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The mistake you made was that you should have placed a camera (Wireless cam or at least a motion activated recorder to monitor that rat. You would have been able to tell whatever came in by reviewing the videos the following day.

Now that the rat has disappeared, it is indeed worrisome to not be able to decipher what took it away from there.

And I don't wanna belive another rat could have done all that. Perhaps it's a cat and cats do have a way of crawling thru ceilings or small holes in walls much like rats do.

It's likely that with time, the US will also lose this war/occupatuon like they lost the one in Afghanistan.

mindtricks:
What if NIPOST guys claim that it has been delivered or that someone received and it was not you nor your someone you sent, what happens, and what is your fate before the eyes of Ali?

That will be your mind probably playing tricks on you

Remember that each time you collect an item in the PO, there is a slip that you fill in your name, phone number, signature and date and time of collection. That is the document that is traced. They must be able to provide that to prove you collected it.

The only time something like that may wanna happen is if the seller sends an item to another person, who coincidentally is also a buyer, in your country, state or town and the seller fraudulently sends you the tracking number of that person as your own. It's usually only the last termination of the item in the tracking information that will finally alert you to the scam and if purchase protection has unfortunately ended earlier, then you lose money. But even at that, the information upon investigation will always refer back to the real recipient of the package, not you. The name will be different, the phone number will also not tally with yours. So there is no way they'll assume that it was you that collected the package.

I had a similar experience before, during the covid lockdown of 2 years ago and I won my dispute. The delivery was prolonged so I filed for dispute. But 2 months after, the tracking update showed termination at the Central Post office of my address, so I still followed the trail. It was at the post office that I got the information the item was delivered to someone in another town about 40km from mine. I believe that was the original buyer but because we ordered the same type of item, the seller fraudulently sent me the tracking number of that person while he failed to ship mine, probably because he ran out of stocks or mine got missing in transit.

The Epistle of Paul Bandits to the seven nine Churches Villages.

Bandits cashing out steadily.

All thanks to Buhari.

Valto:
the present weather conditions might be the cause. solar production has dropped a bit since December.

True that. So the reduced output may also result from dust too, as per my own experience.

NSCDC. Thay were fingered as the major security provider for the bunkerers. In fact it was alleged that one of their commanders owns an illegal refinery.

This outfit is fast becoming an anathema that will likely be worse than the Nigerian police.

Mstcheeew! They've said it all.

"Birds of a feather, flock together"

"Show me your friend, and I'll tell the kind of person you are".

This woman is as unpopular and undesirable in her home country as Buhari is in Nigeria, so I'm not surprised she sees "Yèyẹ́ Below" as a human being.

That is because the kain curse wey Nigerians dey wait to unleash on dem no be here.

Have you seen how they've been trolling FFK? If that guy get shame, hin suppose don run comot from twitter.

I've never been on twitter. Maybe this is one reason I'll register. Lai "Liar" Muama go hear ween.

busuyi44:
Why didn't you use water to clear the dust?

The panel were washed. You probably missed the earlier post that showed the significant improvement with the cleaning.

Dam5reey:
You have more than Dust on your panels, Dust will only reduce by 10-15%..

You simply have bird poo or something similar, that's causing shade and not Dust, Shading is more worse than Dust..

This season is also different sha.. seems Dust is thicker..

It's actually dust. No shading. And nothing like bird droppings on it. The dust was thick as you suspected. The place is on the side of an untarred road.

But I even believe that dust covering that is not thick will still impact much, with this my experience.

earthrealm:
Bros, you follow us tight fisted folk dey use this el cheapo powmr cc...hahahahahahaha.
Omo that cc na small but mighty. E for close book if it has harvest logging capability. Daily cummulative.

Bros, I fell in love with it o, since I realized that it's reliability at an affordable rate. I have up to 4 units Initially started with MakeSkyBlue which later became expensive - of course it logs data.

Icolosis:


I was charged NGN500 Handling fees by NIPOST of which I got a receipt.
The package clearly had "Android Phone" written on it. Though I had clearly instructed the seller to declare it as gift and devalue it. He marked it as Android Phone and the value $40. Which kain Android phone dem dey sell $40 abeg

Chai! You dey quite lucky ó, as customs dem no just reason your matter. E be like say the yuletide don disorient dem small, so dem no get time for una package.

Na this kain luck person dey tap into. Unfortunately all fi gers no dey equal.

