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Sorry Paul about your car. Sometimes people learn the hard way. Don't mean to spite or insult you but you really, you should learn to me patient, less forward and ready to learn from those who know better on a subject issue than you. As a medical doctor or health worker, these are things I expect you to be conversant with already.
It's obvious you are an impatient bustling young man who wants to chop life.
Learn to be patient, sift through advice you are given carefully, show interest to learn. Sometimes there are no shortcuts to some destinations. And for goodness sake doc, leave alcohol alone.

He is just teasing you. OP means Original Poster referring to the individual who started the story thread.

AnonymousRebec:
Oh really. Thanks

I disagree with you sir. Lexus, Acura or Benz poorly maintained will also give same problem. The issue is not the brand or manufacturer but the lack of diligent check before buying by OP.
I know Sonata is a great car except for the 2011. I don't know so much about the 2012.
Sorry Op, your driver friend failed you.

okoroemeka:
In Nigeria with poor maintenance,bad roads,crazy mechanics and dubious spare parts dealers , buying a car because it is beautiful is a very bad idea,a be car must be evaluated considering first durability,track record, available parts,ease of maintenance,if the OP had a tokunbo car from Lexus,Acura or Benz I don't think he will be seeing such problems in years talkless of one week,this vehicles has been tested and proven beyond any reasonable be doubt.

Good designs, make efforts to improve your finishing though. I'm truly impressed. I see you go places.

I still think you should sue the police. It is acts like this of sweeping their atrocities under the carpet that embolden them to continue to do wrong. You may or may not win but you should sue them all the same. The injustice perpetrated was too much.

You are good, real good. Continue with excellence, you won't get to the TOP in one day but you will get there.
Now I know where to turn when I want to make a shoe. Kudos man!

This is not front page worthy nah!
Oga Lala, I saw you viewing, pls improve the quality of what is moved to front page. Quality in terms of relevance, information and appeal.
Nairaland should not be turned to a soft sell magazine.

Dat was actually righteosness89 NOT righteousness89.
Note the difference in spelling.
Terrible people.

dfrost:
Righteousness89 vs Righteousnesss8

Can't you see that the individual is not the real righteousness89?
Mods, pls do something, there are too many impostors with monikers similar to righteousness89, let them pick other names and stop spoiling the good works of the original.
These impostors include: righteousness8, righteousness98 and righteoness89 (note the missing'u').
Let's do the right thing pls.

Gbest90:
IS IT BIBLICAL TO CALL SOMEONE A NUTHEAD?

A dual exchange rate is a setup created by a government where their currency has a fixed official exchange rate and a separate floating rate applied to specified goods, sectors or trading conditions. The floating rate is often market-determined in parallel to the official exchange rate. (Investopedia).
Like the above explanation, dollars can be gotten from the bank at about a rate of $1 to N380 or so. But gotten from bureau de change at rates well above 400 to the same $1. Black market rates may even be worse. But because of the limited supply from the banks, importers often resort to sourcing the dollars they need from the black market which seems to always have. Remember those instances when filling stations gave no fuel but the black market never run short of supply
So you see, that dual exchange rates leave room for fraud. When you know people in positions in banks that can influence your being given dollars at say 380, all you need to do is to resell to the black market at say 390 & make N10 profit per dollar without doing any work. So this system denies genuine entrepreneurs access to needed foreign exchange and encourages currency roundtripping by banks & individuals.
It is foolish for govt to give people going for pilgrimage to Mecca and Jerusalem, dollars at official rate when they have not been able to satisfy those that need it for genuine business. So if you source dollars at expensive rates, your imported goods will of course be expensive.
Total Free floating of currency especially for economies that hardly export anything substantial is however fraught with own dangers and problems like many contributors have tried to explain.

Yampotatocarrot:
I've been hearing posters make mention of "dual exchange rate".

