Hi, i need a 2005 landrover freelander SE 2.5L mileage <60 0000. What will be the cost for delivery to a lagos address. email - doctorkk1001@yahoo.co.uk.

Hi, i need a 2005 landrover freelander SE 2.5L mileage <60 0000. What will be the cost for delivery to a lagos address. email - doctorkk1001@yahoo.co.uk.

Hi Dealers,
I need a clean 2005 Land Rover Freelander SE mileage <60 000 miles, leather interior, automatic and definitely not salvage title.
My budget for it's delivery to a Lagos address is 2M.

I am a serious buyer. I would like to inspect this vehicle. Where is it located? What times can i visit? Given it's high mileage, hope the price is negotiable?
Depending on my findings at inspection, hope it can go for between 1.2M and 1.4M.

Hi Adexfem,

How you dey? I have been following your transactions on Nairaland and lot's of people have always attested to your impeccable business credentials.

I am based in the UK and planning to ship a 2003 Landrover Freelander to Lagos next month. I would appreciate answers to the questions below:

1) What would be the TOTAL cost of clearing, custom fees and delivery to a Lagos address?

2) Do you know of any reliable shipping agent for UK to Lagos route?

3) I want to use RoRo, hope this is a safe route? I understand cars are no longer vandalised these days.

4) What would be the cost savings and risk should i decide to ship via Cotonou?

5) Do you know of any reliable auto mechanic that can convert RHD to LHD vehicles. I know, there are a lot of cowboys around.

I have sent an email and you can either respond on ths forum or send me an email to "doctorkk1001@yahoo.co.uk'.

Hope to hear from you soon.

My Rover is still in the UK. I have had it close to 2 years and it hasn't really developed any serious problems except for the fan which was repaired.
I am considering changing it to LHD and ship to Nigeria. I just wanted some advice about the cost of this changeover and durability on niger roads.

insight04:

@Idiopathic,

I have just shipped a RHD Rover to Nigeria this week. After the conversion of mine to LHD I will let you know how it went and what it cost me

Hi Siena,
I have been following your postings on this auto site and have gained immensely from your advice. I have a very clean RHD 2002 Rover 75 connoisseur V6 saloon,engine size 2.5 with 62000 miles.
I have had it for over 2 years and it has been very reliable the only problem was an incident of overhearting which was fixed after the fan was changed.

I am considring sending it to an uncle in Nigeria.
What is your advice?
Can you concert it to LHD? What will be the cost of this service?

I am based in Cardiff and you can respond either on this forum or by mailing me on: doctorkk1001@yahoo.co.uk.

Hi Siena,
I have been following your postings on this auto site and have gained immensely from your advice. I have a very clean RHD 2002 Rover 75 connoisseur V6 saloon,engine size 2.5 with 62000 miles.
I have had it for over 2 years and it has been very reliable the only problem was an incident of overhearting which was fixed after the fan was changed.

I am considring sending it to an uncle in Nigeria.
What is your advice?
Can you concert it to LHD? What will be the cost of this service?

I am based in Cardiff and you can respond either on this forum or by mailing me on: doctorkk1001@yahoo.co.uk.

http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/news/headlines/15577-leave-yarima-alone-women-tell-naptip

Groups of women comprising the Association of Widows and Less Privileged Empowerment and the Hausa-Fulani Women Group of Nigeria yesterday picketed the offices of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) over what they termed the undue attempt to prosecute Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima, accused of marrying an underaged girl. The women said they are against the Child Rights Act because it is a bill that does not guarantee the future of the average Muslim girl. Rita Audu, the president of the widows association, said the reasons why girls in the North are being married out early is because of the fear of HIV/AIDS and other related diseases that these girls might contract if they are left on their own. She added that Yarima had been nice to the widows right from when he was the governor of Zamfara State, and it is unfair that people are spoiling his name all over the country over his marriage to his 13-year-old wife. "There is nothing wrong with getting married at an early age. Most of us were married between the ages of 10-12, and nothing has happened to them. We didn't contract VVF. What is being done is that your husband will not touch you until you are mature enough. Some girls are being kept in their parents houses until they reach the age of 17 or 18, which is the appropriate age for a husband to start having sex with his wife according to Islam. “We have been to Egypt to see the girl, and she is in good hands, under the custody of her parents, until she attains the right age before Yarima can touch her," Audu said.
Addressing the women, NAPTIP's Executive Secretary, Mr. Simon Chuzi Egede, e said the agency had received their grievances and would look in the matter. He said Nigeria is governed by rules and laws, made by the National Assembly and NAPTIP is only enforcing the laws, which child rights acts is among. “So, if there are any complains, they should be made to the National Assembly since they were the ones that made these laws.”

