₦airaland Forum

stanisbaratheon:
Funnily enough, northern folk are more into bunkering than Niger Delta youths this days.


Hausa and Fulani guys are in the creeks cooking and pushing oil drums.

Why do you allow this?

PharoahIII:
Firstly, the costs associated with building brick walls will be too astronomical, the volume of a 9 inch CMU is nearly 17 times that of a standard brick, which means that it would take 17 times more bricks to build a house than blocks. Now don't forget that walls made of bricks are almost always double-skinned, that is 2 layers of wall joined with mortar. So that means more and more and more mortar. Also the labour costs will be too high, imagine how much bricklayers will charge for laying 17 times more bricks! Not forgetting transportation costs of getting the bricks to the site, as more trips would be required. Thirdly clay bricks are expensive to make, well in Nigeria at least due to the epileptic power supply, as the clay will have to be baked in a kiln for days. Granted there are other alternative energy sources but that's topic for another day. Also in a tropical climate as yours using brick walls will be too hot as brick walls do appear to hold heat better than concrete blocks.
As for wood, well all I can say is that the wood used abroad are 'engineered' to give it maximum strength. Do in conclusion Nigerian builders are not stupid

Then explain to me how they are able to make full brick houses for just $8,000 -- or 3 million naira in Rwanda. Here are the building plans, if you are interested.

http://madeingreatlakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CAT-MODERN-BRICK-SOLUTIONS-Draft-Third-Edition-Beta-Version2.pdf

_{Imagine getting beautiful houses like these for just $3 - $6 million naira. This is what it looks like when builders use their brains.}

As someone in the U.S, he is right. There is nothing in America you can buy fo $1 -- especially in big cities like New York or Las Angeles.

rossniti:
There goes another conditioned, self hating black man who goes around calling black people "monkeys".

Do you actually realize you're racially abusing your own self and your mother and your family by using such terminology?

Lemme guess...That obvious fact simply flies over your head.

Talk about Dumb and Dumber.

What "conditioned" me to hate black people? Was it the relentless failure and incompetence? The pathetic and brainless leadership? The stagnation and stupidity, or the inability to use creativity to solve problems?

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Common Ghana, that we used to look down on, is using pounded earth buildings that are cheap and affordable. Nigerian builders are you listening?

Go to 2:47 to see the house.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-d_9-uXLNA

look how common Rwanda is developing systems to make housing cheap and affordable while our monkey builders in Nigeria are stagnant. Weep for Nigeria. No brains in this country.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2a9A8pjDJE

Oyibo have developed a 2 story single family home for $8,000 -- that is only 3 million naira. Nigerian builders are you listening? Where can you find a pretty house like this in Nigeria for 3 million? Clay brick is cheaper and better looking than this horrible cement nonsense you are building. Use brain!

Go to 1:25 to see the house


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IYUjVnJMvs

Firstorderwizard:
The brown roof dwellers need to switch to thatched roof if they can't afford quality aluminium roofing sheets.
Brown roof is a disgrace to Africa

I agree. Our cities look so horrible with all those horrible rusting roofs. It's humiliating to be African right now.

Tunde835:
Since wen is building a house with wood seen as progress, i think our cement and block houses look perfect as they ar. Do u think they build tall buildings and skyscrapers built with wood

They do. Look at what they have built in Europe. Wood buildings are better because there is less stress on the foundation, which means they won't collapse. Typically, in the U.S. and Europe they use concrete for the foundation and wood or red brick for the building.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd06dYjWWs4

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This wooden building in Japan stood for over 1,000 years with no fire. But Nigerians are scared to use wood? Monkey people

Ladylite:
It's like you don't know that fire can engulf wood.

Climate is different, so also cost of living is different...

Blacks are scare of fire, while Europeans are building entire cities of wood with no fear. Is Nigeria only country go get fire? Fear is the enemy of progress.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4QYkEpw9pA

Ladylite:
It's like you don't know that fire can engulf wood.

Climate is different, so also cost of living is different...

Are you planning to set fire in your house?

MajesticKris:
Depends on the part of Nigeria you reside..cus I've seen house's build WITH

ZINK,
WOOD,
CLAY AND BAMBOO

Tribal village houses, yes. But i'm talking about real multi-story buildings. Africans refuse to adapt our traditional building styles to solve modern challenges.

