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Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Focusmind: 5:48am On Nov 11, 2020

n3xt:
Obi Akpor - You’re very correct!

Building on Sunday is the only way to avoid PH wahala. I’ve never seen a state so religious as PH

you know the city very well. I visit there regularly. The church there is about my pastor is bigger than yours and more miracles happens in my church more grin

My church is where the miracle happens. A lady in one of the clients I consulted for told me in one of our informal conversions that her pastor asked her to help him get not less than 15 working class young ladies in a reputable organisations to join the church.

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Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Focusmind: 5:39am On Nov 11, 2020

dongc:
https://www.nairaland.com/6171148/tastefully-finished-trusted-wooden-doors

I appreciate. But I have eagle eyes when it comes to finished works. I have seen this thread before. 99% of doors in that picture are all Internet pictures except one or two, which are the usual Nigerian wood doors.

The thread owner even confirmed it. It is for you to select the design of your choice and it would be made. Selecting the design is not the problem but artistically getting it up to the standard displayed in the sample pictures. It is not that our people are not good but they lack the necessary finishing tools, detailing required and the kind of materials used overseas.

Nice attempt. I know Dubemcapital anyway, the owner of the thread. He is a well known builder on Nairaland.

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Science/Technology › Re: Starving Lion At Gamji Gate Zoo In Kaduna (photos) by Focusmind: 8:20pm On Nov 10, 2020

The zoo is a reflection of Nigerian society. Bad maintenance culture. We don't care a bit about things under our care. Same if you see PH zoo. You will feel sorry for the animals.

Politics › Re: Sanwo-Olu Seeks Law Cancelling Pension For Former Lagos Governors & Deputies by Focusmind: 2:15pm On Nov 10, 2020

See how everybody is attacking the Governor while their own various states are paying ex governors 300% of the salary of the current governor.

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Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Focusmind: 11:58am On Nov 10, 2020

EgunMogaji2:
The maker should please join us abeg

I trust you. The maker should come abeg. I am also interested. I be kobo kobo o

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Zimbabwean Socialite 'Ginimbi' Bought Casket A Week Before His Death (photos) by Focusmind: 10:40am On Nov 10, 2020

generationz:
You also noticed, my brother?
I went to his Instagram page to laugh at how the richest in Zimbabwe would look poor in Nigerian standards, i left disappointed.
All the nonsensical mass built rubbish they are doing at lekki, Ajah and Ikoyi and selling at a very high rate with no flowers and jo space... The worst are those asokoro massive houses.

Shame on Nigerian architects.

Big shame and so disgusting. The same house designs with two useless pillars in front and they will be selling it for N150m. Don't they know what is called contemporary house designs? Go to Accra, Kigali and Abidjan and see fantastic homes.

Our architects are simply not creative. Same design format. No attention to landscape and beauty. That's why no matter how a build or surroundings looks so beautiful in Nigeria, you will still see a Nigerian factor there.

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Education › Re: Do Not Study A Course Just Because You Like It. by Focusmind: 9:45am On Nov 10, 2020

As a career adviser to the youth, I usually tell them to select courses that offers the opportunity of seeking for employment outside the shores of Nigeria. Make no mistake about this, the Nigerian labor market is saturated and overflowing.

Graduate unemployment has been projected to reach record high in the next five years except drastic economic reform is taken by the government. I will rather encourage my niece or sister to read nursing than going to waste his/ her time reading any course.

I will prefer to read social work or community development and have opportunity to work with international development agencies and abroad as conflict has been projected to increase in the years to come. Those in the development sector and humanitarian assistance will have that opportunity. if you check recently, most NGOs have been advertising and recruiting people because of the violence.

Finally, study course that you have chances of making first class or 2.1, even if the course looks stupid. With that, you can sit for graduate aptitude tests of some multinationals, seek for overseas scholarship as it has been shown that scholarship exists for almost all categories of courses as long as you have high GP.

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Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Focusmind: 9:35am On Nov 10, 2020

n3xt:
This is good!

Pls do share his contact with us. Thanks.

That picture looks so foreign. I doubt if the build itself and the door in question are Nigerian.

Most locally hard wood security/entrance doors in Nigeria, that are well designed and made, usually does not exceed the design and make you posted one time. If you remember that entrance door you posted in front of brown brick wall.

