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mandmis007:
I own a BMW 2007 760Li model, the engine knocked last two months when we travelling to jos from lagos.
The engine was opened and discovered that the some parts of the block engine was broken. My predicament now is whether to buy another engine or to repair the old one or buy another block and couple the engine. Which will be best? Pls advise.

Buy another engine but keep the old. Faster turnaround time

cause some of the engine is still good

second option, rebuild with a BMW certified tech, which will take time and more money given current exchange rate to bring in OEM parts or to purchase from the franchised dealership locally

menxer:
I concur with you, "speed kills" must be defined.

I think it is losing control of a moving car irrespective of high or low speed that causes crashes, resulting in death.

High speed if anything thrills, until one loses control of the car.

Driving within the speed limits you can control the car and not endanger others or break traffic laws is the key.

SPEED DOES NOT KILL on divided highways!

Let them give Nigerians expressways not pothole infested single lane death traps (undivided highways) masquerading as roads for roads and watch road fatalities crash like a pack of cards

Speed does not kill,

if speed kills, anything faster than 0km or 0miles is speed, we should all be dying LOL

Speed that does not take into consideration road conditions and surrounding factors is what kills

This is what they should be preaching - 100km/hr no matter the conditions is senseless

There are conditions in which the better speed limit should be 10km/hr even if the posted speed limit is 100km/hr

They should be teaching drivers conditions that should influence or govern choice of speed since some people do not know


After the first video I posted came out, this is what the Globe and the Mail had to say:

Can a viral video really get speed limits changed?

You’ve probably heard of this because it has gone viral. I am not talking about an infectious agent within living cells, but a propaganda video that might lead to changes in unrealistically low speed limits.

Viral marketing is all about word of mouth as people pass an Internet video on to others so that contagious content spreads quickly. There’s a YouTube video from Vancouver that rang up half a million viewers within three days of being posted and has now reached upward of two million.

Chris Thompson wrote and produced the 15-minute video titled Speed Kills Your Pocketbook. It’s a well-researched series of arguments in favour of raising speed limits in British Columbia on appropriate roads to make them safer. The video is extremely entertaining and has hit a nerve with audiences.

It begins with an examination of Marine Drive in Vancouver, which is a six-lane road with a divider in a non-built-up area that has a 50-km/h speed limit. Just like sections of Lake Shore Boulevard in Toronto, Marine Drive has an unrealistically low speed limit that few obey, which makes it a favourite revenue trap for police.

It’s easy to find this video on YouTube and you should take a look because it’s difficult to adequately summarize a tightly focused, 15-minute script in a few words here. But to quote a section of Thompson’s script, “Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying we should be able to go as fast as we want or that speeding isn’t necessarily dangerous, but many speed limits are set far too low for conditions, and that seems to be where the majority of the ticketing is.”

There is an online lobby group in Ontario called www.stop100.ca that has signed up 11,000 people to a petition demanding 120 and 130 km/h speed limits on the 400-series highways. This would put Ontario in line with dozens of countries and numerous U.S. states that have set speed limits at these levels to reflect road engineering and the huge improvements in automotive handling and safety in the past two decades.

There is a huge amount of hypocrisy in the setting and enforcing of speed limits in Ontario.

As everyone who drives Highway 400 or 401 knows, there’s a steady stream of cars in the left lane doing 130, and it simply seems tough luck for the unfortunate one in a thousand that gets pulled over.

As the viral video points out, roads are safest when everyone’s travelling at the same speed in the same direction and paying attention. Government accidents statistics quoted in the video show that the various forms of distracted driving lead to far more accidents than speeding.

Speed limits are being reviewed in many jurisdictions. Last week, the state of Utah added 289 miles (465 km) of roads with 80-mph (129-km/h) speed limits. The state’s director of traffic and safety said studies found it would be safe to add the 80-mph zones on many sections of Interstate highways.

There is no evidence that a viral video drove the change in Utah but the growing influence of the Internet on politics is well established. Any serious political candidate worries about getting their YouTube channel up and running before they get into the buttons and lawn signs. Maybe if you’re thinking about fighting that speeding ticket you’d have more of a chance if you posted a good video.

Speed Kills Your Pocketbook is smart enough and funny enough to have an impact on the debate. Whether you’re on one side or the other on the issue, you’ll see the ingredients that make a political video go viral.

