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mufutau55:
Thank you Sir. (Of course I learnt/learning from you all, the Masters here)

I like this order:
1a. Turkey/Chinese/Local Iron/Steel doors before tilings so all the braces underneath can be leveled/tiled.
1b. Also if this is bathroom or kitchen with tiles all around the doors... makes it look better and rounded.

2. If Wooden doors with or without architraves, install the frames or sub-frames first and all around well plastered.

3. Install the actual Wooden doors after the tilings.
Sorry.. if I have missed anything. And I stand corrected.

Hajji M.

Late reply but let me still chip in.

Doors with adjustable height can be installed after tiling while doors that have a fixed height should be installed before tiling.

Example. Bullet proof steel Israeli security doors have adjustable height turkey security doors are fixed.

Wooden doors with architrave are installed after tiling because the door itself can be planed at top and bottom. If its a framed door 50mm is reasonable allowance while solid wooden doors have much higher adjustments allowance. The framed door usually has a 50mm thick frame, to keep the strength of the door intact, 25mm each from top and bottom can be planed off. American panel wooden doors come at 2050mm so i tell my tilers to level the floor accordingly and never provide allowance less than 2m.

Also, all steel frames or complete doors go in before tiling.

Blakjewelry:
Tell me before the coming of Christianity and Islam which wipe out many religions, do you know how many religion and their beliefs systems are there in the world. Why is it that in the western world cheating on the part of man and woman is frown at, but down here it is OK for a man to cheat but wrong for a woman to do same

E don do

GAZZUZZ:
Regional brands and Mechanics.

Opel vehicles are not very common in the south south, you might find only a handful in. The south-east

But enter Kano, abuja, jos bauchi Gombe

They are all over the place and are used commercially.

Do not buy a cheap mechanically sound car, only to find out you will Have to place order from a different state and wait a couple of days for parts as simple as brakepads, water pumps, struts, exhaust parts, starter motor alternator.....

It can be very frustrating. It is worse when there is only 1 mech in that town that fixes that model, his shakara might be plenty


Note: Not every one is technically and can hold spanner, There are some who prefer to watch while others fix.

Pure evilhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/2003_Renault_Laguna_%28X74%29_Privilege_LX_hatchback_%282011-11-18%29_01.jpg/280px-2003_Renault_Laguna_%28X74%29_Privilege_LX_hatchback_%282011-11-18%29_01.jpg

Like my dad living in a sub urban town driving a very common Mazda 323f in neighbouring Abuja and Niger state but cannot get a simple part such as brake pad or clutch master cylinder.

But for the reliability of the car, he would have had serious problems.

Blakjewelry:
You don't have to use the Bible as yardstick since there are other religions and their beliefs. I have seen a place in China were it is their culture for girls of the ripe age to pick any man of her choice, even if she gets pregnant her family owns the child and she can have any man wants and there is nothing wrong with it. And on the issue of women crying at burial place, trust me, when you lost your love ones you whether a man or a woman will want to cry your eyes out, but the society expect you to hold your self as a man, I am speaking from experience

Tell me what percentage of that culture is in the entire world. Do they constitute 1% of the population of the world?

To be able to generalize, tell me they are 90% of all the world population.

Blakjewelry:
Bros do you know there are cultures in some parts of the world were women are allowed the liberty to have multiple partner, and in such situations can not be regarded as more emotional than men? The illusion that women are more emotional than men is created by our society. As a guy vow to your self that you will never cheat and stick to one woman and see if you won't get emotional. The society has force one woman to one man, but it allows a man to many women

Christianity has forced one man to one man too but does not allow a man to many women.

The problem i see is gender inequality which God himself created. The Bible has records of men of God marrying more than one wife but has non on women. It is not our society that created this difference, its been so since the beginning of time.

When you go to a funeral, how many men do you see crying vs women crying.

Women are more emotional to men, its a fact of nature not just a societal gender inequality.

TheArchangel:
How can a man speak for a woman?


You say women are very emotional and have sex with emotions attached?.....well ......where does this analysis placed the rungirls and the prostitutes or are they not women.?
Women enjoys sex much more than men, it is just the society that made it seem otherwise.

The write up included some percentage, this means it is not a generalization.

The average woman is emotional while the average man is lustrous. This doesn't mean momen are not lustrous na men are not emotional. These are just behavioral tendancies and i quite agree with the research.

