Turbo Nerdz

Last week, we took a dive into the hassle of owning a car in Singapore. Unlike Singapore, we need not to pay one hundred million naira to own a car and this is the reason why people own so many cars in Nigeria. An average family in Nigeria has at least two cars in good and working condition. More so, the diversity of cars in Nigeria is simply amazing, all thanks to our laxed import rules. Let's get cracking! 1. WE CAN IMPORT ALMOST ANY CAR FROM ANY COUNTRY Top: American Spec 2012 Toyota Camry; Bottom: European Spec 2012 Toyota Camry I want you to pay close attention to the image above and try to pick out the difference between the two cars. At first glance, one would think they were the same car, which is very true, with the only differences being the headlights, grill and bumper. The same is the case with the rear of these cars seen in the image below, as the tail lights and rear bumper look different, but the overall shape of the car, as well as the interior remians the same. So

The title of today’s episode seems outrageous and unbelievable, but not to a vehicle owner in Singapore. Before I go any further, I would first of all like to apologize to my TurboNerdz for not releasing a blogpost last week, especially without any prior heads-up. I wish that I had a tangible excuse as to why I did so, but I honestly have non. Now, back to the topic for today. As a resident of Singapore, in order to own a vehicle, one has to first obtain a Certificate of Entitlement, otherwise known as a C.O.E which has a price tag of $106,000. Converting one hundred and six thousand dollars to naira, with the current exchange rate gives you well over a hundred million naira. This means that only a handful of Nigerians would have been able to own a car. The craziest part about the whole Certificate of Entitlement (C.O.E) thing is that it is not for a lifetime. A C.O.E in Singapore is renewed every ten years and failure to do so means that ones car is seized and confiscated by the Singa

Travelling home and back to school for the festive season, I got to experience public transport once again and it was bliss. To all of you that go home by flight, you have no idea what you are missing. Oya, you don catch me, I lied. You flight people are not missing anything at all, I seriously envy you guys because public transport is so tiring. While going home in December, the bus left Ilorin at 10am and we arrived Asaba at about 8pm. That's 10 solid hours on the road. I observed the faces of all passengers on arrival and we all looked so worn out, but guess who was still full of life? If your answer was the bus driver, then you would be correct. It took me about two days to recover from the journey and I am very sure it took other passengers longer. As for the driver who performed the strenuous activity of driving for almost 10 hours straight, I knew that he would be on his way back to Ilorin the very next morning, conveying another set of  passengers to their destination. As I