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lawali:
People in the house, Hajji Mufutau et all please I need your advise and help on how to identify quality stainless steel for railings. I am about installing rail for my project and want to get value for money. Anyone in the house you can recommend? Pls help. Price idea will also be useful. Thanks

I'm interested in this question too. I just hope thus will bring normal discussion here.

Good day Bro. Please I would like to know how much clean CE of Camry 08 and Corolla 08 will cost me with full custom papers. Not accidented please.
Thank you, boss

olumide4christ:
[b]@ THE BOLDED ABOVE.... So you think N200k to supervise a foundation construction from setting out to ground floor bed (DPC) is too too much?? How much would you expect the professional to charge?? -N50K Abi shey na tomatoes the professional dey sell? Construction that may take from 2 weeks to 1 month depending on the complexity of the foundation, the terrain, weather, etc? You didn't even tell us what kind of building is involved - a bungalow with strip foundation or a storey building with strip/pad or raft foundation? The bigger the building, the more complex the foundation and so the higher the level of professional input required in supervision. At least, it would be expected that you negotiate with that professional reasonably.

If you think professional supervision only involves "showing face like 3x during the work", then please try doing your foundation with only Baba Lati & Papa Johnbull without any supervision and come and tell us how your foundation is faring after a year or two! The difference is surely clear!

It beats me how we think in this country. People will want to pay peanuts for professional service that will secure their future and investment, but will spend hundreds of thousands & even millions to organize parties, attend shows, purchase liabilities, etc.

Anyways, the wise know better!![/b]

I would like to admit that I was wrong not to have mentioned the type and size of the building and the foundation type. I searched through your response for harsh words but find none save sarcasm, so for this reason I won't respond further to you sir, on the subject.
However, you guys may as well charge a million naira to supervise the foundation of the security house where the main house rests on an area less than 40sqm in what my lay mind would call a normal land.
I do pray you folks will get your acts together and purge yourselves of people whose primary interest reside in milking their clients dry rather than delivery of services.

You see na where problem dey start be that o...why u no just do wetin your friend want jeje?


The honesty you have displayed here in asking this question. I will advise you adopt that honesty in asking the owner of the house which one he'll prefer, because at the end it all boils down to what the owner likes. What i know is that the block idea eats more room space than without the block idea.

mufutau55:
To me yes... I won't have a demarcated concrete/block wardrobe... I can change or re-arrange me room anytime I need.
Your friend may have his reasons, or may be, he is just an old-fashioned guy.

Hajji M.

Thank you very much, elders of the section, for the responses. When I put it to the owner, he asked me to find out what is better, of course with evidence. I think I will convince him to just stay off the blocks. The supervisor wins then, through more informed opinions of great guys here.

Good day gurus in the house and friends in diaspora. Please I'm monitoring a project for a friend who lives abroad. They just concluded the DPC and are working on the block work of the ground floor of the duplex.
While the plan shows the wardrobe position to be demarcated with blocks, the supervisor thinks block work for wardrobe is unnecessary and out of fashion. I am confused as my friend is a rigid person who might want to see his plan executed the way it was drawn unless if I could be convinced otherwise.
Now the question is, is it really out of fashion to build the wardrobe wall with blocks?

some guys are so horrible and uncultured here. from my observation from a distance in this section, once somebody comes with any plans or request that we don't relate to, the firm assumption of the so called "professionals " here is that the drawing or proposal must have been done by a quack. Anybody that is not you is a quack, habba!
Unfortunately, by the time you engage some of them (the so called advertising professionals on the corridors of property section), just go hospital go find medicine for heart attack cos they will break your heart. They do! all the time.
When we give feedbacks, we shouldn't be so disrespectful and discourteous about it. This is not fair for God's sake. Una wan make the man feel like say na coconut de him head ni?
Next in line are the hawks who introduce themselves as various professionals who just dole out their phone numbers and email addresses. There are actually good people here who do that here and I do respect them as they are genuine. The man came here for advice, if your advice is going to cost him money, just find somewhere else go advertise and stop bad mouthing other people's works joor.
Despite all these, there are lots of cultured and matured professional guys here. I hail you matured and respectful folks here. To the insultive folks, grow up, a beg. Give your advice for free and charge for real professional consultation jare.

Imagine someone telling a friend he will supervise his DPC for 200k!.....Two hundred thousand Naira! Friend will still buy his materials, pay all the workers on site. Drawings don de ground already oh. The professional own na just to put hand for pocket show him face like 3x during the work and pocket 200k. Aye ma ni ika oh.

