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HeavenlyBang:
I try to keep mine at around 35psi fully heated. So about 30psi cold.

Noted. But isn't that an SUV?

Why do most vulcanizers inflate up to 40 psi, sometimes 45 psi, if you don't tell them what you want?

I pray he gets his containers released, or speedy justice via the courts. He's a decent businessman and adequately educated as well.

However, I can never applaud any Nigerian talking sh*t about his home country. Yes, Nigeria is plagued by corruption. But you're rather doing yourself and your countrymen a disservice by talking negative about your home country of origin to a white man. They'll just be laughing at you.

kingreign:
Leave tyre pressure. Stick to car recommended Cold Air Pressure.

Okay. Thanks.

Sometimes it's good to be calm, concentrated and humble when on a winning streak.

However I believe with the right mindset and preparation they can bounce back and do one better.

kingreign:
Stick to what's on the car tyre sticker info. Pls note that as air warms up, it expands, so it entails you pumping only early in mornings before driving off or very little drive when the tyre has not heated up.

But on the tyre it's 44psi...!

Going by your explanation, it's bound to expand to an even higher figure after driving for a good while. I've never imagined 50psi on a salon car under any circumstances.

Here to learn.

Hello auto gurus in the house, which is the correct tyre pressure guide to follow: what's written on the tyres or what's pasted on the driver's side of the car? Or the usual 40/45 psi that most vulcanizers are wont to administer?

On my saloon car (ES), the tyre pressure indicated is 29 psi (cold pressure), while on the tyres it's recommended at 44psi. All so confusing!

Personally, I've always insisted on 35 psi on all four tyres. But now I'm afraid I might be under-inflating the tyres which can lead to quicker wear.

What do you advise?

Cc: HeavenlyBang, Kingreign, Gazzuzz, Nurey, Radauto....

Bigredmachine:
God have mercy on his soul, and let perpetual light shine upon him

Amen!!

May his gentle soul rest in God's bosom forever.

Manage It Like That (MILT) — A Nigerian Story by Editi Effiong

Everyone in Nigeria has heard or experienced the phrase “Manage It Like That”. Except you have just dropped out of the abroad into Nigerian airspace, it is virtually impossible to have regular interaction with Nigerians over the course of 24 hours without interacting with this phrase, either verbally or in action.

If you are the (un)lucky human who just fell into the Nigerian airspace, and on account of that have never experienced “Manage It Like That”, introductions are in order. If it’s night in the sky, look over the city you’re about to land on. Is there light? No? You will have to learn to manage it like that. If it’s daytime, it’s only fair to warn you that the motif of dirty roofs you just saw on the outside borders of the mega city you’re about to make an acquaintance with is not an an art project. Na there we dey live. Manage it like that.

If you slept through your flight and missed the welcome in the last paragraph, well, prepare for the smell as you emerge from the plane into our terminal. It’s terrible, a mixture of fermented urine, unclean toilets and humans with selective interactions with baths — the smell is almost toxic. But you will not die, nobody does. Just manage. Welcome to Naija.

MILT — A Definition
Manage It Like That (MILT) is a Nigerian phrase that expresses the heart and soul of service delivery in Nigeria. It means take it as you see it, and means just that. The word ‘manage’ implies “this isn’t ideal, we know, but by all means make do, because we’re not about offering a substitute”.
Did you order food from the restaurant and got a wrong order? Sorry. But you can’t be so wicked as to expect the poor restaurant to absorb the loss and replace your order. Just manage. It’s not like you’ll die eating fried rice instead of the jollof rice you ordered. Rice is rice, please.

You’re used to Uber in other countries. Nice clean vehicles, friendly drivers. Well, welcome to the Nigerian Uber. It’s not clean, but come on, it’s not that dirty. Manage. What is that smell? Oh, it’s a goat in the trunk, for the family party tomorrow. It just got picked up. What? You are going to 1-star? Don’t you eat goat? You’re just wicked. And you call yourself a religious person. Are you the first person? Can’t you manage?

I believe at this point, MILT as a concept has been explained. Let’s move on to more scientific matters, like measuring this fantastic concept.

