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They are destroying the library that managed to give them little knowledge and hope. How do they intend to read and do proper research? Later when no company employs them, they will criticize the government and say the standard of education in Nigeria is low. Talk of vicious circle of poverty!!!

DonCortino:
here we are thinking that the last government was clueless!

i wonder what this will be called.

I think the answer is nothing. Correct me if i am wrong no new investments in major infrastructure such hydro station, major highway and also in education. The government is directionless and also worse than clueless (if there is word for it). Look at the value of the Naira, it eroded more than 210% just under 2 years. If this continues, i can bet that the one dollar will exchange for N1,000.00 before the year runs out.
It is almost a hopeless situation.

rifasenate11:
gradually we are getting there.... the system is beyond control.this is what the government wants, they will rather continue to hide the truth. and the truth is building new refineries and upgrading the existing or sell off the refineries to business men who will conviently invest on modernising it. rather they will choose to continue to waste the funds on subsidizing the products on imports. ironically, for crude oil,we have the raw material but we don't have the raw material. I wonder if Nigeria is rigged. rigged by those who are selling us the petrol products. USA is milking Nigeria and that's why they were quick to install this present regime. they pay billions for the crude oil and in turn make the billions back by selling petrol to Nigeria. the past administration started understanding this and the USA picked offence. building a refinery in Nigeria is just as easy as building a block of houses. we have the money but they cannot allow Nigeria to do that. check what will happen to Nigerian economy of we export this petroleum products without importing crude at all. I think government of Nigeria is a puppet to USA. and they continue to feel relaxed being a puppet. I pray that God will give us leaders who will see beyond the billions of dollars being given to Nigeria and look at how strong Nigerian currency will become when we export not only crude oil, but petroleum products too and in a quantity that no other African nation can. our leaders be it whoever needs to see past frolicking with USA, party affiliation,ethnicity ir religious faith and see our real problems,look at what we can achieve if we stand on ourselves.

Nigeria is not rigged or cursed as many would say. Our problem right from time has been bad leadership. We are the architect of our destiny and our government action today will either improve or sink the country. Look at the last 25 years, we have not achieved any meaningful development; no new major infrastructure such hydro station, major highway, even good investment in education. You can imagine Lagos state that is supposed to be commercial nerve center of the country cannot boast of covering the whole region in terms of pipe borne water. I tell you, the moment we solve our leadership problems all other issues will vanish into thin air.

herzern:
I read all throuqh the article and I couldn't find any substantial evidence/facts to back this up.

SaharaReporters better watch how they dish out unconfirmed report with little or no grounded information.

They shouldn't put at risk their reputation in a bid to be a reckoninq force in the media.

They are part of the Fake News Network!!!

madridguy:
I HOPE THIS WILL SERVE AS A LESSON TO OTHERS THAT SEES MEN AS ATM CARD OR SANTA DASUKI.

R.I.P

Is it by force to be in a relationship? Or the lady does not have the right to chose. Its about time africans start to recognise women as equals among men!!!

fiizznation:
You guys should be very grateful to president buhari for rescuing Nigeria from the tight grip of corruption.


Nuff said

Tight grip on coruuption? How much exactly have been recovered and many people have been jailed? (Not heresay).
Secondly, can you tell me that corruption in this adninistration is down by at least 50%.
The truth is bitter but the reality on ground is that this administration has failed atleast up till today.

LordCenturion:
Proof of what again?, are u in France?

Ipod and corruption are like 5&6,,we should let everyone go and rules themselves

Get your facts right. Corruption is everywhere in Nigeria and not limited to any particular region.

CriticMaestro:
we are under sanction or recession?

None of the above. Just pure disaster caused by a clueless government.
The government want people to manufacture most drugs locally yet they don't supply electricity to do it. Are the manufacturers suppose to do it with diesel generators when the price of diesel is outragous? How many people need to die before they understand how bad their policies are.

engrMikemd:
tax payers have suffered

What is he suppose to drive? Toyota Camry!!!

maasoap:
All these responses from them are on the Internet now. What proof again?

The ultimate proof is jailing of the perpetrators!!!!. Without that then it's just normal hearsay. Afterall "everyone is innocent until proven guilty".

Daddygg07:
It's Under your roof...

Only if I can see it!!!!

concacid:
You are fooolish!

You are a bigger fool. Uneducated rascal!!

dingbang:
If he hasn't asked you for assistance yet, don't give him ..

