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nurey:
Japanese or nothing.

there are two cars in the world Toyota and others

Reading about Toyota up there made me fall of my chair. And before you start talking about early days, can I remind you and autojosh that innoson is also a young company so your bashing in another thread was really funny and laughable. Innoson will get there someday just like your beloved Toyota has done.
Benz or nothing

eeeeeee:
Thanks a lot.
The op is totally ignorant.

This is exactly how Holden an Australian car maker started.


Holden is one of the oldest names in the Australian car market, first as a body builder and assembler of various imported American cars, then as a carmaker in its own right from 1948. For much of the post-war period it was the market leader, but it's now moving from local manufacturer to importer. Holden manufactures the locally-designed Commodore Evoke, SV6, SS and Calais V6 and V8 sedans, wagons and Utes, and Caprice luxury sedan, assembles Cruze sedan and hatch, and imports Cruze wagon, Barina hatch, Trax and Captiva SUVs, and mid-sized Malibu sedan from Korea. The Astra hatch, Cascada convertible and Insignia sedan are built in Europe, and Colorado 7 SUV and Colorado utility from Thailand.

https://www.carsguide.com.au/holden
Below ia a holden captiva which is made by Holden australia vs a cheverolet captiva.

I suggest you create a new thread with this info to let others know that this trend is not new in the auto industry. Toyota before they became the giant they are today, they tore down American cars and understudy and copy their engineering. Innoson needs encouragement not this hatred fueled by tribal rubbish

Mynd44:
Wait, are they taking donations?

This is quite unbecoming of a moderator in a forum as large as this. Before I move any further, let me quickly posit that I'm not an ipob member or supporter, though I completely agree that every man/group has a right to self determination. Your views and post sometimes are highly parochial and deeply steeped in hatred and tribal/ethnic colouration. You can hardly cover your biased inclinations in posts referring to a particular section of the country. A mod should be impartial and unbiased. You may have your affinities or polarities but they are not supposed to be made public. Your opinions here wield tremendous power and you must know how to us‭e. It ( My apologies if this moniker those not belong to that mod)

[quote author=xstry post=57934665]there's nothing to correct. Biafra is a joke.[/quote
I'm not surprised. You are blinded by your biased impression. Chief Mike ozekhome SAN also gave the same analysis on channels TV's politics today. I'm not worried by your postulation

Lalasticlala please put this on the front burners to correct some anomalies

Open letter to Arewa youths! BY Charles Ogbu.

Brethren from the north, I bring you greetings from the southern part of Nigeria. On behalf of the peace-loving people of the south in general and millions of Igbo youths in particular, I start this letter by commending you for your recent open letter to the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, where you called on the pastor-turned politician to organise a referendum for the Igbo to enable them to determine their future in line with international laws on self-determination.

By that letter, you proved to be better versed in legal matters and ways of international laws with regard to the right of indigenous people on self-determination than many have given you credit for. Above all, your decision to resort to dialogue by writing a letter as against the option of violence is one I must not fail to commend.

Having said these, let me come to the main reason why I’m here. In your letter to the acting president, I noticed what I’ve been trying to figure out whether to classify as an innocent amnesia-induced oversight or a calculated attempt at revisionism on your part. The aim of this letter is strictly to put the record straight.

You cited the January 15th coup which you mischievously tagged Igbo coup and claimed was the Igbo manifesting their hatred for Nigeria. Quite frankly, when I read that part, I was left wondering whether to pause and die laughing or die crying. Contrary to your assertion, it was not the Igbo who manifested hatred for Nigeria’s unity. It is you and your kind who invented the word “hatred” and even went further to prove that indeed, it is not just a word. You started manifesting hatred for other Nigerians as far back as 1945 when your kind killed hundreds of innocent southerners mostly Igbo in the north central Nigerian city of Jos in an anti-Igbo pogrom, 15 years before Nigeria even got her independence from Britain. And of course, you would later rise again in search of more Igbo blood in 1953 when your people carried out another anti-Igbo pogrom in Kano which resulted in another hundreds of Igbo lives being wasted once again. This time, all you needed was a minor legislative disagreement at the Lagos parliament where your lawmakers were booed for trying to delay a motion for Nigeria’s independence by claiming the north wasn’t yet ready for self-rule.