I'll like to know, what does it mean, and how does it affect the economy? Thanks

This is the kind of thread that should get to 30 or 40 pages if we were serious as a people, instead only threads on irrelevancies like bbnaija, entertainment like sports and political threads that encourage tribalism and bad blood that garner such contributions.
Moghalu's views initially look good but unfortunately are not well thought out or suited for our situation now. I have read richer and more convincing thoughts and ideas from some of the few contributions so far on this topic. Economic policies should be for the good of the people, not vice versa.
I however support scraping the dual exchange rates as presently obtains. It has been a big minus for the nation.

I doff my heart sir. You truly understand the economic issues at play here.
I align with most of your points. We should focus first however on getting rid of or minimizing this issue of having dual exchange rates. It is heavily abused and doing more harm than good.

Dee60:
In what areas do we have comparative advantage? [/b]Even with primary produce like Cocoa, Cashew, Ginger, Nigeria is seen as a last resort. I know that for a fact. Buyers will mop up Cashew from small Guinea, Ivory Coast, before they touch Nigeria. Quality, processes, etc are not trusted. On finished products it is next to ZERO. The fact is that a free-fall will not necessarily improve our earnings in these sectors. Imports will drop, so will the earnings on trade related forex. Remittances may not increase, because the supply side has not changed. Crude oil revenues may not go up because supply is capped by OPEC. How will a free fall suddenly improve export?

[b]Closing, until the country blocks the holes and leakages (and we dont even know how big they are), toying with free-float could lead to an uncontrollable regime like they had in Sudan and Zimbabwe.

He has made his points, difficult as they may be. Instead of saying they are just theories, can you bring up your own suggestions/ideas?

jericco1:
All these things are just theories. Easier said than done

Very poor English from an attorney general of the federation.
As for sincerity, you only need to look at precedents, I won't bank on Malami.

Nice collection. Prices pls especially for the Half shoe, that one that looks like clogs.

amSTARboy:
So much 2 choose from

[Price of this pls. size is 44.
quote author=amSTARboy post=93270223]Real Value[/quote]

OP Jiggaz and other brethren, you have done your bit. As watchmen, you have sounded the warning, let the wise hear and make ready but the sons of damnation, the children of perdition will not escape the coming wrath. They will make jest like the men of Noah's days. They will thump up their noses and argue with what they wrongly assume to be superior reasoning but we know from the scriptures, "
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18
Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus.

This mannabbgrills or whatever you call yourself. I have always felt that you are just a silly sycophant but the more I see your comments, at least most of them, on various issues, the more I'm convinced that you are sick, something is wrong with you, that you are unaware of.
Lack of insight is a feature of some psychiatric disorders.

Mr Eriggs, 'foolish' is an adjective, a descriptive term, not an insult, except you term it as such. You surely don't expect me to call a fool, a wise man.

Eriggs:
where are the moderators on this forum pls? dis boy just broke rule 2 by calling a member foolish.
Dominique, seun. mynd44, justwise

Are you a sycophant or you are truly psychotic? For it beats one's imagination that you didn't see that the people you are praising are the ones further battering and ripping this country.
There is deception and there is foolishness. Before now, I thought that like most people, you were deceived but now I am convinced you are just foolish. The type that see evil and call it good.




[quote author= post=93013715]CONFIRMED.

We are on the right track.

God bless our darling Daddy and his amiable vice president Prof Yemi Osinbajo for all they are doing to make this once battered country work again.

God bless Nigeria.[/quote]

People like this quoted fellow are the real problem of this nation. So because individuals pursued their aspiration in a way different from your own idea, they should therefore not exercise their right to protest against bad governance.
You speak like a coward sir

pfadom:
Bunch of jobless and thoughtless people. They ignored tact and strategy during the 2019 general elections. When we should have strategised to have better candidates, all of them wanted to become president. They felt too big for House of representatives or house of assembly and Senate, all of them were greedy to become president without any sense of compromise.

