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No Nigerian flight for me this year. I will start boarding next year.

I have a meeting with a client in abuja immediately they lift inter state movement. Na ABC go carry me go abuja and come back to lagos.

techmo:




See, Tinubu doesn't have to talk, he sleeps in Ikoyi and Abuja bows to him

Let me translate it in Ipobian pidgin language

1: Buhari say make Giadom and NWC dey go house
2: him talk say Ize Iyamu remains Edo Legitimate APC flag bearer
3: him talk say IPOB heroes must immediately cancel all court cases or chop beating
4: him talk say make Governors of Niger, Osun (Tinubu's cousin) , Yobe ( Oshiomhole' former secretary) make them they run APC nationwide till they conduct new Election



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Please tell them. I am not sure that they understood the president's speech. Tinubu's men are still n charge. The primaries in Edo remains.

Chief Victor and his team should be ready to go.

I don't understand this obsession about Tinubu. President Buhari is still with him.

Buhari is an unapologetic and committed loyalist. He will never abandon his supporter and benefactors.

I don't know this obsession people have about Tinubu.

Is he the one in government? Every blame is heaped on him for no just cause. People just hates the man to satisfy themselves.

I don't know the wrong that he did. He is just a politician and doing his thing.

SE/SS should know that Tinubu is the not the cause of their problem. They should free the man jaree.

I trust him. He will quietly walks away and comes back when things cools off. He is maverick. His enemies Should not rejoice yet.

Adesina is my man anytime but all these so called international recognition and award by one mushroom organisation at this time is not necessary. He may be portrayed as desperate, the way a typical Nigerian politician pays for awards and recognition.

One of the things he was accused of was using the bank's fund to get personal awards and global recognition. If AFDB is transparent, they should be seen to be so and not through all these one room outfits that recipients pays to get the so called award.

This was so common in my days in the banking sector. Banks were paying heavily to international and local agencies to get awards. Some UK and international organisations capitalised on the desperate Nigerian banks to ex tort money from them for the so called "best in this; and best in that" kind of awards.

It is not just thanking the person but also informing our parents about someone's act of kindness so that they will extend their own gratitude. That was how I was brought up.

I argue with my wife on this a lot. People will give her things like money, bought things for my kids or edible things that I will even partake in eating without letting me know until I asked. I also need to appreciate the person. That was how I was trained by my parents.

You will always want to do good to people that are appreciative than to proud and pompous people.

Onitsha is a den of wickedness - Relatives visits wickedness on their relatives a lot.

A lot of mothers and women bring people from poor communities and if you see the way they deal with these little innocent housemaids, you wonder.

I don't know why men do keep mute and their wives beats their house maids mercilessly. Such cant happen under my watch.

My wife complained that I hardly beat or scold my house help but don't waste time in shouting at my kids and even flogging them.

A none PDP candidate may likely be the next governor after everything. I am seeing a supreme court governor in Edo state.

A PDP or APC will be sworn in but will later be removed by court on one technicality or the other. same for PDP

It seems that they have not followed laid down procedures in their conduct. No wonder this party is making sure that it follows all established rules to select it candidate.

Between APC and PDP, who ever wins should be ready for endless court case.

RuudVanNisteroy:
NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT BRIGADIER SHEHU MUSA YAR'ADUA OPENS NEW EXPRESSWAY LINKING LAGOS TO IBADAN.

The Brigadier then formally opened the new highway, the first rural expressway in the country.

The road cost a total of 170 million naira (nearly 266 million dollars). And to recover at least part of that cost, and to pay for its upkeep, road users will have to pay a toll. Even at the opening ceremony, Brigadier Shehu Yar'Adua led the way in paying for the service the new expressway offers."

Transcript of Brigadier Yar'Adua's remarks:

"The expressway which we are about to open is one of the finest of its type by any standard. Your convenience, comfort and safety have all been incorporated in the highest standard of its design and construction. It does seem however that the better the road, the greater the death toll. The reported deaths on highways rose from 4,537 in 1973 to 8,000 in 1977, giving us a daily average of about 22 deaths. We all know that these are caused by excessive speeding, lack of proper maintenance of vehicles, drunkenness and a complete disregard for highway rules and regulations. I hereby appeal to all road users, and in particular, motorists, to obey highway rules and regulations, to have more respect for their lives and show care and consideration for others. This country has paid very substantially for your comfort and safety on this expressway so please do not make it a one-way ticket to death."

No be today Nigerians recklessness on the road started. Imagine the high death rate on the road then. Our accident rates have been high from time immemorial - imagine my former traditional ruler died on the road and one of my aunt's husband died on the road. See his statement, " high speed, articulated vehicles, lack of maintenance and over speeding - all these are still with us till today because of our stubbornness and lack of discipline.