I have a friend who cheats on daily basis with different girls but he still loves and respect his wife. Everything he does for a girl he sleeps with, he makes sure his wife enjoys twice that. It takes a heartless woman to do what this guy is doing. The kind of woman that could kill her husband. These kind of women are few.

It's not the sex he had that is my problem, its the UNPROTECTED sex he had risking his wife in the process.

He should have learnt his lesson but you made matters worst.

Am sure by now he constantly gets sex outside so how would you rewrite tbe rules after he is used to what you allowed him to do. Your decision made matters worst. How long are you willing to continue like this? Have you prepared your mind never to have sex in the rest of your life? If you want sex, how will you get it? Outside your marriage like your husband?

Do something now and save both yourselves the trouble.

pabloaimoh:
TSTV thinks that we are ignorant fools.... nope, They are the fools. They are trying to beam some matches from Beinsport who are the official broadcasters of Premiership,Ligue 1,La liga, et al to Middle east and North Africa, illegally to Nigeria, whose rights is already under Supersports.
Just for quick one. simply go to premierleague.com and click on the matches for this weekend, it would show the official broadcaster of those matches in your region and Beinsports isn't one of them cos Nigeria is not in North Africa.

TSTV, Please stop all this lies about hacking. Beinsport have detected that their signals are being broadcaster illegally and that's why that message pops up on the screen.

Have you heard of CTL? CTL broadcast bein sports and evven some DSTV channels . They pay subscription on decoders and broadcast live screen while they collect as much as 3k.

What has bein or DSTV done about CTL?

iamspeedracer:
Good evening sir. My 06 corolla keeps giving me the fault code Po741 pls what do you advice. I've done a transmission flush with Type TIV but the code is still there

It seems this transmission is notorious for this fault. Our 2006 Pontiac Vibe which has same engine and transmission has it too. My online search has shown its a very common thing.

Unfortunately, the affected solenoid is inside the gear box. Transmission sump and valve body has to be removed to access it for a swap unless its an external harness problem.

It doesnt affect transmission shifting or engine performance but affects fuel efficiency. I have been thinking of a solution to this. The only external test i have seen is to disconnect and find the specific solenoid + wire and test it with - ground which should give battery voltage. It no voltage, then the problem is external.

The solenoid affected is a lock up solenoid to locked the transmision and engine in a 1:1 ratio. This only happens in D4. The code means there is no lock up and possibly the ratio will not be 1:1 meaning the transmission will not be utilizing some engine output which means more fuel.

Right now i need an electrical diagram source to know the particular wire that belongs to this solenoid among the transmission harnesses.

COdeGenesis:
Help -one Of My Bosses Said I Should Never Send Him A Mail Again


I am currently in deep shit. I happen to work as an analyst with the overall manager of a company in Kaduna . I am a data guy and not really a Manger,not interested in being one either. Today, We needed information from the branch managers,3 of them to be precise. I was tasked with
ensuring they send the information on time.

I got a mail from the Regional office threatening to carry out disciplinary action if they didnt send the information. From the mail I got to find out our State is the only one that hasnt sent theirs.

So I sent a reminder to the Branch Managers requesting urgently for the said inputs, I told them the delay was becoming quite embarassing to the state and we need to send this information out urgently.

To my surprise a branch manager called me and clearly told me I shouldnt send him such mails again, he said I insulted his office and I can tell my boss what he said.

Fellas, Nairalanders, this is frustrating, i know I have issues with the way I dish out mails and I always sound too straight forward.

I feel like resigning, maybe it's not really my thing. I need advice on how to handle this issue before they probably gang up against me.

Someone help me push to FP

It seems your mail sounded offensive. You are lucky the branch manager isnt sure if you or your boss wrote the mail. Thats why he said you can tell you your boss what he said.

Find a way other than an email to apologize.

Note: dont dare tell your boss, he may be angry with you or cause a rift between the both bosses and you know tbe saying, "when 2 elephants fight, the grass suffers".

Lastly, learn to chose your words carefully especially with regards to bosses.

My former office had this rule, all outgoing mails are saved to draft, the Manager skims through and gives you go ahead to send, even if the mail bears your name or title. That way the manager is in the picture of what was sent and how to defend himself or the company. He also highlighted any word, sentence or paragraph he wants you to either edit or delete. Because he is an expatriate and English is not his 1st language, we proof read his own official mail he is sending on be behalf of the company or his title and also correct and highlight what we have changed but try as much as possible not to change the context of what he is transmitting.

