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ControlX:
I have news for APC stalwarts. You don’t win an
election in Nigeria by being the champion of social
media. You don’t win by renting crowds to fill up
your rallies. You don’t win by putting up your
billboards everywhere while tearing down those of
your opponents. You don’t win by master-minding
in the media a false sense of the inevitability of
your victory. When you do all this successfully, you
simply end up deceiving yourself.
You win elections by mounting an effective
ground-game at the grassroots level; designed to
bring out the people on Election Day to vote for
you. Instead, APC strategy was to stampede the
electorate into victory. The design was to proclaim
victory even before the election, laying grounds for
protests and acrimony in event of defeat.
Attempted coup d’état
The APC blueprint is see-through. Present a new
refurbished, suit-wearing and church-visiting
Buhari to the electorate chanting a mantra of
“change.” Give him a Teflon-coated Redeemed
pastor as vice-presidential running-mate. Shield
him from public scrutiny and debates to hide his
weaknesses and absent-mindedness. Gloss over
his objectionable past and pedigree. Mount an
aggressive image-laundering social media
campaign.
So doing, before the PDP and the public would be
up to your game, the election would be over.
Nigerians would wake up on February 15th to
discover to our cost that we had been hoodwinked
into handing over power to Buhari and the Tinubu
cabal.
The APC mechanism for perfecting this plan
entailed bullying the PDP into defeat. In the North,
PDP supporters were threatened and harassed.
Some quickly packed their bag and baggage and
left town. Even Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy was
stoned by APC “democrats.” In Gombe, a suicide
bomber paid a courtesy call on the president’s
campaign rally.
But the killer-punch was to be the disenfranchisem
ent of literally millions of PDP voters. With the
complicity of Jega’s INEC, APC strongholds were
supplied with PVCs: while PDP strongholds were
denied them. Ghost-voters came out of the
woodwork by their hundreds of thousands in
unlikely places like the war-torn North-east to
collect their PVCs. However, in peaceful higher-
population places like Lagos and Kano, non-
indigenes were denied their PVCs, suspected of
being likely PDP supporters.
It is telling that, in all the ensuing brouhaha over
23 million people not yet receiving their PVCs
seven days to D-Day, APC remained resolute that
the election should go ahead nevertheless. This
indicates that it knew the missing PVCs belonged
disproportionately to PDP supporters.
The denouement
However, the entire strategy of the APC met its
Waterloo with the postponement of the election.
With the postponement, the Buhari election-train
came to a screeching halt. Some have argued that
the postponement was a military coup by Jonathan
and the PDP. However, a more truthful assessment
is that the postponement scuttled the APC plan to
win the election by subterfuge.
APC blundered because it refused to entertain the
possibility that the election could actually be
postponed. As a result, it did not plan for that
eventuality. In this gaffe, it was carried away by its
own hyperbole. APC big-guns shouted themselves
hoarse warning all and sundry that the election
must not be postponed, or else. Worse still, they
believed their own rhetoric.
APC is used to making threatening noises. It is all
stuff and bluster. If it loses, the dogs and the
baboons would be soaked in blood. If it loses it
would form a parallel government. If the election is
postponed, Nigerians would not stand for it.
Therefore, it expended all its political and financial
capital on a 14th February election. When it finally
dawned on it that the election might be postponed,
Buhari made an unusual visit to the Council of
State to mount a pathetic eleventh-hour
resistance.
But alas, the APC was completely outplayed. INEC
succumbed to the inevitable and the election was
postponed, and for six weeks no less. As a result,
the APC stampede came to an end. The
orchestrated Buhari momentum came to a
screeching halt. Since then, APC pundits have been
in shock; scratching their heads because, in all
their impetuosity, they had no Plan B.
The APC was banking on the element of surprise.
That is now gone with the postponement. It was
hoping to win the election by disenfranchising PDP
voters. That is no longer possible. It is now
confronted with fighting an election it always knew
it cannot win because it does not have the
appropriate structure on the ground at the
grassroots level.
PDP fight back
Sixteen years in power had made the PDP over-
confident. It seemed to have been caught
unawares by the scripted APC nomination of
Buhari and the gimmickry of choosing a Redeemed
pastor as his running-mate. As a result, an
election that should have been a cake-walk for it
suddenly turned into a tight race. Part of this was
self-inflicted. PDP had a bad set of primaries;
