₦airaland Forum

eshietIntrepid:
Tribal warlord
Why not search in duara


Presidents buhari desperate search for oil in the north east shows that no tribe from the north really desire Nigeria to remain one if they can take care of all their needs, I pray u find what u fine looking for so we can all rest.

It is really pathetic that we have leaders that lack foresight in governors... Oil is becoming irrelevant, how do you want a country of almost 200million to survive on oil revenue of less than 20billion dollars when country like Ethiopia are making over 5 billion dollars from exportation of rose flower to Europe alone.

The real diversification should gear towards unlocking our industrial and commercial potential. I expect a serious government should declare a state of emergency in rail construction, cities like onitsha, Lagos, port Harcourt, ibadan, enugu, aba, nzuka, kaduna, Abuja, kano, etc should be linked with good railway network to aid Commerce and industrialization. I expect the count to declare a state of emergency on power, create small industrial parks, make loan accessible to small scale entrepreneurs, change land use act so that people can get land easily for commercial agriculture purpose

QuotaSystem:
Do you have comprehension issues ?



Yes. Diversification does not mean abandoning your current revenue earner, but exploring and developing other revenue sources in case any of them is adversely affected so you can rely on another for sustenance during hard times.

The northern core revenue earner is agriculture (food products, leather, cash crops) and we are diversifying into oil, while that of the South is oil so it should diversify into agriculture and other sources. That is diversification.

Crude oil exploration and peasant farming are not the kind of diversification we want in this age....

Nigeria can never developed depending on commodities alone, we need strong manufacturing, mining and services sector to developed and all these sectors requires massive investment in infrastructure development.

Instead of endless search for oil why can't we have policies in place to revived the textile industries in the north, create small industrial Park model after earlier East Asian models, spend up to 60% of our budget on capital expenditures like the Ethiopians etc

[quote author=boss1310 post=48821347][/quote]Jewish are follower of Judaism and not a race of people...
I am not looking at the issue from religious point because I have no business with Christianity, I am looking at it purely from historical point of view.

The people that lives in that region are dark skin to brown skin people, the weather, architecture is pointer to this fact.

European in a bid to prove superiority over every race whitewashed history, dehumanized Africans for their selfish interest.

Civilization like this had been used by u Europeans to enslave others, formulate racist IQ test to prove that Africans (black) are sub human not capable of any notable civilization.

That is the reason why they whitewash all known civilization to fit into their racist view of the black race

grodt999:
You have not done enough research or your are just trying to cover evidence, I have worked and researched ibo crimes for a very long time. I have data, indices, information and documents on ibo crimes, I know many ibo syndicates dealing drugs and I am in contact with embassies, NASS commitees, church missions and organizations that deal with ibo criminals globally.

Tribalism does not come into it, crime prevention and stopping other Nigerians from being humiliated daily at international airports and cities around the world is more important than your hurt feelings!

I am not Yoruba or Hausa and yes Yorubas deal drugs and so does mallams, middle belt and other tribes but are miniscule compared to what ibos are putting Nigerian passport through.

Like I said I have researched it and continue to do so, northerners do not kill as many people as ibos do daily in Nigeria and GLOBALLY!

Ask Nafdac, NDLEA, Interpol, Asian police, and other institutions in Nigeria and GLOBALLY how many Nigerians and world citizens die daily from fake drugs in ibo chemists, fake car part that lead to accidents, fake goods, toxic waste and DRUGS!

There are ibo fake good and hard DRUGS anywhere from Uganda to Cambodia killing people! No Nigerian tribe can match that ever!!!

Ibo villages celebrate criminals and give state (village) BURIALs with full rights to bodies of drug dealers and other criminals! Ibos are a very unique tribe and it needs very serious action by Buhari to address their global attrocities. I have written to and presented by report to the president and some of his staff and I am in contact with some people there, they are aware of the issue!

That is interesting to read... I will like to have a copy of your research too.

2dugged:
but the politicians have the right to involve in human rituals?, which do you think is worse?,scamming or human ritual?, look I nor fit talk, shift go front abeg, go and quote other people that share the same view as me,maybe you are probably typing from maitama

Madam no be fight na....
The current economic situation is affecting everyone of us but that doesn't make it right to do crime or support criminal activities.

