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Love800:
Thanks.

But i want to ask. What's the difference between postpaid and estimated?

Sorry for the late reply.

The words mean the same thing in this context, if you don't have a prepaid meter there's no way the electricity distribution company knows the exact power you have used at the end of a billing cycle, so they make a calculated guess of what your consumption was that billing cycle (month), thus "estimated", and that you're paying for the month that has just ended means you are paying after the using the service, thus "postpaid", they're the same.

Sellfish:
Correct

I have since abandoned used tyres and ported to brand new Austone tyres, after I noticed that a particular organization all have Austone tyres on their Corollas and 406s which cover rnore than 15k miles monthly..

3 years on Austone and no complaints at all...Tyre wear is minimal and zero monkey business going on...

Brand new Linglong tyres came on an 08 accord that just fell into my hands ...3 months on and I am still watching them cautiously..no complaints for now

But now, I won't touch a fairly used tyre with a 10-foot pole...There is almost always something going on with those tyres...Like someone said, our warehouse billionaire brethren have turned the fairly used tyre business in Nigeria into a poisoned chalice...

I have always loved new things, the day I bought these tyres I went to a trusted store and was told to get Austone, i think i got each for 40k then (225/60/R17), like you, after all this time these tyres have very little wear, AUSTONE Is a really good tyre brand.

Gotocourt:
What's your take between linglong, Austone and Boto?

All four tyres on my car are Austone, bought them mid 2022, no issues at all, I have not even had to patch up any of them (this is most likely luck but that is the status).

Love800:
How did you got it pls.

I got a call from the phcn guy who always brings me my postpaid bill, that was all.

Light78:
Did they give you installation form or sent it to your email?

Nothing of such, I only got called by those in charge, I was told meters arrived and could get one if I paid, so I did.

Bacteria8:
Thank you very much sir, I really appreciate.

Pls I need clarification on the following 👏

1. What is carbon build up and how do I effectively watch out for it sir ?

2. What tip quality oil brand would you recommend sir ?

Drive it hard occasionally ( high rpms), and don't do too many short trips so engine reaches optimum temperature and remains so, using AC on cold starts helps, that's all I know can help with carbon build up.

Bacteria8:
I just got this Hyundai Sonata 2014...

Guys pls any advise ? As regarding change of oil and water... How many weeks at best

At intervals, watch for carbon build up, this is what often kills GDI, stay on top of.yoir maintenance game, change your oil with recommended top quality brand, that's all you can do.

Just yesterday I got a single phase meter for 135k and installer still took 10k.

lebete3000:
What's the data limit and how can one get the referral please?

You're not capped, you can search for links here on nairaland.

Love800:
What's the difference between gig and job?

Gig is short term, your employer has no commitment towards you, you'll get no benefits (holiday pay or other bonuses or health insurance etc), your relationship with the employer ends immediately work assigned is done, the gig world often has little or no structure, no security, nothing is promised, you roll with the waves.
When random semi skilled or unskilled hands are temporarily needed (often for cheap) to attain a certain result, or when employer doesn't want to be attached to or have a proper relationship with the owners of certain hands, often to cut costs, a gig is doled out.

lavylilly:
Mini starlink is how much and what's the monthly subscription

To get the kit for the starlink mini you'll have to pay 354k, the kit itself costs 318k, shipping is 36k, and your first month's subscription is free if you used a referral link to buy, monthly subscription is 57k.

emperor4love:
how about ur wife journey working remotely, you teach her in and out of the trade for her to be that good to get such opportunity and please which niche, cos this remote is one of thing I have been having it not nice so far, starting from fiverr to the other freelance site I can't recall

AI training and evaluation, LLM evaluation sha.

wandium:
Na link sure pass. Kindly check your mail sir.

I no fit lie for you, link no dey boss, work experience and skills dey, but my own life story if dem ask me i go say na luck.

The cause being ignorance and poverty, many Nigerians know the correct viscosity but decide to follow their illinformed mechanics "advice" of 20W50 while fully knowing what is right.
Sometimes it is just about not having enough money, so they cheapen out, the car is better parked and unused when this is the case, oil is the heart of anything with moving parts, fumble the oil and you'll understand why those who use recommended weights do just that.
The only exception to this rule is when your engine is high mileage and or already severely abused, you hear all sorts of engine noise when it runs (clacking clapping yabbing 😂) that is when you should use heavier oils like 20w50 to quiet things down until you have the money to rebuild/replace the engine.

Whois:
A wise man once said it's "different strokes for different folks"

The engine oil you are discriminating is the best for Old generation cars and no issues thus far.

