Car Guy Tonio

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[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

Was complaining about a 5% price increase shipping a vehicle from Germany to Lagos and my guy showed me a 120% increase shipping from Dubai to NG.

If you’re shipping from the Middle East this period, I wish you the best. You’ll need it.

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

Diesel is now N2,000 per litre.

Kundus, to everyone involved

[Dami Cole @dami_cole]

This looks like ages ago. Diesel is now N620.

Kudos to everyone involved.

[Daoptimist⚓🌊🔥✨ @GallantDaletian]

Following the recent discovery and subsequent legal proceedings at the Federal High Court in Abuja, a chilling narrative has emerged regarding a dismantled espionage network. Iran had sleeper cells in Nigeria who have been actively spying on both the U.S. and Israeli embassies. These cells were carrying out information and surveillance gathering on both U.S. and Israeli interests in Lagos, including the U.S. Consular office. They were sending this data back to an individual identified as Abu Ali in Iran through encrypted software, preparing such locations for a terrorist attack.

The operation was led by Haruna Ali Abbas, who acted as the primary coordinator for the cell. Abbas, along with Ibrahim Hussein Musa and Adam Suleiman, was intercepted by the Department of State Services (DSS) following a period of intense clandestine activity.

According to testimonies from DSS Deputy Director James Simon, the defendants confessed to receiving specialized training at an Iranian military barracks. During their time in Iran, they were instructed in weapon handling and the collection of open source intelligence specifically targeting American and Israeli assets.
The cell's tradecraft was sophisticated, utilizing coded language and high level encryption software to exfiltrate tactical target packages to their handler, Abu Ali. These packages included detailed lists of American and Israeli concerns in Lagos and their precise locations mapped out for potential kinetic strikes. Beyond physical surveillance, the cell even monitored diplomatic cooperation, such as Israeli agricultural support to the Kwara State government, to identify every possible point of contact.
The downfall of Abbas began on March 16, 2013, when Abbas was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport while returning from Lebanon.

The subsequent investigation revealed a broader conspiracy to recruit young Nigerians for terrorism training abroad. Now facing trial before Justice Emeka Nwite, the defendants extrajudicial statements have exposed the depth of the plot, with the court adjourning until April 4 for further cross examination as the Nigerian government seeks to finalize the sentencing for these acts of preparatory terrorism.

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

She thinks heartbreaks cause men to love cars than women.

Bless her heart 😀😀

[ThatBlessedGirl @BlessedGirl001]

I went for an event yesterday with hubby, the guys who sat next to us in a round table were talking about CARS 🚘. If you see the way they were talking about different types of cars and their functionalities with enthusiasm and passion.

Then One guy then bring the topic of women, they hissed and told the guy to stand up. They removed his seat from their group, then one of them said; "we're talking about cars you're talking about women".

I said to myself if men love cars more than they love women, we're cooked. We've failed as women. Heartbreaks have made some mem transfer their love to material things because cars last longer than most relationships.

[Luminous choice by FOLA @OlayemiKomolaf4]

PROBIOTICS ; NAIJA EDITION

1. Omidun – fermented corn or millet drink
2. Zobo (fermented version) – hibiscus drink that can be lightly fermented
3. Pito – traditional sorghum/millet beer (fermented, mildly alcoholic)
4. Kunu – millet, sorghum, or corn-based drink
5. Tepache – a lightly fermented pineapple drink
6. Palm wine – naturally fermented, contains probiotics
7. Iru / Ogiri – fermented locust beans used as seasoning
8. Wara / Local cheese – soft cheese made from fermented milk

Fermentation time varies: longer fermentation usually = more probiotics

Raw consumption is best for probiotics; cooking may kill some bacteria

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

So fufu, essentially!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist noticed in 1907 that Bulgarian peasants were living past 100 at unusually high rates. His explanation: they ate yogurt every day. His name was Élie Metchnikoff, and he ran the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

His lecture made front-page news. Parisians lined up to buy Bulgarian curdled milk. Drugstores across Europe and the US started selling Lactobacilline tablets, basically the world’s first probiotics. But his original theory was partially wrong. The specific bacteria in yogurt (Lactobacillus bulgaricus) don’t actually survive in the human gut. A Yale researcher proved that in 1921.

Should’ve been case closed. It wasn’t.

In 2021, Stanford ran a clinical trial published in Cell with 36 healthy adults over 10 weeks. One group ate about 6 daily servings of fermented foods (yogurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha). The other ate high-fiber foods. The fermented food group saw their gut bacterial diversity increase, which is one of the strongest predictors of overall health, and 19 inflammatory proteins in their blood dropped. Including interleukin-6, a protein tied to Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic stress. The high-fiber group? Zero of those 19 proteins decreased.

That same year, a Keio University and Broad Institute team studied 160 Japanese centenarians (average age: 107) and published in Nature. These centenarians had gut bacteria producing a bile acid called isoallolithocholic acid, basically a natural antibiotic so new to science it had never been described. It kills drug-resistant bacteria, including C. difficile, a gut infection that hits roughly 500,000 Americans a year.

