Never give up and keep digging, researching and asking for help.
It always helps.
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Are you looking to buy brand new inverters and batteries with supposed one year warranty to help power your home. I will advise you stay very far away from Luminous Products sold through Wandel or any of their distributors except you know them personally or you like the one chance bus.

Personally, I am a fan of dealing directly with companies or their recommended distributors so you can hold them responsible when things go wrong, but my experience with these people especially the attitude from their Port Harcourt office has taught me a major lesson. Ihave taken it upon myself to educate potential victims from falling into the clutches of this people and their warranty scam.

Most Luminous batteries are known to last just under six months in quality before they develop some sort of fault. So I was not surprised when all of a sudden, out of the blues, my two batteries could no longer hold more than 2 hours of electricity combined at full charge. Since I was covered by warranty, I wasn't too concerned. I called them to check out the batteries and they sent someone after a couple of days. To my utmost shock, the engineer spent time in my house and claimed the batteries were reading fine.
How can two batteries lasting less than 2 hours be fine. From lasting over 12 hours, I suddenly had 2 batteries that was lasting just 2 hours.
As far as they were concerned, the batteries were fine and so needed no replacement and they were to continue to be fine until such a time, when their engineer with his own voltmeter got a different reading on said batteries. So even now, when the batteries are lasting less than one hour, they are still fine because according to them this is the standard from Luminous India and replacement of batteries was premised on it failing the voltmeter test rather than the number of hours it provided to you on full charge.

This so called standard was not spelt out when they were chasing my money and pressing to make a sale. What is warranty to me, if I hold on to a useless product , which is obviously useless to me and no longer providing service but to you is working fine because your obviously tampered with or unintelligent voltmeter is getting good readings from a obviously crashing batteries.

Guess what, I was not alone as I watched other customers come with exactly the same issue and get exactly the same response as I did.

For me, I will go ahead and try to get another product from a different company but I felt it will be my civic duty to warn intending buyers to stay away. Trust me, if you are like me, you will end up spending more on a different and better product and regret ever being fooled by scammers like these

I had never been a victim before until now.
I had usually used my ATM card on various machines as well as POS terminals.
I had been disappointed many times at payment counters by empty ATM’s. Sometimes I have been left stranded but that is about it. I never imagined how other people saw the cashless experience.
The issues with the system were plenty but it was a necessary system so we didn't continue to operate a cash-based system.
I always thought the pro’s outweighed the cons. I guess until you are a victim of something and you suffer what others suffer, you really cannot be out rightly objective on that thing.

So In a week, I had over one hundred thousand naira on hold by one of the first generation bank. My crime was that I made use of a POS to make payments at various stores. The transactions were declined but debits were registered on my account. “Contact your bank”, the sales person at one of the stores quickly told me. By the way there was this big sign of “Contact your bank for POS Refund” at the store. They warned they would not attend to customer POS refund issues directly. She still expected me to make fresh payments sha for the goods I was trying to purchase. What if that was my “last card” as we say. What if I had no cash left? Should I starve while I wait for my money to be refunded?
I left the store able to still make payments using funds still left in my account while awaiting my refund. I called my bank and was told to log all my various dispense errors after 24hours without reversal. I hurriedly did this, happy that my money will be refunded as soon as my request was raised.
I got the shocker of my life, when I was told it would take between 10 to 15 days for my refund to register.
“Who does that”, I wondered. How was I supposed to survive if I had no other money on me? Imagine what people are going through everyday. Then I remembered, I once met a lady in front of a Bank crying. Her story was that she had used an ATM at a bank beside the one I was at and had gotten the famous “Unable to dispense cash error”. Then she proceeded to the one I was at to collect just 15,000 naira and found out she had no more money on her card. Some people felt she was trying to scam them with her story but I remember a fellow student meeting her there and consoling her. They were attending the same school and she was trying to get out the money to pay for her fees and upkeep. What if she didn't have 15 days to wait to make payments or eat?
Who comes up with this ridiculous Service Level Agreements? Anyway, that’s not the cruz of my story. After over a month, I see some moneys refunded and others not so. Then I make a phone call, and then I am told by my bank that I received value for this transaction according to the merchant’s bank so I should go back to the merchant and sort it out.

I go to the merchant who first asks me to read their bogus banner and to go back to my bank. After much coercion and threatening, they then check and confirm they have not even been contacted about my transaction by their bank. So now my money has entered one chance, and I have to depend on the merchant’s integrity and willingness to take this forward. The only person who gets to suffer in this situation is me.