creating considerable dissension within its ranks.
Moreover, the PDP was bested in the public
relations department; allowing the APC to define
the narrative of the election on social media.
Had the election gone on as scheduled on 14th
February, it would have been close but Jonathan
would still have won. But with six weeks delay, the
election will not even be close. Even though it was
ebbing discernibly, APC had momentum for the
14th February election. By 28th March, that
momentum would have dissipated and
disappeared. Even now, the momentum is no
longer there. Buhari is in London on a dubious
visit. APC has run out of breath.
Make no mistake about it; the six week
postponement of the election has effectively
crippled the APC. It is no wonder then that the
party has been grumbling non-stop. In the
meantime, PDP has been able to get a full measure
of the APC. Putting all its eggs in the 14th
February date, which it insisted cannot and must
not be changed; the APC played all its cards. It
put all its eggs in one basket. However, PDP held
some in reserve, banking on the postponement of
the election.
APC’s confusion
What happens now? APC is confused. It is
stretched for funds. It has lost its mojo, scrambling
in panic mode to raise additional 50 billion naira
from donors. Speaking to APC stakeholders at the
party secretariat in Lagos, Bola Tinubu said: “We
have to re-strategise; all of you should go back to
your various constituencies starting from
tomorrow.” This is a belated acknowledgment that
the party now likely to win the election is the one
best able to mount an aggressive and effective
nationwide grassroots campaign.
In that department, the APC is clearly second-best.
The party best positioned to mount an effective
ground-game and mobilize votes at the grassroots
level is the PDP. It has been around for 16 years.
PDP local government councilors account for nearly
70 per cent of all councilors in Nigeria, comprising
6,521 members, making it a truly grassroots-based
political party. The APC, on the other hand, does
not have the nationwide political structure to win
the coming election. To date, it is a newspaper and
television political party. It has yet to build a
formidable grassroots support. It is a JJC party, a
little over a year old.
With all the noise about Buhari, it should not be
forgotten that the man chronically lacks skills at
building political party structures. In the APC
presidential primaries, Northern delegates did not
even vote for him; preferring instead Kwankwaso
and Atiku. He was elected primarily on the strength
of ACN votes. PDP strength on the ground
everywhere in Nigeria explains why Jonathan was
able to win 37% of the vote even in Buhari’s home-
state of Katsina in the 2011 election.
While APC was busy stoking up the press to create
its air of inevitable victory, PDP was busy
mobilizing its local government councilors. Its
Presidential Campaign Organisation brought all its
elected and appointed councilors from all over
Nigeria to Abuja to mobilize them to secure victory
for the party at the grassroots level. In what was
captioned “Operation Deliver Your Ward,” Professor
Jerry Gana re-fashioned them as political foot-
soldiers and grassroots mobilisers for the PDP,
split into six groups according to their geopolitical
zones.
Resurgent PDP
Since the postponement, Jonathan is no longer the
issue. It is once again Buhari; the coup-plotting
former dictator and alleged ethnic and religious
jingoist. Thanks to the postponement, Nigerians
can no longer be panicked into voting for Buhari.
We now have enough time to appreciate that he is
old, and completely bereft of ideas as to what to
do when in power. It is not enough to shout
“change, change.” The question is: change to
what? To this question, Buhari provides a
deafening silence.
In the meantime, the true message of Jonathan’s
considerable achievements in office is now
resonating. With the commissioning of new power-
plants, we are now generating 5,500 megawatts of
electricity: a new Nigerian record. We now know
from PricewaterhouseCoopers that the allegation
that $20 billion is missing from NNPC accounts is
one big fat APC lie. The army is now fully-
equipped for battle. For the first time in a long
time, the Nigerian air force has come into the fray.
The Boko Haram is being bombed to smithereens
up North. There is even talk of capturing Abubakar
Shekau alive.
Within the next six weeks, all that is left is for the
PDP to put its house in order and APC will be
toast. Since Buhari has whipped up himself and his
supporters into an unrealistic psychological frenzy
in this election cycle, it is certain he will end up at
the tribunal, when it finally dawns on him that, in
spite of all the bluster, he has lost again. The fate
awaiting Buhari brings to mind that of Mitt
Romney who was so deceived into believing he
would be elected America’s next president in 2012,
he had only a victory speech on election night
when he was roundly defeated.