Congrats on escaping customs wàhálà.

slimmiee:
Thanks. Do you think I can win a dispute since its showing on tracker that it has arrived destination country and picked up by delivery company. When I complained to the seller he also showed me screenshot of the tracking website showing "arrived at destination country"

It only got to the destination country but was not delivered to the recipient. So I don't think that counts against you.

Usually in worst case scenario, inquest may be sent to NIPOST from China to trace the termination of an item. In such instances, they trace it as far as the last stop and if it is found out that it was truly not delivered, then you have no problems.

adamsmith914:
What has changed in the last 2 years for the withdrawal of the endorsement?

Go thru the write up. He gave his reasons, justifiable and incontrovertible reasons at that.

I belive you remember the much touted "if you say they are Fulanis, then where are the cows" statement.

mesTano:
Buhari said everybody should enter farm by force because just 2.5% arable land is being used

Tinubu said 50m youth will grow “agbado” and cassava to eat while fighting in the army

God please help us o! I don’t want to farm! I don’t like fighting

Don't you don't want to defend your agbado and Cassava?

2. Say NO to involving parents or family in solving marital matters. Instead, see a counsellor, a pastor or a neutral person of authority who believes in marriage if you can't manage a breakthrough as a couple. Parents and family are biased

While this holds true for some people, it does not necessarily mean the absolute. There have been instances that in-laws have stood solidly against their daughter in support of their son-in-law and vice versa, especially if they know deep down that a known undesirable attitude of their son/daughter is the cause of the misunderstanding. For instance a known philanderer son or daughter will not get the support of the parents if the spouse comes to complain about such to them.

However some very irresponsible in-laws will even support the errant son/daughter, claiming that God made many women for a man or that a woman is meant to be chased by many men and therefore the spouse "should not kill the star of their child".

The key here is to know the type of in-laws you have and if they truly love you like their own. Though it has not happened before, but I'm sure in my own case, even if I'm the one at fault, my in-laws will never openly blame me in the presence of their daughter. In fact they will preferably put aside my own faults, point out her own faults and blame her there and then. Although they will later call me behind and tell me the koko about my own faults.

The trick here is that when the son/daughter-in-law sees that he/she has their (in-laws) support in disputes, there is greater likelihood that he/she will stay from hurting the spouse because he/she will not want to disappoint the trust the in-laws have in them. This holds true for reasonable and responsible spouses though, for the crazy ones will still act out their craze no matter what. And that's the point where more critical approaches, like supporting their own for instance, coming from the in-laws may become justified.

and after you two have solved issues, they will remember the wrongs done to their son/daughter and it will affect family relations. Minimise the amount of people involved in your domestic affairs.

You're absolutely correct in this. So I will not subscribe to you inviting neither the parents nor any pastor whatsoever to settle marital disputes.

Even in the ones that I've been privileged to settle, I exercise utmost restraint not to reference it to harm the emotions of either of the warring parties when settling subsequent disputes for 'em. It's a hard task, but I try my best.

In laws will most likely find it harder to exercise such restraints.

The best is for the couple to do it in-house. In fact, from experience, it is good for one not to be an arbitrator sef, because by the time the matter settles, na on top bed the husband and wife go take discuss una matter. Na dat time una go come become the enemy.

Before now I believed that dry season dust on solar panels do not have SIGNIFICANT negative impact on insolation. But I got tired of the suboptimal output from my array and contracted the services of a carpenter to help climb the roof and do the cleaning.

Done early in the morning, the picture shows the before cleaning, at 25% cleaning and at 50% cleaning of the array. Dem never even reach 100% sef.

162w to 347w to 665w

I don't need any more convincing.

slimmiee:
Still a long way to go o.
I have called and sent messages to nipost about 3 of my parcels with them since September.. Their excuse is that they can't track the parcel.

Chai! NIPOST do you strong thing ó. That update as "received by delivery company" clearly shows the last port of stop as NIPOST because they are the delivery company. Yet dem dey talk trash say dem no get am. Although the tracking number as unregistered makes it untrackable within Nigeria. Also, December as arrival into Nigeria isn't enough to lose hope as long as it is NIPOST because items have spent good 8 weeks with them before.

Just watch out for purchase protection. File for trade dispute when appropriate, get your refunds and wait for the arrival of items (or not) in like 2 months.

Icolosis:
Finally received my Poco x3 Pro today.
Order date 12 Nov 2021
Received 14 Jan 2022

63 days total from order date
Pheeeew this is the longest delivery I've ever experienced on AliExpress.
Celebration time ooooo

I don't know why someone will narrate his experience of getting a phone from AE in Nigeria and not mention "if he paid duty or not" or "if he was charged NIpOST delivery fees or not" as part of his narration. That is like telling someone you were stopped at a roadblock mounted by Nigerian Police and not mention if you were asked to roger them or not. Your story no get head or tail; which kain story is that!

