₦airaland Forum

Daddyk87:
Some people aren't happy with this good news

Bro, from an unbiased standpoint, I pray for everything possible to dismantle whatever esn bullshit they have planted in igboland. Those are the same criminals kidnapping and killing fellow igbos on a daily.
But the reason why it seems people no longer take police seriously is that these people kill innocent civilians and tag them unknown gunmen or ipob or whatever bad name to justify their wickedness.
Take for instance, the guy that police threatened to kill and tag ipob and used the threat to extort over 60m from him. Imagine what would have happened if he failed to comply. They would have killed him and tagged him an ipob criminal.
There's another case where these men killed our village brother in cold blood in broad daylight and took his corpse away. Few days later, we read in the news how police hunted down an unknown gunman and in the process, they exchanged gunfires and they neutralized one while the others ran into the bushes with various degrees of gunshot wounds. Bro, police people tied a red cloth around this guy's waist, drop a machete and one old locally made pistol on his dead body. This was someone they shot point blank to the head while he never had any weapon nor fought or argued with them. His only offense was that he saw people on muffty arresting and taking away his brother and came down from his bike to enquire what was going on and these people shot him point blank in the head.

I was actually angrily reading the bullshit until I read where the writer said the lecturer touching her without her consent was an assault. Una go just open mouth was dey yarn crap for this social media. You nor know the meaning of assault? The foooolish girl was using a public space and and making videos and capturing people's faces without their consents.

AbuTwins:
In many cases na we dey do ourselves!

Nor be we dey do ourselves bro. Poor governance affects every sector. The people processing this palm oil will pay higher prices than usual to have them cut, pay higher prices to transport them to the oil mill, pay higher to have them processed at the mill, pay higher to buy gallons, pay higher to have the transported to the markets and all.
And from these sales, they will still buy other food items expensively. If I am selling red oil a gallon for 5k when rice was selling for 34k per bag, why will I not increase the price to 30k now that rice is 100k per bag for me to be able to afford to buy rice after selling my red oil.
Reason am nah.

dauntless15:
You're lucky honestly, in such cases there's an exception, strangers sometimes become your family or even more than your family sef, it happens, the difference is you didn't choose it nor were you intentionally and desperately looking for friends, in such cases you keep them close, don't go seeking for more, and in your case it's even more than necessary already, don't seek new relationships as there's no benefit to it, rather you nurture the ones you already have and form a lifelong bond, in my own case e go hard for this life make I give anyone access to my life in the name of friends, because unlike you I wasn't so lucky when I tried mine.

They are lucky too my bro cos I'm also very good. I don't let negative people get close to me. I am very free spirited and I won't ever watch you suffer or lack as my person when I have in excess. Now, if I sense you don't have same spirit as mine, I am stretching my distance from you.
The time to make friends is not when you are at the top. At the top, you only make business partners and associates and colleagues. Close and real friends are the ones who know your story.
Those who met you at the top will desert you if you fall from the top. But those who knew you from nobody before you became somebody will accept you even if you fall back to nobody because it won't be a new thing to them. We don't pray for that tho.

dauntless15:
Don't even go there, I turned up in every way I could, bro do you have this today, I'm broke, I'll send, can you help with this, I'll send, this is why I mentioned common 2k, I can't expect to get what I didn't give because I'm not unreasonable, the reason why I turned my back on friendship is I always give more and get nothing in return, experience is the best teacher, I won't say more than this, you go use your eyes see am and body go tell you.

Sorry about your experience bro. Some humans do not deserve so much. It's good you changed your circle of friends or you abandoned them completely.
In my experience, I will say, I was opportuned to meet and have wonderful friends, though just about 4 and we've been solid on good friends turn brothers for 10 years and counting.
From our very first year in school to six years after we finished school. We've always been there for one another and through collective efforts, we've all grown from just mere young undergraduates to fully grown men already planning marriage and whatever next phase life throws.
We've been that close to the point that despite coming from different states, we now live in the same estate, each in his own apartment.
The trust is so strong that I can give any of these guys 10m for a business and if he comes back to tell me that the deal failed and the money was lost, I won't even doubt him.

dauntless15:
You're wrong, your quality of life can't be tied to having people you interact with, I'd rather be alone than know a thousand people I don't benefit anything from, I am very popular to some extent, but something happened in my life that made me realize your popularity is useless, I lost my mum and the number of people that really sympathized were very few, infact it was a very small fraction of the people I know and out of that small fraction how many of them sent me common 2k, none, so what's the point of knowing so many people then, I buried my mum quietly then came back and leisurely opened my phone book, I started deleting numbers, cuz na numbers I get not contacts, I delete sotey my contacts no reach 30 again, and that 30 are my family and close friends, I've been on my own ever since, I do what I like, celebrate and reward myself when I want to, earn my money, look nice, just live for yourself, no one would die with you infact two weeks everyone has moved on, have few people you care about and value detachment, it's the Sweetest feeling in the world, being lonely is a state of mind, I can be by myself and still feel like I'm surrounded by a crowd, how? By making sure I do what I love all the days of my life, surround yourself with enjoyment and money and you don't need nobody, there's more to life than having useless friends who don't contribute jack sh!t to your life, what's having so many friends gonna do for you anyway? And why do you need many friends, so you can have people to talk to endlessly? Me wey talking dey even hard me, if you talk too much I cut you off, stop placing importance on the wrong things, enjoy the one life you have and bullsh!t every other things.

