Something's bugging me It's this I've got this boat here, right? Oh, look at that thing. That's beautiful boat. I've recently upgraded it to be super amazing and You know what I did was for anyone who missed it stuck a nice battery up in the front here it's you know made by those guys and And 24 volts 100 amp hours beautiful, and I got a nice charge controller in here that's charging the battery and that power is a motor that's back here and I Tested this the other day It was fast like pretty fast and I've got pedal power on this boat Up here pedals and this big gear Well, you can't really see the gear part Got your parts turns another gear down there Which turns a shaft that goes all the way down there back and out the bottom here, right? So this is the pedal power propeller and then back there is the motor power propeller and Let's take a quick peek at the motor Real quick. There's a motor in there Very nice very nice. It's got a shaft that goes down through there out to the back Okay, so what's the problem here? The problem is this boat goes fast enough on the motor now that I don't think the pedal power Can even Go fast enough To keep up with what's going on like I think even if I'm pedaling pretty hard. It's causing more drag than propulsion and This battery that I've got up in the front here is It's got 2,560 watt hours of energy in it Which means I can drive this boat full speed for like two and a half hours Which means I can basically drive on the battery power like anywhere I go any time Plus I've got the solar panels up here, you know charging the battery and doing the motor and everything So like I can basically drive this thing all the time on battery power and if I'm if I'm going as fast As I do on battery power I think the pedals the whole pedal situation is just slowing things down I really like having the pedal power because I like having something to do I like having exercise but I Don't want it to be there Slowing me down that seems kind of silly to you know Have something that's actually slowing down the boat just so I can get some exercise You can just do do some other things to get exercise. So And I've been thinking about this for a while I think I'm gonna take off This propeller down here, and I was thinking about it the other day I'm pretty sure that if I Well, I'm gonna have to be Cut it very carefully To get it off without you know damaging the hull itself But I'm pretty sure I can handle that if I cut it off right. I'm pretty sure I can reattach it Fairly easily By having a pipe that goes inside that part and inside that part because there's enough space There's a bearing down here like a roller bearing as long as I keep the connector pipe above that I'll still be able to reconnect it later, and then I Could do the same thing up here. I can cut this Take this whole thing off And to reattach it in the future I can have a pipe that goes up inside here and in there and Make it so it's reconnectable and then the pedals I can all this all just comes off from bolts But then the the post I can do the same thing cut it down near the bottom And I'll just leave a little stump there, but make it so I could reconnect and I don't think I would read need to reconnect it Anytime soon because this this battery supposed to last a really long time But that was the only thing really Preventing me from taking the pedal power out Was that I was thinking if I take it out. That's it. It's out but Yeah, I'm pretty sure I could take it out and put it back in You know While I'm on the topic of things to possibly do to this boat There's another thing I've been thinking about doing and this this is not an immediate thing and this is just I don't know We'll see where this goes, but I Could put hydrofoils on this boat now I wouldn't be able to lift the boat completely out of the water with hydrofoils because You know the motor propeller is right back there. That would still have to be in the water But I could lift the boat up to the point where there's just a little bit of boat in the water. I Could get the both pontoons totally up and just have a little yeah Just like a little streak of boat in the water It would way way reduce the amount of boat, you know being dragged through the water So I might think about doing something like that Although first let me get this propeller off. I also Could definitely do with getting the rest of these little little barnacles off I still have a little bit on there bit of stuff. It's not too bad Oh, I'm actually doing it. I'm actually doing it. All right, let's just do it These are the rollers in the roller bearing at the back You know, it's like they're all in great shape Good stuff. All right, everything detached down there Everything detached up here Oh, yeah, all the way down to the bottom I'm thinking I can cut that right about there Cut this down toward the bottom somewhere But before I do those I want to take care of this So I'm thinking I get an angle grinder and just very carefully Cut it and then do the same thing on the other side And then I'll probably have to do a little bit of touch ups All right, I just need to make sure I don't I don't get into the boat because like all right I have to cut through into the pipe Into the pipe cavity not into the boat cavity because then the boat will sink, you know Oh, it looks so naked Missing that whole propeller area So while I was cutting that piece off and grinding it nice and smooth I realized I'm never putting this pedal thing back in If I want to put a pedal thing back in I'm going to make a paddle wheel Because then I don't have to worry about the propeller sticking out the bottom and you know, that's that's always a thing I'm worried about hitting on reefs or if I pull the boat up on a beach now.  