Isn’t it a classic definition of irony that a people who started doing exceptionally well in the business of killing and maiming their fellow Nigerians as far back as 1945 when Nigeria had not even dreamt of gaining independence would now open their mouths and accuse others of manifesting “hatred for Nigeria’s unity”? If you ever believed in the so- called Nigeria’s unity, why kill and maim your fellow Nigerians for the flimsiest of excuses? Funny enough, it was your people who first romanced the idea of seceding from Nigeria in a movement that was popularly known as “Araba”.

Secondly, the January 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup. It was a coup carried out by mostly junior army officers led by Major Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeogwu and it had soldiers from Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, Tiv, Esan, Ijaw, Urhobo, Bali etc on board. Hassan Usman Katsina, an Hausa/Fulani, who was later made military governor of northern region, was Nzeogwu’s right hand man and a major participant all through the period of the coup. Major Adewale Ademoyega, the author of Why We Struck was of the same rank as Nzeogwu. He was an active participant in the coup. There were Major Ifeajuna, Lt. Fola Oyewole of The Reluctant Rebel, Lt. Tijani Katsina and Saleh Dambo who were both Hausa/Fulani, there was Lt. Hope Harris Egheagha among other Igbo. And that same coup was foiled by two brave Igbo men, Aguyi Ironsi in Lagos (West) and Ojukwu in Kano (North).

Now, assuming without conceding that the January 15th coup was organised and executed by only Igbo army officers, does it not still amount to standing decency on its head for anyone to blame the whole Igbo nation for a coup carried out by few military men from the region?? How can anyone seek to justify the savagery visited on defenceless Igbo men, women and children residing in the north in the aftermath of that coup? Did Nzeogwu who was from Delta State consult the indigenes of the state before leading that coup?

How come we don’t blame Dimka’s coup on his ethnic group neither do we blame IBB and Buhari’s coup on the whole Hausa/Fulani?

Let me quickly remind you that in the evening of the January 15th coup, a Boeing 707 belonging to the Nigerian Airways arrived in Kano with almost the whole northern establishment back from Lagos where they had gone to attend Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ conference. Ojukwu, it was, who received them at the airport and even when orders from the coup plotters were to shoot all politicians, Ojukwu gifted them with protection. If there were a consensus among the Igbo to eliminate northern leaders, this would have been a golden opportunity. Yet, Ojukwu ensured they were safe all through the period.

In the said letter, you correctly stated that Ojukwu refused to recognise Gowon but you mischievously failed to state that Ojukwu’s refusal to recognise Gowon was in protest over the refusal of the Hausa/Fulani military officers who killed the Head of State, Aguyi Ironsi, to allow Brigadier Ogundipe to take over as the next in rank according to military tradition.
Still in that same letter, you stated that Ojukwu declared Biafra but you conveniently failed to tell the public that Ojukwu didn’t just wake up in the morning, smoke his Benson cigarette and rushed to declare Biafra. He (Ojukwu) did his best to de-escalate tension and even succeeded in reaching a landmark accord with Gowon in Aburi, Ghana, which if implemented, would have put an end to the Igbo genocide going on in the north and averted the moral tragedy that was the Biafra war. But, Gowon, unilaterally chose to defy the terms of this last-minute Aburi Accord, leaving the Oxford product, Ojukwu, with no choice but to pull his people out of a country that refused to protect them.

Let me quickly say this not just to you, the Arewa youths but to all Nigerians and foreigners alike:This current Biafra agitation is not a bait for Igbo presidency, restructuring or appointments. It is a cry against institutionalised marginalisation and state sponsored killing being perpetrated against the Igbo by a country that was and still is, deaf, dumb and blind to the sanctity of the lives of the same people it exists mainly to protect.

My generation is simply sick and tired of being in a country where they are killed over the flimsiest of excuses such as the burning of the Koran in a far away Afghanistan, the shooting of a Palestinian boy by a murderous Israeli soldier in Gaza, the drawing of the cartoon of Prophet Muhammad in far away Denmark by a cartoonist who is neither Igbo nor Nigerian etc.