Black race!!!

madridguy:
WHY WE HAVE RECESSION:

* Tompolo was paid 13Billion.
* Ex-CDS,Alex Badeh dug a pit toilet to hide $32m.
* Patience Jonathan is claiming $31m, she has sued the Nigerian state.
* Femi Fani-Kayode took 740M.
* Dasuki used trucks to load over $35B from the CBN.
* Olisa Metuh took 400M.
* Aziboala, GEJ's cousin took 6B naira.
* Nenadi Usman took 3.5B naira.
* Fayose took 3B naira.
* Obanikoro took 4Billion naira.
* Olu Falae took 100M naira.
* Tony Anenih - 400M naira.
* Oritsejafor - $35M
* Former Air Chief Amosu - 2Billion naira.
* Lucky Igbinedion-16B naira.
*Bode-George and Dabo -100B naira
* Jolly Nyame-2.4B naira.
* Joshua Dariye-700M naira.
*Nyesom Wike stole #4b.
* Diezzani with $20 billion missing oil money?
15 billon dollars missing from arms fund, 10 billion naria, converted to dollars and given as gift to delegates of PDP Nation convention, Bafarawa collected 3 billion for spiritual purposes , 12. 7 billon naria for deceased NEPA staff grew wings and disappeared, 20 billion dollars missing from NNPC accounts, 23 billon naira as bribe to INEC staffs to rig the general election. The list is endless. They only left what they can't carry or unable to lay their hands on. The list continues.....
Recession didn't just happen, people looted Nigeria into RECESSION happening....

NOW HEAR THE THIEVES:

1. I acted based on Jonathan's instruction - Dasuki

2. I didn't give order - Jonathan

3. I collected 350M from Dasuki for consultation - Iyorchia Ayu

4. I only collected $30,000 from Dasuki not N100m - Bode George

5. I got N4.6b from Dasuki for spiritual purposes - Bafarawa

6. I got N650M from Dasuki for my Abuja burnt office - Thisday Obaigbena.

7. I got N2.1b from Dasuki for publicity - Dokpesi

8. I got another N100m from Yuguda he didn't tell me from where - Bafarawa.

9. I gave N100m each to Odili, Jim Nwobodo Bode George and others - Yuguda

10. The president asked me to change N10B to foreign currency for PDP delegates - Dasuki

11. My boss asked me to get $11M from the CBN - Dasuki's account officer.

12. I got order from above to pay Tompolo N13B for Maritime university land. - Nimasa DG.

13. 950m was shared in my house -- Shekarau

With all this looting and many more revealed, some people are still shouting no sign of change yet, they even say it's political persecution.

But I believe, it is the right thing to do.
If you believe too, send this to other people to garner more support for the fight against corruption and looting in our nation. There must be consequences for such crimes otherwise Nigeria will not develop.

Where is the proof?

eyinjuege:
Their tuition being high is a relative thing. Most of these schools are just finding their feet. For people to even start comparing them to our public institutions that have been in existence for decades is a great achievement talk more of comparing them to international institutions. The good private unis in Nigeria are holding their own. They have gone a long way in so little time.
You say catholic, Anglican schools are free? Don't be deceived. They used to get serious fundings from abroad in those days. Now that most of these schools (I'm talking of their secondary schools) are self funding, their fees are also higher.
Most of the private unis are indigenous home grown faith based. Built from scratch.There's no mother church abroad anywhere.
Give credit where its due.
If you see anything good functioning anywhere, its because money is being spent on it. Tithes and offerings cannot sustain these schools. Some schools run businesses like pure water, , printing etc. It only makes sense to get money from extra sources to be self sustaining. I remember unilag was the first uni to think outside the box and start generating money from pure water, soap etc businesses. They didn't wait for the fed govt. Others have followed suite. Why you feel faith based schools cannot run businesses to meet the needs if their community, and also generate income at the same time beggars belief.
Churches running businesses to sustain themselves shows that tithe and offerings are not enough. Even the old churches church of England- Anglican, Catholic, methodist have always had business interests. They have being worth billions since time immemorial. They are not being run by tithes and offerings.

Well said. Those who have travelled or lived in western societies know that education is expensive . They are expensive because the school don't usually depend on government funding. That's why the schools rank high in terms of quality and standard. Private universities in Nigeria have actaully raised the bar in terms of tertiary education and this comes at a price.
At the end of the day its a matter of choice. Choice to pick from government, private and foreign universities.
My advice is people should make their choice and stop making a fuss about it.

BUHARImyDOG:
Nice write-ups op, nobody is forcing anybody to attend church owned universities.