So hopefully that'll get the spray foam to conform to the shape pretty well And then I think after The spray foam is cured I can you know sand around the area on this side and the other side And then put a couple sheets of fiberglass in there and just just fiberglass and all over Smooth it real nice and smooth and just just make it a permanent thing and then With these guys, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna cut them right off and not worry about it Yeah, I'm liking this and my secondary Power source will be this here excellent paddle. That's a pretty good paddle. I made it like five or six years ago still in good shape Oh and before I put the the sheet of plastic under the spray foam I did wax the sheet of plastic I'm not sure if it even needs it if it would stick to spray foam or not But if it's waxed it should come off pretty easily All right, let's see how we did yesterday. That's pretty good Nice a bit off the front there to smooth it out And go over this whole area with a bit of fiberglass maybe just Up to here Pretty good. All right Not bad on this side too I'll at least need some trimming But I have to sand all the way around it anyway So the new fiberglass will stick And luckily I have some polyester resin for the fiberglass Left over from I don't know what All right angle grinder with a flap wheel Some sandpaper a file a knife between all this stuff. I should be able to get that Nice and smooth and streamlined. What am I looking right there? Yeah Oh, this side was pretty easy to do Like 30 seconds with the angle grinder to the sanding I do want to make sure I rough this up really good so the fiberglass sticks So I want to be driving fast and water gets up under the fiberglass pops the whole thing off I'm also not 100% sure This foam won't dissolve in the polyester resin But it's Oh, no, I need to test it I was thinking it would be fine, but now I'm realizing It might not be I need to look with the material Okay, I've got internet confirmation That that resin the resin I'm using polyester resin will not dissolve this spray foam stuff And I've also got a little piece left over from yesterday. I put a bit of resin right on there Seems to not be dissolving in okay Double confirmation. I think I'm good All right. The other side was pretty quick too Man, that looks amazing If I can get it this smooth after I get the fiberglass on it, I would be psyched Okay fiberglass Not very much just as a little area here It's going to go down this side and up the other side. That's going to be a little bit tricky Without someone on the other side because I'm going to have to get it stuck on one side And the other Maybe I can reach up under and kind of stick it Yeah, I'll figure it out. All right. I want two pieces of fiberglass One to go right there. Okay, that's man one So at the top of that cover Looks about right Yeah There's a big piece of waxed paper and some duct tape just in case after I get the fiberglass on it's like starting to fall off And I need to like put something there. I don't know how this is going to go Okay, I got a roller. I don't wouldn't normally I wouldn't normally use a roller on something this small But this has to be pretty exact. This is an important thing. I need to get this As good as possible All right, I guess I better go get my resin Mix them up See how it goes There's my well partial gallon of resin Put some in this old pan that I've been using for this And I've put some paint tint in it a little more So I often tint my Fiberglass like none of this black stuff is painted. That's all got tint mixed in with the fiberglass Man that went on really nice I even got it up the other side. No problem All right second piece I almost want to let this one Cure first Let's just get the second one on so that the fibers can all mix together and everything Pull slightly risky getting the camera out while I'm doing this But it's going so well I think that'll stay long enough that I can just go to the other side and Pull that up. I don't want to do it from this side I'll smoosh out these Feather it out a bit So I don't want like a hard edge along here Where it could separate like that would be the spot it would separate kind of want some stringy fibers And then this is all going to be sanded smooth anyway. I just want to kind of give it a uh Not clearly defined edge So the universe has more difficulty figuring out how to peel it off Okay, well that went amazingly well Now I just need to let this harden Run over it with sandpaper a little just to knock off any little Little fibers that are sticking out and roll over it with some more resin Thick enough layer that I can smooth that layer Uh sand that layer smooth And not get down to the 50s and then I'm good Well, this is great. Okay. Now. I'm kind of getting excited about not having that propeller down there Sure, I don't have pedal power man. It's going to be so much easier to get this boat in and out of the water Because I was always so concerned about you know, there's this propeller sticking out down here You know when I'm putting the boat in the we kind of make sure it doesn't hit the bottom Oh, I don't have to worry about that at all. I could pull this up on a beach. Oh, this is great Oh, this is gonna take hours to cure so Well, that's going on I think I'll take this stuff off this and that I'm just gonna do with the hacksaw You know when I used to get resin in town It was always a race to use it before it hardened But uh, I guess in the last year or so They're getting slow cure hardened or slow Slow cure resin So it takes a lot longer to to harden now I kind of wish I had some of the the fast cure stuff and I did put the upper limit of how much hardener I can put in so That's all I can really do. All right Well, that's hardening.  