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Go to people doing similar biz and ask for advice.
You do not need NAFDAC permit. Nafdac permit is only for packaged food/drugs

Whether he makes sense, he is not  the kind of presidents Nigeria needs now.
We need men with characterm competence and Commitment- El-Rufai, Pat Utomi,  , Donald Duke etc

Who knows the cost of temporary structure(caravan, portacabin) permit for areas like Ikeja, Ikoyi, VI, Apapa

There are these bunch of bad policemenn that do stop and search arouind the National Stadium road towards Jibowu in the early hours of the mornings.\

The way they search luggages of travellers is very embarrasing.
The just look for so called incriminating things to rope in people.
if your mouth is not strong with them, you might end up being arrested for just nothing.
Pls I need to report them to the CP himself.
Pls send me his no if you know by posting it on the site

I have a running job(haulage of cement raw material) with United Cement in Calabar from the Calabar Ports to the cement factory.
I already have 2 leased Mack trucks working . Daily cost of 2 trips per truck(20tons) is about 40k.
I need a loan/partner to raise 1million naira to to run the biz.
We are based in portharcourt.
Call ifeanyi/Akin on 0807 777 33 66/

*This was written Thursday, 27 October 2007 by Pat Utomi

It is amazing how what you think about can define you and hold you hostage. Take ethnicity. There is so much of it around that unless something thrusts it to the fore of your consciousness; you forget it is the prism through which some people see everything. I became sensitive to my good fortune when a reaction of the ethnic dimension on the N628milion House of Representative Scandal hit a List Serve (e-group) that I subscribe to. I probably would have thought little of it all beyond acknowledging that some held and expressed strong opinion, a democratic privilege, until someone I know whose views I shared, felt very strongly about people who made sweeping remarks regarding his ethnic group, and reacted.

I agreed with him that it was improper to attack his ethnic group because a principal player in the scandal comes from that ethnic stock and some chieftains from that geographic group had said the person in question should be defended on account of that persons place of origin. Even if there were not so many people who are of that ethnic origin, that have spoken critically of the House of Representative Leadership and called for resignation, the slamming of an ethnic group for the sin of one, or a few persons, would still be most inappropriate.

But that is not so much the object of my writing as the desire to share a personal testimony on the futility of ethnic chauvinism and how it can hold us captive. As is the nature personal testimonies it will be in the first person and names of individuals, some of whom are well known will be mentioned. Let me apologize up front to those who may not like that mode of narrative.

Earlier this year, someone surprised me by saying that a major challenge to my candidacy for the office of the President of Nigeria was that I was too Nigerian. I found that quite a paradox. Yes, as a young man I fancied myself an All-Nigerian youngster, in the American manner of usage. For some, open mindedness meant your ethnic group could not trust you enough.

I always took pride in my Pan-Nigerian upbringing. How come being seen as free from the captivity of the ethnic group is a handicap. In reaction, I raised the profile of how I grew up, making the point that no other candidate for the office of the President of Nigeria had as complete a Nigerian background: born in Kaduna of parents from Delta State, raised in Jos, Maiduguri, Kano, Gusau, Onitsha, Ibadan and Lagos before University education at Nsukka. I was not going to be apologetic about the fact that I grew up unable to tell the difference between people beyond the content of their character.

Then I ran into Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. His comment, unsolicited, reinforced my disposition. Said he to me: your remarkable strength is that people never think of where you come from. You belong to all Nigerians. It was a comment that made me feel good because that really was how I saw myself. My puzzle was how to make every one else feel that way. Do they have to have nomadic parents, like me, to be Nigerian. Then I thought of the person who made the comment about my being too Nigerian.

He had lived most of his adult life outside of his state of origin. So, even if moving around helped me, I needed to find more reasons. Surely many have been freed of some terrible prejudices by one year of National Service in the NYSC than some have from living in Lagos, Abuja and Kano for most of their adult lives. It occurred to me that friendship, open minds, set people free of becoming captive of simplistic stereotypes about others that makes it easy to judge without difficult evaluation of the content of each character.

My thinking was validated when shortly after the April elections, I went abroad for a bit of rest. Many friends from both sides of the Atlantic were kind enough to invite me, and in some cases my whole family, to be guests in their homes. At the time I did not think much about the scope of the network of friends in terms of the spread of ethnic backgrounds of those who welcome us into their homes. From Charles Gilbert and Mohammed Hayatudeen, of Ondo and Borno States, in Florida, to Linus Ojukwu of Anambra State, in California, Jimi Akiboh and Chris Obeime of Ogun State and Edo origins, in the American Midwest. There was also occasion of being hosted by a group of doctors and other professionals from Katsina and Nassarawa States in London, and across the Atlantic by Bassey Okon, where I found myself exploring the wealth of Nigeria, its people, without even a thought about where their parents claim as states of origin.

