Greetings All,

Please recommend a hybrid Inverter (2.5kva to 3kva) available in nigeria to use with a diy lithium pack.

Hello house, below is my current setup and my batteries have come to the end of their life, they have served well. I would like to know if both the inverter and the external charger can charge a lithium batteries? Otherwise what batteries are best for my type of inverter?

Anyone with past question papers on CIT 891 Advance multimedia technology.kindly send to nyiadantj@gmail.com

I own a luminous 1.5KVA 24V ion inverter with 2 200Ah batteries for a couple of months now.My only issue with the setup is the inverter does not show the % of charge when charging or when discharging.At fully charged it will indicate 99% and Lo at 0%.Can anyone with experience with this type of inverter state how they manage them?

Nobody has been there for that period,it was a staff of the broker that brought some dividend check from last year to the house to verify that the recipient are still alive that made me visit the post office.The bank said are expired and so cant be cashed.I have sent my sister to the broker but decided to get advice from this forum as well.

Some shares were purchased for me and my siblings sometime in 2006.i was at the post office to renew the subscription and they gave me a bag filled with Dividend checks. We have never cashed any, How do we go about cashing the Dividend checks.

Dear Victor

Kindly list all kia models and trims and associated prices because it is not available on the website.

It will be nice if you could list the trims for each model and engine size, auto or manual then the price.

Better yet you could add that feature to your website.

It's funny how na only for naija one cannot see the price of the car even if it's the starting price.

A 406 I am interested in owning has a peculiar problem.the serpentine belt is always failing,the owner has replaced the pulleys and has been told by his mechanic that he should buy a half engine with the follow come pulley's to solve his problem.This sounds odd to me but if anyone here has any experience as regards the stated issue kindly assist with a solution.

I am planning to renovate my bathroom and would like the opinion of the house as regards the following materials and their costs.

Shower enclosure
WC
Wash hand
Tiles

Please can somebody help me with M.Sc Information Technology past question my email is jakigaga@yahoo.com. i will be grateful if anyone can help

Good Morning guys,how do i go about changing my study center?I just got a new job and have to move.

Hello Guys
Just to confirm that i need my Original WAEC certificate for clearance and not the statement issued by the secondary school?

@ Icemann the driver is male ooh. The guy just kept on driving until the car stopped they were lucky they were just about 20 km away from town.Sad .

ikenna yes it does.It’s called a serpentine belt because it snakes around and powers your power steering, air conditioner, water pump, and alternator

http://autorepair.about.com/cs/generalinfo/l/bldef_728a.htm

Guys let me make my self clear
1. I examined the car and the serpentine belt had shattered only a little bit was left on the pulleys.
2. From my mechanics assessment the serpentine belt as well as the water pump and top cylinder gasket will have to be replaced.The water pump he is not very sure of
3. The 2008 Toyota corolla has a serpentine belt that runs the auxiliary systems.As well as a timing chain which drives the cam shaft
4. The owner of the car called her own mechanic who claims the Engine is gone because the pistons are broken.
5.My question is Does anyone in this forum have experience of serpentine belt failure causing engine knocking.

Discuss and revert

http://toyota.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7690/~/does-my-vehicle-have-a-timing-belt-or-timing-chain%3F

Ikenna It was the serpentine belt,I personally checked and it was shattered before towing the car.Like i said the guy that was called later is claiming the pistons are gone so,I want to know if the failure of the serpentine belt alone can cause such damage.Also what would cause the timing belt to fail?

A 2008 Toyota corolla belonging to a relative recently had a serpentine belt failure whilst they were travelling.I was called and I had the vehicle towed to my house.As i was only in town for the holidays,I had my mechanic access the car and I left town.He told her that the serpentine belt,top cylinder gasket and water pump will have to be replaced.Yesterday i got a call from her that someone else had come to check on the car and that a new engine had to be procured because the pistons where broken.I would appreciate if anyone has experience of that happening.The only way i see that happening is if the the temperatures in the combustion chamber got so high to cause brittle fracture.

PS:there was no tapping noise when the car was being towed.