You're correct if by older cars you're talking about air-cooled vehicles like the Volkswagen beetle.

ibrocool:
This is actually the situation of remote job in this country. In fact, I am one of those facing the challenges. After managing to fix power supply mini power station, and noise, I was unable to fix network. I have only one option for the network which is MTN, others don't work. When MTN starts to fumle, I just remain helpless. It cost me the chance of getting clients.

I had mtn and Airtel routers, when I used the Airtel router I always got the unlimited monthly plan, the daily 10gb never let me access some websites and even blocked some apps from connecting, made calls to the customer care but wasn't fixed so i quit Airtel, mtn 5g was better, (i live not too far from a uni so that is a +), but when it rained or was really cloudy, or during the day, i got terrible speeds.
My wife got lucky and also started working remotely, Elon musk pushed out the starlink mini and made it affordable so I got it, I was paying about 20k a month with those routers, so my wife, myself and another person in the next building who always streams pay the monthly subscription, the worst speed I ever got with starlink was 89mbps.
if you are around people who use lots of data and want good speeds, you can come together to get starlink and then you guys just pay up the sub, good speed is guaranteed and even a small inexpensive power station can power it for days (40 watts+-), this is good for gig workers who are constantly hunting, the burden of payment won't be much, and youll always be connected.

Any serious remote worker knows to make arrangements for electricity whenever needed, strategically secure apartment at a location that's almost always quiet, and also have every other equipment needed to make the job fluid.
Generator is a bad plan, it can disappoint you just when you need it, electricity from solar is what you need, all of this aside, the greatest problem of a Nigerian remote worker is being in Nigeria, count yourself lucky and know that you're among the top 1 percent in Nigeria and maybe Africa if you secure a remote job, an actual job not a gig.
i see most people mistake gigs for jobs, a gig person doesn't have a job, and while at it, save money, continue to apply for jobs and make sure to look into how you can make money doing what you can control to some extent (with the money you saved).

LegendHero:
Is it not better to shift the burden to the student rather than stopping the student from accessing education in the first place due to lack of funds?

In the hierarchy of needs, which one come first in this instance? Go to school and shift burden on children OR remain uneducated and have no burden?

Money wey government fit even forgive the loan tomorrow.

Disbursement rate of 10%, where is your evidence? I don’t like beer parlor talk. Show workings.

You can see I keep my own analysis to verifiable stuffs and not just made up numbers

The government is better off making education very very affordable, subsidise it and heavily fund public universities. Admission into departments should be directly proportional to the available resources in the departments, on-campus accomodation shouldn't be stressed either, if these things are followed then only the best of the students will get spots.
Every sola and Emeka having a degree isn't the way to a brighter future, technical colleges must become actually technical, plumbing, bricklaying, carpentry, must be regulated and certificates issued from schools, this will change the views of the people about these alternatives.
The government knows what it is doing on this NELFUND thing, the percentage of those taking the loans who will be able to secure employment is very low, if not professional courses then the rest is up to God, connection and or luck, how then will repayments work? The purpose for which people here pursue degrees is not for the love of education, it is to boost their chances of gaining employment, something very scarce in our country, what then is the good of the debt to the debtor?
There are masters degree holders wearing faded shirts, terrible shoes and walking long distances to work, those who are already above 40 and less likely to break out of such a trap.
It is happening and has been, many of these graduates fall back to learning skills, tailoring, pop plastering, what then is the use? Nigeria's corporate sector is tiny but interestingly the country yearly dishes out thousands of graduates who can only function in such settings.
If it will not end soon, I see the loan scheme as indirectly funding the universities but just putting figures on student's names, as it is certain meaningful repayments will not happen.

It is a shame these people still ride in official vehicles, heavily escorted to the coffers of the country to scoop however they choose, and also do whatever with loot, the majority of the citizens who have claims to these monies continue to be denied, they watch as their own undoing and that of at least a generation to come is being orchestrated and made to happen, while praying to the most high for divine intervention, and encouraging one another to be peaceful, civil and democratic. Wike and his kind really do owe God unending bows in the afterlife, gratitude for being born Nigerian.

