₦airaland Forum

playmode: It is always so sad to see so called educated Nigerians go gaga over such news. Let me ask you guys one question ,how hard can be to build a power plant that we need to ask foreign firms to build one for us?

Generating power is not rocket science! All it requires is commitment, funds and a trained staff. The Nigerian Government makes a lot of money every year that if we want to build one new power plant per year we could do it. I am sick and tired of all this BS stories. We don't need GE or any other company to pay for our power plants. [b]GEJ simply needs to contract an experienced company to build one for us and train the Nigerians who will run it.[/b]I also agree that any agreement involving Americans never bear any fruit, just some propaganda to get us all hopeful.

Our leaders just make Nigerians look stupid on a daily basis , we can not do anything for ourselves except we involve a 3rd party.We are still talking about 10,000 Megawatts when we actually need 170,000 Megawatts to effectively power Nigeria.We will never have change until we decide and commit to change. Shame on us.

Kobojunkie: GE will finance a problem of that amount in Nigeria, knowing it is likely it will have no hand in the running of the plants at the end of the day?

From what I have seen to date, anytime Government mentions it will not be funding a project or another, at the end of the day we discover it is, so I would wait to see if this MOU amounts to much at the end of the day, where exactly the funding will come from. I remember the many PPP projects that ended up near 100% funded by, yes, Government.

Idrive: I actually see porsche coming to Nigeria as actually a good thing. It"s been a long time coming and there should be more official car companies opening up their showrooms in Nigeria. That said we simply do not have the roads for high performance vehicles like the porsche in Lagos or majority of the country unless you live in certain parts or you really plan your route before taking the car out for a spin. I know thats what i'd do sha

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OzReal: Another poster also said God will judge these people.
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In all honesty, when I hear the above quotes,I really get angry . For God-sake, God will not judge these people until the afterlife; in fact, the continuous gang-raping of the treasury by these gangsters and bandits is sending more of the common men on the street to early judgement The scale of looting currently going on and the resultant effects would continue to send more of our people to God for judgement long before these guys. In a sane country a la China, the only judgement these guys would be facing would be death by hanging or a bullet to the back of the head. But then again, Nigeria has never been sane anytime in here history. Make I go drink beer jare

The only comparative advantage we have in healthcare is the money doctors who live and work abroad send back home to their families every year. That's it. Doctors based abroad have no reason to invest their brains in Nigeria. Nigerian doctors abroad are trained to work wonders with the best tools that money can buy, but those tools are not available in Nigeria because patients can't afford to pay for them. They are used to earning a lot of money for their work, but they can't earn such money here because patients can't pay for it. If they are lured back to Nigeria en-masse, most of them simply will not prosper here.

So if healthcare is to become big business in Nigeria, we would need to have excellent local doctors. If our local doctors were very good, like doctors in India, Americans and Europeans would visit Nigeria on 'medical pilgrimage' to get more affordable healthcare. But our local doctors are not that good. Unlike Indians, our medical industry does not provide a comparable quality of healthcare at a much lower cost. So I disagree with the notion that Nigeria is going to make a lot of money from healthcare. It would require the concentrated efforts of lots of business-minded doctors to change this situation. I'm not holding my breath.

jjgirljay:
Audi 80
Mazda miata (still in love with it)
Chrysler maroon convertible(rubbish)
Murano (junk)
Chrysler Cross fire(lovely)
E 350 (best of d best)

Will post pics

Jarus:
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Me: "Do you read philosophy?"

Mr. Critic: "Philosophers are pagans, I have no time for them."

Me: "Good for you.  Let me tell you a story from one of Plato's Socratic Dialogues.  Do you mind?"

Mr. Critic: "Go ahead if you must.  Do you really care if I mind?"

Me: "Calm down.  This story is from one of the early Platonic dialogues.  Socrates quizzes a man called Euthryphro on the nature of holiness.  The occasion was Euthryphro's prosecution of his own father for unintentionally killing a slave who had himself murdered another slave."

Mr. Critic: "The man prosecuted his own father?"

Me: "Yes.  His family thought it impious but Euthryphro said his family were ignorant of what is holy.  He saw holiness as doing what the gods love, and was willing to do it even if it offended his own family."

Mr. Critic: "Interesting.  Go on."

Me: "Does this not remind you of a verse in the Qur'an, asking believers to bear true witness even against themselves or their parents and close relations?"