Tell us if you paid duty or not, or if NIPOST charged you. And no forget to mention the amount too.

Ray1251:
Will they reattempt to deliver it? ,I never asked for reschedule, infact I was not contacted ,tried the number there na Hausa man pick, first time experienceing this with speedaf

That number is the number of the guy that signed to have it delivered to you. "Chris Sugiwe" does not sound Hausa name to me and in fact ńa Lagos sef.

If he speak Hausa again, turn am to pidgin for am. Hin go hear dat one.

smallsmall:
Gurus, one question.

Can one mix together (charging and usage), two battery Banks of,
1) LiFePo4 Pristmatic Cells
2) and the other LiFEPo4 32650 Cells,
if both are of the same Capacity (3kW each) and connected to the same Hybrid Inverter?
To form 6KW Battery Bank.
Any downside, danger?

Prismatic and cylindrical LifePO4 usually have some difference in terms of power density with cylindrical having greater density even though the capacity may be the same. This is the reason Tesla has stuck with that form factor in his 2700 Li-ion cells and his newer iterations of 4680 lifePO4 cells. So you don't want to combine them in one pack. In fact, it is advisable to only combine the same cell type having the same batch number, manufacturer and manufacture date in the same pack.

So what you wanna do is to have each type of cells to form a different pack. One pack of prismatic and a second pack of cylindrical cells. Then each with its own BMS. Then you can connect the two resulting packs in parallel. As LifePO4, they have the same charging profile so there shouldn't be any issues with hooking them together in parallel.

Quite effective regional security outfit, they are. The South East should also ensure those guys don't slip into their forests. They should be chased back to where they come from.

If they wanna flee, let em flee to Niger and Chad where they have their kinsman (Buhari's cousins) and their features can hardly be distinguished; both physical features and behavioural features.

They will never be able to hide nor protected here in the south, for southerners do not have behavioural or religious sentiment alignment with them. There are also physical differences: south west cone heads and south east flat heads, something which fleeing terrorists can never mimick.

A dead terrorist is the only repentant terrorist.

Landmack:
ESN see una mate o

But there’s something wrong somewhere...how come u never hear that Amotekun were busy killing or firing soldiers...villages razed down in gun battle btwn Govt forces and state security? But the reverse is always the case in the camps of the ESN...don’t we think something is wrong somewhere?
Could it be the approach or mentality?

Pls only sane minds can quote me...if u carry ur touting and uncouth Ipob useless self to quote na thunder go scatter ur eyeballs.

The problem is that ESN were making public their exploits in tackling fulani menace in the south east. Amotekun did that before with the arrest of that Wakili fulani guy but they soon realized that the FG is on the side of the villains and will keep frustrating efforts to ensure peace remains in other parts of Nigeria. So the next thing is to keep mute while proper patrols, arrests and defensive execution take place.

The initial efforts of the ESN at sanitizing their forests were very effective and the herders fled in their numbers. I guess ESN was too excited and broadcasted their exploits. They still do those publicity and I wonder why. Unfortunately, the government may have latched onto that approach, infiltrated those areas, do the killings themselves - but this time genocidal killings of villagers and security personnels - and then "broadcast" as if it's ESN that does it.

ojeysky:
Nice and neatly done, but for such a huge bank size, why is 24v preferred over 48v?

Maybe dude is trying to reduce the failure points that'll need to be addressed with higher 48v battery bank.

48v (4 in series) versus 24v (2 in series) - 4 potential fails versus 2 potential fails.

My own comment though would have been structured thus:

Nice and neatly done, but for such a huge bank size, why is LA preferred over Lithium?

okikigsm:
afternoon house.3 of my orders don't enter nipost hand just a wk now.should I contact.my area post office or wait till they contact me?experience nipost customer advice pls.

Destinylink:
Yes o... Day before yesterday! In fact, I was on my way to Nipost to make enquires about the item, boom! My phone beeped, I saw SMS. When I opened it, it was Nipost! Asking me to come and pick-up the item.

The item was with them for a month.

NIPOST nor dey try Abeg!

@bolded. Okikigsm, yours has served only one week purgatory sentence. So you need to be abnormally patient for an abnormal situation like this is.

jboixxx:
[color=#0000ff]At the bolded, it's 3 days after delivery update by Speedaf, then, it'll be automatically confirmed by the platform. Your dispute timeline starts immediately afterwards. In short, 18days after Speedaf's delivery confirmation. [/color]

So it's shorter than I thought.