Sorry about the death of your mum. But sorry to ask. While you reflected on those people who never turned up or sincerely sympathized on your mum's demise, did you also take out time to ask yourself if you were helpful also to them in their own times of need.
If you have friends you turn up for, then it feels like betrayal when they fail to turn up for you in your own time.
But it will be selfish to not extend care to people and expect people to extend care to you when it is your turn.
While we clamour for good friends, we should also create time to be the good friend first.

slim75d:
The news I get on daily basis about women make me scared of getting married. I wonder how many good women are out there.

and you just believed it just like that....Omo.

All of these and you didn't ask him how much it cost him?

thesolutions:
Must be Jos or band A like they did to mineYou guys are enjoying. Here in Jos, 10k is 44 unit

awka oo my brother.

Yours still good. Mine gives 4.4 units for 1k. That's like 21.2kwh from r 5k and I use it for just 24hours.
Since the 1st of August 2024, I've been using 5k light every other day

gidgiddy:
The South East remains the safest place in Nigeria. Forget propaganda, everyone has their own security challenges, but no where is as safe the South East in Nigeria. The reports are out there

You dey talk craap oga.....

gidgiddy:
The South East remains the safest place in Nigeria. Forget propaganda, everyone has their own security challenges, but no where is as safe the South East in Nigeria. The reports are out there

You dey talk crap oga.....

SuperOnyi:



Thank you sir, what about the stomach ache?

I nor be doctor sir...I just told you the one I know

Prettygirl200:
he should also test for diabetics which one be go to clinic and clean the wound?

Yes he can go test for diabetes, but I am 100% sure he is not diabetic.
I am telling you what I am sure of. Not speculating.

Your friend is not diabetic as everyone is assuming. Most Sickle cell patients often suffer this skin condition.
What you should do is this, go to any pharmacy, buy electoplast bandage, clean the wound or better still, meet any road side chemist to clean the wounds and cover with this bandage. Repeat again every three days to one week depending on how the wound feels. He should keep taking his antibiotics and blood vitamins too.
In a matter of one or two months, that wound would be healed completely.

Let loaded fuel tankers move only at nights..... simple

The cases of k*dnap in awka now is worrisome. Today marks it one week that my friend, his girlfriend and his guy were k*dnapped at ifitte and we contributed over 8m between that night and early the next morning before they released them(tied their hands and legs and threw the guys into a ditch while leaving the girl beside the ditch with her hands and legs also tied).
They still made away with his car es350, his two phones, his babe's phone, his friends phone, and all the money they had on them and in their bank accounts worth over 1.4m in total.

When we went to report at the station in the morning, the first thing one of the officers asked us was whether the k*dnapped victims had been released and we said yes. He then asked why we came to lay a complaint since they already regained their freedom instead of thanking God.

Funny enough, a barrister we called that night already told us that that response was what we were going to get if we report to the police and definitely, his prophecy didn't cast.

MasterJayJay:
Why didn't you use Gold to design the floor?

Practicing bla bla bla.

Most of the things you listed have cheaper alternative.

you're a fooool. I thought you were sensible enough to be given attention. Get lost and go use 500k for your duplex. Person wey never price bag of cement before go come dey get opinion for issues on building construction. Body go tell you when you start.

Umuinyioku:
He knows what he's talking about.

Except you want to inflate prices to buy building materials.

He does not know what he is talking about. And so are you.
I am a practicing architect and I will tell you for free that 27m cannot even do that project.
I did a renovation of my dad's olden days four bedroom bungalow, just added two toilets and a septic tank, did parapet and stone tiles roofing, pop in the lounge and corridors, conduit piping, general tiling, aluminum glasses and china doors, etc and I spent 13.3m. As at that period, a bag of cement was 5500, now, a bag of cement is 9500. A length of 12mm was 5400 then, now is 8200.
So my friend, you don't know what you are saying.

kings59:
15 Million will do that perfectly well.

you don't know what you are talking about

JohnnA1:
Very good.

BLAST THE HEAD OF ANY IPOB TERRORIST CAUSING PROBLEMS IN THE COUNTRY.