Well said.!!!! Besides their are other government owned alternatives and even foreign schools to chose from.
At the end of the day it's a matter of choice.

When a contract for work is signed before any payment is made, the contractor has to bring an performance guarantee (PG) issued by a bank guaranting that the contractor will not abscond with the payment, the value of work is measured against job milestones.
All the principal needs to do is to call in the guarantee and get valve for his outstanding funds.
The bank that guaranteed the sum will.fish the contractor out.

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princetom1:
Nope, but a suppliment, even fash said so recently.

Take a good look of it and u will understand y

If you "look around" most countries are trying switch from fossil fuel power plant to either solar or wind energy. Some.countries want to acheive this by 2020.
Netherlands is currently doing about 1,450MW from solar energy alone. That's about a quarter of our average output of 5,000MW. Remember Nigeria is a bigger country both in population and land mass.
Our african country Morroco is also expanding their solar plant in the desert to acheive about 580MW.
China currently does 77,420MW from only solar energy. That's about 15 times our average generation
So why is the case different for Nigeria?
The solar energy systems are easier to buy the equipment and deploy when compared to turbines.
They are also cleaner and do not require frequent maintainace and fuelling.
The most painful thing is that we have abundance sunlight. Technically more than Netherlands!!!
So what exactly is the problem you want me to look around?
You don't have to believe every word Fashola says, you have Internet . Do your research!!

stonemasonn:
Can solar energy be used for heavy industries?? I think it will cost a fortune.

Why not? Initial acquiring cost and plant modernisation might be heavy, but if the equipment can work for at least 20 years, the company should breakeven and make profit afterwards. The whole idea of business is a "going concern".
(Most modern manufacturing machine use less energy compared to previous generation)

stonemasonn:
Can solar energy be used for heavy industries?? I think it will cost a fortune.

Solar energy can be used manily for residential areas freeing up the fossil fuel plants for industrial use.

dimexy247:
Ok, with all due respect, no one is interested in marrying you here ma'am. You Kenyans are weird by nature. STFIYC

Speak for yourself. Just because you hear one or two negative reports about things happening in Kenya doesn't mean everyone there is bad. It shows you are a first class racist.

sarrki:
Nice one fashola

Please devote more time on the solar energy

To add to what we have now

I know Nigeria will be great again

Well said. Solar energy is the way out for power outage in Nigeria.

Stop the blame game!!!. The outcome of clueless policies is failure. Take full responsibility of your failure.

Hi All, this ad has been up since May 2016. Has anyone made money as per advertised?

Autofreeman:
A story on the Internet goes on about how a man had to spend 14,000 USD fixing his Porsche Cayenne after his wife accidentally filled it up with diesel at the fuel dispenser instead of petrol. He thought bleeding the tank, pump and fuel lines and replacing the plugs would solve his problem, but no, apparently Porsche AG do not like their stuff being repaired like that; he had to give the car back to them for repairs and then…well, he also had to part with slightly more than $10,000. Apparently Porsche warranties do not cover stupidity. This got me thinking: what is the big deal about whether a car runs on petrol or diesel? Does the car still not require periodic filling up? Aren’t they all started with a key (at least for motor vehicles)? Don’t the controls work the same for both types of cars? What is the difference anyway?

autofreeman.com.ng

These are the differences:

Injection:

In the days of old, petrol was mixed with air, roughly in the ratio 1:15 respectively, by a device called a carburetor. Subsequent technology introduced fuel injection, but the main basis of fuel delivery for a petrol engine was that it was mixed with air outside the cylinders before the mixture was set on fire within the cylinder by means of a spark plug. Diesel engines had the fuel injected into a mass of hot compressed air for them to run efficiently, and this difference brings us to the next difference, ignition.



Ignition:

The physical qualities of petrol and diesel are vastly different. Petrol is a lighter, more volatile liquid (and thus more flammable) than diesel, which is heavier, oily and stinks to high heaven. As such, their combustion properties are different. Petrol requires a naked flame, and not necessarily a very hot one, before going boom. But liquid petrol does not burn. Yes you read correctly, liquid petrol does not burn; petrol vapor does. The volatility of petrol means it is very easily vaporized, which explains how early examples of petrol engine used simple carburetors. Later (fuel-injected) models use low pressure injectors to vaporize the fuel before it is burnt in the engine.

