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The choice would depend on a lot of factors. And you have not given adequate information for the advise to be properly channeled accordingly. However, for general discourse, the choice to build a house or buy an already made one would depend on the priorities of the intended user. it's as easy as deciding if you should buy a dress or get a bespoke tailor to design one.

I think 3 things need to be placed into consideration, Budget, Time and Taste. Like every project, the concepts of Time Quality and Cost would play with your intellect a little bit, but one has to be sacrificed for the others to work.

BUILDING ONE
TASTE
Are there available vacant lands in the area of choice to build one from scratch and is your design actually buildable using readily available building technology?

BUDGET
Is the intending party able and/or ready to commit resources to build to taste?

TIME
How urgently is the house needed. Do you have the patience to wait till one is built to the above taste and budget?

BUYING ONE
TIME
Would you be patient enough to wait till you find your dream house on the market to actually get and own one? Would it take you as long as it would, if you had to build one yourself provided its possible to do so?

BUDGET
Can you afford an already built property that meets all your tastes even if it stretches your budget?

TASTE
Lets say after the two points above, you found one and you can afford it, great. Is it in your ideal location and design? Would you be ready to compromise on your taste to get what is available? It might be close but it might not be the same as what you had in mind, some get better, some get discontent.


In general, see this as shopping for clothes and you cant be wrong. Customized things are always desirable, but other factors could make you chose one that already exists. Its all in the priority of the end user.

I like encouraging young people who have entrepreneurial minds. And I think this is the first time I've seen a startup thread without people posting mini adverts, call-me email address and phone number replies.

As for the guy who posted this thread, what ever you decide to do, let your business packaging be your advantage. Focus on innovation and you could expand any business, its all about packaging. You could plan to diversify your brand from the status quo or find new ways of reducing cost to boost profit.

Goodluck.

The op is right on a couple of points. For those condemning this topic, I guess it's the title. But from some of his points you should ask yourselves why you need a government? No one expects the government to drop food on your table but at least provide a conducive environment for people to do so. Basic things like:
1. Security, why should you hire a bunch of security to watch your business when you pay tax for the police to do so.
2. An intellectual property system that actually works to protect invention.
3. A reliable justice system for the common man and perhaps a population/crime database to deter fraudulent people from taking advantage of people's startups
4. Border reinforcement to prevent illegal liability immigrants from bleeding our resources dry and whatever jobs left for citizens.

The above are not things the common man can do, only government can.

Also, employment is not only for making money as I have seen some people post here, if that were the case, everyone would be in crime. It should be government's priority that with each succeeding generation, infrastructure improves and people especially the young are fully engaged in nation building and they are happy doing it.

Nigeria is a country where citizens provide their own electricity power plant, security, water and other key infrastructure to run a business successfully with minimal startup funds, how far can such business go? Even Bill Gates would crumble if he had to cover the costs of all of these himself in present day Nigeria without much to start up on. Most business owners in Nigeria are doing it to get by, and had to be in huge debt to sponsor the business through the early stages providing all the resources themselves that should already be present in any well meaning society. No one is saying Govt should build sky scrapper companies for citizens, but they can create an enabling environment for business startups to flourish and investors would gladly do these and provide employment. Ignoring our infrastructural deficiency would only increase more shabby businesses that won't have the ability to build the nation, How does resorting to learning a 18th century vocational skill for a living after going to a 21st century university, help build the nation?

In most developed countries, government funds students education through student loans which they pay back when they get a job afterwards, it's government's way of ensuring their youths aren't idle or resort to mischief.
It's chief educational aim as government, is also to ensure every citizen would certainly be gainfully involved in nation building in the future when they(students) have invested in education (yes paying fees is an investment even if they got loans they still have to repay) and to accomplish this, the government in turn ensures the students reap their investment by ensuring there are opportunities for them to carry out what they learnt in school to aid nation building.

The government in Nigeria has to sit up and call their best brains together, they need to fix the basic things and quickly. Sweeping things under the carpet is so pre-colonial era. Let the brains do the thinking and solve the infrastructural decay viz: Security, Justice, Crime Database, Accessible Power, Subsidised Transportation etc. As for employment, it would take care of itself, rather they should concentrate on introducing these vocational skills to those who need skills but who of their own accord don't want the hassles of higher education. Then focus on improving the learning facilities of the higher institutions to world class standards so those schooling there can actually learn the skills they went there to study. Then maybe someday the basket weaver, who either did or did not receive higher education,can save time and cost he uses for providing himself all he needs to run his business, and invest them in developing new inventions using his weaving skills and maybe the world would be keen to buy his stuff as it won't be so expensive considering his running and living costs.