18 days? Na wá ó. I think I need to re-strategize on item testing and verification, at least to make sure its completed within a week.

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This is why things work in those places. They are always proactive. Resources have been put in place to address these situations and prevent relationship frauds from getting so easy.

Come back to Nigeria. An innocent retiree, a University student or a local trader or businessman walk into a Nigerian bank to complain about their funds being stolen online even when they have evidently been very careful with their information, including refusing to declare their Pin, card info or OTP to any random strangers.

Knowing that all avenues for funds to be stolen have been well observed and not breached by the complainants, one will expect that the bank pursue the recovery of such funds determinedly or at worst locate and duly report the culprit to the authorities.

However what they do next is to tell the complainants that "sorry, there is nothing we can do to help". They refuse to acknowledge that their platform may have been compromised in some manner, which is the case in some of these frauds. That access bank is very notorious for that. Even an arrested fraudster claims that it was easiest with Access bank and First bank to use their USSD to hack into customers account once they lay their hands on the phone.

Before anyone tries to ask why anyone would be careless with their phone, know that stolen phones of users on other banks does not open their USSD to fraudulent use, so you should why the problem is with Access or First banks

This thing is even confusing like Buhari.

Crude oil price falls, Nigerians suffer. If ẹ come rise again Nigerians go still suffer. So which one come be good for the country? .

Buharinomics is simply destructive to the Nigerian state.

So if El Rufai or his naughty son or wife post their usual trash, the Nigerian team will have the effrontery to delete it?

A lot of dramas will still come out of this. Drama that reflects the inequality and injustice in the Nigerian polity. For instance, deleting a citizen's tweet for complaining against corruption in the government while keeping/jumping pass Buhari's tweet on threatening genocide because it is the president's post. Then it will be time for NYT or BBC to cash out with stories of such injustice as it pervades twitter. The government may have set a trap for itself after all.

All these charade is for now, for all those government officials that promoted muzzling free speech on SM today will become victims of their own orchestrations by the time they are out of government tomorrow.

It's a rule in life and it hardly can be bent.

Ha! So this is possible even when person is not a criminal? That means if you try to speak against the oppression in this government, they can just erase you like that?

Babalegba:
When you receive an item, the delivery company marks the item as delivered and communicates that to AliExpress and the seller The fifteen days window starts from that point if any complaint or dispute surfaces. Chinedu that sells electronics at the junction will not even give you twenty four hours to test the product.No Nigerian would agree for his goods to be tested for seventy days so why would the Chinese agree. You are dealing with business men not charities.

What are you even talking about? Are you saying that what you said about Chinedu and Chinese sellers is the normal thing, as in what is expected in sane climes?

Deliberate misinformation on product with intent to defraud is now "business" to you? And so the buyer has to bear the responsibility of purchasing wrong item based on the seller's wily manner?

I hope you're not a lawyer or a judge sef, otherwise wrong guys go just dey ball while the cheated suffers.

For better obodo, if an item messes up for reasons not due to misuse within 6 months, you still have the chance to have it replaced. In this case, the seller even lied barefacedly about the specs and admitted to the allegation.

So now that a seller deliberately misinforms and finding out his lies after 15 days at which point it was too late is normal to you? The smart alec was even telling me to order another router with 32 users. This nonsense would have been sorted out with dispute and his loss would have made the seller correct that misinformation on his page. Now more and more buyers will fall victim. There is even another Nigerian buyer who praised the item in his opening comment. I guess he is also in for a rude shock, or not if he doesn't have up to 10 devices to connect anytime soon.

The item is completely useless to me. I have as much as 20 home devices that are hooked on WiFi with more to come, so what will ten access points offer me?

Abeg, better person who is interested in buying this 3 weeks used stuff should PM me ó jàre.

Penuelseun:
Finally upgraded to 24v and it has been wow. Runtime increased massively with my li-ion cells. Refrigerator has been on since morning. Will find a case for my batteries later.

Use of a PWM is doing injustice to the lithium. The first time I replaced my LA pack with lithium, I noticed that the pre-existing PWM SCC has more challenges filling the storage. Heck, DC-DC buck converters fair much better with lithium than PWM CCs does. MPPT gives best results with fastest and highest rate of charge. You'll be happy that your lithium get satiated each day before sundown, of course that also depends on your array size. So I think you should plan an to upgrade to MPPT in the shortest possible time.

