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[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=797958.msg9501287#msg9501287 date=1320695442]Yea, [size=18pt]that's one of the many reasons why Nigeria stinks[/size]. Couldnt breath when I landed in Lagos, nasty stench everywhere. Proper Greenhouse, 4 real.

They should outlaw cooking outside, it's very unhealthy.

BTW, you saying some FMFU dont cook in their home? I wouldnt know, anyone wanna confirm this? [/quote]LOL Ileke Idi, you are funny o

so because a few people are cooking outside, it means the WHOLE country smells .

It is even greener to cook outside than inside. let me explain

In side the house, the kitchen is not well oxygenated and as such would not have complete combustion aka burn duing cooking

while outside there would be more chance of a complete combustion. I am such you have seen those standing fire-gas cylinders

CO2 is better than CO

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=797958.msg9501176#msg9501176 date=1320694412]Where do you cook? On the street?[/quote]where do people living in "face me I face you" cook ? Is it in the house

Is it not just outside the front door or the backyard.

Have you been to "face me I face you" houses before ?

Obiagu1:
Plastic is plastic my friend!
It's highly flammable! Moreover, why waste energy sand filling the bottles when you can easily create a mould that will make bricks of the same shape?
The project doesn't make sense.

1. did you read the topic at all
2. would you cook in the house
3. Brick is made for clay which uses more energy to fillter off impurities and also uses alot of water before drying in a Hot surface.

Obiagu1:
Plastic is plastic my friend!
It's highly flammable! Moreover, why waste energy sand filling the bottles when you can easily create a mould that will make bricks of the same shape?
The project doesn't make sense.

see logic

i would post tomorrow

Obiagu1:
Like WTF

How do you cook in a plastic home or you want to take style and wipe out all the homeless?

nwa Igbo, how are you thinking sef

is it everyone that cooks in the house ?

Even in anambra nnewi I have seen families cook outside there homes at night, same in Lagos and same in the north

Must we cook in the house.

You people have spent too much time in Obodo america

Morover it is not for luxury people but for the desperate

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=797958.msg9496030#msg9496030 date=1320631570]You will be okay.

Maybe you'll be the next person to invent bottle cap sandals.

When you're ready to buy a real house, you'll understand.[/quote]I don't understand,

Would an homeless person prefer to sleep on the street or go for one of these ?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=797958.msg9496004#msg9496004 date=1320630941]I saw this online, I'm still yet to find anything brilliant about it.

Death contraption, if you ask me.

Lacks security, safety, convenience, taste, etc.  For example, na who go cook for there? How long will it take arm robbers to enter?

Awom mallams, getting an idea of what an Arewa public will be like. Glass bottle homes, rubberband homes, etc.

Lawd have mercy!! Plz change the topic title.[/quote]

what are you talking about

what do u mean by robbers,

there are villages, secularity villages in the north with vest expanse of land surrounding the settlement. Who would go out to rob there ?

These design was Never meant for the rich or middle-class but for the poor that are homeless.

there is no point sleeping on the street when you can have somehting like this

Areosapien:
Hahaaa! Too creative! These remind me of the many interlocking fences found in many middleclass South African houses. [b]My fear, shaa, should one bottle fall off from the middle ehn? Oh boy, kasala go SCATTER-BURST! [/b]Still, as an Engineer (who still studied structure), I say the possibilities are quite minimal, as the longitudinally cohesive forces exerted by the other strategically placed bottles cancel out any chances of independent motion within any of the bottles in the lattice.

The same government that killed Tinapa and its multi-million dollar potentials? You're definitely joking.

Remember cements are used to hold the structure together. Kasala no fit burst

It should even be stronger than block houses. given that a circle/ cylinder is more structural stable/stronger than a square/block

wait o

this MEND people did not fight for resource control or amnesty but for a SS/Ijaw president.

WE NEED TO GET THIS RIGHT.

The treat of bomb is NOT for amnesty but to tell Boko Haram that they are still well equip to fight if Boko haram continues.

this is indeed sad.

Instead of this people talk of peace, they still want to add more bombs to the ones we have already

By BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE

LAGOS-A 70-year- old man and three others have been arraigned before a Surulere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for alleged cutting off the hand and leg of one Tajudeen Ogunbadejo with a machete.

Oladun Mannaseh, 70; Dick Ike, 61; Edike Emeka, 49 and Rafiu Olorunmbe, 35, were charged on a two-count charge of conspiracy and causing grievous body harm.

It was gathered that Ogunbadejo’s hand and leg were cut off after an argument between him and the accused persons.