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11368:ghana-in-tacit-anti-nigerian-business-stance&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18

Glo confirms exit plan •83 Nigerian shops closed •550 others under threat
The anti-Nigerian business stance of Ghana is taking a huge toll on Nigerian businesses in that country as no fewer than 83 shops belonging to Nigerian traders have been shut down by the authorities in the past seven months, while 550 others will follow soon, BusinessDay can now reveal.

Under the instructions of the Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industries in tandem with the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), on April 29 a task force shut 44 shops belonging to Nigerians on the ground that the businesses were not duly registered as required by the host country’s laws.

Against the ECOWAS protocol on free trade and movement of people, Ghanaian authorities see Nigerians and their businesses as foreigners and should register their business with a minimum of $300,000. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s foremost telecom operator, Globacom, confirmed to BusinessDay in Accra yesterday it planned to leave the country if the authorities could no longer guarantee the safety of its installations and equipment.

Jasper Emenike, secretary general, Nigeria Union of Traders Association, Ghana (NUTAG), told BusinessDay on telephone from Accra that 1,000 Nigerian businesses in Ghana are threatened as the authorities are planning to shut them down in the coming weeks.

“If the rumour we are gathering is anything to go by, not less than 550 new Nigerian shops will be closed nationwide next week, then the upper week will complete the first phase of the closing exercise to bring the number to 1,000 shops nationwide”, Emenike told BusinessDay.
John Attah Mills, President, Ghana

A breakdown of number of the shops shut, according to Emenike, is as follows: Tamale in the Northern region 21 shops; Kumasi in the Ashanti region 19 shops; and Accra in the Greater region four shops. This brings the number to 44 shops. This is in addition to the 40 others shut down on November 28, last year.

Though a top level Nigerian delegation led by Odein Ajumogobia, minister of foreign affairs, and Josephine Tapgun, minister of state for commerce and industry, was in Accra on Monday to see the Ghanaian authorities on the issue and work out an amicable solution, a source close to the meeting told BusinessDay last night that not much may come out of the parley. “I don’t see anything meaningful and helpful to our cause coming out of the visit,” the source said.

Emenike also confirmed to BusinessDay that besides the $300,000 required by law for registration of businesses by foreigners under which Nigeria has been classified, “there is the allegation that Nigerian security agencies extort money from Ghanaian traders who come to Nigeria to do business. While we are not in a position to dispute this claim the traders are appealing to the governments of both countries to bury their differences in the interest of regional integration and the traders”.

In a related development, a senior executive of Glo Mobile Ghana has confirmed that if the frustrating challenges that the telecom operator is facing since it embarked on its infrastructural construction and deployment continues, it would consider the option of pulling out of Ghana. Derek Obuobi, a Ghanaian and Globacom executive in the country who spoke to BusinessDay on phone after the story broke early this week, said that the “frustrating” development had gotten to that level that requires a review of the company’s venture in the country.

After series of difficulties which started right from the unusual long delay in receiving its mast construction permit from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2009, to the recent ban on further mounting of masts by the Ministry of Environment and the accompanying vandalism and destruction of the company’s spectacular and environmentally beautifying Glo light boxes mounted at strategic points on the streets of Accra, Derek said that they could not help but feel frustrated at the developments.

“Indeed, the best word that could describe what we feel is frustration,” Obuobi told BusinessDay. “The vandalism of our Glo boxes and other properties has happened on too many occasions and we fell this should not continue to happen. We had made reports to the police but nothing was done to protect our properties.” Following media reports and the subsequent tinge the story took, which included accusations of sabotage by highly placed interests, the Ministry of Environment yesterday in a statement signed by Omane Boamah, deputy minister, distanced itself from any such perceived sabotage.