The article is just 3 years old since it was published September 28, 2013

Here is yet another video

Speed limits: Is faster safer?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHzdAR9OpM

I resisted the urge to be FTC

Nbote:
Instead of d govt tackling d terrible state of our roads first, dey've taken d easy way out. Road safety needs to first explain to Nigerians what happened to d e-coding and some other failed and hapless projects dey introduced and forced commuters to pay for. D speed limit idea is one which presents a lot of questions rather than ansas to already existing road use questions.

You have said it all

The other day I created a post about speed limiters.

In case you missed it: https://www.nairaland.com/3321111/installing-speed-limiters-vehicles-does
Now here is another controversial thread.

Those in favor say Yea

Those against say Nay.

Let's begin once again with a very interesting video.

Will post other interesting tidbits and studies as we go on.

The video i am posting below is the best takedown of the "Speed Kills" Fallacy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BKdbxX1pDw

If you belong to the Speed Kills club, post an equivalent video, and supporting studies.

Over to you...

Exponental:
It's advantages are more. Most of the commercial drivers are lawless. Many lives have been lost due to their carefree over speeding!

Its a very simplistic way of solving what is clearly and enforcement problem.

Which no first world country can implement not that they have not considered but dismissed

billy187:
Subaru makes some of the fastest 4 cylinder cars available.

It's kinda frightening to think what would have happened with a speed limiter- those poor fellows would have been merged into the truck's radiator!

There's a reason pretty much every other country thinks it's a dumb idea to put speed limiters on passenger cars

It can only happen in the backwards they call third world countries.

Never in a first rate country

Did not the UK government even increase speed limits for trucks in 2015?

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/uk-raises-truck-speed-limit/

oluwafreshkid:
Check the source : Quora!
They make sensitive contributions there... Nairaland users should learn from them

Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are

malosky79:
MN ml ml

Ur argument about speed limiter does not make any sense, that is because if every car has is, ur story may be different. therefore, what ur advice should be is that, every vehicle should have it

If you have the time, check out the Q and A on Quora with the Q: Why are cars made to go significantly faster than the highest national speed limit?
If the highest speed limit in the US is around 75mph, why do they make your average Toyota Corolla top 140mph? Wouldn't traffic/speed enforcement be a lot easier if you just couldn't speed?

You may have a change of heart

obailala:
Very funny video 'to watch' but not good to experience.

Regarding speed limiters for Nigerian vehicles, considering how often we get these kind of tsunamis in Nigeria, for every 10 lives that may be saved because we allow them to be capable of speeding away from an approaching ocean surge, 5000 lives would have been lost on our roads due to the indiscretions of drunk overspeeding drivers.

Nigeria currently has about the worst road traffic fatality rate in the world, anything to reduce this is a welcome development. It may be difficult to implement this for private vehicles, but I'm in support of a bill to compel all transport companies to have speed limiters on their vehicles.

It's a common occurence to have hiace buses belonging to transport companies fly at speeds of up to 160km/hr on our rough pothole riddled narrow roads and most of these drivers/companies dont even check the condition of their tyres; this isn't just absurd, but it's plain stupidity. When the unexpected happens, we begin to blame witches and wizards and principalities and powers and relatives in the village. I totally welcome the plan to force transport companies to fit speed limiters.

Video lifted from a Q and A on Quora with the Q: Why are cars made to go significantly faster than the highest national speed limit?
If the highest speed limit in the US is around 75mph, why do they make your average Toyota Corolla top 140mph? Wouldn't traffic/speed enforcement be a lot easier if you just couldn't speed?

The arguments make sense.

The tornado is not to be taken literally it stands for all the dangers that it may be necessary to run away from in Nigeria.

Even your road safety agency copies policies from elsewhere including as they say Kenya, so comparing notes is not out of place.

Is it fair to overburden transporters in a bad economy with additional costs when the government is far far richer and should bear enforcement costs?

When a joke takes a terribly sweet turn.

Who wants to go with Cody Sanchez Hudson?

Fire up Facebook!

Hunt down Honda!!

And give him some likes, comments and shares to make it go down!!!

Don't be sold a dummy - government wants to begin making money from speeding infractions. It is not about safety

Bestlily:
what I think the government. and FRSC should do is to mark all the roads in Nigeria including the ones in villages and towns with the recommended speed limits for the various routes and then station the relevant officers with speed trackers at strategic points to monitor and chase down drivers going pass the speed limit.


