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Its Sad when people spread their silliness online just cos they are ignorant, Im struggling to understand why anyone in their right mind would suggest Calabar Carnival is better than the biggest in Western Europe that Holds for 2 days that cost the UK £5.6 Million as far back in 2002 .I know the Calabar carnival is great but the Nothing hill one is greater as I have experienced the two.

[quote author=wwwkaycom]so. for you, 1963 to 2013 is 30years, abi, which pry school did you attend?[/quote]AKARA school

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Indecent dressing among Females

In this century, dressing indecently has become an unwanted reality.

In developing countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Peru etc women emulate and conform with the cultures of the already developed western world. Of course, I am aware we live in an era of globalization, but that is not a license to dress and behave without common sense.

We are all rational beings capable of thinking for ourselves and distinguishing right from wrong and making reasonable decisions on what to wear, how to wear them, and where to wear them to. Basically, you already know that every dress has its own occasion. Therefore, we don't need to accept and agree to all that the western countries impose on us all in the name of fashion. For instance, Indiscriminate wearing of skinny jeans, inappropriate see through dresses, detesting the use of underwear and panties, and also the abuse of colors (popularly called "PINGING".

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What exactly is fashion? Some say fashion is a popular trend especially in style of dress, ornament or, behavior. Others say it is a way of behaving or doing something that is liked by people in a particular time. But, I say fashion is feeling comfortable in what you wear. its all about dressing and behaving in a way pleasing to God and human.

I write to address those men women who are already poisoned by the adoption of the western belief that exposing some part of the body makes you look sexy and attractive to the opposite sex. Oh yes that's true! Even men also wants a piece of the action but dressing half naked won't help you achieve that.

An illustration can be seen in music videos where cultural imperialism makes the artist believe that having unclad women dance in front of the camera adds more value to the video and increases chances of making profit.

Let me ask, will you call such an artist and his crop of unclad video vixens FASHIONABLE? Well, I call that IMMORALITY and CORRUPTION OF OUR FASHION SENSE.

Hey people, don't kill the fashion sense in you!

Written by: Ilechukwu, Adanna

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Ilechukwu Adanna is a Mass Communication Undergraduate at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria

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OP you exposed ur arms and show flesh in ur legs, what's the difference between you and them lot you described upstairs
In some other views your dressing is morally wrong ie in the Eastern world, so o n can not judge others by things that are driven by social and societal values.

lekkie073: Just d same way nobody on nairaland here gives a Bleep about ur credit rating bumkum

Brov if you check the western world you will realize every is based on credit rating if not you cant even get credit for store card or mobile phone contract

odua son: Please write in english,i dont understand the gibberish u wrote up there.

well I just drop warri slang for you .nah there I yan reach,if I begin speak English now you go say I dey show myself, ur MUMU get CV akpa like U.

REALITY101: Ok you are in Nigeria and know how your fuccked up system works, stop being a jerkass. #police-business

About or more ago a man's dog was shot to death by police in Texas because he was walking his dog around his neighborhood and saw SWAT team on a crime scene so he started recording the action. When the 'police approached him, his dog as man's best friend jumped out of the car via rolled down window trying to attack the officers and kaboom they pulled the trigger...

Nobody wants his arss on YouTube for some stupid shit. Moral of the story: mind your business sometimes

very diffrent sceen.a corned crime scene is no longer publc space.you as MOp is not allowed into that space hence the space and everything thereoff is only subjected to the SWAT team not even the texas police are allowed there.

lekkie073: so if they dont experience it before they die, heaven no go open gate for them? ode

E go open but dem nor go know how E be

odua son: iphone 5 is a big deal to you,if not u wont be mentioning it on the thread,so spare me the balderash,for ur myiopic mind anyone that asks you why the camera of your phone is so blurred,u term the person poor, then u must be a fool.

guy you free the man ah.whats ur problem must you display ur inability to own a smart phone on here? .U dey fall ur hand.iphone5 is foc here if you got a gd credit reting here its not a big deal.how U supose the Op to take fotos and post em same time if not with his iphone?make e use digital cam and go home to hook it on his lappy abi? Kini big deal.9ja and thier matiralistic state of mind .fyi.if you put on 1m watch nobody send you here

Symphony007: so those passengers in line like sadines came to see the inuagral flight with their "korokoro eye" the ticketing attendance also came too to see with their "korokoro eyes" that is why they have no seat behind a glass wall to work from. So your excuse for this disgracefull building is that a better one is being built with more billions, how many billion was spent on this one? If the billions spent on this one is added to the billions meant to be spent on the other building, don't you think a start of the art airport will be under construction by now? Common sense is now a privelage.

come to heathrow terminal 3 and see the quque then you will shut up

[quote author=Kay-Dee]The Manchester and London embassies , are they always like that or were those videos shot on a special event ?

