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Mileage is 176k but experts here will agree that mileage matters less; after all it can be mechanically doctored to read less.

It's a strong car, drives it Lagos-Kwara often. Works perfectly.

Call to come and check physically. I can't go below 900k

soterslove:
Sorry guys to digress,does Osaze believe he is good enough to prove himself at Westbrom thereby turning down a 160million naira monthly wage by ANZHI?
Wont he regret this later?

bros, which zoo did you escape from?

Still available

I have asked the Supermod to restore the thread and I'm she will do shortly.
Sorry.

Ewure iya Osogbo

Thanks bros. Them=some nairalanders

I must confess to a certain southern Nigerian arrogance in my initial, startled encounters with Sanusi’s mind. I am a student of 19th and 20th century European public intellectuals. Lamido Sanusi is not a student of those intellectuals like me: he is a master of their works. His essays are a compelling cerebral exercise in the works of such famous public intellectuals/philosophers as Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Isaiah Berlin, Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Bertrand Russell, and a host of others. He blends the thought of these men effortlessly with some of the most cosmopolitan references in Islamic scholarship. Part of my initial reaction was: who the heck is this Northerner (read: feudal conservative Muslim who shouldn’t know more than the Koran!) with such a compelling mastery of European – mostly atheistic – humanist philosophy? And then to discover that this great cosmopolitan mind comes from the purest of northern oligarchy: the son of a former emir of Kano! The more reason he ought to have turned out a bearded sharianist!

Thanks Prof, for sincerely admitting this. That was my exact thought when I knew Sanusi - who the heck is this northerner?

But unfortunately, some Nairalanders, despite all the facts before them, have refused to come down from their horses and admit this 'northerner's' intelligence!!!
To them(like you and me before), only a Southerner can be intelligent!!!

SANUSI: CONFESSIONS OF A STALKER
By Prof Pius Adesanmi, 2009
*I published this piece in my Sunday column in NEXT newspaper before Lamido’s appointment and subsequent confirmation. Some Villagers are still discussing Lamido and committing the same faux pas I analyze here. Hopefully, this should broaden their perspectives on the matter.

I met his mind in Vancouver sometime in the summer of 1998 and have stalked him ever since. Online that is! I was then doing research on representations of Islam in Nigerian popular culture. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi popped up on Google. The essay of his I read at the time was powerful enough to make me pursue his name further in more scholarly and restricted search engines. More essays of his popped up and I was hooked. I was also embarrassed that I had previously never heard of what, for me, was turning out to be one of Nigeria’s most powerful minds in public intellection and critical analysis of society. I have ‘stalked’ his mind consistently now for more than a decade.

Every intellectual worthy of that name is a stalker. There are names you throw frequently into your search engine to find out if they have written something new because you are convinced that every sentence they write is a must-read. Even when you disagree vehemently with them as it frequently happens, the power of their minds, their intimidating erudition, the sincerity of their convictions, and the beauty of their prose keep you coming back. I have a long list of Nigerian minds I stalk online but I’ll mention just four. I am sufficiently close to the first two to call them brothers: Odia Ofeimun, famous poet and former private secretary of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and Professor Eghosa Osaghae, one of Nigeria’s most brilliant political scientists, currently Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University. Then there are Professor Adebayo Williams and Dr Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo. Every sentence these four intellectuals write stays written and must be read. This is the cerebral company to which I welcomed Sanusi Lamido Sanusi after discovering his work eleven years ago.

Gamji.com obliged my new and expansive appetite for Sanusi’s work by regularly archiving his prolific output from 2001-2007. Then the uploads stopped. I sent several emails to his publicly advertised address, telling him that some minds are a collective property of the people, given to certain individuals to hold in trust. Such minds have no right to stop writing or making themselves available for public enlightenment. His is one such mind – it belongs to the Nigerian people - and he had no right to stop writing. I never got a response. Sadly, his writings have come in very irregular trickles ever since.

