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Please show nigerian pictures of the vehicle.

Eyop:
Go ahead and get the 2004 C230 Kompressor but ensure you've inspected thoroughly before making payment.

(1) All w203 C230 are equipped with superchargers(kompressor)engines

(2) Reliability depends on how well you take good care of your ride but durability is guaranteed with the benz.

(3) Fuel economy is super for a performance monster(C230) equipped with a 1.8L engine.

(4) Suspension is as well good but i believe you are aware that it's low but not a problem at all.

(5) Parts are available and affordable so you have nothing to worry about. Also remember that parts replaced on benz(or any other Europe brand) last very long compared to the ASIAN brands.

(6) Except you want to drive in the Lagoon but common sense should alert anyone that driving in flood isn't advisable because of the ECU. or you don't want the tyre to touch water


Cheers

What's the difference or pro's and con's of both the European and North American version of the W203
C230 Kompressor.

gabng:
Thanks for the wonderful work guys.

I am being tempted to get on the benz train and i am interested in the 2004 mercedes benz c230 and i need your advice on the following:

- Which is the best trim for the Nigerian environment, Non Kompressor, kompressor or Sport

- Any reliability issue

- Fuel Economy

- Suspension vis a vis Nigerian roads

- Availability of parts vs cost

Is it suspect able to the dont drive in flood/water like some other benz.

Waiting patiently for a response.

Thanks for the wonderful work guys.

I am being tempted to get on the benz train and i am interested in the 2004 mercedes benz c230 and i need your advice on the following:

- Which is the best trim for the Nigerian environment, Non Kompressor, kompressor or Sport

- Any reliability issue

- Fuel Economy

- Suspension vis a vis Nigerian roads

- Availability of parts vs cost

Is it suspect able to the dont drive in flood/water like some other benz.

binladin369:
Is like d are waiting to know those politicians that will lose so d will remove their candidates

You may not be far from the truth.

Still available?

VIN please

State governors at work.

Please kindly help me with this VIN 1N4AL21E78N450783

why is owner selling?

is it T6 or 2.5T?

Nigerdeltaboi:
shadow tinz ,this ICPC go make sense for some gun nerds. just give a damm glock 21 and a nice suit to spice it up.BAD AGENT

e go make sense die.

gabng:
Even though I might sound pessimistic, this recruitment may be the greatest abracadabra ever in public service re recruitment. N154, 000 per month for GL 04 is the perfect motive.

That's gross pay for fire man.

Even though I might sound pessimistic, this recruitment may be the greatest abracadabra ever in public service re recruitment. N154, 000 per month for GL 04 is the perfect motive.

just got a call from a fellow applicant that the list is our. how true I don't know.

Armani79:
Please forgive my oversight, it's 2.1M

Negotiable? Please post VIN and where is vehicle located.

Fhemmmy:
You even made it worse by asking for clean title. ... if you able to find any online, we will be glad to help you buy it... 1.8M is not possible for your conditions.

What conditions of a 2003 Volvo XC90 2.5T will 1.8M do?

Fhemmmy:
1.7m Naira is a lot of money but won't be able to deliver one to the honorable client. ... looking forward to much more business with you.

To expensive for a 2003. Budget is for a 2.5T 2003 FWD version Clean Title. High mileage is not a problem if proof of maintainance is available. Max 1.8. Send available unit any carfax info to gabrielmorka@msn.com

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Fhemmmy:

Budget is 1.5M to 1.7M.... client will accept to go for 2003 with FWD.

Delta state is a state whose infrastructure should be close or even at par with the likes of akwa ibom (note i did not mention lagos) in terms of infrastructural development but instead every month end you will find even council chairmen sharing federal allocations in hotel rooms in asaba and warri.


GOD will visit them ...

naijaking1:
Come from anywhere you like, nothing good comes out evil.

You are a forgone conclusion. It is clear that you are one of the boys who benefit from the status quo. Your kind in Delta state shall reap the evil that you have sown.

naijaking1:
Sahara is a hopelessly compromised political trash that started well, and then got lost in the midst of El-Rufai and Sanusi L Sanusi imbroglio. Now, it's a shadow of it's old glorious self.

