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Hi Nairalanders, I'm currently looking for where I can oven bake my car in Benin. I don't live in Benin though but its closer to me, and I do visit Benin more often. Any suggestion is highly welcome. Thanks

Piyke:
Clear coat application complete.

Baking starts...Burner turned on

Can you smell what Piyke the Rock is cooking

I honestly never knew there's oven spray in Asaba. I live in warri and would love to bake my Honda Accord. Could you please send me the address of the place where u baked ur car and also the cost, thanks.

Always Put Your Relationship With God Before Your Relationship With Me:

If I ever put you in a situation that compromises your faith…or makes you have to decide whether to make me happy or to make God happy…please side with God on that one. He is going to be right 100% of the time.

Be Confident In Yourself:

I will do everything I can to make you feel loved. I will tell you that you are beautiful, surprise you with flowers, make you laugh. But don’t let me be your main source of confidence. To me, confidence is one of your most attractive attributes. You don’t need me for that. God made you perfectly and you can be confident in that.

Be Quick To Forgive:

There will be times when we argue and you will not want to be in the same room as me. I am going to mess up from time to time, but please forgive me. By forgiving each other our marriage will only grow stronger. God forgave us.

Have Fun:

Laugh uncontrollably. Play pranks on me. Don’t take life too seriously.

Know You Are Beautiful and Always Will Be Beautiful:

You are one of God’s daughters. He beautifully and perfectly created you for this earth. Your outside beauty caught my eye, but your inner beauty kept me by.



Credit: http://againstiflow.com/2014/04/09/5-words-to-my-future-wife/

I love this concept @cityhood, great idea. You Guys are doing fantastic job plus you ve really good roads in the North, most especially Kaduna. I could remember back then in school, we used to do racing in Kaduna city on hols. I have been thinking of suicide doors in a car in naija, like custom made, and you guys just answered that. Hope to patronize you soon. More powers to your elbows and keep the great work going.

Great move by PMB. I hope it won't be like the GEJ style where reports will be swept under the carpet.

chucky234:
Clean regd 2004 Acura MDX is up for grab
- Rugged
- Well maintained
- Clean interior & exterior
- Clean leather interior
- DVD
- chilling AC
- Low mileage
- Auto/Auxiliary gear
- Sound smooth engine and gear
Reason for sell: owner got another car
Location: Lagos
Bonus Price: N750k fixed
Old Price: N850k slightly negotiable.
Call or whatsapp: 08024403817
.
Car must go this week.
I can deliver to those outside Lagos.

So we should pay money into your account for fueling the car and you'll drive it down to the desired location right? Pls invent some new stuffs, that's an old line, it's cliche

hahn:
Very long gist

It's an article everyone interested in this country should read. I wonder what happened to our reading culture. Ironically, people spend more time reading useless post on Facebook.

Are you like me — highly excited by Nigeria's potential but intermittently despondent about our development chances? We talk so much about our petro-centric economy, high unemployment, over-bloated public service, inefficiency of government and poor governance, but, truth be told, it is not hopeless for Nigeria. We cannot deny the fact that everything to make Nigeria great is here with us. We do not have shortage of human and material resources. That is settled. Maybe we need some foreign experts, but definitely not as much as we think. Or maybe we don't even need outside help at all. Maybe all we need do is tinker with our preconceived ideas.

The ridiculous potential of this country was demonstrated when we decided to share the $1.6 billion dividends from our investment in the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company Ltd (NLNG) as part of an economic bail-out package. You know what? Once upon a time, we were simply flaring the gas. We came to our senses sometime in 1989 when President Ibrahim Babangida set up the LNG, in partnership with oil majors, to gather the gas. Between when the first train left our shores in 1999 and now, the investment has earned over $85 billion. It has paid taxes in excess of $30 billion. The $1.6 billion is just one year's dividend for our 49% stake. We still have $4 billion in the piggy bank!

But you know what? We are still flaring gas like hell, no pun intended. We are literally burning billions of dollars every day of the week. There are billions of dollars in revenue, billions of dollars in taxes and billions of dollars in dividend that we are unable to tap into. We have been so schooled to think that crude oil is all there is to this life. Now, for Pete's sake, do we need Barack Obama to tell us to stop flaring gas? It is for us to sit down, ask ourselves simple questions and reform our mind so that we can see how we can set this economy on the "explosion" mode by simply making use of what we have to get what we want.

