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Car Talk / Radiator Fan Problem by kton(m): 5:40pm On Dec 11, 2016 |
Hello gurus in the house! Pls help in identifying the issue with my ford escape radiator fan. I just discovered that the radiator fan refuse to pick up after sometime that the engine had been working but will pick up immediately the Ac is on and stop working few minute after putting off the Ac. note: thermostat has not been tampered with. Pls,what could be possible cause of this and what could be done to rectify this problem. Thanks. |
Car Talk / Re: What Is The Purpose Of The Vehicle Insurance Fees Imposed By The Government? by kton(m): 3:19pm On Nov 18, 2016 |
In Nigeria, it is compulsory to have motor insurance before using or keeping a motor vehicle on public roads. However, since most Nigerians buy insurance just to get cleared from law enforcement agents on the roads, they choose to go for third party motor insurance which is a lot cheaper than comprehensive policy. Consequently, because of the preconceived notions that third party policy is just to beat law enforcement agents, many don’t realize that a third party policy is actually legal and indemnifies the insured from third party losses. Unfortunately, a lot of accidented vehicles which ordinarily would have been repaired by the insurance company are borne by the car owners. How third party works For a third party motor policy, the first party is you; the second party is the insurance company while the third party is everyone else. So third party motor insurance means that if you damage (crash into) someone else’s vehicle, the insurance pays the owner of that vehicle (the third party), or more importantly if you injure someone else with your vehicle, the insurance pays. Third party liability coverage is part of your basic motor policy and covers you for claims made against you by other drivers after a crash. In other words, under third party insurance you cannot claim for the car you are driving regardless of whether it is a brand new tear rubber. You need a comprehensive cover for that. If you are driving someone else’s car, it won’t pay to have the car you are driving repaired. Only the car you hit. If you are responsible for a crash, you might also be responsible for paying to repair another vehicle or covering its driver’s medical costs. Third party liability coverage protects you against these claims, covering the cost of damage and injuries sustained in a crash in which you were at fault. It is worthy of note that the money to pay for damages comes from the premiums. Invariable, if premium has not been paid for a third party motor insurance, there won’t be any compensation whatsoever, in case of accident. If you go for a third auto party insurance from a registered insurance company, you will be able to save yourself of the cost associated with causing damage to others. Assuming your car injured a pedestrian, the insurance company will pick up the medical bills and thus save you from being torn apart by the relatives of the injured. However, note that the claim you can make on an auto insurance policy is limited. So, find out the limit to the loss the insurance policy covers before subscribing. For example, an auto insurance policy may only cover loss up to a certain amount say N1,000,000. This means that if the vehicle you damaged is worth more than that, the insurance company will only provide N1,000,000. |
Car Talk / Re: How Can I Confirm If A Car Is Not Stolen Before Purchase by kton(m): 6:16am On Aug 13, 2016 |
In addition 1. Ask the seller to write a transfer of ownership with his signature with a witness signature. 2. Make sure you are not buying at a ridiculous price believing that it's a favour from God. 37 Likes 7 Shares |
Car Talk / Re: Free Vin Check (www.autocheck.com.ng) by kton(m): 2:17pm On Aug 09, 2016 |
can you pls help with this JMBLNN84WXZ0007 Thanks |
Car Talk / Re: Thread For Mitsubishi Owner! by kton(m): 2:14pm On Aug 09, 2016 |
[quote author=oba009 post=44399902]My Space Wagon GDI 2000 bought in 2014 as I said earlier on this trend got me stock last tuesday 29-03-2016. He will start, move then off. The scanners brought to it can't read its problem. We have changed the switch sensor and got one coil burn as a result also the nozzle cleaned. In short the car is no more starting and the advice is to do away with the engine, brain box and wiring. Any advice please. Thanks[/quote Hello oba009,hope you have resolved the issue? if not my advise is that you get the engine replaced with mistibushi gallant because I once used the car but with lot of issues until I got tired of the car. The problem with the car is that,most of Nigeria mechanic never understand the car and may compound the problem if taking to them. |
Agriculture / Re: Want To Be A Distributor At Loong Foods Nig Ltd by kton(m): 3:40pm On Jul 27, 2016 |
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Agriculture / Re: Snail Hub--- Where Buyers Meet Sellers And Learn For FREE! by kton(m): 3:32pm On Jul 26, 2016 |
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Car Talk / Re: Free VIN Check by kton(m): 4:32pm On May 24, 2016 |
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Autos / Re: In Need Of Used Car by kton(m): 3:18pm On Apr 07, 2016 |
what make are you looking at? I have a mitsubishi spacewagon gdi 1999 for sale. |
Politics / Re: I Have Left PDP – Edwin Clark by kton(m): 5:33pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
I will advice he join CPC or accord. Any of the two is good for him. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Business / Breaking News! Customs Free Rice From Import Restriction by kton(m): 5:23pm On Oct 07, 2015 |
Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali(retd.), has ordered the immediate removal of rice from import restriction list. My question is . what will be the economic implication of this new development? |