The ministry dismissed suggestions that the temporary ban on the construction of masts was targeted at Glo Mobile. Rather, the statement went on, “government would not hesitate to take decisions aimed at protecting the citizenry from the hazards of indiscriminate and poorly constructed telecom masts”. A source told BusinessDay last night the Ghana’s top government officials including five ministers have intervened and held series of meetings with Globacom officials persuading the telecom operator not to leave their country. “The officials include five cabinet ministers, head of the police and other top security officials”, the source told BusinessDay.

Reacting to the Ministry’s press release, Derek Obuobi said: “I am a Ghanaian and nothing would please us most to give Ghanaians the best of telecom experience. However, quitting is an option being considered because we were being led to think that the environment is not good enough for us. But since we have been told that the ban will soon be lifted, we are hoping for the best.”

As a build-up to their eventual simultaneous national launch, Glo mobile has beautified the streets of Accra and other major cities with billboards of various types and sizes with images of leading Ghanaian artists adorning them. The general public’s expectation of the commencement of Glo’s operations has been so high that it was with a palpable sad feeling that Ghanaians received the news of Glo’s possible pull-out.

http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/news/headlines/15218-dont-honour-invitations-muslim-group-tells-yarima

A Muslim group has urged Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima not to honour any invitation forthwith from any agency regarding the alleged marriage of a 13-year old Egyptian by the lawmaker.

The Supreme Council of Sharia in Nigeria(SCSN) Kaduna State chapter, stated this in a press conference yesterday in Kadua.

Addressing newsmen, its chairman, Malam Mohammed Sulaiman, argued that the recent attacks were not aimed at the senator but Islam in general, adding that it only portrays the negative impact of the Child Rights Act, which promotes western secular ideas of upbringing, contrary to the teachings of Islam. Islam encourages men to marry women of their choice irrespective of age, hence Muslims who have the intention to marry whoever they choose should go ahead without fear, he said.

"We wish to make it clear to all Muslims in this country that the essence of the Child Rights Act is promoting western secular ideas in the upbringing of children. We had a number of advertorials cautioning the Federal Government and the National Assembly not to dumbly accept to ratify this convention without consultation with Nigerian public, unfortunately the law was passed by the National Assembly in April 2003 and some states were immediately pressurized to pass such law.

"Sadly, the negative impact of the law is beginning to manifest and the focus of this is on Senator Mohammed Ahmed Sani's alleged marriage of underaged child. The provision of the Child Rights Act section 21 contradicts the teaching of Islam. Islam encourages men to marry women of their choice as mentioned in Qur’an 4 verse 2 without any emphasis on age limit."We wish to make it clear that any law that contradicts the essence of the teachings of Islam, our divine religion is unaccepted to the Muslims of this country.”

We are hereby calling on Senator Ahmad Sani Yerima not to answer any call of the so called NAPTIP again and any other relevant agencies because the supreme council of Sharia in Nigeria has taken the issue to court and the case will come up on June 3, 2010.

Finally, we are calling on all Muslims intending to marry any child or woman of their choice to go on because Islam allows that. Enough is enough."

http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/news/headlines/15218-dont-honour-invitations-muslim-group-tells-yarima

Hi.
You are offering an invaluable service here and we really appreciate your generosity.
Kindly check the details of this vehicle with VIN: 1HGCM56487A015134

doctorkk1001@yahoo.co.uk

Hi Nairalanders,
Which would you consider more important when making a decision to buy a car.
The vehicles mileage or year of production assuming all other.
For example, if you have a 2005 Nissan Murano with 50 000 miles and 2007 model with 90000 miles.
Kindly give your reasons please

inspired_m:


Thanks a lot, Our People deserve the best cars at the most affordable prices giving them premium value for their hard earned money.

I Will pre order for you a 2007 Ford Focus for 1.7 Million Naira

1 Year warrraty, Mileage below 50,000 miles 

Oga Inspired_m,
Thanks for the quote above for 2007 ford focus. I will need another quote for a 2005 landrover freelander with mileage preferably <80 000 miles. I am trying to weigh my options before making a decision. Does your quote also include the cost of clearing and delivery to my Lagos address?

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Papabrowne,
I am sure you must be joking
Where are these complex financial instruments you are alluding to? Kindly give me a few examples.
I am not aware of any of these banks being involved in investment banking or derivative trading. The don't give out personal loans, and are almost invincible in the mortgage market. So,what are these risks you are referring to?
Except you want us to believe that giving unsecured billons to their cronies and and buying personal properties all over the world constitutes risk taking.