I am in no way giving justification for corruption in governors or civil service, we all know these are areas we need to work hard to change for the better.

I don't believe in human rituals because there are no evident of ritualist around, all we here is 'dem say dem say'

boss1310:
so the Egyptians you see today looks black to u?well whether Jesus is white or black it doesn't really matter and there is no single physical evidence about his complexion existing today
I need to add that Egyptians with the Catalans and Turkish people of today look more alike and have ancestral link

I think history should be made compulsory in all our secondary school for a start so that people can learn more about themselves and the world around them.

Acient Egyptians were dark skin Africans, the Egyptians of toady is a mixture of Acient Egyptians, Turks, Palestinian , Persian and other southern European.
Majority of present day Egyptian of 87million people still look darker than Arab Gulf, Turks, Syrians or Palestinian.

Egypt was a cross road between Africa and middle east, so you will expect lots of mixing and interaction between different people from the three continent of Africa, Europe and Asia

2dugged:
save your energy, channel it to the people that has made the economy unbearable, because every where in the world when the economy goes down, crime goes up, even in the Almighty America,if I may ask you,who do you think has damaged our image to the world most,Yahoo boys or our polithiefians?,they have our money piled up in foreign banks while we struggle here, they take our money to invest in other countries and you are here talking about reputation, who reputation epp?make boys chop sand?Abeg Park well

That is why we have the electoral system here in Nigeria, every four years you have the right to select or elect those people that will represent and lead you at different level of government.

The fact that politicians are stealing your money and taking them oversee doesn't give you right to be involved in illegal activities like scaming and drug trafficking.

grodt999:
Well if only ibo do small scams, but that is not the case!
ibos do drugs which claims the lives of 50 Indonesian people every day, The number for other Asian, middle East, African and western countries runs into hundreds daily.

ibo people kill more people in Nigeria and around the world than Fulani herdsmen!

Why must you turn everything to tribalism?
I am not igbo but feel like majority of crimes, killing and endless unrest are committed mostly by northerners... That is just the plain truth

Yorubas are also into scam, drug trafficking etc. These issues are not only peculiar to one tribe, it is a Nigeria problem. A nation that is failing her masses in the provisions of basic things of life

ReddLabel:
Yes, you are right. But whether Asia/Europe/America, they are bed of a feather when it comes to their perception about Africans. That logic of yours is flawed, they took a better part of our supposed year of evolution, they didn't leave us not until they bastardised our society. The ripple effect is what we are battling with, it's an unforgivable sin.

And on our corrupt politicians, whites are still the same feudalist that harbour our corrupt politicians, their initial move was to conquer us mentally through slavery, they succeeded in that, that's why our politicians including your brothers and relatives loot our common patrimony and travel abroad so that the feudal lords that have conquered us mentally will use the money to develop their already developed countries at the expense our own backward society.

I maintain my initial stance, I don't pity whites when they are scammed by Nigerians, their representatives still scam and impoverish Africans till date through different dubious means eg IMF.

South Asians, South East Asians are not white!!!
Infact no human is white nor black, we are made with different shade of color..

East Asians experienced racism, oppression, exploitation, discrimination like or worst than most Africa States. Most were also colonized by the west, they fought bloody walls with the west to librate themselves and build solid society where better element of Western civilizations are copied and improved upon.

Within few decades after the Viatemenes war, Vietnam has improved tremendously in education, social welfare, in feast, life expectancy rate and economic development. They now generate more electricity than us with limited fuel resources, they have better per capital income with less resources.

People or culture earn respect and don't demand it.... If you want the rest of the world to respect you or Africa, then we need to stop worshiping them, we need to sort ourselves, concentrate our energy into meaningful things instead of constant tribalism, religious fight, and endless religious worshiping of Arab and European God.

We need to stop smuggling ourselves to the west, build a better society that will be comparable to the west or was Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc). When you are strong enough to demand for apologies for colonization and slavery then the rest of the world will take you serious

2dugged:
the guy dey increase our foreign reserve indirectly, all na part of the hustle, efcc should face the legilooters and polithiefians, afterall even if we scam them for the next 100 years it will not be enough pay back for what they put our forefathers through during slave trade

How do you attract foreign investors if they don't have confidence in your business men?