Measuring MILT
To measure MILT, you have to use the MILT Index. MILT Index is a measure of average periodic exposure to MILT within a location, and ranges from 0–100, where 0 = excellent and 100=terrible. To understand how MILT Index works, let’s take a country like Singapore, where things just work. Things work so well in that country that the people don’t have much to complain about. Because they really don’t need to manage much, their MILT Index is like 0.8. Not even up to 1.
Now if you’re in a war zone, you have to make a lot of compromises. This means people in the war-torn areas of Syria will have a MILT Index in the region of 95.

There is also the MILT Acceptance Value (MAV), which is the amount of MILT a person is ready to accept. While this is generally related to the MILT Index, its a value of its own. People from countries higher on the MILT Index are likely to have high MAVs, because they can’t come and kill themselves. But because this is a personal value, there are sometimes people who choose not to take nonsense, so would have lower MAVs. Those people are special of course.

It could be argued that the average Oyinbo person has low MAV because they grew up in countries with lower MILT Index, whereas, the average Nigerian has a high MAV, because our MILT Index is exceptionally high (about 98/100). The higher the MILT Index where you come from, the higher your chances of having a high MAV. It also means that the higher the MAVs of people in a country, the higher their score on the MILT Index.

MAV is also measured from 0–100.

Why Nigerians have higher MAVs
For us real Nigerians, managing is what we do. A few reasons for our high MAVs include situation, poverty, lack of consequence and religion.

Situation
 If you stepped of out your home in the morning and discovered that the 10 minutes of rain you had last night had flooded your compound and street, do you call the Fire Service to come rescue you and your family, while waiting for the Works Department to unblock the drainage and…wait, I’m just kidding, which Fire Service?
You simply identify the stones your neighbours put in the water, hop gingerly, one step at a time. You manage till you get to your Toyota Corolla. The flooded road to work is littered with all kinds of cars that “water entered their engines”. Only high cars and Toyotas can manage. In the words of the ancient Greco-Roman philosopher, Small Doctor, if you don’t have Toyota, hide your face.

You sha managed to get to work. There’s no light and because of rain, diesel was not supplied, so you have to use small gen, meaning no air conditioning. What can you do? You can’t come and kill yourself, so you manage. The wifi is connecting, but no internet. Maybe the rain knocked out the mast. Again, what can you do? You bring out your phone and connect to your personal hotspot. God dey.

Poverty
Doing things properly is expensive. Because people are continuously struggling with their hierarchy of needs, there is pressure to just get by. If you’re getting kicked out of your house in a month, your are more likely to tolerate poor service from your new prospective landlord/lady.
We are of course the poverty capital of the world, newly crowned and shii, so this poverty impacts of the education system, which in turn affects everything.

Lack of consequence
As a Nigerian, ask yourself, what would happen if I break the law? The answer mostly is “Nothing”. You can jump a red light, build a house without an approved plan, hire unqualified people to work in a health care facility and owe your staff salaries and nothing would happen. Even when an agent of the law apprehends you, you are confident in the ability to sort yourself out.
Recently, my driver overshot the airport pickup zone by a little bit and was immediately swarmed by ‘agents’ for breaking the law. My car was booted and they asked me to come negotiate my release. Of course I was upset! They weren’t even asking me to pay a fine, they were asking me to come and settle. One of them walked up and asked me to leave the front passenger seat and go to the back, so we can drive off and negotiate along the way.

The first thought in my head was, good. Once we drive off, my driver will not stop till we get to Lekki, 40 minutes away, then I’d kick him out and he’d learn is lesson. The second thought was to call a few military friends in the area to come and scatter everything, since everyone wants to be foolish. Over time, I had been nice to a few of these uniformed guys, and they have told me how frustrated they are that every time I have trouble, instead of calling them, I would resolve the wahala. These guys actually beg to come and beat people up for me, and here I was with the perfect opportunity.

I left the car, got in a cab and went home. The next day, my driver went back to the airport and paid the fine, got a receipt and took the car. Not calling those guys still pained sha.

Religion
This one is sensitive because Nigerians love their belief systems. But religion is actually really bad for us. We all know the religious people who say “God forbid” or “That’s not my portion” when you talk about home safety and servicing a vehicle so it doesn’t kill it’s occupants. “It is well” is actually a variant of MILT!
I know a person who lost a family member to medical malpractice — when friends discussed potentially bringing a case against the hospital, he said to let it go, “it is well”.

A contractor who worked for me once came to drag his worker out of my site. When the contractor told me that the worker, who lived with him had allegedly raped his sister, I was of course all militant and ready to help him get the guy arrested and charged. Just as we were leaving the site, the contractor’s father called. The painter’s family had come to beg him, and his religion says “vengeance is mine”. The rapist was let go.

