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Existence is a human construct!

No way

Go to tripadvisor to see what people are saying about Nicon.   There is no  5-star hotel in Nigera. 4-point Sheraton is spin off  of Sheraton group. You are more likely to find a Sheraton Hotel brand that's a 5-star than a 4-point Sheraton.

Am in the process of purchasing 320 L excavator , due to the high cost of shipping the seller advised me that they can take the machine apart and load it in a 40ft HQ container before shipping to Lagos.
My question is that, are there reliable mechanics there that can put this machine together once it get's to Lagos and how much will it cost me to do this.

Remember you would have to pay close to N1 million for clearing the 40ft container from Naija Customs. Please do your work/research very well. Naija mechanics only fix machines that are old with less electronic components.

Omolayo@
I have 3306 engines- all runners for sale and aftermarket oil filters- 1R0716. I would like to know  your Naija market gestimation/evaluation for CAT 120 Motor Grader with 3306  Engine in good running condition.

U came into this world all by yourself and will die one day by yourself, why dont you feel proud, stand up for yourself and say I'm happy to be different from the crowd. Like "Sprite" would say image is nothing, obey your thirst ie appreciate and adore yourself. maybe your next husband might be at the wedding, so renting a BF automatically shuts the door to a new relationship.

It's quite a shame that the black man is running away from his own land.

It's quite horrific and senseless that a black man is bombing and killing his fellow black folks.

So 26180 miles @ 4363.3miles /yr ie 364miles/month? Show me your VIN and I'll tell you the exact mileage?

Why using USA when you have not been to Ghana?

Asuda. Shut the Bleep up . Go find work do. Stop supporting evil doers.

is he any different from other big pastors who prey on their stupid followers?

The fear of being a failure as foretold by a brainless oracle. So I wake up everyday thinking of how to prove wrong what oracle had told my " detractors"

Naija and our big family mentality . When I tell people that I'd love to have only one child , they start calling me crazy. It's about quality not quantity.

Nigeria is doomed.  Where is our sense of descency when we accept that there is nothing wrong with those pictures? I guess anomaly is a way of life. We have accepted that we cannot be better. Btw, would any of your  kids go to such schools?

"In October 1994, General Sani Abacha hiked the pump price of petrol from N3.25 to N11 per litre, promising, with Decree 25, to set up a Petroleum Trust Fund to distribute the gains from the increase on social and infrasturctural projects"

I dont know why someone  who played a big role  increasing pump price from N3.25 to N11  about 340% should be treated differently from someone - GEJ who is trying to increase pump prices as well. Maybe its the word that is confusing us. Abacha used  'hike" = 340% increment, GEJ is using removal of subsidy  that will result in about 150% increment.

Even Epe is receiving this contract:


Keep posting concept. Naija ways of always building 100-story building in the sky instead of building a real 2 story- building on ground. i guess it's easier to dream than to do real hard work

This are Nigerian's helping other Nigerian's free of charge but still some will still go out their spoiling our good name because of their bad manners when they go to the embassies.

Nigeria and good image dont go together!

Both!!! The whole state is turning to a city. Initially, it was just the Islands but now, its the whole state even to the outskirts of Ogun state

Who be your geography teacher? So Epe is a city?

Who be this? First, must their hotel or hospital or university be in the best 10? Secondly, I challenge your claim of not having the best 10. List the best 10 hotels, hospitals and universities in Africa.

It's not my job on NL to educate you on the best institutions and countries in Africa, go and do your research.  You missed  your high school debating society's rule no 1. Dont challenge the opposing team with "that's not true" because it does not win debates, facts do.

Is Lagos a city or a state?

[b]FACTS ABOUT COL GADHAFI AND LIBYA:

· There was no electricity bill in Libya; electricity was free for all its citizens

· There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law

· Home considered a human right in Libya –Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died, while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent

· All newly weds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family

· Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%

· Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms –all for free

· If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/month accommodation and car allowance

· In Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price

· The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 (N22) per litre

· Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally

· If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

· A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens

· A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000

· Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country

Under this bad man called Gaddafi, Libyans had the highest standard of living in Africa. In 2010, the United Nations Development Programmed rated Libya as having the highest ranking in its Human Development Index for Africa. In terms of the world, the UNDP HDI statistics considered Libya better than countries such as Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil and Turkey.

Nigeria was rated one of the worst developed nations in the world in terms of the Human Development Indices for both Africa and the world. Countries such as Ghana, Cameroon, Benin Republic, Togo and even poverty-stricken Bangladesh were ranked as better than Nigeria. Even worse, Sao Tome and Príncipe that Nigeria donates money to, was said to have a better standard of living than we do.