Igbo youths are not aggrieved with Nigeria solely because their parents were massacred in the Biafra war. We are aggrieved because almost 50 years after the war, the same people who killed our parents are still killing us even in our homes using Fulani herdsmen, in our churches and cities using soldiers trained and equipped with tax payers money, and our places of business using almajiris who slaughter us and burn our shops with state-sponsored impunity for no just cause other than the insatiable urge to spill blood.

My fellow youths, we have lied to ourselves for far too long. How about a little honesty here? All these killings point to one thing which is that our worldviews are world apart. If we cannot stay together as a country, we can always go our separate ways but it has to be in peace. No one wants war. War is an ill-wind that blows no one any good.

I love the concluding part of your letter where you rightly asserted that the Biafra agitation is not an issue over which a single drop of blood should be shed. We agree completely. We have all advanced beyond the primitive era of war. We are not asking for war. We are only asking that since the Nigerian state has repeatedly proven her unwillingness to treat us as equal partners in the Nigerian experiment, we demand to be ‘gifted’ with a YES or NO vote known as referendum to enable us to decide our future. Rather than merely mouthing off quit notice, prevail on your leaders who control every facet of the Nigerian government to allow for a plebiscite for the Igbo.
After they have voted and the YES vote carries the day, you can then give Igbo living in your region whatever condition under which you want them to live if they still want to continue living in your midst.

Dishing out quit notice to Igbos residing in your region when they are yet to be officially granted their referendum and Biafra is only tantamount to putting the cart before the horse. Until the Igbos officially get their Biafra, they remain Nigerians with all the right and privileges of Nigerian citizens including the right of living and doing business anywhere in Nigeria.

Lastly, let me conclude by reminding you that even in the event of a successful referendum for Biafra, all property legally acquired by the Igbo anywhere in Nigeria remain theirs and are protected by international laws. Nigerians did not lose their property in Britain when the latter granted her independence in 1960, did they? The world has progressed considerably. I would remind you that the ‘abandoned property’ era is over but I’m sure you already know that, don’t you?

Instead of killing ourselves and creating IDPs everywhere, let us peacefully do “To Your Tent, Oh, Israel!” That way, we will still do things together but as good neighbours under mutually agreed terms.

bankrich4real:
My post is coming a little late but I hope it will help.
I will personally advise u to identify your area of interest and strength and develop on it. It's a gud stead that u r willing to empower urself and b on ur own & that's a gud starting point. Note that it won't b easy starting out but then it will surely end well wit God on your side.
As regards the tech, I'm a php freak and I'd preach it to u.I feel it's easier than most of the other programming languages especially for someone without a prior programming background.Together with Javascript, html5 & css of course. Other options could b C#, asp.net or python. All r cool. More importantly, get a gud center to learn and believe me, getting a mentor will speed up your development. B ready to do free/almost free jobs like for NGO's or ur church or community along d way.
Lastly...commit ur steps to God and b bold in taking them
Wishing u the best...Banky

Thanks for the advice. Sorry I have bn aware from NL for some time. I will heed to your suggestion

cbrass:
Hmm have you ever at anytime in life done graphics

No sir. Why the question

cbrass:
Are u good with colors?

I know good designs when I see one. And I know the best are always simple, no too many colors, no complex structures

gimakon:
Nigeria goes for Web application development more. Desktop application this way is shit and doesn't go well.
Secondly the market isn't 100% here. You have to send several proposals and have someone "insider" before it can really go well.