Emails are tricky and official language can easily fall either side of the line between respect and disrespect.

wahles:
Lol# op u b olodo! .
Answer is 300+0+0

You are right but the olodo was unnecessary.

Lajet:
6PK2135 is not lower than the one I brought which is 6PK2150

If a belt cuts in one day, something else is wrong. Over heating and oil are the ones that cause most early failures but yours sounds like a mechanical failure. Most likely it is a bad crank pulley or power stearing pulley. It could be something else touching the belt. It also could be wrong routing.

If 6PK2135 is the spec number, i expect the mechanic to have a little difficulty in putting it.

What they usually do is buy a larger one such as the 6PK2150 they gave you that would not stress them but will not last long.

When you buy a new one, pls buy a spare. This thing can stop you anywhere though hardly ever if pulleys are ok.

logica:
Yes it currently has no place, but it once did (back in 1963). The military always favored Unitary System (coming from their federal make-up) and that resulted in the January 1966 coup.

The question is, you want it back and how to get it?
Democratically, its like passing a camel through the eye of the needle.

The whole of Nigeria needs to agree to it. The call for restructuring must be done in a way that all Nigerians will see the benefit. For now, the call seems selfish and the larger part of the country will not agree to it.

logica:
I am glad you made mention of "solution" but it appears even you cannot identify the solution because it is right before you. You keep talking about corruption (never mind that there is corruption in very country in the world, just that in our case it is brazen).

Now, it appears you keep missing the point - when there is accountability, corruption is FORCED to reduce. That is one of the expected results of accountability. It therefore makes your point I put in bold ironic - saying the problem is corruption and not accountability. The question is, how do you reduce corruption?

So for me, it should be in this order:

true federalism (resource control, etc) -> accountability -> reduced corruption.

Just for you to see how difficult to reduce corruption with this current system - take a look at the number of cases being thrown up every week. Presently we are on the Maina episode. A new one will pop up this week. With this system corruption will never reduce. It is simply a basket being filled with water. It actually encourages corruption by its very nature and there is nothing that can be done about that, than to scrap it. So it is actually ironic or oxymoronic to think of keeping this current form of governance and effectively fighting corruption. It will NOT work.

All i want you to understand is that that which you desire (true federalism) has no place in our constitution. To amend that part of the constitution is not impossible but with the kind of differences we have, it is nearly impossible to achieve.

Accountability is a choice, so is corruption. They are two sides of a coin. If one is up, the other is down. The desired result is to have corruption faced down and accountability up.

I desire that Nigerians should stop counting stars and focus on the best way to work on this constitution.

Buhari was elected on the platform of anti corruption that would have given birth to accountability but so far has failed on that mandate. I have derived a lesson from this, fighting corruption is more of a legislative and judiciary responsibility than executive.

It seems we are in a fix, we cant restructure, our legislators are too corrupt to wake up to their responsibilities, the legal system works for the highest bidder and removing corruption from the executive is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Only a military regime can achieve restructuring, that seems to be the only solution but its not going to happen.

Skipuru:
A guy of 27 years old impregnated my 16 years old sister mean while she's about to write her waec next year.
I called the guy on phone and he said he's ready to take responsibility of the girl and she will marry her , but me I don't like it that way because she's too small to bear a child and I don't want that to happen to my sister because she's the only girl in my family.
Now the question is I want her to abort the child and focus on her education but the guy said he ready and my mom called me and said that my sister said if anything should happen to her that it's on our head.
Please I want you to post it so I can hear people's opinions on this so I can know the right thing to do because I'm I'm going crazy.

Please I need a good advice on how to follow this matter. My mom want her to suffer so she can learn her lesson but me she will bring shame to me and my family. I'm just a boy of 22 years old still on the street.

How old is the pregnancy? If its older than 2 months, let her have the child.

I would not encourage her to get married but you can avoid family embarrassment by sending her away to someplace to give birth and return to her studies after nursing the child. It happens and it doesn't mean abortion is the only solution. Your mother should be able to adopt the child while your sister faces he studies.

Am sure in time you will forget your sister's indecency and be proud of the child she will have.

kingreign:
You bought one with malfunction bro. (Na joke I dey I)

I've seen a Pontiac Vibe fell a sliding gate and only the plastic wheel arch trim was scrapped.

Body doesn't malfunction bro. I am just worried on the fender and roof that are too thin.

kingreign:
OP so because i told the world the specs of this ride you jacked the price up from 1.2m to 1.5m?

