Topic: Help end this phase for Nigerians @Theymos (Read 1034 times)

If a girl or woman dressed up well and moved on the street and no boy or man called her to discuss about friendship or tell her that she is beautiful or eye her to tell her beauty, when she go home she will ask her friends in the compound or her siblings in the house to Know if she is beautiful or her dressing or makeup is good.
And also if a son or a daughter asked his or her father for something and the father is silenced about that, no respond from him for months and they consistently asking yet no reply. The child or Children would feel bad. And hat has caused Children and father's discloseness in families. Children love their parents when their demands are meant in the family. This also caused deviate behaviors from the family. These are stories from literature figures of speech.

Now from my first story here to the OP request. Is it that our efforts in the forum is not recommendable? Is it not beautiful enough to attract the admin? Because we have been moving around on the forum (posting, contributing and making comments) to Develop bitcoin even off and online, but we have not been noticed by Sir Theymos.

The second story also portrayed the unanswered mood of the father (Theymos) about the request. If Nigerians in the forum are not yet qualify for the partition board for them, at least a clause from him would have douse the tension from. Is it that he is not online all these while or he has not seen the thread? Nigerians will be very happy if a word comes from him.

All for the request.

Haven't been silent on the matter ever since my creation of this thread, I think that earns me the right to bump this thread again for a review and consideration by Theymos if deemed fit. Following recent statistics from @Rikafip and @Igehhh. The Nigerians on the forum have maintained a high profile in all that concerns them us on the forum and have been doing its most to ensure that bitconntalk is upheld at its most.

From @Igehhh's recent stats [CHARTS] Monthly Overview Of The Unofficial Nigeria Local Board📈, information #73 we've got about 49 ranked members from Jr.Member+ without giving consideration to newbies for obvious reasons and these users are actively involved in discussions on the Nigeria (Naija) hangout and presented stats by @Rikafip [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity, information #368 Nigerians continues to show a precedent progress in all considered aspect to the study despite the fact that, we now occupy a more temporal hangout to the later.

It remains our hope that we be considered given abridged qualifications to our request. Thanks!

Thanks for your support/ genuine word's at the moment we need the local section, You've done great.
Honestly, I think you should honestly leave the forum and go work with FBI. Just too smart and intelligent.
Yeah indeed, Bumping Upwards!

And if Theymos does finally, imma hand him a Black Nigerian Lady. How bout that ?  

Hey, Yo Big T! You can see huh ? Sure you can, we anticipating 4 your response.

Thanks lovesmayfamilis for your unbiased assessment. You've written as objective as it can be on this issue. It can't be truer than it's already. I see the great work and effort you also put in this forum to help make it better. As a colleague, I appreciate your effort in all you do. Come to think of it, there are a good number of our members here who have embarked on sensitizing rural and urban Nigerian towns about Bitcoin and this forum. Brainboss and a few others did that in the past during the charitable campaigns and there are some who still conduct seminars in this regard. A local board for us is a win for this forum. We're partners in progress.

Thank you for the kind words mate. To be honest i am more confident of the outcome of this request than i previously was, i am pretty sure sooner rather than later we would get an update (hopefully positive) from the admin. I am also sure quite a lot of us never expected our request to be granted immediately, those of us that have been around for quite a long while know that it takes time before 'new things' are implemented in the forum, so on the strength of that we can be somewhat certain that the silence we are currently greeted with doesn't denote a no for an answer to our request.

Having said that, everyone should just go about their business of contributing to the forum with as much effort they can offer, and also to keep the local thread active as we wait for some sort of response from the admin.

I would also like to support the request of these guys to create a separate local section for them. Watching them, I see that these guys are almost all very friendly and honest people. I will not speak one hundred percent, but I have not found cheating and plagiarism among the Nigerian brethren. Friendly people who try to honestly participate in the life of the forum. This is a good example for everyone else.

So here are my two cents in support of establishing a Nigerian local partition.

Guys, keep being so efficient.

Patience is indeed a virtue, I think at the right time, one thing is sure that, Nigeria will sure have her local board. The longer the wait for anything, the more it's worth it! We all just have too keep putting energy till our wish been granted.