So Nigerians are the problem

Yes.

Nothing works in Nigeria. Nothing. But the worst part of the entire faulty enterprise is our ability to absorb the poor infrastructure, services, injustice and just manage. We manage at home, we manage at work, we manage in places of worship, we even manage in hospitals! Our walls are crooked, our roofs are terribly done and leak, our window panes never align properly, our plumbing never doesn’t leak, and let’s not even talk about tiles being laid in straight lines.

We know all these things, but instead of actively trying to fix the problems, we manage. We manage it like that.

Now I’m not Jesus. So I’ve done my bit of MILT, most times, just to save myself unnecessary headache. So I also contribute to the problem.

Can you reduce your MAV?
Good question.
There are actually some good people who have managed to reduce their MAVs despite the high MILT Index of Nigeria. I must warn however, that the price for this is high. Reducing your MAV in Nigeria requires you to actively not take nonsense. And if you think this is easy, let me quote what colleagues told the airport security guy who returned a bagful of dollars he found in the airport bathroom: You’re mad.

A friend of mine got into a legal fight with a bank which had ripped him off. The case ran for years and the bank fought really hard. They also ensured the guy couldn’t land a job for a while, to pressure him to give up. His family, friends, church, everyone told him he was crazy for not accepting to chop nonsense like everyone. Then he won. A month later, the guy left Nigeria.

Have you ever tried to tell a Nigerian that driving one way is wrong? They will curse your mother in the village. Remember the girl who dared to tell the world her lecturer wanted her to exchange sex for marks? Remember how Nigerians abused her? Like, is she the only one?

You see, simply standing up and displaying a low MAV will turn Nigerians against you, possibly including your own family.

If you ever want to experiment with death, try using a zebra crossing in Nigeria.

Try laying tiles straight in Nigeria
I will tell you my experience. I was renovating my home and this guy swore he was the best tiler East of the Lekki Bay Area (cool name credit: Loy Okezie). He showed me pictures of work he had done, so I decided to try him.

When I saw the first set of tiles laid, I died. When I finally came round, I simply told him to take the entire thing down. He laid it again, better than last time, but still bad. I came back, told him to take it all down. Of course he trotted out the usual Nigerian refrain: Oga, you can just manage it like that. Ah, I was going to kill that guy, but grace is sufficient.

So I made him do the tiling 4 times. I had to buy everything twice, but I was intent on teaching a lesson. By the fourth time, the tiling was done decently. There were a few dents, but they were ‘manageable’ dents.

Of course I kept that guy long enough to spread the rumour that this oga is harsh and will make you do one job 10 times until it’s done. That is how I got my artisans to deliver quality work on my project.

A few weeks ago, a squeak was coming from the right side of my vehicle. It was there for a few days — a most discomfiting sound. Our usual service center couldn’t detect the fault with their machines, but my driver said going to another shop was a waste of money, so we should manage. This guy has worked with me for almost 7 years, and knows I would rather have that thing fixed, even if it cost a fortune, yet he still asked that I manage. I made him take it to another shop of course. The new shop couldn’t find the fault, but they suspected something was loose in the rear seats, so they took the seats out, lubricated and reinstalled them. The squeak stopped.

Imagine if I had agreed to manage. I would have been enduring headaches. The curious thing is that my driver is a guy I have trained to avoid short cuts over the time he has worked with me. He doesn’t drive against traffic or jump red lights. He obeys stop signs and slows down at zebra crossings. If a guy like that still tells me to manage after all these years, you know, this MILT thing is a spirit.

It’s a cycle
My belief is that if Nigerians collectively start demanding better of themselves, beginning from small things, we will ultimately grow.
Because, it starts from managing small puddles in the compound, to managing the squeaky gate, to managing the potholes on the street, then flooded streets and dirty highways. If we accept bad roads, we inevitably agree to accept a broken country.

Every single time we accept to manage something, we pass up the opportunity to fix a problem. And a million unfixed problems is why Nigeria is now the poverty capital of the world. It is because of the damn too high Manage-It-Like-That Acceptability Value!

When will it stop?

I don’t know.

Murtala Muhammad thought flushing our historically inefficient civil service would lower our MILT Index. It didn’t end well. Then Buhari (version I) came with koboko and WAI, trying to whip Nigerians into shape. That didn’t end well either. By the time he was overthrown, people threw street parties.