is finally written, it will be recalled that the
postponement of the election for six weeks was the
final nail in the coffin of the APC.

So u wasted nairalands fullpage becos of dis trash

Wetin concern me with their usleless bill
Things wey dey Move market now na:
rechargeable torch,
rechargeable lantern,
rechargeable bulb,
rechargeable TV,
rechargeable doorbell,
rechargeable fan,
rechargeable radio,
inverter,
ups,
Generator ,
see wetin 16yrs of pdp rule cause and Gej just dey waka street by street to commission torch light bulb and we say we have a govt, could u believe that gej and obasanjo bought large some of shares from nepa when it was sold? Una think say the thing dey trip off by it self when nepa take light? Na somebody dey go purposelt off am, and we pay bills monthly, do u know how much nepa makes in a month alone?

Gej and FG are over mad people, how much have they stolen from us?
I am not Insupport of cyber crime but death sentence to money laundering and embezzlement too

LLVelly:
guy na step by step tinz, u don't need to estimate coz all u'll see is discouragement, no matter ur estimate u must still over spend ur estimate, clearing of bush + cutting of trees are also inclusive,so just one step at a time u'll excel. May God help+protect you.SUCCESS.

Amen God Bless U

Wetin concern me with their dressing,
Things wey dey Move market now na:
rechargeable torch,
rechargeable lantern,
rechargeable bulb,
rechargeable TV,
rechargeable doorbell,
rechargeable fan,
rechargeable radio,
inverter,
ups,
Generator ,
see wetin 16yrs of pdp rule cause and Gej just dey waka street by street to commission torch light bulb and we say we have a govt, could u believe that gej and obasanjo bought large some of shares from nepa when it was sold? Una think say the thing dey trip off by it self when nepa take light? Na somebody dey go purposelt off am, and we pay bills monthly, do u know how much nepa makes in a month alone?
Uslesss nepa

God bless u all

Wetin concern me with their dressing,
Things wey dey Move market now na:
rechargeable torch,
rechargeable lantern,
rechargeable bulb,
rechargeable TV,
rechargeable doorbell,
rechargeable fan,
rechargeable radio,
inverter,
ups,
Generator ,
see wetin 16yrs of pdp rule cause and Gej just dey waka street by street to commission torch light bulb and we say we have a govt, could u believe that gej and obasanjo bought large some of shares from nepa when it was sold? Una think say the thing dey trip off by it self when nepa take light? Na somebody dey go purposelt off am, and we pay bills monthly, do u know how much nepa makes in a month alone?

Reference:
Because you are renting it out you intend to do shabby, sub.standard, danerous work. Thought I could help but you need an anti.corruption orientation mister.

Now I know u have reading problem, whether u like it or not I will start by march, what is shabby in reducing the room size if its too big? ,is it not what I want , or did i Borrow money from u?
I don't blame u, I will even buy car give my tenants because dem rent house for my hand or I go put double roof on the house

glin:
This tread is interesting
Pls how much will it cost to build a bungalor with the master's room, madam's room and two other rooms each room with toilet and one visitor's toilet making it 5 toilets all together, big kitchen and small dinning room.

About 3-4million ,am saying out of exprience, because its exactly what I built in the same compound I want to build the new one, that one is just our family house and my parents live there now, the solid foundation for that house is just 200k, very big rooms ,each has toilet and bathroom.

Get urs today

Omotolu:
...I used 700 blocks for mine 2 flats (inclusive of foundation, till window levels)...

How much did it cost u

testoy:
3-flats of Two bedroom flat each... would sit comfortably on a 50ft by 100ft with a parking space

nice idea! its like hotcake now... lol

@Abdulwastecx ... do you have a thread/project that matches this description on-going?[/size]

Can you please tell us what will be the size of each 2 bedroom flat, assuming they are detachable.