Every day you hear about another building collapse in Nigeria. This happens because it is too expensive to build a cement foundation that will be strong enough to sustain the weight of a multi-story cement building. Instead of using expensive Dangote cement, Nigerian builders should learn to work with wood or clay bricks like builders do in the United States and Europe.

Wood and clay are plentiful natural material that don't need to be imported. These materials are also significantly lighter than cement, which reduces the strain on the foundation and also enables more elegant designs. Wood also lasts just as long as cement, regardless of tropical climate. Below, you will see pictures of wooden/clay brick buildings in Nigeria that have lasted for over 100 years while the cement buildings collapse. Nigerians need to learn how to use brains to solve problems or Africa will always be the laughing stock of the world.

_{The brazilian houses of lagos have lasted for over 100 years, despite being constructed of wood and clay bricks.}

Orjioorji:
most Adara villages have been sacked and the media is silent about it.even the army are afraid. Yesterday Fulani killed two brothers in sabon Maro but people are scared to enter bush to pick their corpse even soldiers can't enter the bush. Southern kaduna are in n tears

hundreds of Hausa are dying every day in Nigeria, but the media never reports it because the killers are Fulani. Hasuas are slaves in your own land. Worthless people.

Blue3k:
Nope it's because they're not fighting back. Here's a meme to explain the situation.



Stop crying for a savoior and save yourself. They didnt stop making guns when they made them. The last option is splitting from Kaduna and joining another state. Who ever is demographically similar join them.

This isn't just Southern Kaduna people. All Nigerians seem to act so pathetic and helpless when it comes to these Fulani herdsmen. If it was me I would just gun them down. Problem solved.

Kaduna1stson:
I was so disappointed when my governor started paying the killers instead of arresting them.

Because they are Fulani.

HellVictorinho:
Consumerism is your curse but you don't have to generalize.
There are black people that make things across the world.
Ultimately,your brain requires some treatment from one of the successful black doctors in the The States.

Blacks are extremely unproductive compared to other races. Just face reality.

codemaniacs:
your topic is nonsense...

in case you did not know, before the civil war each region kept at least 50% of its income with the remaining going to the federal government... so your nonsense plan and topic was already in effect before 1966 when your fellow Igbo ancestors abolished it.

like LukasPodolski and T9ksy have already commented, most of you igbos don't mean the Yoruba nation well. and in case you missed their comments that point to this then read them below...

If you are pro Oduduwa Republic, I support you 100%. East and West don't have to be one country. My problem is with "one Nigeria".

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NdigboWorldwide:
You are the one that got it all wrong, I see where someone said its multiple buildings and not a single 24 storey building, please a single 24 storey building can't cost $1billion dollars in Abuja, so hope you get the point.

$1 billion is far to much for that nonsense building. Even if there was 10 of them, $1 billion is too much.

okeyglm:
The average price per floor for Chicago is about $6.2 million; for Shanghai it’s about $3.7 million per floor. For New York, on average, it costs about $15 million per floor. Or in other words, for a cost of $20 million per floor (on average), you can get a 65-story skyscraper in New York, They are a lot thing that drives cost

Abuja is not New York. New York is expensive because of how built up the area is making it harder to bring your machines to the site, etc. also expensive permits and regulations. The cost of labor in New York is over $100,000 a year for construction workers -- not to talk of insurance.

Abuja is not a crowded area so it should be very cheap to build there. The only thing that would drive up the cost is overpriced Dangote cement and imported steel.

RedPanthar:
He's killing the economy


He determines pricing and drives prices up in ways Nigerians don't give thought to


Thanks to Dangote tomato paste wants to reach astronomical levels


Rather than have a monopoly system I prefer to have multiple Importers than sell the country to a thief


I support systems not people. Unfair business people


An Ijebu business man is building the second largest refinery, BUA is also building. Modular ones are coming up, petrol. Is phasing out. Delta state is building state of the art petrochemical industries. SE is partnering with Hyundai to create massive refinery


I support healthy business systems not fraudster's who hyperinflation their company portfolio to raise investors emotions, steal their funds, then decline their real value so investor funds remains in negative for even 10 years even with dividends inclusive while they use the cash to build their company and then record madd financial portfolio. This was what Dangote did. If he near me I go expose am



I'm not your average Nigerian. I'm not stvpid

If you want to talk about tomato paste, an oyibo woman from the U.S. has joined the market.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyZNgbJkwE