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Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Champion Breweries is asking shareholders to approve a restructuring that would move them into a new holding company, Champion Brands Limited, and then delist the current company from the NGX. Shareholders would receive HoldCo shares one-for-one, so their ownership percentage stays the same. While this may come across as confusing , let’s break it down .
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Ikorodu people are sitting firmly on this table, Owutu-Isawo road has been under construction since December 2017 when Ambode demolished buildings on that road. 9 years after the road is still under construction but Ikorodu people keep voting for APC with nothing to show for it.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Have you ever wondered why you have to buy data on your home router and also buy a mobile data for when you are not at home?
Let me explain it better.
You pay for data on your home router. You step out of the house and it is useless to you.
So you buy a second bundle for your phone. Same network. Same towers. Same company collecting your money twice.
So, you have two separate data bundles with expiry dates on them but you can only use one at a time. If you are at home or office, the mobile data will be wasting away. If you are away from the office and home, the router bundle with an expiry date on it will be wasting away.
If you are only at home at night, when you do the maths, you realize that you only get to use the bundle 15 days in a month but you think you are enjoying unlimited one month broadband data.
Have you ever wondered why, in 2026, it has to be this way?
It does not. It is a business decision, not a technical limitation.
Let’s look at what operators did over a decade ago in other countries.
PHILIPPINES (2016): PLDT launched a home broadband plan with 50GB a month, of which 6GB could be shared with up to four mobile lines and used outside the home. One subscription. One bill. They called it the country's first plan that cuts across home and mobile broadband. In simple terms. PLDT made it possible for people to use the same data bundle they have at home on their mobile devices even when they are not at home.
CZECH REPUBLIC (2014): T-Mobile launched "Shared Internet" in February 2014. One data allowance shared between a customer's phone and a second device, with a separate data SIM for 99 Czech koruna a month, no new contract, same speed as the main SIM. If the shared data ran out, you topped up through the main SIM. By August 2014 they went further: up to five family members could share one data allowance, with up to five extra data SIMs for tablets and laptops on top.
In USA, UK, Australia, etc. the madness we allow here do not exist. AT&T launched it Mobile Share in the United States in 2012. You pick one monthly broadband data allowance and share it across 10 devices regardless of where you are in the country.
O2 launched its Sharer Plan and Family Sharer Plan in 2014 in UK.
Optus did the same in AUSTRALIA.
These are all operators in serious countries making efforts to be fair to their customers and this has been on since 12 to 14 years ago.
So the technology exists. The billing systems exist. Customers elsewhere have been using it.
Why then are Nigerians quiet about it?
For the same reason nobody questioned data expiry for years.
People believe it cannot work any other way.
We were told data must expire, so we accepted it. We were told home data stays at home, so we accepted that too. Nobody asked the company to explain why, so the answer became "that is just how it works."
It is not how it works. It is how it is sold.
Every unquestioned rule you live with is a rule someone chose.
Start asking why.
KAA
#kaa_truths
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Last last it’s Eric Idiahi’s champion’s brewery @CBPlc_ that will send me to Mecca to pray for my portfolio because I don’t understand what is going on with that company . After taking my rights at N16 , that stock has been turning on its own and results are not encouraging
#championbrewery #NGX
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Two things I noticed at my company before we had layoffs last year:
1. Budget cuts
At my last company they stopped approving expenses for client lunches, dinners and travel. That’s when we knew money was tight.
2. Executive & upper management departures
They had insider knowledge where the direction of the company was headed and wanted to escape the sinking ship.
Here's what I've observed before layoffs at a big tech company:
- Budget cuts to travel, conferences and contractors
- Colleagues who left aren't backfilled
- Managers suddenly become individual contributors
Then at a startup:
- Expense audits for software spend, AI tools and more
- Whispers of board meetings that didn't go well
- Colleagues who suddenly start departing
When you see two or three of these at once, start updating your resume and networking before the announcement, not after.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Subject: Invitation to GreenTickerTales X Space — “Which Political Party Is Best for the Nigerian Stock Market?”