Diesel, being heavier and more viscous, is even more reluctant to combust in liquid form. To compound matters, it does not vaporize easily, nor will it catch fire no matter how naked the flame introduced is. When injected into the engine, it has to go through extremely high pressure injectors which then feed a very tiny nozzle to completely atomize the diesel oil. If it won’t burn when in liquid form, and it won’t catch fire when sprayed out of a nozzle, how then does it work? Pure air is sucked into the diesel engine, which air is then compressed to a very small volume. Remember Charles and Boyle from First Form Chemistry? The compressed air, now at high pressure, becomes extremely hot (roughly 550° C), and it is to this hot, squashed gas that the diesel oil is injected. It then has little choice but to burn, releasing large amounts of energy in the process.

Just to add a point on injection: engineers of petrol engines have tried diesel-like direct injection of petrol instead of the typical external mixing of air and fuel. Petrol’s physical characteristics make introduction of fuel after the induction valves have closed a tricky affair, and different manufacturers have achieved this with varying levels of success. Mitsubishi call their work GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection), and it almost works. Toyota calls theirs D4 (Direct injection, 4-stroke cycle), and it almost doesn’t work. Diesel engineers, on the other hand, have only had to choose between direct injection, where the injectors feed the cylinders directly from the pump, or common-rail, a fuel delivery system that works in a manner suspiciously similar to that of an irrigation scheme.



Compression Ratio:

Sounds fancy and complicated, but compression ratio is the relationship between the air coming into the engine before it is compressed and after it is compressed. A higher compression ratio means a higher degree of squeezing; therefore a low compression ratio means little squeezing. Diesel engines typically have higher compression ratios than petrol engines so that the compressed air can reach a temperature high enough to ignite the diesel: remember Charles and Boyle? Petrol engines have lower compression ratios to prevent pre-ignition, a case where the air-fuel mixture catches fire in the cylinder before it is supposed to. The difference in compression ratios also explains why drivers talk of “heavy” gears in a diesel: it is difficult to get a smooth downshift in a diesel without double declutching or waiting for the engine revs to decay completely before shifting because of the closed-throttle compression resistance offered by the engine.



Power and Torque:

It is difficult to explain the difference between power and torque without revisiting high school physics, but it can be put down to this: torque is the amount of “twist” in the driveshaft provided by the engine, while power is the rate of that twist. Does that make sense? Another way of looking at it is this way: torque is what gets you going, while power is what keeps you going. Torque determines acceleration or load-pulling ability (depending on the gearbox), while power determines absolute speed. Better now?

Petrol engines tend to have a lot of power, but little torque, mostly depending on engine capacity and design. That explains why smaller versatile vehicles tend towards petrol power. Diesels have it the other way round: they usually have excellent torque characteristics, but low power, especially in the upper reaches of the rev range where maximum power is reached. This is why heavy commercial vehicles and tractors come fitted with oil-burning mills.

So, if you want to set a land speed record, concentrate your efforts around a petrol engine; if you want to move a chunk of that land, slowly, think diesel.



NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness)

Show me a man who has driven a (production) diesel powered Rolls-Royce/Bentley limousine, and I will show you a liar. The smoothest internal combustion engines are almost always petrol powered. Old car magazines that I go through describe diesel engine smoothness (or lack thereof) in amusing ways, using analogies like “…kicking a rusty can down a cobbled street”, “…an old oil drum rolling down the face of a quarry” and “…loose gravel inside a food blender”. All these describe the aural signatures from diesel engines of eras past, though advancement in noise suppression has made life bearable for owners of newer diesel engines.

The ruggedness of these diesel engines comes from the fact that they operate at much lower engine rpm (making frequency lower and harder to damp or “rectify”, to use an electrical term), and that they are made from much heavier components than their petrol counterparts, giving them high moments of inertia. On a bad day, the simple idling from a diesel engine is enough to shake and rattle an entire vehicle. The low idling speed of the engine also give the engine a characteristic “knock”, not the mechanical defect, but the noise, unlike the smooth thrum of a high-speed-idle petrol.

Day to Day Commute

From the above chatter, it might seem that a diesel engine might not be appropriate for most drivers, and typically it shouldn’t. It is rattly, sluggish, and heavy and spews an embarrassingly dark fog from the tail pipe if not well maintained. Never mind the inherent reluctance of the driver of a small car to be seen filling up at the black pump, not so much locally but in Europe and the States.

But despites the cons, there are a few pros to support driving a diesel powered vehicle. They use a lot less fuel, giving almost twice the fuel economy of equivalent petrol engines; and diesel is dirt cheap, simply because diesel is material as close to dirt as you will ever feed your car. The torque characteristics also mean there will be less shifting, making them a bit more relaxing to drive, since the engine is able to pull higher gears at lower speeds compared to petrol units. The massive torque also enables one to lug heavier loads without straining the engine and drive-train excessively.