As per the Naija pigin matters, that makes us Unique!! This should be the general language for us!
make we no fall hand as e dey be! Pipu weh wan cap phoneh, make them cap , make we just dey in unity and this nah the only thing weh go dey push us forward. Much love my broddys, y'all Black, Strong n Gorgeous 🖤

My broda, na dat wan even dey pain me pass sef and with those of owa brodas wey dey like speak phoney join.

Anyone, that as it may be; we aren't resting on our oars. We shall continue to paddle until we get to the seashore. Good things aren't easily achieved. That's my consolation whenever what I'm trying to achieve continues to elude me in my mind's eye. The Nigerian community here has continued to grow in leaps and bounds. Outside here, the Nigerian crypto community remained unfazed even when there was a ban on crypto activities in Nigeria till a time now that the government is reconsidering its actions to unban and then regulate it. We're letting our government know that crypto is the way to go.

Thank you Poker player, Rikafip and others supporting us in this request. All I know is that theymos will grant our local board request. What I don't know is when it will happen. We shall keep making good posts in this thread and other threads of our local board request and in the whole forum.
Approving the board will encourage us to do more, not approving it will not discourage us, but for fairness to the largest black race and the giants of Africa, we will appreciate if our request is being granted.

I have gone through the other thread and this one and I get offended by some people who are against the Naija official board because they feel we don't have another official language except the English we were forced to speak but you guys don't live here in Nigeria. Here, hardly you find somebody who can read and write who doesn't understand what pidgin is all about, this is what we use to communicate with locals, traders, and local marketers who cannot flow with English and they all understand it regardless of how you put it, they always understand the pidgin.

The fact that one of the world's leading news organizations, BBC^[1], gave us an Official Naija pidgin website to read through popular posts and what's going on in Nigeria demonstrates the importance of the pidgin language.

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[1] https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/topics/c2dwqd1zr92t

Thank you (and other non-Nigerians) for your word of encouragement on this demand of ours for a local board. We shall not relent or rest on our oars on this too. Honestly, this is going to be a win–win for this forum. Our contributions and involvements in the crypto space are immense. It's not a mere saying. There are statistics to show for that. I earnestly think the handlers of this forum should consider our plea as that will further enhance activities and businesses for this forum and the entire crypto community in general.

There are three factors that authorities always used to create institutions, Organisaon, Boards, Offices and States, etc and I believe the Moderators and the administrators in this forum are also using two factors to consider the creation of any Board in the forum

1. Political Factor
2. Social Factor
3. Economic Factor

The Political Factor is all about the leadership of the Board. Can they rule themselves? They have to scrutinize the personalities in the community to select a leader that accountability, Transparency, submissive, humble, Trustworthy, truthful and hardworking to control the board. So probably they are discussing or deliberating on the matter in hand.

2. Social Factor. This is the demographic population of the requested Board, how many newbies, Jr. Members, Members, Full Members, Sr. Members, Hero members and Legendaries are there to create the board, if they are not many they can fuse themselves in the platform or attached themselves to one Thread. But if they are much and floating in the forum here and there, there is no way a BOARD will not be created for them to gather in one place.

3. Economic Factor. I believe this forum will not use this factor to create a board for the Nigerians in the forum. This factor means, If I create this board what will they produce for the sustainance of the board and the forum. And this not use by the authorities in the forum to create a board. And if this is not use for a creation of a board the aforementioned first two factors have been meant by the Nigerians in the forum. Nigerians are Scattered in the forum. And creating a board will unite them in one fold.

I agree with you Mr igehhh, and I think in this matter, the silence means progress, and not neglect.
Come to think of it, if theymos was not going to grant us our request, then he probably would have replied to this thread, stating it can't be done, and maybe close the thread so the conversations don't linger on, making the thread a long one and yet empty.

So I personally think that he's silence on this matter means progress, and I have this feeling that our Nigeria local board is already done and waiting to be deployed, he (theymos) is only waiting to see how persistent will be be, so I urge us not to relent, let's keep pushing and making sure this thread remains on the top in this meta board, we are close to achieving that which we long desire.

Iirc it was @dkbit98 who started all that process once again.


That's true we took initiative and finally got our child boards (must admit I was pessimistic about our chances). I remember talking to Cyrus on bitcointalk Discord server about the case as well as he used to be quite active there.