Actions like this undermine the dignity and confidence of potential investors when a genuine Nigeria start up approach them for partnership.

Viatemenes were also victim of colonization, they were also exploited by the French and the West, they fought a bloody war with United state of America when America try to neo colonized them.
Viatemenes is progressing gradually, building education, hard working society that will work hard for money rather look for shortcut to success.

May be you need some elementary geography and history to know the world around you better

ReddLabel:
Crime under any guise is bad and must be seriously frowned at. But again, looking at how the whites came to Africa to dehumanize and traumatized us in the name of colonisation, our forefathers were sold into slavery and the lingering effect is still very much with Africa. Till date,whites are still enslaving us. I don't usually pity them when Nigerians scam them.

Viatemenes are South East Asians, they never colonized your continent or exploited your people. Slavery was perpatrated by Western Europeans (Portuguese, Spanish and English) and the Arabs (Trans Sahara slave trade). Till date Africans (dark skin africans) are still in slavery of the mind.

Middle eastern religion in the name of Christianity and Islam is the new form of mental slavery.... This is now very dangerous to the existence and development of Africa continent.

Back to the issue, the accused idiot is a criminal that is lazy and want a short way to wealth, he should be dealt with scamming people off their hard earn money

EgunMogaji:
It will save money.

Think of buying precast lintels just as we buy precast concrete blocks

It can be manufactured and offered by cement block maker in standard window sizes and created in a steel mold.

Wonderful topic by the way...
Precast lintel may not save cost when compared to similar sized in-situ cast lintel.

Here are some of the reasons why precast lintel may not be too desirable for our building type.
1. It is too heavy and very difficult to lift of placed into position. Since most building site lacks lifting equipment, precast lintel may not be desirable for small residential building.

2. It constitute more stress to the adjoining block work. This result because of poor strength of most blocks and because the projection of most of this lintel are so little into the adjoining walls

Here are some valuable advantage.
1. they are faster to cast and installed for a large project.

2. Better concrete batching, curing and general strength can achieved for precast concrete.

battleaxe:
I have used a QS on a small build before and frankly, not sure I would do same for similar builds.

I found a lot of the quantities grossly exaggerated and my understanding was that there were 'standards' based on a guide, which dictates the final quantities in the CORES.

I didn't understand why we should allow for say X(can't remember the actual figure now) percent waste based on Nigerian factors. The contractor of course took advantage of this for his manpower/labour estimates......I.e. Based on the stated volumes/surface area.

If I choose to do this again, I will probably have 2 versions to cater better for labour rates based on quantities listed.

As a trained engineering graduate into building I will agree with you totally.

The quantity surveyor I had worked with in the past always under quote reinforcement for any structural work expecially slab reinforcement.

They do this base on their limited knowledge of bending schedule and reinforcement pattern

It is also a common practice to over bill some section of work, especially sub structures.

For a small structure, the client will be better positioned to work out prices directly with builder and be involved at each stage of the job.

For example if I want to build a house with limited budget, I will generally follow the following procedures.
1. I will buy a relatively dry and gentle slop to flat land

2. I will work out mu budget before consulting my architect. By then I will have a big picture of what I want and I much I want to spend on the entire project. For example, I see having more than three toilet for a three bedroom flat as waste of space and money, I see very high roof to be waste of money.

3. I will try to do the soil test if I am building more than a Bungalow, people believe soil test takes too much money but the reality is that when one compare the cost of soil test to the total cost of the building, most time it amount to less than 2% of the total project cost.

4.I will consult a structural and services consultant to do my engineer design for me or give these to the architectural film to do all of them together.

5. At this Junction, I may invite a quantity surveyor to help me prepare a bill so that I can have a general view of how much I will need to spend ( I will set a maximum limit on the building budget).

6. I will plan with the above information on the duration of my project, by dividing the job into stages in accordance to convenience and my budget.

7. I will scrutinized my builders, Give them the quantities estimation to work on, if it fall within what I have on ground, I will proceed.