While it is not my intention to disrespect anyone or insult the integrity of any profession, we need to purge ourselves of some folks here.

Lakeland4321:
stop misleading nigerians, no Bank converts your money to dollars through black market on your ATM card. This is a mastercard or visa platform and you will conform with international standards ie official rates. That was why CBN reduced the limit of spending so as to conserve the dollar used to back up nigerian tourist spending abroad.

kindly check the attached picture as example of what happens now for online payments and POS abroad. I made this payment of 55 CAD online a few day ago using VISA Card. I was debited N13,000 instead of the N8,542 or something a little higher if there are other charges.
This is the reality of the situation now. I tried to get in touch with the bank and the excuses I heard was that banks source for forex from the black market for most of these transactions so they set their system to such funny rates.
I have confirmed this with clients from first bank, GTB, Skye etc Everyone has the same story

baebae:
even if you want to beat the criminals why must they be stripped off their clothes..??, its very uncalled for

even if you want to get money, why must yu kidnap other people's children

TechWalker007:
http://leadership.ng/news/509478/abducted-abused-7-months-15-year-old-patience-paul

Ain't that barrister Ezekiel Dyagas I see presented like a hero in this matter? eh eh, I shake my head.
The man seems worse than the abductors themselves in my opinion.
The legal profession needs to purge itself of people like him fa.
He duped me and disappeared.

berildan:
Thanks for your response, I really appreciate it. What do you suggest? All attempts to reach NIPOST customer service to probe the case have been abortive, none of the NIPOST phone numbers were reachable. The recipient even has so much evidence against the NIPOST officials in question. The so-called NIPOST official in custody of the package even provided their name, account number and phone number and asked for an extravagant payment to be made before the parcel is sent (even more than the cost of the parcel postage). So it's a matter of calling in necessary authorities but it's proving abortive so far.

Any ideas of how to reach a trustworthy NIPOST official would be helpful. Its very disappointing that things like this never cease to happen.

kindly send me a PM. I've got links to NIPOST.
This is sad and rather disgraceful of people who get paid every month for doing nothing, yet all they can do is to mess up with a system people are trying to cleanse

this really looks nice but I'm afraid of anything wood like this as it forms a nice haven for cockroaches.
what about families with under five children, they pour water on the floor per second?

I am just wondering why you are the only one posting here! people please, show some love.
I think a little background information on mixers, mechanisms, advantages, disadvantages, various types and sizes and of course cost implication may drive a little more traffic here.
nice thread by the way.

I am a little worried about the orientation we have about tax vis a vis encouraging investors into the country. We need to know that MTN doesn't break rules in South Africa and they don't joke with their tax payment there. why should that be different in Nigeria?
Secondly , there must have been a disagreement initially but there was a court ruling that supported the state and the least MTN could do was to appeal intend of blackmailing the government.
Some argue that most of the staff involved are not MTN staff but contract staff etc. as long MTN pays those people, it is what they earned and it must be taxed. you also need to know that MTN must have taxed those people but never remitted it to government.
in addition, the telecommunications sector doesn't need any incentives for any investment a beg. That sector is saturated. why didnt mtn close shop when it ews slammed fine by the government through the NCC? Do you know how much these foreign telecoms repatriate out of the country every month? sincerely they should stop defrauding the land.
If I work for the government and I have small shop where I sell provisions, there is VAT that I must include in the price of the items I sell and I must remit this to the government regularly but we never do all these. In fact most of us don't pay tax.
many of us are not so pained when people in government steal or mismanage money because we have no connection with this money theyr are stealing. After all, it is oil money. The term "tax payers funds/money" doesn't seem appropriate for us.

durodee:
A few years ago I was in your shoes. If is unfortunate that there are charlatans everywhere, more so when it involves a "new technology". I can testify that inverter+ solar is good BUT you must be ready to do some homework. When my inverter system caught fire twice, I abandoned it as a lost cause! A friend eventually pointed to this thread on Nairaland https://www.nairaland.com/390522/solar-energy-complement-fta and adviced me strongly to find time and read from page 1to the end and not be tempted to jump to the end. I will support your decision to disconect the system awhile but please do not let it end there! Now i have power in my house 24/7 and i am not connected to NEPA.I am fully on SOLAR. Your installer is either naive, stupid or dubious to keep ascertaining that your system does not need a charge controller. It is like saying a car does not need a BRAKE because you were not planning to speed. Kindly convince your hubby to join you in this solar study expedition and you will never regret it! All the best!!!!