That's right there. So I put spray foam in from the bottom I guess I got all the way up to here too, but it didn't make it a little further Maybe I can put a bit in up from Maybe I can put a bit in from up here just to fill in fill in the rest All right. Now this guy Since I'm permanently taking these pedals out They decided I'm not going to put this back in ever I want to cut this as close to flush with the floor as possible, which is why I got the hacksaw hoping They can kind of get it like Right in there, but I'm gonna have to be careful not to you know cut the hole, of course Oh, it's pretty good Maybe I'll get an angle grinder and get a little bit more out of there I don't know. I think it's fine. It's so spacious. I don't know how to have in order to put my feet I used to always put them on the pedals Maybe I should put a little flat thing down here or Eh, whatever Oh, yeah, that's totally fine Ah, that's pretty good too. Oh, that's that's actually really good. Oh, that's that's totally how I'm driving That's actually how I would drive when I got tired of pedaling. Anyway That's pretty comfortable And with this all this space here I can put like a kid back here. Maybe I'll put an extra chair You know, we're just uh, yeah, the chairs are just these wood things Um, maybe I'll just put cargo here Oh, it's nice having this extra space sweetness All right charge controller looks like it's still doing all the right stuff. That's good All right, come on. How how long are you gonna take this? Oh Yeah, waiting for resin to cure It's like worse than waiting for paint to dry Oh, the paint dries kind of fast. There's resin Hours it's gonna be hours


94% of elected offices are with tribunal as INEX credibility sings. An environmental disaster of plastic pollution in Lagos state. Those are two of the things we'll be discussing this morning. And of course there will be off the press where we try to X-ray the headlines that made it to the front pages of our national dailies. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. My name is Nyam Ghul Aghaji. It's a wonderful Thursday morning, entrepreneurial Thursday. And we're hoping that whatever business you're doing, you have insight into what will make you even prosper more. No matter how difficult the times might be, you know, there's always a way out. Well, as we welcome you here this morning, we want to just look at some of the things that pranked our interests as it is. The Pope has urged efforts to avoid humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. He made this call on Wednesday for the efforts to be made to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and express concern at risk of a widening of the Hamas-Israel conflict. While he did not explicitly mention the blast that tore through a hospital in Gaza late Tuesday killing hundreds of people, the 86-year-old head of the worldwide Catholic Church spoke at the end of his weekly audience of his worry at the possible widening of the conflict, particularly while there are so many fronts already open across the world. The Pope asked for all sides in the conflict to let their weapons be silent and to let the cry of peace be heard. He expressed his belief that war does not resolve any problems but rather spreads death and destruction while increasing hatred and multiple revenge. According to him, war erases the future. Now, speaking in front of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, he urged believers to only take the side of peace and call for a day of prayer, fasting and penance on October 27, including a gathering in the evening at St. Peter's Square. He invited members of different Christian denominations and other religions to join in. Also, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Idohu Iwo-Hua has ordered the removal of the divisional police officer of the Meron Police Station in Lagos State over a left extortion. An engineer named Ibrahim Saliu had earlier claimed some policemen attached to the Meron Police Station in Lagos State extorted 200,000 Naira from him on Saturday. According to Saliu, the officers alongside the station's DPO threatened him and his brother with jail time should they fail to provide receipts for the phone's scene with Saliu's brother. He said, and I quote, the DPO took the iPhones, removed the warranty stickers and declared that my brother and I are thieves and armed robbers. End of quote. In his allegation, Saliu claimed that the DPO gave his officers an order to detain him and his brother for stealing and armed robbery. He also disclosed that he was asked to make a 500,000 Naira payment to secure the freedom and, after agreeing to 200,000 Naira paid in cash, pay the officers' order. In a tweet confirming the incident on Wednesday, the State Police Public Relations Officer Benjamin Houndain disclosed that the CP Lagos had ordered the immediate removal of the Meron Police Station DPO for leadership, the relection and supervisory ineptitude. The tweet also revealed that all the officers involved had been identified and were currently at the command headquarters where their orderly room trial had commenced. In so many instances, we berate the police force, the army, whatever other security agencies that we can find doing something that we do not like. But when they do something that we do like, we should applaud them as well. This is a good lesson, I hope, and we all hope that all other people will borrow a leave from, all the other officers that extort the citizen will borrow a leave from here and be in line. It is to keep the peace that they were employed to do. It is to keep our territorial integrity that the army was employed to do. And so many other things that the security agencies were employed to do should be the things they should be doing instead of extorting people.  