There are several ways of unlocking our huge economic potential. Today, I will discuss outsourcing non-core and non-security sensitive government duties. How can the government begin to shed unnecessary weight? Does government need to be clearing refuse and patching potholes? Are these duties better left to private hands, thereby freeing the government of personnel liabilities, procurement scams and maintenance costs? Won't this allow the government to focus its energy on governance through making policies and enforcing standards? I'm not even talking about the bigger picture of privatisation. Just talking about scaling up concessioning and outsourcing.

In the private sector, big companies are increasingly outsourcing non-core functions so that they can concentrate on their primary areas of business. Why should a bank employ cleaners, security guards and have an in-house advertising agency if it can outsource these jobs? Why should a newspaper house own a printing press when it can print at a commercial press, thereby outsourcing all its printing headaches and focusing its energy on journalism? Why should a telecoms company be running call centres when there are companies that specialise in providing this service? In the end, you will be creating and enriching a new economy.

It is estimated that there are new businesses, worth billions of naira, waiting to be unlocked through outsourcing in the private sector, and you can double or triple that if you throw in the public sector through a comprehensive restructuring of government business. In addition to allowing businesses to invest more in improving their own capacities in their core areas, outsourcing has the potential of developing a new job sector and delivering new, improved skills. Small and medium businesses, the engine of any economy, will benefit both directly and indirectly. Foreign companies engaged in business in Nigeria can also transfer skills and invest in latest technologies.

In the public sector, the same model of outsourcing — which, thankfully, is already in place at many agencies — should be pursued more vigorously as we seek to unlock our economic potential. I have seen this model at work in advanced economies, especially in road maintenance, and it is actually not rocket science. There is the added benefit of having less government involvement in our lives as it concentrates on law and order. Nevertheless, there is an argument that outsourcing can lead to job loss. But this argument not only encourages the government to keep carrying dead weight, it revels in the inefficiency. What service does the government really render well in Nigeria?

Indeed, the job-loss argument further ignores the fact that outsourcing actually creates employment in the private sector. Disengaged government workers who really have something to offer will be in a good position to float companies and provide the same services to government, but this time as entrepreneurs. Government overheads are reduced, while the new business entities will pay corporate and personal taxes. Those idle civil servants who sell fish and shoes in the office can collect their terminal benefits and rent shops at Dugbe, Wuse and other markets to engage in proper trading. We desperately need a fit-and-trim civil service.

I will randomly cite three areas to illustrate my argument: road maintenance, waste management and PR. Let's start with road. The big jobs will always go to the Julius Bergers, but what about routine road maintenance? Nigerians should be setting up engineering companies knowing that thousands of road maintenance contracts are there to be executed every year. They should be the ones buying or renting bulldozers, not the government. They should be responsible for equipment maintenance and fuelling, etc. So the government awards the contracts, specifies the standards and collects the taxes from them. Procurement, as we know, is a major drainpipe in government business.

Two, why should government be clearing refuse and budgeting hundreds of millions of naira to purchase trucks, fuel, pay workers and all that every year? This should not be the primary job of government. It can be outsourced. New businesses will automatically spring up. Efficiency is a more likely outcome than when government is the provider of the service. In Lagos State, for instance, we have largely overcome the refuse collection problem with the public private partnership (PPP) model. Private companies do all the dirty job, pardon the pun, under government regulation. Value is created in the chain. Job is created. And refuse is properly cleared.

My final witness. A few years ago, I saw the staff audit report of the PR department of a government agency which had like 20 members of staff! What do they do? One of them simply collects newspapers from the vendor in the morning and his job is done for the day. Most of them list the same job description: reading and reviewing newspapers. Only one was actually involved in anything PR! They while away their days by watching movies on their computers. If government outsources all their public relations, imagine how many more PR firms will come on board. More jobs will certainly be created. There is a better chance of value being delivered.