Car Talk / Re: Thread For Mitsubishi Owner! by kton(m): 5:09pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Secondly, i do i know if i am to change my ab-sobers.Thanks |
Car Talk / Re: Thread For Mitsubishi Owner! by kton(m): 5:08pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
Pls house, i use space wagon manual. what could be the cause of sound i hear from the rear tyre passenger side. I dont know how to explain it but it sound like winwin like? |
Crime / Re: Destroy Recharge Cards After Use.. by kton(m): 12:39pm On Jun 12, 2015 |
stupidity of the highest order if this could be used by the nigeria police to detect criminal |
Politics / Re: Chibok Girls Survivors, Now In Oregon Boarding School, Share Their Stories (Pics by kton(m): 5:00pm On Jun 11, 2015 |
This is a big lie. These girls can be from Chibok. Anyone that served in the Northern Schools will know that a transformation of such will take nothing less than 10 years to occur if truly the girls are from Chibok. 4 Likes |
Webmasters / Re: Free New E-book On HTML And CSS by kton(m): 3:00pm On May 27, 2015 |
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Nairaland / General / Breaking News: Oil Marketers Call Off Strike, Promise Fuel In 6 Hours by kton(m): 5:44pm On May 25, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: What Next For Chief Olusegun Osoba? by kton(m): 4:48pm On Apr 15, 2015 |
Osoba just showed to the whole Ogun people how unpopular he is. Kaka and the rest that followed him to be destroyed politicaly,sorry is their names. |
Politics / What Next For Chief Olusegun Osoba? by kton(m): 1:40pm On Apr 15, 2015 |
The political party of the former governor of Ogun state, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, Social Democratic Party, SDP could not meet up with its promises that it will defeat the incumbent during the just concluded elections. Findings revealed that the political party did not win any seat during the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. The former governor, who was instrumental in Governor Ibikunle Amosun winning in 2011, left the All Progressives Congress in 2014 after the duo fell out politically. Osoba departed the party with the three serving senators in the state and seven of the nine federal lawmakers. After several meetings and deliberations, the defectors formed the SDP. The party became an household name in Abeokuta and gradually across the state and other parts of Nigeria. in Ogun, rigorous campaign and sensitisation were conducted round the 236 wards and the 20 local government areas. The party did not field a presidential candidate because it endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate and incumbent president of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Though some of the leaders of the party denied this as they stated that there was no time they agreed on such decision. But the party fielded candidates for both the Senate and the Federal House of Representatives but none of its candidate won a seat. At the just concluded governorship and House of Assembly elections last Saturday,the party contested for the governorship seat with the Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District, Akin Kamar Babalola Odunsi as its flag bearer. Few days to the governorship election, it was rumoured that the party was planning to merge with the PDP to wrestle power from incumbent, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. The party however denied it at a press briefing stating categorically that any such allusion was mischievous and untrue. The party contested and lost the governorship election to Amosun of APC. Its senatorial candidates Adegbenga Kaka (Ogun East), Gbenga Obadara (Ogun Central) and Biyi Otegbeye (Ogun West) all lost as well including all nine House of Representative candidates. Announcing the result of the governorship election, State Returning Collating Officer,Prof. Duro Oni,Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, UNILAG disclosed that the party polled a total vote of 25, 826 votes to finish third in the governorship election. The party came behind the All Progressives Congress, APC,the eventual winner and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. All its 26 House of Assembly candidates were defeated, causing the party to lose all elections from the federal to the State House of Assembly. The question on the lips of many political analysts now is what next for Chief Olusegun Osoba? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Supreme Court Affirms Fayose's Victory by kton(m): 11:39am On Apr 14, 2015 |
Ok oo! we don hear. |
Politics / Re: Buhari Has A Dead Brain- Patience Jonathan. by kton(m): 10:22am On Mar 04, 2015 |
this mama pat is cracy! |
Business / Re: FG Establishes Bank For Small And Medium Enterprises (smes) by kton(m): 4:50pm On Mar 03, 2015 |
Campaign tinz! |
Nairaland / General / Nigeria Stalls Chad, Aims To Beat Boko Haram Before Election by kton(m): 2:58pm On Mar 03, 2015 |
By Daniel Flynn and Bate Felix N'DJAMENA/YAOUNDE (Reuters) - When battle-hardened Chadian troops overran a Boko Haram camp in northern Nigeria last week, they wanted to press deep into territory controlled by the Islamist group but Nigeria refused to let them. Having defeated al Qaeda in Mali two years ago, Chad's military believes it could could finish off Boko Haram alone. It has notched up victories that have pushed the Nigerian militants back from the Cameroonian border. But with presidential elections this month, Nigeria is keen to press ahead with its own military campaign against Boko Haram, aiming to push it out of major towns before the March 28 ballot. In a country proud to be a major African power, it would be an embarrassment to President Goodluck Jonathan as he seeks reelection for a smaller nation to tackle Nigeria's security problems, diplomats say. In their forward base in the town of Gambaru on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, Chadian soldiers displayed dozens of guns seized from Boko Haram and a burnt-out armoured vehicle painted