Sapien When do the lectures take place for PGD?Also how much will the registration cost?

guys just moved to portharcourt ,what size of dish do i need for nilesat,am coming from kano and i use the 90cm dstv dish.

hello guys recently got posted to port harcourt from kano.I would like to transfer my nilesat but am told i need a big dish.is it possible to use a small one?

Abuja
Kaduna
Kano
zamfara
katsina
kebbi
sokoto
plateau

How much will a Golf 4 or 206 cost?

for your info that is his wife,ooh by the way he has only one.Also stop the stereotype.

It was a shootout not a bomb blast,although am yet to get figures of casualties if there are any,

where are you located? also can i see some pictures?

ON Christmas day, a bomb exploded at
St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla,
in Niger State, killing over thirty people
and wounding a significant number of
other innocent citizens who had come
to worship their God as the first part of their Christmas celebrations. Barely two days later, we heard of the
tragic and mindless killings within a
community in Ebonyi State in which
over sixty people lost their lives with
property worth millions of naira
destroyed and hundreds of families displaced. In the midst of all this, on
New Year's Day, the President
announced the withdrawal of fuel
subsidy and threw an already angry
and frustrated nation into convulsion. Right now, I feel like the friends of Job
(Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar), who
came to visit their sick friend and
found the burden beyond
comprehension. For, as we know,
when they came and found Job in his condition, they spent seven days and
seven nights, and uttered not a word
(Job 2:13). Right now, no one can claim
a full understanding of the state we
are in. However, even if we cannot
understand the issues of the moment, our faith compels us to understand
that God's hand is in all this. The
challenge is for us to have the patience
to let His will be done. The tragedy in Madalla was seen as a
direct attack on Christians. When Boko
Haram claimed responsibility, this line
of argument seemed persuasive to
those who believed that these
merchants of death could be linked to the religion of Islam. Happily,
prominent Muslims rose in unison to
condemn this evil act and denounced
both the perpetrators and their acts as
being un-Islamic. All of this should
cause us to pause and ponder about the nature of the force of evil that is in
our midst and to appreciate the fact
that contrary to popular thinking, we
are not faced with a crisis or conflict
between Christians and Muslims.
Rather, like the friends of Job, we need to humbly appreciate the limits of our
human understanding. In the last few years, with the
deepening crises in parts of Bauchi,
Borno, Kaduna, and Plateau states,
thanks to the international and
national media, it has become fanciful
to argue that we have crises between Christians and Muslims. Sadly, the
knee-jerk reaction of some very
uninformed religious leaders has lent
credence to this false belief. To
complicate matters, some of these
religious leaders have continued to rally their members to defend
themselves in a religious war. This has
fed the propaganda of the notorious
Boko Haram and hides the fact that
this evil has crossed religious barriers.
Let us take a few examples which, though still under investigation across
the country, should call for restraint on
our part. Some time last year, a Christian
woman went to her own parish
Church in Bauchi and tried to set it
ablaze. Again, recently, a man alleged
to be a Christian, dressed as a Muslim,
went to burn down a Church in Bayelsa. In Plateau State, a man
purported to be a Christian was
arrested while trying to bomb a
Church. Armed men gunned down a
group of Christians meeting in a
Church and now it turned out that those who have been arrested and are
under interrogation are in fact not
Muslims and that the story is more of
an internal crisis. In Zamfara State, 19
Muslims were killed. After
investigation it was discovered that those who killed them were not
Christians. Other similar incidents have
occurred across the country. Confusing debris Clearly, these are very troubled times
for our country. But they are also very
promising times. I say so because
amidst this confusing debris of hate,
anger and frustration, we have had
some very interesting dimensions. Nigeria is changing because Nigerians
are taking back their country from the
grip of marauders. These stories, few
as they may be, are the beginning of
our song of freedom. Christians are
now publicly crossing the artificial lines created by falsehood and bigotry.
Let us take a few examples of events
in the last week alone: In Kano, amidst
fears and threats of further attacks on
Christians, a group of Muslims
gathered round to protect Christians as they worshipped. In Minna and
recently, in Lagos, the same thing
repeated itself as Christians joined
hands to protect Muslims as they
prayed. In the last week, Christians
and Muslims together in solidarity are protesting against bad governance and
corruption beyond the falsehood of
religion. Once freed from the grip of
these dark forces, religion will be able
to play its role as a force for harmony,
truth and the common good. Clearly, drawing from our experiences
