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Mskrisx:
Good evening everyone.
Please I bought my car about a month now. (Toks)
As I was bringing it in, I didn’t know the car was overheating and it burnt my gasket. I fixed it in agony.
Now just today, after parking it for 9 days I called the mechanic who told me I had to change the 4 coils, plugs and do a fresh servicing. I did all this and even bought two new gallons of coolant. Dear people, do you know that after an hour of all this, I tried to test drive , just along the way I noticed the car was over heating then I Tried to look for a little safe place And park. I opened my engine bay and noticed that gasket is burnt again! All my money down the drain! The stress, the agony, the everything. I’m so so sad! Trying really to be strong. Please people, what can I do? Now the car won’t start and I had to pay a towing van to tow it. Sorry about my grammar. My heart is just too heavy. Thanks. Any opinion is welcome.

I don't need to read further to know this is Toyota Camry 2012-2014 Model.

I had also exact same experience and still having some issues.

This is not my first car but none of them have given me issues like this. I was even considering selling the car. @Mskrix, these are the things I did to stop the overheating:

1. Got a new Gasket (A good one)
2. Removed the thermostat and allowed it flow through
3. Used a relay and something to ensure the fan is blowing at all time and doesn't fail during driving
4. Changed the radiator from single cell to double cell

If you do this as I guess you may have done some of them, you shouldn't be having issues.

Important to state that the first Top Gasket I put was a fake one, so it burnt and dropped me on the road at night.

cosmos2000:
Hey Boss but I'm still not clear with this thing. Ptdf is giving scholarship to study abroad for the normal four years course or you are just going to study a year and return??
And please as a beneficial, what your stipend in France, I know you are in France??
Do you have menial jobs after class, research reveals that 8.80euro (4000naira) is the minimum wage for student...?
Will you be working there after studies, at least to garner experience

Are you a beneficiary?

I asked because everything has been explained to them.

cosmos2000:
Good day Mrphysics, hope you are having a good time. I sent you a PM, hoping to receive your reply. I had gone through your comments and I find them captivating, keep seeing you answering different questions regarding PTDF please answer mine also.
Can I change course to any other engineering course, (Aeronautic Engineering to be precise under same country)??
Can I study more than one course in any of the countries in partner
And lastly can I applied to other scholarships beside Ptdf without their(ptdf) awareness, some told me that they enjoy upto five scholarships while in school...

Hello boss,

The answer to all the questions is YES.

I studied another course, Nuclear Engineering instead of Physics.

I also got 2 other scholarships

Modified: Regarding studying more than one course, it's possible. If you have 1 year master, then you can do another one year master's course. The PTDF MSc scholarship is for 24 months. Immediately you're awarded the scholarship, then the fund for the 24 months would be made available. It doesn't matter how much your tuition fee is.

latmukd:
Well done mrphysics.

Thank you for sharing this experience of yours with us. It's really interesting. I feel immense joy deep down in my heart. Words cannot express my feelings.

The impact of this thread on me is immeasurable. I feel motivated to do great things too despite all the challenges. I will never forget this experience, it means a lot to me — I mean it.

I came across this thread a few days ago via yesufu16's comment.

Again, I must admit, going through this thread gives me a lot of joy. I'm really proud of your achievements.

Congratulations on the successful completion of your program. Wishing you good luck in your future endeavours.

I say thank you once again. Remain blessed.

Lots of love from Latmukd.

Cc

Mrphysics
Yesufu16

You are most welcome bro

Swagz007:
Am planning on going to France before year ends God willing, any advice, tips and pros and cons of there will be much appreciated boss, thanks.

Well, I think the general tip for anyone going to France is to learn how to speak French. You will also learn how to leave in a country that is not yours, so you have to respect their rules, take some stuff/sh.it from some people because obviously it's not your country.

But to be most specific, and depending on your course of study, learn how to work with Linux Operating System and get a basic knowledge of any programming language.

When you get to France, try to observe how the French answer exam questions. Their grading system is over 20, and you need to be very careful with this. Because even if you get 10,11/20, they will tell you that you did very well but this is your GP going down, but to them it's a good grade self. Lol.

lion501:
Pls I’m planning on self sponsoring myself to study in France and I’m looking at early next year… pls can u help me with cheap schools/ cheap deposit for February intake in France… thanks

There are alot of public universities in France. Just google them bro. Depending on your course of study, these schools are cheap though I learned they are changing their prices for international students but you can check them out.

I may not be specific with the schools as I didn't have the chance to look for cheap schools nor was I in charge of making my school fees. My school is one of the grande ecoles schools in France and it's expensive. PTDF paid 12k euros/year.

I am sure you will see alot of schools. One that is most common is University of Grenoble. It's very cheap.

DonroxyII:
This is a backward mentality .... An IQ that breeds Poverty......
If he becomes rich , I am rich too and I ain't stopping until Wealth is strucked......

I will tell him to flee ....... I have forcefully eject my cousin before ..... she didn't talked to me for four years for somebody that spent two years in my cribs all expense ......