My point exactly is: maybe all we need to reboot our economy and spark it into life is to re-examine our government business model. I am talking about something as simple as outsourcing. It is not as complicated as privatisation. I would like to challenge the federal and state governments to commission a study on the cost benefits and efficiency savings derivable from outsourcing. I have a fair idea of the likely findings and conclusions. We must put on our thinking cap. We were flaring all our gas before NLNG. We are still flaring billions of naira on excess weight in the public sector. The private sector understands the benefits of outsourcing and is taking full advantage of it.
Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/unlocking-the-economy-is-no-rocket-science/216991/

As with every process in life, it is human will to initiate an act, sustain and also stop an act. The will of man overrides all other motions, as this is an intense and compelling force or power to act voluntarily. Therefore, your will enable you to initiate, sustain and stop an act, depending on what you have decided to do, which ends up in an action being taken, either to the positive or to the negative.


There are several myths and misconceptions about masturbation. The most popular is that only men masturbates, no this is not true, as both men and women in all age groups engage in this activity.


When this act becomes an obsession, and gives you cause for concern, then you are in the process of getting out of the habit. Studies have shown that 95% of men and 85.1% of females masturbates, with a higher prevalence amongst teens.


Steps to take to stop this unhealthy habit.
The responses that flooded in with regards to my last article on masturbation have shown that;
1. people, named and with a face , are engaged in this act.
2. it cuts across both male and female
3. some due to loneliness, and others to derive sexual pleasure, so as not to fall in premarital sex.
4. imbalance in libido, between spouses
5. many are concerned that it has become an addiction, and desperately want to get out of it.

The first step is to acknowledge that it is now an addiction.
Do not feel let down, and look down on yourself. That you are now a failure; and assume that it is a sign of your engaging in a pattern of activity that is self-destructive.


Feeling let down is different from hating yourself, which means condemning your total being. When you feel let down in yourself, you are upset with a certain part of your life. So do not get into self hatred, as this will not allow you to take the right step, in solving your problem. So be positive in self let down, with a focus on taking a step towards your stopping this habit.


Anyone who stops addictive behaviour and returns to it will feel let down. Give yourself the credit for what you have accomplished in acknowledging that there is a problem, and you want to stop it. If you fail and return to it several times, still give credit to yourself.
Secondly, find someone you respect and confide in, and would be accountable to, that can help you. Talk it over with this person, and any time there is an urge to do it, remember that you need to be in control.


This act is actually in the mind. It is your inquisitive and wondering thought, that has brought you this far and you must exercise control over your thoughts, and take charge, say no, and hold on! The burning urge would soon pass.
Keep busy doing other things. If you get the urge at all times, it is easier to get busy doing all other things, from work, to school, business and housekeeping. Do not be idle. Take a walk, get out of the house, just do not be alone, go and get along with friend, find hubbies, hang out or get a job.


Find other things to occupy your mind and your time. If you find yourself in bed and the urge comes, take a book and read, watch a clean movie, news, musical, or better still use your talent at this time!


It is important that you keep busy mentally and physically. This urge can come on like a temptation, and make up your mind that it will not have you. This can also be done by stopping slowly, and try not to be alone at all times, so that you will not have the urge to do it. When you are in the bathroom, do not look at yourself naked and do not stay there too long. This decision must be made by you.


Studies have shown that it takes about two weeks to break a habit. Get rid of all pornographic materials with you. Find a way to be physically active as an outlet. When you do this, do not feel guilty, but proud that you are able to overcome it, and worthy enough to accomplish whatever you want.
When your desire to stop, is greater that your desire to continue, then your goal

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/you-can-stop-masturbating/216861/

autotrader014:
Clean Nigerian used Honda Baby for cheap sale. Car is very clean, sound engine condition, clean fabric interior, 4 cylinder, factory AC. Price: N570,000

I was the one who called you earlier. Pls when you have EOD Manual tranny pls lemme know. Thanks

Were the pictures taken in 1969? I saw a Volkswagen Beetle.

I believe this meetings will help in the needed transformation agenda embarked upon by the president. Most especially the Boko Haram crisis and also tackling corruption, which has eaten deep into our system. God bless PMB

Below are the prices of some Honda engines and automatic gear transmission boxes.