...and this looks like my oga Durodee

my uncle too is a Rosicrucian. He exposed me to all sorts of soul enriching scripts and documents. I studied so much that he encouraged me to even read about history and evolution of religions, Islam and other religious teachings. it is good to know that he never forced me to read or reflect on all these. He engaged me constructive arguments and he never for once asked me to join talk less of forcing me to. He hoped I would be personally convinced one day to join. I decided not to consider to join because the teachings and doctrines of AMORC are so intense and pure that I don't think I can meet up with the spiritual obligations.
Growing up with my uncle changed my outlook to life and made me appreciate the transient nature of humans. I have better interpersonal relationship with people, I live my life to serve others and I am happy doing it. I consider it wrong to accumulate wealth while others are suffering. He is not rich, he is not a ritualist and he is not a cultist. I've been to their temples on several occasions and I know what I'm talking about.
The unfortunate thing is that most of us are not open to knowledge, we prefer dogmatism and we seem to condemn alien teachings and doctirines before we know them. Christians who don't know anything about Islam do same and and Muslim who have never bothered to learn about Christianity also condemn Christians.
I am a Christian, born again, I have been with my uncle for over 20 years from my late secondary school days. He is the probably the most respected and loved of all my uncles.
*******

I sent him the OPs post and this is his response below......:


Your uncle may be keen on your personal development and soul evolution but can't and shouldn't force you to be one. It is not compulsory to be a Rosicrucian but very worth the effort, am one and has been there for the past 33years of no iota of regrets. Let me tell you and honestly too that it is not because your brother is in AMORC that makes him rich but maybe he is hard working because Rosicrucians live in same world and are prone to all challenges of life. Jesus was in all the ways tested, tempted and tribulated in many ways but till date at the mention of his name every knee continues to bow. For further information try Rosicrucian Order AMORC Nigeria on Facebook.
Taiye Olaniyi is my name.

Viktor1983:
What's the speed compared to etisalat? any one used both networks before?

I ust abandoned glo for Etisalat. Glo will give you 12 Gig for only 5k but I can assure you, no matter how much you try, you can't use up 5gig out of the data cos of the poor and frustrating network.
why not pay 5k for 5gig Etisalat and enjoy your life.

castroevans:
An advantage a jeep gat over salon cars.

Please what is a Jeep?

You still de sell for Abuja? Your price don improve? Do you deliver to destination?

Obrigardo:
It's not too serious like that cartoon. Most schools collect school fees even into the middle of the term. I guess you don't have a kid, so you don't know.

I would like to know your kids school so I may refer people to you. ... This is first term oh, they need books, pay for accommodation for boarders, uniform etc. For other terms, you may pay later but for first term, you need to take care of these issues at least na.....

lolaxavier:
Transport staff of the Dangote Cement Company, Obajana, are at loggerheads with the management of the company over poor remuneration, threatening not to resume work until their demands are met.

The workers who barricaded the entrance gate on Friday did not allow some management staff to drive in to the premises.

The workers who chatted with Vanguard at the premises of the company in Obajana,Friday, asked President Muhammed Buhari to beam the anti graft light on the business Czar, Aliko Dangote because he is underpaying for labour, thereby exploiting them for his private gain.

They called on Presidency to implore Alhaji Aloko Dangote to implement workers’ welfare measures and look into demands for salary increment in view of the economic situation which is biting hard on their families.

A worker who simply identified himself as Chizoba said they are the ones doing the work which has rated Dangote as one of the richest in the world.

“We implore the President of Nigeria to advise Alh. Dangote to place the workers’ welfare on the front burners to ensure industrial harmony at the company. We cannot be working for one of the world’s richest men who will in turn, be paying us peanuts as salaries”, he said.

The workers said it was unacceptable for management to be paying them N20,000 naira per month when some of the management staff earn as high as a million naira per month.

They said they cannot be slaves in their own land.

“For more than 5yrs the company had been promising us increment and promotion. ”
Another staff Usman Garuba said they have been working for years in the company and the management kept promising them better welfare packages but have failed.
“The last meeting that we held with the management they promised to implement the salary increase within one week but they have failed.

“We added two days and now another one week has elapsed. We demand that a top management officer from the head office come to address us if not we are going to continue the current strike”.

The workers said they are ready to go to any length to achieve their objective.
“Some of us are taking N25000, some N30000 and some N40000. They are paying the expatriates N2M monthly. If they don’t need us let them sack us”, Garuba said.