Gaddafi’s Libya had free health care, interest free loans from banks, free education and subsidized housing. Libyan’s schooling abroad had access to not only finance for their studies but recognition for engaging in scholarly activities. While our university system progressively loses value like termite-infested wood and our graduates can’t even write essays much less books, Libya had a literacy rate of around 90% with women receiving an almost equivalent exposure to education as men. Of course, our rating is somewhere far behind them, even Tanzania and Gabon are doing much better than we are.

Petrol in Libya in March this year was the equivalent of 19 Naira per litre, subsidized by Gaddafi’s government without complaint, while in Nigeria successive thieving governments have attempted to yoke the masses into perpetual slavery by increasing the cost of petrol each year, now they are threatening to cut out subsidy and leave us with fuel at 142 Naira per litre next year.

Nigerian refineries catering to 180 million people have a combined installed capacity of less than 460,000 barrels of crude oil per day, yet we’re lucky if we get 75% of this production capacity.

Under Gadaffi, Libya’s production capacity in its refineries was for 378,000 barrels. Their population is 6.4 million people. They only use about 220,000 barrels per day for domestic uses and export the rest.

Libya under Gaddafi had total installed electric generation capacity of 6,248MW for their 6.4 million people. Nigeria have 4,000MW installed but we only see about 3,000MW of this capacity performing for 180 million people.

The inevitable in life is CHANGE and no man can claim monopoly of knowledge, I think that have warranted some Libyans for a forceful change.

Nevertheless, if Gaddafi have done so much for his people, I think having him in Nigeria will be a blessings to us.

So What's the Problem with Libyans? The long rule? Or what? Col. GADHAFI, needs to rule Nigeria for 500yrs! Pls we need Gaddafi like type[/b]

How come all his kids and family members had western education and training overseas?
How come no hospital in Libya is  amongst the 10 best in Africa?
How come no hotel  in Libya is in top 10 in Africa?
How come Libyan state oil company is not  well run like Saudi Aramco or PDVSA of Venezuela?
How come no university in Libya is in Africa's top 10?
How come he had oversea doctors and nurses?

The list is endless,

Some products like that with the same function will sell the same price.
I've never thought to look at where items like toothbrushes were made.
And why would I spend more on toothbrush just because it came from China? They perform the same function.

However, products like Laptops comes in varieties, reasonable varieties. Unlike, how many brushes one toothbrush has compared to another.

This shows that some products are still profitable with Made in USA sticker, but some companies still choose to do otherwise. If made in USA products and Made in China are priced the same, could it be possible that the same production lines that churn out $3 toothpastes be used in making $3 toothbrushes/

America has gotta to go the way of Germany- heavy manufacturing. The need real for MITs and CALTECs of US to produce real inventive and manufacturing savvy individuals must surpass the need for Harvard and Co to churn out more synthetic and derivative traders. It's like US is producing more money managers than money makers.

Nigeria=BBC:big blind country(fela) out of 150 million folks there is no better person than this guy whose character has been compromised. It's like bringing back former IMF boss, DSK to his position. GEJ is really full of anemic thinking,

Talking about manufacturing, why does a toothbrush made in China sell almost at the same price with toothpaste made in USA at the same store? There is no way GE Capttal should be making more money than all other GE units combined.

Drop his a-s-s and find someone who only speaks and understands Spanish or suck it up.

Insular and Directionless

Are u marrying a slave? I don't  even kneel to greet my parents and I'm not expecting anyone to prostrate before me.

Bluetooth,
Achebe's life when he was your age is going to become your fantasy when you turn 70. Btw, Soyinka would rather have a friend like Achebe because of his intellectual prowess than having someone like you as his kinsman. JK Rowling is never going to win a Noble Prize in literature, but it doesn't not diminish her work. Why don't you write your own book instead on taking glory for another person's work?

Knowall.
UK govt gives free healthcare-NHS is that socialism or communism? US govt subsidizes Amtrak - national rail system.

The 50billion is to help Nigerians get off their arses, instead of praying that the FG will give them jobs at steel companies and refineries. We arent a communist country.

What has the government really done for Nigerians for you to say this? The roads in my village were built by people, electricity was paid for by people, borehole sunk by some of the wealthy ones, where is government? even in communist environments, the govt is the father Christmas to all, but in Naija there is no govt, because delivery of services is dead and buried.

Naija girls do not mess with " guys" who do not stack up to their "level" Imagine a university female student telling her male classmates that they are not on her level. It's an assimilated and accepted Nigerian culture. Parents encouraging their girls to get married to the best husbands ie highest bidder. Nigerian male celebrities like Okocha and Kalu came to Naija to marry their wives, but someone like Oluchi Onweagba married an Italian. I dont know if Darego is dating or engaged, but one thing is clear, not coming home to marry a Nigerian.

because they were so deprived growing up, so they are making up for all the days they went 0-1-0 or 0-1-1/2