[b]I must confess to a certain southern Nigerian arrogance in my initial, startled encounters with Sanusi’s mind. I am a student of 19th and 20th century European public intellectuals. Lamido Sanusi is not a student of those intellectuals like me: he is a master of their works. His essays are a compelling cerebral exercise in the works of such famous public intellectuals/philosophers as Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Isaiah Berlin, Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Bertrand Russell, and a host of others. He blends the thought of these men effortlessly with some of the most cosmopolitan references in Islamic scholarship. Part of my initial reaction was: who the heck is this Northerner (read: feudal conservative Muslim who shouldn’t know more than the Koran!) with such a compelling mastery of European – mostly atheistic – humanist philosophy? And then to discover that this great cosmopolitan mind comes from the purest of northern oligarchy: the son of a former emir of Kano! The more reason he ought to have turned out a bearded sharianist! [/b]

My initial attitude betrays a certain Nigerian problem: the recourse to comforting ethno-religious stereotypes and the unwillingness to move beyond them because we risk encountering evidence to the contrary. This explains some of the hostile reactions to news of his possible appointment as the Central Bank Governor. People who have never even read him have dismissed him as a “Taliban” who may Islamize the Central Bank. We are lucky they have not called him Maitatsine. Sanusi is not Ahmed Deedat please! He is not Sheikh Abubakar Gumi! He is not cut from the tribalistic myopia of a Mohamed Haruna. Sanusi’s extensive resume in the financial sector and academe is now being opportunistically reduced to and subsumed within his Islamic scholarship. Let’s reassure those who are not comfortable with that aspect of his profile that Islamic scholarship and philosophy have produced some of the best minds in global public intellection. My own personal development involves extensive reading in Islamic philosophy, especially those philosophers of the cosmopolitan mould. One reads Tariq Ramadan, Europe’s most influential Muslim intellectual, and Dr Tariq Ali, one of the most compelling leftist thinkers in the world today. Without Tariq Ali, the influential New Left Review would not be what it is today. With Tariq Ali, the world has come to understand that pan-Third World Leftist/Marxist activism and Islamic scholarship are not incompatible.

Furthermore, those of us in literature know that our sense of poetic aesthetics was not singularly shaped by Wordsworth, Milton, Pope, Pound, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Ungaretti, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, and the African poets who emerged in European languages in the 20th century. No one can take Rumi, the great 13th century Persian poet and Islamic philosopher out of the equation when discussing the shaping of modern poetry. We read Rumi. The same argument applies to the novel. The fortune of the novel as a genre in the 20th century is not all about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Hemingway, and Kenzaburo Oe. It is also about the Egyptian Nobel laureate for literature, Naguib Mahfouz, and, most importantly, Abdelrahman Munif, the great Saudi novelist whose Cities of Salt quintet of novels is the most compelling account of the evolution of Saudi/Bedouin culture from tradition to the oil postmodernity of the West. Munif’s Cities of Salt is the Things Fall Apart of the Arab world and one of the most important novels of our times. In essence, wordsmiths from the Islamic world are not excluded from enriching and and extending the frontiers of modernist aesthetics.

We are so inclined to an instinctive dismissal of all things Islamic as retrogressive and murderously fundamentalist that folks prefer to remain in their blissful ignorance of Islam’s contributions to philosophy, knowledge, culture, and modernity and will not read in those directions to broaden their personal intellectual spheres. Admittedly, our brothers in the North have not helped matters, what with the enlightened ones among them doing zilch about the periodic mass murder of southerners in the North by crazy Islamic fanatics. For me, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Islamic thought belongs in the illustrious cosmopolitan tradition I have summarized above.  I locate him in the sensibilities of Abdelrahman Munif , Naguib Mahfouz and Tariq Ali. As far as I am concerned, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is a thoroughgoing pan-Nigerian humanist and patriot who has had his occasional lapses into national stereotyping. But which Nigerian thinker is immune to such occasional lapses: Wole Soyinka? Chinua Achebe? Mathew Hassan Kukah? Pat Utomi? Reuben Abati?

