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@SeunEsq

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Built & exited @bloomfintech . Deciding next move. Alum @iveybusiness @westernU @OAUniversity . Gaudmire @_buildspace

Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2011
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
I’m really annoyed at the amount of stupidity this past election has exposed amongst we Yorubas. Our brand used to be that we were cosmopolitan, well read, well travelled, intellectual , welcoming, loving. Now it shows we have a strong cohort of ethnic jingoists with no belief in
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
This is exactly why Nigerians fall for Ponzi schemes
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B I G L O U I E 🫵🏾
1 year
Lol Piggyvest so funny! Saved 15M for 6 months and interest was 440K! You mean if I did business with that for 6 months I won’t make a million? You are actually mad
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
If you think Nigeria can’t get worse on repression and senseless policies like how it is under Buhari, I just want to point you to Eritrea. Even japa can be blocked off if they introduce an exit permit system. Vote like your life depends on it next year cos it really does.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Nigerians treat criticism as hating and it baffles me cos feedback is a normal part of business right?
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
You guys don't have problem that he is a serial abuser of power, that he diverted money given to him in trust, that he is unfaithful to his wife. It is the person who publicly disassociated himself from for all the above & more you have a problem with. That country ngmi wallahi.
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 years
Nigeria is gone people. I'm interviewing a corper who graduated with a HND in Accounting and she doesn't know what is a Balance Sheet. May day, may day people
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 months
Nothing I hate more than seeing “After careful consideration….” You didn’t consider nothing, STFU.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
@bottledpaul She broke their stodgy useless rituals and that family hated her for it.
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
Anyone who always sees themselves as unfairly treated by the world is someone you should be careful with. Once you believe you are always the victim, you can justify any actions you take after no matter how terrible.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
All this 23 stuff is just making me laugh, i am 30 and i am confused about which direction my life is facing. See, everybody will be alright last last
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
One thing I don't agree on is giving Benin bronzes to the Nigerian government when the Benin monarchy that it was looted from still exists. Give it back to the rightful owners. Nigeria as an entity has no claim to those artifacts.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
Never seen nonsense written so eloquently.
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Chantelle
5 years
Your partner tells you she’s had a bad day and instead of creating a safe environment for her to vent and release, you offer solutions further invalidating her emotional needs. The inability to differentiate when someone needs solutions vs an outlet is rooted in lack of empathy
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Serviced estate in the mud. Imagine not having power since 9am while paying 3.5m rent, 500k annual service charge, and c. 100k for power monthly. Only God will judge Primewaterview Limited.
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
You are not more Yoruba than I am in any way. I was born in Ile-Ife. I grew up there & in Osun state. I’m by clan an Oyo man. I have travelled all over & grew up at the foot of sage elders. While I am Christian, my family is multi-religious & I am no stranger to our traditions &
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Ben Oluwaseun
11 months
It’s a grateful year. Being moulded. I’m so thankful. This is 33, my Jesus year.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
That greatness that Indians are showcasing as business leaders across multiple industries in the US today, that will also be Nigerians in a few years.
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 months
The biggest mistake I made was not leaving for abroad sooner. The optionality when you get here in your 20s is on another level
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
PENGASSAN have released statement threatening to withdraw services nationwide if govt doesn't produce the shooters at #LekkiMassacre #EndSARS
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
When container drop on your Benz for Ojuelegba, your 24m after tax no go reach for treatment for India sha, if you make it that far. Let everyone make their decision themselves.
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If you are earning 2 million naira per month in Nigeria, don't stupidly go to UK to take health care assistant job because you want to snap in Heathrow airport and caption "Nigeria the evil you have done is enough". Na body go tell you.....
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
Detachment is all good till you realize you barely feel anything for anything/anyone anymore
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mike.
5 years
mastering detachment is such a beautiful skill.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
The point holds, Nigerians worship whiteness and anyone saying otherwise is just twerking for the TL. We see it everyday, from business to government to everyday interactions.
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
The person who introduced this bill is a PDP member in case their members keep wondering why people rejected them
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NN News Media
1 year
Bill seeking to criminalise protests in Nigeria scales through first reading
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
You go lash person babe finish dey hear as she dey wine the guy for phone, you go come dey wonder whether you fit ever marry
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
I just heard that a soldier in Ede who recently came back from fighting BH went berserk this month & stabbed over 5 people to death including his own wife and kid(s). Not seen this in any paper or anywhere else. My question is the Nigerian Army rehabilitating combatants¹?