The one person who seemed to really understand the MILT situation was The Evil Genius, who pretty much formalized our MILT situation, allowing Nigerians to display the worst possible versions of themselves without consequence, and Nigerians loved that. By the time he left, our MILT Index was a solid 100.

People don’t want to pay tax because the government isn’t working, and the government says they aren’t working because the people aren’t paying taxes. The thing though, is that some of us have tried this tax paying thing for years. What are we getting out of it? Nothing. We build our own roads, provide our own water, provide our own power and still have to pay NEPA for the privilege of providing our own power.

Personally, I’m too deep in the system to stop paying taxes. I’m easy to catch, so I probably won’t stop paying or anything like that. But if people plain refuse to pay, our government should understand, please. After all, we’re Nigerians — government can Manage It Like That.

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OfoIgbo:
This has more to do with British sovereignty because it is a British national that was abducted.

I believe Kanu had already renounced his Nigerian citizenship

I agree that it has more to do with Britain than Nigeria. But I'm not aware that Kanu renounced his Nigerian citizenship. If he did, then as an alien, he hardly has any right to talk about or throw his weight behind the Biafra agitation in Nigeria.

Mikecold:
if UK today debates come to a conclusion that the FG headed by buhari invaded the privacy of their citizen illegally

They would simply issue a statement giving buhari time line to return him to them and follow the due process of repatriation

Ofcourse buhari would ignore since he is daft, UK would simply start issuing sanctions

The least of those sanctions is a ban on the culprits involved from coming to their nation since they don't share same values

It's a simple thing, I don't expect you to comprehend however though

Buhari sick medication allowance is not what is building uk economy, this is a nation that can tell off anybody including countries from shitholes that rely on them

Wow! And you're so sure you know my level of comprehension?

Mikecold:
Atleast they would tell vegetable buhari to stop coming to their country as sanction since UK is now his heaven for oil change

No, they cannot because he hasn't flouted any of their laws, and no they won't because the UK economy benefits anytime he visits.

Well, this is not a slight on any tribe, but the UK can debate all they want, on anyone, anything and any topic, but they're incapable of debating issues bordering on Nigeria's sovereignty.

This I am certain about.

For as long as it does its job, I allow it to keep doing its job.

All these spiritualism and spiritual powers we claim to possess, why can't we use them to chase away bad leaders from various positions sef? Starting from... you know who.

President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse has been assassinated in his private residence in an attack by a group of unidentified individuals, Aljazeera reports.

According to a statement by the country’s interim prime minister, Claude Joseph, who called the killing a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act”, the armed individuals attacked the private residence of Moise and shot him dead.

Meanwhile, First Lady Martine Moïse has been hospitalized following the attack early Wednesday, July 7.

Speaking on a local radio station, the prime minister said the attack was carried out by an “armed commando group” that included foreign elements.

Joseph said in a statement quoted in media outlets; “Around one o’clock in the morning, during the night of Tuesday 6th to Wednesday 7th of July 2021, a group of unidentified individuals, including some speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president and fatally injured the head of state.”

The Prime Minister added that “all measures are being taken to guarantee the continuity of the state and to protect the nation.”

The attack occurred amid a rising wave of politically linked violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation. The nation of more than 11 million people had grown increasingly unstable and disgruntled under Moïse’s rule.

Its economic, political, and social woes have deepened, with gang violence spiking heavily in the capital of Port-au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day. These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.

53-year-old Moïse had been ruling by decree for more than two years after the country failed to hold elections, which led to Parliament being dissolved. Opposition leaders have accused him of seeking to increase his power, including approving a decree that limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and another that created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president.

While Haiti’s opposition claims Moïse should have stepped down on 7 February to coincide with the fifth anniversary of 2015 elections that were canceled and then re-run a year later because of allegations of fraud, Moïse, and his supporters rejected that argument, saying he only took power in 2017 after winning the re-run.

https://thestreetjournal.org/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-in-his-private-residence/

Not bad even though it's a raffle and as a result some even more deserving hardworking staff wouldn't get recognition unfortunately.

That's a fact!

On a different note, Lagos State has enormous issues that must be resolved quickly else we'd continue to degenerate at an alarming rate.
In no particular order: traffic congestion, traffic law enforcement, security, drainage control, water and sanitation, to name a few.