Dear Distinguished Representative,
Warm greetings from GreenTickerTales — The Parliament of the Nigerian Stock Market.
We are pleased to invite you to represent your political party at our upcoming X Space, titled “Which Political Party Is Best for the Nigerian Stock Market?”, scheduled for Sunday, 8 November 2026, at 5:00 PM Nigerian time (WAT).
GreenTickerTales is a non-political investor-education and research community. Our primary purpose is to provide quality information and research that helps Nigerians from all walks of life achieve financial independence through the capital market. While we ordinarily remain non-partisan, we recognise that Nigeria’s socio-political environment, policy choices, and governance decisions strongly shape the performance, confidence, and future of the Nigerian stock market.
As your party is contesting the 2027 Nigerian presidential election, we would be honoured to host a representative who can present your party’s vision for the Nigerian capital market and explain what Nigerians stand to gain if your party wins the election
.
We would appreciate your response to the following key questions:
•What concrete benefits will ordinary Nigerians derive from the stock market under your party’s government?
•What is your party’s plan to address the key challenges facing the Nigerian stock market?
•How will your party deepen financial inclusion and encourage more Nigerians to participate in the market?
•What reforms will your party pursue to make the market more transparent, credible, and attractive to local and foreign investors?
•How will your party make it easier for Nigerians in the diaspora to invest confidently in the Nigerian capital market?
This will be a respectful, solution-focused conversation before a highly engaged community of Nigerian investors, market participants, analysts, and members of the diaspora. It is an important opportunity to speak directly to the investing public and present your party’s capital-market agenda.
Please save the date: 8 November 2026, at 5:00 PM Nigerian time (WAT). Kindly confirm your party’s participation and the name of your representative by contacting us at @greentickertale
We look forward to welcoming you and to making this a historic conversation for the Nigerian investing community.
Please follow @greentickertale for further updates on this upcoming event.
Warm regards,
The GreenTickerTales Team
The Parliament of the Nigerian Stock Market
X: @greentickertale
Contact: @greentickertale
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
20-10-2020 💔🇳🇬
A tragic day in history of Nigeria when the government ordered the killings of peaceful #EndSARS protesters at lekki tollgate while waving our flags, a history that cannot be erased and we will never forget! 🕊️
#lekkimassacre #2020lekkimassacre
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Education isn’t about knowing everything. It’s about understanding that there is always more to learn and discover.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
GDP rankings do not feed people. Nigeria may be Africa’s largest economy, but its poverty numbers expose an economy that is growing without its people.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Nigeria has a thorughly useless elite. That road passes the highest tax paying zone in the entire country. None of them can speak up.
A group of Business leaders gathered at Oriental Hotel in VI in Lagos last week openly lamented the state of Ozumba Mbadiwe the road leading to the hotel. Today I asked one of them how come so many powerful people could be so loudly critical and none could make a
Public statement to those they pay taxes to and have a right to hold accountable. The answer I got reaffirmed my view that the development failure in Nigeria flows from a crisis of elite.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
A group of Business leaders gathered at Oriental Hotel in VI in Lagos last week openly lamented the state of Ozumba Mbadiwe the road leading to the hotel. Today I asked one of them how come so many powerful people could be so loudly critical and none could make a
Public statement to those they pay taxes to and have a right to hold accountable. The answer I got reaffirmed my view that the development failure in Nigeria flows from a crisis of elite.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It is where the rich use public transportation."
Oh my days guys!!!! Saw someone standing beside me on the tube just now and thought he looked very familiar.
Tapped him gently and asked:
“are you by chance…Peter?? “
Him: Yes….
Me: Drury?????
Him: “That’s me”
Me: 🤯🤯🤯
Me: (looks around check if any other person spotted this absolute legend)
Me: Proceeds to have a nice chat about the EPL, LFC, City114, Messi..
Loved his perspectives and energy!!
An absolute Legend FR!!🫶
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Dear investors and traders:
May we never invest what should be traded—or trade what should be invested.
Know your timeframe. Know your thesis. Know your risk. - Sage Cedar 2026
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
This community transformer racket has to stop completely. It is daylight robbery disguised as community self-help, and the regulatory double standard is sickening.