Death to all terrorists and their sponsors ☠️☠️☠️

God bless Nigeria.

Bro, I am an igbo man, no tribalism, but if you ever hear neutralized one and several others dispersed with gunshot wounds, that story is 100% false....

Godwin4444:
oga if u build it yourself n supervise it yourself it will finish it

I just hate arguing with people like u that love to call prices anyhow, if u are in d midst of people we work together they will just b laughing at u

U are talking from d perspective of who wants to make money from potential clients n will always inflate prices to get his own gain

I am talking from d perspective of someone who owns it n wants to do it himself

Many of u just follow price tags ignorantly, when u see houses of 100 million many of u go out there n start spreading rubbish that the house is 100 million n when u see someone who wants to build d same house u start shouting he should keep 100 million whereas everything wey finish d house no pass 65million

But people like u if u see someone who tells u d house is 65 million then u will bring all these your super stories

Guy rest

Bro, I simply asked, for comparison sake, share at least one duplex you built with 40m with evidence. Or even share where you made an estimate of a duplex and arrived at 40m. Don't sit in your father's house and say what you know not about.
You say I over stated the prices I called above.
A bag of cement is 9500 as at this morning. Then how many bags do you think you will need to finish a duplex. At least not less than 600 bags.
One length of 16mm today is 16100. You will need about 120 lengths. 12mm is 9100, you will need over 500 lengths. 9" block is 600, you will need over 7000 blocks.
You keep talking without facts. If you are a builder, you won't be making such comments. Na people like una dey bastardize the construction industry and at the end, you make clients start what they cannot finish or you end up using inferior materials just to meet up.
Give me proof of those your audio projects you delivered with 40m. At least, who knows, nairaland members might want you to build for them too.
If you can't, then stop misleading people because you have data.

dreamwords:
baba at 27 you supposed to don archieve some things that will help you at the other parts of life, you must not be rich at 27,
abi you wan begin rite jamb at 27 years?,

Life is not always like that for everyone. Yes, at 27, you should be on track towards a career path, but that does not mean that from 27, you cannot create a path an perfect it before 30.
One of my village brothers traveled to overseas in 2009 and returned back in 2012 or so empty handed and he was around 33 years when he returned. This guy started a small pop corn business there in the village and gradually, the business grew so well that he migrated to beer parlor and today, he has built a mini guest house and his beer parlor is the hottest in my village at the moment.
No time is late.
Myself, I got admission at the age of 23, was meant to finish at 27, but had an extra year and COVID 19 added another extra year making it two years.
Departmental accreditation made us wait another two years until 2022 before we could do clearance and I just finished nysc two months ago.
And, yes, people do write jamb at 27 and even 30 and above and still make it big afterwards. It is all about discovering your purpose.

Sp1ritHusband:
I agree with you but never tell someone 27 is young as that is factually incorrect.

Bro, 27 is absolutely very young to steer back to track.

Godwin4444:
ok

Nor be by ok, I am taking my time to explain all this to you so you don't mislead yourself and others into believing that 40m will build for them a duplex with the current prices of building materials.

Alakoriomo:
Hmmm, at bolded is where I knew you’re lying. You’re a Nigerian man and you live in Nigeria not abroad, how are you able to build a property or how are people in Nigeria able to buy property through u when everyone here is poor? No Nigerian can afford to buy a house. I believe the new houses getting built in Nigeria are built by people from abroad who send you guys money to build for them. How many people are successful in Nigeria? Only people abroad can afford to buy such house so I believe you’re lying.

We even heard that 95% of Nigerians don’t have up
To 200k in their account. So how are people able to get money to build house or to even afford to be successful in life without going abroad?

Just dey lie dey go

The picture attached below is a screenshot of my chat with a potential client on Thursday. This past Thursday. At least just one proof....
The second image was transacted in August and from that August till now, I've been involved in purchasing over 7 plots for my clients and they are all based in Nigeria.

Godwin4444:
bro I am a builder n I am telling u for sure that all those prices u put there are inflated

The reality of real estate is that if u do it yourself u will realize it's not up to those prices u quoted

U are saying a buy n build land will cost 20m, see I hate arguing with people online cos many of them are far from reality n they quote prices anyhow n that's y I hardly comments on auto n property section

Oga without land u will get a reasonable duplex with 40m. Many of u don't know the tricks, agents n middle men are d problem of real estate just as we have it in oil sector

I am talking from the perspective of someone doing it himself n I am telling u that u can build duplex with 40m n sell it 70m in Lagos.

