@ Karbaka and Madam L.

You guys are extra ordinary Nigerians. After many years you still follow up this thread with so much passion. Honestly I do not have words to describe what I feel for your consistency, openness and passion for your business.

@ Karbaka, can one still get the info you,ve been sending out over the years? If yes, kindly send me the info(s), my address is : ufofex@live.com

I noticed there is association(s) enforcing some kind of price regime in some areas. Is one to take it that, you must be registered with the association in your location to operate a sachet/bottled water factory?

It will be niece to hear from your wealth of experience

Bravo! Couple and FBS!

Never thought I will see a day in NL when people could resolve their differences so maturely.

Kudos to the both of you, kudos.

@ pak

Did you say you are not an economist? You just qualified as one. Great line of thought

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2) a (men women and children)

3) a

George_D:

more testing pics.

over 10,000 amphere hours produced since installation and still counting! 

George, I admire your passion. Can you organize a workshop/seminar for for folks to have hands-on experience?

Honourable SANL, I salute. The Ikorodu case study is quite timely for me. I was about going into such an agreement for a land in Abuja, I know better now.

Once again, I salute you - SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NAIRALAND (SANL)

Quote from: naijaking1 on January 31, 2011, 05:30 PM
Are you for real?
For a[b] fire-spitting-reactionary-reply-ready personality[/b], you know better than to say Soludo shouldn't have replied when lies are been heaped upon him and his record Cool



Chairmo, I doff my hat for the bolded,  you sure have your way with words, and its impressive.

Yes it is true you can withdrawl dollars or pounds with the card, I used a Diamond bank card when i went to london and it worked  BUT beware, They will take 25 percent of what you load on it. I did it before i knew and i was mad.
I dont know of other banks but i am talking of Diamond bank.


Would you be kind enough to share your experience with us please?

I  wonder how some people find it convenient to undermine others and their good deeds.
At what point would one appreciate the good gesture of this lady?
Is it when she gives 100%?

I'm not a fan of this woman, but I know a kind gesture when I see one.
Omotola deserves some commendation, and here is mine:
Omotola, weldone!

Expository as always.

Allow me sir to confer on you (in my world at least), Senior Advocate of NairaLand, SANL

Hmmmn, this one is hot.
One cannot be comprehensive enough on this issue, lets try taking it in snippets.
Ours is a culture of fast-eroding values. The Nigeria that I know, that I live in, is one in which culture has been relegated to the background. In the original African setting, family is everything. Today however, there is a difference, I would like to call it a 'generational shift' of ideas/values/fad, whatever.

My Nigeria has become a place where unneccessary emphasis is placed on what one possesses, or what position one occupies. Respect and honour is according to the size of one's material possession or how high up his position is.So a lot of us try making more, achieving more, nudging higher. As someone who leaves his family for 2wks of every month, it is hard for me admitting to this problem. But, this is by no means exclusive to Nigeria. We are just a small part of a materialitc- driven world contributting it's share

@ Poster,

"Super!! Super!! Super!!! SUV, you all know who this dude is, i need not introduce him so much.

BMW X5 is known, reliable, luxurious, powerful, fast, "add what you like here it's in it"
USED BY A MEGA BIGBOY IN NIGERIA. DUDE HAS UPGRADED TO THE 2007 MODEL, it's not his fault 


OPTIONS :

ALLOY WHEELS

FACTORY "WICKED" A/C
FACTORY LEATHER SEATS
AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
REAR A/C VENTS
NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Local Television receiver( can watch local Tv stations on screen) , if you can attach a DSTv dish to the back you can watch supersport on the move
POWER WINDOWS AND SEATS
, E.T.C


ASKING PRICE::> 2.8M,
If interested give me a call on 08068097693 or email:: lexfrosty @yahoo.com
pics below"


Great advert, must say I like the embellishment too. Kindly educate Toks2008 on how to place sales adverts on this forum for everyone to enjoy.

Wonderful pictures too, wish I hadn't bought my Sequioa.

@ Poster
Your thread is tension-soaked. I believe the reason why  you've been getting some stiff critism, is because of your confrontational posture when you started the thread.
I am not a car dealer, I guess the dealers in this forum sense you're trying to paint them 'black', and its only natural to get the kind of response you are getting.
If you want to to sell a product, just advertise and sell,don't pull the competition down 'because you wanna to make sales.