You don forget say Naija guys no like manual and this body no strong and nice like Pontiac Vibe?

Whats the craze for Pontiac Vibe? The body be like paper thin but better design to matrix. A person cannot lean on the front fenders, it will pop in and out like Maltina can. The roof is like that, enter potholes, it vibrates, bang the boot close it vibrates.

The car is currently pure water after we got one in the house. I hate pure water cars.

seguno2:
Firstly there is no evidence in the two images confirming that population is the only basis for electoral votes number. It may be a coincidence or just one of the determinants.
Secondly, have you considered that population is indicative of how much the state contributes to the federal revenues instead of just using it for sharing federal allocation monthly?
Thirdly, do states have greater control over the census in their states compared to our own country where the north controls and distorts the census since population is for sharing federal allocation along with land size?
Can you please explain why Kano state has 44 LGAs, Lagos 20 despite their almost equal 2006 fraudulent census population and Lagos contributes more to the federation account
How can a nation progress in such circumstances?
Any reasonable Nigerian should be concerned and work together for restructuring to unlock each region’s potentials.

I hope that instead of arguing you should instead use google a little more.

If 1-4 is a coincidence, how about 1 - 11. Still coincidence?

seguno2:
Yes, I get the picture.
There is corruption over there just as there is here.
The oyinbos don’t defend the thieves and corrupt people in their midst because they have resource control unlike sharing federal allocation monthly in Nigeria.
I get it very well.

So in essence, federal allocation is not the actual problem, corruption is.

logica:
Guy, you have a talent for redirection. My post clearly makes the point that when you are forced to generate your income, you thereby become accountable. Free money = no accountability. Capisce?

I am bringing you back to my original point. Free money or not, as far as there is corruption, there is no accountability. Its a fact that you should be able to recognize.

Whether you generate your income or get it free, a corrupt system cannot be accoutable.

Accountability is not the problem of Nigeria, corruption is.

Its is said, whenever you are able to identify the problem, the solution isn't far fetched.

Preach accountability all you want, preach restructuring or Biafra all you want, it will never be the problem. The problem is widespread corruption. The solutiom is deal with it else you threat an unknown ailment.

seguno2:
Maybe that is why New York and Texas states are among the states that have the highest electoral college votes.
The USA clearly understands that he who pays the piper dictates the tune.
Those who contribute the most to the federation account should have a greater say in the federal government. Anything else is a recipe for unending disaster.
Why would you want that for our country.

Do you really know why Texas or NY has such high electoral votes? It has nothing to do with the money they contribute to the US State. Pls make ur research.

Look at the screen shots and deduce. Its about population please.

Did you notice the 1st 4 states in both population and electoral votes. They are the same states in the same order. Electoral votes is a ratio of population not financial contributions.

logica:
When there is free money, there is no incentive to grow education and employment. Only a government that is held accountable for revenue generated will think of these.

There is no accountability when corruption strives.

seguno2:
Is there no corruption in the UK, USA, Canada etc?
Do they have poverty in their country?
I hope that you are not limiting your understanding of corruption to only stealing money?

Corruption in the Uk, USA, Canada etc in comparison to Nigeria, is a job for transparency international.

You dont think they are at same level, do you?

Tell me their numbers in the rating for 2017.

Malabu scandal for example, those who are US citizens got punished, UK recently return $85million but those who are Nigerians are still running around and hoping to be president.

I hope u get the picture.

logica:
Indeed. Continue to throw scarce resources at an unproductive state like Zamfara with 91% poverty rate and eventually you will run out of resources. Solution? Get productive. Get it?

Poverty is widespread in the north. Do they care or complain? No, never.

What do they need to get out of poverty? I'd say 2 things; education and employment.

Do that and poverty as you know it will be gone. It doesn't cost much to privide this.

yeyerolling:
does restructing solve all u listed. I also come to the SS to work, o have seen where an high chief made d community reject a bridge donation. because it wud render his boats useless. I have seen where because a company refuses to use the community boys for thier project. They still pay dem salary and pay high chief cost of tfare(boat). Smh

I am not for restructuring. I support strengthening of anti corruption laws by NASS.

Without corruption, everything will flow as desired, poverty will be eradicated and our differences will vaporize by itself.

yeyerolling:
and that makes u happy I dey the oil state of Nigeria currently. Even with d 13% derivation pple still dey suffer here chai

Is there no poverty in Texas with 27 refineries and so many oil wells?

