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Clean Registered and Tokunbo Benz Cars

Toks 2003/04 C240
Clean leather seats (intact)
Low Mileage
Sound engine and gear
Very neat exterior and interior

Price: 1, 250,000 Naira ( asking price and
negotiable)

Location: Lagos

Call Opone: 08112881911

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Clean Registered 2006 GX470 available

Clean cream leather seats (intact)
Low Mileage
DVD, Reverse Camera and Nav system
Sound engine and gear
Very neat exterior and interior


Price: 2, 300,000 Naira ( asking price and negotiable)
Location: Lagos

Call Opone: 08112881911

Clean tookunbo 2001 Toyota Camry available
4plugs engine
Clean cream fabric seats (intact)
Low Mileage
Sound engine and gear
Very neat exterior and interior


Price: 1,100,000 Naira ( asking price and negotiable)
Location: Lagos

Call Opone: 08112881911

mrsage:
Location please?

Ajah

On oil subsidy:-
The issue with subsidy is that government needs
to block all loopholes. If there’s no subsidy, it will affect our foreign exchange, we’ll end up buying a dollar at N500, because there’s no VAT on petroleum products. That’s why the import of
petroleum products is taking about 30% of our
foreign reserve. We just need to make sure that
there’s no siphoning of money. The refining
business requires volume. If you don’t have a
massive volume, there’s no way you’ll make
money. Most of the refineries in Africa are
running at a big loss. It’s not possible for
government officials to successfully manage oil
businesses. It’s good enough if they remove the
subsidy, but you can check with neighbouring
countries like Senegal. If a poor person in Senegal can afford to pay subsidy, why can’t a poor person in Nigeria afford to pay. I think there must be something for the masses, which should be in terms of power, social insurance, good education system, good roads etc.


On factory in Ethiopia:-
By the end of 2017, we would have invested in about 16 countries and these are very heavy investments. I’m going to announce the expansion of the plant we just commissioned in Ethiopia. This is just to expand our operations. It is taking 40 Megawatts of power which is more than what Kano is getting today which is 38 Megawatts. We don’t have generators on standby. There is nothing like generator there which we normally have everywhere in Nigeria. It’s one of the few
countries that is growing at double digits because they have power and because they are a bit more serious than we are in Nigeria. You hardly find potholes on their roads. A factory like that in Nigeria would need about 60 Megawatts of power and 30 Megawatts on standby which is a total of 90 Megawatts and it would have cost us about 130 million dollars. The cost of doing business there is less. In the last twelve years, they’ve had an average of 10.8% GDP growth. This year, they are running at 10.6% GDPA.


Investing in Nigeria:-
This requires determination and seriousness.
These things are humanly possible and we should be able to do them. It’s not really the work of the government to make a country prosperous, it’s the work of individuals because the duty of the government is to facilitate, but government will not have the money to invest.
That’s why it’s shameful that some Nigerians go
and keep their money abroad. It is very difficult
when we have a huge chunk of our money abroad and we want foreigners to come and invest. They won’t believe that the environment is good. It won’t work that way.
The only way is for us to lead, even though we
can’t do all, but that leadership will pave the way
for others to invest their money in our economy.
In fairness, it’s difficult for people to find a place
where they can make good money like Nigeria
but it is also very tough. Once you are in business in Nigeria, you won’t be able to find enough sleep.
Doctors always advice that we sleep for six to
seven hours. I don’t think people who sleep for
that long can operate businesses in Nigeria
(laughter).


On payment of taxes:-
People don’t pay taxes because they don’t see
what they are being used for. Initially, Lagosians
were upset about tax payment, but they realised
that it’s important to pay taxes because they
started seeing that the money is being used
judiciously. The issue of not paying taxes is really reckless. The first thing I always think about is paying my workers’ salary. We are all on the brink of danger if so many states are not paying taxes and are heavily indebted. If you do a financial analysis, you’ll discover that some of the states are technically bankrupt.
I tell people that when you own a company, the
government is automatically a shareholder.
They are even guaranteed shareholders because whether you make money or not, they’ll make money. If I open up a factory today, first of all, I’m risking my money. I have to pay interest on money borrowed from banks. From my profit the government will take 30% as corporate tax and 2% education.
The only way for me to make money from that
business is to declare dividends and when I
declare dividend, they’ll also take 10% holding
tax. You realise at the end of the day that in your
own business, government is taking 42%. You
begin to wonder if it makes sense. Of course it
does. There’s no way the government can
function without taxation.
If the partnership is only for us to enjoy and not
pay taxes, it’s not sustainable. So definitely,
someone has to pay the taxes, I’m not supporting an increase in taxation, I’m calling for an increase in VAT because when I did the numbers, I realised that 5% additional VAT will amount to about 900 million. The most difficult thing to do in any organisation is to reduce salaries. It’s much easier to reduce the number of workers. No country operates on 5% VAT, the minimum is 15%. What we don’t want is social acrimony. The last strike cost us over N15 billion and we’ve not gone back to the normal situation, it takes time.


On power:-
The most dangerous thing that could happen to
an entrepreneur is for him to go into a business
he doesn’t understand. You need to know the A to Z of the business you are doing.
That’s the only way you can succeed. That’s the
biggest mistake most people are making. I don’t
think that most of the people that have invested in power really understand what it is. It involves
three things; generation, transmission and
distribution and all the three require heavy
investment. There are a lot of issues that we have to resolve and I think with seriousness, we’ll be able to do them.
We have gas, but we shouldn’t use gas alone. We took the decision that by the end of the year, all our cement plants will be using coal. The coal is there and Nigeria will not be competitive in
exporting it because we don’t have the
infrastructure to take these coal for export. We’ve started using coal and there’s no emission, not a single dust anywhere.
Technology has changed, 38% of power being generated in America is by coal. In our own operations, we’ve discovered that running on coal is cheaper than gas. We need to see how we can build a lot of infrastructure because that would help to open up the economy and make us independent. The government has to sit down and find a solution to power. We will not have any meaningful development till we are able to sort out the power issue. We won’t have an inclusive GDPA unless we tackle power.
The power issue is a great one and it’s preventing everyone from progressing. In Uganda, they increased the power to 230 Megawatts and the next year, their GDP grew by additional 4%.


On time management:-
The biggest problem we have in Nigeria is that we don’t quantify time. That’s why people will sit in traffic from here to Ikeja for two to three hours. If you invite me to a place and if I’m totally free and available, I’ll look at how many hours it will cost me. If it will take five hours of my day, I won’t go except I’m going for business purposes. That’s my policy. I put a lot into consideration and do some calculations, if I’ll need to send someone to represent me, I do that.


On refinery:-
We are building a refinery and our refinery will
make more money if there is subsidy. We have
changed the size of the refinery three times
because we are looking at the maximum we can
do that has ever been done. We started with
about 400,000, then we shifted to 500,000. Now,
we took it to 650,000 barrels per day. That’s the
biggest ever single line thresh of refinery. It’s a
huge plant and it comes with a lot of challenges,
but at the end of the day, it will save us a
substantial amount of money. Presently, about
38% of our foreign exchange goes to petroleum
products, so I think that will totally eliminate it
and eliminate all the imports. We will also be able to export and we won’t do it all by ourselves.
Other refineries will produce. Even if other
refineries are not working, we’ll be able to satisfy 100% local demand and we’ll be able to export massively. Five to ten people can make Nigeria a great economy. We have to encourage Nigerians to invest at home.


On Agriculture:-
I think there will not be an improvement in job
creation unless people go into Agriculture. I know even in Agriculture, there’s money. We are also doing four sugarcane factories. We want to
export sugar. We are doing a lot of sugar and rice and I think that in the next four to five years, we’ll be able to create about 180,000 jobs.
There are only two countries in the whole of West Africa that eat parboiled rice – Nigeria and Sierra-Leone. Other neighbouring countries eat white rice. So, what’s the business of Republic of Benin collecting ships of parboiled rice to Niger.
How can Niger eat two billion tons of rice? We
have no business importing sugar, there’s so
much land and water here. God has given us
these things and we have to use them. Today,
Ethiopia is growing rapidly, but the mainstay of
their economy is agriculture.


Jokes:-
It’s only a Nigerian that calls an airline and even
when he’s told that they have 20 people on
standby, he still carries his bag to the airport. We are the only people God has created that way. He will say ‘Don’t worry when I get there first’. When he gets there, he starts shouting and complaining, whereas he had already been told.


On gas generation:-
We’ve been wondering what the issue is, why
we’ve been unable to get gas. The total amount of gas that is being supplied out of the entire trillions of fields of gas that we have is only about 6.7billion of which 3.5 billion is for export energy, 1.25 billion flares, while about 1.3 is for their own operational use. A little over one billion is what we get for domestic use. We pass part of it to the West African gas pipeline in Togo and Ghana.
There is a lot of gas in the east but there’s no
usage. Majority of them are in the shallow
waters. Nobody will spend their money to
generate the gas unless the infrastructure are on ground.


