Toye David Damilola.

I have been around long enough to know this. I am a lord of text and creative expression. I think. I read. I write. I draw. I commune. I communicate.

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

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[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

Dear Nigerians,

For many years, Nigeria has possessed some of the most promising deep offshore oil and gas resources in the world, yet several major developments have remained stalled. Oil lies beneath our waters. We have the engineers, businesses and young people capable of doing increasingly sophisticated work in the sector. What has often been missing is the certainty required for investors to commit billions of dollars, over many years, at the scale needed to turn that potential into production, jobs and opportunity for Nigerians.

We cannot afford to leave that opportunity beneath our waters for another decade.

I have therefore signed the Deep Offshore Oil and Gas Projects Incentives (Tax Remission) Order, 2026, to provide clear and predictable terms for a new generation of deep offshore investment in Nigeria.

The framework has the potential to unlock up to $50 billion in investment, beginning with the approximately $10 billion Bonga South West project. For existing deep offshore leases, there is a clear window to reach Final Investment Decision by 31 December 2029 and receive the full standard incentive available under the Order.

There is urgency to this work. Capital moves, and countries compete for it every day. The countries that attract long-term investment are not necessarily those with the greatest natural resources. They are the ones that provide the greatest certainty.

Nigeria must be one of those countries.

This Order marks the tenth major policy directive of my administration targeted specifically at the oil and gas sector. Each has dealt with a constraint holding back investment, production or value creation. Taken together, they represent a deliberate effort to make our oil and gas industry more competitive, attract capital back to Nigeria and ensure that more of the value created from our resources remains here at home.

But attracting investment is only half of my purpose.

I want the work that comes with these projects to come home to Nigeria. I want our engineers involved, our fabrication yards working, our marine and technical service companies securing contracts, and our young people acquiring skills that will remain valuable long after the first barrel is produced.

The Order reflects this priority. For projects accessing its supplementary incentives, activities are to be performed in Nigeria, subject to clearly defined exceptions and Nigerian Content requirements.

My ambition is that we use this new investment cycle to build Nigeria into Africa’s regional hub for deep offshore project execution. We should not only possess the resources. We should increasingly possess the skills, businesses and industrial capacity required to develop them.

When I engaged the Chief Executive Officer of Shell plc, Mr Wael Sawan, I directed my team to look beyond a solution for one company or one project. We needed a framework that could unlock a wider pipeline of investment while protecting Nigeria’s long-term interests.

That framework is now in place.

Ultimately, I will judge its success by what Nigerians see from it in terms of good jobs, stronger Nigerian businesses, greater production, increased revenues for the Federation and new capabilities built here at home.

Our natural resources must work harder for our people.

That is the purpose of this decision, and we will pursue it with urgency.

Nigeria First.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
Federal Republic of Nigeria

[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

Temi Popoola GMD/CEO of the Nigerian Exchange Group has presented their wishlist to President Tinubu of listening Eleme Petrochemicals, Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), and NNPCL to be listed on Nigerian stock market

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

I’ve received tons of requests for mentorship in my DMs.

Some even copy and paste the same request across all my social media accounts.

If you can afford it, schedule a paid consultation with me. The link is in the bio. It is the surest way to get an hour of my full attention. We will use that time to address any issue you need clarity with.

If you cannot afford it, you have the following options:
1. Free: Continue to read my posts and take from it whatever you can. I spend a lot of time to share what I feel will help. Take advantage of this free resource.

2. Low cost: Buy my books. Dream is only available on Amazon but No Gree can be bought from Selar.

I created a coaching program two years ago. It was $6K/person and I had fun with it. But it also took more time from me than I could afford so I discontinued it.

Last year, I wanted to put together a coaching program to help people transition successfully from 9-5 to entrepreneurship. Again, I got too busy to pull this off.

I can’t make any promises of starting a mentorship program this year. If I create one, it won’t be cheap. Nothing that will personally take my time will be cheap.

Just last week, I helped one guy successfully negotiate a raise ($’000s) during a scheduled call.

If you need my attention, book a call.

All this “I just need 15 mins of your time, please, please” won’t work. 🙏🙏

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

You are beginning to scare me, i just made a transfer into my Roqqu account from one of my bank then got 'your account have been flagged for 96 hours because you moved money from an account which does not have a similar name as your Roqqu Account' this is untrue.
@roqqulivechat

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

If I weren't there at the very start of a Nigerian telco, I would believe the trope people always put out that things "were guaranteed." Nothing could be further from that.