It was on one such visit that the true benefit of belonging to all, struck me. As I discussed the idea of a shadow government focused on helping Nigeria re-discover its compass, that plain-speaking Shehu Othman, who came in from Oxford to chat with me, said a welcome idea like that would usually draw suspicion of motives from the North, but for the fact it was coming from someone like me, whose motives were not distrusted in the North, or any part of Nigeria for that matter.

Beyond finding such, a complement, the lesson for me was that ethnic chauvinism was clearly an obstacle to communication. It got in the way of men, who could ordinarily have done much good, from getting their ideas across and building solidarity Nigeria writ large. That Pan-Nigerian solidarity is a veritable instrument for nation building. To what do I believe, I owe the good fortune of escape from tribal capture? I guess it has to do with making the most of the privilege of experiencing diversity, and allowing that to define my self worth.

Take my wedding nearly a quarter century ago, as example. On that day, Patrick Ityogheh, the NTA impresario, teased about who should break kola nuts, as Otunba Subomi Balogun sat between Ajie Ukpabi Asika, Chief Tayo Akpata and Chief Arthur Mbanefo. It did not take an effort to have the Northwest, North Central, South West, South South and South East at the wedding. It came natural to my network. The same feeling rises up in me as I engage the young, the old, the traditional and the modern with faith that the ultimate value is the dignity of the human person, the equal dignity of all persons.

It plays through as I reflect on the many young upwardly mobile professionals that I mentor, the Reno Omokris, Gbenga Sesans, Niyi Adesanyas Linus Okories and Kabiru Mohammeds etc and with the traditional rulers I have known most of my adult life. When Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto calls me on occasion, to pull my legs on some issues, he is counting on a relationship that dates back to when he was a young officer and friend to my brother-in-law two decades ago. And when I deal with the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Achebe, I go back 30 years to my visits to the Victoria Island apartment of the bachelor rising manager at Shell. In like manner, when I show up at the Palace in Iloko, I am visiting an Oba Olashore who has been like a family member for decades. But the real lesson from my experience is that being truly Nigerian does not constitute negation of the good of a more primary or parochial base. So the fact that I arrive Kaduna and head straight to the home of a long time friend, Ibrahim Usman, go off to Good Friday service as he goes to the mosque and we return to lunch in his home does not make me any less a Deltan, or Christian.

As Nigerian as I am, I still feel good about my Ibusa progeny, the Igbo heritage it brings me and pride enough at my South South origins to have been the one to give intellectual context to the idea of Resource Control when I delivered the first anniversary lecture at the Delta State Government sponsored celebration of the return to democracy on that sunny morning in Warri seven years ago.

Yet I relish when a Patricia Otuedon marvels at the fact that much older compatriots from across regional divides, like Alhaji Ahmed Joda, are requested to name three people to provide attestations to their life-time efforts for the TV series profiling Great Nation-builders, my name so frequently shows up. This privilege for me is at once a gift and the benefit of socialization. It should be the right of all and civil society will do well to devote resources to helping young people overcome the trap of the tribe.

Once again, God bless Nigeria.

PU.

The guy is fake. I have tracked him for long .
One day I will catch up with him.
He has so many fake IDs , he has been using on Nairaland. I have had so many phone talks with him. He had used names like Mailas Ogah, Amina etc.
he talks well so you might assume he is real.
Let him disprove me

Pls give your office address so that we can commence discussions.
Also who is financing the projects ?

I need 2 flats of 3br/2br in Birnim Kebbi for a year.
Pls send mails to tcp2000ng@yahoo.com with gsm no

I need diesel Toyota, Nissan or Mitsubishi jeep. Price range N1 to N1m. Naija used ( not abused) very much welcomed

I need info/links on how to buy cement in trailers from cement bagging/producing company in Portharcourt.
Any leads will be appreciated. Pls leave email/gsm no for contacts

I have 12 years of experience in the ND.
All is not well within the ND, but you can still come in and do your work and go safely. No one is actually 100% safe anywhere. Iraq is less safe than ND with profeesional expat security services providing security.
Unfortunately the oil industry local content development has not favoured the people on the ground.
Let me know where you are going to do the work and the compnay involved and the nature of the work( this will determine your exposure level) most trips will be by helicopter and there is no incidence of chopper jacking yet.
The type of job will greatly determine the exposure level.
Forget your accent, a naija man is a Naija man