4. The job will only be awarded stage by stage. I will give a certain percentage at the beginning of each, pay the remaining when that stage has been completed, inspect that stage directly or through trusted third party.
If work done is in accordance to design and our agreement, I proceed to the next stage

NL1960:
Get about five(5) quotes. Eliminate the highest and lowest and then take the average of the remaining three and see where it falls. When i was doing my roofing, i took five(5) quotes. The highest or lowest did not get the job. I was watching the women synchronized swimming event of the last Olympics where i heard the commentator explained how the marks are arrived at. She said that there is a panel of five(5) judges. The highest and lowest marks are eliminated while the marks of the remaining three are averaged out to arrive at the score for the competitors.

This method of evaluation is the best way to give out small building work. A quantity surveyor is basically a cost engineer they do more than estimating square meters, they plan job, work out schedules, estimate everything ad make sure project are done within some set out budget.

For smaller project like a small residential apartment Such as a Bungalow or duplex you at not necessarily need their service.

There is a big difference between engineer measurement and building measurement. These two items look identical but are very different.
Engineer measurement deals majorly with civil engineering work like earthworks, pipe network, road construction bridge construction and other major engineering work. These area measurement are solely the work of civil Engineers while building measurement such as general building bills are exclusively the work of a quantity surveyor.

With experience and since most building evaluation involve simpler mathematics and common sense, a very experienced builder/engineer can bill a building comfortably.

For example, to estimate the quantity of blocks required for a particular project, a builder can use average excel chart and relationships prepared from different job to arrived at a more adequate and reasonable value.

To estimate the quantity of plaster materials required to plaster a house a builder can use average rate per square meter of different subsequent job to have at a more appropriate estimation.

jegz25:
christians always looking for muslims trouble and cry victims. Why can't some christians respect themselves?...have u ever heard a muslim insulting jesus?

Stupid bigot... Is that a lesson for burning people?
Illiteracy is a big problem, you see hopeless Nigerians killing one another for religion they just adopt less than 200 years ago.

Those idiot have no reason to kill any one for blasphemy in a secular country.
I am a yoruba Muslim residing in the north, I feel secure living among yorubas of any religion, igbos, other northern minorities than Stone head north west illiterates

back2sender:
Oga abdulwastecx the post is not directed at the honest people. The people the post is meant for know demslves. Your competence is never in doubts, you are one of the few honest service provider here

Thank you sir

mavverick:
Larwin

In my small experience, I tend to find that if the person that you are calling for project monitoring can also do the real thing, if they do not supply the materials or bring the workers, they hardly put their all into it, unless you find a really God fearing person, shebi na to dey send picture, remember how 3strike was being sent pictures even though his builder then (BRabus) was no way near site.

The best person to supervise is you yourself who owns the project. Its just that those in diaspora do not have that luxury, thats why the likes of brabus thrive, saying that there are some really good people on here, spyder, segemoore , abdulwastec to name a few, diaspora or no diaspora, the work gets done as agreed.

Good that you report back to a client after you visit thier site, I really like that. It just shows you care. Keep it up

I am really happy that you are moving on greatly with your project sir and all the positive recommendation and acknowledgement about us sir.

Building construction is so complex and as a builder/start up one have to be very careful in other to build a positive image. It is quite unfortunate that hard working people oversee had lost a large chunk of money giving job to contractors here on nairaland but life most go on.

We have had so many chat and I can see how much you suffer before you and now taking the house to completion, I am not the religious type but pray that God will bless you in abundance and make you forget whatever amount you might have lost during the course of the construction.

Having say the above, I think we have some language barrier and expectation gap between contractor's and client here on nairaland (expecially those in diaspora).
Some builder here believes, living in Western Europe or North America equate to having plenty of money and hence they can easily get this money by packaging or been smart.
Most diaspora client behave like big men (which is good, they have work hard for their money and deserve to show it off any how they want), some behave too smart, wanting to get service for free or at bottom price. Combination of the two above is really dangerous.

As a builder I am aware that my image and personality is on the line whenever I take up any job, by doing so, I am straightforward, honest and don't give unrealistic expectation to my clients. I am aware of all these because I know how dangerous it is when people started singing your name for fraud or bad work. Bad reputation kills brand and I working hard to build a big brand.

I have learned a lot from people I had worked for here.
As a client they are diligent, they take their time to check, they communicate better and give people some benefit of doubt.

