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QuintessentialW:
Ehen. If he was 30 when he featured in Broad Day Light, and that movie was about 15 years ago, it means he should be 45 now.

Maybe he wasn't 30 then

QuintessentialW:
Hanks Anuku is 60 No way!

If he is, then he looks just okay!

Thought he was in his late 30s or early 40s

Ahn ahn nah... this is 2020 oh in few hours now we will be in 2021.

Most of Hanks movies like the Senator etc were about 15 - 20 years ago now.

What he has in his hands is like a wrapper of $1 or say 2 wrappers at most which equals $200.

$200 = N 77,600. ($1 = N388).

michlins:
it depends on the size of your window sir.

The first window frame, is it a total lock up protector or is there an option for someone to open it from the inside, like to escape incase of fire or the likes.?

I know a nairalander that will be happy..

Slowmirr

bayo2018:
Good day Boss.
What brought out the question is due to this quote from one of my previous post telling me it’s not advisable to build on such land ...

And also I’m planning on building a three bedroom bungalow but on a second thought someone’s saying Ima get tired of the bungalow and I should go for a Duplex instead . What’s your say about that sir .?
Though cash inflow won’t be a problem by the special grace of God na to just put more sleepless nights to my hustle lols

This is all your choice Sir.

People build bungalows and duplex for different reasons. Some build bungalows because of financial reasons or health reasons or just personal preference.. like if they are building for their old parents or they feel more comfortable just parking their car and walk right into their room.

These are personal choice.

As for the area, I have heard mixed reviews of ikorodu , I am not savvy with the area.

Things to consider is what your present and future plans are?

Do you like the area where this land is located? At the end of the day, you will live there not me or anyone else giving you suggestions.

Are you going to be okay sleeping in this house after you build it?. This might sound funny but I have seen folks that built up their property but realized they don't like the area after spending millions to put up the build.

1 suggestion I will give you though, people's preference differs. Do what works best for you, your lifestyle and your situation.

Consider all and make your choice. Do not make your choice because someone else said , ehm you will get tired of this. The person that said that, considering their personal situation they might have grown tired of theirs based on that which is not wrong. Everyone is unique and folks put up build for different reasons.

On a personal level, assuming I like an area, I would go for bungalow with a pent house. Getting the best of both worlds.

Good luck!!

jedisco:
The post you referenced was one the young man had edited. ...


Abroad where he says he's coming from, if such statements are made in reference to him as a Nigerian or a black man, he would rightly regard it as racial profiling or racism. But the little man is here playing ostrich.

There's a difference between being matured and being a baby. I don't need an apology but if he saw the need to edit his post, that means he knows he erred. Maturity is being a bigger man and owning up to ones faults. We all make mistakes.

My point is simple- what's wrong is wrong and there's no excusing it. You were duped by one person does not mean you drag a whole ethnicity into it.

Thank you!!

spyder880:
My brother, I am one of the people who thinks that this whole drama is getting out of control. I had called for caution from the warring parties yesterday because the damage this is causing to this thread is much.

I am still calling on everyone to sheath their swords. We should all continue to make positive contributions because, together, we can move this thread in the right direction.

Merry Christmas once again my people.

Oga Spyder880, yes this is getting unnecessarily out of hand and it shouldn't have.

I have read comments here people saying apologize to who? Who gives a hoot about an apology? Speaking for myself, I care less about that.

I don't believe any one was expecting the davodguy to roll on the floor and throw his hands up in the air asking for apology.

If you go back to how this started, the meaning of his posts could go both ways depending on individual reading it.

It makes one wonder , what his original intentions were? If someone think there message is being misunderstood, what stops them from chiming in and say, aye folks I don't know where this is heading but this weren't my intention, I was just trying to bring to everyone attention to be careful out there regardless of the tribe you are dealing with.

Some people might call this an apology, some might say it is a clarification of one's position. Either way, this would have ended long before it started and issuing a clarifying message is not unusual in this climate to make sure your message wasn't distorted or misunderstood.

DrGoodman:
Please, kpele, buko, we all beg you to allow peace to reign. But I don't know why he has refused to apologize, maybe he is in a secret cult and if he apologize to anyone, he may get into trouble and lose his wealth. Many people are into oaths.

In as much I was infuriated by the situation, this made me chuckle!

Aye, fight racism abroad and a tribal bigot back home.. silly individuals!!

Don't mind the people instigating a tribal war and elders that were supposed to put them in check keeping quite.

Like I tell everyone, what is wrong is wrong, speak up and condemn evil whenever and wherever. You might find yourself in a similar circumstance.. what goes around comes around.

Few months ago, a nairalander here was alleged to have scammed another nairalander to the tune of N3m ( Three million Naira).

The victim never came here to say, aye! All this tribe are scammers. The victim, respectfully and intelligently focused on the crime and not the tribe of the suspect and everyone else , me included followed suit, no one mentioned, aye if you are doing a project and need casement windows etc in Lagos or anywhere , beware of this tribe, they are all criminals. Or do you think folks didn't know the tribe of the scammer?