If they get crowds like that everyday then they should consider attending to people based on appointments and with daily caps.[/quote]Op

[quote author=i_laugh]who cares?[/quote]why? If you went fru the stress she had gone fru U will even wanna change jr name.just imagine you av an appointment at 9aam n traveled from seme border to bornu state only to vet there the office is closed and no warning was given. ot e en a. otice o. the wall nor appology

You want to buy a 10 years old car what milage do you think ot wpuld have?

Kaysysam: There is a big difference in going to church with a physical bible to a tablet. And the difference is that there are possibilities of distracting others around you if you go to church with a tablet which God would not approve of.

watch where pastors now. Preach from ie pastor chris

saintjoel: I'm so sorry sir,I must have lost my head at a point and I'll also like to apologise to the entire forum and eriko himself.I guess I like to defend what I do with passion cos that's what brings food to my table.

no offence taken but you should learn how to take criticism in the face pf ur biz.cps ur biz will only thrive by positive pr and as a bizman U cant insult people cos every contact os a potential customer and if you check back I did say it was v positive of U on here as U the only one willing to answer to criticism ok!

And also if an Ecu is able to through codes ie,when scanned does this mean it working or fried?mine is coming up with various codes had changed both cam and cank shaft sensors I bought both from USA still car cranks but won't start,now on scanning it these codes comes up P0031,P0051',p1495, p0136, so if this ECM is bringing up all these codes is it working still or there is the possibility of it being faulty?

NB: NB car is in PH

so has anyone here had their car fixed

Ahaha typical wanna be westerner.who told op that fork and knives must be in one particular hand ?you cut the meat with a knie and if you are right handed wbich 70% of us are that means onife goes on the right hand.U can fill ur glass to the brim.its what they do in pubs

[quote author=Über-Pissed]During the slave trade era a prominent Bini Oba banned the sale of any Bini into slavery but was an active slaver himself.

Today nemesis has caught up with the Bini people as they now willingly sell their owns elves and daughters into the most debased form of modern slavery.

The Igbos suffered heavily during slavery as many were sold of by the likes of that Oba now today their children are selling themselves into slavery.

The fulanis have attacked their hosts in Jos and Benue. The Yorubas are already betraying themselves and the northerners are demanding power shift

Nemesis . Ain't that a b1tch[/quote]Im struggling to recognise the relivance of your post to the topic

saintjoel: I can now see why I shouldn't join issues with someone who is so shallow minded like you are cos you seem to be enjoying this show.

So you actually expect me to post VIN of every vehicle I clear through the border or sell in Lagos on NL,are you so foolish that you can't realise that many of these cars aint mine and that the owner must have inspected them one time or the other before purchase or do you expect me to start posting VIN of every car which passes through my custody without the owner's consent..Seems you're the only eagle eyed man in this world who can see VIN on cars posted in NL.I don't even ship cars into Cotonou neither do I sell cars there,there are six or seven parks in Cotonou and each covers 50-60 hectares with at least 300 car dealers to a park,so tell me how I can get VIN of every car in cotonou,seriously are you that daft?.

I don't even know what you're trying to prove,this arguement has been on for days and no Nairalander has shown up to write about me scamming him/her,so I wonder why you're crying more than the bereaved.How many dealers on NL actually post details of VIN on nairaland or maybe the mere fact of not posting VIN is what an idiot like you're will call a scam.

I don't collect money to take people into Cotonou,neither do I help them bargain for cars,all I do is help them get this cars out of the border through the payment of custom duty and I want to belive I'm just one out of hundreds of agents at the border trying to make a living,so I don't think there's anything hidden in the whole process,if you buuy a car from cotonou,you can easily work to the custom's office at the border,declare your car and pay duty.

Seriously,I don't even know why I keep replying you,you may have your opinions but when a man I've never met in adam suddenly wakes up to label me a scammer,what ccomes to my mind is this-
Whatever you call me,I'll always make it but if you are making a false accusation without any proof/evidence of where and when I scammed someone,my Father in heaven will punish you and your future generation,in the mighty name of Jesus christ,every where you go or try to wotk,it's be blocked by the forces of heaven until you stop your attitude of pulling down another man's business,I stand on Christ solid rock and I declare that you'll always labour in vain if you can call me a scammer without proof/evidence.I have done business with so many people when it comes to cars,even people who I've never met have flown into to buy cars through me,right now even HCODE,a popular hip hop artiste in surulere actually bought a touareg which I once advertised and still uses it,likewise many other people,so what is your problem,what do you actually need from me apart from the explanations I've given you and every other Nairalander.

