Irunmole: Mansions built with money stolen from you and I.

Honeycity: the 5th building is really nice!

PapaBrowne:

Bros! I Like your speech! Very apt. Please post some pics if possible. I might be needing your services on a commercial retail project.

ismhab:
This one no be Nigeria.

Godogwu:

I seriously don't know why some Nigerians still have this foolish way of thinking........first of all, most of these houses aren't owned by politicians!!!, people actually work in Nigeria....we have doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, CEOs, business men and women, actors, artistes and so on.....politicians are not the only wealthy people in the country. Most of these politicians actually started making money on their own before joining politics . secondly, the fact that you don't own a property like this doesn't mean money has been stolen from you; I'm very sure you didn't have a billion Nara that was forcefully taken by the government.....I believe you should work hard on your own and stop blaming the government for your misfortunes because there are people out there making cool cash in Nigeria.

playboy19:

Ofcourse na naija. I know this building for Area 11. I go one 6 yr old boy bday for there some 3 yrs ago....Ol' boy, the party be like a wedding ceremony. Majority of us self no see the kid wey dey celebrate bday.



Well, i guess it musta been a while you visited naija. Majority of these buildings are far from cheap. Majority are multi-million dollars houses. Consider this, Land alone in Lekki is between N150m - N400m [ $1m - $2.5m] and in Asokoro where majority of the houses are situated, it's always between N300m - N1b [ $2m - $6.5 ] and that's just for the land.

In addition, i'm not sure about the procedures you have to go through when buying a land in lekki but i'm in deep know about the Asokoro's. First you need to come forward with your proposed plan prototype. And you can be sure you're not contesting with any less of 20 people over the same lot. So on the paper, the best prototype gets to buy the land (don't forget the price has not even been set yet) but in truth, na the person wey "bride" pass, go buy the house. Which means, many, many under-th-table-envelopes must still exchange hands.

So just eliminate that "someone living in one of those hows was a plumber" thought off your mind, except he or she is/was the Villa's plumber.

london2lasgidi: @Jason123

Thanks for the skyscrapercity link.. I saw the Abuja, I have never seen on TV.. Abuja is the place to be!!!

Can I create a thread for that, or just post the pictures here?

santakris: The one with Aeroplane design is a museum I guess. Laugh

MRbrownJAY: one of the main problem with Nigerian homes is that some of the building look great BUT the interior are almost always dreadful, with poor lighting and deco....... it seem to me that most have no idea what interior design mean!

slam7000:



How many Nigerian homes have you seen the interiors of or do you depend on what you saw in the property section?.There are lots of amazing interior decors around but i know most people wont post the pics of their interiors for security reasons...most of those houses do not cost so much cos of cheap labour as compared to a place like uk..where a labourer can earn about £60[N15,000]a day.about interiors,,,,naija ppl have very good taste.personally i know some people who imported most of their interior stuffs[plumbing,kitchen,bathroom,furniture etc}from places like Travis Perkins and B&Q here in the uk.you need to see the interior decor to believe..

Irunmole:

The forum is for you to air your like or dislike of the topic being discussed and not for you to jump on my neck for airing my personal opinion. If you don't like my comment look elsewhere. Simple.

xchrsx: Well, no doubt these houses are beautiful but how many Nigerians with legitimate money can afford them,most of these are stolen and we knw it .I pity this country and its confused leaders

xchrsx: Well, no doubt these houses are beautiful but how many Nigerians with legitimate money can afford them,most of these are stolen and we knw it .I pity this country and its confused leaders

ROSSIKE:

My friend please shut your rotten mouth. Just because YOU are a failure doesn't mean people are not succeeding in honest businesses throughout Nigeria.

blink182: Yeah, interior deco is a big problem in the country

black.rules:


Hmmm! but we desire it.

In my town, a business man built a mansion compared to the 8th one; he named in 'VANITY CASTLE'.

slam7000:
How many Nigerian homes have you seen the interiors of or do you depend on what you saw in the property section?.There are lots of amazing interior decors around but i know most people wont post the pics of their interiors for security reasons...most of those houses do not cost so much cos of cheap labour as compared to a place like uk..where a labourer can earn about £60[N15,000]a day.about interiors,,,,naija ppl have very good taste.personally i know some people who imported most of their interior stuffs[plumbing,kitchen,bathroom,furniture etc}from places like Travis Perkins and B&Q here in the uk.you need to see the interior decor to believe..

Godogwu:

I seriously don't know why some Nigerians still have this foolish way of thinking........first of all, most of these houses aren't owned by politicians!!!, people actually work in Nigeria....we have doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, CEOs, business men and women, actors, artistes and so on.....politicians are not the only wealthy people in the country. Most of these politicians actually started making money on their own before joining politics . secondly, the fact that you don't own a property like this doesn't mean money has been stolen from you; I'm very sure you didn't have a billion Nara that was forcefully taken by the government.....I believe you should work hard on your own and stop blaming the government for your misfortunes because there are people out there making cool cash in Nigeria.

surveycash:

I don see that kain house around Jos...I dont know if it's the one though..

moremi2008:

This is a lie. Few people besides politicians and the very top businessmen have $1million-$2million lying around to build these types of houses. It's no coincidence that a majority of the newer houses that were posted are located in Abuja. My uncle builds premium houses like these in Abuja and I know from several personal conversations with him that a good 70%-80% of the clientele for show-piece Abuja mansions are politicians, ministers and top government workers. Successful people that made their money in the private sector through legitimate means (i.e. "doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, CEOs, business men and women, actors, artistes" rarely choose to invest that kind of money in a relatively illiquid asset that might sit empty for most of the year (they typically build relatively modest mansions close to where they actually work and live like Lagos/PH). The vast majority of the spanking-new Abuja mansions you see are built with stolen money (ditto for most of the structures on Banana Island).

Stop spewing lies if you don't really know what you're talking about.