According to the prosecutor, Sgt. Idowu Onime, the accused committed the offence on October 19, 2011 at 28, Shobadu, St., Sari-Iganmu, Lagos, adding: “The offences contravened Sections 338 and 516 of the Criminal code, Laws of Lagos State.”

The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge and were admitted to bail in the sum of N50,000 each with one surety each in like sum.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/70-year-old-man-3-others-docked-for-amputating-man/

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Now would the government nurture this talent ?

This mean cheap houses for the very very poor and also cleaning of the environment.

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North Goes Green With Architectural Brilliance By Solving Housing Problem (pic)

SABON YELWA  (AFP) – The idea undoubtedly seemed strange at first: take the plastic water bottles that litter Nigeria’s roads, canals and gutters and allow people to live inside them.

Not literally, but almost.

What a group of activists did was come up with a plan to build a house using those bottles, providing what they say is an environmentally smart strategy of chipping away at a housing shortage in Africa’s most populous nation.

With the prototype near the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna now well underway, the group wants to extend its efforts and build more, aiming to unleash what they say is some long bottled-up potential.

Unconvinced? Supporters say those yet to see the structure on the outskirts of the village of Sabon Yelwa can throw stones if they want to. This house is being built to last.

“This is the first house in Africa built from bottles, which could go a long way in solving Nigeria’s huge housing need and cleaning the badly polluted environment,” project initiator Christopher Vassiliu said during a tour of the building.


Sitting on 58-square metres (624-square feet), the two-bedroom bungalow looks like an ordinary home, but it differs in many ways. When completed, the house whose construction started in June will be used to train masons in building such structures.

It is made from capped, sand-filled plastic bottles, each weighing three kilogrammes, or nearly two pounds.

The bottles are stacked into layers and bonded together by mud and cement, with an intricate network of strings holding each bottle by its neck, providing extra support to the structure.

Bottle caps of various colours protrude from the cement-plastered walls, giving them a unique look. Those behind the project claim the sand-filled bottles are stronger than ordinary cinder blocks.

“The structure has the added advantage of being fire proof, bullet proof and earthquake resistant, with the interior maintaining a constant temperature of 18 degrees C (64 degrees F) which is good for tropical climate,” Yahaya Ahmad, the project coordinator said.

– Three million bottles daily –

With the right adjustments to the supporting pillars the building can be as high as three stories, but can go no higher due to the weight of the sand-filled bottles, Ahmad said.

Situated amidst an expansive irrigation farm, the building consists of a rotunda-shaped living room which connects to the interior via a short corridor.

Two rooms stand opposite with a bathroom and a toilet between them. A side door leads to an open courtyard and the kitchen.

The house is also designed to produce zero carbon emissions as it will be wholly powered by solar panels and methane gas from recycled human and animal waste.

“Nigeria has a serious waste and energy problem, and this project is one small step towards making positive changes,” said Katrin Macmillan, a British environmental activist involved in the project.

“Plastic bottles take hundreds of years to bio-degrade in landfills.”

Construction, which has reached 70 percent completion, is estimated to require 14,000 bottles. Huge piles of empty plastic bottles litter the site from donations from embassies, hotels and restaurants.

Environmental experts say Nigeria, a country of some 160 million, throws out about three million plastic bottles daily.

The country is also grappling with a deficit of 16 million housing units that requires a staggering 45 trillion naira ($300 billion) to meet, according to Nigeria’s Federal Mortgage Bank.

Plastic houses are cheap to construct as it costs a quarter of the money required to build a conventional house, said Vassiliu, a Greek national who has been working in Nigeria as a water drilling engineer for 30 years.

The project is to cost two million naira ($12,700), Vassiliu said.

A second plastic bottle project is due to commence in January at a primary school in need of more classrooms in the town of Suleja near Nigeria’s capital Abuja.

“The project would take 200,000 bottles out of landfills into education”, said Macmillan.

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/plastic-bottles-solve-nigerias-housing-problem-042708558.html

cjfavour:
Poster stop this PR job. I am far better than OBJ. During his reime many ppl were killed mostly political opponents. I didn't say he killed them but why are they nt dying again since OBJ leave office? Who killed Bola Ige? Na armed robbers really? He sold all Nigeria business to his friends and cronies.,Where is Nigeria airways,Nigeria shipping line,Nitel,etc. The debts he settled were procured by him. Check nigeria budget b4 1999 and budget frm 1999-2007? How were they financed? massive borrowing.-hat about implementation?zero. Is it his xter. A man dt slept with his son's wife.His son said it blame him nt me.Or is it his politics? OBJ shld never be portrayed as a model or you will be throwing Nigeria to d gutter. POSTER, will you be happy if all nigerians start beheving like OBJ? I prefer Abacha,IBB and saint abubakar over OBJ at least,we were in military regime during their tenure and we know that.

