Meanwhile Inspired - how much will it cost to remove tiny okada scratches, respray and bake a 2007 camry?

(THIS GUY HAS THE IQ OF A CARROT - SO HE STILL NEEDS ADVISE AFTER FINDING OUT THAT HIS CHIC'S PREGNENT FOR SOMEONE ELSE?!)

DAFT PRICK THIS GUY!

Bros, Nigeria is a fake country. Our oneness is fake.

There is no National ideal or direction. The sooner we sit down and discuss Nigeria, the better.

(@ noble Zone)  - i quite agree with Noble Zone - our oneness in this country is fake:why else would there be a summit of 'Northern Governors' and 'Southern Governors'?!

Its now clear that corruption has eaten deep into this country. Ask yourselves this: if those fake corpers were never caught, ended up getting their fake certificates (paid for by the way), and were then unleashed to the Nigerian publc - what kinds of unspeakable evil would they do?

This country is condenmed, and only until something drastic (like what Rawlings did in Ghana to all the corrupt criminals in government) happens, that there can be geniune reversal of this sickness in the land.

My shame knows no bounds!

i may not be able to eat for 2 days after seeing that grotesque photograph!

The man should not feel good at all - people like Maurice Iwu have received that award:its worthless if you ask me.

Hi there,

How much is the 2007 Camry LE key casing? (i'd like to change mine, not cut and program another key).

Kindly let me know.

I think the poster should try to find another job and bolt as soon as he can. Not everyone in happy when others seem to be making progress in life.

On the other hand, his grammar is utterly attrocious!!

Oga Siena,

You cannot post the picture of a 1998 ML and place same beside a 2009 X5.

Let people see what the X5 is truely up against so that they can decide properly (so that those with money can go and buy the benz)

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You must really be a joker! Do you think this threat is for you to advertise your quack mechanic services (you obviously must be semi-iliterate!)

Please allow this man sell his car, and start your own thread offering your "services"- if you dont know how, ask someone to show you!

WHO IS THIS CLOWN AND JOKER CALLED JAYBEE THAT MANAGED A FEW COMPLETE SENTENCES ON THIS FORUM?

THE FORUM FOR CIRCUS ENTHUSIASTS AND CAREER CLOWNS HAPPENS TO BE ANOTHER SITE - NOT NAIRALAND!!

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YOU OBVIOUSLY POSTED IN ERROR.

It is obvious that Nigerians have forgotten so soon the evils of that demon called Babangida. Please refresh your memories and send this out so that those that have forgotten may remember.

The Babangida years
By Tolu Ogunlesi
April 17, 2010 10:36PM

In his first New Year Day’s speech as military president, months after deposing the Buhari-Idiagbon government in a bloodless coup enthusiastically welcomed by Nigerians, Ibrahim Babangida declared: “I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria.” Babangida’s bonhomie (its trademark an endearing gap-toothed smile) - in stark contrast to the stern, unsmiling façade of Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor - made it easy for him to be believed.
The distinction between the two regimes in fact ran much deeper than personality quirks. Babangida, in action, proved to be the complete antithesis of his predecessor. He threw open prison doors, setting free hundreds of 3rd republic politicians convicted and jailed by Buhari. He repealed the obnoxious Decree No. 4 of 1984 with which the Buhari regime had shackled the media. He promised to run “an open administration that is responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of all the people” - a departure from the high-handedness of the Buhari/Idiagbon era.
One of his first actions as military president was to allow Nigerians to decide, through public debates, whether to accept the $2.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan the Buhari government had been negotiating for.
After the terror of the Buhari years, Nigerians appeared to have found a statesman in military uniform.

Tough times that lasted
By 1985, Nigeria’s foreign debt had ballooned to $18 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1980 (it would rise beyond $30 billion by the end of the 80s), and external reserves had dwindled to less than $2 billion. Oil prices had been in freefall for 3 years running, and in January 1986 they finally fell to less than $20 per barrel, a record low since the start of the decade.
To his credit Babangida made all the right noises about revamping the economy. In his Independence Day 1985 speech, barely two months old in office, he declared “a state of economic emergency for the next 15 months.” That speech went on to lay down a comprehensive plan for “economic reconstruction”.
This plan included a moratorium on new foreign debt, promotion of agriculture and industrial development, restriction of importation to “essential commodities”, financial sector reform and privatisation.