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Two of the trafficked sex workers I had interviewed had tried to find help at Nigerian embassies in Madrid and Moscow, only to realise that the very embassy officials from whom they had sought deportation had immediately informed their pimps.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
loooooool. I know of at least 10 people in my circle who can buy a Benz from their 9-5 if they wanted to. This yarn my guy is proper dust
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The Ayò of Lagos
5 years
Your 9-5 won’t buy you that Benz. Put yourself out there dear.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Yes. Because the police are not cult boys you should use to threaten people. Defamation is a civil matter.
If you eventually find out that the accusation was false, would you still blame his reactions?
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
There’s this blocking by association thing people do that I don’t like. My guy broke your heart, now I’m blocked. No be so then dey do something na
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
@eakolawole009 You are living in Abuja, another person’s land. If not cosmopolitanism, you think you’d be at peace. If home was great, would you or I have to go live in another person’s home? It would be better for us all to focus on our own problems instead of blaming outsiders. Oduduwa agbe
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
This Lagos groundwater pollution reminds me of the cancer cluster in Ilupeju around a certain manufacturing plant and how the residents discovered how they are all dying and yet nothing happened from the govt
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
You guys that left Nigeria, what was the final straw that made you decide to leave
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 months
This right here is the problem, this arrogance. The self importance that any and everything should conform to American standards no matter how baseless in reality they are. This repudiation of the validity of the rest of the world & their opinions.
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@SemudaraAbayomi Hi Bayomi, It's not my job to conform to the way that you do things. You want to do business with Americans, you have to do things the way WE do things, not complain that we're being biased. You can say the same thing about me, which is true. But I don't care about doing any
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
I review audited & unaudited accounts of companies for a living, primarily for the past 6 years. If you have issues with the FEMCO report, highlight it and then let's see if you are right. But abeg, if you make uninformed statements, i won't hesitate to call you an idiot.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
A common fault with smart people is because they are right most of the time or at least more than the average on probabilities, they assume they are right 100% of the time. It predisposes them to being very wrong when they are and also to double down when they are.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
Kids, get all your schooling done before 30 please. Studying after that age is the absolute ghetto
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 months
For people who go on forever about about their contrarianism, tech folks tend to exhibit herd behaviour on a large scale.
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 years
Faffing around and underachieving on personal terms while managing to wow everybody else
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Ben Oluwaseun
7 years
One of the worst things about Nigeria is seeing your smart friends wasting away cos they don't have the same opportunities as you did
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
Nothing is as funny as "old money" with memories of money that has dissipated into middle class medicority; posturing and acting up cos new money is infiltrating their enclaves.
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Ben Oluwaseun
11 months
You will chop your uranium, cobalt & lithium by yourself. Africa ronu, Africa gbera
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Mokaya
11 months
The Swedish startup, Northvolt, which is backed by Volkswagen, BlackRock & Goldman Sachs, has developed a sodium-ion battery that has no lithium, cobalt or nickel. Btw the Northvolt CEO & Co-Founder has previously worked at Tesla and NXP Semiconductors
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 months
@micsolana You clearly have missed the point which is not about racism or changing his preferences. The point: assuming that a text is AI generated because of the use of a specific word is a form of bias & ignores the different styles of speaking and writing globally.
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Ben Oluwaseun
11 months
Remember one day, you will leave government & your antecedents will follow you.
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AJE
11 months
No be murda of their incoming arindin be that? 🫣
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 years
I haven't said this before on here but anyone who has worked with me has heard a version of it. Nigerians are too attached to a sense of ownership and that's why our companies don't grow. We have had major companies with wonderful business models that were scalable but never did
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
For all his foibles, you are the last person that should be talking. It is because people like you despite your access to power are useless & did nothing to help in light of manifest injustice, that elevated him to the Messiah status he has. I blame YOU particularly.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
people need to download that CNN video and put it in Facebook for everyone to see. Also upload the video as Whatsapp BCs so the older generations can see it.
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
@iaboyeji Founded but not run by Labour unions and as you well know, parties are defined by their candidates in Nigeria not the other way around
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
To anybody pushing Al Mustapha's candicacy, may the pain he unleashed on numerous persons and their families find you.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Man, the Lebanese situation is really horrible. How do you cope with your currency losing over 50% value to the dollar and then the govt compulsorily converting everyone's dollar savings to local currency at the official rate.