Seems you're just out to discredit agents who do honest in Cotonou and the border,joining issues with you seems to give the cheap popularity you crave for.The same man who posted a BMW and never wrote the truth about the AC or the car's condition until some people started raising eyebrows now calling someone a scammer,you must be a very big fool and I wonder what even prompted me to reply all these silly chats at the first instance,cos at the end of everything,you're entilted to your own opinion which must have been formed by a brain filled with indian hemp and other cheap drugs,I wonder where you even work in London,seems you claim to reside there, I might even invite you to gillinham in december.

GBENGA, you are very shallow re-read my last post and copy and re paste where I called you a scamer, I have never called you a scammer so chill , I can see you are very angry but loosen up boy, look at ur face in ur pic you look dry up you stress urself 2much relax a wee bit, you look as old as my Dad already in that pic, I know you are on here to do your Biz and earn a living I respect that but like I said B4, you should be matured enough to defend what you do for living, for all you know I could be wanting to do Biz with you and trying to get assurance beyond reasonable doubt from you more-so others are reading all the rubbish and names you calling on here.You should learn how to handle criticism in public, how can a claimed Biz man fight in public in the fashion you are spewing on here.Btw, them crap you where chatting bout jesus and God will punish me etc , I laff in waffi you are so so backward in religion so God loves you more than me eh that he will listen to you and kill me and my generation eh? haha Damn lol kids, I pray you get the chance to live in a civilized society where everyone are equal then you will know better.As for the VIN most cars have them on the windscreen near teh hood or pillars in the front, one foto shot will do.I recommend you learn from people like VIPERMAN,Inspired and Fehmmy I have been with them here since 2007 as for the invite to Gillingham Pass its one Shyte hole, Im always in Nigeria for Xmas and new year,Gillingham is full of Old people and retirees and people who do care work.
NB if you notice, I have not called you names,now that's a matured mind arguing, you need to learn more and argue like someone with a first degree as you claimed if not you wont get far on here.

London to Dundee,7hrs 30 mins 760KMs on a perfect rd

saintjoel: I don't want to start having arguments wuth you,like I've told it's lagos dealers like you who are always out to discredit agents who bring in cars from cotonou.

Now,the 950K-1.050M qoute I gave is for actual purchase+custom duty payable to Nigerian customs for a 2001 Camry with 4plugs,which means 950K has covered evrything from Cotonou to Nigeria,so it means no extracharge is added apart from my agent fees.when it comes to VIN check,a park in Cotonou is 40-50 hectares of land with at least 300 car dealers to a park which mean you can get like 30 sets of 01 camry within two hours if and when you need them,so you're free to check their VIN,even ii always advice my clients to check like five cars,they copy the VIn if they want,check when they get back to Nigeria and come back to buy anyone without faults,what're VIN numbers for?

Now I'll want join issues with you,you've a business and one thing I don't like is when people pock their nose where it's not needed,just today I've cleared 3 vehicle's through the border with one heading to PH.Do your business the way you want but don't come online and start discrediting another man's business,there are millions of prospective buyers in Nigeria and they are free to buy from any market.We have so manuy of you who come to Cotono and they do the 30K fake customs paper,before you know it a Cotonou car has been turned to a lagos cleared car,when the time comes,we will start exposing them,we also have so many of your type,the lagos dealers who bribe custom officials and they re-edit custom papers of the cars which have been cleared bfore for those just coming into Nigeria or do you think we at Seme don't know the trick lagos car dealers pull at the ports,where you even declare four cars as three.Leave my business alone and face your's.

Brov stop throwing ur dummy outta the pram, read my profile very well and you will realize I dont live in Lagos, I actualy live and work in London, as for poke nose, you will always get this as its a public forum and for the general interest of potential scam victims anyone who has good i nfo of how the system works should lay it bare, I have checked all the cars you sim to want to sell on here non has its VIN displayed even the ones you took fotos of in lagos,now you are still going on about 950-1M, the logistics to get the car to Benin B4 clearing is 210K naira and that's constant that camry wont sell for less than 2700 dollars I can bet you on that unless its cat D, you wont understand this as your boundaries is Benin.very cheeky calling me Lagos tout I blame you?I don't live there or have any Biz there, I leave it to guys like you. Meanwhile anyone who want to come on here to scam other Nigerians shall B xposed by any means end of so next time you snap a car always post the VIN or else we will remind you.However its worrying to know you know the tricks up in the ports of Lagos, I never go to the ports, I just buy and my Agent clears car and my dealer sells them and I give him his cut end of,Im not a clearing agent of any sort,Im just fortunate enough to live abroad and have the opportunity of buying cars from the original owners with full service history most of the times so stop thinking Im a custom clearing agent as you put it lol

And so U know.the V6 are crap and. very cheap here plus its hard to sell in Nigeria they are everywhere in the states scarce as it aint fuel efficient.