Mr. Critic: "Are you suggesting that the Qur'an was copied from Greeks?"

Me: "Stop being silly.  This is why in the north we will never progress. When we fail to confute an argument we libel the advocate."

Mr. Critic: "Like accusing you of supporting genocide?"

Me: "You really are smart. You read between the lines. My point is this.  You ask me to bear false witness, or defend fellow-Northerners on trial for killing Southerners based on one of two reasons: Our adversaries are doing the same or our compatriots have joined them and abandoned their values. Not because you believe they have no case to answer.  Is that so?"

Mr. Critic: "In a manner of speaking, yes."

Me: "If I did that I would be taking my values from the Yoruba or from Northern politicians rather than Islam and would then be worse than Euthryphro, who in your books is a pagan, wouldn't I?"

Mr. Critic: "You know you are not as horrible as I thought you were.  But before you go, do you know what people say about you?"

Me: "Does any one ever know such things?"

Mr. Critic: "Sorry to say this.  Some people think you are mad.  Why are you laughing?"

"Because they may well be correct."

Me: "I can not believe this! You are horrible!"

bebrief:
@OP, I think one can justifiably raise the base of his/her car, especially if it was bought fairly-used. For example a 2001 Ki Optima that has been used by the original buyer must have suffered suspension slack over years of use. This wuld have naturally reduced the CofG of the car, making it consume more fuel nd unfit to be driven on bad roads.

One thing you can do if you operate on a slim budget is to pad the shock with a rubber padding. Or better still you can rise the shock by adjusting the welding of the spring to a higher level. This can be done at a good mechanic workshop. However, the best option is to change the entire spring, if you can afford it.

icemann:
Yet to hear someone say stuff  about
1.Traction
2.Base with
3.Tire width
4. Axle Angle

In relation to a lift.

Wallie:
Well Siena is right but the answer is not as straight forward as he pointed out!

It all depends on what your goal is. Are you going to change the handling characteristics of the car when you raise it? Sure. But does that mean it will become unsafe? It depends. You can always counter whatever effect your changes made to the car.

For an off-road vehicle, you have no choice but to raise the ride height. If done properly, the car will only become more dangerous in extreme situations. To do it properly, you might need to widen its track, change out the suspension, and/or change the tire size/width.

Also, just because something is OEM does not mean that it is the best. Car manufacturers have to make a lot of compromises based on price, intended usage, warranty, parts availability, weight, ease of replacement, etc. But you can be rest assured that when an OEM part has been tested to work with other parts in your car.

There are certain things that I’m 100% certain are not the best for an economic car. For example, brakes, tires, wheels, and suspension can certainly be improved upon.

The bottom line is that when you change out parts of your car to non-OEM spec parts, you are changing the characteristics of the car for better or worse. More is not always better when it comes to cars because it is a system.

campella:
Sienna,
Everything you said is right.

What I want you to understand is that no one is ever willing to adjust his car from the original form.
The bad roads are just the cause of the adjustment.

In this regard, what then do you think can be done to avoid you running to the mech each time you travel?
Please say something as currently, my Toyota Camry is raised to avoid constant exhaust welding.

You input is highly needed.

faithin9ja:
are most of the posters too young to remember?  does anybody here remember during Abacha, during the era of failed banks, when millions of Nigerians lost their money in failed banks (not the just wonder banks like monitree or umanumna) but banks governed by CBN.

Not one of these banks has witnessed a 'run' on them, not even Bank PHB, or Springbank. The general population still has confidence in banks and we are still putting our money in all these banks, why?

because the CBN invested billions of naira to shore up their reserves.

If Oceanic bank was solvent this option of a forced takeover would not arise. During Soludu's time were we not borrowing billions of naira to buy shares in these banks with their wonderful announced profits. they were opening new branches everyday, sometimes 3 branches on the same street, where are these profits now?

I don't have time to write a full synopsis on the Nigerian banking sector, but suffice to say the corruption that endemic in all aspects of our society, is also the cause of the malaise in the banking sector, the sooner we recognize this better.

faithin9ja:
when you go to your bank and present your cheque to withdraw your own N20,000 and they tell you they don't have money that the bank is 'distressed' I wonder how much pity you will have for the bank staff

perryy:
HIV/AIDS is still a subject of scientific debate. Read "Have we been mislead" by dueseberg and get clarification