Icolosis:


Nobody asked naa, Just tell them you want another card, the reason no concern them.
If they insist just say you want to share the cards to your wife and children or something

Is it possible to run more than one card concurrently for a single account?

My understanding is that once a new card is activated, especially in conditions of lost card, the previous card automatically deactivates. Have I believed wrong?

Babalegba:
It is clearly written on AliExpress website that once you receive an item you have only fifteen days to lodge a complaint about the product. Asking for a seventy day window is clearly Nigerian and unreasonable.

@bolded.

That you receive an item OR that you click on the "confirm item received" tab?

They are two different things, for you can receive an item but not hurry to confirn receipt by clicking on that tab because I need more than enough time to make sure the item fulfils all criteria promised by the seller.

So which of the above did you imply?

Alfabest07:
i think he's mistaking the 70 days buyers protection period as the 15 days window to open dispute after confirmed received

Assuming I received an item within 2 weeks (14 days) of shipping (which gives me 66 days of purchase protection remaining), and I have yet to click on the "confirm item received" tab, it seems that upon receipt and notification from the shipping company (in the case of speedaf) that your item has been signed for, the purchase protection immediately resets from the 66 days remaining to something around 15 days countdown. After the 15 days countdown, the system closes the order and then you have a new 15 days after order closure to open a trade dispute if such a need arises.

That means that instead of having an initial 66 days purchase protection days plus 15 days dispute chances, you end up having 15 days purchase protection plus the 15 days dispute chances.

Okay. So I noticed one peculiarity with speedy speedaf that just cost me a loss in trade.

It seems that the moment you sign for a speedaf item and the delivery/receipt update is done via speedaf with email confirmation, your purchase protection seems to reset to 15 days remaining even if it was initially 70 days remaining.

There is this WiFi router that I got. The seller claimed 32 devices/access points. I was able to get up to 10 devices to connect only after about three weeks of use at which point I realized that it won't accept more than 10 devices. Unfortunately, purchase protection has self expired and 15 days dispute period elapsed. Since the "confirm order received" self-expired, I gave good reviews based on only few days of use. Now I could only lament on the 60 days additional reviews 3 weeks after, which was already late for dispute, something I have very great chances of winning.

I chatted the seller with the evidences only for him/her to reply that the factory/company said it can only connect 10 devices. Yet his advert claimed 32 devices. This item is absolutely useless for me now cos of this limitation.

So watch out. A quick speedaf delivery can also expose you to inadequate time to test run and verify the authenticity or functionality of the item you bought.

Kikibanki:
One seller is trying to hold me ransom my people. The order did not arrive after the buyer's protection period elapsed, I duly opened a dispute, now the seller is proposing I cancel the dispute, that after that he will send me a new package but me i proposing i send the new package first before I. Cancel the dispute...am i on the right track?

Please refer to the post below and you can adopt it to your situation.

ceaser:
Good thing he personally suggested that the item may have been lost in transit.

So it's now for you to also suggest to him to do the follwimg:

1. Re-send a new item with a valid tracking number sent to you so that you're able to follow it every step of the way.

2. That you think you should open a trade dispute for refund and will be glad if he readily accepts your proposal in the trade dispute - "refund all monies".

If he agrees on either option, please remember to also reassure him that in case the item first item (deemed lost) eventually arrives at your doorstep, you will get in touch with him to pay back the monies refunded.

Since you said tracking was stuck at "despatched to overseas", I'll wager that it must be Singapore Post handling it. Now that may also pose the same problem with a replacememt item sent which will likely be sent via Singapore Post too. So your best bet may be to just to settle for refund of monies. And if you're still interested in the item, you can scout around for another seller that may not likely use Singapore Post.

Nigeria is usually a place that your ambitions may be frustrated and dreams killed.

Perhaps as a kid she had shown some propensity towards the arts, her parents knowing fully well that artists have no support system in Nigeria and risk ending up as paupers may have forced her to study engineering. Now that she has a better option to fall back to in case her first love does not pay the bills, she has her engineering job to fall back on.

In developed climes, the government has great support systems for all kinds of preoccupation such that her parents will never be allowed to influence her decision of ambition, she will be picked up at a young age, groomed and trained to become the best of painters. And she'll earn good too.

By today or tomorrow, Buhari will send condolence message to Biden, cos he loves condoling on natural disasters and other mishaps that occur in other nations.

Meanwhile his own nation and people daily experience mishaps and disasters that result from political harakiri and leadership ineptitude. Yet, not a word, not even something as short as a grunt comes from that his twisted mouth and evil heart.