He needs to prioritise.

Retrogressive thinking.

We need an entirely new crop of forward-thinking leaders who are unselfish and ready to serve for the common good, but how to put them in those positions now is the problem.

We're not ready.

Maximar:
In the south nation, nah Blockchain technology voting we go employ once we break off. Much better than these ussd whatever

Really? Enlighten us please.

Baawahala:
Is the one that non citizens,underage children, cows will start having NINs...
You can never get it right,when you cohabit with Hausa/Fulani/Moslems.

Thought about this too. But there's got to be a way of checking this at the NIN registration stage or the accreditation stage, especially fingerprint verification.

Theunbothered:
A network provider can not mess up ussd regularly because they also earn from it and can be sued if a large number of suspicious bank operations are detected.

Even at that ussd has frequently failed it's users.

Now when considering voting the network provider makes no money from it and must serve a large number of people during a short amount of time.

They can be enticed by politicians to rig in their favour, and rigging is harder to detect.

So do you have a different suggestion about using technology to solve our election problems?

Don't forget that the results could be subjected through some audit process using some database management program to confirm that no NIN was duplicated and that every NIN on the system has a valid identity behind it.

Icumsa45:
We can't do the same thing and expect different results, most elections in Nigeria are handpicked and rigged with selective justice.

Well, true, but given our present level of preparedness, or the lack of it, for the next elections I am not expecting any miracles except, like someone posted above, someone younger, smarter, more vibrant and progressive gets into power in 2023. Tall order, quite.

But for this to happen, imagine the major political parties selecting only young, articulate and forward-thinking persons as their flagbearers for all elective positions, and the only thing Nigerians have to worry about is choosing among these people. Even if the elections are rigged, we'd still be sure that we'd be selecting from relatively young and vibrant alternatives.

Icumsa45:
Your last paragraph defeated any suggestions you might have.

Thanks. Keen observation there.

I included that because I am well aware that the 2023 elections is too damn near for any sort of implementation. Also my suggestions definitely require a meticulous and methodical thinking through, development, approval and testing before finally implementing in any election. These steps take time.

For the 2023 elections, however, we must make the best out of our current system, while we work together for something more perfect in the future.

CavemanDefuturo:
A possibility but at the same time a dream..

We are allowed to dream.

Yet, so many things we enjoy and have achieved today were once 'dreams' that seemed impossible. That means this one is even one better since you already said it's a possibility.

GAZZUZZ:
With NIN it should be easy for every one over 18 to be identified with ease and vote in any polling center as long as the system is online realtime.

No double votes, no cards or registers required, just your finger print and a a reader.

Exactly bro. Just your NIN which is a unique identifier that cannot be duplicated on the system. One Man, One NIN, One Vote. Multiple votes are automatically invalidated and cannot even register in the first place.

I'm not a programmer, but we have fantastic techie Nigerian brains both home and abroad to make this work.

Ceenacks:
The genuineness of your writeup is not different from the dishonest voting system you just spoke about.
You failed to call a spade a spade.
You know, like every other person that as at today, we have not recorded anything near fair election in Nigeria, but rig saddled exercises, cover-ups, and whatever you have.

We should learn to sound plain in this country, if we need God's help.

The essence of my write up is to stir up our general consciousness to a possible solution to our election management problems. It's true that we haven't had perfectly free and fair elections in Nigeria. Even the June 12, 1993 elections. which have so far been adjudged the freest and fairest elections ever held in Nigeria still had some flaws.

wale377:
Lmao it’s not possible sorry…. There will be a lot of vulnerability.

Like what and what?

emonis88:
I don't think it is too late to use d ussd method for 2023. If our inec. Is truly independent, they can make it happen. It us a technology already in use for other purposes so can be used for our voting system.

I like your spirit. However as much as I'd have liked it to be adopted in 2023 General Elections, there's still a lot of work to do in terms of programming, deployment, enlightenment, testing etc.

Theunbothered:
You are placing the integrity of the vote in the hands of network companies. It is not independent anymore

You have a point, however remember that USSD is already in use for banking transactions and the networks providers have no impact on these transactions but are merely facilitators. If properly thought out it's possible to apply this to conduct of elections as well.

sematec:
how many eligible voters use internet enabled gadget, especially in rural areas.

If USSD is adopted, it doesn't need internet, only a mobile network connection, which already exists in all nooks and crannies of the country.