Accord 2003-2007(2.4EX 4plugs) - Engine-N150,000 - Gearbox-N140,000

Accord 2003-2007 V6 (6plugs) - Engine-N140,000 - Gearbox-N160,000

Accord 1998-2002 (4plugs) - Engine-N65,000 - Gearbox-N75,000

Accord 1998-2002 V6 - Engine-N45,000 - Gearbox-N90,000

Odyssey 2002-2005 - Engine-N65,000 - Gearbox-N110,000

CRV 1998-2002 - Engine-N70,000 - Gearbox- Frontwheel-N80,000, 4*4-N120,000

CRV 2003-2006 - Engine-N110,000 - Gearbox-Frontwheel-N140,000, 4*4-N160,000

CRV 2007-2011 - Engine-N170,000 - Gearbox- N190,000

Accord 1994-1997(Academy) - Engine-N55,000 - Gearbox-N45,000

Pilot 2003-2004 - Engines-N65,000 - Gearbox-N240,000

Pilot 2005-2007 - Engine-N180,000 - Gearbox-N350,000

Acura TL 2003-2006 - Engines-N170,000 - Gearbox-N140,000

Accord 2008-2012(4plugs) - Engines-N240,000 - Gearbox-N170,000

Accord 2008-2012(V6) - Engines-N500,000 - Gearbox-N160,000

Civic 2000-2004 - Engines-N100,000 - Gearbox-N90,000

Civic 2006-2010 - Engines-N150,000 - Gearbox-140,000

N.B. These are prices for tokunbor engines and gearbox.

After buying you might need to reprogram the brainbox. Buying a tokunbor gearbox doesn't give u 100% guaranty that it will work fine. The best bet is to buy a brand new gearbox, which cost 2times d tokunbor value, sometimes even more. Confirm the above prices from any dealer, u will know that's the cheapest so far...I'm out bro, just do the math

Jlow2:
am not an agent or middle man who has no capital, i have i good job which u can check on my advert on nairaland, i dint join nairaland on april 2015 lyk u, go get a job, you dnt have wat it takes to own a bicycle, if you keep disgracing ur self by sayin a gear box of accord 2006 model is 280k

From your statement I could tell you reason very small. Made men don't work for people, they are bosses. Must u advertise you r a worker on NL? Please do a price check before u post rubbish on NL.

I dey laugh O! Honda DC gearbox for 70k? Pls buy and fix in the Car lemme pay 700k cash ok

If you think the gearbox is that cheap, buy a new gearbox of 70k, like you said,then I'll pay for the ride, including the cost of the New gearbox of 70k. On a second note, once you have changed the atf, kiss the gearbox goodbye. Technically even if you drain the atf from the gearbox, residual old atf in the torque converter will continue to do further damage on the gearbox. Thus a new gearbox is needed.

1.55million for a Nigerian used 04 Acura? You must be kidding, ain't u? A tokunbor cost 1.5m, a 2006 model for that matter. Ask Car dealers here on NL for proofs. Infact you ain't ready to sell yet. Holla back when you are ready. Anyway maga still plenty here sha, so happy sales.

Jlow2:
the gear one jumps to gear 2 dats the only fault
can travel to anywer
4new tyres
ac chilling
honda discussion continue 2006
price 600k
south east region
call or watsapp 07039804561
direct owner

The gearbox cost about 280k. The problem is getting a gearbox that would work perfectly.

Acura TSX or Honda Accord, EOD needed in Port-court, manual transmission.

Bros em no dey price posie wey they inside bag. Post pics man

How much will it cost me to get these cars. 2003 Honda Accord Europe version, manual. 2003 Toyota Corolla, manual. 2006 Honda civic, manual. 2003 Honda Accord EOD, Manual cost. Landing cost to Lagos sir. All manual transmission.

700k

This shows how uneducatedour security personnel are. Election reruns shouldn't cause big deal by shutting down an entire local government or state as the case maybe. Even the mopol sef, em nor wise?

Well, for Fashola the position will suit him. Also, Dele Momodu awill be suited for that position. For the others, I think it's just recycling of geriatrics.

When you'reready to sell upload better pics

autotrader014:
Boss i ve a honda civic, but its auto transmission.

How much?

Please I need Honda Civic, 2006 - 2008 model, manual transmission. Reg or toks. Thanks

I don't know why we Nigerians like to take advantage of online trading. Can't we ever do legit biz and be sincere with ourselves?

Run for your life, this is a scam!!! OLX is here, beware

Please upload pictures of both sides.