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justwise:
You will be sent an email the same day with the ticket then you print it out

Ok.. Thanks bro

Good day all, I haven't really traveled out before but I'm trying to understand how this is done..

If I book flight online say Etihad from Saudi to UK.. what about the ticket, how will I get it? Is it in the airport? Is it the same day I booked and paid online for it or the traveling day?

Thanks you

Please I'm trying to understand something about ticket online booking.. I don't think I should open a thread for the question because its somewhat a domb question, I haven't really traveled out before..

If I buy Ticked online from the convenience of my house how do I get the ticket?

Thanks

O boy see broom legs.. So there's a Malaysian Forest in Enugu

If you want to be true Nigeria tell the government where they are going wrong, well, the government is going wrong everywhere...

Pia ya amu.. castrate him

Please I need to know all I need in terms of necessary documents and cost, including flight ticket to Dubai, to work and live..

How much am I looking at total?

Thank you in advance

This article was first published here on Nairaland sometime in 2009 by OMENUKO but it didn't make it to the front page, I think Nairaland then wasn't this much advanced as we have now, could be that Seun maybe running all the Tedious work alone.

So just digging it up.. can we look into this OMENUKO question again, What Happened To Izuogu’s Z-600 Nigeria Made Car?


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I like asking questions. And I don’t know why. But I seem to think that it has got to do with my quest to understand. I reckon it has been said that he who ask questions rarely misses his way. I sure agree with that in the same way I have come to read Bernard Lonergan and his treatise in epistemology. He creates the levels of knowledge to indicate that there are questions for understanding and questions for knowledge. In this regard, I am asking the question for understanding and I believe somebody somewhere has the capacity to make me understand.

I was thinking of what next to write about when my thoughts feel on Z600. I did not immediately recall exactly when that identity hit the national scene but I recall it was associated with an Igboman, Ezekiel Izuogu of Izuogu Motors Limited. I recall also that the hype then was that an Igbo man had built Nigeria’s first car using bare hands. I mean, without any robots or superior technology and a fantastic workshop like you would find at any of the auto makers shop out there in USA, Europe or Asia. The thought of Z600 kept hitting me like it was my invention. That forced me to do a little internet search on that brand of car which never saw the light of day.

My internet search led me to a page on Wikipedia, an internet encyclopedia of knowledge. What it told me about the Z600 was at first encouraging, and latter, disturbing.

The Wikipedia said this of Z600: “The Z-600 prototype was the first indigenous Nigerian car. It is also the first automobile of indigenous all-African technology. It was the brainchild of Engineer Ezekiel Izuogu. Launched in 1997, it caused a stir in the hearts of many Nigerians who hope for a personal car and stimulated the Nigerian media. The car was touted by the then Nigerian chief of Staff, General Oladipo Diya.”

Describing its design and specification, the Wikipedia said: “The prototype was equipped with a self made 1.8L four cylinder engine that got 18mpg and allowed the car to achieve a top speed of 140 km/h (86 mph). Front Wheel Drive (FWD) was chosen over Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) because a transmission tunnel would be more expensive to fabricate. FWD avoided this. 90 percent of the car's components were made locally. The design of the car was very utilitarian resembling a Renault 4 with its upright stance and a front end that resembles the locally assembled Peugeot 504.

“To be priced at $2000 it would have been the cheapest car in the world. Clever features like a door bell used in place of a horn ensure it achieves its low price target. Mass production was planned under Izuogu motors located in Naze, Imo state, but too many hurdles mainly financial and political prevented the car from going past the prototype stage.”

I have highlighted two issues that caught my fancy as I perused the Wikipedia. Information that 90 percent of the car’s components were made locally and that both financial and political hurdles prevented the car from going beyond the prototype stage, got me worried.

I also learnt from Wikipedia that the South African government in 2005 invited Izuogu to deliver a lecture on African technology at which they sold the idea of moving over to SA and manufacturing the car from there as a made in South Africa car. Izuogu refused the offer. I am just imagining what would have become of the car had he agreed to dump Nigeria in 2005 for SA.

My curiosity however is that Nigeria ranks among world biggest consumers of auto. We have some form of mad rush for the latest designs and models, yet, an idea, which has been said to be what rules the world, sprung up in Nigeria, was nurtured in Nigeria and latter killed in Nigeria by Nigeria.

By killing Izuogu’s idea, we gave visa to Asians, Americans and Europeans to flood our markets with their own cars. As we do that, we also forget that these cars we rush to patronize and enjoy actually started off as ideas espoused by an individual. Let’s not talk of the capital flight involved. In India for instance, Tata brand of cars started off as a family business. It was the brainchild of Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata who died in 1993. He started off as an engineering and locomotive company. Today, Tata Motors has consolidated revenue of $16 billion after the acquisition of British automotive brands Jaguar and LandRover in 2008.

But what makes me feel like hating Nigeria is that the Wikipedia records that ‘financial’ and ‘political’ issues killed Z600. I am amassed because the amount of money stolen from public coffers since 1997 alone, would have handed Nigeria, and indeed Africa, a world class motor company with all the necessary robots and manpower to make it competitive. On the ‘political’ dimension, I can only summarize that the idea was killed simply because Izuogu is an Igbo name. I have a feeling that Z600 would have been a national pride if the name behind it derived from the caliphate. I strongly challenge Nigeria to prove me wrong on this.