Maybe nothing will happen to you and you will be safe, but the image is really bad. And if things like this happen more often where airing police officers are brought to justice, then people will start to have confidence in the police force again. So we applaud the CP for doing what he has done. We do hope that the removal of the Marron Police DPO is not just to remove him to another station, but he will be punished accordingly. And every other person who is an accomplice will be punished. And we get to know how the punishment went and how much he's serving, if it is jail time and everything, not just an orderly room trial. And after that, that transferred maybe upknot where we don't get to see them again. The next story that we were interested in is the fact that the Senate has confirmed the nomination of Olukoye De and Hamad Joda as EFCC chairman and secretary. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Olukoye De and Mohamed Hamad Joda as the chairman and secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, respectively, and also confirmed along with the duo was Halima Shehu, as the chief executive officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA. Olukoye De was named acting chairman of the EFCC months after Abdul Rashid Bauer, former boss of the Antigraft Agency, was suspended by the president. During the screening and confirmation, Olukoye De highlighted that several of Nigeria's institutions and systems had been overwhelmed by financial crisis and said to putting a stop to it without fear or favor and in accordance with the law. He added that he would prioritize prevention over enforcement. We wish him well, Olukoye De, for the past few administrations as it is, we've seen that EFCC is... being the chair of EFCC is like sitting on a hot seat. You never know what will happen tomorrow. We have the case of Magu, we have the case of Bauer, we have so many other cases of people who superintendent over EFCC being disgraced out of office. And not only EFCC, every promising... every institution where we see people that are very promising and getting results, sometimes we see these same people being disgraced out of office, we will never know what these people do to get the results that they get, but when we see in public space that they did XYZ that was not really lawful, we begin to wonder what happened. We remember the case of Keari, we don't know what has become of him right now. He used to be called a super cop. At one point he had a standing ovation at the National Assembly because he was catching the criminals. Now he was also branded the criminal. Maybe he did all the things that he did, maybe he didn't do, we do not know, but for as long as you are on your seat, let history judge you kindly by what you do. We do hope that Oluqoye De will serve his term, do what he needs to do for the benefit of Nigeria and Nigerians and then retire or leave the position in peace and without any rank up. We are going to take a short break after a while we'll return with Mr. or architect Ezekiel Nyaituk as our guest on Off the Press. For now, just stay tight. It's a Thursday morning and we wish you well this morning.


Well, hello everyone. This is Byron King with Investor Intel. And today we're going to look at a company called Troilus Gold, T-O-I-L-U-S Gold. And we have the guy who runs it, Justin Reid here today. Troilus is up in Quebec. We've all heard of Quebec. And Justin, good morning, good day. Tell us and tell the viewers, what is Troilus Gold and what are you doing up there? Good morning, Brian. Thanks for having me today. Troilus Gold, well, Troilus was a past producer in northern Quebec. It operated for 14 years between 96 and 2010. It produced 2 million ounces of gold and about 70,000 tons of copper. It was operated by Inmet Mining, which you probably remember was a base metal company. And this was really their attempt to get the gold multiple as a base metal company. And you remember the days of the 80s when gold companies traded at 2x NAV and 20x Ford cash flow. And so they permitted it and put it into production. But corporately, they had copper Panama and they had La Cruces, some of the largest copper assets in the world. So corporate capital and objectives really were elsewhere. Long and the short as it was a massively undercapitalized mine, they ran out of reserve. They sent no money into the asset. And then they closed it at the end of the reserve life. We acquired it privately, took it to market in 2018, drilled a quarter million meters over the last four years, which is a huge program. And now we're sitting with 8.1 million ounces equivalent of open pitable material and our plan is to put it back into production. Oh my goodness, you've opened a book here, a book with many pages. So we're in Quebec and it's an old base metal, precious metals play for people who maybe aren't as familiar with Quebec geology as you are. I've been there a few times. Lots of Precambrian and all sorts of falting and what have you. Give a real quick overview. Why is that gold and why is all that metal there? What happened? Did somebody hit it with an asteroid or something or was there some other geological phenomenon? No, we're not quite an asteroid. You've probably heard of the Abitibi. A lot of the years have happened. The Abitibi is one of the most prolific gold belts in the history of the world. Over 200 million ounces produced in countless number of mines. We're in the Frotet Evans Greenstone Belt, which is just the name of the geologic domain. It is the exact same rocks, exact same age, exact same metamorphic grade or structural level of structural complexity as the Abitibi. The only differences were located 250 kilometers to the north and we're buried by 20 meters of glacial sand and till and gravels. The Abitibi was exposed. It was easy to find gold and copper. It was easy to explore. We were far more difficult because we're buried. You had to look below it. To look underneath this cover, you have to use geophysical techniques and geochemical techniques. 