Godspowerinvt:
Good evening,
The ones with chairs or the one without chairs?

with the six white chairs

Godspowerinvt:
Round marble dining

How much is the white round dinning set going for?

And the idiot carpenter sold the coffin to her in broad day light and collected money?

My people talk say na person wey dey drunk dey go price coffin in broad day light.

I am in support of it. Any thing for the environment is good.

We don't take tree planting seriously here. I have told SE governors to plant trees and vegetation near erosion site and see the issues tackled.

UN have used this method in many south east Asian countries.

Decent environment prolongs life. When you build our house, ensure you have trees and grasses, put flower pots inside the house and do small vegetable gardens and pot vegetables. Not concrete everywhere like we do.

There should be a bar protector on both sides of the road. Any slip from a careless driver will land the vehicle into a ditch

The high elevation section need to be protected on both sides. Our standards are still terribly low in this country

I hope they are not sold to private hospitals.

Most books and donations sent to public schools usually find their way into private schools with some of them still bearing the insignia, "this is not for sale"

We need value re orientation in Nigeria.

I don't know why bad things usually happens after dropping a work colleague?

Either you are robbed, arrested by LASTMA, hit by okada or keke or dangote truck or your car refused to re start again after dropping a colleague

I don't know why people are here defending Nigeria. Defending Nigeria is the most difficult job to do in the midst of overwhelming evidence stacked against her.

You won't understand the magnitude of impact of bad governance in this country until you step out of this country.

We are backwards in terms of infrastructure and certain things taken for granted overseas.

Please don't compare SA with Nigeria in terms of infra structural development and competitiveness.

I understand the sentiments but please hold your government accountable and stop being naive.

Some are happy that their music's are being played abroad and are happy about it as an achievement.

Don't we play other people's music here? Music is a universal language please.

Dennis3D:
To avoid this subsequently, I always advise my clients to get their spouse involved the design process to avoid too much breakage of blocks and spaces in the building.

My take

You are right. But trust me, women could be difficult to manage sometimes even when they are involved in things.

Involving them in everything sometimes may slow your pace as they seems confused and in most cases do not know what they want.

Interior decoration wise, is good to carry them along. No doubt about it.

His size makes him predisposed to that thing they called pandemic. I no talk say na the thing sha

joycluv:
What really annoys me is that when you ask these architects to design a house for you, they would come with nothing but those archaic pillars with tiles all over telling you that it's what is in vogue. Another one is this roofs that will be twice taller than the house itself. And they would tell you everybody is doing it that way. Honestly, I hate those "National Anthem" styles.

We seems to have the same taste. Go and do simple flat roof or mono pitch. Leave those longitudinal roof. . I don't like them.

Overseas, they even try and get room inside those roof.

mufutau55:
But I like wife like yours, at least she is following all the construction... some of them will wait until everything is finished and done before starting their fight o.
But tell her, not everything in the houzz.com can be implemented in Naija houses. I hope she won't tell you later to use plank wood for your decking instead of concrete o. Just keep working with her, no need to abandon the project o; that one will be plenty palava o.

Hajji o.

Hahhaha. Planks for decking for Naija? . Na wood dem dey use there. Na the kitchen and living room designs for houzz dey trip her pass.

Trying to implement what you have on that houzz website will just liquidate one.

Na kobo kobo wey I dey follow de build like you.

This is my sixth year from when I started. Hopefully we go finish am. It has not been easy. Whatever comes goes into it.

I tell people, start and be moving small small if the money is not there but if pepper dey, finish fast.

Chekitaut:
Art work will make it different.
There is one slogan in town now "LEKKI TYPE" they are contemporary design with flat roof. Mr Skimanski, Darenyx, Dennis3D have this contemporary design in archive.

You mean a modern front pillar design or an entirely new building design?

My house was initially designed without those front pillars in mind with a mono pitch roof type and not the usual gobel roofs with parapet.

I used cement board for fascia and eaves. So, I don't know how to insert these Nigerian pillars for front now

mufutau55:
This your wife like trouble o.

Hajji M.

My brother! The way she de follow this house construction bumper to bumper. She is browsing houzz.com all the time. She say I be old school

I told her I would abandon this project and leave it for her to complete. The distraction too much

She would see something, next thing she would send the pictures for us to add. You don't build that way.

Honestly, I don't like those pillars but I am just trying to accommodate her interest for the last time. But if it would be expensive to add, bros, I no go do.

Simplicity is key. I am a minimalist.

joycluv:
Good evening and happy weekend to everyone. Plz, I have noticed that most(if not all) of the houses in Nigeria especially the duplex types are not built without these traditional two big frontal pillars. And I puuse to ask if it's compulsory to have them in our builds? What exactly are their functions? Thanks!

That's my battle with my wife right now. People see those two pillars as sign of big building.

I don't like it at all. Contemporary houses do not have those pillars. I don't know why Nigerian architects are so obsessed with the pillars.