Look at how the power sector works in Nigeria:
When a community transformer blows up, the DisCo goes deaf. You write letters, make calls, and nothing happens. Six months down the line, residents are suffocating in darkness, small businesses are dying, and fuel prices are draining everybody's pockets.
Out of sheer desperation, landlords gather, task every household 50k, 100k, or more, and scrape together 5 to 8 million Naira to buy a brand new transformer, buy heavy copper cables, and pay for poles.
The moment that equipment is energized, the DisCo claims it as company property. They add it to their network balance sheet, and within two weeks, they start distributing Band A and Band B bills. If you do not pay, they disconnect you with the ladder leaning on the very pole you bought with your own sweat.
How can a private, for-profit utility company take free capital equipment from struggling citizens, pay zero interest, give zero equity, and then charge those same citizens full price to use it?
If NERC mandated that customers who pay upfront for meters under the MAP scheme must be refunded their money over time through energy credits, why does the exact same logic not apply to transformers?
A meter costs 100k to 150k and you refund it via monthly energy units.
A transformer costs 6 to 10 million Naira funded by an entire street, and you pretend it was a charitable donation to a private entity?
This injustice has to end.
If a community is forced to step in and buy infrastructure because a DisCo failed its obligations, NERC should make automatic amortization mandatory:
Every single household on that street that contributed to buying that transformer should have their meter credited with monthly energy units until the full cost of the asset, cables, and installation logistics is completely paid back.
You cannot let private DisCos enrich their asset portfolios with crowd-funded community blood and then charge those same people premium tariffs for power. If DisCos want to own the asset, they must refund the people who paid for it.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
Simple answer is - Government.
As Awolowo said back in the day, "if you think education is expensive, try ignorance".
Forget all these populist talking points for a moment. Comparing Nigeria to Iran doesn’t answer the funding question: Who funds the universities?
Universities are capital-intensive institutions. Quality requires funding for lecturers, laboratories, research, infrastructure, technology and maintenance. Iran’s higher-education system itself combines substantial public funding with fee-paying segments; it isn’t simply a case of universities operating without somebody bearing the cost.
So the real question is: what sustainable funding model do you propose for Nigerian public universities, given government revenue, competing budgetary demands and Nigeria’s historically low education expenditure?
Saying “Iran does it” isn’t a funding model.
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
All wars in Africa have, at their root, a fight for mineral resources
I have long maintained that the “bandits” are a cover to drive out the population, and then illegally mine for free
Just like the Niger Delta militancy was a cover to bunker oil
If you drive in the Jos Plateau, you will be amazed at the open artisanal mining happening there openly, and of course it has drawn in the killers.
This nation has to command its borders and interior space; if we allow non-state actors the power to mine or impose taxes on miners, there will be no nation
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
I took my time to read the document released by the Minister of Finance.
It confirms my belief that Nigeria's problem is not a lack of revenue, but rather how that revenue is spent.
Nigeria removed the PMS subsidy and borrowed heavily; however, only 1.1% of that borrowing was allocated to education—yes, just 1.1%.
If Nigeria had dedicated N1 trillion to education, would it have caused a catastrophe? Where are those who constantly argue that Nigeria can't afford free education? The revenue is available, but the priorities have not shifted.
The saving grace is that leaders like Ahmadu Bello, Obafemi Awolowo, and Nnamdi Azikiwe understood the importance of investing in both human resources and infrastructure simultaneously.
Nigeria has made poor choices regarding its revenue.
🤖 Made with AI
Damimola Olawuyi retweeted
You wanna know why every capital market operator is working overtime to sell Dangote Refinery’s IPO?
₦41 BILLION.
That’s how much Dangote Refinery is spending to make this IPO happen, and the CMOs are going to get a piece of the pie, which is performance based.
For context, some companies listed on the NGX don’t even generate ₦20 billion in revenue.
So when they call it the “IPO of the people,” they’re not just talking about the investors.
The entire capital market is about to eat. 💰