Please stop beating around the bush and blame the crooks (Akingbola, Ibru)  who wrecked the banks.

I don't see Janathan mustering the courage to fight corruption when his hands are dripping with dirt.
Have you forgotten that it took the pleas from several nigerian before me made his asset declaration public. That was even after hsi Boss- Yaradua had already declared his own assets.
If are looking for a Messiah, let's look somewhere else. He is definitely not Joanathan.

Beaf:

@Posted by: paddy_lo  

So getting a loan is advancement?
God, I have a headache!

That is the village where they tap palmwine.

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Beaf,
you can't get a loan without a good credit rating. Getting loan is an expression of confidence.
Sanusi has established an atmosphere of transparency in nigerian financial services industry, which hitherto had been opaque.
The problem with nigerians is that we prefer 'laissez faire' attitude Soludo adopted with the bankers. But, it usually comes consequences.

PapaBrowne:

Idiopathic, your position is understandable especially when viewed from the fact that your are judging based on the limited information available to you.If you had much more information and real data on the true condition of the banks before and after Sanusi's actions, you, being a reasonable and brilliant fellow, you would judge differently.

I would just pose one question to you.
The economic crises started in Nigeria in January of 2008(stock price crash) and accelerated in October 2008(Oil price fall).
How come for over a year after up until August 2009, banks were still able to pay huge salaries, meet up with depositors demands, build more branches, pay dividends, etc and yet they did not collapse.
How come Sanusi tells us they were about to collapse when there were no signs of such??
They had problems like every other bank worldwide did, no doubt. But they surely weren't about to collapse
Always ask questions. Don't just swallow hook, line and sinker every thing you hear.

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I will endeavour to answer some of the questions you posed:

1) Are you saying paying huge salary is a sign of health? Intercontinental had already been bailed out by Soludo before the arrival of Sanusi. This was while they were still paying ridiculous salaries. I own Oceanic shares and can't remember them paying any dividend or declaring bonus in past 5 years.

2) A lot of these new branches were actually not profitable. Have you queried the wisdom of having 3 branches of the same bank on one (1) street. Most of buildings housing these branches were actually owned by the thieving CEO's. That was a criminal conflict of interest and duplication of branches was not a business decision but aimed at 'self-enrichment.

3) What do you say about falsifying annual reports? If they were healthy, why were they publishing 'cooked' reports? How come their usual bumper profits nose-dived immediately after the audit?

4) Erastus Akingbola continues to claim ownership of all the properties alledged to be in his name. Do you think any business can be profitable with these kinds of greedy CEO's with sticky fingers?

5) On a broader note, we have a moribund economy in Nigeria. The banks spend a sizeable portion of their earnings fuelling generators.  Personal loans, mortgage is a small % of their income and they are invincible in 'global investment banking and derivatives trading'. Yet they are able to pay bumper salaries to their workers. Where aret they getting all their profits from?

6) I live in the UK and was amazed to realise that cashiers in these banks earn as much as Their counterparts in the UK (5th largest economy in the world). How do you explain this anomaly?

These banks were a pack of cards that would have collapsed if Sanusi hadn't arrived on the scene.

Beaf:

They don't realise that modern economics is hinged more on human behaviour (especially in brand confidence) than in ready cash supplies. But I believe Sanusi's remit was to make Nigeria more willing to take on sharia banking by killing any blossoming sophistication in the Nigerian market. We are now back in pre-history.

Nigerian stock market and banks started collapsing about a year before the credit crunch commenced in the west. I think it is disingenuous to blame the trouble in our banks to the global financial meltdown.

Most stocks in the west have recovered and even surpassed their pre-credit crunch value, but our stock market remains moribund.

Let us examine the different causes in these two regions:
In the west, the credit crunch was caused by too much leverage, risky lending to subprime (poor folks) borrowers.
In Nigeria, the problem was caused by the corrupt CEO's lending to themselves, lending to their fellow billionaires without collateral and outright incompetence. So, are you surprised we are not seeing any signs of recovery.

Thanks for your prompt reply in response to my query regarding a 2007 ford focus. I will get back to you once i am ready.
Thanks again for your excellent customer service.