I have lived in the SS, corruption is the major problem. I have seen how oil money is shared by politicians, traditional rulers, rich and privileged ones leaving development to suffer.

No northerner is in charge of NDDC, the Niger Delta Ministry nor the states that receive the 13% derivation. Where does the money go?

When you start asking these questions, you will understand what is happening.

I was almost killed while working on an FG project. People stop work progress on a daily basis. Traditional injuctions are placed on our equipments. We pay higher labour charges than anywhere in the north. The force us using threats to hire unskilled labour in place of skilled labour. Every chief, community leader, youth leader must recieve kickbacks else no work. I almost got fired when a community stopped work for a month and mentioned the issue on tv. The camera was turned off and my interview edited.

The truth is there but you wont accept it.

I have worked same industry in the north and south. In the north, communities and its leaders ask contractors how they can be of help, in the south communities and its leaders ask how can the contractor help them. Meanwhile there is more poverty in the north.

I have seen in the north where a community arranged free accommodation for workers. We work on peoples lands that have not yet received their compensation.

While in the south, the heavily inflated compensation even becomes higher than the contract sum itself. Family members killing themselves and ending up in court for those moneys meanwhile the contract is held up because they wont allow work continue on their land. I have seen fake grave yards, fake builing foundations etc just because a survey is being carried out for a proposed project. I have seen a church recieve a huge compensation far beyond the worth of their property, turn around to build a mighty structure in the same place asking for 2 billion compensation and even going to court.

I can go on and on.

seguno2:
The glue holding Nigerians together is the Niger Delta oil revenues and Lagos VAT that is shared monthly, which makes it difficult for people to work in their states.

The strength of China as a whole country lays in Beijing and Shanghai.

The strength of USA is New York and Texas.

What is so strange for Nigeria deriving its strength from 2 states?

seguno2:
The constitution has provisions for amendments that will effectively restructure our country.

Guy, there are sections of the constitution that are almost impossible to touch. The structure of Nigeria is one. That is the area needed to do the kind of restructuring bandied around.

You know for a fact they couldnt add LGAs so restruction is as good as impossible.

seguno2:
Do you realise that Gowon restructured Nigeria from four regions to 12 states in 1967?
If Gowon could do it 50 years ago, why can’t the people of Nigeria do it by themselves now?
Gowon needs to see a psychiatrist.

Because he was a military head of state.

He only needs the approval of the Supreme military council to decree a state or restructure the whole country. The Supreme military council is like a rubber stamp since the president is chairman.

So a single man can do it in a military regime but impossible in a democratic one.

9jakohai:
Back to regions where big tribes dominated small tribes.

No thanks, speaking as a minority. And before 66 corruption and tribalism dey

True talk.

Being from Southern Kaduna, no Christian will ever be governor of North West. Marginalization will be worst.

I will never agree to regions.

Odingo1:
Restructuring is not hard, Nigeria have six regions as of today, allow each geopolitical zone to control their resources and create a number of state they want or revert to 1960 constitution and group Nigeria into four regions, North, West, Mid West and East.

Who will allow that?

President? He has no such powers.

NASS? They have no such powers.

Judiciary? You know the answer to this.

Let me tell you who does.

2/3rd of Senate + 2/3rd of HoR + 2/3rd of all 36 state assemblies + 2/3rd of all 773 local government councils.

Last time they tried to create LGAs, it failed. That was the test. If the NW and NE do not agree to it, its dead on arrival.

Gowon knows that very well. Unless there is a military coup, even Nnamdi Kanu as president of Nigeria cannot get it.

dealslip:
But this thing is not difficult now. Just return to what we practiced before the 1966 coup. Even if there are 5000 ethnic groups at least we all knew what region each belonged to. What is complex about that. I just think this is deliberate ignorance.

Deliberate ignorance you say!

Are you sure you are not being deliberately ignorant.

Do you know the process of amending the constitution? Its not just the National assembly o, it includes accent of the 36 state assemblies and 773 local government councils to agree on 1 thing.

Why do you think a state or local government has never been created democratically in the history of Nigeria? Every state and every local government is the creation of the military. Dont you think our constitution was made that way to ensure the unity of Nigeria. Even a referendum is unconstitutional.

Dont forget the last attempt to create local governments failed which gave birth to development areas that are now dead in most states.

The kind of restructuring being called for can only be done by a military government or through a civil war. The democratic way is virtually impossible.