#simple but am sure they evil government won't think that way

Simple - if it's that good, let them bear the cost of the implementation

Not the poor masses crying from too much taxes and little increase in earnings

No first world country does that to vehicles, instead the police use their devices installed on police vehicles not road user vehicles

if any vehicle needs it, its the semis

the policy will die sooner than later

Bradley Lawrence, Quora

First, a word about roads.

Few people know that highways and freeways and interstates, in America, are designed for much higher speeds than the actual posted limits (which vary state to state).

Highway civil engineers design highways/freeways/interstates to correspond to the ability of a high percentage of the driving public. I read once that freeways/interstates are designed for travel at around 85 mph, a speed at which most drivers could safely pilot their vehicles.

This is done even though the actual speed limits are much lower.

Why?

Speed limits can and do change with the times.
55 mph was instituted by the Nixon administration as a way to conserve fuel during the Arab Oil Embargo of the early 1970's.

It was artificially low.
It has remained to this day in a surprising number of places, but has been raised, sometimes substantially, in others.
And where it has been raised to 75, drivers often drive up to about 85, and the highways are still just as safe. (Safer, when you consider the advances in auto technology, which have reduced both accidents and deaths in the US over the last 4 decades, as a percentage of total miles driven.

Designing freeways for higher speed travel means that over time, speed limits can increase, and safe travel for most drivers will not be unduly compromised.

- Here we need to include a note about "Safety" as it pertains to driving.
No matter what insurance companies and NHTSA say, it is not high speeds that kill on the nations highways.

This has been proven by the states that have raised their speed limits from 55, and yet have seen traffic injuries and fatalities decline per mile driven, or more accurately, per thousand miles and per hundred thousand miles driven in that state.

Sorry, that's just factual proof. And besides the per-hundred-thousand-miles-driven ratio, there are many areas where the actual total of deaths has declined. Including the total number in the entire US.

1979 traffic fatalities in the US - 51,093.
2002 traffic fatalities in the US - 42,815.

Cars are far more powerful, and far faster, than they were in 1979. (I experienced this personally, as an 18 year old who was in auto sales for a year before college in 1979-1980.)

But traffic deaths in total in the US are down, while cars are faster.

This is dues to better steering, handling, and anti-lock brakes, as well as more front wheel drive and all wheel drive. These combine to give drivers better control and shorter braking distances in nearly all conditions.

The real killer on the freeways, besides intoxicated drivers who drive both slow and fast, is this:

Speed Differential.

When more of the vehicles on a freeway are going similar speeds, and fewer are either far faster or far slower than the average, there are fewer accidents.

Driving too fast causes no more accidents than driving too slow, as compared to the other vehicles on that road.

If American drivers paid more attention, took driving courses more seriously, and in general focused on what they are doing on the road, fatalities could fall much farther.

So now to vehicles.
Others here have mentioned various reasons for the phenomenon in question, all good.

For me, there is one that overrides all the others: thrill.
Joy, adrenaline, wonder.

For several years, I owned what was in the year 2000 the fastest production all-wheel-drive SUV... in the World!

Zero to 60 at close to 5 seconds, and a top speed of 155 (rev limited, or it would be higher). All in sport-coupe quality leather seats, and yet still an SUV of 5500 lbs that can haul 5 people and their stuff!

That was my favorite vehicle ever, and I plan to buy another.

On a trip through the American West, I got it to 145 mph on freeways in 3 states - albeit briefly each time. Thrilling, but the thrill was over very quickly. I didn't want to push it, because getting caught at that speed includes both a ticket and a quick trip to jail in almost every state.

But the best part, the absolute best part of that vehicle, was that the power allowed me to go from Zero to The Speed Limit, way faster than almost anyone else.

That's right, you don't have to exceed the speed limit to thoroughly enjoy the world's fastest cars.

Because you get to enjoy those amazing capabilities every day, legally, without endangering your drivers license.

The eyeball-flattening acceleration of that SUV was even great fun from Zero to 30.

And it felt like it handled nearly as good as a BMW sports coupe.

But the best was merging and passing. Seriously powerful cars often show their strength most clearly from around 40 to 75 mph. You can't believe it until you experience it, but it was better than almost any other drug I've ever tried. Yes, it was that good.

It's the journey, not the destination.

And it's the thrill, the power, the feeling of accelerating, and handling, and yes, even braking with an overqualified vehicle that is a lot more frequent and lasting fun than a simple top speed number.

There are plenty of products we buy every day that can be used in ways that are completely illegal - from the obvious (i.e. guns, knives, chainsaws) to the more mundane (i.e. gasoline, alcohol, medication).

Most modern cars (even the basic ones) will go at least 110 mph. Very few cars will reach anything near 200 mph, but yes, there some. Even 110 mph is faster than any speed limit in the United States. So why can cars go that fast?

Your car needs to be able to accelerate to highway speeds in a reasonable amount of time, and many people are accustomed to being able to accelerate from 0-60 mph in under 8 seconds. To do that requires a certain amount of power. Also, if you're on the highway going 75 mph (which is perfectly legal in many places) you'll need some power in reserve in case you encounter a headwind or need to climb a steep hill (or want to hit the gas and pass someone), which means that on a flat and level stretch with no headwind, your top speed will certainly be above 75 mph. Or if you drive a truck maybe you need extra power in case you're towing something. The level of power needed for reasonable acceleration and to have some additional power for hills and headwinds generally means you would top out (at a minimum) around 110 mph on a flat road. Of course if you have a sports car with more power for faster acceleration, your top speed can be much higher.

Speed governors on most cars are either set at 155 mph (250 km/h) as a "gentleman's agreement" between luxury car manufacturers for most of their models, or are set at the maximum speed rating of the tires. Tires with a speed rating of H, which is a popular rating on many sedans today, are rated for a top speed of 130 mph.

So an appropriate question would be "Why aren't all cars just governed at 85 mph?" 85 mph is the fastest legal speed on a public road in the US (SH 130 in Texas), and that limit was only established 2 years ago. The problem with governing a car at such a speed is that it's still able to reach illegal speeds on every road with a limit below that (i.e. every residential street) and people would be reluctant to buy a car that wasn't able to keep up with traffic while everyone else is driving at illegal speeds. Manufacturing a car that's not able to keep up with traffic could even possibly open an automaker up to liability for safety reasons. (what if you needed to take someone to the hospital in an emergency?) And even if manufacturers did limit the cars (because of requirements) there would be plenty of people figuring out ways to circumvent the speed governors.

One other major issue with a blanket speed governor in the United States is that speed limit policy is set by the states themselves and not set nationwide. Since the federal government does not set a speed limit, you're never violating a federal law by driving fast (except perhaps in isolated cases on certain federal property). You're only violating state laws. And Montana did have an unrestricted speed limit for a short period of time in the 1990s (reasonable and prudent). Even when the federal government did set the National Mandatory Speed Limit back in the 1970s, the speed limits were still state laws and could be set higher than the federal maximum, but the state would lose federal highway funding if it did so. No one state has the ability to get auto manufacturers to make something special just for them, except perhaps California and the California Air Resources Board, which for years has had special emissions regulations - and the automakers even fought that as much as they could. And even if a state did get such legislation passed there would be absolutely no way to prevent out-of-state vehicles from driving in or being sold in that state.

Any legislation requiring speed governors on cars could only apply to new cars, which would discourage people from buying new and it would create a set of vehicles that weren't able to keep up with the rest of traffic on the road, which would be unsafe.

Brian Feldman, Quora

There is a good, practical reason that I don't see mentioned here yet.

Say you're driving down the road at precisely the speed limit like the law-abiding citizen you are. The 18-wheeler in the next lane starts to merge into your lane--right into the spot you're currently occupying.

Do you violate the speed limit, put the pedal to the metal, and get out of there; or do you die in a terrible highway accident?

Source: Phil Darnowsky on Quora

imagine being a passenger in the back seat of a speed limited hiace bus going downhill on Abaji Lokoja road at 100km and there is a semi behind you with failed brakes pounding his horn relentlessly.

We were coming down a steep and very long decline on I-80, just ahead of a big rig. Mind you, we were in a 4-cylinder Subaru Forester. He was suddenly right on our tail and started blasting his horn like mad. We quickly realized he had lost his brakes, so we floored it and were just barely able to stay ahead of him as we, and he, wove from one lane to the other at 100+ mph.

Other cars didn't really have time to react, which was just as well. Fortunately there wasn't much traffic, so we could maneuver, but there were too many cars to just pull into another lane an let him get by. He was driving so erratically that we were afraid he would hit us for sure if we pulled onto the shoulder. Staying ahead of him seemed the safest thing to do at the time.