@ saintjoe
well as for the age bit Im def Older and prob be in sec school when I started dealing cars and for the know how of cars Im a mechanical Engineer.as for the tout bit.I have never li ed in lagos.Im a proud Deltan warri.Let me now school you back a bit.the xle you fotoed you said 900k right.thats more than the landing cost of that same model in lagos.I have one with L4 engine.cost at.1.1m so its cheaper than urs becos to cross it to Nigeria wont be less than 150k plus it has a checkable VIn number.try and list the vin number of those. ars let us checl of 1 out of every 4 aint a cat D

Well glad you read my profile but you failed to realize I live and work in Lo don even though I deal cars

saintjoel: Sir,unlike the raggedy BMW which sells for like 300-350K in Cotonou which you tried to sell for 500K on Nairaland,you can get cars manufactured in 2012-13 in cotonou,it's just a case of cutting your coat according to your pocket,your money has to define your taste.

Just a quick reminder cos people like you just like to talk, you have to go to my profile post to size me up if Im one of the major car dealers on this site NO,Im not cos I dont live in Lagos, you might be Older in Age but that aint nothing,from the way you are talking you wont have been an Agent for more than 5 years max, if you venture to the port in Lagos Opp Dangote, where the porta cabin is, there is a clearing agent there Omizu ent,I started delivering cars for that guy when I was just 16 years Old. Everybody in Benin says they are Custom clearing agents lol No Nigerian is in Benin, no one owns a car in any park in benin they are all Agents same as you seee in Alaba Int mkt,I use to Import crs to Benin but to Niger via benin port but that was when we could not bring above 10 years.I have challenged you to tell me the landing cost of 2001 camry you could not answer,Im asking you again deffend urself here,Howmuch will a 2001 Camry cost in Cotonou

saintjoel: Do you want me to give you ten.
1.Buying from Cotonou gives you the opportunity of inspecting the car in it's natural state.Unlike bringing in a car from abroad,you've first hand knowledge of the car even if it has issues and can modify them before they get to Nigeria,you can't know if you're importing an accident car until it gets to Nigeria.

2.Mileage-unlike Lagos where you get 1999 cars with 80K mileage,cars in Cotonou have their mileages clearly indicated,if you buy a car from Cotonou and it's mileage has been rolled back,it was done by a Nigerian who went to the parks to buy and rolled back the mileage.

3.Bargaining-Aftre inspection,you've the luxury of choosing from thousands of cars and car dealers.Imagine you're in a park which covers 60 hectares and you still have like 6 parks to choose cars from,Cotonou is every bargain hunters dream come true.

4.Installmental payments-Yes,you can actually pay deposits and come back for your vehicles.Deposit agreements can last for 24hrs or 2 months,it all depends on the agreement.

5.Custom duty papers-You've the opportunity of verifying your duty papers even before your car leaves the border unlike Lagos ports cleared cars where you can hardly know if you've been handed fake papers printed for just 30,000 naira.

6.Port clearance-Cotonou port is every investors dream come true especially if you're importing expensive cars,the duty you pay on 2013 cars is the same you pay for a 1999 vehicle unlike Nigeria where you have to pay according to year or engine capacity and have I told you that demurage is 6months?.

7.Pimping of cars-Have I told you that Cotonou and border areas in Nigeria have the best workmen when it comes to pimping your car,when you buy that 2012 car and you want some special effects,there are so many french guys who will do it.

8.Since you've thousands of cars to choose from,even for a 2001 camry,you've so many options to choose from,you may even get to the parks and see so many cars,you may even decide to buy a car better than camry 01.

9.Security-if any item has been stolen from your vehicle,it was either stolen by your clearing agent or from the country it was brought from.In Cotonou,your cars are safe.

10. Time-Shipping a car in from america actually takes time,buying your dream car from Cotonou actually saves time.While you're withdrawing cash for purchase,you can declare your car in absentia to Nigerian customs,unless there's public holiday or escorts are on strike,your car gets to the border the next evening and you can move immediately your agent handsover the papers.

