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Met him in US embassy in Lagos in 2014. The man was practically acting comedy and people couldn't hold their laughter, with the way he was asking questions and direction.

All these Ivy league schools no de use ear hear say your papa na billionaire or you are from a royal family.

Kia kia, Dem go give you admission

theForth:
I'll love to contribute to this page in my own little way, perhaps I can post about prices in ceramic tiles and plumbing materials.

Good!

My plumber sent this for plumbing work completion. Note that some internal plumbing work has also been done. Are the prices ok for the stated materials? Sorry, the background from where he took the picture looks faint and blurred.

Queenlovely:
They should cover the building with external cladding for aesthetic beautifications.

White Paint is not for rivers state, The sooth and dirty air will change the colour of that house soon.

Let me give u an example, There was a house called white house in bonny island. But since I moved into the island I was yet to see the white house.

Until the day we did cross country and somebody casually pointed at the white house.

But what I saw was a black house.

I must still commend them for the concrete roofing. It is a break of the norm.

You are very smart and intelligent!

I work for clients in PH. Black soots every where. My toes turned black in the guest house we stayed. The whole wall, painted white, was looking so ugly. They need to do something about this black soot of a thing.

However, cladding or natural bricks would have been far better than this white. Our architects needs tutorials on aesthetics.

n3xt:
Labour is between 700 - 1500 depending on the skill level of the artisan.

Ok. Thanks. It is becoming clearer now.

GoodFaith:
Price are down
First you need to understand total materials you need
I was told 720k and 90 bag of pop cement
I told the dude it is 30 bags of pop cements x 7000 = 210,000
Sponge/Filas/ Fibre was 30kg x 2200 =66,000
Other stuff I said 15k
I paid 7k for transport
so I end up paying 417K



Present price
ABS POP CEMENT 40kg – 6,600 NAIRA

Sponge/Filas/ Fibre

1,700 NAIRA Per KG

Goodfaith, I assumed these to be material costs only. What of labour costs? My man is quoting 7k per sqm, including labour

GoodFaith:
don't buy materials

I had a 90sqm done about two week ago
I paid 410K
410k /90 is like 4,555 per sqm

And they came out nice? I don't know the reason behind the cost variations in POP among installers.

5500, 6000, 6500, 7000, 7500, 8000, 8500 are the prices per sqm being brandished around.

GoodFaith:
Benin City Pop cement
ABS POP CEMENT 40kg – 6,600 NAIRA


Sponge/Filas/ Fibre

1,700 NAIRA Per KG

Thank you Goodfaith.

I am also interested in this cost per sqm

We are paying the POP inclusive of material, which is charge per sq m and not buying the materials itself.

I want to know the cost/sqm for POP for my build as well

Is she married? She is the type that fits my brother - she is seriously searching and his mind dey abroad

rotecch77:
Here we are doing concrete kitchen cabinet to save cost.
Also bcs its rugged to matchup with kind of tenant in this environment.

The owner really mean the tenants

Nigerians can spoil people's thing as long as it not theirs. Nice thinking from the Landlord.

Put a modern cabinet and come back again after two years or when the tenants leaves, the cabinet would just be useless.

The rate of tear and wear and depreciation of assets in rented apartment in Nigeria is high. May be owing to use of inferior materials in the construction.

n3xt:
What could cause the problem?

1. Collision - Obstructions (kids bike, stone, wood, steel etc) on the gate track can make the gate bump and the rollers fall off track.

2. If too much force is applied when manually opening the gate and it jumped over the end stoppers on the gate track, the gate will fall.

3. No end stoppers fitted on the track.

4. Track Design - I’ve seen some designs where angle irons are used for the track. It’s cool but your track must be very close to the ground per adventure your roller went off track, the gate won’t fall off.

5. Guide Roller Size - if you check the size of the guide roller in the accident pic and mine, you’ll see mine are quite bigger which means better protection for the gate.

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Pic 1 - Gate when fully opened is being held in place by the guide roller.

Pic 2 - When the gate is locked there’s another protector for it in case there’s a very strong wind.

What a knowledge you just impacted. Well done. Make I dey save pictures and video dey go naa.

This is a different perspective altogether with that protector. One of my greatest fears with sliding gates. With this now, the fear factor has been narrowed.

n3xt:
This is very tough for me to explain but see the pictures below. It’ll give you more ideas.


Pic 1 & 2 - Ceiling Designs


One has a plain white ceiling wooden slats while the other has concentric circles in dominant colors (gold, blue, white, chocolate) with matching spot lights. It was well designed.

95% of Nigerians will select number 2. We love it cluttered, grotesque and thick here, with rainbow colours reflecting up and down to intimidate our visitors that we know what's up and have arrived big time.

Number 1 for me any time, any day. Pro minimalist bro! Space over any thing else but women no dey here word

Well done!

Nice tiles - can I see Nigerian made wooden tiles? I will prefer Spanish to Nigerian own but wont use Spanish on all the floors as I heard they are more expensive. I want to use Nigerian wooden tiles on some spaces to save cost

n3xt:
Yes. I learnt he’s in Cotonou. He’ll get in touch me with me shortly.

He did 95% of my projects so I can give him reference. Show him anything. He’d bring it to reality with minimal resource.

Note: I don’t get my carpenters involved in material procurement but I pay them well.

I wished I had met this carpenter. The staircase makes sense.