I am also telling u that u can buy a land to "build n sell" at 2m above in Lagos

All of u only think of island when we talk of real estate

I beg to disagree with you sir. You are not a builder. Kindly share pictures of the duplexes you did with just 40m.
I did a 4 bedroom bungalow renovation early this year and it cost a total of 13.4m just to break some partitions and add two toilets, then do concrete fascia and a new roof, including septic tank and soak away and then compound flooring. As of that period, cement was 5400 naira per bag and 12mm rods sold for same 5400 naira. Right now, cement is 9000 naira and 12mm rod is 9100 while 16mm bars are selling for 16000 naira. It would cost about 18-20m to renovate that house with the current price of materials.
Now I ask you again, what kind of duplex did you build with 40m. Wait until you actually start building and then you'll realize if I was right or wrong. Just last week, we just roofed a four bedroom semi detached duplex and the cost so far to that stage is about 48m. Guess what, the finishing stage will take probably around twice that amount or at least around one and half that amount.
As for a buy and build land in Lagos for 10m, you go enter outskirts and after building, people nor go wan buy am or it will take you 8 months to over a year to see buyer. And as for getting buy and build 2m anywhere around any city, I want to believe you are just exaggerating.
I am not only telling you from the experience of a professional, I am also telling you from the experience of someone who has bought over 20 properties in three different states around the south east within the last three years, both for clients and for myself. Ehen, also from the experience of someone who have not just built for people, but have also built with his own money.
So bro, I tell you again, 40m to build a standard 4 bedroom duplex at least is a trap and don't fall for it if people told you it was possible. If you think I am wrong, prove yourself right by sending an estimate of a four bedroom duplex and how you arrived at it costing 40m.

Godwin4444:
oga before we start this argument do u know anything about real estate?
.u can get buy n build for less than 10 million self

So all lands in Lagos na over 10 million abi?

U can build duplex if u do it yourself with less than 40 Million?

Many of u don't know d secret of this business, because they call house for u 100 million no mean say them use 50 million on everything

Ok bro, I'm a practicing architect and I can guarantee you that 40m cannot build a standard duplex to be placed on sale.
And talking about lands in Lagos, do you think buying a land to build and sell is same as buying land for banking.
I live and work in awka and I will use it as a case study. Buying a land in a place where you can build and easily sell will cost at least up to 20m per plot. I am currently handling a project in a place not up to 10 mins drive from the heart of the town and that land was bought for 13m. Guess what?, if that building was intended for sale, it will take a long time to get someone who will want to spend huge amount of money to buy property in that location. I believe Lagos won't be any much different.
If you respond to this with further doubts, I will send you a drawing so you can give me a 40 million naira estimate and tell me how you arrived at it.
For a standard 4 bedroom duplex, iron bars will cost you over 6m, cement will cost you over 6m, planks and other woods will take over 4m, blocks will take over 3.5m, roofing sheets alone will cost over 3m, plastering is over 3m, tiles is over 4m, doors and windows over 3m, gate is about 1.5m fencing is over 3.5m, drawing and approval is about 1m, electrical and mechanical fittings over 6m, compound flooring is over 3m, overall labour including Mason, casting, carpenters, iron benders, etc should take over 4m, kitchen cabinet is about 1m, screeding and painting is over 2m, POP is over 3m, septic tank and soak away with chambers is about 1.5m, overhead tank with two tanks is about 2m, borehole drilling is about 1m depending on location, wardrobes about 500k, miscellaneous expenses up to 3m, security house nko.....
I would love to know if you are a contractor, builder, civil engineer or just a random person who feels he has knowledge of building construction and cost saving.

Godwin4444:
oga nothing can reduce d purchasing power of anything

It's only a madman that will have 600 million n think of going abroad when their are many people abroad willing to come back to Nigeria if offered 100 million

Go into real estate, buy land of 10 million use 40 Million to build something on it, that's 50 million n sell the house for 85 million

That's 35 million naira gain, just do that 3 times in a year n repeat every year

I pity many of u

Na so e easy?
And who told you you can build a sellable property, probably duplex with just 40m? And who also told you you can get a buy and build property in a sellable location for 10m?

MASTAkiLLAh:
focus on the story. Imagine your younger sister was coming home after some drinks or whatever, she's obviously intoxicated but sees a cab guy willing to take half the fare of a normal taxi only to wake up naked in a hotel room with a man by her side who obviously had sex with her. This is all evident from the story and after investigations so I want to know what your opinion would be then

and you got to know that the story was true because you were there?

Factcheck0001:
can Igbos allow fulanis celebrate their own culture in Anambra?

U people don't want others around u but want to b in everyone's space

You can't just be in far away yorubaland and assume what igbos can and cannot allow in their region.
Hausa people in awka where I live celebrate their local festive season annually over here. They'll beat their drums and sing their native songs and roam the streets and no one worries them.
The fulanis you talk about also celebrate their festivities where they live.
Most of you guys fail to travel and just spew trash from far away.