REPLIES TO UR ANSWERS
I 1.Buying from Cotonou gives you the opportunity of inspecting the car in it's natural state.Unlike bringing in a car from abroad,you've first hand knowledge of the car even if it has issues and can modify them before they get to Nigeria,you can't know if you're importing an accident car until it gets to Nigeria.
I give you that but at same time, you got lot of choices as well, it just depends on where you are buying from
2,,,Wel the issue of milage is on both side as I see no stopping of the dealer there in Benin rolling the milage back unless you are trying to say the guys over there are more honest, but i got a diffrent opinion to that as I dealt with them from 1999 until the Nigerian govt lifted the 10 year rule and placed it on 15 years.

3.I agree with you but you seem to forget the people who sell cars in Benin, they aint Nigerians,these are bulk importers

4. this is not limited to just one location, it could be done in Nigeria as well if you and the dealer reach an agreement, it has got all to do with market forces.

5 When I was talking bout dealing bear in mind that I buy from the USA and Eu to sell in 9ja, my base is not lagos so no real need to put them on here,So Im comparing myself to someone who buys cars from abroad for re sale in Nigeria.

6 Well I think the Nigerian system makes more sense as to the duty you pay, don't forget we are more richer than Benin as a country.The people from that country don't import cars,its foreigners who do.

7 I can buy the aftermarket bits and put them in the car b4 I ship them to 9ja

8 I choose to use that as a yard stick to measure as I have that car on a ship right about now,Im trying to compare your cost to my cost, you can Email me your estimate landing cost and i will tell you mine,Im trying to compare notes here, not arguing so there was no need for them insult you poured on me,Im not a kid when it comes to car sales, I shipped my first car December 1999.I dont think you have thought of be a clearing agent then.

9 Security at the port of Lagos can be attained, the watch word is let ur BoA get to ur clearing agent in time as this gets to you the importer 4 days max after the ship sails so DHL is next day to Lagos, my cars takes 3 days to leave the port max all of them and nothing get stolen or removed..

10. Well it does takes time but from the Eu it dont as ships leave for west Africa every week,Grimaldi is new to the US on RoRo.

saintjoel: Sir,unlike the raggedy BMW which sells for like 300-350K in Cotonou which you tried to sell for 500K on Nairaland,you can get cars manufactured in 2012-13 in cotonou,it's just a case of cutting your coat according to your pocket,your money has to define your taste.

Ah glad you digged that one out as its one of the product of cotonou clearing agents like yourself, but just so you k now, I did ship up to 20 cars to cotonou back in the days and the only reason I did note this COS THE AAGE LINIT OF CARS THEN WAS 10 YEARS.

saintjoel: Seriously,I always love it when people like you pick issues with me,you're just helping me with unpaid adverts.

Now let me put you straight,I don't buy cars to resell in Lagos.I'm a customs lisenced agent who helps people clear their vehicles through customs at seme border, also I help clear goods(containers),make sure they're scanned before entry into Nigeria etc.

If any of my customers decide to resell these vehicles after importation into Nigeria,I'm not privy to that information.My job stops at the border immediately I've handed over your duty papers and you as the customer has verified that they're original.

Ok noted, you cleverly dodge my question cos you knew what I was going to ask next, I will let this o ne go

aboabdallah: 400,000 CFA and 250,000 Naira at the border

, the actual cost of this cr in the US is more than 2M naira.

abdulkadir: ofcourse even if your car came in through tincan; you hav a specific form, cant remember what its called. At the border Points its easier you make your declearation, depending on how busy the post is u drive your car out in one or two days.
i beg to differ with saintjoel slightly that no nigerian has car in cotonou yes maybe nigerians dont own parks but in my location a lot of people bring in cars through cotonou instead of lagos cos clearing at land borders is cheaper nd if they decide to "fly", they do a "clean fly".
i've said it before on this thread that in my location getting a car from cotonou is as easy as goin to your local market save for the stress of the journey. All the stories i hear here is quite strange.

No you are not wise, open your eyes very well you will notice that they are all crs older than 15 years , chie, when unu go open eyes sef

saintjoel: Please tell us which command does the officer serve and his reasons for telling u not to bring a car into Nigeria through cotonou.
Then ask him about the modernization project and point of entries.

give me 3 reason why I should buy a 2001 Camry from Cotonou instead of Lagos cleared??,Defend your livelihood here Im waiting for your rresponce

saintjoel: Below are another set of certificates and payment slips for a camry 99 model and I challenge anyone who doubts them to please contact me,customs command is just a few meters to my office,they can check the authenticity.

Ok let us talk business, what is the landing price for this car to Ikeja lagos? I mean how much will you sell this car if it gets to lagos