My wife has castigated our building because I didn't include the so called pillars and made comparison to other ones within my estate with pillars.

She said the front looks empty and unattractive without the pillars. So, me and my site supervisor are now trying to erect the so called pillars.

I have been searching to see a possible aesthetically appealing design that I could adopt and not the regular designs I see here.

People and ignorance - you think that all the people that go abroad go there to live and hustle. Some went there to buy their market before the sudden shut down of the airways.

I know my people who are mostly traders do go to Pakistan, Indian, Nepal and Bangladesh to buy Levi Strauss jeans and other wears for sale in Nigeria.

Those on full time hustle wont board this plane. Trust me. They will wait for the pandemic to be over to continue their hustle.

Amastermovic:
As u can see her case is not with flooding from outside but the water table rise up and penetrate through the wall joint and pores in the German floor ..

when making your Modification remember to use the polythene nylon before ur German floor

You are an Engineer - nice one. Some people don't even do German floors again all in the name of cutting costs.

I didn't know that the water there was rising from the ground. I thought it came from outside. Please explain the concept of wall joints to me properly

I am not an engineer but as one whose house is under construction, I follow what is going on there very well to avoid bad stories later.

Thank you in advance

The Lagos flood has made me to start raising the level of my compound that is still under construction. My compound level must be very high now.

I am doing a major modification to ensure that any water in the compound flows out and if the road is too flooded, it will take a heavy downpour and high water level to make that penetration.

As a builder in Lagos, watch what happens after heavy downpour in your site.

Nigerian youths!!! Everybody na online business but ask them the nature of the online business, they will just disappear.

Bros me, Na hustle o, ask them what the hustle is, they will keep dump.

Na my hardwork, ask them what the nature of work is, they be talking in parables.

Nice one but looks deserted with no economic activities.

Northern states with exception of kano and kaduna are not that congested compared to south towns.

You will always see well tarred scanty roads and no side business activities.

Lovely quiet places to stay and keep off from the bustling of southern towns.

mufutau55:
Thank you for the update sir. Please come bscl to expose him after he has been nabbed. We should not allow theives in our community here. And we thought we have exponge all the bad apples. God will sure catch him.
Money is not an easy thing gather... he will fall.
When caught, please dont be too emotional, let the SARS guy deal with him ruthlessly.
As said before, we do have good people here and I have also engaged numerous Nairalanders here, but there are still some rotten apples trolling around. So we have to do real dilligence before we make any business with them.
May Gos expose all of them one by one.
Thanks for the updates, keep us informed.

Hajji M.

Sure, he would be exposed. Totally disappointed that a person like him could be this dubious.

KWASU!! - You sure say my guy reason am well so!

These kind of thing happens when the parents or relatives are not vast about how prestigious higher institutions are - With all due apologies to KWASU

if my child could make that score, what stops me from picking more prestigious schools for him or her. May be the KWASU is the only institution close to his place of abode. He may be living either in kogi or kwara state.

After all in US, a lady scored one of the highest in SAT and chose Indiana state university while people were concerned why she didn't choose the ivy league universities. Her reason was that she lives in Indiana and had visited the university and liked it. A good guider would have offered a better choice for her than the Indiana she chose.

mufutau55:
Damn! That is a real bad contractor and you should deal with him squarely. I hate those who like to mess-up others.
That will be very good if the Con-man is exposed.
We will love to see this, so that others will not fall into his trap. Please keep us posted.

Hajji M.

Thank you Hajji, our investigation on tracking him has reached an advanced stage. He has been posting me for more than three weeks.

My SARS friend in Egbada had already obtained all his contacts from the network he uses and the bank. He may run but will surely be caught.

I don't give room for frivolities - If you do any how, you see any how. Thank God that I am not spending money to track him down as the officer in Abuja that linked me to the Lagos SARS office was my secondary school mate and works directly in the IGs office. So, he is getting weekly updates on the matter making the SARS officers here to be up and doing.

Two nairalanders have done marvelous works for me before. I can mention Dominionng, may be without his permission. He did an excellent roof facial and eaves facial works using his popularized galvanized iron instead of wood and fiber cement board. A nairaland also roofed the house.

Here I am stocked with one crook that continues to profess "Godliness" and yet behaves like a con - man. I paid him to supply the additional large windows I told you about after collecting the money and disappeared.

I blame myself because I saw the red flags but believed him because of his postings here.

I will soon expose him as I am bidding my time and following the advise I got from the criminal investigation of SARS that I should hold on with further communication. -

I have seen him two times inside his ride. One at the lekki first round up trying to enter admiralty way and the second time at falomo under bridge trying to negotiate a turn to Awolowo road.

He was in a non tinted transparent ford SUV looking so serious and upset. I was like " see bros dey vex for these rough drivers for road.