Is this the trend to gain more popularity now? Beef and Reconcile? These games aint worth it.

I kinda like how this thread turned out. Truth is, that guy wouldn't look twice at her if she looked and acted like a naija agbero babe and claim he married for benefits. Most times you can tell who the paper/benefit chasing girls are when you see the sort of white men that are considered rejects of the society in their wedding pics. You really feel sorry for them cos it looks obvious she got in for benefits, but hey that so called unattractive white guy she marries isn't stupid, he marries your hot girls and that is his benefit. Show me a pic of a white man with an unattractive ratchet looking Nigerian girl say he married her for akara and ewedu then I'll take this comment seriously.

Fabulocity:
This is Hilarious! Even if you've not been home for 50 years, thank God for the existence of news, the internet, social media which makes it very possible for you to know everything that is happening in this country without being here. I'm sure you'll know about the unemployment situation, poverty, unstable exchange rates, inequality, corruption, poor health care and educational system as well as other vices in Nigeria in Nigeria. The human beings here are suffering as it is and you expect government to cater for animals when it can barely cover the needs of the People? I agree the Op showed unnecessary cruelty towards that poor animal by killing it though.

The government may not build animal homes but they can make policies to protect wild life from unnecessary harassment, And yeah I would love to see the Nigerian situation improve, but still, the animals are every bit as Nigerian as anyone else, yes this is their land too. We can start improving our country by showing care for the environment and the creatures that live within it. Anyone can open an animal care home, we have so many NGOs, some of them ought to be trying to help these creatures, perhaps they don't publicize their activities much.

Your last statement shows you do care about the animals. You are right that at the moment, these animals might not easily find a shelter in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, their natural habitat is more conducive for them than animal shelters, but most of these are built by well meaning groups or individuals who feel that certain species of wildlife are being threatened in their natural habitat. A time may come when we would need to preserve our Nigerian animals from going extinct.

Fabulocity:
Animal home in Nigeria? Have we finished catering for the hungry and poor in this Country? Where do you think you Are?
#thirdworldproblems

Have you read the story of Cecil the Lion's killer? I haven't been in Nigeria for quite a while but I expect there should be animal homes by now, besides he had no reason to kill it if he already captured it alive. All he had to do was transport it far away and let it back into the wild.

I dare you to post this on a foreign website! You'lld get animal rights activists at your door step in a couple of minutes. The cat had to survive, it fed to survive, let nature take its course. The poor cat should have been taken to an animal home where it can be domesticated or let back into the wild.

huh?

Hmm

Bookmarking this recipe for reference when next I visit the African Shop.

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I started with Samsung R220 when they were competing with Nokia 3310, I remember composing my favourite tunes using the in-phone ringtone composer, gosh I miss those days. Then after many other phones I found this toy - the Sony ericsson P900 series for the big boys back then, but the baba of all time remains - THURAYA!

I have seen some funny bus stops or places in Nigeria> some don't have names but I remember them from how they were described while visiting some places back when there were no gps and missing sign boards. So here goes:

Papa wey dey sell hot - Warri

That woman wey dey fry Akara - Warri

Iya bumshort - Ibadan

Iyana Mortuary - Abeokuta

Mango - Owerri


But the most outlandishly funny ones I've seen are in the Uk

Frying Pan Alley - London

Backside Lane - Doncaster

Mad dog lane - Humberside

Green dicks lane - Lancashire

Old Sodom lane - Wiltshire

Porridge pot alley - Surrey

Long lover lane - Halifax

Crotch Crescent - Oxfordshire

rheether:
I hope she is married.

I hope so too, cos this is quite embarrassing, it's as if she is being mocked.

OP, you'lld be lucky if you get any valuable advice here, 60% of the people I have seen on Nairaland are people looking to rip you off or sell their business. You should consult a financial adviser if you really want to get concrete ideas in managing funds for business, these people are trained to examine your personality and orientation when giving advice, although that would cost you a lot more.

Now I don't know where you can find one at the moment but I'm sure they do exist in Nigeria. Best of luck.

I saw this in a dream about 5 years ago.