At the bottom of the grade, his rig eventually slowed enough that he could get on the shoulder and let friction help his stop. I couldn't believe our Subaru could go that fast on its puny 4 cylinders. Thankfully it could.

And that is why I'm glad cars are capable of traveling at "illegal" speed.

Source: Aaron Percefull on Quora

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI0FQo69TRI

arbitrage:
Thank you all for your advice. I have not even been using my computer for quite a long time since my phone is my everything these days. I was also thinking it could be a tool or code from an app that's feeding the hacker. The only pointer I have is a letter I received last week in my post office box purportedly from my other US bank, which requested for KYC due diligence forms to be filled and supporting documents to be attached by scan to an email address (or fax) that is different from the bank's domain name, although carrying the bank's logo or letterhead. The bank was not sure the posted KYC letter came from them.

I responded to it and made mention of this other compromised bank account on that form where it was required. Then another reply came to request for they account number of this second bank I mentioned on the KYC form as a way of verifying me and linking my record together. That must have been where I sold out and I replied too with just the account number they asked. But if that's it, I still wonder how they got my password whereas it was only the account number requested. Also why they didn't touch the first bank account for which the letter and forms were sent but the second one I just mentioned in the course of filling the KYC form. Though the untouched bank account uses hardware and software tokens; I guess that made it impenetrable for the hackers while the one based on password was able to be decoded.

you got owned

nice analysis

Get your bank to change all your PII - in effect similar to the american witness protection program - you need a new identity, this one is compromised

Then backup your phone data and wipe it clean, then install enhanced security on it - recommending what even spy agencies use - kaspersky av, dr.web and the likes from russia

same for your pc and then practice safe computing

next do not ever send PII to anyone without personally confirming that it came from the person who appears to be requesting it

and you should be safe

these guys are sophisticated and may not even be the handiwork of one person but a dedicated team.

Good luck finding them.

waoh!

Formatting makes it difficult to read, infact it is very unkind to the eyes.

otherwise, nice write-up

MercyLady3:
How safe (risky) is shipping a car from Europe to Naija as I am studying here.

I would use a car once I get to Naija.

Would you buy in Naija jeje or try your luck and take the risk with the ones in Europe.

Don't forget the shipping wahala and lots of that. I need more enlightenment on this.

Thanks.

Risky if you DO IT YOURSELF

Safe if you DO IT VIA A COMPETENT/HONEST/TRUSTWORTHY Shipping agent

That is the best case scenario.

Worst case scenario, buy in Nigeria. But then you lose control over so many things.

There is a way out though...list the options to you have to ship to Nigeria from your place and the regulars here can tell you if you can ship via them safely or not!

Shipping to Nigeria is not kind to DIY. Shipping to Nigeria is only safe if you pass through a licensed shipping agent because there are murky waters that only the initiated are allowed to wade, and outsiders are punished severely for (going where angels fear to tread aka trying to know more than they ought to know as outsiders)

Let's assume they had seat belts on

Let's assume they were over speeding also

The accident would still have happened because the driver failed to take evasive action after getting himself in a bind

He did not swerve into his proper lane or swerve into the left road shoulder or the right road shoulder until the mess he put himself in cleared.

All the driver knew was how to drive fast and not how to drive safe.

Finally, if you don't have clearance or allowance, it is foolish to attempt an overtake especially on that kind of road.

So in short

even if he had no seatbelts
even if he overspeed

But he exercised the precaution of ensuring he had clearance or allowance to overtake

there would have been no incident.

barbiee:
WITHOUT NURSING COUNCIL? How is that even possible?

I had a chat with them that's all

barbiee:
I didn't see your reply email oo. I'm still waiting for it. Let me resend it again. I need that Abuja nursing Council contact. It's concerning my cgfns application.. I'm having a little problem with it and the solution can only come from nursing Council

What's the problem?

CGFNS has accepted my application finally without the nursing council

Maybe we could resolve it without the nursing council? Unless we just have to do with the nursing council

born2lead01:
Good work barbiee, Nursesarena.com a forum for all nurses has tons of information on Nurse registration in most countries. Loads of free books such as Nanda 2015-2017, Kaplan Nclex, Saunders NCLEX past questions 5th and 6th Edition, etc for download.

Meet KemiRn who is processing her Nursing license in Abu Dhabi by herself on her thread My HAAD Nurse Registration Journey and Experience: A Guide for other Nurses

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barbiee:
Nairaland said you wanted to send me an email

I gave you permission but your email never came!

