₦airaland Forum

Sterope:
Same. Housing or Shelter is a right, not a privilege. It should not be a money-making venture at the detriment of the society. It is cruel.

There's a lot resentment amongst young people toiling without an end in sight. The average minimum wage worker can't even afford to rent in most of these cities across the world. And these are the essential people turning the wheels of the economy of these places.

Lots of people going homeless because they live pay check to pay check and can't afford to miss a single day of work or they would end up on the streets.

I can't imagine what the next 20 to 30 years would be. Something has to be done to redress these things and building high rises in multiple places alone won't fix these things unfortunately.

slydog:
No wonder Ontario folks are moving to our sweet Alberta and price of house is beginning to rise here.
I placed an offer for a laned home here for $440k, PSA was prepared and sent, before I could say jack, someone from Ontario added 15k to the house and owner accepted, was shocked.
Met a Nigerian nurse who moved to Edmonton Jan last yr, as I speak, he has 3 houses in Edmonton.

And we complain about price increase and millions of young people not been able to afford to get homes?

I don't blame these buyers buying 3 , 4 houses to rent out and make money but housing should never be a primary investment. Buy house , sit on it without any investment or brain power. After 2 years it is worth 40% more. That's unsustainable for any economy.

Government should be taxing any 2nd , 3rd house which isn't the primary place of residence by at least 60% . This should discourage this nonsense.

tewelrogers:
What is the very basic amount of money that we need per day to survive in a big city and a small town in Ontario, Canada?

When you say we? How many in the family?

If 1 person budget $2500(inclusive of utilities) for a 1 bedroom in big cities. If 2 people budget more than $2700 for a 2 bedroom. Except you want to stay in a basement and that would cost you about $1800 minimum even in the farthest cities of Ontario except you want to stay in one remote village of Northern Ontario.

For feeding , Budget $150 to $200 weekly for groceries for a family size of 1 to 3.

Sterope:
It would surprise you that it is part of being a lawyer to dissect language to the point where you question your sanity . They will carry torch and start searching for the intention of the law

I understand you guys obsession with questioning everything but even the SANs know this is plain and they are just grasping at straws here especially when there was a precedent that the Supreme court already decided on in 2003. I have an overview but don't have the full ruling as law union as archived it and requesting subscription for me to access.

I am not too sure of the full details of the case but it seemed the Presidential elections in Ogun State in 2003 was cancelled or so due to irregularities. And Ogun was one of the states Obasanjo was counting onfor fulfilling the 2/3rd of 36 States and FCT requirements. With Ogun cancelled, it meant OBJ had only 23 states and the FCT. Buhari went to court to state that since he now only had 25% in 23 states, it meant he didn't meet the requirement for spread and therefore the election should be annulled.

Court rulling was that FCT based on Section 299 should be considered a state and based on that OBJ still satisfies the requirements.

I am not 💯 sure on the wordings. We really don't keep online records well in this country so articles on the judgement is so scarce to cite but would look into archive.org if i can get a copy.

puzzlegate:
so are implying that please come with " three persons AND a Lady " is the same with come with "three persons including a Lady"..... Are we really ok in this country ?

Lol. If you failed English Language in Primary School that's your problem. I can buy you Queen Prima so you can go back to the basics.

The 36 States and FCT is a list of items . If you have a list of two or more items in English, the last comma is removed and replaced with the conjunction AND.

Example;

-3 States of the Federation and the FCT have declared Friday as public holidays.

Can also be written as below;

- The States of Lagos, Oyo, Ogun and the FCT have declared Friday as public holidays.

Or

The FCT and the States of Lagos, Ogun and Oyo have declared Friday as public holiday.

Other examples

- Please buy bread,milk and cheese.

To list out the 36 states one after the other by their names is absurd when those feature in multiple places in the constitution. Also a list can be arranged anyhow and does not need to have a form. The constitution could list the states Alphabetically starting with Abia,....and Zamfara where FCT would be listed under F. Would this mean someone also has to get 25% in Zamfara or they are not duly elected?