Thanks

Standard room size

Vock:
please don't cut corners cuz you're renting it out
#JustSayin

What do u mean by cutting corners?, its not a contract thingy, it my house ,my sweat and my hard earned money, so u want the sitting room to be as big as the main bowl of national stadium or make I put
Jacuzzi inside bathroom ?

Number 1

E be like say na 14and. 16yrs na him dey sweet pass now,I have got to dump my 23yrs for the

Available

Fake news....
Shebi we get national news? I need to see with my 2 korokoro eyes efore I believe

Rapmoney:
As the name implies, 'white wedding' is a cultural way of getting married in the western world. Why do Africans now see it as superior to the normal African cultural marriage where two families meet and dowry is paid? Of what sense does it make to do African traditional marriage and still crown it all with this so-called annoying white wedding? Must we Africans wear those ill-fitting suits and gowns to prove that we have now been married? I personally think Africans are relegating their culture to the background and promoting the white man's culture!

I overheard a colleague of mine at work telling someone that it is a sin to sleep with your 'wife' if the white wedding is not done, even though the dowry has been paid. To me, that is the highest level of cultural inferiority and slavery!!! Are we saying that our cultural marriage is not sufficient? That it must be completed by white wedding?

Our women are not helping matters because they are the most significant agents of cultural slavery. With so much artificial stuffs on them-fake hair(Brazilian, Indian, Peruvian, Venezuelan, Colombian etc), fake eye-lashes, fake nails, fake names, etc, none would want to be married only in our traditional way. Tell a naija girl that you would want only a trad and see the speed she go take leave you. Even the speed of a Bugatti Veron dey learn.

White wedding, over the years, has been erroneously seen by many Africans (Nigerians) as a Christian practice. If truth be told, white wedding has nothing to do with Christianity. All the marriages that are recorded in the Bible were done in the trad way...from Genesis to Revelation. Even the one Jesus attended and performed His first miracle was done in the Jewish trad way. Jesus never went there as a bishop, pastor, etc to officiate the marriage. He went as every other guests.

We need to promote our culture because the whites do not marry in our own way. This reminds me of Mr Okadu and Mr Tsiba, characters in Kobina Sekyi's 'The Blinkard'.

White wedding is useless and irrelevant in our culture. It makes mockery of us.

Lets discuss this monster eating the brains of our people? Thanks.

Guy na proverty dey worry u cos if u get money like dem psquare, na for dubai u go do white wedding and do reception the same day in new york city

Coldfeet:
Maggi 2 minute noodle

Indomie noodles

Chikki noodles

Mimee noodles

Cherie noodles

Tummy tummy noodles

O! Noodles

Golden penny noodles

Dangote noodles

Uno noodles

Nickus nickus noodles

Sun yum noodles!

I have eaten all the above mentioned here in Nigeria not to mention those I ate abroad.


The best thing to happen in the instant food industry is NOODLES! can't go a week without eating one

Substitute the seasoning which contains msg for nchanwu! (basil leave) and add onions ,carrots,tomatoes and any protein of your choice and you are good to go.

Potential cancer and kidney failure carrier,
Which one u prefare for ur poster:
Gone too soon
Obituary
Call to glory
Glorious call
Lost a gem
Fairwell

Lawless country ...
What happens next? NOTHING , no justice

fajesito:
I thing I know about GEJ is that he is the most handsome president Nigeria has ever produced . We should be proud of that.
GEJ till 2019

Are u a blind man?
Modified: u must be blind

What I need to receive now is electricity .
Shame no catch Nigeria 1960-2015 of no electricity light
Dwarf of Africa