See beyond you hate. i am from deta state and what you read above is just the tip of the iceberg about what happens in delta stae. ibori is a saint where this his cousin is.

Fhemmmy:
Apologies, will look into it

waiting

naijaking1:
Who still dey read sahara reporter these days
I go wait until a real news outlet confirms it!

Read first. facts speak.

IN NIGERIA, TOUCHES OF BRAZILIAN STYLE
By JAMES BROOKE
Published: March 26, 1987

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IN this century Lagos has become a grimy metropolis of five million people, but pockets of what are known here as Brazilian houses still exist in quirky contrast to later local building styles, including colonial-issue British homes with deep verandas and overhanging eaves and oil-boom skyscrapers, faithful imitations of their Manhattan models.

Nigeria's Brazilian architecture is a legacy of the thousands of freed slaves who returned to West Africa in the 19th century. Trained as carpenters, cabinetmakers, masons and bricklayers in Brazil and borrowing from the baroque styles popular in Brazil through the 18th century, these freedmen stamped their exuberant and individualistic style on doorways, brightly painted facades and chunky concrete columns.

In recent years, the steady march of skyscrapers has spurred local residents to form a fledgling historic preservation movement, a rarity for an African city.

''We are concerned that the Brazilian houses are not only running down but might be destroyed,'' said Ike Ikwueme, curator of the National Museum. An inventory of Lagos historical sites, completed by a state committee last June, found that several Brazilian houses are under serious threat of demolition.

''Nobody cares about them,'' said Alan Vaughan-Richards, a Lagos architect who helped compile the inventory. ''They get rundown, and then people pull them down,''

Indeed, the concept of preserving old buildings has yet to become deeply rooted in this society, where half the population is under the age of 15. With its open sewers, shortage of public parks and disfiguring highway overpasses, Lagos seems to have benefited little from modern urban planning.

In other West African cities the brightly colored panels and delicate floral plaster motifs of the Brazilian artisans have survived in part because of local economic stagnation and in part because of the pride of the owners. The style can be found today in a crescent of West African nations, marking the points where freedmen landed in the 19th century: Freetown in Sierra Leone, Cotonou and Porto Novo in Benin and Badagri, Lagos and Calabar in Nigeria.

''They were determined to come home, and they were forced into high discipline,'' Angelica Yewande Oyediran said. ''They easily outshone the people at home.''

Mrs. Oyediran lives in Water House, one of the few two-story Brazilian buildings still standing in downtown Lagos today. On one wall hangs a dignified portrait of her mustachioed great-grandfather Joao Essan da Rocha.

Mr. da Rocha, a native of Ilesha, Nigeria, was captured by slave traders in the 1850's as he walked to a missionary school, Mrs. Oyediran said. Taken to Brazil, he eventually became a prosperous trader in Salvador. In 1870, he returned to Nigeria, settling in Lagos, and quickly built a small fortune plying the lucrative South Atlantic trade routes.

When Mr. da Rocha - and other prosperous 19th-century Nigerian merchants - wanted to build houses to match their means, they turned to the local community of Brazilian artisans. Freed Brazilian slaves had started returning to Nigeria in the late 1830's. By 1880, out of a population of 37,458, Lagos had 3,221 Brazilians and 111 Europeans.

''If you had any work to do, you called on a Brazilian descendant to make sure it was done right,'' Mrs. Oyediran said.

Water House, which has suffered from remodeling by later generations, still bears many touches of the Brazilian craftsmen: leafy plaster flourishes in the corners of the parlor ceiling and wrought-iron balustrades on the second-floor balcony.

The Brazilian stamp is most evident in the modest, whimsical houses that survive, both in downtown Lagos and across Lagos Lagoon in the old suburb of Ebute Metta, in contrast to indigenous building styles.

''Traditional Yoruba buildings have very plain, flat mud walls that are sometimes whitewashed,'' said Richard E. Ammann, an American living here and a former professor at the University of Nigeria. ''It was the Brazilians who brought in this ornate styling, the rounded doorways and windows, the pointed tops.''