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Yep, that's the only way to eventually get your own local board and just because no one from the forum staff is answering here in this thread (or the other one) doesn't mean that they are not listening, it's just that they are very careful with these kind of things due many local boards eventually becoming inactive.

I remember that. But I think the admins were quite fast to respond in our case when they were PMed with our requests. Was it marlboroza or dkbit98 who contacted them? I forgot. We voted on which child-boards we needed, explained how the local was cluttered the way it was back then, and the mods agreed with us. We didn't even create unnecessary work for the staff by expecting them to move the threads to where they belong. Most of the active local members took the initiative and moved their own topics. Those were interesting days.

I would recommend all Nigerians to keep bumping this thread, always making constructive comments, obviously, until you are granted the local board for being persistant. Those of us who are not Nigerians but support you in the cause will help you in this. 

If having at least one African local board isn't considered important, I'm afraid there's more to this than we ever imagined, but I hope we're both wrong

The new forum is not guaranteed, and we may not all live to see it. Even the world's most secure site 360.cn didn't take that much to build.

Not just confusing, other members might be annoyed as well seeing couple of topics being bumped on the regular basis asking for the same thing. @Smartvirus, you might wanna consider locking this one and focus your efforts in the other one.


True, that's why I said that silence is an answer too but as you said, its no reason to give up as these things can take some time. Out of curiosity I just checked how long it took our local board to get several child boards, and it seems that more than 2 and a half years passed from the moment marlboroza created Croatian local - new child board request - moderator request back in March 2018 and we got new child boards in December 2020. And still waiting for our local mod.

Yeah, they really should. It gets confusing this way when you have multiple threads and you have to go back and forth to check what has already been said. I forgot about the other one and saw that it wasn't mentioned in this one.

I hope I am wrong for the sake of the Nigerians, but if you haven't received any response after all this time, I am afraid the admins don't consider it that important of an addition. Maybe in the new forum. No reason to give up though.

Our leader C.Brainboss has been sending PMs to both administrators since last month and has yet to receive a response, so for the time being, we are bumping the thread and pretending it has not reached the eyes of Thymos. Sometimes silence indicates progress, and other times it indicates neglect. We are still waiting with bated breath.

Silence is also sort of an answer but that of course doesn't mean that you shouldn't keep trying and reminding forum staff about your case.


I asked the same thing some time ago  in Request for Nigeria local board, which is like their main local board request topic (imho, they should focus their efforts in one thread only) and looks like CryptopreneurBrainboss already contacted those in charge but I didn't find out whether he got any reply so far.

Have any of you from the Nigerian local thread PMed theymos or Cyrus to speak with them and see how they feel about your request? They have certainly seen the thread, but you should ask the admins are there plans to create a Nigerian local or not. Ask them what you can do to help and which sub-boards you would like to have.

There’s been no response from the moderators. I want to believe this thread is in the right board and is visible for moderators to see and do something about it. I don’t know if we will get a Yes/No response or simply silence. For me, a Yes or a No, this isn’t the right time will be sufficient. Silence gives us hope that our request may be heeded today, tomorrow or the day after!

It is no new news that Nigerians in there every day life wants to win. Even with a government that isn't supportive of its citizens and admist exploitation and the marginalisation of its people and resources, Nigerians still seeks a means to be independent and earn scares means without government interference.

Also looking at the fact that Nigerians on the forum continues to exhibit an uptrend in participation of forum activities. It would be the forum being fair to help Africa's leading and one of the worlds globally recognised bitcoin adopting nation by its people a place on the leading cryptocurrency forum.
A local board would be a big boost in the unification of Nigerians on the forum, growth of cryptocurrency that would extend to our locality as well.

Regarding what I have put in bold, I think it is the other way around. Most of them gamble more than they should.

But yes, that thread should not be considered a reason to create a local Nigerian board. On the other hand, this one created by Brainboss, could be a reason to consider creating a Nigerian local board:

Nigeria (Naija)

We can see that the thread has comments daily, although I suppose that if a local board with several sections were created, the movement seen in the thread would be diluted.