There is considerable merit to the argument that his proposed appointment would complete the Northernization of Nigeria’s finance sector and damage the Federal character principle. But I’d rather have other less cerebrally gifted come-and-eat appointees removed in the Ministry of Finance to make way for balance than touch Lamido Sanusi’s appointment. After the considerable intellectual panache that Professor Charles Soludo brought to that office, it would be tragic to appoint a less gifted cerebral mind as his successor. If Soludo’s tenure is not renewed, Lamido Sanusi Lamido fits the bill. I welcome this possible appointment enthusiastically

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/pius-adesanmi/sanusi-lamido-sanusi-confessions-of-a-stalker.html

cjfavour:
if he's intelligent why couldn't he read the constitution and know that nigeria is a secular state b4 he started campaigning for islamic banking? I used to be his fan but he lost me when he started campaigning for that religious system of banking with %igeria money. I'm nt against islamic banking but for a CBN govnor to be championing it,and at that period didn't sound right. So whether IMF said dt or nt,he's not intelligent as far as he can't understand the dictates of d constitution.

Shakes my head for this level of reasoning. If he has breached any constitutional provision, why has nobody sued him since?
And fyi, he did not start Islamic banking, it predated him. I have been reading CBN's moves to start Islamic banking in Nigeria far back 2007 and in fact the first guideline for IB was issued by Soludo.

Oya tell us another story.

You may also google the following article for confessions on Sanusi:

Sanusi: Confessions of a stalker, by Pius Adesanmi 2009

I have read over 40 writings of the man, and I continue to do.

He may not be the most intelligent Nigerian, but undoubtedly one of the most intelligent Nigerians and arguably the most intelligent public officer we have ever heard.

Google my article 'The Lamido Sanusi I didn't know' written far back June 2009, few days after he became CBN governor.

Between Uche2005 and Musiwa, who kolo pass?

With additional 15k released to boost the Obuh's business during this xmas season, all funds spent on Obuhs now 389k.

r231:
Over to Jarus on that part but as for the overseas payments, we still have a free service with paypal

1, In what name are we opening the a/c? The e-Helpers Network?
2, Will it be a corporate a/c?
3, If a corporate a/c, I think we will need documents like certificate of registration etc
4, How many signatories? Who?

Ooto l'opa jare

Omo Igbo to n fo Yoruba.

The bread na die. I don spend 1 hour inside that queue before.

Meanwhile, thread belongs in food section, not politics.

Competition going on for this, but whoever brings money first will have it.

Still available.

To say Yar'adua is Hausa, not Fulani, is height of ignorance. With his ethnic origin in public domain, making this claim is totally beyond me. Yar'adua is not and has never claimed to be Hausa.

Kano may have large Hausa population but it is far from 100%. In fact, the Kano royal family and the big shots from teh state are all Fulani. The current emir, Lamido Sanusi, Maitama Sule etc are all Fulani.

Pure, fat misinformation.

The gates were only thrown open when the queue was too long and becoming problematic. Same was done yesterday.
Tolling has since resumed. They are still struggling with collection mechanism; service time is still averaging 3 minutes per car because of change issues.

Teacher no teach me nonsense:

Murtala is Fulani not Hausa, Babangida is Gwari not Hausa, Yaradua is core Fulani not Hausa.

GT actually pay 3m plus for entry level.
Some O&G companies, especially indigenous and downstream operators, also fall way below that 5m minimum cap, some as low as 3m.

Foreign affairs

^^
Shopping, going to visit friends and family on mainland

Too bad, after combing the nooks and cranies of Lekki for alternative routes to tolled expressway, ending up not only burning more than N120 fuel and 2 manhours, but diverted back to expressway to go pay toll. Guess what? Even the toll queue was too long to bear. I had to turn back home after almost 3 hrs on a 30 minutes trip!!!


Even th big men using big jeeps all tried to bypass the toll gate through the so-called alternateive routes but it was from frying pan to fire as the alternative routes are even more congested.  

The service time at the toll gate is just too high, spending like 5 minutes per car, sorting out issues of change, thereby causing congestion and running counter to the aim of expanding the road in the first place

Fabric interior.
Only issue with it is AC, which is minor can easily be fixed for less than 30k.

Engine performing perfectly. Still drove it from Lagos to Kwara state long journey few weeks ago and drive it round Lagos till today. No issue with engine.

Just wanted to get bigger car and want this off.

I don't think he lied about his age; the talk is just another gaffe from the Otueke man.

Honda Civic 2004
Honda Accord EOD 2004
Toyota Camry 2007

Available

Folks,
Let's move on. Oya, back to the queue. We don't need all these hot exchange.

That is very sincere of Fashola.