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naptu2:
UAC was the largest non-oil company in Nigeria in the 1970s, ‘80s and early 1990s. The two most important business executives in Nigeria at that time were the M.D. of Shell (the largest oil company) and the Chairman of UAC (the largest non-oil company). They were almost like presidents. One of them, Chief Ernest Shonekan (Chairman of UAC in the 1980s and early 1990s) even became Head of State of Nigeria. The company was huge and (at various times) included the following subsidiaries:

1) A.J. Seward ( "for skin, hair and body care" ) : They made hair creams, body creams and lotions, face powders and other beauty products.


2) Kingsway Department Stores: They had the largest supermarket and mall chain in Nigeria.

3) Kingsway Chemists: A chain of pharmacies that was spread right across Nigeria.

4) UAC Foods: This included Kingsway Rendezvous (now known as Mr Biggs), Gala Sausage Rolls, Wall's Ice Cream, Spring Waters Nigeria Ltd (makers of SWAN Water, Gossy Water and SWAN soft drinks), etc.

5) UAC Motors: GM Nigeria (Bedford, Chevrolet and Isuzu), Federated Motors Industries Ltd (locally made Bedford trucks) and Niger Motors.

6) Bordpak Ltd (packaging).

7) Premier Packaging Ltd.

8 ) UAC Technical Ltd: Industrial machines and huge electricity generators.

9) G.B. Olivant: Trading company.

10) UAC Property Development Company: They own 1004 Estate, Golden Tulip Hotel (formerly Dubar Hotel), Abebe Court Ikoyi, etc.


11) Grand Cereals: Grand Pure Soya Oil, etc.

12) MDS Logistics: Wharehouses, haulage, distribution, etc.

13) Chemical and Allied Products Limited (CAPL) : Dulux and Caplux paints, etc.

14) African Timber and Plywood Ltd.

15) West African Cold Storage.


This company has directly or indirectly produced several very wealthy families including the Abebes, the Dantatas, the Dangotes, the Murray-Bruces and the Shonekans.



UAC has helped to nurture the fortunes of some of Nigeria's wealthiest families.

1) Dantata/Dangote: Alhassan Dantata's business got a big boost when he got contracts to supply UAC (Royal Niger Company) groundnuts, kola nuts, etc.

2) Murray-Bruce: Mulligan Murray-Bruce (Ben Bruce's father) was a UAC executive who did so well that upon retiring he was given Domino Stores to run.

3) Abebe: Sir Christopher Abebe (Stella Obasanjo's father) was Chairman of UAC (also Chairman of Nigerian Breweries) in the 1970s. He did so well, that several UAC and Nigerian Breweries facilities are named after him (Abebe Village, Igamu).


In the picture below are the logo of the Royal Niger Company, UAC's first logo and UAC's current logo (which was adopted in the 2000s). The logo in the middle is my favourite.

Phew!
Bro, you must be an archaeologist to have dug out all these artifacts and antiquities of Nigeria when it was a Country.
Kudos

Is that all?
We all know the whole thing was staged.
Back2daura

BigJakie:
when i floor the throttle it does not go past 40rpm

Do u experience this when ur car is in motion or standstill?
Try another airflow meter... Yours might be failing.

BigJakie:
Guys pls help... I recently just changed my tranny & engine oil, but now my car (MB 2002 C320) would not go past 40rpm and I cannot accelerate, sometimes it shuts out,

after OBD Diagnosis i got the code PO141.

Any ideas, please help out

You have to check transmission, I think it's in limp mode.
Do you mean 40km/h or 40rpm?

Govt Critic or woman wrapper?

chloedogie:
Somewhere close to gudu after one oando filling station like you are driving to house on the rock church. Do u stay in Abuja and do u have a good mechanic?

Yes I live in Abuja, as for knowing a good mechanic I don't think there is any good one, they are all the same.
What I do is that I have different mechanics for different problems
It's always good to have knowledge of your car

chloedogie:
I will share mine why I will now have more than one.

I drive a C230 sport Benz compressor and never had a reason to visit a mech for a long time outside normal service. Entering my office one day, my key fell and the chip had a problem thay made me to take it to a tech guy that fixed it and I asked him to recommend a very good and trusted mech guy should I need his services. Under two months I had a reason to.

I saw a drop of whitish oil in my radiator tank and took it to the mech guy. That was the beginning of my problems. He diagnosed the cooler block and I ordered it changed which he did. Three days later, same problem. Took it back to him as I want to hit Lagos with the car as my best monster on the road. He asked me to drive it down and when I'm back he will change the top gasket. I differed my trip and told him to fix it before my trip.

Three days later, I went to pick my car when I cranked it, I heard one krakrakra sound for about three seconds then went down. Asked him what it is, he said the chain wasn't well set and I should go with it maybe it will self adjust if it doesn't, he will fix it.