I hope you get your own local board because you really want it. But please don't use posts made in gambling boards as a reason why that should happen. I am not familiar with the post quality in that particular thread that you linked to, but many other discussions in the gambling boards have the same problem. The people posting there have no idea what they are talking about. They don't know much about sports, they probably don't watch it either, and they don't gamble. Check out the amount of spam that is generated every weekend when most of the football action takes place. There are hundreds of posts about half-time and full-time results, who scored the goals, and in what minute. You will rarely see someone make a comment about a particular situation that happened in the match where you would see that the person actually watched it and decided to share his thoughts.   

Another benefit i noticed as regards Nigerians having their local board was when i discover the large numbers of Africa football fans at the gambling sections who on a daily basis engage on football discussion and this thread was created by cryptopreneurbrainboss and i can see how active the thread has been, this means that we could as well get more members into our Nigeria (Naija) thread as well if granted a local board were all discussion will be suitably discussed at a course.

• The statistic supporting a local board for the Nigerian community have been laid out already and in several posts

• The problem with communicating through a local thread has also been expressed as it reduces the flow of discussions as well as maing it a difficult read,

• The solution to this problem would be a local board with possible child boards which would give more legitimacy to the community, connect more Nigerians on the forum and make it easier for information to be passed around.

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I'm also requesting theymos to consider the plea of the members of the Nigerian community for a designated local board.

This is also my major problem in the local hangout, this has made participating or commenting on old topics very difficult, even when one has something very important to contribute, contributing means bringing up an old discussion to mix with that which is currently being discussed at the time , and this honestly doesn't feel right or make any sense, even doing this makes the user  feel/look odd and outdated.

So, with my whole heart, I join in this appeal, we the Nigerian community plead with you @theymos and to every other person(s) whom it is their decision to make, please listen to our plea and give us a local board for the Nigerian community and Africa at large, this will aid our growth as well as the growth of this great forum.

This one is the most destabilizing of them all. Critical issues which require in-depth and concentrated dissections get lost even before conversations begin on them. Besides the point that yolking all together in a single thread makes it look haphazard, it doesn't bring out the best form of communication and information dissemination among users.

I know this is a mere hypothetical scenario but in reality life itself is a huge risk. Hopefully, it doesn't get to that.

You're a man of wisdom. That expression of yours wrapped in that adage is apt and Solomonic. Na better yarn you throw there so.

Thank you Smartvirus for this thread, I call it a remindal thread. When I became a member of this forum, many people were already requesting for the local board. Initially, I thought that since our thread is pinned there's no need for local board anymore, not until I saw how important topics get buried in the thread. It's very boring creating different topics under one thread.
Again, the existing Nigerian thread is self-moderated, we can lose it if the OP is attacked.
There is a Nigerian adage that says whenever a child cries and points towards a particular direction, if his mother is not in that direction, his father will be there. We Nigerians are crying and pointing your direction.

Incase you may feel there are no strong hands that will organise Nigerian board if given, let me name just a few among many of us;

CryptopreneurBrainboss
Charles-Tim
BIT-BENDER
Upgrade00
Coyster
Igehhh
Mpamaegbu
Pokapoka124
Smartvirus
And many more.
These are reputable and quality posters, who has contributed to the forum in one way or the other.
We Nigerians are looking forward to hearing the goodnews.

Nigerian local board is suppose to be justify because the numbers of people hooking up in their local board is due to give them liberty, before now the local community was not effective like before, with the turns of their users i think they deserve the board, but only challenges is that majority of them can discuss in English board.

I took a time to check the pages of the thread and i notice that they have many population who is active now. When Charles Tim created this type of thread last year i notice that they were lacking interaction.

So @ Rikafip is right, since this thread has been established by one person before other should queue up to drop their suggestions in same thread in the form of bumping thread instead of creating more and also end up with same agitation

All the statistics points towards how enthusiast Nigerian are in the cryptocurency space. Few months backs exchanges has been bringing our their trading statistics and Nigerian were also topping the charts. On the forum you can also see how active Nigerians are and many more users are gaining recognition for their works and ranking up in forum. Local board has many benefits then just a place for individual from the same geographical backgrounds to hangout. We now have higher number of established users that can guide the newbies coming in to the forum to help them avoid mistakes that are usually association with noobs both on and off the forum.