Efforts by our reporters to get the management’s side of the story were rebuffed as they all declined comment on the issue.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/transport-staff-ask-buhari-to-probe-dangote-say-he-is-underpaying-for-labour/

These people need to find out how much the federal government pays its staff- I mean graduates oh; after that they will thank God for their own 40k per month as drivers.
I am saying this because the remuneration is so poor that people will never tell you their real take home pay. When you assess their lifestyles however, they live on multiples of their income on a monthly basis : you see the reason why corruption is here with us and will never go away....

standfit5:
go to any etisalat centre with any ID card(nat'l,voters,driver's,even office's) and switch the old SIM seemlessly in less than 10mins and everyone will still be able to reach u on that line. u will have no worry anymore. call rates are the best 11k/sec to all nigera networks(N5 daily fee). a friend did that two days ago as he cldnt withstand the queue and he is so glad today

What about mobile Internet rates and quality of service? I've been using my MTN since GSM network entered Nigeria. I felt I owe them loyalty but this is not being reciprocated. A wan port, a beg. Fear of the unknown however is holding me down.
Pls convince me Etisalat is good for me.

osaslord500:
About graduating with this your English?

Haba, what is wrong with her English? apart from omission of some words which can happen to anybody especially if you are using a phone, she is ok.

Ishilove:
O nigga puhleese!! No names were mentioned so what is the big deal??

Royver please keep on posting these experiences for us to read and learn from. As long as the identities of those involved are hidden, then I find alstacs concerns irrelevant.

What do we then say about doctors who publish medical memoirs with details of cases which they have handled? Usually the identities of the patients are hidden and sometimes events and dates are changed to further protect them, but the core of the cases remain real.

OK na. Issorai

bushdoc9919:
There is a good private orthopaedic hospital in Abuja called Cedarcrest that can treat him well.

That is where the Kogi governor went to when he had an accident over a year ago.

Didn't he transform Uyo into a world class city? didn't he build and commission an international hospital in his state? He should be referred to Uyo with immediate effect!
Please, I am getting worried by the use of the JEEP by professional journalists and writers.

Royver:
No names or dates were mentioned. This may have happened years ago. And its possible the story isnt even true.

It is good names were not mentioned, it however doesn't sound good to think this is permissible because it might have happened a long time ago. This should not be divulged even if the patient died 20 years ago.

Royver:
So this guy enters my office with a seminal fluid analysis report.
Time collected - 10am
Time tested - 10.15am
Motile 0%
Sluggish 20%
Dead/Immotile 80%
Sperm count 1 million.

I tell him the result and he says there is improvement. Previously Sluggish was less than 10%.

I ask how long he has been managing low sperm count. He said he discovered it just before his marriage of about 7yrs.

I ask if he has ever Impregnated anyone in the past and he tells me no but that he has two kids by his wife. In fact despite his low sperm count he has never had any problem getting his wife pregnant so much so that the wife has gotten pregnant on many other occasions but miscarried. That there were no issues until they moved from their previous neighbourhood to delta state. He recalls his wife and neighbor were very emotional when they left. Since they came to Asaba she has not so much as taken in...

I look at him and he looks slowly back at me as realisation sets in.

Awkward silence.

I do hope this is not a true life story. If it is, then you didn't do well to post your encounter here. Medical practice and all the support professions are guided by strong ethics and one of the greatest of them is confidentiality. Details of encounter (even if names and addresses are not mentioned) must never be discussed outside official Medical circles.
The rule on ethics instructs you to keep the secret the patient has entrusted to you even after the patient has died unless if you are compelled by law to do otherwise.

spyder880:
You are welcome, thanks.

Spyder, I must confess I hold you in high esteem the way you demystify most of these issues. I see these things, I ask questions but people just tell you letter A because they taught it is A.
Pls carry us along to finishing

amb2015:
sorry brother. I pray that God should touch the thief to bring back your car for you. 30k GPS tracker could have saved you from this trauma.

there is a false believe that your car is worthless or old or you are about to change it and because of that , you don't need tracker.
folks, any car that you buy for over a hundred thousand naira or any car that carries you from one point to the other one needs insurance and tracking; even if you have to push the car daily before it starts.
you may never know the true value of your car till you lose it. However, there have been instances of those tracker peddlers who aid and abet car theives, they go straight to the tracker and disable it.
we live in a wicked world.

lantres000:
Eyah I lost my 2004 Toyota Camry same way last year August and couldn't find it up till today. I advice you involve SARS in this so they can comb ur area properly. It would cost u some cash though.

I lost two cars September last year ....almost lost my life too. A Toyota Camry 2004 and a sienna 2004 too along with as many electronics the two cars could pack from my house. of course I involved the police and SARS and they all got salary supplements from me till I became wise and let go. .....Police and SARS na your friends oh, they will milk you dry.