I stand to be corrected by the OP. That door is a usual European design.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Zimbabwean Socialite 'Ginimbi' Bought Casket A Week Before His Death (photos) by Focusmind: 9:20am On Nov 10, 2020

Nevertheless, his standard is far higher than what we see here. I give it to the architects from other African countries.
Nigerian architects have a lot to learn in design and aesthetics.

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: 5,000 Rivers State Job: Crowd Storms Secretariat To Submit Application (Photos) by Focusmind: 8:15am On Nov 10, 2020

My sympathy to Nigerian youths. Unemployment should be tackled as a matter of national emergency. It is not about flyovers, roads and mundane things.

It is about human capacity development and jobs. That's has been the hallmark of governance overseas. Governance is all about job! Job!! Job!!!

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Fashion › Re: How To Dress To A Job Interview! by Focusmind: 4:04pm On Nov 09, 2020

Ok. May be in Nigeria. In December last year, a friend called me from Portland, US that he just finished his final interview with Google. It was a whatsapp video call and I could see him. He was wearing nice fitted blue Jean and zara top white shirt with sneakers join.

I was shocked but he told me that Google HR told him to wear any thing he likes and he wore what I saw him with, likewise other interviewees. They all dressed down.

Crime › Re: LASTMA To Prosecute Man Who Assaulted An Official by Focusmind: 3:32pm On Nov 09, 2020

This kind of person looks troublesome. Imagine commanding a lastma officer to halt traffic for him to pass.

Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Focusmind: 6:13pm On Nov 08, 2020

EgunMogaji2:
Yes, local bricklayer in Ibadan.

This is the very first attempt. I’m excited about future attempts.

Nice. Love the craftmanship

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Properties › Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Focusmind: 5:55pm On Nov 08, 2020

EgunMogaji2:
This is Nigeria Baba Lati Brikila work o

Oga, were these blocks laid by a Nigerian bricklayer?You sure knows how to get the best out of these crafts men assuming if this blocks were set by a Nigerian mason. Neat and beautiful.

For those of us that likes cottage and antiques building, no need plastering the exterior. Just plaster the interior and mount your gigantic french windows.

My former school in Scotland has lots of buildings with exposed blocks that were well laid without plastering like this one

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Nairaland General › Re: Ginimbi: Zimbabwean Socialite Dies After Sharing Video Of Himself In Rolls Royce by Focusmind: 5:35pm On Nov 08, 2020

See his fine house. Not all these uninspiring designs Nigerian architects draws and put up

Anyway, RIP

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Foreign Affairs › Re: How Donald Trump Lost America - Bloomberg by Focusmind: 4:47pm On Nov 08, 2020

I am not a Trump supporter but let us wait for the supreme Court. What happened in 2000 is still fresh in our memory. Al Gore had already won and was heading to 270 with 266 already before the conservative dominated supreme Court upturned it.

I hope that the Trump appointed supreme Court Judges won't do the same

Celebrities › Re: Ozo Bags Jenny's Glow Endorsement Deal by Focusmind: 4:08pm On Nov 08, 2020

All these 150k per annum endorsement sad

Foreign Affairs › Re: Michigan County Flips Back To Trump, Following Repair Of Voting Software Glitch by Focusmind: 9:59am On Nov 07, 2020

Trump will surprisingly win this election. Supreme Court is on his side.

Foreign Affairs › Re: US Election: Joe Bidden Says He Will Defeat Trump With A Clear Majority by Focusmind: 9:06am On Nov 07, 2020

WandaMaximoff:
I've learned a lot about some Nigerian Christians with this US election.

A lot of us have left the place of spirituality for conspiracy theories.

We've forgotten that it's by fruits we are called Christians, not by sensationalism.

If you think Donald Trump is a Christian and he stands for Christians or has Christian values, it goes a lot to speak of how askew your Christianity is.

A man who has been married three times, his current wife use to be an adult model with a lesbian connotative shoot.

He belittles women.

He is racist and a white supremacist

He speaks inappropriately of his daughter like she's a piece of meat.

He hates his fellow man

A comment like "grab them by the pu*sy is shameful.

Is this what your own Christianity is like?