One of the most important things many Nigerian drivers do not know is using the turn signal, any driver who uses the turn signal at the point where he's making that turn is a fool and should be banned from driving, turn signal should be on at least two electric poles before the point where the turn is intended, this better informs those at the back, many drivers do not do this.
Another common error is giving safe distance to the vehicle in the front, getting too close is not actual driving, the vehicle in front could suddenly stall due to faults, and there may be a need for sudden braking, if you're too close you'll hit the person at the front.
The last one I'll mention is the impatience of drivers trying to make a turn to change lanes, you want to change lanes and there's a car at that spot also wanting to change lanes, but because you're an impatient goat you decide to occupy the spot meant for whoever wants to change lanes to the current lane you're on from the other side, rather than wait for the car who got to that spot first to move. If anyone reading this post is guilty of any of these wrongdoings, kindly say to yourself, I am not a smart or professional driver, I am just an impatient goat who is a danger on the road.

Europe fell quite disgracefully, the fall of the UK is most shameful, they now sniff Trump's farts and jump at any chance to kiss his ass, why? They kept sleeping when countries who are intentional were busy tightening their holds on other third world countries' resources, allowed their economy to be immigrant dependent, and have no real say In geopolitics, they totally forgot their entire economy and "firstwolrdism" "civilization" was built on thievery, we see how it is going with France.
Trump knows Russia and china are the real threats, he dares not play with these people, why? Not really about nuclear weapons, it is more about economic weight pulled, the mutual damage careless actions can cause to economies, Trump will take Greenland if these other two powers decide to only observe, NATO is as useless as the African union.
This is a call on Africa and Africans, till this day we are still being looted, our leaders treated without respect, develop from within and rely on self, make useful allies and see how fast the continent's story changes, there are no laws, there are only powerful people.

madapcmod:
How much for the auto ac, I'm having the challenge of manual ac in my 2010 corolla. Car vibrates terribly once I put on the AC

Change it when you can, I have once seen a Toyota Camry (big daddy) shake like car was misfiring terribly just because the AC was turned on, if your car starts to shake when the compressor kicks in then that's the only sign you need to know the engine is struggling with that load, like someone keeps saying here, the truth is this manual compressor thing is only harmless to V6 and up engines, it'll eventually kill your 4 cylinders.

grandstar:
And you think honestly think Obi could have done better?

Didn't Obi say he was going to remove fuel subsidy? Did he not promise to unify exchange rates?

It is these very policies that Tinubu implemented that are causes the most pain, but they were necessary.

Charles Soludo and Okonji-Iweala, eminent economists have both praised his economic policies.

The real edge Tinubu has over Obi was that he was able to achieve the two

Peter could have unified the exchange rates but I doubt if he would have succeeded with the scrapping of fuel subsidies. He may not have the backbone to remove it.

The issue isn't exactly fuel subsidy, or other subsidies, neither is it the lack of intelligence needed for the kind of governance that keeps the people safe and prosperous, it is about an environment and people that continue to love and worship leaders who knowingly do the direct opposite of what's best for the people.
Take out corruption, and watch Nigeria soar, but why is this impossible? How can one whose political career was built on the foundation of corruption go ahead to tackle It? It is already widespread, eaten deep into the very fabric of being Nigerian.
Corruption is now seen as the norm and most of the people pray for their turn, it is the reason many Nigerians are slow in the head, beat and publicly shame the thief who stole a loaf of bread, deliver jungle justice within seconds, but lay down and offer their backs for politicians looting the treasury in the billions to walk on.
Power resides where the people believe it resides, if a certain population who has continuously been misgoverned, whose futures are bleak and past lamentable, continue to cheer and hail those responsible, while busy discussing mundane topics like ethnicity and religion on the internet with "correct English" and lots of energy, then it can be rightly said that not only their minds have been conquered by these fat worms who are never full, but also their souls.

Well, something went wrong for sure, two healthy babies ending up like that just after taking the vaccine surely points to the either the babies reacting to the vaccines or the health care provider who administered it (how it was administered), there is always a cause to an effect.
Now Nigerians do not trust our health facilities or care providers (for obvious reasons), neither do Nigerians trust the government to be truthful or even conduct proper investigations in cases like this, it is a shame, again, these are what we get when we continue to elect people who occupy important positions based on ethnicity or religion, rather than a prove of qualification and a clean record, every sector falls apart, and everyone suffers, just very rarely the perpetrators (leaders) who are the source.

Actually commendable, a good thing these things are being manufactured here, my only concern is that this startup will now be controlled by the United states, the federal government of Nigeria could have invested in this and made this a proper Nigerian thing, anyways it is what it is

Jeje247:
When dealing with such sensitive news, you ought to take a minute and think critically without any bias to evaluate the issue properly.
The important questions in this case should be:
How come other babies vaccinated same day didn't die?
That centre must have been running for many years. How many deaths from immunization have they recorded?
Could this be a coincidence or there was something wrong with that particular batch of vaccine?
If there was a human error, could it have affected just those 2 babies out of the numbers handled that day?
Who is in charge of vaccine procurement and storage?
Is there sufficient arrangement for vaccine cold storage and quick dispatch?
What is the role of government in this?