Yeah,
The car is actually not a honda bulldog.
It is the Euro equivalent of Honda baby boy(1998-2002) The euro spec are acually produced in Swindon ( UK) for the European market.
The body parts used to quite expensive( more than baby boy) due to low availabilty of 2nd hand parts.
The prices are lower now.
I have a green 2002 production model with less than 80,000km . It is quite a nice car because it is not as bogous as a baby boy.

let me have your no so that i can make some verifications

You have to define what you want to do with the vehicle in Nigeria. Spending about N3m for a Euro spec vehicle witout AC is high.
You can call Elizade/Globe motors( check for contacts on the web) to confim local prices
Diesel engine is good for compnay use, while petrol engine is prefered for road transport.
Base price for the Toyota hiace panel van is about N3.4m with AC.
A diesel engine hiace bus with AC is about N3.9m for base model. Some shell spec hiace go for up to N5m.
I think that it is unwise to to buy this vehicle abroad at that price and ship to Nigeria. Shipping will cost you amost N170k, while clearing might cost upto N300k.I do not know the cost of clearing new buses

show us the engine compartment ,boot lid opener and fuel tank opener

I have researching this since I bought that starcomms internet pcmcia card and could use it on my HP pavillion laptop with express card slot.
The option of buying a simple pcmcia/express card adapter for 25k then angered me ,so I bought another laptop for 85k that has pcmcia slot. Also I later bought a pcmcia/express card adapter for 20k but still could not use it on my HP pavillion laptop as I was told that the adapter does not not run on Vista.
i later bought a used dell desktop with a pcmcia slot which I have not being able to use because it seems that I need a driver for that.
I think that this pcmcia /pci card cost about 4 to 8k

I see that all Mailas post are frozen .
People should be informed why this was done.
If Mailas is a fraud,he should be exposed.
Somebody should take the pain to check him up. I have already asked my contacts in Abuja to check him up

If it is for tank farms and oil field services involving sandblasting and painting, my company can do that.
mail me on tcp2000ng@yahoo.com or call me on 0803 520 0521

Cool,
Bros I need the car,
Can I get it for 2.2m. I can make a deposit for it if I can verify the autenthicity .
I am based in Portharcourt

We need to ask questions before passing all those comments.
Is the business making money ?
is the business being owed ?
What job is the poster doing ?
Is the poster related to the business owner ?
There are few jobs in the land,so it is advisable  one looks at the prospects before quiting.
My  sister stayed with a company for 2 years with little or no salary before hitting it big with an oil service company using the experience  she got from " the job no pay".
If the job is giving you experience , hang on.
I know a big company quoted on the NSE that started about 1996. A friend of mine was their first staff. He left when the going was getting tougher. Now the company is hitting it big .

Pure water  biz  is a game of volume.
  Go to Nafdac office and make all enquiries, they are always helpful.
There are too many machines in the system. I do not have any practical experience in the use of the machines, but a company advertises  1 type in monday Guardian.
You will need to speak with the users of the  machines,before you can say which one is very good.
You can get them for as low as 200k now, it cost up to 600k in Y2000.

Mr. Jackson & James Lyons pls stop this joke. We are discussing some serious stuff here, so dont throw this rot in our faces

I actually used a card issued by First bank to pay for KLM ticket ,so it works.
A few of my friends use that issued by Zenith and Standard chattered bank.
Shell nigeria generally give credit card issued by Zenith Bank to staff when they are travelling and I guess that it works.

Why is it that most of the traders in Alaba are Igbos ?
Why is it that most of the money changers in Nigeria are Hausas?
Why is it that most of the Cow sellers are moslems ?
Why is it that most of the area boys in lagos are Yoruba ?
Why is it that most of the blind,lame,cripple beggars are from the north ?
Why is it that God made them male and female ?
The Whys are endless, and the answers also

I am on a brief visit in munich(Germany)
I am looking for used car dealers in town . I need cars of less than €1000

What is the spec of what he wants. Pls send a pic

Who are gods?

The following points must be made clear:
Christianity is not a European religion.
Africans actually got to hear about christianity before mainstream europeans( ethiopian eunuch, churches in Egypt etc)
Christian names do not make one a christian
Ancestral worship in africa is not coordinated and the beliefs vary
What is the essence of ancestral worship ?

Most installed ACs in Naija just over labour the engine. THe engine speed booster is mainly not installed or installed incorrectly.
Secondly the engine speed is raised to take care of the power demand from the AC,so it ends up running on rpm wellabove idle speed even when the AC is not on.
That is why they hardly last.
Installing AC in Naija is big biz if it is done well

What kind of products do you brand.
What is the min order quantity, and where are you based