Do we not have enough problems in Nigeria to pray about or enough lost souls to pray for and preach to?

When last did you even evangelize? If the trumpet sounds today in your current state, will you make it to heaven?

Don't mind those stupid people with stupid interpretation of christianity. The stupidity displayed at Onitsha by the so called Christians was the height of it. I hate it when people are so ignorant and the worst is ignorant religious parents leading their children in the same lane that they passed.

It's time to reflect o, leave US alone. It is not a Christian country like you're made to believe.

They are responsible for majority of the immorality that has creeped into Africa today.

Crime › Re: Cultists Invade MTN Office In Bayelsa, Kill Customer by Focusmind: 2:42pm On Nov 06, 2020

See how people tear race - run for your life my people. You have family at home

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Donald Trump Junior Calls For 'Total War' Over Presidential Election by Focusmind: 7:16am On Nov 06, 2020

Trump will still win this election. He is an expert in arm twisting established institution. He may force a recount that will likely favour him and if supreme Court is to determine the winner, the court would give it to him.

Foreign Affairs › Re: US Election 2020: Protests Rock New York, Portland And Other Cities by Focusmind: 6:46pm On Nov 05, 2020

OriOko88:
There's still more to this. Trump is winning d 20 electoral votes in Pennsylvania, 15 in Georgia, he's currently leads by 77k and 16 college vote in north Carolina, which he's leading by 55k. The only problem for him is d 6 Nevada vote, which is so tight to call rt now according to BBC. Bien camp shud nt rejoice yet. Na court go settle ds matter laslas

Well analysed. This man will retain his seat. I have already placed a bet grin

. Supreme Court will mess up the Democrats. Trump said it he could only accept the result of the election if the margin of victory is so high. But in this case,it is narrow, with irregularities.

Biden shouldn't rejoice yet. There are a lot of legal loopholes that trump will capitalise on and win.

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Travel › Re: Truck Driver, Conductor Lynched In Ebonyi For Crushing School Children (Graphic by Focusmind: 6:32pm On Nov 05, 2020

God, please keep protecting and guide us. I nearly hit a school child yesterday. I was driving jejely and all of a sudden, this child just ran across the road in Lawanson, Lagos.

Thank God my braking system was top notch. See the sound as I matched my brake. Mehn, I said God thank you. It would have been another story. My brother, it was so close.

Celebrities › Re: Ike Onyema To Release A Tell-All Book On Relationship With Mercy Eke by Focusmind: 6:25pm On Nov 05, 2020

This is Nigeria, Africa. People don't read here. If it was to be abroad, people would be waiting for the book and even preordered.

So, don't waste your time, I don't know the hungry publisher that will agree to publish your book.

Health › Re: Container With Suspected Toxic Waste Abandoned In Lagos by Focusmind: 8:20pm On Nov 04, 2020

This country's infrastructure is the worst in Africa. Very decrepit and yet seen as normal by our leaders. Our government travels abroad and see roads and other infrastructure but will come here to continue in their stupidity.

Politics › Re: #EndSARS: Moe Odele's Passport Seized At The Airport. Oby Ezekwesili Reacts by Focusmind: 9:13am On Nov 03, 2020

Trust me, government won't allow this ENDSARS anchors go scot free. They are currently being secretly tracked and would be charged for causing public disturbances.

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Politics › Re: EFCC Arrests Babatunde Fowler, Former FIRS Chairman by Focusmind: 2:39pm On Nov 02, 2020

E don be. I have nothing to say now till I see my lawyers.

Christianity Etc › Re: Onitsha Church On A Prayer Walk For Trump (Pictures & Video) by Focusmind: 2:37pm On Nov 02, 2020

Stupidity of religion - Honestly, religion has done great damage to the psyche of humanity, Africans and Nigerians especially.

What has president Trump got to do with the Shithole called Onitsha> They must have been brain washed by one pastor or priest, believing that Trump is for Christians. How foolish they are. Ignorance is the worst affliction. Quote me anywhere. May be, one ignorant catholic priest, full of sentiments must have deceived these ones.

Business › Re: MTN Nigeria Revenue Rises To N100 Billion Monthly In 2020 by Focusmind: 10:49am On Nov 02, 2020

No wonder my sister is doing great things recently.

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