Glad to see that more users are showing interest in the struggle, I remember when many were hiding (avoiding to associate themselves with the country due to the stereotype on the net). We're more than you can imagine on the forum, and a local board would definitely bring us together. Visiting our local thread, you'll discovered people are beginning to lose interest in the conversation ongoing as multiple topics like Bitcoin, altcoin, politics & society discussion are happening at the same time. It's due time our cry gets heard.

Appreciate your suggestion, the local board request thread has been unlocked.

But isn't it better to keep that thread opened, share your sentiment about getting local board and bump it on the regular basis instead opening a new thread about exactly the same thing, like it happened now? If that thread wasn't locked, all this conversations would have happened there. Sure, someone might come occasionally and write nonsense/spam but you can always report it. Additionally, I would also share @igehhh's charts in that request thread of years on the regular basis, as another argument for your local board.

You are of course free to do do as you please, but I think that you would have better chances if you focus your efforts in one thread.


It's all about how active certain community is, and not about the size of the population. I do agree though that based on their activity here and amount of members they do deserve local board (and not just them, there is at least one more community that is very active), something I said multiple times in various threads.

The main reason (at least that's my opinion on the matter) forum staff might be hesitant regarding creating new local boards is because quite a few of them became either semi-dead or completely inactive. For example, the last one created was Japanese board back in November 2017, which used to be pretty active. Fast forward to 2022, and it's a ghost town now with few posts each month. That of course doesn't mean there shouldn't be new local boards opened ever again, but might be the reason why its been more than a five years since the last local board created.

After I saw this thread i did some research and i find out that Nigerians have a high number of cryptocurrency owners (after their government crypto restriction) than India, France, etc who already have their own local board.
I support the call that Africa (Nigeria) should have their own local board for the betterment of this forum and from what I see they have already produced a lot of reputable members for this forum.

In view of this request, I think its necessary Nigerians have their own local board owing to their contributions and represention in the forum so far.

A local board for Nigerians will also create a more sense of belonging to all Nigerians in the forum and Africans alike, and even to future African forum users.

I believe Theymos is a man of wisdom and obviously knows what it means for a group in a real society to have a feeling of sense of belonging within their ambient, "for the joy and self_actualization is one far fetch for such a people", so I literally believe that this appeal will be recognized and given the needed attention  in his person.

I fully support the request for a local Board for Nigeria, which I think theymos should seriously consider in view of this. I often interact in threads with several Nigerians on the forum and in view of their representation on the forum, the size of their country and the adoption of cryptocurrencies in the country, in my opinion a local board should be created for them.

It is not understandable that there are local boards for countries with much smaller population and not for Nigeria.

The is a very good welcoming request for the Nigerians-Africa in the forum. The struggle has been on ground, but the implementation was one of the issue. Our Epic Heros, Legendaries like
  Charles-Tim, Smartvirus, Cyrus, Cryptoprenuerbrainboss have been on this struggle to make sure that Nigerians-Africa (Pigin language) local board is created. The local thread boards that were created in this forum is hidden. And most of the newbies, Jr. Members, Members and Full members etc don't even know that such threads exist.  And also the local thread boards are so much haphazard that you will not even like to make comments there.  And the worst there is that, there is no way to create new topic thread. Most of the newbies that are from Nigeria which can't express themselves well in the English boards, can't even locate the Nigerian (naija) thread boards or the others. Personally, when I enter this forum at first, I was looking for a local board to express my experience and learn more, because most of my threads in English Boards were deleted based on lack of expression. But if it was in "LOCAL THREAD BOARD", I would have done better. And other newbies would have been doing well and learning faster.

Therefore, I am appealing to Theymos to look into this application and approve it to increase the Nigerians-Africa participation because most Nigerians are afraid to join this forum because of language barrier. When I told my neighbor about this forum, the first thing he asked me was, " I am not good in Writing English". And since he could not speak good English as I know him I also just left him alone.

Nigerians in this forum are more than other countries. Nigeria is the second to USA in Crypto adoption, that is, Nigerians youths use crypto Currencies most in Africa.   we need our board so we can freely without the fear of grammatical errors use our British-Nigeria language (Pigin English).