No you are not better than OBJ neither would you prefer Abacha, IBB etc over OBJ because that is a dumb way of thinking

adamaw2tuf:
greatest nigerian as leader or former leader? not yet and i'm not at all surprised that people get paid to become praise singers,this shows the way poverty has forced many into be zombies at the wish of these evil so called polithiefcian.we have no great former or current leaders at all in this land but we have great men and women, and somehow only one of them has been mentioned here and is wole soyinka.so the op shame on you,only you know what you are trying to acheive by coming up with such ludicrous topic.

adamawa boy apart from Awolowo, Zik, Bello

who is better than OBJ presently ?

I am waiting

[quote author=edo.girl link=topic=797616.msg9495667#msg9495667 date=1320623279]mischieviously insisting/suggesting that all the groups in the 'south south' have the same aspirations as the south east is misleading. while it's highly conceivable that the se/ss/sw/mb may end up in the same 'independence' camp, a good chunk of the ss will not agree to forming a country with the se without the inclusion of another sizable group - e.g yorubas - to act as a counterbalance to the igbos. the reality is, some groups in that regions remain wary of igbos and will baulk at being part of an exclusive union with them. if yorubas are not joining an enlarged se/ss/sw country, a sharp knife will need to be taken to the map of edo/delta to split these states according to people's preferences. whoever said splitting nigeria would be easy![/quote]i wish more SS people like you can come out and voice out

do not let jason(itsekiri) kpogede(urhobo) anybaba(ibibio) Ijaw girl agbotean(anioma) sheyguy and co speak like they are Yoruba people

SS people need to speak more so Beaf would not lump una with SE.

Every zone has a right to self determination and control or resources.

PointB:
Alj Haran 'Ntori' is for advanced speakers but  then you still think you know better. You will never learn.

Sorry, that is wrong, stop going to websites to copy and paste

lateef4me:
@Desola,Emi ni were alaso abi ?ogaa oo,kini eniyan koni ri ni NL naa ? Well, I think I made a terrible mistake respondin to your post ,

Omo lasan,ikeji aja,eranko lasanlasan !

Sharrap dai, again it is easy to go to websites that do conversions from yoruba to english  in fact this is one

http://www.nigeriandictionary.com/

You mean after all she wrote, that was the only thing u picked out

did you address the issue she raised ?

PointB:
. . . And 'yen' is not correct usage! Ye with the e dotted is the correct use. I still have to teach an 'awori' man Yoruba. @ALH HARAM.

Yes believe it or not I am awori. You do not have to teach me because I speak the language very very well. I mean I was born in it.

Ko le to ye is used in the context land/ plot

Ko le to yin is used in the context of addressing someone

I guess is how you spell it

PointB:
Take it easy Desola. Too much venom is not good for your health. Jo ntori olorun fara ba le. Ko le to ye. Obiri ni e by the way!

LOL

Jo n[b]i[/b]tori[b] O[/b]lorun fara ba le. Ko le to ye[b]n[/b]. Obiri[b]n[/b] ni e by the way

better

Beaf:
My proposal is that you take your other sharia loving dolts, form your own country and leave us in peace. We are now tired of you, producing nothing, yet killing wantonly.

Can I ask you a simple question? If you don't reply, then you are more or less a boko haram supporter.
[size=14pt]Are you a Nigerian first, then a Muslim or are you a Muslim first then a Nigerian?[/size]

Who created the donkey loads of almajiri's and willing suicide bombers in your part of the country? GEJ?
As I asked before, why don't you call GEJ to clean your arse after you use the loo as well?

On a more serious Note, I find your post quite disturbing and insensitive

First of all, STOP SAYING THE NORTH DOES NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING BECAUSE THAT IS A LIE AND PROPAGANDA BY PPL LIKE YOU

Secondly, I would like to ask you a question

[size=14pt]Are you a Nigerian first, then an Ijaw/Southerner or are you an Ijaw/Southerner first then a Nigerian?[/size]

The suicide bombers are not almajiris but terrorist and it is the Job of the Government to protect her people and the borders stop posting like you do not know these things because it is getting annoying.

lateef4me:
@Desola,I don't understand u ,yoruba ladies are known for their good manners,well cultured and decency in language and character,I only pity d man dat wil marry u !

what did she say that warranted this

do you even understand yoruba at all ARE YOU YORUBA