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Forget that carton called certificate, all I need in lagos is atleast 20hrs of electricity daily,

abdulwastecx:
assuming the following:
depth of foundation 600mm ( 3 courses of 6" block)
assuming a toilet of 6' x 4' ( 1.8m x 1.2m) and two toilwt per flat
assuming a living room of 14'x14' (4.2 x 4.2m)
assuming a kitchen of 8' x 8' (2.4 x 2.4m)
assuming a dinning of 8' x 8' (2.4 x 2.4m)

setting out should cost like N30,000

perimeter each of the room 3 x 3.6m ( 10 x 12) = ( (2x3)+(2x3.6)) = 13.2m x 2 x 3 = 79.2m
perimeter of living room/ dining for the three flats = (4.2 x 4)+(2.4 x 4) = 26.4m x 3 =79.2m
perimeter of kitchen/toilets = (2.4 x 4 ) +((1.2x2) + (1.8x2)) x 2) = 13.92m = 41.76m
total perimeter of the house = 200.16m

allowing 15% for circulation and veranda = 1.15 x 200.16 = 230.184m

depth of foundation = 600mm (2')
rate of excavation N300/m = N69,000(can be lower depending on location of building)

foundation strip footing depth and width of footing = 100mm (4''), 450mm(18'')
volume of concrete = 0.1 x 0.45 x 230 = 10.35m3
cement required using mix ratio of 1:3:6 = 1/10x10.35x1506/50 = 47bags of cement @ N200 per bag = N94,000
sand required = 3/10 x 10.35 x 1.6 = 5 tonnes of sand @ N1,600/tonnes = N8,000
gravel required = 6/10 x 10.35 x2.4 = 15 tonnes @ N8,000/tonnes = N120,000
workmanship = N40,000

foundation block = 230 x 0.6 x 10 =1380blocks @ N120/block = N165,600
cement for molter = 25bags @ N2000/bags = N50,000
sand = 5 tonnes = N8,000
workmanship = N70,000

filling and compaction to DPC level: depending on site conditions

DPM = N8,000
DPC of 75mm thick = 185 x 0.075 = 13.875m3
cement = 40bags = N80,000
sand = 15 tonnes = N24,000
gravel = 5 tonnes = N40,000
workmanship = N40,000

formwork for the DPC = N20,000

SUM = N850,000 ( MINUS CONTINGENCY)

Thanks u all

princechigzy:
"How much will it cost to build a foundation for 2 bedroom flat times 3 bungalow"

Your specification/dimension is rather unclear.

1. Do you mean 2 bedroom flat or.

2. 3 bedroom bungalow.

3. What's your location?

4. What's the general dimensions of the building you have in mind from the floor plan?

This questions will help me guide you on an exact requirement you may need and its cost.

Thanks

2 bedroom flat and it will be 3 flats on that foundation, not too spacious room. 10x12 room size, don't want to spend too much money on it cos I am renting it out, what I need now is how much it will cost me to lay the foundation

prettydiva89:
i broke a beaker and of course since my mom musn't know i told her we were asked to buy one,and instead of collecting #200 i collected #500

I have to buy a textbook for #900 and collected #1000 but before i could pay the price was increased to #1000.
But i wouldn't do that now

Na wa o!!!
Early 90s the highest money wey u fit collect no pass 200 naira, na those days wey things better for naija, the highest text book money wey u fit collect from ur parent is 200naira, if u collect 1k from u popsy at that time , u go do partyfor school

I fuuccked my teacher from behind when I was in ss2,
In 3D view
Na me dey mark test papers then, we were the only one left in school, me & her, she was about 25yrs then

eghosajohnny:
To complete the project will cost you 7m on a standard measure using materials like

Aluminium long span
Sliding window
Glaze tile for parlour
Other vertrified
China doors
Pvc ceiling
Painting
Wiring

While the foundation work will take 1.8m
Breakdown

2500 blocks. @ 140. 350,000
Cement 100bags @ 1,800. 180,000
Laterite 33trucks @15,000. 495,000
Sand 4trucks, @22,000, 88,000
Granite 30tons, 160,000
General labour, 450,000

Total, 1,715,000
Suervision, 100,000

Note this depends on the location this quote is for area like ikorodu

You can call for more 07031886484

Thanks for ur reply but, to lay a foundation for a 3 bedroom flat for 1.7M ? Is it not too expensive ?

Please I need your help,
How much will it cost to build a foundation for 2 bedroom flat times 3 bungalow
Not to spacious rooms.
All I need is estimate quotation of how much it will cost, not to expensive, just building for tenants
Thanks in advance