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The Queen does not visit Arab Politcians but the Kings and Royals. This boy called Oni sef! Even a father will think twice before visiting his sons house

SonofDevil:
Does Queen elizabeth visiting the Arabs makes her classes.

We re the 21st century not 18th century where one oba will be forming class by sitting down doing nothing to improve his kingdom rather than to collect and milk his subjects dry.

Oni of ife traveling doesn't make any igwe or Eze in igboland be in his category.

The only monarch in igboland dat can be respected in igboland is obi of onitsha which happens to be a benin stool..according to ZIK.

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Please how much can i get the following cars from Cotonou and the duty payable

1. Toyota Highlander 2005
2. Toyota 4runner 2007

Please what will be landing cost for the below to Lagos?

02 highlander,
03/04 Highlander
02/03 Pathfinder?

RIP! Very brilliant woman.

The economic downturn is taking its toll on car dealers, writes Peter Uzoho who visited some car showrooms in Lagos

As the economy of the country keeps crumbling, many have been forced to adjust their budgets to give more priority to the basic needs, leading to a break in the patronage of such commonly perceived ostentatious goods like cars. Consequently, car dealers who depend on their business to survive alongside their families are now left wailing and groaning as the business is not moving again, due to the sharp drop in patronage. The large number of young men who are on the verge of losing their only source of livelihood, is no doubt an issue that poses a threat to national security. Nevertheless, the alleged extortion by custom officers from car buyers, at various checkpoints on the road, as revealed by a source, is another source of concern that needs to be checked.

The usual buzz has ceased and the bubbling burst. The lifeless automobile wares are apparently calling for attention as ignition has long eluded them. The ambience likened to cemeteries with inactivity and cold silence. The excitements and merriments that used to take place following sales boom on good days have obviously gone to sleep. A first comer at the popular Berger, along Oshodi/Apapa Expressway, where tokunbo cars are parked for sale, may mistaken the park for the normal commercial Lagos parking lots. The anxiety and aggression to make a sale has come down, as sighting a prospective buyer no longer leads to closing a business.



Under a firmly standing umbrella housing groups of associates in the Agha Car Shopping Park at Berger, Lagos, he was found sitting, leaning back and front, apparently leading in a CHAT.

“Market is not as usual”, said Chief Nathan Akonkem, a car dealer at Agha motor shopping park, Berger, Lagos, while speaking to THISDAY. According to him, they used to make more sales before,but at the moment, nothing is happening again. “Usually, we used to make a lot of sales, but right now nothing is happening. The customers are no longer coming because of the economic crunch; market is stagnant and we are just here for nothing”, Akonkem said.
“The dollar is actually high, and we cannot buy, we cannot sell. Even if we sell, the money we make from the sale cannot be able to purchase another vehicle.” he said.

Revealing other issues they are facing in the business, Akonkem said that the cost of clearing vehicles had gone so high that some of them now find it difficult to clear their vehicles at the wharf.

“There are a lot of issues we are facing. When you look at clearing, the cost has gone so high that people find it very difficult to clear their vehicles at the wharf. And if you are able to clear it and bring it back, you would discover that the price of the vehicle will go high too. So it doesn’t help us to sell; selling becomes very difficult. So that’s what we are suffering here. We are only looking for a way out, and we are calling on the government to come to our aid so that we don’t suffer from unemployment”, Akonkem added.

“We are really finding things very difficult now”, said another car dealer at Berger, Mr. Ndubuisi Omerua.”We Nigerians are suffering. The car business is not moving again like before. They’ve raised the tariff. And majority of the poor and the middle class go for tokunbo vehicles. How many salary earners in this country can be able to afford new cars? Is it not those who steal government money that can buy new cars? Government just want to make things difficult for us in the car business? They are always talking about car importation when we don’t have car manufacturers here. Apart from Innoson Automobile, who else manufactures cars? Even the Innoson himself is not encouraged. How many Federal Government’s vehicles are Innoson’s? If not Anambra State government that helped him, who else?

“In our business here, the customs are over-billing us. There’s what they call OD (Officer on Duty). If you buy a vehicle and you are going to the East, custom officers along the road will collect money. Some will collect N1000, some others will collect N2000 from you anywhere you stop, even when you have paid all the duties, and you have been issued all the necessary papers. If they ask you to pay and you refuse, they will delay you. When you pay them at Ore, and you get to Benin, their fellow officers there will still ask you to pay again”, he further noted.

According to him, young men in their large numbers depend on the business for their families’ survival.“All these things are seriously affecting our business.Youngmen are trooping in here every day to come and hustle; some wash cars, some do marketing, others are agents, and we pay them. Some of them are married with children. So the more life is difficult for us here, the more things will be difficult for them. We have thousands of Nigerians that feed from these Tokunbo vehicles”, Omerua explained.

In his seemingly patriotic tone, he said “Really, it has not been easy for me and my family this period, including other Nigerians. I want things to be better for all of us. I see Nigeria as my constituency. So I beg the government to try and improve the lot all of us. Feeding is not easy now. To pay school fees is even more challenging, but we just have to manage”, he added.

On his part, he said that the situation is not peculiar to them, the car dealers, but rather an issue affecting everybody in the country.“It’s not easy. Everybody is complaining. It’s a general thing in the country. So it’s not only we, the car sellers that are affected, but the buyers and other people in the country inclusive”, said Evangelist Umeh Emeka, also a car dealer at Berger.