People are quick to run down the hospitals for things like this but when health workers strike demanding for better pay, better equipments and improved working environment, it is same general population that call them greedy and insult them.

At this rate, we are getting to a point where people would rather go abroad to practice and the rest left will switch to other professions. Healthcare is now looking less attractive by the day and we'll get to a point where students don't fill in to be health workers anymore. It is getting too dangerous to be a health worker in Nigeria with each passing day, because they take the fall for every government lapse while being paid like beggars.

This is because if an Intelligent quotient test was conducted across Nigeria, it would reveal the actual number of very slow folks among the population, these are unarguably the people dragging Nigeria backwards, they're the ones the looters we have in public offices bank on during elections.
How self beneficial can attacking those protesting better public health facilities be? Quite amazing when it is largely those who cannot afford private facilities or even those living in villages doing these things.
And "two" isn't nothing, you raise good questions about the cold storage needed, persistent cold storage where stock never falls below a certain temperature range, how efficient are the systems in place for this?
In a system like ours where the issue of fake medications isn't properly tackled, that the father bought an adulterated pcm isn't impossible, in a serious society where recurrence of such tragedies aren't looked up to, an autopsy would have been ordered and procedure duely monitored by the right professionals and authorities, but we know how things are here, and how they go, one day Nigerians will stand for themselves and not with those grossly underperforming in public offices.

jaephoenix:
Yes the patient is alive. I was a house officer then back in 2006. Gave an overdose of insulin after I learned my flat has been burgled. Of course there was no other doc around so I had to give the insulin myself. Realized my error and disposed of the IVF. I still remember that man,a navy officer. I shuddered to think what would have happened. Of course there is zero margin of error. We knew the risks before jumping in but we are still humans. You said folks go abroad cos of the mistakes of Nigerian doctors. I laugh in Latin. Bro,if you are talking about mistakes those oyinbo docs dey do am wella. The difference is they have systems that mitigate that error. We don't have such systems here due to poor funding. Do you remember the story of Dora Akunyili? She was diagnosed of breast cancer in Nigeria. She called us liars and went to the US where they told her it's not cancerous. Las las na the cancer kill am. So no sweat am. Even the best docs do serious mistakes,even professors

I see how possible the 2006 experience was, it still happens, the issues are poor pay, poorly equipped and inadequately staffed hospitals, leaving house officers to make decisions unsupervised, consultants unavailability because they're very few or busy with their own private facility. If Nigerians make those in government fix these issues then occurrences like this will really reduce.
I have family who needed BPH fixed, his daughter suggested the procedure take place at a state teaching hospital where she works as a theater nurse, the urologist was sourced like diamond in the ground, he did the procedure and left immediately, never to return for follow up, handed patient to doctors on call (including house officers), after two days the patient started feeling serious pains, catheter wasn't letting nothing out, a blood clot had blocked the flow, in short, the doctor on duty was clueless he couldn't help, he managed till morning when a matron came to the rescue, all this time patient was still connected to the saline.
The health sector must get more funding, JOHESU claims top officers who are first doctors almost always embezzle monies meant for developing hospital, the government must look into that if true.
Anyone can make mistakes, but what we are saying is making sure measures are in place so these mistakes are very unlikely to happen (healthy and proper working environment) and when they do happen, the professionals must be held accountable and face the consequences, this will deter careless professionals, and even standardise procedures.

What is happening in our eyes with this APC is state capture, where elected officials with future political ambitions are coerced into joining a certain political party or face difficulties all through current tenure and stand no chance of winning the next election, erosion of political future.
This is not democracy, this is Godfathers with power and money designating positions and installing cronies on seats whose occupants are supposed to be chosen and elected by the people, how will these politicians forced to align with a certain group perform when they are actually not in control of their own offices? This isn't the time to be partisan, this is us Nigerians laughing and joking when our votes and electoral institutions are being washed away, in our own very eyes our votes will not matter, and the voice of the masses will mean nothing, this will be worse than a dictatorship, because corruption and abuse of power will be widespread in all public offices, and there'll be nothing for the ordinary citizen.