Respecting your statistics, from what source? Which statistics office did you get those infos. from? I don't know where you live, but the last I checked, half the cars on my street are SUV's, and those don't come cheap. 5 out of 10 cars in my workplace are brand new, of the remaining 5, 3 are SUV's and these don't come cheap either. Nigerians are willing to buy what they are willng to buy, just allow us make that decision for ourselves.

Some of us may be able to buy 'million naira cars', some of us are be able to buy 'hundreds-of-thousands naira cars' some of us cannot afford a car at all.
Just place your advert without been confrontational, and please make this forum a lively place for us all.

You might want to dampen the tone of some of your lines:

                            "Enough of all these adverts of car sales worth millions, "

"my findings have shown that most cars sold on nairaland in the million range were mostly bought by outsiders, "
"Look here bro,, "

"i make a six figure as income monthly, "

"i am repeating this for the umptenth time, "

"Let the oga jenju and viper man deal with the big cars, i will take care of the small ones."

"I still insist that you people should stop this VINophilic atitude, "

@ Peeboy
Al-queada, to bomb Nigeria? is it in the Niger Delta or Aso Villa and where are they targeting. Haba! Okiro, please tell Nigerian about the security situations in the Niger Delta and what your men are doing to stop the criminal activities going on there.
I don't really know what Nigeria did to Al-quada, that make us a target of attack. Are they attacking poverty, corruption, hypocritical religion or non performing sector of the economy? , what is even there for them to attack?
Security reports? from what source CIA, CID, SSS, we pray God to deliver us from the terrorist who bomb our hospitals, ruined the education sector, disconnect electric power from us, rigged elections and bombard us daily with distractive panels and false information.

Very well said.

Sky Blue:

While Solar might be a viable alternative, i really don't believe it should be the focus at all, not at this point anyway. All these renewable sources, wind, solar, tidal, etc. They should only be supplements at this stage but nevertheless viable supplements to the main energy grid. We keep on hearing of gas flaring. The gas in the Niger Delta is enough to power Nigeria and yet till this day nothing has been done about it and it is still being flared and wasted.

Bros, this gas flaring thing is sickening. We don"t have a govt. with sincerity of purpose. This year 2008 was the deadline for gas flaring, behold they are about singing a new song. You talked of using our gas to generate power, that's a very lofty idea for our govt., when you compare it with the small challange of bottling this same gas for cooking.
In 9ja, a 12.5 kg of cooking gas went to as high as NGN5000.oo

When govt. pay workers that are non-existing, everybody scream 'ghost workers! ghost workers!!'
What shall we scream now, that govt. will be paying for electricity that is non-existing
Who will they be paying to?

Kobojunkie:

This is the main reason why I am for Nigerians going over to solar in the mean time. Imagine all the pollution from all that. Many of these businesses can comfortably switch over to using renewable sources, considering how much they currently have for energy budget in just one year. Even Nigerians who own generators can switch over years to solar panels and benefit more from that than from continued use of generators which not only pollute the environment but also flush trillions down the drain each year.

Good talk man.
But initial cost of installation is said to be very high.
For me, it would have made better sense if Mr. President subsidises the cost of solar panel so Nigerians can individually generate power for themselves, not subsidising tariff of a commodity that is non-existing(electrcity in Nigeria).

cola:

Guys here have always suggested a GSM-revolution like case for the power sector. Now the govt is trying to do something in that line, same guys are here complaining.

Before the GSM revolution, we had NITEL. Govt. did not have to pay subsidies for us to recharge our GSM phones, govt. did not take part in the pricing, not even with the PTOs. Market forces/competition played their role, and those who could afford it got it. We didn't need govt. subsidies and we sure don't need it now. Even if electrcity is charged at #10 per unit, it will still be far less a price to pay when you compare it to howmuch we use to run our generators.

Subsidies or no subsidies, govt. should create an enabling environment that will allow for true private sector/investors participation in the power sector, and leave the pricing for market forces to determine.

@ poster: "Although, you might get paid a lot for working at six flags but, the government takes half your money for taxes. That's rough. Do Nigerians even pay taxes to the gov't?"

The answer to your question is yes (sometimes multiple), especially does in the formal sector. Talking about taxes, in 9ja most of the taxes paid to govt. end up in private pockets, there is nothing to show for the taxes hard working and sincere Nigerians pay other than;
no power
terrible roads
fallen standard of education
fallen standard of health care
no water, and the list goes on.
My dear we Nigerians would love and wish that life in 9ja is better here than abroad, but the stack reality is that, for the average Nigerian living in Nigeria, life is an excruciating struggle.