as Christians, we must note that God
has a message for us in all this. To
elicit what I consider to be the
message, I will make reference to
three lessons and I know there are far more. First, these times call for prayer.
At the height of our confusion during
the Abacha years, the Catholic Bishops
Conference of Nigeria composed two
sets of prayers; one, Against Bribery
and Corruption and second, for Nigeria in Distress. Millions of Catholics have
continued to recite these prayers and
we must remain relentless in the belief
that God hears our prayers and that
God's ways are not our ways. We
know that our Muslim brethren and millions of other non-Christians feel
the same and are also praying in a
similar way for our country. Two, these times call for solidarity of
all people of faith. We are a nation of
very strong believers and despite what
anyone else may say, millions of our
Christians and Muslims do take their
religion very seriously. However, you might ask, if that is true, why do we
have so many killings in the name of
God and of religion? We live in a state of ineffective law
enforcement and tragic social
conditions. Corruption has destroyed
the fabric of our society. Its corrosive
effect can be seen in the ruination of
our lives and the decay in our society. The inability of the state to punish
criminals as criminals has created the
illusion that there is a conflict between
Christians and Muslims. In fact, it
would seem that many elements
today are going to great extremes to pitch Christians against Muslims, and
vice versa, so that our attention is
taken away from the true source of
our woes: corruption. As Nigerians,
Christians and Muslims, we must stand
together to ensure that our resources are well utilized for the common good.
This is why, despite the hardships we
must endure as a result of the strike,
the Fuel Subsidy debate must be seen
as the real dividend of democracy Three, religious leaders across the
faiths must indeed stand up together
and face the challenge of the times by
offering a leadership that focuses on
our common humanity and common
good rather than the insignificant issues that divide us. We therefore
condemn in very strong terms the
tendency by some religious leaders to
play politics with the issues of our
collective survival. Religious leaders Rather than rallying our people, some
of our religious leaders have resorted
to divisive utterances, wild allegations
and insinuations against fellow
adherents of other religions. In the last
five or so days, text messages have been circulating across the country
appealing to some of our worst
demons We are told that many senior
clerics either believed or encouraged
the circulation of these divisive and
false text messages. We must condemn this for what it is. For those Christians who have reacted
in fear, they require conversion. If we
wait for these evil men or women to
decide when we shall stand for Christ,
then we have surrendered our soul to
the devil. If we fear to stand up for Christ now, let us remember that He
has already said: Whoever
acknowledges me before others, I will
acknowledge before my father in
Heaven, Whoever denies me before
others, I will deny him before my father in Heaven(Mt 10: 32). Again, Jesus warns that rather than
fear at times of uncertainty, adversity
or upheavals, we should be confident.
He said: When these things begin to
take place, stand erect; hold your
heads high, because your liberation is near at hand(Lk. 21: 28). Furthermore,
St Paul has assured us that; If we die
with Him, we shall live with Him. If
we endure with Him, we shall reign
with him( 2 Tim 2: 11-12). Surely,
those who are asking us to go under our beds, to flee in the face of
persecution must be reading a
different Bible. These are difficult times but they are
also times of promise. Our country has
turned its back on all forms of
dictatorships. Our hands are on the
plough and we are resolutely
committed to democracy. Like a Catholic marriage, we may not be
happy but we cannot contemplate a
divorce. God does not make mistakes. Although the freedom and growth
promised by democracy are not here
yet, we must remind ourselves that a
better tomorrow is possible, a more
united and peaceful Nigeria is possible.
The challenges of the last few days have shown the resilience of our
people and their commitment to
democracy and a better life. We
believe this is possible. The
government must strive to earn the
trust of our people. All sides must take lessons from the demonstrations and
resolve to build a better and stronger
nation. Let us hold on to the words of the Holy
Father, Pope Benedict XV1 when he
told the President, religious, traditional
rulers and people of the Republic of
Benin in the Presidential Palace on
November 19: Do not cut off your peoples from their future by
mutilating their present, There are too
many scandals and injustices, too
much corruption and greed, too many
errors and lies, too much violence. All
peoples desire to understand the political and economic choices which
are made in their name; they wish to
participate in good governance. No
economic regime is ideal and no
economic choice is neutral. But these
must always serve the common good. Kukah is the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto
Diocese