Buying Arsenal FC:-
The issue is that if I buy all the Nigerian clubs, the Nigerian flags will continue to remain here. But buying Arsenal will take the Nigerian flag
worldwide. Just like whenever Abrahamovich is
mentioned, the name of his country, Russia
comes up, everyone knows he’s Russian.


On railway construction:-
Railway is so expensive that it’s only the government that can run it. The cheapest railway line is about 3.7 to 4 million dollars per kilometre.
If you want to construct a railway from Lagos to
Kano, you need about four and half billion dollars and that’s private sector cost, not government cost. We wanted to do from Lagos to Calabar and it was about 12 billion dollars. I also think that the government should start building concrete roads, because we’ve realised that concrete roads are far cheaper and they last for more than 40 years.
We are doing one in Ogun State. But in any
country where there’s corruption, they wouldn’t
want to do concrete roads, because it lasts a
lifetime.
We’ve not maximized the use of money in this
country. As a country, it’s shameful that we are
still struggling to pay salaries. We shouldn’t allow people to hear that. Ghana just had a week of power outage and everybody took to the streets with placards. They should come to Nigeria and see what we are experiencing.


Houses outside Nigeria:-
Someone once asked me how many houses I have abroad.
The truth is, I don’t have a nine- inch block outside this country, I don’t have any house anywhere in the world outside Nigeria.


Cautious about media business:-
I once went to see Abiola and I said to him, you
look a bit worried. And he told me he could not
sleep because of a publication. He said, “How
many times will I be chasing reporters and
running my business. Let me advise you, don’t go and do this newspaper business.” When people realise that the paper is not balanced – you are always pro-government, it is a challenge. The worst tag a paper can have is to be marked a government paper.
The general feeling is that they are eating from
the government. So that is why I run away from
the media business. That’s not to say I won’t do it.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/if-theres-no-subsidy-well-end-up-buying-a-dollar-at-n500-dangote/

babyfaceafrica:
what impact did the young men make apart from struggling for power!!!...if they had done well Nigeria won't be in this higihaga state

Funny enough the same set of young men from 1970s are the same set of old men ruling us in 2016 with no visible impact.

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makenzie:
are you sure u will get a well maintained Benz for that price? Just be careful not to buy liability. May be the 1998/99 model

Nigerians always look for cheap things bro

okenne:
can it fly for 650

Thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it but this won't go for 650k.
Thanks and God bless.

nmmnazee:
location please milage? ??

Location is Yaba, Lagos. Mileage is 87k

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Clean registered Honda Civic
Limited Edition
4plugs engine
6 loader CD player
Mobile security
Sunroof
Clean cream leather seats (intact)
Low Mileage
Clean first body , Sound engine and gear for
travelling

Very neat exterior and interior

REPAIRS:
Flash bumper if you want to
Flush headlights if you want to

Reason for sale: owner got another car.
Price: 850,000 Naira ( asking price and negotiable)
Location: Lagos

Call Opone: 08112881911

ennykanye:
650k cash 08126453400

Your money is good enough for a Camry droplight, thank you for checking on my thread, really appreciate.

TheLaughter:
Please where do you stay? I have seen clean camrys' 2003 models but they are all far away, Lagos and Abuja. Going that far with a mechanic to inspect a car is my probs.

I'm in Lagos, there are many reliable experts on nairaland who lives in Lagos an can help inspect the car on your behalf.

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Bisjosh:
Avalon is V6
Pls stay away from EOD!!! U don't wanna go through so much wahala for a first car

Please kindly outline some of the so called wahala that is associated with EOD for us to see.

TheLaughter:
Thanks bro. I heard EOD is full wit wahala.

2ndly, why is civic alwaz cheap, I hv discovered that in most of the used cars posted here.

Do u have a very clean Camry 04 or Corolla 03 or that price? I love Corolla, I have only seen one for 700k, it wasnt clean and its manual..

Does Avalon has V4 engines?

EOD is a very nice car and not a wahala car as you insinuated, though I'm to own one but a friend of mine has own his for 7yrs and the car is still waxing strong.he has bought and sold three other cars during that time but he isn't ready to part with his EOD just yet.

Civic are sold off cheap because the demand is not as high as that of Camry and Corolla, but in truth the Civic is a better car than the Corolla.

The 2001 - 2004 Avalon come with 3.5L V6 engine standard, though fuel efficient.

If you need a sound and trouble-free car for that then PM.

iykemoney90:
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Registered or toks?

Your budget of 750k can actually get you registered 2004/05 Honda Accord, 2007 Honda Civic, 2004 Camry, 2003 Corolla and 2004 Avalon.

Oba stealing public funds, incredible.

bigcil2:
Photos or link quote me to the photos

Pics below
Kompressor with sound engine and gear, AC chilling