I wonder why the teeming supporters could not sense that they only eye the topmost office without any solution to the prevailing problems.

If they like let them protest, the best protest is through the ballot. Their families will sell what doesn't exist to bail them in due time.

I pity the young soldier and condolences to the family of the deceased officer too BUT your attempt to color this narrative with religion and ethnic shades is shameful. Why are we always so quick to dress every issue in the garb of religion and tribe? And yet, we pray for a new Nigeria. Totally despicable.

obiekunie2:
now i understand why they quickly showed his pictures.

the other shooters that killed their superior officers we have never seen their pics.


once an igbo man is involved, then the narative changes instantly.



NOW NO ONE WILL NOTICE THE UNDERLINING FACTORS



- DENIAL OF ALLOWANCES AND SALARIES FOR MONTHS AND DENIAL OF EXIT PERMIT.

AND THE POOR SOLDIER SLIDE INTO DEPRESSION AND DEMENTIA.

YET CAPTURED BOKO HARAM FIGHTERS ARE TREATED TO SUMPTUOUS MEALS AND TREATED LIKE KINGS WHILE THE SOLDIERS ARE TREATED LIKE SLAVES.

Mr autocorrect, pls do the right thing by minding your own business. Stop this perpetual fault-finding. If you have nothing doing and if his style of writing offends you, jump his comments. No be by force to read.

Dotherightthing:
21. Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.

This comment is very unwise and uncalled for. Criminals were killed and all you can do is suggest weapons they could have used to battle the law enforcement.
Perhaps you intend to impress the public with names of weapons you might have read or heard about. May sense fall on you.

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Too bad

Even the kidnappers mumu self

Dey use pump action for gun battle
Instead of using assault rifle or bust mode gun like AK 47

Pls stop this yeye correction you do to comments made by righteousness. It seems you have nothing better doing than to be on the lookout for his comments.

Dotherightthing:
21. Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.

But why are the Mods not reacting to allegations of scam against this Frederich since he has refused to upload videos of his farm nor has he given his farm address? Are they in on the alleged attempt to defraud people?

It is on threads like this that I expect mannabbgrills and his/her gang to come up to defend the action of this govt and their darling daddy but they are no where to be found.
How some Nigerians support obvious evil and yet convince themselves that they are doing good amaze me.

Please why is 2015 audit just being considered now; 5 yrs after? I thought we should have disposed off that by now and be dealing with findings from 2019 audit.
The criminals would have had time to dispose off their loot and cover their tracks.
Not timely.

The issue is not whether you have got what you posted/listed but can you prove that you got them through honest, legit means? Na the koko be that.

Jarus:
I have only worked in the oil and gas industry as an employee for 12 years and only became a manager recently, and my company is not one of the top 15 oil companies in Nigeria.

If I get government position today, I have 5 houses (in 3 states) to declare. I'm still in my 30s. It may have reached 7 by 40 (Allah willing).

Guys, this is possible for someone who rose to become CEO of an oil company. And he made this declaration in his 60s.

Humans can be terribly wicked! You took a ransom of 106 million naira from someone and still killed him because of 20million
Where do people get this type of money they throw to kidnappers? Real mind-boggling!

Mr Mallam, it is clear you do not understand that Nigeria's sovereign space & so Nigeria's sovereignty was violated. This is more than just demoliof a certain building as you wrote. Your reasoning on this issue is quite wrong or at best ignorant. There are codes that govern relations between countries and Ghanian authorities ought to know that.
I wonder why the demolishers were not challenged by the military/security. There ought to be a detachment of military in all our embassies.

Fuckingmallam45:
Well I don't troll a banter, it's not my doing and I won't engaged you into that. But mind you, I'm a Nigerian, mind your utterances. This will be the last time I will talk to you on this forum because I understand the fact that you cannot engaged with someone in a meaningful conversation. Did I even quote you for the first instance? What's wrong with all these kids nau.

Lagos people, speak u pls.