Let's start with the licensing. You first had to put up a $20m deposit before you could bid. If you bid and won but were unable to pay for your license, you forfeited $20m. Mike Adenuga lost that amount then, and it was a lot of money. It is still a lot of money.

For Econet Wireless, to get that amount the first time, Oceanic Bank had to put it up, backed by guarantees from Delta State, which managed all their federal allocation payments. Getting that first $20m was one of the hardest things I have seen.

Oboden Ibru didn't trust the Zimbabweans; he believed they didn't have any money to invest, and his bank would have to commit more to save the $20m, and he was eventually right.

Even forming the consortium and selecting partners was a difficult and heartwrenching process. There were meetings that lasted long into the night. I still can't forget a trip I took to Delta and Akwa Ibom to present documents to the state governments, inviting them to invest. Another competing party tried to beat me to Uyo by chartering a private jet as I drove like a maniac and got there by road.

After the bid was won, raising the $285m was the most beautiful financial engineering process I had ever witnessed. The late Osaze Osifo was a genius and one of the smartest people I had ever met. I learned so much from what he and his HSBC Capital team did. Other investment bankers, like the late Laolu Mudashiru of Vetiva, watched and learned, too.

After paying for the license, we now had to raise money for working capital. I personally raised 7 million Naira from New Nigeria Bank to pay for the office rent. Got furniture from Chair Center and another company on credit. My guy, Elias Igbinakenzua, was then an Executive Director at Zenith Bank, and we managed to negotiate a 500m Naira overdraft facility to start the business.

Everyone was broke and stretched. We took a loan from New Nigeria Bank to cover our share of the equity, and the interest on the loan was accruing at 1.8 million Naira per day. We eventually sold half of the shares at a profit to cover the cost. Before then, we were juggling CPs and BAs to cover the initial $20m and dodging Oboden Ibru, who was at wits end.

To add to that, we had a technical partner who lied about bringing in 40% of the capital. They, too, could not raise money, so the pressure was on the existing shareholders, who eventually kicked him out but still left him with 5% for the brand thanks to the intervention of Delta State, represented on the board by David Edevbie.

Today, that company is now Airtel Nigeria, and someone will tell me that "Demand was guaranteed. " Idiots.

Rolling out the service was another story. Educating the market and competing with MTN, who had smarter people and deeper pockets, was brutal. Dem Eleso, their CTO at the time, was a telco savant. Funny thing was that we were offered his services first, but rh Zimbabweans rejected him. MTN snatched him. He became our nightmare.

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@okazz_ This is visually appealing.

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@ElonMusk_LordX YES

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

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[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@PiListingNews Affirmative.

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@azakegrn Hi

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@AltBankNg ..made me visit @AltBankNg on Taiwo.Tomiwa, a cool guy with smart sense & financial intelligence fixed it. Now I need to know who crafted that mail for AltBank for doing a good job at winning me over. I need his/her trick for my hustle too or Wa-du-yu-fink?

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@AltBankNg whoever crafted this mail for Alternative Bank deserve a raise as well as Tomiwa who is the customer care agent at the Taiwo Ilorin Branch

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@AltBankNg ..but Wahala happened when I tried moving some funds from the account to attend to some emergencies . The account was suspended to inspire me to provide some docs + i am required to increase the transaction limit. Both can be done remotely except the urgent nature of my needs..

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@gtbank_help a sum of #15,000 sent from First Bank to me is still hanging somewhere, what do you need me to do so that we can make it land safely in my GTBank account. Thanks in advance for your prompt response..

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@gtbank_help I am having issues with a fund transfer from a First Bank into my GTBank on 1st of May, 2025 which has not reflected, yet the source has been debited. Kindly safe a soul. Thanks in advance for your prompt response.

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@gtbank_help over the years I have always loved GTBank, that includes good times & bad times. On 3rd of January, 2025, my 1000 recharge of my line with USSD code has entered voicemail. I am yet to get a value for my money. Kindly look into this so that I can love you forever. Tnx

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

@MTN180 welcome to 2025 . At the moment, a USSD recharge of a thousand Naira from my GTBank Account is hanging in the wind. My GTBank account was debited and there was no value of such credited to my MTN number. I guess I deserved a better 2025 welcome gesture from MTN. Thanks.

[Toye David Damilola. @Damiginate24]

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