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Nairalanders please read and digest. moderators abeg front page
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/14/nigeria-targeted-for-destruction/
For Those Who Have Ears to Hear


By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor


I won’t write about Nigeria as a journalist. I am known in Nigeria as a national security specialist with decades of experience there.

I have close personal friends at the highest levels of government and only write these few words out of deep concern.

For those reading the news about Africa, both of you, Nigeria is under terrorist attack and preparing military operations against a group called Boko Haram, an Islamic group from the North, more accurately centered in Niger, a nation to the north, a cesspool of international intrigue.

From Veterans Today’s London correspondent, a specialist on African affairs:


Jonathan Goodluck
The article was well written and thoroughly researched although it didn’t go far enough in identifying dealing with the greed of certain establishment figures that may directly or indirectly be involved in some of the atrocities committed by Boko Haram.

1. The security of the presidency and the entire nation has been greatly compromised by the activities of certain individuals very close to the presidency.

2. It is common knowledge that the president of Nigeria is not protected at all and you can get at him at any time in or out of his residence.

3. The security around him is a joke to say the least, contrary to the views of certain individuals around the president.

4. The issues of government by settlement which had long plagued Nigeria are the orders of the day now where certain individuals are asking for colossal sums of money from certain security consultants to provide training and security equipment to the government.

5. One individual in particular has been known to collect huge sums of money from these outfits currently parading themselves as security consultants in Abuja

6. The level of cover and protection given the president and his family is simply laughable and nonexistent

Why has the country been compromised

It is widely known that certain foreign elements are providing security to the president and providing his current security details.

What a joke, you might say. These same foreign elements are the same who have sold outdated equipment to the government and are going around Abuja installing CCTV and bomb detection equipment around the capitol, technology decades old.

Huge sums of money have changed hands for second rate equipment

The government pays for a Rolls Royce car but gets a VW Beetle instead!!

Why is there so much fear and apprehension among Nigerians that the government can no longer protect its citizens?

How come this is never done on in an aircraft?I have never been on a plane and someone got up to preach.All the senior pastors fly so how come they don't spread the word in the air?

chidexy:

we all want things done differently in this country, but nobody wants to accept change. The best way to capture all vehicle owners is by forcing a change in the license numbers. Now you get a new license plate number and it's registered against your name and drivers license. That's how it is done in other countries.

If you own a car go and get the new license and stop moaning!

Guy Capture what? so when you bought your existing plate they didn't take your details?,Why cant they upload those details into a data base or better still give a five year time frame so that when next one goes for registration they capture the data.

Just some analysis i saw on Facebook    https://www.facebook.com/notes/adebiyi-epistrophy-olusolape/a-fifty-fifth-facebook-note/10150323538046933
OIL SUBSIDY

Chioma earns N18, 000:00k in a month at the factory where she works.
They pay only N17,100:00k into her account after tax.
She spends N11, 000:00k every month buying Gari, Rice, Beans and other food stuff.
She buys a lot of Gari because she takes some to work to soak in the afternoons.
Getting to work and coming back home every day, in addition to going to church on Sunday (N1,800:00k tithe) costs her about N1, 440:00k i.e. N60:00k to and fro.
This leaves her N 2,860:00k which she uses to pay some of the money she borrowed from her sister to make the down payment of her 2-year rent. She also contributes N1000:00k to the staff cooperative.