Imagine if this had been my whole life savings, no matter how small, how do you expect me to go back and use the same card for another POS transaction. So who exactly has my money, the merchant, the bank or the merchant’s bank?
Honestly, in a country where there is no customer service, pray you are not a victim of these kind of issues. As far as I am concerned, this is a totally flawed process. Right now, I am making no purchases at that merchant until I get a full refund FROM WHOEVER.
I am no longer making any more POS transactions again in this country. I honestly feel like someone just scammed me of my money. What if this was my life savings....shiooor.
I will use ATM’s only for now because I have no other option to withdraw little cash but I will rather do cash from this point on..abeg.
Imagine how many people have been down this road.....smh.

Regrets can sometimes be prevented when common sense is applied. I say this for the many marriages I have seen that shouldn't have been in the first place. Many people think that marriage is a bed of roses, full of a lot of lovey-dovey moments like it is displayed on TV. That couldn't be much further from the truth. Marriage is a beautiful thing, Real love even more beautiful. One of the reason why marriages fall apart is because real love is absent between the two parties. People go into marriages with their own different agenda. I love him but he should just no t expect me to pay the bills from my own money. I love him up until he refuses to buy a car for me. I love him but our children will always come first.

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I honesty feel that some regulatory commissions in this country should not exist. The NCC is top on that list for me. Chief among the job of a regulatory commission is to ensure that service providers stick to the terms of service. For NCC, they are supposed to be the watchdogs for the mobile phone network in the country. We all know how bad our mobile phone networks are. All of the mobile networks in Nigeria provide crappy phone service, data service and customer service. Name the network and I will have lots of stories to share from personal experiences.

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It seems it is now normal especially for ladies, to wear little or no clothing in the name of fashion these days. Celebrities seem to be the chief campaigners of the naked or next to no clothing philosophy. I am outraged as to the many people that now pose naked or semi-naked under various excuses.
Imagine visiting a blog or a news website whilst in the office and your boss is passing by and he asks you if you now watch pornography on the corporate network. That just happened to me today.

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Things were so much easier when we were kids. In those days, my school excursions were mostly to historical and beautiful places within Lagos. I remember my mum was very picky as to the ones I could go join up for. I was only allowed to join up when the excursion location was seemingly safe. In all my years in college, I only attended two excursions. My mum will totally prevent me by refusing to pay as well as sign the consent letters. I once thought of forging her signature on one of the consent letters and paying from my savings to go to Tin Can Island with the rest of my classmates. In the end though, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I guess I wasn't wired that way.

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It's another weekend again and one of the many things I look forward to during the weekends are the various football matches available on TV. From the Premier League to the the Spanish La liga, the French League, the German Bundesliga and the Italian League,my weekend can be pretty much booked.

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I will never understand why humans are so wicked. I guess we are never meant to understand these things. I read with shock the story of the maid named Juliet who kidnapped two children from their home and hasn't been found as at yet. What will drive this Juliet (Wonder what her real name really is?) to cause so much pain to a family she just met.

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I am sure my husband will be excited to read this post. He will not be surprised at the content though. There is nothing about how I feel that he doesn't know already. When I met and married my husband years ago, I was ready for some serious commitment. I wasn't ready for fickle relationships and when one serious, fine looking man showed up to sweep me off my feet. I didn't hesitate. Prior to marriage, I had read a lot of books enough to understand that marriage was hard work like every other good thing you want in this life and I was ready to do my part. Fast forward a couple of years, after two boys, my feelings still remains the same.
I don't claim to be an expert on marriage. I don't even come close. All I know is that , just like parenting, there is really no manual on marriage. Even Google can't give you all the information you need to make your marriage work. Some how-to-books will give you theory but the practical might not follow the theory. I learn everyday on the job, how to be a better wife to my husband as well as a better mother to my children.

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I totally agree that Parenting is hard my dear.
I was just emphazing parenting from the angle of some naijas living abroad and how not everybody can handle it.

A lot of people might be able to relate with what I am about to say while some might not really understand it at all. I have always wondered how some naija born parents cope with instilling discipline in their children whilst living abroad. I asked because for most Nigerians, beating children as a form of instilling discipline is a staple.
Back when I was growing up, I was accustomed to being flogged when I erred. The koboko in our house did not have part two and sometimes I was beaten severally just in one day. I was very naughty and stubborn but I have to say that those beatings only brought out more of the rebel in me. However, I know of people who are glad they were disciplined with serious cane because according to them, it set them on the straight part.

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I have needed to rest for the past couple of days so I decided to take some time out for myself. I figured I could spend some time with just me. I think I had earned it after all the stress I had been under. My children didn't think so though, they wanted to hang with mummy so I decided we could watch some family-friendly TV and chill like a cool naija family.

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The act of bullying has spanned various generations from the time of my parents, to my generation and finally to my kids.
I used to wonder why people have always felt the need to bully others.
What really is Bullying?
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How many mothers have experienced freak-like accidents at home as it concerns their kids. This are the kind of accidents that happen all of a sudden and you can't even imagine how to respond.
I have experienced them, and honestly when they happen I feel like I am about to lose my sanity.