Learn Web development using asp.net, PHP is good, but you need to understand most companies would like their application developed using c# or vb.net on the Web (asp.net)

Tnx Bro. Good morning

Good evening,
Please I need your candid advice. My apologies if post is not properly arranged. I want advice on I.T training to undertake. I am presently working but I need to acquire a skill or business as another stream of income. The state of the country has made it imperative for one to seek alternate skills or venture. I'm not a tech geek but I'm willing to learn. I'm currently looking at web designing/web development/programming/software development./graphic design(I hope I got all these big names right).
Please kindly advise which to enter and what language to learn. I intend working for myself. I'm presently based in warri.
Thanks

[quote author=Lexusgs430 post=56712799]https://travel.jumia.com/en-gb/hotels/nigeria/owerri/10000169?q=Owerri&checkin=2017-05-28&checkout=2017-05-29&roomCount=1&adults=1[/quote
Wow. This is helpful. Thanks bro. Moving down this week

donkilidon:
I concur.......owerri is the home of hotels and plenty free women, they have nothing else to offer ......... go u there and enjoy your stay

Bro I take exception to the free women part you stated above. It leaves a sore taste in the mouth. There re women of easy virtue every where. That's my state too, you know. Though I'm not based there

Tnx my fellow NL for your kind suggestion. You guys rock! Buhari make every body they cut cost

ifyalways:
5K a night? That would be difficult o unless you mean local "guest house"

Mount Royal hotel at Amakaohia road and Pelly Hotels at Okigwe road used to be that range 4 years ago. Don't know about now.

To get a decent hotel in a secured neighborhood in Owerri, budget at least 7000 per night

Thanks bro. I forgot owerri Is a cosmopolitan city. In warri you will get something nice with 5k

I will be going for a training in Owerri. Pls someone kindly recommend a nice and very modest hotel in Owerri. Rates should be between 3,500 to 5,000. Thanks everyone

Abadsheddy:
It is my profession but I am not too satisfied with the paid though they promise to increase the salary at time. my question is is it OK for starting

I started with 12,600 naira after service. Take it

Vicolan:
By ur write up you said your wife noticed it too..... That means you are married so please don't do such .......Be faithful to your spouse.... Thanks

Thank you my broda. I ve read so many types of response here. Some are helpful,some are just plain trash. If they had bothered to read my post, it was clearly written that I had no design on her(no intention to approach her). Those mentioning that I'm pant fetish...You truly need Jesus. Lastly, I'm not lusting on her. Nairaland and it's funny peeps.

simplyhonest:
maybe that section is both sunny and secluded from view... still if you feel awkward about it, I will advice you to permanently spread a bed sheet wide enough to occupy the space and watch her reaction....

Thanks. I think I will consider it. It is not the most sunny or most secluded place. I just feel she's up to something. I prolly just have to ignore as I have been doing all this while

I didn't really feel like putting this out here cos this story is absurd but I saw a post yesterday about ladies hanging their pants outside that's why I was prompted to do this.
I live in the last flat in my compound and there is a small space in my house which I have converted to a study. Now this study has a window facing the backyard of my compound. Most days and especially on Saturdays when iam off duty, my neighbour normally does her laundry.the baffling thing is that when she hangs her clothes on the fence in the backyard, she manage to ensure that her bras and panties are always hanged on the portion of fence in front of my study Window. I sit down there a lot and each time I open raise the curtains, I am confronted with bras and panties starring back at me. Funnily, she hangs her children clothes on other portions of the fence. This has been happening for so long, and obviously, my wife has taken notice of it too cos she has started talking about it. I find it difficult to look out the window but I must look out. She is married but the man comes around once in a week or so cos he is with the senior wife.
I am just wondering how to end this. What does she mean by this. Or is it my mind playing tricks on me? Please I have no design for her o! Matured comments pls

diportivo:
Not really

Mum owns an 03 S60 dat valarinz helped in procuring

Been driving it alot for a while now and I'm loving it the more

Its not even the luxury version and it gives me the following

Reverse sensor

Fog light

Alloy wheel

Abs/dstc

Plenty plenty airbags ...two in front,2 at the sides,2 curtain airbags at the pillar,2 at the back seats,2 curtain at the back too (side impact protection system SIPS on point)

And my favourite...a 5speed auto transmission mated to an i5 2.0T

You can never go wrong with a turbo

Oh,I'm not a speed demon but I swear,when this car is on 150kph u won't even know..