On a recent Sunday morning, Ayo Vaughan-Richards took advantage of the weekly lull in Lagos traffic to take a visitor on a Brazilian architectural tour. Mrs. Vaughan-Richards, who grew up in a Brazilian house, is the descendant of an American slave of Nigerian origin who was freed in Camden, S.C., in 1825.

Starting down Martins Street, the tour stopped in front of the Shitta Mosque. Built in 1894 by Joao Baptista da Costa, the mosque presents an eclectic facade of baroque scalloped scrolls and Ottoman Empire pinnacles topped with stars and crescents.

In 1880, a Brazilian cabinetmaker, Balthazar dos Reis, carved the ornate woodwork of the high altar, throne and pulpit of the Holy Cross Cathedral on Catholic Mission Street. The cathedral's floral motifs were molded by two Brazilian master masons, Lazarus Borges da Silva and Francisco Nobre. One of the finest late Brazilian houses stands on Odunfa Street. Built in 1913 for A. W. U. Thomas, a Lagos auctioneer, the three-story building features pineapple-topped columns and is covered with ornate plasterwork. Today, however, it is a dilapidated tenement.

Indeed, the tour included references to lost preservation battles. Elephant House, a residence that had its namesake molded in plaster over a third-story bay window, has been torn down. And on the site of the city's old Brazilian-style central mosque rise concrete minarets of a modern mosque. ''Everyone pleaded with them to go to a new site, but down it came,'' Mr. Vaughan-Richards said.

Not all Brazilian buildings have suffered this fate. The tour ended at 29 Kakawa Street, the house where Mrs. Vaughan-Richards was born.

''It looks almost as good as when I was growing up,'' she said. With its baroque doorway and ornamented windows, the Vaughan house has been carefully restored and is now used for office space by a Lagos architectural firm.



SAuCE na New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/26/garden/in-nigeria-touches-of-brazilian-style.html

tzoracle:
Just in case

1st to comment things abi

The Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverton, Ikoyi-Lagos of Nigeria, has reopened an alleged N1 billion fraud investigation against Delta state governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.

The Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverton, Ikoyi-Lagos of Nigeria, has reopened an alleged N1 billion fraud investigation against Delta state governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.

Dr. Uduaghan is accused of conspiring with a company called Accelerated Building Technologies Ltd. and Thomas Ereyitomi to commit a $1 billion naira fraud, among other crimes, with respect to a contract the governor awarded for the construction of the Ugorodo New Town Project in 2010. Senator Okowa, who is now representing Delta North in the National Assembly, was involved in the crime as well.

The petition was first referred to the office in the Special Fraud Unit to be investigated by the inspector-general of police at the time. As soon as the office started investigating the case, it discovered several acts of fraud committed in the award of the contract.

The investigation had reached an advanced stage, but the inspector-general of police ordered asked for the investigation to be stopped immediately, an assistant superintendent of police (ASP) in the special fraud unit confided to SaharaReporters. They also said that the inspector-general is privy to the investigation report that was stopped midway. The team, however, concluded plans to visit the state over the issue.

“Though, the report of our investigation was stopped by the orders of the former IG but I can tell you categorically that the Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverton, Ikoyi-Lagos has resolved to reopen the case,” the police officer continued.

Represented by Kachi Dumebi, Accelerated Building Technologies Ltd. claimed to have been awarded a prefabricated building contract for the Ugborodo New Town Project. Dumebi said that prefabricated parts had been imported but were stuck with customs at the Apapa wharf. As a result, he said, the project is stalled. He refused to tender the contract documents or state the amount that his company was awarded for the contract and answered questions in an evasive manner.

Delta state officials, including the accountant general, were subsequently invited and then interrogated about the contract. Over the course of the interrogation, the Delta State officials tendered two separate contract awards papers awarded to Accelerated Building Technologies, each worth over N5 billion — one for the construction of the New Resettlement in Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu and the other for the Ugborodo New Town Projects.

Other documents tendered by the officials included two advance payment guarantees (APG) allegedly provided by Accelerated Building Technologies upon which public funds were released to the contractor. They also tendered a job completion certificate with respect to the Ugborodo New Town Project that was signed by Novone Consult, the consultant whom the state government engaged to supervise the job.