Today, Nigeria is all hallow to Jelani Aliu, Sokoto state born guy for designing the Cherry Volt for General Motors in the US. Remember, he only designed it with the aid of modern technology and everything he needed to work with. But Izuogu not only designed but also assembled raw materials, built from scratch and test drove the Z600 with bare hands. I am not sure Izuogu and those who worked with him on the Z600 had all the robots and additives that Aliu is exposed to at GM.

Beyond Izuogu’s Z600, Nigeria also has, in the same GM motors family, another Nigerian of Akwa Ibom state, Dr. Patrick Usoro, described as a prolific inventor, an expert in mechanical and powertrain systems at GM. He holds more than 160 U.S. patents and has published more than 50 technical papers and reports. Many of his innovations have been implemented on GM products and have earned him the GM R&grin Master Inventor Platinum Award, Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Science and McCuen Special Achievement Awards for Extraordinary Technical Accomplishments. In 1996 he was recognized as the U.S. Black Engineer of the Year for outstanding technical contributions. Yet, he remains unsung by Nigeria. Does it stop him from being who he is?

Still pained that Z600 was killed for ‘financial’ and ‘political’ reasons, I feel something of mental recolonization whenever I see the sort of glory the Nigeria government is giving to Chery Volt made by GM in the USA. In fact, we can argue that what we are doing with that re-branding advert on television (sorry, I keep referring to rebranding) is glorifying American products as ours. Those at GM, whose task it is to market the Cherry Volt to Nigeria, would only but be all thanks to Dora Akunyili and her campaigners for giving them primetime mention on national television for dash.

Akunyili keeps advertising an American car for free on NTA sustained with tax payers’ money. Yet, the same government would see ingenious local efforts at technological advancement to the cemetery and ensure that the grave is laced with sulphuric acid such that nothing of it resurfaces.

While I weep for Nigeria over the Z600, I remember that thousands of Nigerian youths, especially from our numerous universities of technology, had made innovative discoveries during their time in school. Some of them had inventions that earned them first class degrees or doctorates. Those inventions end as matters of academic pursuit. These young men graduate to join the army of job seekers or swell the rank of kidnappers, hijackers, advance fee fraudsters or even seek to create their own bank of crooks and criminals. Yet, we go to China to hire scientists to host a satellite for us. We run to Asia, America and Europe to import cars. Shame. I am sure some of the factories that produce the cars we gladly showcase on our roads started about the same time Z600 was premiered.

Culled from achilleusuchegbu..com
Written by OMENUKO

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I read you like beads.. I do like it on girls a lot

Just looking at the things my amiable VP does alone gives you a vibe of hope and liveliness to the economy.. I pray for Baba get well soon but I also pray he just resign and forget the leadership of Nigeria

Hello! Anyone knows this? The lifespan of palm tree, and how many productive year? Thanks

Ekaka1:
You with no spoke

Lol.. you with Porsche Panamera

dingbang:
Lol e no dey beleful person ooooooo... Besides its smaller compared to 200 naira rice

bro I beg I need am like one bag, because I don tire to de eat rice

Anyone in the east (Enugu) to help me buy African Salad (Abacha) dried one since rice don too cost for me

Please I want to know how much it would cost me to record my song

When money is never a problem!

Please Landers I want to understand Nigeria PayPal account linked with my Naira account/card, can I use it to make international payment and what is the limits and exchange rate to USD. Thank you

grandstar:
Open a dollar dorm account and request for a dollar linked ATM. It has limitless spend

Thanks bro, please do you know about PayPal linked to my Naira account or card?

Scatterscatter:
Wait ooo, I am not understanding

Is this a moving Statue or we have 2 different statues.?

Check out both pictures again

You only read the heading, the pictures are 1. The first crown king of Lagos, King Ado, and The legendary Prince Olofin Atekoye.

Hello, please I have read so much about Federal government/Banks suspension of international spending using ATM, here is one in Punch: http://punchng.com/dollar-scarcity-banks-suspend-atm-card-usage-abroad/
but I know importers are still importing my question is how are they now doing it?

I want to understand how they are sending money abroad, how can I send money abroad

chieyine:
Pls let the content of the investigation see the light of the day

And if his claims are right
I know he is no Chinese
Neither is he an American

He is a Nigerian and If his claims are true
The Nigerian government shouldn't hesitate to give him the support

You say Nigerian government give support? I pray oo.. no longer trusting Nigeria after lots of promise and fail

Abeg make them do fast.. E don tee wey I never go raw.. since after my first experience at 20!

I Love this 65 years old but always looking young man's bravado. Charly the Area Fada.. Our Mumu don too much. where can I meet you guys to join.. See him look you go know sey e get ppl wey get street..

Lukay99:
What exactly do you people really want? It's like you people can and will never support anything this present government do. When was the last time any Nigerian government provides free meals to students? Just in case you don't know Buhari/APC never create these recession yet they are providing free meals that most previous administration's couldn't provide even with all the money they access to.

With one of the biggest infrastructural spending in the budget in a very long time y'all still complaining ?

Arresting some of the people that stole your money y'all still complaining?

Providing free meals y'all still complaining?

Policies to promotes local manufacturing to reduce unemployment y'all still complaining?

What exactly do you people really want?

OMG! this all you have to say? Government of all they need to do providing free meal is more important to them, how does that sound to you?

Is this a country? God I'm begging you to intervene in this, I'm tired of being a Nigerian give us Biafra & set us free

Did you notice the covered one and first # tag #IStandWith2baba. chai! 2baba na wah oooo

They are really football giants, I don't love football or even know players much apart from few Nigerias but these three I hear there names often. Happy Birthday to them