I say it again. Any SAN bringing such up is nothing but deluded and need to return back to English classes. These are beer parlour arguments not fit for a court of law. If i were to be the Judge to preside over this. Would ask the petitioners to go stand under the sun for 1 hour for waste of my time.



https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma/#:~:text=Serial%20comma%20(Oxford%20comma),comma%20or%20the%20Oxford%20comma.


Even in Legal perspective, the concept of FCT being more equal than other states alone throws away the basic tenents of the Nigerian constitution and citizens rights that states that all Nigerians are equal and have equal rights to freedom of association and religion. Any SAN with common sense should know this but it's not unusual that we like to chase shawdows when we should be focusing on more productive things.

As usual the Harvard trained text book econominsts strikes again.


Lol thinking huge cash supply is the cause of inflation and OMO and mopping excess cash would reduce inflation? Chai. No wonder a lot of them fail. So what exactly is the essence of the useless cashless policy? Just wrecked businesses for no use.

There should be jail terms for these types of experiments.

We have a lot educated illiterates in the country.

Please list out all the states of the federation and capital. You expect the constitution to write Abia, Bauchi, Lagos.........and FCT when it in fact is just 36 States and FCT an English word and not conditional statement.

Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories. If you have to win the Prime minister position you have to win the Majority in the 10 Provinces and the 3 territories. Does this mean if you don't win the majority in those 3 territories but you win the Majority in the total votes you aren't declared the winner?


Make una dey think for goodness sake. Focus these useless energy in something much more productive like changing the land use act and debating it. The law is an ass but this is actually very myopic that someone with a SAN would be bringing such up.

Nothing special. Just like travel advisory to any new country you are visiting as a tourist. Avoid standing out. Any areas she is traveling to, she should dress and look like the natives. If she is Caucasian which makes her stand out, then get tour guides, be discreet about her itinerary and she should be fine.

Commonsense dictates you aren't flamboyant anywhere you aren't familiar with in the world.

Night driving or journeys isn't encouraged because of poor lightening on most roads and lack of emergency services in most places if you run into road issues(car breaking down etc). She should get a driver if she needs to. Likely to get a Cab for less than $100 cab for a day's ride. There are lots of tour companies in Lagos. Njetours is one. Found their reviews on google very positive and you can do your research also to get others to curate a personal experience.

I think if you are to go to the Southwest since she is researching Ogun already it would be nice to also visit maybe Ibadan or Oyo Town. There are fringes of farming communities on the outskirts of Ibadan and it is even host to IITA. She can make a stop at IITA which is a agricultural research institute. They would have much more detailed information about her areas of interest and be able to guide appropriately.

These cities are just an extra hour and half away from Lagos and has train rides to Ibadan from Lagos now. IFe is also very cultural and has a lot of farming communities she would get value for what she is looking for by stopping in most villages along the route. But heads up they mostly do subsistence farming.

Ignore the Social media hysteria, there are millions living in these regions who make their living out of these places without any fuss. Get reputable coys and you should be fine.

missade:
Bro, I’m informed on this one o. I understand the agitation against Tinubu but throwing away caution and thinking everything is not clear isn’t the way to go either. Anyways, he won’t be able to stop the levies because he’s contractually bonded to the banks both local and foreign. Or if he thinks he can find from another source let him try.

You are arguing with people without a basic understanding of financing or budgeting.

Cancel Alphabeta? 5bn savings? Those aren't savings, someone still has to collect those taxes,monitor compliance and confirm completeness. Money just doesn't magically appear in govt coffers.

Contracting it to another coy? They would still cost money and may potentially do a worse job than ABC. If he is thinking LIRS has the hands to bring in the taxes. Then he must be joking. You would need to employ hundreds of new employees, a brand new platform or existing software (those come with yearly subscriptions unfortunately, so you are on the hook for subscription payments). If you bring in Remita, they only offer payment platform and are extremely inefficient. Also the Private model by AlphaBeta ensures increases in revenue collection. ABC knows they need to increase collection to increase their revenue. An LIRS employee would do the bare minimum required as long as their salaries is paid. Just expect to see reduced efficiency across baord and drop in collections.