But in their written submissions, Delta state government officials contradicted the contractor’s submissions that the contract awarded was that of block work and not prefabricated houses. They also clarified the bidding process that led to the awarding of the contract, which they stated was through a selective process.

After further perusing the petition, the police source revealed that there were some anomalies in the APGs tendered by the state government and that both the state government and the contract made contradictory statements. They subsequently reached out to the officials of Anchor Insurance, the insurance company that allegedly issued the APGs to the state government on behalf of the contractor. Anchor Insurance officials said that they only issued one of the two APGs — the APG for the Ugborodo New Town Project. The other APG, for the New Resettlement for Okerenkoko in Gbaranmatu contract, was denied, confirming that it was forged.

The insurance broker that introduced the state government to Anchor Insurance through Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, who was secretary to the Delta state government and coordinator of the committee that awarded the contract, said that Hilary, Senator Okowa’s PA, contracted him to source for an insurance company that could issue an APG on behalf of Accelerated Building Technologies to the Delta State government.

Hilary provided the funds with which the premium for the APG was paid. He denied procuring two APGs from the insurance company, saying that he only got one APG for the state government with regards to the Ugborodo New Town project. He denied having no knowledge of the second APG related to the New Resettlement for Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu. They then discovered that the idea of building a new community style Ugborodo New Town Project came from Chevron Nig. Ltd and for which it sand-filled the entire space for the project and also made $6 million available for the project.

Thomas Ereyitomi denied receiving 1 billion naira as part of the Ugborodo New Town Project contract sum he allegedly received from Dr. Uduaghan. The contract for the construction of the New Ugborodo Town Project was awarded at a whopping cost of 5,075,836,960 naira and 45 kobo to Accelerated Building Technologies Ltd., which was exclusive of the Chevron donation of $6 million.

Dr. Uduaghan also awarded another contract for the construction of a New Resettlement of Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu at a whopping cost of more than 5 billion naira to Accelerated Building Technologies. There is also probable cause to believe that Dr. Uduaghan intended to steal public funds set up for a Special Purpose Vehicle committee called the “Committee on the Resettlement of Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu and Ugborodo New Town Project” in 2010 through which he awarded the two contracts valued at about 11 billion naira to Accelerated Building Technologies Ltd. to give an air of officialdom to his fraudulent designs.

The ASP noted that there is probable cause to believe that Accelerated Building Technologies Ltd. was incorporated specifically to facilitate the fraud. The company was only registered five months prior to it being awarded the two contracts worth about 11 billion naira and the process leading up to the awarding of the two contracts was designed to actualize the intention to defraud.

The ASP stressed further that the contracts were advertised through a selective bidding process in which the contractors were handpicked and the contract awarded to a predetermined contractor, Accelerated Building Technologies Ltd. — a company that had no pedigree in contract execution as the contracts were a grand design to steal public funds.

Senator Okowa paid for the Ugborodo New Town Project APG to facilitate the theft of the contract value of 5,075,836,960 naira and 54 kobo. The New Town Resettlement for Okerekoko APG was forged to facilitate the theft of the contract value of over five billion naira. Fraudulent job completion certificates were also raised to facilitate the theft of the contract value.

The ASP further affirmed that there is concrete evidence that Governor Uduaghan stole public funds totaling 353,827,302 naira and four kobo. Physical inspection of the site revealed that no site clearing or sand filling was required as the land was plain and Chevron Nig. Ltd had already filled the site with a high dune of sand still available to complete the project block work. But the contractor was still paid an extra 353,827,302 naira and four kobo for site clearing and sand filling.

Senator Okowa ignored all calls. Calls and messages sent to Mr. Chike Ogeah, the state commissioner for information, were rebuffed.

Sahara Reporters

Sauce: http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/11/ugborodo-project-police-special-fraud-unit-reopens-1-billion-fraud-investigation-against

gabng:
How much will it cost without the mileage limit?

Please respond to this my post.

sunnycoolmotors:
It's T6 AWD

Please let me know when you have 2.5T. T6 get serious issues.