Preparing motorists for NIMET flood forecast
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has (in its typical life-saving scientific role as the statutory agency designated to forewarn us on climatological conditions) predicted a deluge in many parts of...
View ArticleAutomedics’ CSR: Abuja Here We come
Ever since I returned to Nigeria from the USA, where I was trained professionally and practiced for more than two decades, to start practicing in the backstreets of one of Lagos’ slums, Mushin, I knew...
View ArticleReactions to Automedics
I have been an old model Peugeot mechanic for more than two decades. I am almost out of job due to the phasing out of the brand. I see a new hope of improving myself in modern automobiles through you....
View ArticleThe hazardous road to Abuja
Ordinarily, today’s piece ought to have been titled, “Automedics: At last Abuja here we come!” but as a Nigerian who seldom drives to Abuja, I’ll be betraying the factual and reportorial automotive cum...
View ArticleThe 2-day automedics Abuja seminar: A post mortem
We, the strategic officers of Automedics, used to think that there was a major problem of competence in our auto maintenance/repair industry (just like in all other vocational fields such as plumbing,...
View ArticleThe fight for our tomorrow: Youths’ skill and empowerment agenda
The greatest problem of Nigeria is residual in the myopia of its private sector’s leadership; which is exemplified in the twin unsustainable business cultures of ‘mega profit now now’ and their wrong...
View ArticleWhy you should wash your car regularly
Keeping a vehicle clean in our dusty or muddy (depending on the time of the year) environment is a herculean task. But making sure that a vehicle is regularly clean is not only a matter of aesthetics,...
View ArticleChallenges of Nigerian auto parts market
The auto spare parts’ market in Nigeria, like many other sectorial markets in this jurisdiction, is all noise and little substance. The market is simply an aberration from the orthodoxy that some of us...
View ArticleHow government can partner with industries to empower youths
Please let me start today’s piece by playing the comical finger-pointing card: “The positively guilty party in today’s storyline is SUNDAY PUNCH newspaper! Yes, this paper is guilty as charged below.”...
View ArticleFellow mechanics, it’s time to work smart
I am presently in London, UK, where I seem to have a very light work day (except for the fantastic opportunity to avidly read many of the professional books that the hurly-burly of life in Lagos...
View ArticleToday is feast of hanging answers
Some of our valued readers have called us to complain that they have not seen their questions answered having sent them to us in the last three weeks. The truth is that the questions have been answered...
View ArticleStill feast of hanging answers
This column will again, today, accord pride of place to the answered enquiries of our invaluable readers that are yet to be published due to the constraint of space. I had thought they could be...
View ArticleStill on the feast of hanging answers
Given the deluge of enquiries we get weekly from motorists wishing to get value from their vehicular assets, me thinks it’s about time a corporate entity collaborates with the management of PUNCH...
View ArticleFinal feast of hanging answers
I drive a 2000 Lexus LX470 which I have enjoyed, until recently, when my mechanic messed things up for me. He left some cables hanging which eventually crossed the fan belt and led to a bridge. The...
View ArticleREACTIONS TO AUTOMEDICS
The transmission of my Mazda, 2001 model is not changing smoothly. It usually delays till the RPM indicator shows 3000 or 3500 before it changes the gear. Even at that, it does so with a slight jerk. I...
View ArticleWhat’s EVAP system?
Recently, this message was posted on Automedics’ heavily followed daily updated Twitter handle (@automedicsnig), “Do you know it is a bad habit to fill your fuel tank to the brim? If you do this, you...
View ArticleThe Ondo invasion
I am writing this piece from Atlanta, State of Georgia, US, where I’m orchestrating a silent revolution that’ll positively and dramatically change the hapless circumstance that surrounds how Nigerian...
View ArticleFalsehood and facts about overheating
The first thing any driver should know is that when his or her vehicle’s temperature needle is at the middle point of the temperature gauge, and it does not go beyond the point at anytime in the...
View ArticleA hearty letter to my roadside mechanic friend
This letter to you my roadside mechanic friend (which will likely be read and interpreted to you by our vehicle-owning middle-class compatriot) is informed by a profound sense of social-responsibility...
View ArticleHow companies can manage their vehiculars
Vehicles, in an economy like Nigeria’s that mainly depends on its network of bad roads, are as essential to individuals as they are to businesses. Like a customer once asked me rhetorically: “Kunle,...
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