Also in end the cost of pension, medical coverage, the inefficiency of these new thousands of employees and the lead time for them to get up to speed would cost more than the initial 5bn per month you are trying to "save".

That's aside the legal perspective. Nigeria is paying billions to PID for a contract breach.

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Solocoin:
This is history in the making, the first female elected senator of the FCT because she contested under LP and Obi was the presidential candidate.

Why do you guys lie so hard even for basic things?

She isn't the First female Senator. First Female senator of the FCT was made as early as 1999. She was Khairat Gwadabe. Khairat is even the sister to the current Governor of Kwara state.

All these kids roaming about just regurgitating fake news around with their principal. We really need history back in our schools.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khairat_Abdulrazaq-Gwadabe

GeneralPulal:
I understand your point but will Light do much? I believe It’s the level of radiation that’s most significant..

I’m sure they’ll calculate their perimeters very well..

Light does a lot of damage. Let's even go to the most rudimentary of how the ecosystems work. Take insects for example. They would flock towards lights thereby changing their course. They are the most important link in an ecosystem. Plants don't grow if insects don't pollinate plants. Now imagine the food chain, plants don't get pollinated as usual, movement of insects affects species who eat insects and so on. It's a food chain. And that's just on the insects aspect.

Now check the effect on birds? On deers flocking closer to the lights? On such other animals who now have to move closer for their preys?

These are all peer reviewed. It is understandable to have street lights were municipalities that have already displaced this ecosystems exist but large swathes of the Lagos -ibadan still hosts one of the largest green ecosystems in the southwest. You won't see the effect in 1 to 2 years. Wait 5 to 10 and see how such has adverse effects on such areas.

Why would you want to do such? Metropolitan areas of the road fine but the forest aspects would be destructive to the animals along such stretch.

Lane markings fine. But light has a destructive element for animals when it passes through such ecosystems. Such animals depend on the predictable rhythm of night and day .

irumole1975:
Seriously, I've stopped reading the hype of these guys abroad because they're making some of us feel less achieved. One was talking about a project of #250M hotel completed in Nigeria and I don't even know if na this same abroad I dey with them too. Also talked about him being here for just two years or so and he's bought a condo home, build many hostels for student in
Nigeria and on his way to complete a #250Million hotel in Nigeria also. I been here in this abroad and I can't even boast of $10k USD. It's well Sha. I just hope they're not lying with all these things they're saying

I always like to do the maths.
N250,000,000/750=$330,000.
That's at 750 naira exchange rate

That's $330k net in 2 years i.e earning average of $14,000 per month. To earn $330k in 2 years you must earn net of $167,000 or gross of $260,000 per year. That's average of $125 per hour working 8hours per day non stop for 2 years. Let's even assume they do two jobs i.e 16 hours per day. That's $62.5 per hour. I can't wrap my head around two jobs that pay $62.5per hour that you can do consistently for two years without issue and not have mental breakdown.

Let's assume it's a 2 income home. That's $130k for each partner. Seems doable with two incomes without any SPENDINGS. And you stated that's not the only project they have.

Except that friend of yours and their spouse works in IT or Health or sales where they net $300k yearly then i call bullshit at their stories except they have other incomes they have not yet disclosed to you. Maybe import cars? Even that isn't profitable given the inflation in the west in the last 2 years due to covid. That friend is into fraud or is absolutely lying.

Edited. Just read the submission of others on the thread.

So take loans at what interest rates? 4.75%? Maybe 2 years ago when it was 0.25% i can understand. It was like free money but the cash flow doesn't even make sense. From a finance perspective that person would have to invest in Nigeria and make money in Naira to pay back such loans. Or probably they have it for long term and intend to use their US earnings to pay such loans back. Extremely risky but if you don't take risks. You can't earn. No one should try this at home.

onegig:
It just narrows the win margins. Doesn't flip anything.

