat system.

God bless our hustle!
Crown our efforts!
Provide for our daily bread!
In Nigeria, any online business is termed Yahoo Yahoo and scam. (Wrong mentality)

The anti-graft agency lamented that kidnappers, bandits now use the medium to carry out high profile crimes like money laundering and payment of ransom for kidnappers

“Corruption in digital assets are not easily traceable for instance if somebody steals billions of Naira and converts it quickly into cryptocurrency, it’s almost impossible to trace it.

The pinned local thread requested overshadowed this topic, I think it is worth to be discussed about.


Nigeria is not yet ready to regulate cryptocurrencies, it was just a request that the national assembly should regulate cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies also needs regulation, but experienced bitcoin users can still make use of it in a noncustodial way, having privacy. But the government will want to regulate the custodial exchanges and other centralized services. Nigeria still have not plan for the regulation that SEC is even planning for. Only that the CBN banned bank-to-crypto transactions for their e-naira.

It is wrong that bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies are used for criminal activities like ransom in Nigeria, even Boko Haram demanded for naira, bandits kidnapping kings are all demanding for naira, kidnappers are also demanding for naira, this is obvious all over the news. This is in accordance to what has been on the news, I have never read a news in which people that kidnapped (kidnappers) requested for bitcoin or other crypto assets before in Nigeria, but we all know Nigerian organizations and leaders, they will not conduct more research but take to media false information in order to achieve their aim. At least, if their is any evidences of cryptocurrencies been used for ransom, their should be some news or links to defend this.

You can not believe the rate of kidnapping in Nigeria, it has significantly increased, while all I have read about demanded for naira.

[Charles-Tim]

[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

Thanks to Rikafip for this local board stat update. We hope more good posters will be active on Nigeria local thread, we hope more new members will also be introduced so they can be active on the thread. If all of us are active here, posting a page (20 posts) in just a day with the best quality posts, we will achieve the local board very fast, this has been what I have been implying since long time ago. I believe as time goes on, this will be achievable.

Ten most active posters

Charles-Tim [41]
igehhh [22]
CryptopreneurBrainboss [14]
Mpamaegbu [14]
Nathrixxx [14]
Fivestar4everMVP [7]
Pokapoka124 [7]
BIT-BENDER [6]
Coyster [4]
CryptocurencyKing [3]

One of our active poster, Pokapoka124 was banned, it is not what we are happy about, there are times in the past we forget not to include link to our post or some kind of mistake that will make someone forget to include link. Let us all try to avoid this kind of mistake.

If we check this stat very well, it is clear how we are trying, only that more users should be introduced to this local thread so that we will help ourselves more about bitcoin and crypto related matters and also learning many more about what is happening in Nigeria from one another.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Why you don't write in the Nigerian language here (I mean it's the local part of this forum)?

Thank you for that observation.

Shey I tell una to only write for pidgin una no hear, this oyinbo no make self at all and if I be admin ehh I no go fit give una local board when na oyinbo una dey speak throughout. I go ask wetin una need the local board for if na just oyinbo una go just dey speak. Make una dey speak pidgin abeg, so argument no go dey wen we wan appeal again.

If we las achieve am then we fit put oyinbo but I no take oyinbo talk as our official language here go get us wetin we want. Speak Igbo, hause, pidgin or your native language but avoid english. E no make say say dem go just dey decode our cappings for here. Okay check out dat blackpussy case na language confused them and na so e supposed dey.

[Marykeller]

Why you don't write in the Nigerian language here (I mean it's the local part of this forum)?

Thank you for that observation.

Shey I tell una to only write for pidgin una no hear, this oyinbo no make self at all and if I be admin ehh I no go fit give una local board when na oyinbo una dey speak throughout. I go ask wetin una need the local board for if na just oyinbo una go just dey speak. Make una dey speak pidgin abeg, so argument no go dey wen we wan appeal again.

If we las achieve am then we fit put oyinbo but I no take oyinbo talk as our official language here go get us wetin we want. Speak Igbo, hause, pidgin or your native language but avoid english. E no make say say dem go just dey decode our cappings for here. Okay check out dat blackpussy case na language confused them and na so e supposed dey.

True talk. Pidgin na wetin everybody suppose to the speak here. Speaking grammar no kukuma makes sense for here. Other people d speak d language wey d take know them and our own no supposed to d different at all.
One love everyone make stay together as family and relate with one another for pidgin