The suspect, a nairalander said, ehm, he was in quarantine, this and that and then his dad died.. but we all respectfully and wisely ignored the tribe of the suspect. The thing then was folks beware of who you do business with this and that which was a plausible stance to take in those instances.. this is the stance I thought the davodguy should have taken.. aye folks, beware check your materials and your receipt before leaving the shop.

Now, here we are!! Folks still think it is okay to condemn a whole tribe just because of a transaction that we don't even know if it happened, receipt posted here did not show all the details to ascertain if it was a calculation error. A one sided conversation and no one knows exactly what transpired.. if the supposedly aggrieved party was issued 2 different receipt and he posted only one of it. Or this could have even been an honest mistake, who knows?

Regardless, assuming he was a victim of fraud, that doesn't justify calling a whole tribe criminals.

bayo2018:
Good day everyone here
I just discovered this thread few days ago and I guess this thread will be really helpful to me in my coming projects and I can say that there’re a lot of Great peeps on this particular thread
it’s due to the tribal war that I’ve kept mute and unable to ask my question all these while but it seems it has died down a little bit
My question goes thus

— is it advisable to have a building worth 12m on a 550k plot of land at ikorodu

I am just curious, why the question? 12m in building this days is not a lot of money, don't get me wrong. It is a lot but considering the high cost of materials these days, 12m might not be sufficient for a foundation work in some areas.

Well, your primary focus is the intention of the building.. it doesn't matter if the land is worth 550m or 550k.

If this is a private house, as long as you like the area and it suits your need, build your house and enjoy.

If it is a rental property, do a market survey around the area to make sure it will worth your while. There will be a good Return on investment and your property wouldn't have a high vacancy rate.

What kind of structure are you planning on to build?

Rexology:
Please, we cannot continue like this, let's forgive him and move on.

I know, I want peace to reign like the next guy but what is wrong is wrong...

frankly I was disappointed by the davodguy guys approach to this but more disappointed in some other people's reaction.. some well known names in this thread.. I think they should have made a comment to pacify this.

We've got to stand up for what's right whether it was for or against you. Here's why, you could be on the receiving end of that treatment.

Speaking of being singled out at the airport, I was traveling once and the guy sitting beside me was a Nigerian as well, different tribe from me.

He was on the position of this tribes are this and that.. guess what, landed to catch our connecting flight, guess who was sent it for a secondary search? Not me, the flight was canceled beuavse of weather and the airline was lodging folks in a hotel, guess who was placed in a nice hotel? Me ,

the airline refused to put him in a hotel because he had a Nigerian passport. It was just Iike all those folks over heard our conversation.

davodyguy:
I am 100% open to this

Oh you could be even open to that but you let this issue span pages ??

You yourself could have stopped all this and made a comment to clarify your stance not necessarily an apology not that the later is out of order.

See oo, joke apart, if anyone have lived through "labeling,' having a target on your back just because you are a "Nigerian " it doesn't matter if you are igbo or yoruba, just Nigerian. You will see that experience is not funny, very demoralizing or someone just label you something you are not just because you are black..

Have you been singled out at an airport before just because of your green passport? Even though you are law abiding citizen but was labeled as a bad guy just because of your nationality?

Things like your original statement should not be tolerated. So are you insinuating every one of yoruba decent doing business in Lagos is a saint?? There are no scammer , fraudulent people of yoruba decent doing business, scamming people and engaging in fraud in Lagos?

Please let's be guided when we make those silly tribal assumptions.

It depends, building from scratch allows you to personalize the house.. make it yours and you are sure of the quality.

Again, there are areas where buying will seem like your only option, say for instance you want to
Live in a particular area but there isn't empty land available.. the cost of buying an old bungalow, knocking it down to build yours might exceed the cost of buying outright. so buying is the option here..

I thought Onny Michael was her husband they make very good couple in Nolly wood movies.

davodyguy:
May God bless you.

Yes buyer may sometimes get carried away, but why will you collect ₦1,533,000 and issue a receipt of ₦1,397,000?

When will dishonesty end in Nigeria?

When?

Look at the images and tell me if this is not pure evil

I'm not just interested in feeding trolls. Hence, I'll not respond to a single quote from any troll.

The bolded is the big problem in Nigeria and the world at large. It is not peculiar to any tribe or country.

Let's pretend the last name was not intentionally left uncovered from the bank transaction.

The picture did not show all the items in the receipts.. did all the individual items purchased add up to 1.3m or was it 1.5m? Your picture did not do justice to that.

There have been incidents were people make those mistakes. There have also been incidents were apprentice do this sort of thing so there Oga will not find out or the seller provided multiple receipts from one bank transaction.