Buhari had to combine his regular 12m votes with the Southwest and North Central to unseat a sitting president.

You think Kwankwaso and Obi have 12m votes standby somewhere and an additional 4m votes via alliances to flip the elections for them? If anything the opposition is fragmented and it's Tinubu's election to lose.

I can see him comfortably win by 2m votes.

What a lot of you are skipping is the fact that the Presidential elections holds same time with National Assembly elections. A lot of Nigerian voters are illiterates and the House of Rep and Senatortial candidates would be working to ensure that people just thumbprint their parties on the ballots. We saw this affect a lot of PDP senators and HOR in 2015 with Buhari helping a lot of less popular candidates sweep National Assembly elections. I definitely won't be out there telling my supporters to select ballots and vote whoever they want for presidency and vote my party for national assembly. So a lot of votes would still follow the same patterns in most areas. Parties with strongholds would win their strongholds.

More Cosmopolitan areas or the Southwest and south east might slightly variate but that's standard practice.

Turn out has always hovered around 39% . Even with increased participation we can see maybe a 7 to 10% increase but that still doesn't guarantee a win for the opposition. If anything. Atiku has had a large chunk of his SS/SE votes taken by LP. LP hasn't been able to successfully make inroads into the North where the large chunk of votes is. Kwankwaso has always had votes in Kano/Jigawa and don't discount that Ganduje is incumbent and also has his followers and should be able to get Tinubu at least 30%.

This prediction is much more realistic than the rubbish Anap/oi were putting forward. As usual Social media without the street work is not reality and you would see that is much reinforced this election.

Told you guys especially the illiteracy part. Badly affecting Makinde in Oyo and most Northern states. Incumbents loosing Reps and senate races due to them aligning with the opposition.

stagger:
You are the only one who is thinking straight and knows what the whole game is all about.

I was in Ghana in 2019 and needed to buy Ghana cedis. I did not want to change more of my USD. The guy there told me to bring my Naira and I changed N200,000 for Ghana cedis instanta. People do not know how much the Naira is used for transactions across West Africa and many of these are cash-based transactions.

It takes months of planning and implementation to upgrade e-banking platforms. Coupled with the hefty brain drain that has hit the banking IT sector, and we can see the end result.

The entire policy is not about just going cashless or stopping vote-buying. This is all part of a global transition of money control and money creation from the commercial banks to the central banks, with the CBDCs eventually becoming the sole means of transactions. It is all about control and is a globalist agenda.

A lot of them aren't far travelled or even if the opportunity isn't there to travel. Read books, articles on the way of life or how businesses are done in other places. I have never been to Venice but i have a fair idea of how things are.

And you are very correct that a lot of Naira is out there in lots of West African countries. Just some few months back I was reading a thread on Nairaland here of a Guy who is in Guinea and needed their local currency. He had Naira and was looking for how to swap it. Someone told him where to visit to exchange such. I swapped Naira directly when i visited Sierra Leone some few years back.

Anyone with commonsense understands the implementation is just beyond myopic but just clueless.

Nfora:
Trash!

A businessman with such a volume cannot instruct his customers to make transfers or deposits into his account?

Read, read slowly and reread slowly.

I have not written in German or French. Comprehension shouldn't be this big of an issue even for someone with a school cert.

A friend has sent in money to my GTB since 12pm Nigerian time. It is 11pm now and same funds has not reflected and she has been debited by her bank. Imagine how that hampers millions of businesses when we don't have the infrastructure to run such?

Also Cross border trade is a big deal in Kano , Sokoto and Katsina. Pray tell how you transfer from an account in Niger Republic to a Nigerian bank account? You have an idea einstein?

Elsueno:
Nigerians & last minute things.....SMH, they give people over 60 days!!!.....In December & early January they where hardly any person's in commercial banks deposit bulk rooms....

Why do people with such large chunks of cash take unnecessary risk like this?


Anyways, anybody from Kano, Kaduna & Lagos still holding d old cash?🤭🤭

A lot of you just talk blindly without the context of reality just like your bald CBN governor and wool in the ear Buhari.