On the last Saturday in January 2012 she spends N12, 600:00k on food and by the end of February she has had to spend N2,880:00k on transport. She is left with N1, 620:00k.
She opts out of the cooperative. She does not pay her tithe. She does not pick her sister's phone calls,

Crude Oil and Petrol are two different products. Prof. Aluko seems to conveniently overlook this fact.
Nigeria exports Crude Oil and imports Petrol.
Of course, some Crude Oil is refined in Nigeria to produce Petrol.
Therefore, we can say that the Petrol used by Nigerians comes from two sources:
Locally refined
Imports
An important question to ask is how much Petrol do Nigerians consume daily?
On the average 294,000 barrels.
The four local refineries are operating at, again on the average, 21% of their capacities
this means they provide, at most, only 93,450 barrels every day.
If they run at only 66% of full capacity, they would meet the need of all Nigerians and the pump price of fuel would be about N30:00  only.
What has the Government done to ensure that the four refineries run at full capacity?
What about the private operators who were given licenses to run refineries?
Anyway, since the locally refined Petrol does not meet the need of Nigerians, at least 200,550 barrels need to be imported.
What then is the cost of imported Petrol per litre?
It costs N115:74k to get to the Nigerian ports.
Because the Nigerian ports are not as efficient as the ports of, say, Ghana or even Togo an additional cost of N6:25k per litre is incurred at the Nigerian ports.
What has the Government done to increase the capacity of our ports and improve their efficiencies?
So, the cost of Petrol per litre increases to N121:99k
The Petrol is not transferred directly from the ships to trucks.
The Petrol is usually first stored in depots, which charge N3:00k
Then there is an Administrative cost of 15kobo
There is a Bridging Fund of N3.95k
Then the dealers add their margin of N1.75k
The transporters add their own margin of N2.75k
Finally, the Petrol stations generally add their margin of N4.60k
So, the cost of Petrol at the station ought to be N138:19k per litre, approximately N140:00k.
Why then is Petrol sold for N65:00k (when there’s no Fuel Scarcity, Black market)?
Because the Government pays the remaining N75:00k, more or less, on every litre that is bought.
This N75:00k is the subsidy which the government wishes to stop paying because:
They say they cannot continue to give Nigerians money forever; Government says it would become broke.
They say they need the money to build roads, fund health services and education etc.
Therefore, as from next year Nigerians would have to start paying about N140:00k per litre of Petrol.
What would be the effects of this?
N140:00k is about 215% of N65:00k therefore the cost of Petrol will more than double.
What does this mean?
Generally, Nigerians spend about 63.8% of their monthly income on food and about 4.2% of that income on transportation.
Therefore when all transport fares double, at the very least, and assuming a 10% increase in percentage of income spent on food due to increasing food prices, Nigerians would then spend 73.8% on food and about 8.4% of their incomes on transport.
This leaves only 17.8% of incomes to spend on Housing, Water, Electricity, School fees, and Hospital Bills.
But because the Landlords have to increase rents in order to be able to feed their families, and PHCN, Schools and Hospitals are going to have to increase their bills in order to be able to pay their staffs that also have families to feed, 17.8% won’t only be too small, it would be grossly inadequate:
more families will receive quit notices by the end of 2012
more people will die in the hospitals for lack of treatment in 2012
more children will have to stop going to school, 2012
People have to eat first and that would leave almost nothing left over.

The Government says it would offset some of this burden by increasing the minimum wage.
An increase in minimum wage is also an increase in the salaries of Senators, Special Advisers, Political Aides and so on.
The rise in prices is also called Inflation
One of the major aims of the Central Bank is to combat inflation, but all efforts to achieve that end would be undermined by the subsidy removal. The Central Bank is going to fail in one of its major functions.

Usually, a reduction in Inflation is opposed by an increase in Unemployment: if Inflation goes down Unemployment increases and if Inflation goes up Unemployment reduces. In many situations and in advanced economies, the people usually get compensated with the creation of new jobs for more people as a direct consequence of inflationary policies, but this does not apply to all inflationary policies.
The removal of the fuel subsidy in and of itself is not tied to job creation in any way therefore there would be no compensation for Nigerians in terms of Unemployment reduction.


Calculations based on numbers sourced from:
BudgIT; http://www.flickr.com/photos/68891946@N06/6263971530/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA); http://pppra-nigeria.org/pricingtemplate.asp
National Bureau of Statistics; http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng[/size][/size][/size]