50 years ago, they weren't as advanced as they are today. We've got control of this for the Frotet Evans Belt. We have 1,400 square kilometers and we're putting modern techniques to work with great success. That's the beginning of a fabulous story. We've heard this before with other companies. You've got very little in the way of outcrop, but you've got 20, 30 meters of glacial outflow and everything, which could be anything. In my experience up there, the absolute bedrock could be doing this, but the surface is flat as a pancake and trees and lakes and all that sort of thing. You've done geophysics. I heard the number 250,000 meters of drilling. That's a lot of meters. It's a lot of meters. Have you put into exploring this thing? Over a hundred million? Over a hundred million dollars, a quarter million meters of drilling, but we inherited an underground resource at Troilus. That was all that was left of about 1.5 million ounces. We are now sitting with 8.1 million ounces equivalent, all open pitable over a strength length of eight kilometers. We have five drills turning now and we're drilling between seven and 10,000 meters a month as we speak. Holy smokes. When you mentioned the number eight million ounces, that's a tier one asset that any large producer would absolutely look at. Do you have, shall we call them, visitors to your site looking at things? Well, let me put it this way. Of course we do. Whether you like Troilus or not, you can't have 8 million ounces in Quebec without everybody at least having an opinion. And so, yeah, we're a busy place both with our team. We have a 100-man camp and yeah, we have lots of visitors come through. Shareholders come through and the Frottad Evans spelled as a whole is really becoming quite an active place. We have Seona Lithium out of Australia to the south of us. They have the Maudland spodumene deposit. Sumitomo basically surrounds us on an exploration side. So, lots of activity up there right now and it's great that we had first mover advantage. Absolutely. So, Troilus Gold, tell us a little bit about the company itself, your share structure, who are some of your major holders, analyst coverage, things like that. Give us a rundown on that, please. We have just under 200 million shares out. We're about 170 million dollar market cap right now, unfortunately, but I think that's the opportunity. We have both 30 million dollars in the bank. We're very well capitalized. My background really is on the institutional side of investors after I'm a geologist by training. So, we're about 60% institutionally held and our largest shareholders include investment Quebec, the case, fund solitaire de Quebec. All the large Quebec-based government-run pension funds are our largest shareholders. In fact, own almost 20% of our company. Our management team owns just under 10% of our company and then the large global resource funds. So, Franklin, Ruffer, Sprott, really well held. We have 58 institutions that own our name and then about 30% retail. So, for retail out there who may be watching this video, where would they find your shares to trade and what exchanges? We trade on the TSX Bigboard under ticker TLG. We trade over the counter on the OTCQX and we trade in Frankfurt as well. To your earlier question, we have seven analysts that cover us right now from the various brokers. So, well covered by the street. Right. So, you're a significant size in terms of market cap. The 8 million ounces, have you pretty much finished your exploration and you're moving into a development phase or is there more to explore? Are you in that sort of zone between advanced exploration early development? And there's those curves that people, the La Sonde curve. The La Sonde curve. And I follow the La Sonde curve and I believe in it. First of all, our 8.1 million ounces, we put out almost two years ago. We have since drilled 125,000 meters. So, we'll have a new resource out in July and expect growth to continue significantly. So, I'm meaning like two months from now. Two months from now, exactly. We put out a PEA two years ago as well, our pre-feasibility, which is really a major technical event, but also kicks off our permitting, which is underway. We'll come out about the same time. And we're envisioning a 35,000 ton a day operation for 25 years, producing 250,000 ounces of gold a year plus about 25 million pounds of copper. It's going to be a top five in Canada. It's going to be the third largest gold mine in Quebec and probably it will be the largest copper producer in Quebec. However, five drills are still going.  And it's a cliche when a CEO says, oh, we're open in all directions. But I use the term, it's not that the in-met, the previous operator did bad work. They did no work. And it's because corporate objectives were elsewhere and that happens all the time. So we're systematically moving along the belt, expanding the ore body. We don't need more ounces, we need good ounces. And so we have a major regional exploration program underway, which I think will help mitigate the impact of that boring development cycle that we have in La Sance. So we're going to have more discoveries. We're going to have exciting news. We're always going to have news to the market while we engineer and go through the less sexy stuff. Well, thank you so much, Justin. We wish you well. We wish Troll as well. And safe operations. And one last thing, COVID is so over.  Yeah, right, COVID, it's over, man. I was on an airplane and I wasn't wearing a mask and I was loving it. It's time to get out there and start to do real things.  It's time to get moving and get the world moving again. So a company like Troll is, boy, I'm glad we could have this talk. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Brian.