Populist leanings
IBB was a master of the populist move - ambitious government programs targeted at tackling poverty, and empowering rural dwellers. His government churned out program after program, in a bid to actualize his promises to run an inclusive, people-facing government. In 1986, Babangida launched the Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER).
In 1987, the Directorate of Food and Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI) was launched to promote agriculture and transform Nigeria’s rural landscape by providing modern infrastructure. Other Babangida creations include the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND), Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), National Board for Community Banks (NBCB), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Urban Development Bank.
No other Nigerian government presided over such substantial expansion of government bureaucracy as the Babangida administration. In time, the fiscal prudence that Babangida espoused vanished: billions of naira were sunk into an endless transition programme, and in the early ‘90s, 12 billion dollars worth of windfall crude oil revenue (courtesy of the rise in the oil prices due to the Gulf War) could not be accounted for.
Mr. Babangida also came to perfect the art of dispensing patronage through political appointments (mostly targeted at leading members of the opposition) and a far-from-transparent allocation of lucrative oil blocks.

“A man whose words mean nothing”
Mr. Babangida’s contradictions eventually overwhelmed his reputation so that when, in May 1993, the activist and lawyer Gani Fawehinmi described him as “a man whose words mean nothing to him”, evidence of this littered his eight years in power.
Only months after vowing to run a “government by consultation with the people”, Mr. Babangida in 1986 surreptitiously - and unilaterally - took Nigeria, an avowed secular state, into full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body which describes itself as “the collective voice of the Muslim world.”
Mr. Babangida lamented the “large role played by the public sector in economic activity with hardly any concrete results to justify such a role.”Ironically, over the course of the next five years, he would go ahead to supervise an unprecedented expansion of government. And despite his deference to the wish of Nigerians to reject the IMF loan, Mr. Babangida went ahead to implement some of the Fund’s most drastic requirements - a devaluation of the naira, and removal of subsidies, chief of which were the petroleum subsidies.
Mr. Babangida promised Nigerians that the “belt-tightening” was sorely needed: the painful injection that would usher in vibrant economic health; the mandatory dark lining before a cloud of prosperity. Those reforms, which he christened “Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)”, came into effect in 1986, with a far-from-pleasant impact on Nigerians. Purchasing powers dwindled, inflation rose, and the obliteration of the middle class began. In 1989, SAP riots rocked the country, as Nigerians had finally had enough of economic reforms which silver lining they waited in vain for.

Greatest failings
Mr. Babangida’s greatest failings were however in two key areas: his human rights record, and his political transition programme. In December 1985, a group of soldiers, which included his close friend, Mamman Vatsa, were arrested on allegations of plotting to topple the 4-month old Babangida government. After Vatsa was convicted and sentenced to death, Mr. Babangida assured a delegation of distinguished writers (Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark), which had come pleading for mercy, that he was “determined to do everything in my power to save (Vatsa).”
Hours later, Vatsa and the other alleged plotters were executed.
As opposition to Mr. Babangida’s rule grew, so did his intolerance for dissent, so that he routinely shut down or proscribed media houses; and harassed journalists, civil society and labour groups using the instruments of state (the State Security Service, Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Police).
In 1986, five students of the Ahmadu Bello University were murdered when mobile policemen invaded the campus to quell anti-IMF protests. He also promulgated a series of draconian decrees targeted at quelling all opposition, and on occasion did not hesitate to deport foreign critics (University lecturer Patrick Wilmot and journalist William Keeling).
In October 1986, frontline journalist Dele Giwa was murdered by a letter bomb in Lagos. Preliminary police investigations stated that senior officers of Mr. Babangida’s intelligence services, who had hounded Giwa in his final days, had questions to answer regarding Giwa’s death. The mystery of the Giwa assassination remains unsolved till date.

An interminable journey
A maddeningly convoluted transition programme, whose terminal date soon became a mirage - first 1990, then 1992, and then 1993 - is one of the most significant things Babangida will be remembered for.
Early on in his administration, Mr. Babangida inaugurated a “Political Bureau” to “kick off, as it were, the national debate on a viable future political ethos and structure for our dear country.”
The political bureau was soon followed by a Constituent Assembly, which in 1989 fashioned a new constitution for the country.
Also, in 1989, he created, by presidential fiat, two political parties, the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention. Then in 1991, he released a controversial list of prominent politicians whom he said were banned from participating in the transition programme.
In October 1992, he cancelled the results of the parties’ presidential primaries, causing new primaries to be held in March 1993. And then in June 1993 he annulled the results of the presidential elections, presumed to have been won by billionaire businessman MKO Abiola.

This was the final straw.
By this time, Nigerians had finally had enough of his shenanigans, and violent protests forced him to “step aside” on August 27, 1993,“My colleagues and I are determined to change the course of history,” Mr. Babangida told Nigerians in his maiden speech as Head of State, on August 27, 1985.
By the time he reluctantly relinquished power exactly eight years later, he had achieved that goal, far more successfully than he, or anyone else, could ever have imagined.

WE CAN NEVER FORGET WHAT BABANGIDA DID TO DESTROY NIGERIA - NEVER!!

@Olibyno

Well said mate. Well said.

@Olibyno

No offence, but i think you left your house this morning and forgot your brain (or somebody in your family stands to gain something if that criminal IBB comes back!)