Can a Nigerian youth without solid connections become this rich in a sector such as telecom?



At only 26-years-old, Freddie Figgers is the CEO of a $2.2 million Florida telecommunications company.

According to a 2014 study by Insight Research Corp, telecommunications services revenue worldwide will grow from $2.1 trillion in 2014 to $2.4 trillion in 2019.

This great news means there is money to be made in this industry. However, African-Americans are not the ones making it.

Figgers Communication hopes to change that.

In addition to being a successful business mogul, Figgers is an inventor, patent holder for four inventions and a software designer who strives for perfection.

The 26-year-old even achieved all of this without finishing college.

This real-life Tony Stark (Marvel’s Iron Man) spoke to Atlanta Black Star about his tremendous foray into the tech industry and how he plans to inspire others.

As a young Black man, Figgers has always had a passion for technology. At the early age of 9, that passion began to flourish when his father purchased a used 1989 computer from a Goodwill thrift store.

He didn’t know then that the old computer would be the keystone to his tech empire.

“I broke the computer down several times to get it back working,” he said. “[By the sixth time] I finally got it back together and now it runs Windows XP.”

However, his life was a not a straight path. Figgers was abandoned by a dumpster as a newborn by his birth mother. It took 16 years to get rid of a rash he developed from being abandoned.

Within 13 days, he was matched with an adoptive family who taught him how to become a great man in the face of unforeseen tragedy.

The kindness of his adopted parents changed Figgers and made him appreciative of the life he has today, he said.

“My parents were strict,” he recalled. ” ‘Don’t go anywhere’ [they instructed]. I really appreciate it because it turned me into who I am today.”

Figgers added, “It’s amazing that you can meet people like that, and till this day, I have never met my biological parents. I have never had the interest.”

In the early 2000s, 12-year-old Figgers became part of a program called Net Quincy, based in his hometown of Quincy, Florida.

This program was a public-private partnership to provide telecommunications and internet service to residents in the small town.

People in the town heard about his computer repair prowess, and he landed a part-time job as a computer technician.

He worked with them for several years accumulating more hours under his belt.

“A lot of them felt envious of a child trying to compete with them,” Figgers explained. “I was just a 14-, 15- year- old kid. I [wasn’t] trying to take [their] job!”

At 16, Figgers realized he could make more money working for himself. So he left the Net Quincy program to start his own repair company, operating out of a backyard shed. Local residents brought in their damaged personal computers and laptops, and he repaired 50-60 computers a week on average.

This was just the beginning.

Figgers created a cloud database back in 2005 — cloud computing was mainstream — that digitized and stored clients’ records.

“After I saw the computer market, I wanted to see what makes these computers share resources … That was the networking aspect … I was going around to local car dealerships, law firms and realtors, [helping them] move from physical [record keeping] to a cloud-based solution. I was doing this at 15 in 2005.”

He created and maintained nine web servers at that time.

Even though the young man had the talent for networking and computer repair, software was his true passion. He said his financial backing came from software he designed for clients.

All of his technical wizardry was self-taught, and his parents gave him the tools to carry out his dreams.

Figgers has designed banking security applications, a remote patient monitoring system for senior citizens, and countless other software programs for an array of clients.

In his interview with ABS, Figgers revealed that he dropped out of college around 2009 after being presented with an opportunity to design a program for $65,000.

“The school thing wasn’t for me,” he explained.

He made the software program, earned the money and went off to create his telecommunications empire.

This was the breaking or making point in his life because he had his share of doubters.

“I was told no my whole life. The only person who believed in me was my father. No one believes you until they see a check. And that’s the story of my life … If you believe in something go for it.”

He said the government and Federal Communications Commission discouraged him from trying to acquire cell towers. It took Figgers three years to put up his first tower. In 2010, he purchased his first cell phone tower at the affordable price of $400,000. And when the tower malfunctioned, he ground it out by going back to software design to earn enough money to repair it.

Today, the entrepreneur has 18 towers in Florida with plans to acquire more.

His company designs and manufactures telecommunication handsets, provides cellular, mobile broadband, home phone and international calling and wireless internet.

Figgers Communication also provides wireless 4G LTE without a yearly contract.

The inventor and entrepreneur has also created a cell phone that prevents texting and driving with the aim to stop vehicular homicides.

Source: http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/08/12/self-made-26-year-old-tech-entrepreneur-creates-multi-million-dollar-telecommunications-company/

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RIP