Most of us here are young in really life and new here, I came to nairaland last two years, I may not know so many of these things that has been going on between you and any of the nairaland builder that might have dupe or messed up your job. Some us don't really like to get involve on issues like this too.

back2sender:
Criminals yapa for this site. The one i cannot stomach are the service provider, they will cheat you on supervision fee, cheat you in materials, cause you serious pschological pains, not to talk about the loss in projects timing and thier dribbling when you call to find out why the work is not going on as planned despite the humongous amount you have spent.
Later they will now come and be apologizing and shedding crocodile tears.
Diaspora please take note, no let any service provider do shakara for you now especially this time. There are virtually no work outside, most of the service provider dey hear am big time, i get calls almost every day from vendors soliciting for work to do.
They have classified you people as mugu and you need to prove them wrong, Thank God we have started the cleansing process here. There are 3 of the service provider i have been having doubts about here and thank God one has been proven right here, remaining two, of the 2one has been on AWOL for along time. I still dey watch that one

Generalization is bad and statement like yours above is dangerous.

Supervision fee is an agreement between two adults and their is no way one party can felt cheated when work is done relative to the agreement made.

Most builder here don't see diaspora as such, I know most people on nairaland, are here because they don't want to be cheated by builders, they are here to get good value for money which is OK by me.

People in diaspora are hard working people who don't want to be cheated, sometime they over do it by under pricing services but that is not an excuse to dupe people off their hard earn money.

To set the record straight, I have never work directly for any diaspora here on nairaland, the few people I have good relationship with its mutual, I help them on some issues, even when they come to me directly, I am careful enough to analysis their offer and see if it worth taking.... If such over will undermine my integrity or if the money they are offering will not do what I expected to do, I tell them straightforward that I may not be able to do the job.

I have been quite here for some time because their is nothing to learn or discussed about...

I don't have any friend here apart from PODOSCI, who we meet, work and interact with on daily basis. If some builders are questionable or dubious it is tight to call them out and deal with their brand as deem necessary.

I just pray that people that have lost valuable money get money back to complete their various project

Pprovost:
I really love the way the Yorubas on this thread smartly ignored those frustrated mofos begging for attention with their unsolicited comments Kudos guys!!!



All I know is that there is no tribe in Nigeria that is more "flexible" about religion as the Yorubas.


To me I think the Christians will edge Muslims with a small margin in Yorubaland (assuming kwara is excluded)

Flexible in governors when religion is discussed in yoruba land is a myth.... Yoruba Christians have this tendency to downplay their bigotry stand on religion in other to lead.

Pentecostal churches are sowing the seed of hatred and religious bigotry in the West.
Muslim in ondo state deserve one inclusion in governors

ZiggyMr:
dustmalik, pls go and do your research the only area that has high concentration of muslims is around ikare/akoko, i cant realy remember the area. when you talk about other places like akure you ll understand that muslims are very low in population. how many big mosque do you know in akure apart from the one at oja oba?

I am from ikare akoko, ikare is 90% Muslim, oga ago is majority Muslim.... Akoko in general have majority Muslim. Owo is 60% Muslim, lots of ebira settlers, ondo town has considerable high Muslim population. Muslim me up more 35% of ondo state population

mandarin:
Its just a political power play. Muslims do not make up to 30%in that state to be conservative. Ekiti and Ondo states have low Muslim population and, if a power play is talked into play by Muslim groups, they may never have a member in any government.
However, Yoruba don't play religious politics, its just a digression to create awareness's for their groups

How do you know this?
I am a Muslim and from ondo state. Ondo state has a large Muslim population in akoko area, ondo town, and own. Muslim make up more than 30% of the state

olumide4christ:
I'm sorry Abdulwastecx, I beg to differ a bit on your definition.

NLresidentQS said he saw clay bricks within the floor. That's a hollow clay pot floor slab. If it were a ribbed floor slab or waffle floor slab, there won't be any clay bricks embedded in the floor.
In clay pot floor slabs, there are no indentations when you look at the soffit of the slab. You only see lines of clay bricks & lines of concrete showing the rib beams cast together with the clay pot bricks.
In ribbed and waffle floor slabs, you won't see any clay bricks at the soffit of the slab; all you see are lateral lines of concrete representing the rib beams alone (ribbed floor) or crossed lines of concrete representing rib beams crossing each other (waffle floor), giving the soffit of the floor a wafer-like view, hence the name waffle.