jaephoenix:
I'm not tryna hold fort for the doc,but if you have never been in an op field,you won't understand how bloody and messy it is. With blood everywhere and covering everything, it's easy to miss some forceps. And some forceps are so tiny,like the mosquito forceps. We usually have an equipment count before closing up but what the issue is if there is a miscount,or there is no theater nurse.
The medical field is a zero error occupation so even a tiny error can cause death. And as humans,we are prone to errors. No doc goes to work to kill patients. Even the best docs have made errors. I had made my own too,when I was mentally low

Well, the error you made when you were "mentally low" is the patient who suffered this error alive and fully functional? You antagonise yourself, errors aren't allowed, and there are no excuses or justifications, how can there not be a theater nurse on ground for a surgical procedure? this is one of the reasons many affluent Nigerians don't trust the health sector here, people do not follow proper way to do things, grave consequences follow and the rest is stories.
There are many of these cases, most swept under the carpet, I have seen a surgeon excise a lump for proper testing while continuing to lament how he's supposed to be done and be somewhere else, how the excision was taking too long because of its attachment to the breastbone all while the patient was laying there and observing, he was even instructing a nurse to go check on his kid 😂 i doubt you'd have the same take if this woman was family, a daughter, wife, or mother.

Ask4bigneyo:
This is not the first time. I think what they should be doing is to always take stock of whatever instrument they wanna use for a patient and do the same after surgery.

This is the standard procedure, even redo the counts of gauze used after, the attending staff and surgeon all failed, this is definitely negligence and show of the littlest regard for human life, visiting hospitals where you have to rely on people who have personal struggles and systemic issues makes one seek the hands of God.

Putindbutt:
After the Government has reviewed your allowances by 90 billion, the 90 billion has already added more expenditure to the budget every year. That one never do you, you still asking for specialist allowances?, Resident doctors o, these are still trainees o, asking for specialist allowances?. People who are not yet consultants o. E be like these people are not normal at all.



Look at another useless demand they are asking for, Lol. How can you be asking the medical college to issue you a certificate after Part 1 examination?. I just want someone to tell me these guys are not sick, biko. How can undergraduates be asking for certificate after only passing part 1 exam?. Do you enrol to only sit for part 1 exam, is certificate not supposed to be issued after you have fully passed all the exams to the final class?. Is like law students asking for certificate after stage 1. But I get it, they want the certificate for japa, so even if they couldn't finish the post medical courses till the final class, they can use the one they have to apply for japa, very useless people.

And some ignorant people who do not know what's going on will be quick to insult the Government when these doctors threaten the Govt with strike. They don't know that many of their demands are unreasonable and useless. But because they know the people are always sympathetic to them, they use that opportunity to exploit their crazy demands.

Doctors and lecturers be acting as if they're the only two professions we have in the country, always threatening the Govt with crazy demands. The Govt should also learn to sack them and replace them with those willing to work. Other professions do not disturb the country like these two greedy professions

It shows you're not very bright and are also either poorly informed or just out on this comments section to flame, and garner likes from fellow poorly informed folks.
From your pile of falsehood, your points are doctors and lecturers are greedy, have you tried being either? Do you know what it means to deal with sick people or to impact knowledge and make a better human being capable of affecting his environment positively?
Let us forget the years of schooling it takes to become both, do you know how hard lecturing can be? how risky dealing with a sick patient can also be? Or the knowledge and expertise it takes to accurately diagnose and fix a sick person especially in our present Nigeria where hospitals still use funnels to count baby heartbeats and doctors have to deal with pregnant women who never came for antenatal or wounds from farmers who applied herbs on deep cuts rather than immediately visiting an health center?
You think that a certain group continues to demand a fair pay equates greed, does this group block any other group from any other profession from making such demands?
People like you are often the type who cannot afford these big names private facilities in the cities, you are quick to state any garbage spewed from Abuja by these insatiable looters smell like roses, but also quick to recite verses from your holy books when you're at the hospital, sick and see how very ill equipped the space is, you figure only a miracle or luck could save you, if not a professional willing to improvise and make personal sacrifices.
Are local government teachers paid what they deserve? How many in the civil service eat whatever they want these days? Artisans, mechanics, plumbers are doing a lot better, some okada men make a lot more than nurses who are exposed daily to sicknesses, human filth and wastes, not to mention dealing with patients' emotions.
These government officials check even their vitals outside the country, when sick they know what foreign hospitals to visit, we know this is because our own hospitals here are world class and these politicians just need reasons to tour huh? Nigeria is a looter's heaven, a tyrant's paradise, where else would people who are being suffered continue to attack themselves at the sole detriment of their own selves?

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