Since 2016 we make up in 2021 .... Nonsense !

If I want you out , you are out of you like become Dangote ... I'm also aspiring to become Bill Gates .... Las Las Wealth Hardly Fight and Hardly befriends....

Everything is Business !!

My junior secondary school classmate called me by 11:30pm that he's stranded at Area One Abuja. Before then, we haven't spoken since our junior sec. days. How he got my number, I don't know.

He said he just wanted to pass the night as the person he wanted to stay with isn't picking his call. I gave him my address and that was the worst mistake I have made. He came and changed everything.

He doesn't respect silence or what you want. You might be listening to news and he will change it to play Rihanna. He turns the volume to the highest even when you should be sleeping. He did a whole lot of things anyway. Worst was my friend that previously visited me, they started quarrelling over little things and its usually the new visitor's fault.

One day, I told the two to leave before I come back from work. It didn't work. So the next day, I woke both of them up to pack as I will be locking my house before leaving for work. That was how they left. I never let anyone emotionally blackmail me with how they will be rich tomorrow while I will become poor

amc:
You first need to understand which taxes are collected by the States and which by the FG, to be able to contribute to the discussion.

90% of taxes are collected by the state and local governments.



...and the total of VAT is much less than the total of all other taxes collected by states and local governments.

...and the same states and local government shares the VAT with the FG.

Most people lack understanding of how things are organised in Nigeria. Theirs is to comment on any news with or without knowledge of what its about.

FCT IRS collects PAYE for Abuja Residents anyway.

seunmsg:
VAT is a consumption tax and it should be collected by state government. FIRS should collect Corporate income tax, education tax, petroleum taxes and custom duties.

In Nigeria, VAT and consumption tax is not the same. You pay consumption tax when you visit hotels, restaurants or use event centre. Consumption tax is paid by individuals, thus collected by State Government.

VAT is imposed on companies, but paid as goods are consumed. FIRS has the jurisdiction to collect it.

Tax jurisdiction is very well spelt out in Nigeria. Only politicians argue it and usually lose at Supreme court.

VillagePipu:
It's a Federal High Court, means it's a Federal court.

Provided it's based on the constitution, the Court of Appeal will uphold it and the Supreme Court will also uphold it.

The Appeal Court and Supreme Court will dismiss it.

The law is completely very clear on the issues of Taxes. The issue of VAT is a structural problem because of it's nature. Now, FG is empowered to collect TAX on companies while States impose tax on individuals.

See the link below (close the gaps)

https://lirs. gov. ng/tax-information/tax-collection

If you noticed, FIRS didn't even defend it, they just told the judge he lacked merit to entertain it. The supreme court is clear on tax categories.

Nicoswit:
Where people nw abi rapture don happen for france nii

Lol, it depends.

France is not a congested country and Nantes is not a very busy and buzzling city.

If it's very hot, the french people will all be outside and you can see everywhere busy.

Now, it's vacation period and alot of people have travelled with their family.

NiklauseFred:
Pls do you mind updating this thread after you leave for ur next location?

Lol, bro, my next location might even be your current location.

My residence is filled with students. Truth is, it's always very neat and very quiet.

I don't know why I took this picture, but I am sure, the reason is that I want to compare the student waste disposal to the one in Nigeria.

It's always very neat and does not smell. Compared to UNN that if you are 100 meters away from it, you will already be perceiving the bad smell.

Every evening, I take a walk around my area. I live in Nantes Nord (Nantes North)

It's always a lonely walk as there's no one to walk with.

Swagz007:
In general your stay in France, is there racism over there in France, can someone leave in France, asking for a friend.

There's racism everywhere, even worst in Nigeria anyway.

In France, there's racism but you may not notice it. You will only observe it when people give you fake smile, fake friendship, fake everything. But it shouldn't bother you as it won't stop you from anything.

Naturally, the French are very conservative and want to mingle among themselves. If you want them, then you will have to force yourself on them. Most people won't do that, so they enjoy their company and don't care.

trigger11:
so i follow this trend from day one till now that you are about to leave

all the best mrphysics

Thanks for being part of the journey bro

Nantes aligns itself with nature. It's common to see the city covered with trees and green areas. It makes the city beautiful and the air most refreshing.

The first breath you will take in Nantes will change everything you know about climate change. The concept of climate change will become flesh and you will automatically know the premium air quality.

So I visited the Jardin De Plants. This garden is directly opposite the Nantes Train Station. It's beautiful and green.

First picture is a new site being developed. When next I visit France (Nantes), would like to check the progress.

I visited the other side of France. A friend rented an apartment there and invited me. Been there for sometime. It's called Ile De Nantes, similar to the Ile De Paris.

Like I noticed, every city or department in France wants to duplicate Paris. So it's not surprising to realize there's no difference between the Foch Cathedral Nantes and Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The Montparnasse tower in Paris is also in Nantes (The longest tower in both cities).