It is not Sanusi that was declaring bogus bank report
It was not Sanusi that deceived both the old and young to buy shares in failed banks
It was not Sanusi that awarded 75% of the bank's loan portfolio to his family
It was not Sanusi that has >£84 million property portfolio in UK, Billions more in Dubai and billions of shareholders funds in personal bank account.

Please, let us aapportion blame to whom it is due:
Soludo for cussing up to the banks and thus failing in his role as a regulator.
The thieving CEO's for taking for their uinsatiable appetite for other people's money. Stealing from retired teachers, nurses, civil servants to enrich themselves.

I am surprised at the venom being directed at Mr Sanusi who is sanitising the stench left behind in the banks by Soludo.
The affected banks were already tethering on the brink of failure before he stepped in to rescue them. Soludo had even secretly bailed some of them out before the arrival of Soludo.

Some of you are asking what Sanusi has achieved:

1) His early intervention prevented the outright collapse of the banking industry.
2) Depositors did not lose a kobo because of this intervention.
3) By restricting the office of CEO to 10 years, will help to prevent the banks being defined by one man/woman thus reducing future abuses.
4) His intervention has halted the activities of crooks and cowboy bankers (Ibru's, Akingbola's)

Nigerians are always resistive to positive change. This reminds me of how Idiagbon was criticised in the early 80S until we got the kind of leader we deserved in the person of IBB.
I am a shareholder in these failed banks and lost a lot of money. But my venom will always be directed at the real culprits- the corrupt CEO's.

I agree with the poster. I feel regional parties will have the grassroots support and function as formidable oppostion to the ruling party.
I could still remember tthe days of UPN and how they always held the ruling NPN to account.
Unfortunately, it didn't stop NPN from being very corrupt.

Hi,
I am looking for a budget car for my mum who is in her early 60's. I am thinking of a small, fuel efficient and easily driven car.

A friend recommended Ford Focus. Kindly give me a quote for a very clean Ford Focus 2007 automatic, milleage <50 000.
My email address is- 'chinedu7@hotmail.com'.

Hello Inspired m,
I am impressed by your dilligence, knowledge of automobiles and attitude to your customers.
I am looking for a budget car for my mum who is in her early 60's. I am thinking of a small, fuel efficient and easily driven car.

A friend recommended Ford Focus. Kindly give me a quote for a very clean Ford Focus 2007 automatic,  milleage <50 000.
My email address is- 'chinedu7@hotmail.com'.

Nigerians cannot hold SA hostage because they played a role in their struggle against apartheid.
SA was very welcoming to Nigerians until we started exporting our crime, faud their, which obviously will breed resentment.
Nigeria chased Ghana nationals back in the 80's, which was a state sactioned policy. what moral right do we have for accusing SA of xenophobia.

You guys accuse the SA of being slaves to the whites, but at least they fought the unjust aprtheid system. In Nigeria, we are slaves in our own country held hostage by a very 'corrupt cabal'. Instead of quarelling with SA, let's fight our war and restore our nation to it's former glory.

I am tired of fellow nigerians wasting their energy quarelling with SA, when our country is on the verge of becoming a failed state. We boast of being 'gifted, educated' etc, yet our country is on a precipice.
Where is our President? We are spineless at even demanding he resigns, but come online to boast of being the 'most intelligent blacks'. Please, give me a break. Let's stop living a LIE.

Let's leave South Africans alone and direct the energy at solving our multitude of problems.

This phenomenon is called the myth of the super nigger and is far from being the sole property of the South Africans. If you really want to experience the myth of the super black man who is singularly gifted with intelligence, ebullience, and industry, you ask the Nigerian. “Anywhere in the world, we are never afraid to ask for our rights,” they would say. “We are the only Africans who look whites in the face and talk to them.” And, in case you haven’t heard, “we are the giant of Africa.”
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The problem with us nigerians is our arrogance and a grandiosity. We have an over-inflated ego of self-importance, but the truth is that we are becoming irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
I am tired of living a LIE.
I am sure you must be kidding by referring to Nigeria as the giant of Africa. Rather than wasting time comparing ourselves to SA, let's focus on our array of problems.
What is the point of being 'intelligent, ebullient, industrious', but cannot fight for a good government in your own country.