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Not because the shares are bad.
Because someone on WhatsApp will collect their money first.
SEC approved it on 4 September.
Price: โฆ525 per share.
4.1 billion shares on offer.
Expected open date: 14 September 2026.
You cannot buy it today.
Anyone asking you to reserve a slot or pay them first is a scam.
I remember MTN shares. For many people who bought properly and held, it was a blessing.
Use this knowledge. Do not let this one pass you by.
I broke the simple process down so you do not make a costly mistake.
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Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me โ it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt โ 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles โ a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said โ you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance โ a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said โ you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth โ a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said โ you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio โ the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
My wife heard all of this tonight and said, "Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it (Jeff Roush)
UK just tightened the door and Nigerians need to pay attention.
The UK government has confirmed a major visa overhaul aimed at cutting net migration hard. Some parts are already law, some are proposed and targeting autumn 2026.
Settlement is the big one. The standard path to Indefinite Leave to Remain is proposed to double from 5 years to 10, especially if you have ever relied on public benefits. Fast track stays open for top taxpayers, doctors and teachers, so the message is clear. Come contributing at a high level or wait twice as long.
Care sector recruitment from overseas is already banned. This was one of the most common entry routes for Nigerians into the UK in recent years, and that door has now closed.
Students take a direct hit too. The post study Graduate visa is being cut from 2 years to 18 months, and dependants can only come if you are on a postgraduate research route. No more switching into a work visa before you finish school either. If your Nigerian relative was planning โread a masters, find work after,โ that plan just got a lot tighter.
Skilled worker visas now require graduate level, high skilled roles only, plus harder English tests for both applicants and their dependants. NHS surcharge and visa fees are also rising 5 to 10 percent, and physical BRP cards are being phased out for digital eVisas.
For Nigerians, the pattern is obvious. The UK is closing the side doors, care work, quick postgrad switches, low skill sponsorship, and only keeping the front door open for people who arrive already highly qualified or already wealthy. If Japa was your escape plan built on the old rules, you need to rebuild that plan around this new reality, not the one your cousin used three years ago.
This man stole a country from his own father and spent the next 18 years buying the West with gas money.
- He deposed his own dad in a palace coup and left him in exile for nearly a decade
- He founded the news network that aired Osama bin Laden's tapes
- He built America's largest military base in the Middle East and charges no rent for it
- He bought Harrods, the Shard, Canary Wharf, Paris Saint-Germain and 17% of Volkswagen
- He won the 2022 World Cup for a country with no football history
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani died this morning at 74.
Here's how bought the world:
In June 1995, he waited for his father to leave the country, then took the throne. The coup was bloodless. His father spent nearly a decade in exile.
Qatar is about one third the size of Belgium, and its population was barely two million, most of them foreign workers.
But it was sitting on one of the LARGEST natural gas reserves on Earth.
He bet everything on liquefied natural gas. Qatar became the world's biggest LNG exporter and one of the richest countries alive per person.
Then he hit the problem every commodity business hits:
Gas is gas, anyone with a tanker can sell it, and a tiny country with no army and that much money is a snack for its neighbours.
So he bought two things nobody else in the Gulf thought to buy...
The first was the world's attention.
In 1996 he issued a decree and Al Jazeera was born. Within a few years it was the most influential news network in the Arab world.
He owned the loudest microphone in the region and never had to speak into it himself.
The second was the American military.
In 1996, Qatar spent over a billion dollars building an air base at Al Udeid, outside Doha. It got the longest runway in the Gulf and shelters for nearly a hundred aircraft.
Qatar's air force only had about a dozen fighter jets.
In 1999 he reportedly told US officials he wanted 10,000 American servicemen stationed there permanently.
Then 9/11 happened, and they came.
The genius part:
Al Udeid is now the forward headquarters of US Central Command and the largest American base in the Middle East, with roughly 10,000 troops.
Qatar charges no rent.
He built the asset before the customer existed, handed it over free, and bought the one thing cash cannot: The US military parked permanently between his gas and everyone who wanted it.
The network broadcasting bin Laden and the runway flying America's war sat in the same tiny country, paid for by the same man.
Then he went shopping...
He set up the Qatar Investment Authority in 2005:
- Harrods
- The Shard
- Canary Wharf, London's largest property owner, bought with Brookfield for 2.6 billion pounds
- 17% of Volkswagen
- Paris Saint-Germain
All his.
In 2017 the Telegraph ran the headline "Qataris own more of London than the Queen."
Then 2008 arrived. Barclays needed billions or the British government was going to own it. Qatar wrote the cheque and its stake climbed to 12.7%. Barclays was later charged over how it disclosed that Qatari money.
In 2010, FIFA handed the 2022 World Cup to a desert country with NO football history. Corruption allegations shadowed the bid for over a decade, and the treatment of the migrant workers who built it drew brutal criticism.
Yet he walked into the opening match in 2022 and the stadium gave him a standing ovation.
Every other Gulf state was selling the same molecule at the same price. Hamad spent his money on a newsroom, a runway, a football club and half of London.
A country of two million now brokers hostage deals and hosts American presidents.
He built all of it in 18 years, and he took the throne from his own father to start.
Truly an unmatched legacy.