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Ben Oluwaseun
13 days
Again, Akata is not a slur. Oyinbo is the word for white people. Akata is the word for Black Americans. The etymology ties back to big cats like Amotekun for Leopard, Kinihun for Lion, and Alakata or Akata for Jaguars/cheetahs. Whoever told you guys it is a slur lied to y’all.
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philip lewis
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A public apology: When I was in college, I made several poor jokes with my Nigerian friends while using the anti-Black American slur "akata." I was trying to be funny but in hindsight the jokes clearly were not. I didn't fully grasp the offensive nature of the word back then,
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
I want to deconstruct that Premium times article on Peter Obi, who wants to read?
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
Some days, it's great. Got my employment confirmed today
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
I don't want fame, just wanna be rich and take care of my peoples.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
Being in someone's DMs is nothing to be ashamed of. Trying to knack or date someone is not a crime or morally reprehensible. Emancipate yourself from emotional blackmail and mental slavery
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Most of of the time, you can sense if someone is not feeling you, na stupid strong head just dey make you persist
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Nearly died today but God said not today.
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
Dropped the resignation. Solely on BloomFi now. It’s game time.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
Big corporate/tech has been trying to shift the world away from ownership towards subscription models turning humans to perpetual revenue growth machines. From tractors, ice-cream machines, TVs, music, to phones; the intent is for the consumer to own nothing & license everything
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
@Ojori_Ade This secrecy is what led terrible ideas & thoughts like that trend to fester because we keep things in secret. Now that our own people have disgraced us outside, we better settle it outside
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Ben Oluwaseun
6 years
So i promised to make a tweet about how i got into finance yesterday. So here goes. Intro: I graduated from OAU with a 2:2 & a 2:1 from Law school (Lagos), served in a village in Cross River (nearly died, another story) and worked in a small law firm in Ugep during NYSC
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Funny thing is this is how the decline started in the 80s too. One or two companies closing here and there, disposable income disappearing, middle class shrinking till we found ourselves cooking with sawdust.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
Once you realize the Twitter TL is akin to a market square & not you chatting to your friends or a place where you can talk with people assuming no malicious intent, it becomes easier not to say some things here.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
These fintech account blocking thing has convinced me 100% that oloriburuku ni gbogbo awon Daddy yin ni govt. Like what stupidity is that.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
The prevalence of urchins at major spots in Lekki will soon lead to an upsurge in crime, it is inevitable. The desperation in those eyes, the urgency with which they rap on your windows, the language they use. They see you, they know you, don't assume you are safe.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
Not a problem. Bar dey
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
The policeman that shot & killed Isiaq Jimoh in Abeokuta yesteray must be tried openly in court. No orderly room trial. @NigerianBar should gather lawyers and ask for a fiat for the prosecution #EndSARS
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Yorubas say "were dun wo, koshe bilomo". There is a form of freedom without responsibility that is encouraged here & especially to younger people. The advocates of this would never apply those principles to their own or loved ones' lives. The internet never forgets. Stay woke
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
If you bought land from LandLagos, now would be a good time to do a search at the Lands Registry and Surveyor General's office to see if you have land or not oh
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
Who is up for breakfast on me in Ikoyi?
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
Nigerians believe strongly in harsh government action as the solution to societal ills. That's why "we need a strong leader" is a common refrain in politics. We don't even expect good behaviours from ourselves or those around us (anymore). I do not know what to make of this.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
"I made a strategic decision to marry someone whose choices would also guarantee a life of comfort for me" Once again, a marriage is a merger, is yours going to be larger than the sum of its parts.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
The Nigerian psyche is traumatized. It assumes the worst, it doesn't believe in altruism, it elevates getting one over the next person as the height of intelligence, it is greedy, entitled, it adores violence, it is sado-masochistic in it's both fear and adoration of suffering.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
We excuse lots of stupid shit under the guise of being fast/smart. It is the same Nigerian "sharp guy' mentality that seeks every shortcut to get ahead. Just pure "I'm sharper than the other guy", "all of you guys on the queue are idiots" No ethics, no principles, no boundaries.
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
The babyboy is back in Lagos
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
It's been a long journey to 30. At least I can rightfully claim 30+ now. Now let's get to doing wonders as we were meant to.