This is a welcome development. If the OP thread is good by the Administration of this forum, they should consider the thread and treat it with love. Love we stand, Development we Build.

I've been hearing people with the saying that Nigeria is the giant of Africa but i want to make a confirmation that it has also proven to be a giant in Bitcoin adoption and cryptocurrency in Africa at large despite the  challenges from the government and the financial institutions, this does not in any way affect we Nigerians and our commitments to crypto but instead increased active participation.

The bitcointalk.org forum have many Nigerians who have chosen to create a greater path with their influence on the forum and we all have been part of this better dispensation of knowledge and exposition this platform offers as well.

It excites me when i discover a thread was in place for Nigerians and any other African to engage in discussion in a similar manner of board discussion, which was created by one of the active forum member @Cryptopreneurbrainboss and supported by other and since then, members of the thread have been actively engaged on discussion before it was later pinned sometimes last year.

I see the need to obtaining a local board as very paramount because the Nigeria (Naija) thread have developed a large number of members and need to further expand the scope of discussion if giving a "board" whereby there will be sections to best make suitable contributions (child boards). I see having a local board will also enhance more members from across Africa at large on the forum into the Nigeria (Naija) local board.

Best luck wishes!
Nigeria (Naija) thread.

Suggested by other reputed Nigerians on this forum, so that it will not be like we are in haste to get a local board and to avoid spam. So if it is on request that I locked it, it would also be on request when I will unlock it. All were and would be discussed on our local thread for transparency.

Nice one, @smartvirus. Sorry I lack merit to splash on this thread of yours for jolting Nigerians on the forum back to the reality of their pursuit of a local board. As the most populous Africa country, Nigeria parades an enviable number of crypto lovers and traders in the world regardless of the obnoxious attitude of our political leaders to discourage crypto activities in the country. A local board for Nigeria will, inarguably, be a plus for this forum. We are an active lot. There's no gainsaying that as our activities here have proved it.

Charles-Tim, I don't know why your thread "Request for Nigeria Local Board" was locked. Perhaps, it was done by you or a mod? I had tried a few times I remembered to bump it but it was still locked.

Never mind this, just a correction. The other languages/locations board is moderated by Cyrus, which means Nigerians local thread which is a thread on the board is moderated by Cyrus. When the thread was pinned, mprep and some other moderators like Mr. Big started been actively moderating the local thread, especially mprep which actively is available if a user is constantly make consecutive posts. I understood that CryptopreneurBrainboss created the thread, which was self-moderated. This only means that the thread belongs to Brainboss and can do whatever he likes to the thread, but he is not like that, we vote and follow principles, but I wonder what would happen if Brainboss's account is compromised (which I wish not to happen) and the self-moderated thread is deleted. That would be all to all efforts we have on the local thread. This is just my opinion about this.

Above all, it would be nice if theymos gives Nigerians what we have been seeking for. I know so far we can achieve the local thread being pinned, we can also one day achieve having a local board. What is discouraging about posting on a single thread created for a local community is the discussion of 1, 2 or more topics together in just a post which makes it not to be well specific to different threads which is frustrating at times.

It’s high time we revisit this application. SmartVirus comments highlight the views of all Nigerians on the forum. We get a lot of activity on our local threads even though it is kind of hidden and difficult to find. Discussions are scattered because one person may be talking politics and another brings a discussion about latest development of bitcoin in Africa, it’s a mess and a lot of hard work to make it not look like a mess. I had hoped the community awards would help remind the forum we are still here.

Good job mate, am not fully acquitted with the requirements for local board creation, but I think we the Nigerian community are most deserving of a local board this is evidenced in the level of Bitcoin adoption by the 9ja youths and the 2021 statistics has shown Nigeria to be the highest in cryptocurrency transactions and adoption in Africa and globally this is made possible by Nigerians between the age of 20 to 40 years who are the youths.
9ja the Giant of Africa
Checking through population statistics Nigeria happens to be the highest in terms of population in Africa and also the highest in cryptocurrency adoption, Nigerian have played a significant positive role in the development and adoption of Bitcoin/cryptocurrency and this has been shown in the level of crypto adoption by Nigeria youths. One of the significant events that show youth adoption of Bitcoin was the End sars protest where Bitcoin was adopted by the protesters for donations globally, this has shown a high level of confidence in Bitcoin's decentralized nature from Nigerian youths who are limited by government autocratic approach to the economic faith of it citizens the youths have taken it upon themselves to make the change happen and Bitcoin/cryptocurrency is the way out.  @Theymos this is a plead for 9ja local board please act according to the discretion of your office to see that j9a youths are given a voice on this forum by creating a local board for Nigerians on this forum so that our voice can be hard and recognized.