Stating the major cause of the hardship he said, “The exchange rate is very high. Dollar has gone up. You know we deal with dollar and every other currency. Everything has gone up. The cost of BUYING A CAR is high. They have increased the cost of shipment and clearing”, the Evangelist said. “An average Nigerian is supposed to have at least one car, but that cannot happen with the current economic situation. Even the money to maintain the old one is not there again”, he added.

“For about a month now no sales. We only come here every morning, sitting and looking”, Prince Adebisi Taiwo, who sells car at Shola park, Berger, Lagos, told THISDAY.He said that thousands of people are making their daily living from the business, noting that if they are provoked to go on protest, that it may be very dangerous. “If you look at this Berger here, there are thousands people working here who feed from here. If such number is provoked and they go out to protest, it may be very dangerous”, Taiwo warned.

THISDAY also spoke with car dealers at Amazing Grace Car Plaza at Igando, Lagos, and they shared their experience.
“Well, it’s very challenging now, but we are managing to survive. God has been helping us”, said Mr. Wale Ola, a tokunbo car seller at the plaza. He said that before, one could sell about four or five cars in a day, but now none of them can boast of selling one in one or two weeks. “This is a hard time for us; none of us can even boast of selling one car in a week or two. But before, one can sell about four or five cars in a day”, Ola said.

Another dealer, Mr. Olusegun Adetoye, said that their problem stems from the unfavourable disposition of government towards car importation, noting that such attitude is a way of increasing unemployment. “Our problem is the way government is treating the issue of car importation”, Adetoye said. “Their policies towards importation is not encouraging us, rather it is a way of increasing unemployment. And you cannot stop importation, even if you have those that produce it here. So let the president look for those that will advise him well on this kind of economic issue”, he added.

When THISDAY approached one of the prospective buyers who breezed into the plaza, and was on his way out, he declined to talk. An insider later explained that he actually came to buy but the price he was told forced him out.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/03/08/hard-times-for-car-dealers/?

Please kindly advice me about changing the email address that was used in registering my account. I have since lost access to the mail. I want to change to a new email address.

steve10:
Am in chapter two of the book "money won't make you rich" by Sunday adelaja, pastor of one of the biggest church in Europe

Do you have the soft or hard copy? If soft can you share?

Seriously, nothing beats a peaceful life and negotiation. Just in a space of some months, the story has changed. He is apparently frustrated. No "totori" which I know he loves so much. I hope you get out of this one and be a good patriotic boy.

Wow! GEJ don't seize to amaze. Even with all these confession and returning of loots, this man is still living in denial. I blame OBJ for all this mess.

He would have allow this man to continue in his state which was all he ever hoped and prepared for.

In other words, I hope they start spending all the recovered loots on developmental projects now. Keeping it in the treasury will do us no good as another prodigal son will soon come and waste it again.

Lovely thread. Please send me a breakdown of the total cost for setting up this business to adeola7070yahoo.com

The former Governor of Lagos state and minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola explains in an interview how he first met his mentor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

From the interview, Fashola said, “I met Tinubu when he was the Treasurer of Mobil in 1990 or 1991. Tinubu’s office was at the Bookshop House at CMS on Odunlami Street. I didn’t directly meet him. I had seen him at parties, but we never met. At that time, I was a senior associate at the law firm of Sofunde, Osakwe, Ogundipe and Belgore, where I was practising. Wale Tinubu, his nephew, came to join the law firm, then. He was always mentioning “Uncle Bola”, and one day, he said: ‘’let’s go and see my uncle.” We got there and went out to lunch with him. That was then I could say we formally met.

From then on, he would consult us on legal issues and we would help and give him advice. Sometimes, he would just come and say. “See we have this issue, what do you lawyers think?” We ran around and he would always give us pocket money. I think one thing that left some impressions on me was his commitment to his staff and that was symbolised by what I witnessed on a particular day after the Sallah celebration.

He brought Sallah meat to the office and supervised its sharing from floor to floor. As exalted as his office was, he was concerned to ensure that those who could not come to his house, even to the lowest driver, got part of the Sallah meat. I recalled that after the sharing of the meat, he sent someone to aggregate how much it would cost to buy soft drink for everybody and equally distributed money to them.

The incident left an impression on me and what became a practice when I started observing the killing of rams for Sallah. For me, it speaks of his concern about those working for him.


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Glory be to God Almighty. I am greateful for everything.

Ops, Drop your email address for prospective investors.

Nice building. I will appreciate the floor plan of this building. adeola7070@yahoo.com

Nice and Clean work here. Do you mind sharing the floor plan?

Drhenrysaint:
Lol. Movie

How sure are you about this? Any proof?

Real Fallen Angel Has Fallen From The Sky In London – A human like “Angel” has fallen from the skies over London. The extremely human like creature with exactly what looks like it’s “angel” wings as arms appears to have fallen from the sky at around 1:50pm this afternoon.
The ‘Angel’ like creature was quickly rushed away by what seemed to be undercover police officers dressed in suits and sunglasses, resembling the characters in the hit movie Men in Black.
It comes just hours before NASA announced finding ‘Earth 2.0′ the most habitable planet ever discovered.
All a little freaky if you ask me




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I bought a Polyster 32 Inch flat screen tv around 2005, It is working perfectly ok even when i refuse to use a UPS with it. Good product.

DSS should be all around town and villages sniffing information for all other security services and not in Aso rock. Everybody should do their rightful work.

Onuokwu:
Can we see the floor plan.
Or even the architectural drawing and elevation if there is one.

Nice concept but will appreciate the floor plan as the one posted here is not clear enough.
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Up PSG. Mourinho is doomed. Parking of bus has finally backfired. so glad.

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Please send details of the estate and price to adeola7070@gmail.com