Nigerian Army should know that they are people's army. They should not lie to get sympathy from other quarters. That was the same lies peddled against the Shiites movements to decimate them. Army and indeed all security units should be professional in their conducts and exhibits the highest level of integrity to win the trust of the people.

MrIcredible:
Chai!


OSU why?


Okija shrine effect...

You aren't much different from that psycho man that committed these murders.

What has what you wrote got to do with the topic?. I hope you are not depressed?

From Lagos to Abuja in 2009 to collect my PTDF scholarship offer and induction.

The tension when the plane was taxing on the tarmac and taken off no be here.

This country and waste of resources - which one is worship center? Go and renovate your schools, feed the poor children coming to the school and set up a working primary health care in all your councils.

We should stop this nonsense of gigantic worship centers that adds nothing to our lives. This country's hypocrisy is second to none.

See countries that value their citizenship. Do Nigerian authorities even challenge illegal immigrants here that fraudulently obtained Nigerian citizenship and passport?

This is why I fear taking up a humanitarian assignment in the North East. We had engagement with an international NGO for an assignment in Dikwa, Borno, but the fear of any Boko ambush made me to jettison joining the team at the last minute, even though the fees offered by the NGO was quite good.

Humanitarian aid agencies, diplomats and UN field officers are casualties in wars like this. Ambush by rebels fighters are always common in conflict zones.

Fulani herdsmen are waiting for them.

Nigeria is fast becoming a burial ground for businesses and investments. You would be shock about the number of foreign companies that have exited the country, including institutional equity investors that have offloaded their stakes and fled

Your son fit come meet you for that same level after many years.

Clean shave it always and start keeping your beards.

Baldness combine with well grown thick beards will make you look attractive and masculine. Ask the ladies, they will tell you.

OP is withholding certain information. I am not harsh and insensitive but note that there are companies that are very impatient with new hires, especially if you promised heaven and earth during the interview and your actual performance is below par.

Companies could only give you time to grow if hired as a trainee, graduate or management trainee. But if you come in as an experienced hire, note that the expectations would be high and you need to up your game.

As a new and experienced hire in any organisation, never relax, create the first good impression and continue to show where you have added value from what you met on ground.

OP, ask them why you were sacked. I am sure it may not be far from job performance or adaptation related issues.

The structure there are far better than some state universities in the South.

My concern mainly is the quality of learning. School is not just the structures and buildings but the standard of teaching and learning. I served in Kano and saw fantastic public schools but the quality of teachers and students were far below sub standard sef.

My father learned in a very small shanties and buildings in the 50s but they were tutored by seasoned teachers and missionaries as schools were in the hands of the Roman Catholic Church.

For once, a new public building built with bricks. Bricks makes building look everlasting. Don't know why government hardly use bricks for their structures. Abroad, red bricks na de koko.

Na so them go take sack Jurgen Klopp?

See how the chains has disfigured her two hands.

SE ehh! The kind things going on there, my mouth no fit talk am.

Greed, envy, robbery, snitching, back biting, killings, etc

I can only imagine what these kids had gone through,most likely waiting for death to take them. Poor people should be sterilised and made not to have kids.

Most of them have kids they can't cater for and keep producing like rabbit without thinking about the future. Go to any nearest motor park or public places and see mal nourished kids moving up and down and you keep wondering where their parents are.

Africans have continued to debase the prestige of humanity and things do not mean anything again.

My 3 year old boy is on drip in one of the best hospitals in Lagos and looking at him and his situation would want to make cry talk more of these kids without proper care and food.

Punish those women and those they work for.

If Nigeria was truly buoyant politically and economically and very stable with good standards of living, all these small neighbouring countries like Benin republic, principe ans Sao tome, Equatorial Guinea, even Niger republic, Southern Cameroon and Chad will be asking to be part of the buoyant Nigeria, thus forming an African style Soviet Union

Parents should stop forcing careers on their kids and people should stop choosing courses based on how lucrative the so called course might be or perceived to be.

My seven year old daughter is average in her maths but exceptional in hand writing, phonetics and drawings in her montessori school. Always coming first in those subjects as the school gives their pupils positions on each subject.

I bought the best of crayons for her, a mini drawing canvas and some art materials. I got the shock of my life when I came back in the evening and she presented me with the work, where she drew my wedding picture with my wife. Our wedding picture is hung in the wall in the living room and she brought her drawing kits and replicated the same.

I was surprised with the effort and semblance of her work with the real picture. I downloaded some super kids drawing art works for her in her tablets to enable with her finishing jobs in drawing and learning.

However, my wife is not buying the idea of drawing and art. She is engrossed in my "child will be a doctor" mentality.

Her school did a career day and she was nominated to act as a doctor but I asked the proprietor if she could be given an art career role, which she agreed. I gave her the drawing kits and sowed a mini dress worn by architects and artists in their workshop. Guess work, she came up that beautiful Edo bronze art work, the legendary Queen Idia.

Career is all about passion and not just money. I, myself, I was a Chartered and Management Accountant in an investment bank and abandoned it to take up consultancy in humanitarian and development sectors, which has been my passion.

Passion will definitely bring you fulfilment and happiness but not wealth.

I always sympathize with this kind of people. You will feel more sympathy when you get to understand the circumstances surrounding his birth. No parents, brother or sister. Just him in the street, existing without anybody to guide him. There are a lot of them in Lagos Island, Oshodi and indeed all parts of the country.