Pics 1&2 - hollow clay pot floors
Pic 3 - ribbed floor
Pic 4 - waffle floor

Structurally speaking their is no such thing as '' hollow clay pot floor '' it is called ribbed/waffle floor with hollow clay pot.

All those floor you explained above can either be ribbed or waffle slab, the difference been the method of construction and the type of former used.

For ribbed slab structurally speaking, we have ribbed with permanent former ( ribbed slab with form been part of the slab) this form can design to contribute to load resistant of the slab or just a member to replaces concrete section alone. When it is design to contribute to load resistance of the slab it must have a minimum strength of ( 14N/mm2 in accordance to BS8110). It can made of burnt brick like the one above, sancrete block, or polystyrene pod.

Ribbed slab with temporary former are the type where the form work are removed after the concrete of the rib and topping have set to gain the required strength after 28days. This type of ribbed or waffle slab have rib beam design like a T- flanged beam with the topping design to carry load. This ribbed or waffle slab can have higher center to center distance and when viewed from beneath after formwork is removed have serious of depressed region.

Rib beam in either ribbed slab or waffle slab can either be in-situ cast of precast. In-situ cast is used when formwork can easily be sourced and where building floors have irregular shapes. While, precast rib beam is suitable for a symmetrical floor system and involved the use of precast rib beam that will carry the clay port, polystyrene pod or sancrete block former and the topping is cast on site.

NLresidentQS:
There is this slab I saw, opposite Eden garden at Utako, Abuja. It was a Sunday so there was no work going on at the site. And the place was locked, so I couldn't get close to take a shot.

I would love to incorporate it in any future build but I don't really understand the slab. First, I can't see any beams coming down below the slab. Then it is as if it is not a full slab... I mean..it is as if it is filled with clay at regular intervals. I really hope someone will have an idea.

Please educate.

@Abdulwastex, how are you feeling
@skimanski, spyder880 and other engineers in here.

thank you.

I am doing well sir....
Now in Abuja, a bit tired moving around.

What you saw is what is called ribbed slab or waffle slab.
Ribbed slab is having rib beam along one direction for one way slab with hollow block, clay block or polystyrene pod replacing some concrete layers below the neutral axis.

Waffle slab is having rib in the two direction of the slab I two way spanning slab.

All these slabs can have a concrete layer called typing which ranges from 40mm to 100mm depending on the floor functionality.

The clay block, sancrete block must have some minimum strength selling by bs codes.

These type of slab is useful for floors that are not heavily loaded.

olumide4christ:
So sorry Abdulwastecx, may the Lord grant you speedy recovery and divine healing, Amen!

Thank you sir

NLresidentQS:
Great Engineer,

Your reply is epic as usual. The roads in the estate are constructed before work begins on the houses...so there is little or no obstruction to traffic. Meanwhile the concrete base layer is cast in intervals with expansion joints.

My question remain at large.:

Combining concrete-asphalt (subgrade-concrete base-asphalt wearing course).... Does it have any strength/cost advantage to using either exclusive concrete or exclusive flexible pavement?

Just coming back from the hospital.... Seriously down with malaria.

Combination of concrete base and asphaltic wearing course is known as semi rigid /flexible pavement. It has its own advantage and can be more expensive than the other two.

I am not an expert in Highway engineering but most road problem result from lack of proper compaction of the subgrade, inadequate thickness of base and wearing course. These problem result from lack of proper traffic analysis which will give the designer the expected traffic that the way will carry.

Exclusive reinforced concrete is more expensive than exclusive flexible pavement but maintenence us cheaper

EgunMogaji:
Things are bad, extremely bad.

Before I left Ibadan in 1986 there was hardly any area in the city with no running water. Even the poor barios had community water stations. Same in most cities in Nigeria of that era.

It simply isn't just bad, it's that it went from very good to very bad.

I always argue this with my father, Nigeria has never been a first world or even a second world nation. We have always have majority of our population living in rural areas, well cut off from these infrastructure.

Those days, fewer people had access to most of these infrastructure because a larger percentage of the population lives in the rural areas, the government do so little to expand these infrastructure to other areas to benefit the masses.