Regardless, assuming this was a case of fraudulent activities even though we haven't heard from the other party, just believing what you said.. IT IS VERY WRONG TO LABEL A WHOLE TRIBE AS CRIMINALS.!!

we have seen lots of individuals here giving out hints on their trade, I know money121 refused to do the same and was castigated but anyways, checkitout do post some write ups about his line of business like people beware kind of thing..

who are those selling granites in Ogun, Lagos, Oyo axis if I might ask ( the granite fraud is not only peculiar to these areas) ? If another tribe was building a house and retained the services of those dishonest granites dealer, would it be plausible for that individual to come online and say,( after learning the tricks of the trade and buyer beware from check it out) and say this tribe are all criminals Are we talking of electric cables , rebagging of cement?

At the end of the day, people need to be careful both in Nigeria and outside of Nigeria. Outside of Nigeria, I always ask for a receipt even if I purchased a pack of gum. I even count my money after withdrawing from ATM ( I have caught them twice, whether the bank intended it work like that or not,, I do not know,, what I know is my money was not complete).

There have been many instances where people did not give me my correct balance, deny having a conversation with me about something ( that's why I use email and what's app in most communications). It doesn't mean all white people are criminals. There are bad eggs in every race, tribe, nationality.


I have paid money at a government agency before headed by someone not from my tribe, I paid 100 naira ( not the exact amount) and was given a receipt of 60 naira. I asked and was told, they don't write a receipt for the other 40 naira, I was furious but was told oga, better come and be going ooh , if our Oga hear about your ranting for the 40 naira, your file will not move.

Your post should have been in the line of buyer beware, check your receipt after purchase and count the materials before leaving the shop kind of thing.



You were very wrong to condemn a whole tribe because of your bad experience with a handful of individuals from that tribe.

It is very wrong to use part to qualify whole.

If someone is scammed by an igbo guy, to come online and say 'all igbos' are this and that is wrong, there is no defense ( in my opinion). Let's call a spade a spade.. what is wrong is wrong!

There are scammers in every tribe, do you think an igbo guy that scammed this guy scammed him because he was not igbo? Do you think a yoruba guy that scammed an igbo guy scammed him because of his tribe? A scammer is a scammer and they look beyond tribe.. all they think is how much they could get from the victim.

Some times this scammers are even in our families.. we have seen this both here in nairaland and offline where someone entrusted a family member to oversee a project for them and the family member end up swindling them, bloating the true project expenses...

We have seen land grabbers, who are land grabbers?? Are they foreigners?? Land grabbers are local to the communities where they operate, do we call the whole village a village of scammers?

Just like 2pac said, he is black doesn't mean he is your brother, he is white doesn't mean he is evil.

Do your due diligence regardless of the tribe of who you are dealing with, even if you are dealing with your own blood, due diligence is still required.

Why all this Universities in Nigeria..

These people should focus more on building businesses, industries etc to create jobs

Nigeria have lots of universities.. we don't need anymore..

Why don't these people open up industries, businesses that will create jobs..

Who school certificate epp??

StepTwo:
Raise your hand if you can’t find your team in the top 6

United have only played 12 games.. if they win their outstanding game, they are in top 3 and 2 point behind the leaders.

daniwise:
Did u watch Klitschko vs Lewis

Lewis vs Hollyfied?

Try and watch the highlights bro I'm

I have watched and watched all those fights..
That's why I said, i like old school boxers than this new generation boxers.

Personally, I don't even think Mayweather is a great boxer.. he is good but not great.. in my opinion.

I mentioned the Tyson recent fight because even at their old age, the men were still going at it, toe to toe, standing in the arena, no running around just trading jabs and blows... that's boxing...in my opinion.

Congratulations to AJ.

I don't like how he keeps his hands tho , like a little girl

He looks too nice and gentle to be a boxer.

AJ was the better of the 2 fighters tonight.

But I liked the Tyson comeback fight better.. I prefer old school boxing than these new generation boxers.

Tyson and the Johnson? Went at it, toe to toe trading blows, that's what it is all about.

Again, congratulations to our very own AJ.

41 one justices

Why not make it Ten thousand and forty one (10,041). Fill up the court room with justices.

YoungAncient1:
It is either this barca team are ganging up against the coach or their era of dominance is gradually coming to an end.

I think the players wanted Xavi but the board wanted Koeman.

LegendAnselm:
A man died. Buried.appeared in another land where nobody knows him. Start a new life. Got married. Have kids.get a job.

Have u seen or heard such happened...
A woman just came to our house yesterday claiming to be my brother wife with children.

Have your family tried DNA/ genealogy testing? There's gotta be a link between the kids and the dead man's family.

The biter bit eh

Ishilove:
That's the sacrifice we make to have your children. Flat belly or kids. Make your choice

It is very possible to have both. But it does require extra work.

Johntemmy:
oga take am easy ooo... wetin man go chop if woods no sell.

Weather wood is eliminated from the building process or not ... the wood sellers will still chop.

There are other uses of wood out there.. people will still buy it for varieties of different projects.

n3xt:


One is a seat while the other is a bench.

Ok oo