But one thing about the Ile De Nantes is that it does not depict the European city style. It takes the form of the modern city. The high rise buildings, electric vehicles, buses, etc. From my side to this side is very close, just one Tram and you can locate anywhere. With same ticket you can go anywhere.

For students, your transport ticket is free in most French city save Paris.

Here are some building types in this part of Nantes.

Happy second Sunday of the month of August.

Remember that I told you that I have few days to leaving Nantes and France.

I have been emotional and sad seeing that this community was home to me this past 2 years. It's a very beautiful city with the best air, extremely low carbon emission, almost zero dust. It's warm, with good people (all be it boring). Nantes gave everything to it's inhabitants.

I am not an emotional person, but I have felt some strong emotional connection with this city. I have been invited by classmates to come to Italy, Vienna, and Paris, honestly, I have been attached to Nantes. A friend that left Nantes to Marseille couldn't compare it to Nantes even when it's more advanced.

Nantes is calm, friendly, and enjoyable.

I must admit is boring, well, it's generally the lifestyle in Europe. But if you know how to enjoy your company, then this is the city for you.

As I round up my stay in this lovely city of Nantes, I am spending most of my free time to visiting Nature and another side of Nantes.

Will update this evening.

Tielemans:
I just want to know the kind of leeway they allow to change schools or courses when you're given the scholarship. Can you go from petrochemical to just chemical engineering? can you go from newcastle to say london or vice versa? Or do you 100% have to go to the school you were offered or one of your three choices.

I see mrphysics viewing the thread so please chime in.

You can do anything you like provided it's within the country.

It becomes complicated when you are changing country.

You can study whatever you like.

I got for Physics and I ended up studying Nuclear Engineering in a different school.

Privatepart00:
Can you explain what you mean by a lady having a weak womb after abortion as inputed in your thread .

Did you do an abortion?

valentineuwakwe:
It's a welcome development the cbn stop the sales to them....the problem now is, will th banks perform better?

The problem is the banks. When they get forex, someone within the bank will call BDC and sell everything to them. Ordinary people only see signs of FX displayed in the banks. When you request for forex, they will tell you it's not available.

henrybomb:
It is not about thinking before criticizing it is about government policies going back and forth like a pendulum which makes people even criticize the government more.
The government don’t know their stand on the forex

Policies are not supposed to be cast on stone. And this is not about stand on forex.

If you trade Forex, you will know this is long overdue. Government should work towards creating a platform where citizens with genuine import businesses can access forex without going through BDC.

Even when government sent forex to banks, its still same bank people that will sell it at cheaper rate to BDC who in turn sell at a very high rate.

Your country is not a stable economic wise, so it shouldn't be shocking when government is trying alot of stuff in an unstable economic times.

Vado:
Calm down oga. I’m a staunch critic of the government but this is long overdue. No forward thinking nation still does that shxt.

Most of them don't even understand anything. All they wait is to criticise even without thinking

NDSMELODY:
you are right sir,can you do that using java pl ?

No sir. I am not a programmer, I just know little and the one that could help me solve my problems.


But even if in Java, it's very simple to implement.

Just import the basic namespaces and then write a For Loop

for(i=1;i<=100; i++)

Enter the conditions

print

NDSMELODY:
I think it should not display the numbers instead if the numbers are odd BTW 1 and 100,it shld display fizz at standard output

I think I followed instruction bro.

He said he wanted to print integers from 1-100 with conditions.

I didn't read where he talked about odd numbers. Rather, multiples of 3 and/or 5

OPTOSUN:
Write a python program that prints the integers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three, print "Fizz" instead of the number, and for the multiples of five, print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five, print "FizzBuzz"

It's too simple bro. You can write it yourself.

for i in range(1,101):
if (i%3 == 0 and i%5 == 0):
print( "FizzBuzz" )
continue
elif (i%3 == 0):
print( " Fizz" )
continue
elif (i%5 == 0):
print( "Buzz" )
continue
else:
print(i)

Result
1
2
Buzz
4
Fizz
Buzz
7
8
Buzz
Fizz
11
Buzz
13
14
FizzBuzz
16
17
Buzz
19
Fizz
Buzz
22
23
Buzz
Fizz
26
Buzz
28
29
FizzBuzz


Note: I copied 1-30. But the code will give you all the result.

bezimo:
Try to look at schools in Canada. I see a lot of Nuclear Engineering stuff/job advertised.

Yes bro. I am looking at that option. Seeking for a PhD there. Reason is that Canada uses the CANDUM reactor which to some extent is a different ball game. One needs to study it very well to be able to get a job in the mainstream nuclear.

Activist001:
Congratulations chief. Keep winning!

Thanks boss.

Limassol:
You are a valuable asset but sadly Nigeria will lost you to countries with vision and ambition. By the way, glad to have you back.

Thanks bro.

The country don't really care. That's why valuable assets keep living the country. Most times, it's not that they have what to do, but atleast with menial jobs, they can survive much better. If there is a place for them, many will be happy to return. But again, the country don't care.

Again, thank you so much.