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Chillisauce:


I can see you just started blogging.
Nice. I opened your blog. Its new but dont be in a rush for traffic, it will come as long as you see it as a hobby. Just keep writing.

Hopefully you will get there.

BTW, Post the full thing here. No one is gonna open the blog to read further.

@Chillisauce, I didnt just start blogging but i just diversified by publishing my mummy thoughts on a mummy based blog. My aim isnt traffic. I already get that on my IT blog. Its just an outlet for my thoughts and advice. My IT blog is for traffic while this is just my passion as my children get to read my thoughts too. This forum is just to get people with like minds interested in reading those thoughts.

Chillisauce:
THis your free new website, na so you wan drive traffic?

Coolnaija mum. No be small thing.

Wow.....@chillisauce. Did you read the blog at all. You should!!!!!!!!!

The coolest people I know are also the realest people I know. To me being cool means being real, essentially being yourself. As a mother, my kids think I am the coolest thing since fried rice.

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This is such a touchy issue. This is because on the subject of discipline as it concerns a child, most parents have differing opinions. I don't think anybody can really lay claim to knowing it all in this area. While some believe that sparing the rod does spoil a child, Others believe in punishments that don't involve a rod. Some parents don't even bother to correct their child anymore. They neither want them to spanked or corrected. Discipline is key in a child's life, hence the need to instill it at a young age.

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I am feeling gleeful today. This is funny because today has been crazy. I am not sure I have been able to sit down for more than one hour today. Anyways during that hour, It occurred to me that Christmas was here. I am grateful to be alive together with my family. This year, a lot of people have suffered various losses. Deaths have made a lot of headlines this year. This Boko Haram issue has gone from bad to worse with lots of people being killed. Ebola even came and took people as well. It has been a stressful year for me at work. The family side hasn't been easy to carry either

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What drives a man to do well and be kind to his fellow man?
What drives the same man to behave wickedly to his fellow man?
I have struggled with these two questions for years now.

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I have been yawning excessively at work today. I can't really seem to help myself. I am doing it in a very razz way sef.
I have had less than four hours of sleep for two days in a row. My children are presently on medication to treat malaria, bacterial infection and viral infection.

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I use nannies and I can't help but to use them. We just need to be very careful of the calibre of peple we bring into our homes
May God help us all

Jolly Tumuhirwe is that nanny from Uganda, whose video has gone viral. She is seen in that video physically assaulting the 18 month old baby she was supposed to be taking care of. I still cant believe that she is normal...as in who does that.
I couldn't bring myself to finish that video because every time, I started to watch it, I wanted to reach across the monitor to beat her myself. What sort of hatred and lack of love will push you to treat another human being like that, least of all a little child who cant even express herself.

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I am not sure a lot of people like hearing that phrase " Proudly Naija" this days. To be honest, most times I am not a fan either. I used to phrase mine differently though. I am naija but not proudly. There is so much to not be proud of. Is it the lack of power, the lawlessness in the society, the ingrained corruption just to mention a few.

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I have become frustrated with customer service representatives in this country. Sometimes I don't even know why they exist. In the past when there was no customer service, I am not sure I was ever this frustrated. Organizations this days can't seem to provide service anyways so I wonder why they feel the need to set up a customer service department that is toothless and powerless to take the blame on their behalf.
Whether banks o, telecoms service centers,shops, cable tv, e.t.c, the story is the same. This explain why the queue in front of their customer services section is always very long.

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I woke up this morning to the news that Charles Bruce Chukwuma a.k.a Chaz B was no more with us.
I am still in shock. Even though I never met or knew him personally, I feel like I just lost my brother. Chaz B was an inspiration and the only reason why I started listening to the radio again after a long hiatus.

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I hate it when some women give other women a bad name due to their bad driving. I am not sure they are aware of the dangers they portend by being on the road sef.
I get angry when I hear men comment and say things like " She is a women, that why" or "Na woman now, she no fit drive" or those various distasteful comments they make as if most men are actually better drivers. The truth is that a larger an equal percentage of men can't drive either. They probably are better at controlling their speed and navigating out of tight areas but that is not what makes a good driver.

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It seems a lot of mothers to-be or experienced mothers in this naija know nothing about this condition called Postpartum Hypertension.
I didn't know about it too when I was having my babies. I know now though and I am lucky to be alive to write about it. This year alone, I have read and heard of so many deaths of mothers,who have died a couple of days, weeks or months after child-birth. I truly wish more gynecologists will share information on this condition with expectant or experienced mothers.
The truth is that the condition no dey show for face and I guess that is what makes it deadly.

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Some mums have a competitive syndrome. Only God knows where they get it from..
They just want their children to win everything or be the best in every area of their lives. They want them to walk early, eat early, say their first words, talk early, come first in school and probably win all school awards. This isn't really necessarily a bad thing. It just might start to be unhealthy especially when you start comparing your children with my children.

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