3.30am I hit the road from Abuja, after abaji, over heating started. I checked one water pipe don burst. That took me almost four hours to solve. Getting to ekiti, I Parked for lunch, only to see smoke coming from my exhaust pipe. Engine dripping oil. Drove to Lagos fixed the oil came back gave him the car to fix. Problem started. After self acclaimed fix, six problems started.

1. Engine does krakrakra for like 5secs.
2. One terrible sound when gear is changing.
3. Belt was halved into two.
4. Power steering oil dripping.
5. The belt that was halved tore my bonnet rug into two.
6. Car switches of when on drive and not moving.
7. Check engine light permanently on.
8. Kick starter burnt and had to be replaced.
9. Crankshaft gone bad due to only God knows reason.

That was what I suffered from a mech guy just from one single oil drop issue to multiple problems due to me over trusting him and monopolizing him. He's presently fixing the car since Thursday and when he's done, I will look for three solidly sound mech guys and always rotate them.

The stupid guy leaves my car at the mercy of his apprentices and this is the result.

I can't even use only gazzuz as good and trusted as he is. I will use a minimum of three good gazzuzs.

Where is this mechanic located in Abuja? I own a w203 too.
Mistake u did was to leave ur car with them.
Benz w203 is a very tricky car to diagnose, don't always believe their diagnosis.
I'll suggest u take your car from them to avoid more damage.

Jonathan won the last election

I want to agree with the writer, if he had not thrown out the baby with the bath water.
Christianity is a very unique Religion, Christians claim it's a way of life. No one makes anyone do things by "Force" you decide what u give and when you give.

true talk

civet

Welcome home Brother, you are indeed a son of the Sun.
A warrior's head is never lost in a foreign land.
May the gods of our fathers direct you and other brothers back to the land of the rising Sun.
iseeeee.

Things like this only happen when you have a failure as a leader

Only God knows what the OP is taking people's number for cos the WhatsApp group doesn't exist.

High blood pressure..........loading

pearly1:
short gun,I get one too with same issue at lokoja.u may holler 08065299772

send pictures

I know a lot of people will comment without reading the article......I was not disappointed.

400k cash 2moro early morning

Doesn't make sense, that how you know the person behind the wheels is an illiterate.

but there is someone handcuffed together with the criminal.
Who is the other person? The story never mentioned that he had an accomplice.

that is to say his strength is failing him

sultaan:
Toyota is almost the only car maker with V6 mid size sedan, all others are using turbocharged 4 cylinder engines. Toyota has no turbo in their mainstream models

You are wrong.

without any form of investigation or leads some lowlifes are already saying it must be Nigerians...this is why the black man has refused to use his brain.

....and they said the elephant can't touch people's money.

Platinumay:
I only felt I should be able to get to my office in ikeja before I check the water, however the water usually last more than a month before I top water again, and this one was just less than a week, that's why I felt should still be able to get to the office. I don't know-how I manage to leave the radiator uncovered. It was so unfortunate sha.

Bro, u should know that water/coolant is very important in a vehicle system. Next time don't ignore it.
Peace

makes no sense.
Is VIO not duplication of duty?
What of Civil defense?
FRSC?
what of PAs,SAs, SSAs?

Buhari is too tribalistic if it was a Northerner that is the Head of Peace Corps He will sign the bill with speed of light.

Bidexgarl:
She probably had a delay in giving the man another child and because he (the husband) had seen another woman, he decided to use the senseless excuse to send her out of his house. But no matter what, sending his wife out at that ungodly hour is inexcusable. It's obvious though that some men are still living in the 19th century cos if not, no man should place a male over a female child. From what I've seen over the long short course of my life, female children are more useful to the parents than male children. They take care of parents more than any male child can ever do. It's only in very few cases that u see some male children really doing that.
I'm pretty sure that that man will regret his actions one day.

Do u really believe that the husband throw her out of the house in the middle of the night? let me tell u a little story.
I was in church one day with our pastor when a woman ran to him crying that the husband chased her and their son out of the house.
Pastor called the husband who's also a member and man said he's not even in town, pastor asked the woman how can ur husband throw u out when he's not in the town.
She said he called her and promise to deal with her after the had an issue over the phone.
I was shocked.

When they say fear woman, its not just a statement.
Many men are are dying in silence cos they married the wrong woman, they can't do much cos d woman will always be seen as the victim.
No man in his right senses will throw out a good woman.

Dottore:
Which one be water signal again. Can u take a photo of the device or the car abeg. What's the name of the car. Do you really have a car or did u just make up this story.

I only know of Engine Temperature gauge. Radiator doesn't have a gasket the top cylinder of the engine does. If the top cylinder is bad you can replace it without necessarily replacing the whole engine.

Reminds me of someone who said his car is Toyota Xtrail Limited and is 4wheel drive. Another argued that all SUVs that are manual transmission are 4wheel drive while the ones that are automatic are front wheel Drive. Of course they both have powerful SUV and talking from experience.

Nairalanders sha.

some cars come with coolant level indicator aside the temperature gauge. it will tell u when ur coolant level is low.