₦airaland Forum

iamDiabolic:
The fg just use style tell those militant to suck there dickk.they should keep bombung while nigeria move on.nobody got there time.

deavicky:
If impediments under the bridge stopped the weeds from moving, it there means, at the other side of the bridge the water should be visible. Was there anything like that?

macaranta:
Op's explanation is not logical,no amount of nicely stacked grass will allow you move on top it while water flows beneath.For that to have occured a significant amount of deforestation must have occurred nearby.

amakenny:
Buhari's lack of basic secondary school education is what makes him not recognize the difference between the executive arm and judicial arm of government.
How could a judge give orders and a president disobeyed the orders without another judge giving a contrary order?

freshdude99:
Don't mind that Yoruba frog

Stolen:
Zombies like jpphilips are Yoruba, even the said Northerners have rejected Buhari as a failure. That is Y, I rather share a country with the North than Southwest.

Wen I gave up on yorubas was wen a man that Buhari murdered his father in cold blood came out to shout sai Buhari. Several yorubas whose parents were murdered by Buhari, out of tribalism for fellow southerners was shouting Sai Baba.

That was wen I wrote them off permanently.


Can Buhari son come out to campaign for a Yoruba man that murdered his father?

http://www.nigerianmonitor.com/buhari-executed-my-father-but-i-will-vote-for-him-lawal-ojuolapes-son/

bakila:
Videos of Dasuki loyalist writing the comments or saying them or I don't believe this joke.
Lasticalala what do you think?

ade2bad:
NIGERIA HAVE NEVER HAD A BIGOT PRESIDENT LIKE BUHARI. I WEEP FOR MY DEAR COUNTRY.

Wildrage:
Because of regime protection, tribal politics we cast away officers we've spent hundreds of millions training, most often before they become fully useful to the nation. At a time we sorely lack the capacity to tackle the myriads of security challenges confronting the nation, we further compound our problem by doing away with some capable hands. Some of these officers, highly trained, bored and frustrated by early retirement become willing tools in the hands of those bent on destabilizing the nation as we've seen with Boko Haram. Buhari should be doing all within his power to reduce our faultlines instead of the division he and his useless regime have been promoting since taking over from the last administration

Standing5:
Anywhere-belle-face logic.

KwoiZabo:
I know Buratai was head of procurement during Bade and until he is retired & prosecuted, they've done nothing. Full stop

jayriginal:
That's no vehicle. It's a contraption.

2undexy:
The famous dictum “If you look
after your car, your car will look
after you” is certainly true in many
respects. Sadly, though, few
motorists are knowledgeably caring
for, or fully understand, the way
their vehicles work. Some
functional knowledge will keep your
relationship with your automobile
running smoothly!
Many drivers are actually
unknowingly damaging their
vehicles or, at the very least,
making themselves quite
vulnerable to some mischievous
roadside mechanics. The following
are the 10 of the most common
mistakes motorists make every day
while completely oblivious of the
damaging consequences.
Most of these points will, at the
very least, hit us in our pockets in
the near future. How many, if you
can eat the humble-pie, are you
guilty of?

1.Oil changes and servicing: Engine
oil is a vital component in your car.
Some people will wrongly assume
that if the car takes five litres of oil
and they have topped up this year
by five litres, then there is no point
in changing the oil. Oil degrades,
and the reduction in oil level is due
to the thinner high-quality oil
getting burned or just seeping out
of the engine; the sludge, grime
and metal particles build up in the
residue. So topping up is not the
same as changing the oil. The oil
level is dangerously low in over 70
per cent of cars – check your oil
levels today.

2. Incorrect tyre pressures: This
(overinflation, in particular, which is
very common in Nigeria due to the
ignorance of roadside
“vulcanisers”) causes additional
heat to build up in the tyres due to
extra-flexing. The car has to work
harder, reducing fuel economy.
With under-inflated tyres, the
handling becomes unpredictable at
best because the tyre naturally
goes bouncy. Braking is also
significantly reduced.

3. Not allowing turbo to cool down:
How many people with turbo-driven
engine drive it hard and then fail to
allow the turbo to cool down
properly? In Europe, increasingly
production cars have turbos to
meet emissions and power
requirements. The turbo is spinning
at between 100,000 rpm and
200,000 rpm and gets very hot.
The moment the engine is turned
off, you starve it of fresh oil,
unless your automobile’s oil pump
keeps running. The oil in the turbo
gets fried and essentially leaves
your turbo spinning with no
lubrication! Your turbo will soon
need replacing if this is your driving
style.