That's a 2003 model oh....and some people will be shouting Toyota upandan

I wanna be shown the Toyota dats an 03 model,small as the S60 that can offer all what it offers

Yesterday while returning from lunch break with a friend after devouring a bowl of eba mated to a delicious plate of vegetable soup, mother luck smiled on me. I saw a guy alighting down from a v40. I sauntered to where he packed. Initially he was afraid to talk to me. He didn't want to wound the glass down. I didn't blame him. This is warri. Even a man in suit can become a dare devil the next minute, but when he became aware of my mission, he warmed up to me with so much enthusiasm. He said I should go ahead and buy the Volvo and that he has been using it for four years without issues. When I mentioned electrical problems, he laughed it off. He said there is nothing like electrical problems. He only mentioned cost of parts which is slightly higher than Toyota. He said he said one of the ball joint has been bad for six months but he is still using it, but if na Toyota, the thing for don fall off since

diportivo:
At the bolded,some ppl will ridicule the car and say na d car nor good

Meanwhile,na dem suffer the car

Welcome to the Volvo world bro

At least I openly admitted that I maltreated that car. If that Moto na human being I for don go find am, apologize to am . Do you drive a Volvo too?

I truly appreciate everyone's input. That's why I love naira land car section. I have learnt much in such a short Time. Most evenings, I pore through thread after thread soaking up vital knowledge. I can't believe I was the one schooling a colleague on some issues concerning automobile. How I wish I knew then what I know now, my first car wouldn't have gone through all the abuse and neglect it went through. The Moto really suffer. Pls keep dishing out great Infos. You are actually educating someone, somewhere. Thanks all. I will go to spare part market and have a talk with dealers about affordability and availability of v40 parts

valarinz:
For obvious reasons, you know the one i'll ask you to go for. Though i can't say i can confidently tell you about the golf 3/ Vento cos i haven't used them and i'm not really into the brand. But the volvo V40 96-99 models (16 valve engine) fits in to every thing you listed as compulsory ie fuel consumption, cheap parts, ruggedity, shocks and so on

By the way, some people are taking this nairaland online beaf thing a lil too far sha, whats the electrical on a V40 biko, car wey get only headlights, car stereo as the major electrical component. for the sake of getting back to valarinz, someone will jump on every thread where volvo is mentioned to scream "avoid the dreaded volvo" , continu, you think you're doing me?

OP, also note that i think the V40 is more beautiful and might command respect more than the golf series, tnx

Yeah valarinz.i completely agree with you sir. The aesthetics of the car is alluring to my eyes. My worries is parts and competent mechanics. I will take a walk thru spare part market next week to enquire about parts.

dancok:
u are right, he went for the American version, from research and experience i learn that American version is not good, so my advice for anyone buying Volkswagen car should go for their German version, don't go elsewhere. That is where their power at 'Germany'

How will I know which is American spec or German spec. Abeg make una enlighten me small.

SmartchoicesNG:
Brother... There's a reason the Golf is used as taxis in your area. Key into the advantage. Volvo cars are not your normal easy to maintain rides... They're beautiful... Exquisite and lovely.... WHEN WORKING.

Lol @ when working. OK sir

SmartchoicesNG:
Golf 3 with speed. Ease of access to various mechanics who can work on the Golf MK3 ... Parts are readily available and price friendly....
Fuel economy is great on the Golf and it has a lot less electronics​ to give you sleepless nights unlike the dreaded Volvo.

Verdict: Buy the Golf MK3 Asap
Don't hesitate to ask if you have any further questions.

Thanks smart choice. The thing tire me. Golf 3 and Vento na im be regular taxi for warri. I like the v40. I don't really know what's the attraction but the shape is pleasing to my eyes. I guess I won't have to go by shape alone but by hard facts and statistics. Thanks for your contribution

Please help me select from these two cars- Volvo v40 and golf 3/Vento. I need a run around car within town. What should be taken into consideration is fuel consumption, ruggedness, durability, shock/suspension and cheap parts.
Thank you.
Gurus in the house, help a brother out. Gazzuzz, kingreign, nurey, valarinz

Still hoping for more responses

Neroiam:
Reply my mail

I didn't see your mail.pls Can you kindly send it to namsteflon@yahoo.com.
Thank you