LET HIM EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $12 BILLION GULF WAR OIL WINDFALL THAT THE COUNTRY MADE IN 1991!

HE CLAIMS THAT THE NAIRA WAS N22/$1 IN HIS TIME, AND THAT IT IS N155/$1 TODAY - BEFORE HE CAME IN THROUGH A COUP, THE NAIRA WAS N4/$1!

BABANGIDA IS THE BIGGEST NIGERIAN LOOTER OF ALL TIME!

WE SHOULD ALL FEEL INSULTED THAT THIS MAN IS EVEN TALKING ABOUT COMING BACK - AFTER LOOTING THIS COUNTRY DRY!!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

I pray he survives and gets better. True talent is hard to find these days. I must express my shock at what the Police did (if its true).

Theres still hope for this country afterall. And to all Nairalanders wishing him well - props.

(If only Yar'Adua had come clean with Nigerians that he was ill and asked for our prayers and support, maybe he'd be enjoying this same sympathy)

It would be nice if some decent photos were attached (just a thought).

OK FINE, SO WE HAVE BASHED THE POLICE ENOUGH FOR 5 LIFETIMES. THE TRUTH IS THE PROBLEM NEEDS TO BE SOLVED FROM THE ROOT:

THE AVERAGE POLICE OFFICER EARNS N21,759.46 MONTHLY;HAS A WIFE AND 4 KIDS;PAYS FEES AND BUYS FOOD & CLOTHING;CONTRIBUTES TO THE FUELING AND MAINTAINANCE OF THEIR PATROL VAN (AND I KNOW MANY OF THEM PRAY NOT TO HAVE ONE, SO THEY WONT HAVE TO CHIP IN ANY MONEY!);WORST OF ALL IS THAT THEY ARE GIVEN TARGETS BY THEIR D.P.O.s EVERY DAY AND NIGHT TO BRING IN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY!

WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU EXPECT THEM TO DO EXCEPT GET CREATIVE.

THOSE OF US ON THIS FORUM WHO HAVE PEOPLE IN POWER THAT CAN MAKE A CHANGE CAN HELP.

I HATE THEM WITH ALL MY MIGHT, BUT WHEN THERES DANGER OR A ROBBERY I WONT CALL ON VIPERMAN OR ANY OF YOU TO HELP.

CHEERS PEOPLE.

Sory dude,

Was it at gun point or stolen from where it was parked?

Also was it insured? (comprehensive)

It is well. They usually abandon cars after a couple of days. Lets hope for the best.

I think, if Jonathan REALLY wants to change things in this country, he could start by granting Ribadu a presidential pardon, and re-instating him as chairman of the EFCC.

Politicians will take off through Cameroun and Seme borders.

Hi there Fogy,

I hear you have some new arrivals! Any pictures and details per chance?

We are waiting

Cheers

Hi there,

Do you have the replacement shell for the 2007 Toyota Camry keys? (possibly with other colurs).

Do let me know.

Regards

Hi there,

Do you have the replacement shell for the 2007 Toyota Camry keys? (possibly with other colurs).

Do let me know.

Regards

Can someone please just make an "honest" offer for the car, so that life can go on?!

Encomiums are not quite what the guy is looking for right now.

PEOPLE - THIS IS ONLY JUST A CONCEPT CAR AND IT WILL NEVER BE PUT INTO PRODUCTION.

GO BACK TO YOUR LIVES PLEASE.

Thanks my brother. You can send information to obinna.ufomadu@gtbank.com, and cobihere@yahoo.ca

Look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers

No wahala gurl. Just keep a small can of mace or some sharp object around you (just in case he attempts to misbehave one day, and you really dont want to).

Something really sharp!

Then again, if you want to, you could just shag the guy and move on.

My take.

OKAY. This thread is getting dangerous. I suggest we just break this up and get on with our lives.

@at all of us - stop insulting the poor girl i think she's been shamed enough already (her atrociuos grammar has already seen to this).

@at all the sympathyzers - please lets move on (you could post an even more banal story to steer everyone away).

@ at the chic in the eye of the storm - run home and exist in peace (without revealing your dirt to the rest of us next time).

Abeg. Make una try.

Please take chaircover's advise (what a pseudo name). Keep the really nasty stuff to yourself - Nigerians aren't mature yet for this type of info.

Yeah?

I'll explain Fogy.

Auto dimming rearview mirrors automatically reduce the glare from bright car lights behind you. What usually happens (with normal mirrors) is that when a car's lights behind you are too bright, you use your hand to twist the rearview mirror to an angle that'll stop the reflected light blinding your view.

An auto dimming mirror automatically dims itself when bright light is reflected off it from behind, so you can drive without the glare from behind reflecting in your eyes. Most high end cars today come standard with this feature.

So, do you have any in stock, or am i way ahead of you?