A 2023 Nature Aging study of 1,575 people in China, 297 of them centenarians, found the oldest participants had gut microbiomes that looked younger than people decades below them. More bacterial diversity, more beneficial species, fewer harmful ones.

The yogurt meta-analysis data across 12 cohort studies: each additional daily serving is linked to 7% lower all-cause mortality and 14% lower risk of dying from heart disease.

Metchnikoff called it 119 years ago. Fermented foods reshape your entire gut ecosystem, increasing the diversity of bacteria living in your intestines, lowering chronic inflammation, and building a biochemical environment where your body fights off disease on its own.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

At one point in college, I had an obese roommate.

After a few weeks, she complained about how lucky I was to be thin, since I ate more than her.

The thing is, however, that I absolutely did not eat more than her, in terms of calories or just amount of food.

She put ranch on everything. 600 calorie drinks. Endless snacking.

Maybe my plate was more full than hers at dinner, but it was obvious tp everyone but her that she was consuming more throughout the day.

I'm sorry, but after multiple instances of this happening with other overweight people, I just don't trust when someone heavy insists they're in caloric deficit.

Maybe some people lose weight faster than others. For sure. But it's simple science that if calories out exceed calories in, you WILL lose weight.

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

It’s such a great time to be Dangote with ownership of a refinery

[Name cannot be blank @hackSultan]

What used to take a team of 4 three weeks to pull off and cost over $15,000 is now possible for less then $3.
These unknown team from the UK solved this and it’s finally out to the public.

The major problem with creating design visuals with normal AI prompts; was that after every iteration;
it starts to change a part of the design,
the brand icons starts to change,
the ratio changes,
the logo starts to flips if it’s not horizontal.
It’s hard to keep things consistent, that’s why so many design studios can’t use AI for designs.

And these folks finally solved that, and totally crashed the market. Now vibe coders, companies and startups can cut down brand asset designs costs by over 99% and still retain consistency.
Interesting time we live in.

[Afropolitan 🅰️🌶 @afropolitan]

Then ZIRP ended. Rates went up. Capital pulled back.

And the continent lost an entire generation of startups that were actually building something real.

Default alive wasn't a strategy back then. Now it's the only one that matters."

Watch the full episode: https://t.co/M30roG9ZrA

[Aunty Teda @imoteda]

There's been a weird wave of people trying to discourage other from buying China made new electric cars. I find it so fascinating. Most of them offer 6-10 year warranties are are currently giving offers like free servicing and maintainance for up to 5 years as well as payment plans.

Why would anyone want to buy a used mercedes or lexus over that?

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

@MrBig_Bone @Saifthesage @Leriq_Keemz That’s what you’re actually supposed to do lmao.

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

@bigbrovar Source of data please ?

I was expecting a YOY increase from 6k in 2024 but not up to 25k

Except you only wanted to be safe.

Volume definitely increased last year though.

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

@Odogwu_Rico Ideally should connect Epe. So ogun can potentially connect theirs for continuity. Just like the highway

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

Sangotedo and Awoyaya residents don’t deserve public transport

[Rico 👨‍💻✨ @Odogwu_Rico]

@channelstv Build a metro from
badagry - Ajah
Ikorodu - Ajah
Ogun-Agege -Ajah
Enugu -onitsha-Warri
Enugu - ph
Jos to Abuja

Lagos - Enugu
Lagos - ph - Calabar
Ph - Jos -Kano
Lagos - Ibadan -Abuja - Kano
Wed-sunday movement of people
Monday to Tuesday movement of goods

Simple .

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

Sell comprehensive insurance to him, heck, force it on him, when he inevitably damages the car, you’ll “come to his rescue” and he’ll be your customer for life.

[B¹G ZIM @XcessCars]

Sold an RX350 F-Sport to this guy and after payment and everything, baba was asking me nicely to help him drive the car to Osapa. That’s when it occurred to me it’s his first car 🤣🤣

Baba doesn’t even know how to drive, but he has jammed block money so he bought his dream car anyway.

Let nobody whine you, any car can be your first car. It all depends on your pocket, your mind, and your choice. 🚗💰

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

It is in everyone’s best interest to support this amazing project.

The moral compass of any society is shaped by what it chooses to reward, and it is crucial that we find meaningful ways to celebrate and honour academic excellence.

[DejiChukwuNonsoAnubi @DejiAnubi]

Looking at my order books. Looking at what i have built from ground zero. Just me. I export frozen snails, fish fillet, crayfish to the UK, Annual value is 2 million pounds. I have an adhesive factory, i have a paper factory. I have a fruit Juice factory.

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

@0xkitng @biltronix @autocareplusng I’d like to add here. If @biltronix can’t personally fix it, he knows where to get the tools and people to fix it. Best shot fr

[Car Guy Tonio @m_settler]

I used satellite imagery and infrared temperature maps a lot at uni, and this dress looks exactly like a thermal map during peak heat season.

[F E E Z @Feeztm]

I have a lot of ladies that are searching for men, please help me reach out and marry them!

- Nigerian matchmaker begs Nigerian men.