He has warehouse that sells flour. They make 1billion naira in sales monthly . That's average of 33million naira daily and most of these sales are in cash. How do you want such a person to transition into a cashless banking service within 2 months when their customers are largely cash based . Also a lot of their customers would likely be cross border buyers from Niger, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso who bring in CFA to exchange to naira cash before making purchases. You think such models can be processed overnight?


To Emefiele fans and his minions thinking this solves vote buying...

When Emefiele grinds all businesses down to their grounds because of some shortsighted policies a lot you would be the ones to bear the brunt. There's a difference between supporting a policy and having commonsense and logic to understand the ramifications of a policy. You can't rail road people to perform a business in a way when the infrastructure isn't there.


A friend has sent in money to my GTB since 12pm Nigerian time. It is 11pm now and same funds has not reflected and she has been debited by her bank. Imagine how that hampers millions of businesses when we don't have the infrastructure to run such?

Banks don't just upgrade servers overnight to cope with x3 volume of requests. It takes meticulous planning and scaling up. A server built with a max thoroughput of 1million API calls would break down with 2million requests. It's common sense

joywendy:
How this thread just died needs to be studied honestly

To keep a farm going. You have to tend to it.

As usual. Useless statistics that don't mirror the realities on ground. Unemployment is 5% in Kenya but online every single day there are thousands of Kenyas posting on social media about an unemployment crisis, tons of article about rural to urban migration due to unemployment , lack of farm produce, drought, escalation of cross border crime exercebating unemployment and migration , hundreds of thousands of graduates unemployed but nope the Oluaye of Statistics as told us Kenya has 5% unemployment so everything is good.

Even Nurses and doctors are looking to move out of Kenya. Had lots of Kenyas come in for secondment in my previous workplace and a lot of them asked to be retained by the Nigerian arm and didn't want to go back to Kenya.. But as usual, he googled numbers and just reels out useless statistics. How does that statistic help Nigeria? Or Provide jobs? Or solve the usual problems we have? Nothing on that end.

Obinoscopy:
Naptu2, this projection is false. The reason is that it is using the mentality of a two party race. But this isn't a two party race. This is a four party race. So it's a complex race.

Anyone who dismisses LP and NNPP in this race is simply not in tune with the complexity of this current race. LP has a stronghold in the SS, SE and parts of NC and NE. NNPC holds supreme in parts of NW. This unbalances lots of political equations.

Anyways, the election is weeks away. I'll bookmark this thread and comment on it later after the results are out..

It just narrows the win margins. Doesn't flip anything.

Buhari had to combine his regular 12m votes with the Southwest and North Central to unseat a sitting president.

You think Kwankwaso and Obi have 12m votes standby somewhere and an additional 4m votes via alliances to flip the elections for them? If anything the opposition is fragmented and it's Tinubu's election to lose.

I can see him comfortably win by 2m votes.

What a lot of you are skipping is the fact that the Presidential elections holds same time with National Assembly elections. A lot of Nigerian voters are illiterates and the House of Rep and Senatortial candidates would be working to ensure that people just thumbprint their parties on the ballots. We saw this affect a lot of PDP senators and HOR in 2015 with Buhari helping a lot of less popular candidates sweep National Assembly elections. I definitely won't be out there telling my supporters to select ballots and vote whoever they want for presidency and vote my party for national assembly. So a lot of votes would still follow the same patterns in most areas. Parties with strongholds would win their strongholds.

More Cosmopolitan areas or the Southwest and south east might slightly variate but that's standard practice.

Turn out has always hovered around 39% . Even with increased participation we can see maybe a 7 to 10% increase but that still doesn't guarantee a win for the opposition. If anything. Atiku has had a large chunk of his SS/SE votes taken by LP. LP hasn't been able to successfully make inroads into the North where the large chunk of votes is. Kwankwaso has always had votes in Kano/Jigawa and don't discount that Ganduje is incumbent and also has his followers and should be able to get Tinubu at least 30%.