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
When Nigerian women say “Nigerian men treat foreign women better” the important context that’s always missing is that foreign women “treat Nigerian men better too” Different expectations + experiences = different outcomes.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
We can banter on here about polygamy and all. But in real life, especially Yorubaland, polygamous families are proper warzones, anybody fit collect
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
Both sides of the Isreal/Palestine conflict are dishonest which is why it is annoying that people take sides so stridently
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Under any form. So you are supporting the breach of a constitutional right?
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The Lagos State Govt
4 years
The Lagos State Police Command has vowed to resist any form of planned protest, procession or gathering under any guise or nomenclature in Lagos as the government and residents of the State recover from the devastating havoc and violence unleashed by suspected hoodlums. #LASG
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Ben Oluwaseun
2 years
Everything is traumatic, invasive or abusive to you internet goons. Go outside & touch grass pls
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
@olusegini Victor Abisoye, your acuity is clearly lacking. I was born in in Ife but I’m Oyo. Fun agbalagba ti e je, she koye ki oju shona fun yin ni. If you want to know, i am an omo Oloya of Gbongan Olufi. Now if he sure for you, let’s compare our lineages, if you you even know those who
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
If you are mid-level in finance/investments in Nigeria and have no intention to move, now is the best time to move around. There is a serious scarcity of talent and you can pick and choose where to work and your terms. So go for it. Best wishes.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
What kind of silly defence is this, does the Police in New York after profiling someone by their hairstyle/tattoos start slapping them, do they kidnap you at gunpoint & force you to withdraw money or transfer to them? Abeg, don't ever try to play on our intelligence again.
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Aliyu Giwa
5 years
I was pulled over by the Police twice during my last visit to NewYork, Brooklyn to be precise. I was with my cousin when it first happened; I was asked “May we know you” and I said I am a Police Officer in Nigeria. Then I showed them my ID card. And they let us be.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
In a bid to be tolerant and accepting, don't be all accepting and lose your core.
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
We @BloomFi won. 🎈🎈
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
You can catch a livestream of me pitching here:
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Ben Oluwaseun
11 months
My problem with you people is you never have a middle ground on anything. You always pervert whatever anyone says to the person extreme. Someone is talking how people are overburdening him, some of you numbskulls have turned it to him abandoning his family. Hopefully some of you
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
Is the APC and Nigerian govt crazy? You want to apppoint a political agent as an election administrator
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TheCable
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JUST IN: Lawan asks senate panel to screen Lauretta Onochie as INEC commissioner | TheCable
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
If you like, no pray about marriage oh. When you carry wetin pass your chakra, you go sabi as e dey go.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
How do you out-build govt demolishing your building despite a court order. How do you out-build SARS picking up your CTO because he was driving a Toyota Camry & never being seen again. How do you out-build your colleague being shot at Tollgate for protesting police brutality.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
One of the first mistake people make on here especially people advocating for social justice is assuming altruism and empathy is the default or ideal state for humans when time and again it has been shown that it is self interest that drives people all over
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 months
Nobody is as deluded as Pan-Africanists. Your internal national politics are a mess of ethnic supremacists & elite capture. Yet you think kumbaya of United states of Africa is possible. You praise Ghadaffi that kept his people suppressed for decades while lavishing his country’s
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
@LeoKolade @Son_of_a_O I’d advise you study risk & statistics, model the average probability of adverse events & your survivability in Nigeria, then come back. God forbid is not a plan.
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Ben Oluwaseun
5 years
Closed one of my biggest deals of the past 2 years today. On course, we are.
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
The default reaction in Nigeria especially when related to a religious issue is to cover up first instead of justice and restitution. Do these people realize their behaviour is exactly what Jesus spoke against?
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
One of the things I'm thankful for is my mom surviving Corona. I would be lost if anything had happened.
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Ben Oluwaseun
1 year
I’m Seun, founder @BloomFinTech where we help newcomers to Canada get easier access to rental housing. For week 2 of @_buildspace @_nightsweekends , we built a toy version of our idea. We spun up this video on what BloomFi is about. Mention me to get the page link Cc @FarzaTV
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Ben Oluwaseun
4 years
Soga, I'm already successful. Go and pray so your children can be successful like me and not become politcal jobbers in their later years like you, their father.
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Ben Oluwaseun
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The more i work, the more i understand how difficult executive decisions are.
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Ben Oluwaseun
3 years
You people trivialize stuff cos country useless wallahi. That guy for done do at least 1 day for court already for serious country.
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