When I hear folks making rules.......I laugh. Be yourself abeg. Rules are messed up. Just be yourself. If you love her show it, talk about it. Don't follow bullshit rules.......do that and you will continue keeping more rules , she will make ur life a living hell.

Femi Otedola has thousands of people doing his work for him. Imagine he wants to send a mail. He most likely has someone to do it for him. A smart phone can be used to send mails, do some quick work. Now this is not an excuse for the nutheads that spend a fortune using a #400,000 phone they don't need. Then if the person can afford the luxury ,its still their own cup of beans. Its really no ones business what kind of phone anyone's uses. What matters is, let things get done. If that works for him. Then that's just fine.

ASA, number 3. She has this beauty that even old age won't take away.

patriotic9jaboy:
Reno is a fool who likes to talk too much. Why the Efcc and Dss allows him to work free is still a surprise. He is a staunch critic of this government and deserves to be arrested and probed for corruption. I hope he is whisked away to kuje prison soon. Useless parrot

So because he is a critic of this government, he should be arrested. Oga o

And you will tell me you love oh. Reading your post just shows, all you describe the OP with is exactly who you are. The OP raised good points to express his opinion, why not argue brilliantly or intelligently rather than result to name calling and cheap judgment. Anyways..... It shows exactly the kind of person you are

DriveByKiller:


You're a warped up individual, I will give you that !

And you won't rest until you drag all of humanity into that sad route of life you're traveling.

Love exists when men literally died for their wives/ girlfriend and children. It has happened repeatedly.

Love exist when women sacrifice their dignity for a their man.

I have seen widows grieve a lost love a life time.

You're psychologically sick, man. And you're seeking company in the solitude of your loveless existence!

Boss. Weldone. Please share your idea. Cantilever of 7m,.....nice! Steel or R.C. Or composite? Let's share ideas. Better than throw blames. I will state again. OP contact a COREN registered engineer next time you are working on a project. Then I don't know what the ethics of your profession are, there are better ways of making such claims. Report to the NSE and write to COREN. Abeg nor come dey embarrass engineers here. Cheers

Avalon316:
Castosvilla,

Damn! I understand your anger. The problem is that you have been patronizing the quacks. Any engr that wants to introduce columns for cantilevers greater than 900mm is a quack or grossly inexperienced. These days, Nigerian engineers like myself have successfully designed and constructed cantilevers of 7metres. I am damn sure that you will prefer to pay those quacks peanut than pay a competent engineer for his works. Few weeks ago,i asked an architect to pay 600k for an engineering design but he refused . Recently,he called to tell me that another engineer wants to do the job for 80k. I laughed and told him to give the job to the other guy. I hope he will not lament just you after messing up the job. The problem here is most of you architects can't pay competent engineers.

I have a lot to write but I need to be in church soon.

You just hit the nail on the head. Don't go to quacks and insult the whole profession. Employ the services of competent engineers and be willing to pay them their appropriate fees.

einsteino:
The hard truth is an architect draws pretty pictures that he has no idea how to make stand. There is no limitation to what an architect can model. One can model a completely suspended building in revit, archicad.. Can cantilever 40 metre span.. Can have an overhang of 400 sq metre supported by just a brick wall.. It is all just pictures and models.. The civil engr tells him what is obtainable within the budget and the prevailing technical conditions in the country. The way the industry works, engrs call architects dreamers and architects call engrs killjoys.


You dont hve to feel bitter about it. It is one thing to dream, it is another to make it work. It is not too late to go get a second degree in civil engineering so you can have all the competent technical know how you require to make your projects be the way you wish.
moreso nigeria isnt dubai, it is the truth. Such pojects require a lot of money for an engr to be able to explore alot of options and assmeble a large team. Here it is hard to even specialise, i have done many projects that budgetary constraints made me negotiate modifications with the architect. Heck it is almost mission impossible to produce grade 40 concrete in Nigeria. What are engrs to do? The client doesnt want to spend money on his own project, the engr isnt paid something that even encourages thinking outside the box.

Yes there are incompetent engrs. I have met a number of them, but the truth is alot of folks who parade themselves as civil engrs are not, architects also parade themselves as engrs and i too have met a good number of incompetent architects. I work as a consultant/design structural engr and i know the sacrifices and efforts it takes to be a competent engr. Civil engineering is very tasking, mentally and otherwise. Yet an architect would dare ask an engr to carryout structural designs for peanuts. They want you to offer competence at the fees of quacks.

If you want competence, you must be ready to pay for it. You cant run to quacks and come out here and insult an entire profession, it is not nice. There are many civil engineering consulting firms in Nigeria and they are very competent, employ their services. I too am a competent civil engr and you can reach me for your structural designs.