This prediction is much more realistic than the rubbish Anap/oi were putting forward. As usual Social media without the street work is not reality and you would see that is much reinforced this election.

Rest in peace to the girl and wishing the family the fortitude to bear this loss. I empathise with them and can't fanthom the pain they are going through.

But we need to be logical in all situations. This isn't about Chrisland. Yeah schools might take much more precautions from such rigorous games for kids with health issues but this isn't a "school killed a child" scenario like everyone believes this is. There is negligence but this seem just an unfortunate situation for all parties.

I guess Schools should start requesting written consent from parents for every single activity kids need to per take in going forward and also request that parents bring in an health certificate certifying the kid is in good health before they can take part in any games. At this point you need to protect yourself as an institution and cover all basis.

Also the Father has a right to ask for an autopsy report. That's standard practice. We should stop this act of "leave everything for God". The cause of death would help the school in avoiding such occurrence and save the life of another kid. A young kid dies from slumping then questions need to be asked about what she ate, her diet, was she fit to pertake in such sports etc. Not to do a

What do you expect from Ben Bruce? Commonsense is far out of reach of a lot of the so caled elites you lots celebrate.

Yeah. He flys personal jet, owns chains of houses, has litany of house helps, drivers so he is out of touch with reality.


Ben Bruce should go to the streets and open his mouth to say the same thing. A large swathe of Nigerians don't even have a bank account and those who even have run on -ve balances or less than 5k in their accounts.

You want the average trader or artisan who makes 1k, spend the 1k on transport, buying food, spending on their kids transportation to go cashless. Swap whatever money you want to swap but people have a right to their petty cash. You now used your incompetence to further improverish an already poor set of people by creating artificial scarcity with your policies to the point they are even short of at least 20% of their income to POS operators in the name of cash swap. An income that even at 100% was never enough with the crazy inflation and prices of things. To now compound such with a meaningless policy reeks of incompetence.

Any single person that thinks cash swap would curb vote buying has no commonsense. You think a Tinubu, Atiku or Peter Obi don't have millions of dollars stuck up somewhere they could swap in the black market to get the needed funds for vote buying? Or their various Agents can't be propped via transfers and downlines settled with other means? Might take an extra step but it's just an easy step of reorganizing how to spread funds.


Emefiele has always been incompetent. Jonathan the incompetent one employed him and Buhari the follow come incompetent one retained him and even renewed his tenure.

Anyone with an iota of brain knew Emefiele lacks capacity to run even a Microfinance bank. Forget Zenith, He was probably propped there as a placeholder due to Sanusi pushing Jim Ovia out and they needing someone they could control.

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sisicanada:
Hello All,
A big shoutout to everyone giving tips to assist new immigrant. You guys are doing a Fantastic Job
Please I have some question, I will be travelling in March and need clarity on some things before Landing.

1) On my COPR, I have ottawa as city of destination. I remeber picking this location while filling one of the forms
but I did not know it would eventually reflect. My question is, Must OTTAWA be the city i land in? I was considering toronto
But I do not Know if I would be questioned at Point Of Entry on why I am not arriving at the destination stated on my COPR.

2) Has anyone travelled using KLM recently, I will like o know how much an extra luggage cost in Naira.
I tried to pay for an extra luggage online but I am unable to do this. I got a notification saying I can only
make payment prior to checkin at the airport.

3)Has anyone used the Prearrival services provided by the canadian government, If Yes please how well did it work for you?
I am considering using BCCA in order to get a Business Analyst Job.

4)Please can someone shed more light on the attached screenshot( I have a connevting Flight from TORONTO PEARSON to OTTAWA, does this mean that my baggages will be re-checked before boarding my Flight to OTTAWA)

5)Finally, if you reside or have resided in ottawa in the Past, what area can you recommend that has easy commute. I do not intend getting a car until after 6month at least to be stable. I am looking at staying in an area that has easy access to buses.

I will really appreciate your responses. Thank you all

Careful with KLM. Confirm their routes. If they are stopping at Amsterdam you might need a transit visa.