with black and white Arabic script. "We turned back because Nigeria did not authorise us to go any further," army spokesman Colonel Azem Bermandoa said. Nigeria's spokesman for operations in the northeast, Mike Omeri, said cooperation between Chadian and Nigerian forces has brought some major military successes and any issues would be resolved via existing command structures. But the Chadians say there have been no joint operations between the two forces. Chad's offer to join a Nigerian offensive to capture Baga, site of one of Boko Haram's worst atrocities in January, was rebuffed, Bermandoa said. Officials from Chad, Niger and Cameroon say lack of cooperation from Nigeria has for months hampered efforts to put together a regional taskforce against Boko Haram. Chad was compelled to take unilateral action in January, under a deal that allows it to pursue terrorists into Nigeria, after Boko Haram violence started to choke off imports to its economy. With Niger and Cameroon deploying thousands of troops on their borders, blocking escape routes for Boko Haram, the tide may be turning. In what Nigeria has branded a sign of desperation, the Islamist group has carried out wave of suicide attacks and threatened to disrupt the election. Francois Conradie, analyst with South African-based NKC Research, said that if the current offensive can be sustained, Boko Haram could quickly be driven out of the remaining towns it holds. It would, however, remain a deadly rural guerrilla force. “All of this is good news for stability and will probably be to Mr Jonathan’s electoral advantage,” he said. OPPOSITION CRITICISES RELIANCE ON CHAD Many in Nigeria ask why it took so long to act. Boko Haram killed thousands last year and kidnapped many more in its six-year campaign for an Islamist emirate in Africa's largest oil producer. Niger, Cameroon and Chad say Nigeria neglected the uprising in its economically backward northeast, an opposition stronghold. Borno state is home to two percent of Nigeria's 170 million people. But in recent months, Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who is running as the presidential candidate for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), has gained popularity with voters desperate for tough policies both on corruption and Boko Haram. Amid pressure from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria's electoral commission announced a six week postponement to the Feb. 14 election, to allow the army to tackle the security situation in the northeast so voting could go ahead there. Ernst Hogendoorn, Crisis Group's Africa deputy programme director, said the government appeared to have engineered the delay in the hope the APC would slip up or the military could boost Jonathan by defeating Boko Haram. "Boko Haram has certainly suffered a strategic setback ... Clearly this improves Goodluck Jonathan's chances somewhat," said Hogendoorn. "The question is do any of these forces have the ability to maintain this tempo, particularly the Chadians and to a lesser degree the Nigerians?" With Chad already squeezed by a slump in the price of oil, its main export, the government says it can only sustain the offensive in Nigeria for a short time, diplomats say. Buhari, however, has already criticised Jonathan for relying on Chad to push back Boko Haram, saying his government would tackle the problem alone. Many in the military and the government are keen to limit foreign involvement on Nigerian soil, diplomats say. When Chadian forces last month entered the town of Dikwa, they were told to leave by Nigeria's military, which said it was planning air strikes, Bermondoa said. After Nigeria's army retook Baga last month, Army Chief Major General Kenneth Minimah said his soldiers would recapture a handful of remaining towns before the elections, listing Dikwa as one of them. “The war is almost ended," he said. TENSIONS HAMPER REGIONAL FORCE Boko Haram was long regarded by neighbouring countries as an internal Nigerian problem, but attacks in Cameroon and Niger last year prompted the regional response. Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Benin and Cameroon agreed in May to join forces against the militants. Since then, however, distrust and misunderstandings have stymied preparations for the force, due to take effect by the end of this month. Nigeria initially sent low-level representatives to planning meetings, angering its allies. Cooperation between Cameroon and Nigeria has been dogged by long-running border tensions, while Niger accused Nigerian troops of cowardice. "Nigeria must get involved and honour its promise of providing between 2,500 and 3,000 to the multinational force," said Cameroon's defence spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck. Cameroon has stepped up its activities since July, when Boko Haram attacked Kolotafa, the hometown of its deputy prime minister, killing dozens and kidnapping his wife. The government has boosted its security forces in northern Cameroon from 700 to around 7,000. "We have to do whatever it takes to make sure the sect does not occupy any town in Cameroon," said Colonel Joseph Nouma, in charge of Operation Alpha, the mission against Boko Haram. However, Nouma said he has orders not to enter Nigeria, and Cameroon has denied Nigerian troops the right to pursue insurgents into Cameroon. Along its 400 km (250 miles) border with Nigeria, Cameroon has created 14 new bases, with heavy artillery batteries. It has also deployed surveillance drones, a senior intelligence officer said. Another senior Cameroon military figure said they were attempting to choke off Boko Haram's revenues, including the trade in fuel with Cameroon, Chad and Niger. "All of this looks to be paying off," the officer said, with no incursions since mid-February. (Additional reporting by Tim Cocks in Lagos, Emmanuel Braun and Madjiasra Nako in N'Djamena, Abdoulaye Massalaki in Niamey; Editing by Giles Elgood) |
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