Between 1900 to 1960 Nigeria only have a small narrow guage rail linking kano to Lagos and another small one running from the east to the maiduguri.
We have fewer road, no serious water works etc.

The problem is Nigeria as a state has never been great, we have massive population growing at a very alarming rate, serious desert encroachment in the north, a government that will rather subside for religious pilgrimage than education or heath care.

I am always furious and angry if people belive we have the resources to build a good nation. We are a broke as nation with lots of low IQ people that will rather kill for superstitions than finding solutions to their problem

NLresidentQS:
Please is anyone familiar with road construction here?

I've seen concrete roads and asphalt roads..but in the estate here...they did a concrete (with y6 mat)...now they are putting prime coat, the foreman is saying they will put geotextile next (asphaltic Reinforcement)... Then we pave with asphalt finally..

Kindly Enlighten.

Concrete roads are form of rigid pavement different from flexible pavement (asphalt roads). These pavement are more expensive to construct but maintenance is cheaper in the long run.

The asphaltic concrete is replaced with a reinforced concrete but some of the disadvantages of this type of foundation includes the following.

1. Involve large sum to construct initially.
2. Can't be constructed in stages or use during construction, hence it required the route blocked throughout the construction phase.

Advantages
1. Little maintenance
2. Last longer and require no maintenance cost over a long period of time.

n3xt:
Not my thing to quote you bro but this is serious? Did I hear you say redesign?

God is great! So, the roof will eventually be redesigned. You fall my hand bro!


Well done abdulwastecx.

Thank you boss...

topsy23:
This project is going to be high rise building with this type of footing

This is a small project with shallow footing of say 1.2m x 1.2m. It is going to be for a small one storey or two storey building at most.

n3xt:
It doesn't have to be a foundation design for high rise or mega structures. It equally work for small builds. A study of construction from the Asian countries (Phillipines, Thailand, Malay, Cebu, Kerala) will show you how they build their houses.

Check http://www.coolthaihouse.com/origCTH/coolroof.htm

http://www.coolthaihouse.com/origCTH/coolfoundationcolumn.htm

I study the construction methods of this countries because it has a lot of similarities (better alternatives though) with the way we build here.

That is the standard way to build isolated, combined or continuous pad footings.

In Nigeria, we just incorporated isolated strip footings to pad footings for small residential frame structures because we are too use with building with strip.

The method above requires lot of cut and filled expecially when the ground topography is sloppy and since we hardly grade our site to remove top vegetables soil before construction, it make sense to use pad footings with strip.

Check out some of these foundation of a small paint house added to an old bungalow.
In this project an isolated pad base together with grade beam were used.

The pad footings are 1.2m x 1.2m (4 ft x 4ft)
Depth of the footings 1.2m
Thickness of footings is 450mm
Section of foundation columns 450 x 225mm

suledes:
@Abdulwaste. You have forgotten or don't know hisory. Most of Ilorin inhabitants where from old Oyo Empire, and neighboring towns such as Kishi, Kuo, Ibolo, etc. During the revolution in Oyo empire then which led to revolt against the muslim yorubas, fulanis, and nupe slaves migration. Afonja whom was just like Chief of Defence to the Oyo empire, was in logggerhed with Alaafin of Oyo then accomodated the migrant at Ilorin which later resulted to the collapsed of Oyo Empire. Afonja was an idolator then whom the muslim migrants (yorubas, nupe, hausas, fulanis) helped to defeat Alaafin. Thereaftter, majority of the inhabitants in Ilorin were muslims. Note: where there is muslim community, there must be leader (Amir of Emir). And he must be the most knowledgeable, and brave among all. Salih Jinta, a fulani was generally agreed upon to be their leader my the muslim community because of his qualities. Afonja was overthrown 1823, and Salih Jinta was imposed by the muslims majorly by yorubas.

I know the history, you are right with some of your analysis while some of them are what I called the fulani version of events

I am South western yoruba Muslim married to ilorin indegene, I see no use for most of these traditional rulers be it obas, Emir or obi... We don't have use for them in this centuries.

What we need is to deepen our democracy and rule of law, developed more infrastructures, education and reduce poverty