There is also a lack of high-tension electrical systems to attend to (coils and spark plugs), making them more reliable. The heavier parts also make them last longer. These heavier parts also absorb a lot of heat, so in cold weather, there is need for a glowplug, a small electric heater in the cylinder’s pre-chamber to warm the engine for a proper start. The warming act is sometimes referred to as kuchoma (Swahili for “burning”) by many drivers.

Think of this: the gun has been called The Great Equalizer. A thin child could face a full-scale Sumo wrestler with less knocking of the knees if he had a rifle, or at least a pistol, in his hands. In the same vein, a diesel engine could face off a petrol engine with less red-faced bashfulness if equipped with the automotive equivalent of the Great Equalizer: a turbocharger.


Turbocharger Technology

Boost technology (turbocharging and supercharging) will be explained elsewhere in detail, but here I want to talk about its effect on a diesel engine.

As with any other engine, a turbocharger fitted to a diesel powerplant raises the specific power output (horsepower rating), lowers emissions, improves efficiency and offers higher levels of refinement, the exact same weaknesses of a diesel as highlighted in a comparison against a petrol engine. These improvements have so popularized turbocharged diesel power that it is the norm nowadays rather than the exception. Just how popular are these turbodiesels? As of 2006, 50% of new vehicle registrations in Europe were turbocharged diesel models.

When turbocharged, diesel engines do not need adjustment of their compression ratios, since there is no risk of pre-ignition (fuel is injected at the point of ignition), making them ideal candidates for this technology. Since the turbocharger boosts power output, a turbodiesel now has the triple benefit of having the massive torque of a typical diesel and top end power of a petrol engine, while still offering outstanding fuel economy.

To add a little perspective to this whole equalizer business, chew on this: A Skoda Octavia diesel sedan (powered by Volkswagen and turbocharged), is faster over the quarter mile than a Mark IV Volkswagen Golf GTI (petrol power, manual gearbox) and a Rover 200 (another petrol powered hatchback, automatic gearbox), though this test was done mainly to demonstrate how low the VW GTI had sunk rather than to highlight the prowess of the Skoda. But the result still applies.


Summary up: petrol is what to go for if you are in a real hurry and you want smoothness to supplement your haste, while diesel is the choice for penny-pinching, load-lugging environmentalists with nothing urgent on their schedules. Turbodiesels offer a compromise between the two, while turbocharged petrol cars are another league up. Just remember, whatever you choose, try not to end up spending 14,000 dollars fixing the miscalculations of an absent-minded spouse like our friend on the web did.

Source:autobazarr.co.uk

Your research is based on 1960's diesel cars. Do more recent research on Audi, BMW, Infiniti,VW and Mercedes Benz.

Admin401:
He cannot detect sarcasm.

Well forgive me for expecting too much.

Sarcasm? Ok. But my advice on Google scholar still subsist.

Curioussme:
Hi peeps, I've been dating this guy for almost 4 years now, and I've noticed when I need a major financial assistance from him, he'll just enter low key and be giving flimsy excuses like he doesn't have plans for me.

The most recent one that happened is that I need to pay my rent and the money with me isn't enough he's also giving excuses that he has commitments.

Sincerely, am tired of these excuses, I can't imagine getting married to a man who can't support me while am single what will he now do when we're married. He acts like someone who dodges responsibilities by all means.

Am confused right now,is he just a stingy person or what? The last time I needed money from him, I had to quarrel with him about it before he finally gave me money Guys pls help me out

Hmmmm. Cant believe this? People still talk like this? Did he come to this life to be your ATM? My dear if your hand and leg are still intact, go and hustle and stop depending on him.

Admin401:
Yes, he is 106 years now. Hail and hearty, ready to stand trial.

Hehehehehe.!!! I can see you have done your research with Wikipedia. Always try to use Google Scholar. It is always better.

sarrki:
Absence of Muhammadu Buhari

Is better than the presence of Gej in office

He was there when they looted us dry

How is that so? Can you please educate us?

Ok. So what is new about Josef Mengele? Has he been discovered?

TonyeBarcanista:
At least we should act honourably even in misbehaviour

Thank you for the response. But I want clarifications from Tonye Barcanista
Cheers.

TonyeBarcanista:
We have a long way to go in this country

Why, if i may ask?