4. Driving hard on a cold engine:
Don’t use higher engine rpm’s (like
revving or over-revving the engine)
when it’s cold (especially early in
the morning), until an engine is
warm; it will run rich—i.e. dumps
fuel into the combustion chamber.
Your engine is most at risk from
damage when cold, so putting
undue stress on it by high revving
will exponentially increase the
damage done. The combustion
process does not become efficient
until the engine reaches its
operating temperature. An
inefficient burn leaves acids and
other toxins that eat your engine.
The oil also takes a short while to
flow properly at start up; so, ideally,
you should let the engine tick over
for three to ten seconds, then drive
off at a steady pace keeping under
23,000 rpm. Do not use the top
half of the rev range until the
engine reaches operating
temperature. This applies as much
to modern engines with catalytic
converters as it does to older
engines. Don’t leave the engine
idling to warm it up, just drive it
(after giving it 30 seconds for the
oil pressure to come up and get the
oil to fully circulate).

5. Short journeys: Just as driving
off too quickly damages an engine,
so will doing short journeys. The
problem with a short journey is that
the engine never reaches its
operating temperature. So, for the
reasons detailed in the ‘driving off
too quickly’, do not drive many
short distances regularly.
Use the under-one-mile walk
philosophy!) While cold, the catalyst
is unable to operate at peak
efficiency, thus, reducing the life
of your expensive catalyst.

6. Revving too high: The red line
indicates the maximum permissible
engine speed. At this point, the
engine is under enormous stress
and the components are moving at
their fastest speed. Slight
imbalances in the engine are
emphasised at high rpm and if you
prolong the high rpm for a period
of time, you will more than likely
throw a connecting rod through the
sump (or worse). The older an
engine is, the lower the red line
should be. As an engine starts to
produce most of its power across
the middle third of its rev band,
there is little point exceeding this.

7. Hand on gear stick: So many
people do this but it can actually
cause premature gear wear,
especially if you wiggle the stick
around. The stick is connected
directly to the gearbox (in many
cars), so the slightest pressure is
transmitted to the gear selector.
This is enough to cause wear and
eventually your gearbox will start to
grind and crunch as you change
gear.

8. Riding the clutch in a manual
transmission: Again, keeping a foot
on the clutch is enough to prevent
it from fully engaging. The clutch
plate will tend towards slip and will
prematurely wear. Keeping the
clutch depressed in traffic or at
traffic lights is also a bad idea. Just
put the car in neutral when you are
stationary. When the clutch is
depressed you’re forcing the clutch
against the release bearing.
Eventually, the release bearing will
just give up, having done 60,000
miles worth of pressure in just
10,000.

9. Also in manual, wrong gear
selection: Nothing puts a strain on
the engine like forcing it to pull the
car in the wrong gear. Too high a
gear strains the bottom end of the
engine around the crank and con
rods. Too low a gear will mean you
are revving more than you need to,
so the top end of the engine
around the valves, cams and lifters
are working too hard.

10. Driving a dirty car: This one is a
little contentious but corrosion
takes effect more easily on a car
which is covered with a layer of dirt.
A thorough clean each month and a
coat of good quality wax (not polish)
will do much to enhance the cars
defence against corrosion.

N.B: Protect your car against the
rain this season: The rains are here
now and the electrical architecture
with, particularly, the electronic
controllers cum components of an
average vehicle are the most
susceptible to getting easily
damaged (as a result of any vehicle
getting flooded!) There’s a nano-
technology product that has just
come into the Nigerian market,
which can be effectively used to
coat or protect these vital but
fragile components of an over-
computerised average vehicle,
even including smart phones and
household electrical/electronic
appliances from being damaged by
water or flood. I have tested it and
it works perfectly, but I’ll not
mention its name here because
they’ve not paid me for
endorsement.

However, I believe
they’ll soon be advertising the
product here because I’ve told
them that this page is one of the
most far-reaching platforms where
automotive maintenance/repair
products and/or services can be
advertised in Nigeria. May be the
preponderance of readers’
enquiries that this note will
precipitate will make them start the
advert from next Sunday.