For Ottawa housing or transit. Very subjective. You might have at worst a 15 minutes walk to a bus stop but most areas have an average of 10mins or lower. If you are concerned about grocery runs and malls. There's always a store nearby which can be accessed with 1 or 2 buses although much easier to walk to if you are around downtown. Also housing always depends on your budget and where you work. Perhaps you have a job now. if you can give the office area, it would be much easier to advise.

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10.3 km per litre on normal driving city.
14km per litre highway driving.

To give context 9.5 Litres would take me from Lagos to ibadan or N1500 fuel. Which is pretty solid.

Are Nigerians daft or what?

Of what use is fact checking statistics that have no real life meaning on the ordinary man on the streets. Nigeria is a country with a population of up to 200million. Correct. So now what next? how has that solved the myriads of challenges we have?

If you want to do current affairs , probably go ahead and attend a national quiz competition.

People are asking for solutions you are fact checking data? We would end corruption? How specifically? That you are an honest person doesn't translate to that resolving corruption. Buhari was acclaimed to be honest and man of intergrity. How has that changed the corruption in every facet of the country?

We would end police brutality? How ? Trainings? Setting up independent police conduct office to review cases directly from the public ? Improving dispensation of justice? Review of all cases within first 2 year?

Those are specific details we should be seeking but nah. Fact checking rubbish. Like leaders like dumb followers.

Borgamaame:
Honestly, I did not have a lot of information at my reach (I guess a Google search could have changed things). Anyways, I was going to go for Enterprise until I chanced on Alamo. I was kinda weary of some 'non-popular' rental companies for fear of a bad experience. I have heard rumors about some unnecessary strict conditions some give and some cars that are not always in best shapes that some give. I think I went on Priceline or one of this travel agencies and found Alamo to be cheaper. I then reached them directly and switched at the last minute before committing. Did my background check and all. Next time, I will consider Turo. Thanks for sharing

Border passage was smooth, I'd say. They checked my documents and asked few questions - that was it. Both at the Niagara-Buffalo and Windsor-Detroit border. I guess I did not give them reasons to doubt my genuineness. Did not travel with cigarettes of alcohol and anything that could have caused a long wait at the border. I hear not everyone has smooth passages. Anyway, I'm thankful it was smooth on both days.

Yeah. I saw up to 110km/h on QEW I think. I was happy I think that's the closest to 70mi/h and of a truth, 100km/h is not bad. I liked it.

Looks like you're quite conversant with the terrain.

Nah not really conversant..Had maybe one or two trips on the CN end. Not accross borders though.

For the cars , yeah true . You don't want car issues on such a long trip. Better to be safe and go with something with good ratings and reviews.

Glad you enjoyed your trip. Looking forward to making a trip probably in August towards the Windsor-Detroit end God willing...

As for CN towers. Lol those prices are kinda pricey. $80 to see a tower and aquarium ? Nah thank you. I would pass. Not a fan of heights so which makes such fees much uninteresting.

Just seeing this.

You should have tried Turo also. Lots of options and i think it's cheaper everytime i have used it than Enterprise.

How was the border passage? Heard the officials at both sides can be a pita sometimes.

For the speedlimits there are stretches that are 70miles on the 401 also.although limited to about a 60km stretch..but 100KM/hr isn't bad enough.

Jakumo:
Any mention of the documented fact that Nigerian nationals rank among the most prolific online criminals, is seen by many Nigerians as a denouncement of the entire nation's population, and that in turn fires up quite a few people to stoutly defend Nigeria as a purely patriotic gesture, without much thought given to the international repercussions of those crimes perpetrated by Nigerians, or to the devastating impact such a crime wave has on the reputation of ALL law-abiding Nigerians who travel the world.

Exactly. Every single country has its own criminals but when you have 1000s of people sending millions of scam emails daily and they happen to be from a specific country. It doesn't take time for people to associate such a country as the den of such criminals and for people to start forming biases and this shaping policy against such a country.