I said it!
GTBank for Life!

GTB all the way, with no apologies or reservations.

qimpex:

Exporting car to Nigeria is not as simple as ABC. Automaster must have had a bad experience from some rotten apples but the truth is most auto dealers in the US, like me are insured and bonded.

To most of us, car exporting to Nigeria is the greatest risk to take, hence in as much that it is obvious that some cars like an 07 Camry can get to Lagos for N3 million and offered for sale at N6 million, it is important to know what is involved. First of all, no car is the same in terms of specifications.You can't really compare an Honda Accord with another Accord of the same year because they both have leather interior, there are many add-ons that might differ these two cars.However, to an average Nigerian buyer all they care for 2000 Toyota Camry "padded", factory fitted AC and other jargons that doesn't really make any meaning in the very competitive American auto retail industry. One of my friends, shipped an 08 Camry to Lagos in Nov 07, and had the keys stolen at the port.He has spent about N500,000 at a dealership on Lekki E/way and the car's remote control is still not functioning Like every biz, the keyword is buyer's beware.

I have had situations when I bought cars without deposit from buyers in Nigeria, only for them to change color or options or stop communicating due to one funny story or another.Only last week, one of my buyers refused to pay for the the remaining 75% and clearing cost of a car after it landed in Tin-Can simply because is father -in-law died. This is a guy who was calling me every second to find out the status of the car.

Lesson learned - don't send a car to LAgos unless and until you have received the bulk of your money. Most people think these cars are stolen or got for 50 cents. For record, cars are bought at Auto Auctions with Cash or Bank Drafts, no credit or COD.

Bros, Abeg I no fit laugh . U no say many of us for 9ja no dey Y2K compliant, that is why we communicate in "paddeds,facs,ps," etc. Infactu, if I tell u say I wan buy 'Jeep' make u know say na 'SUV' I dey talk ofOOO. So u go need to ask me which brand/make. No go buy me CherokeeOOO! otherwise I no payOOO! When we request some of this rides ehm, make una dey try to educate us small on wetin dey.
All the best in your transactions.

Pennywise:

Midas02, great price and good display. You will forgive some of us if we're a little skeptical about the transaction. Guess its the Nigerian thing
Great price anyway.

when they introduced 5%VAT, what did they tell us? They have not fulfilled it.
Many of us contributed to Police Equipment Fund, where are the equipments? Where is the Fund?
NGN10B/NGN16B on PHCN, where is the evidence?
Dem carry our money use am dey play kalokalo.

Nemesis must catch up with all of them!

Sabisabi:

Its good thing they are doing. Eletric is too cheap here for naija and yet people dey complain say e dey expensive. Una no wan pay tax or any thing haba.

I can assure you these guys don't mean anything good for the avg. Nigerian. Remember when they introduced Fuel sales Tax of NGN1.50/litre some years ago? They said it was needed to fix our roads, my broda tell me where are the roads today?
Believe it or not, if they increase the taiff on electricity now, nothing will change,as long as its thesame bunch of guys running the show.

They have started again! Anytime they want to tell us not to expect power(electricty) for as long as their tenure lasts, they will play thesame song of: it took 2 decades and more for the system to get this bad, so don't expect us to get it done overnight. What a crap!!!

T'was thesame song the OBJ administration sang, and for eight years they kept remixing the song, giving us various versions. At the end they plunged funds into only God knows where, and here we are, worse off than eight years ago.

Now Lukman want us to pay more.
More for what?
More for what we don't use?
Is he trying to negotiate for an increase in the price of a commodity he doesn't have? Arrant nonsense!!!!!

Or maybe he is telling us we will be paying more to run our generators as usual.

Hope this is genuine, if it is, check out a Toyota Sequoia Limited 4x4 2002-2006 model. Any color except black and armygreen.Millage, less than 85000 miles. Give me the price to my doorstep. Clearing must be authentic from Lagos ports.

You can start by telling us how nice/hospitable/hostile you guys are

Hi, please check this VIN for a 2002 Toyota Sequoia: 5TDBT44A22S110591
Thanks

The man is, and will always be the head of the family. If he is jobless, then the word 'jobless' becomes an adjective qualifying his headship. If he is lazy, he becomes a lazy head,. If he is proud he becomes a proud head, and so on. I wish every woman has a husband with a job, that way there will be less friction in the family.