That is the major problem of having to discuss in a local thread rather than a local board, in the former, discussions are more or less in a somewhat haphazard manner as there are one too many discussions going on at exactly the same time or with little time difference between them, this makes the thread kind of messy and not really encouraging to communicate in, but in the latter, with active moderation all discussions would fall into their respective child boards and that creates a sort of 'harmony' while discussing Bitcoin and other issues that will be up for discussion.

This very issue is likewise affecting the Nigerian local thread, and since there is good activity on the thread, with good users making good posts, the time is prolly right for a Nigerian local board; it is still up to Theymos to make the final decision though, thus in the meantime all we can do is wait, and give him reasons to affirm to it.

I bring you greetings from Nigeria!

I write in response to the recent development in the forum, Nigerians and Africans alike. Nigeria stands the giant of Africa although, we have our flaws but, in the scale of things, we stand to represent most of the African nations in the forum and have been increasingly active on the forum. Cryptocurrency is growing at a fast pace in Africa with Nigeria as one of the largest economy on the continent, producing some significant results in the field. Africa as a continent comprises of 54 member nations of which, most of them came off the British colonies and as such, have adopted some form of English derived language known as PIGHIN (Nigerian Pighin) as a common tongue that varies per nation though relative. It becomes sad that, no African nation has a local board on the forum admist requirements met. It becomes a win situation for the forum to award a local board to the most populous and crypto involved nation of Africa forum-wise and the world, on the forum. As, it would accommodate not just Nigerians but could as well adopt other African nations that speaks and understands the Pighin language.

There have been a request for the Nigerian Local Board on the forum here on meta Request for Nigeria Local Board (By Charles-Tim and was temporarily locked by OP to give room for ther discussions and its only right to bring it up periodically. The Nigerian community has been one of the most active on the forum with its members gaining awareness and growing in numbers as well as profiling in the ranks too. That you could observe on the stats on this thread [CHARTS] Monthly Overview Of The Unofficial Nigeria Local Board📈 (Created and Update periodically by Igehhh [Begging your pardon, the stats didn't consider Newbie Users]) and you can accord some of these activeness to have come off the win that came off the success of this thread Request for pinned Nigeria Local thread which resulted in the pinning of the Nigerian hangout Nigeria (Naija) (Thread created and moderated by Cryptoprenuerbrainboss) in the other languages board. As a result, it got more popularity and activities on the forum too. I can assure you, we could get even more with the accreditation of a Nigerian Local Board as, there are more Nigerians yet to find there way to the hangout as we have it now.

In the just complete award winning and recognition exercise in the forum [Results 2021] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆 organised by icopress, revered in the forum for which users actively participated in the exercise. Our plight a Local Board came off the category, Fail of the year. A category for which the Nigerian Local Board creation came 5th in a roughly 1:5 voting ratio to the first place in that category. A deduction from the stats as collated by GazetaBitcoin found here Voting Results, Full List. Its not very impressive at all for it to have come up at all and could be kicked off that list on the part of the forum.

I could go on and on but, its sure to make a boring read sooner than later but, this is my plea, our plea as Nigerians and Africans alike on the forum to Theymos and whom ever vested with the power to make this happen, to see reasons with our request. One of the challenges we have now is he grouping of our topics/subjects for effective/exhaustive discussion as sometimes, that gets flushed rather too quickly.

Help Nigerians and Africans to find home on the forum, to discuss home and the growing field in our new world order.

Some useful Threads to this course:
[1] Nigeria (Naija)
[2] Request for Nigeria Local Board
[3] [CHARTS] Monthly Overview Of The Unofficial Nigeria Local Board📈

Best,
Smartvirus.