₦airaland Forum

omonnakoda:
Depends on who lives there
If you go to some low cost accommodation in London you would be disgusted. Urine in the lifts needles and syringes in communal areas etc.
We need to stop hating on ourselves

That it is done elsewhere doesn't make it right and acceptable in Nigeria. That same thing happens in a low cost areas of London doesn't justify that we should have total disregard for maintenance in Nigeria.

What I said about our maintenance culture in Nigeria still remains. There is no sentiments here please. Our attitude still remains bad towards order and cleanliness.

See how people, rich and poor, throws things on the road, public buildings defaced and in poor sanitary conditions, citizens dumping refuse at any available space, decrepit houses everywhere as a result of bad maintenance.

OBTMOS:
Come and see the building in two years time

You got it. Nigerians and I don't care attitude = The white paints will turn brown and that pink décor will fall off without any repair

Our maintenance culture in Nigeria is terrible and the citizens are one of the most "I don care attitude" people I have ever seen, especially when the property in question does not belong them.

Rent out your property and see how tenants will mess it up in the next few years.

Probz:
Yes. By saying that Nigerians have to oyibonise even our own foods.

Hhaha, I agreed with you. You look nice in your Igbo traditional wear

Probz:
Get out of here.

Oga Probz, did the guy offend you?

Most of the comments above shows the current state of many homes in Nigeria. Dysfunctional, acrimonious, hatred, pride and vices.

A lot of marriages are going through trying times. May God have mercy and mend all broken homes, strengthen couples who are facing challenges and brings peace to families. Amen

Hmmmm!!!

I don't know why young struggling guys are just too obsessed about girl friends and women. Oga, please focus on your hustle first.

Staying in a single room is an indication that you are yet to find your feet in Lagos. Your major concern should be on how to develop your capabilities and work harder towards a better future and not one inconsequential girl that will later abandon you.

Your scenario is common with company's drivers, office assistants, artisans, security people, dispatch riders, apprentice, cleaners, buying and selling merchandise - Do your profession falls in any of the categories mentioned?

Those kind of people sabi spend on girls that will always abandon them. They will train girls in school who will abandon them for a well to do guys.

Oga, if you are already in a hole, please stop digging further

I don't know why this is happening to this man. He is my kind of guy. Thorough bred professional

But those allegations are weighty o. I no go lie

If found guilty, he should face the law. No sentiments please

Nigerians should learn how to uphold ethics and integrity in the organization they find themselves.

That was how some Nigerians students executive embezzled money during my student's days in UK and kept denying it even when the evidence was so overwhelming.

After the investigation, the massive fraud was uncovered and I had no sympathy for them at all

We should learn how to live above board.

spyder880:
Starting with wall screeding works.......

Oga, can I get the contact of the person that did this window sill/hood for you

I am in Lagos

Indians! Medical tourism is a big business in Indian and they are capitalising on that.

People from Europe and US go to Indian for major invasive surgeries at a fraction of the cost in their home countries.

We should have one thing in Nigeria that attracts tourists.

I was in one part of Nairobi in 2011, mehn, see oyibos, 99% of people I saw there were whites on a visit to nearby safari and Kenyan wildlife.

Kenya earns billions of dollars in tourism, that supports hotel businesses and other jobs.

Nigerians spends millions of dollars in India on medical treatment and Indian earns billions of dollars from others visiting for surgery and other treatments.

lastpage:
WITH REFRENCE TO THE BOLDED.

I do agree with your wife on the bolded.
Visitors should NEVER pass through the kitchen, to access their rooms.
I understand that you have 'old age' in mind but please, consider your immediate safety and security first and foremost.
It is someone who is alive TODAY, that can plan for TOMORROW or old Age.
There are places visitors should never have access to in one's house:
Your Master-Bedroom and Your Kitchen because those two places are your weakest point, either for what is most personal to you (documents, monetary valuables, even your wife! ) and where you make your food.

Not all Visitors will have good intentions for you and if they have to walk through the Kitchen to access their room, you have given them the right to "drop some poison" in your family food!
As a matter of fact, Visitors are never allowed in the Kitchen, if they want food, you prepare and give them (except where they have a self-contained area).
Remember, the most difficult ailement to cure is that caused by the food we put into our own mouth.
God forbid if one of those "na my family Village people" come to visit their son who just arrived from America and they see where you are living and one of them is like: His father did x,y,z to me in 1913 and decides its time for payback! E don red be that.
I am speaking from 'non-personal' experience.

Please, quikly re-arrange the entrance to the visitors room so it does not pass through the kitchen, when the time comes, you can open it up again to link the kitchen, it wont cost you much money or effort but righ tnow, it is not a priority, at least not over your family's safety.

Well done.

I am not changing it at all. It is just a passage at the far end of kitchen. I could have demarcated it but I so much love open- plan buildings without the too much block works we do here in Nigeria.

If you are going or coming out to/from the visitors room, the person in the kitchen will see you. So, it is not that you must pass through the kitchen. Just that another spiral step to upstairs separates the kitchen from that passage.

Visitor here means, close relatives and not just random persons. I don't host non family members. Go to a nearby hotel and stay.

I pray our leaders read what they sign.

Trump signs his documents and twits all his twitts. I wonder the function of his PA, SA and other media and personal assistants.

So sad. Just saw it on ALJAZEERA.

Mehn, plane crash is the worst accident to happen to anybody.

lastpage:
Well, you are the man for a reason, to consult her widely with your spouse but to take the final decision, in the best interest of the family.
But l also know that the westernised women are not easy to convince, talk-less of control to do something she does not want, even if it is for her own good. so you have a battle on your hands.
Try and show her the disadvantages of such elevation, for example, ask her how she would feel, if one of your children tripped over it while carrying some dishes after food, hit his/her head against a sharp edge of the step down stairs (God forbid) and died?
I have seen people, women especially, die from tripping, slipping and falling in the bath-tub, despite the husband saying l dont want a bath-tubs in the bath, because of the danger of slipping!.
Ask her how she will feel, make it very graphic so she can imagine it in her head.
And finally, add that you will hold her responsible forever , if she insists on having it and an accident happens. Let it sink-in.

We should not just copy what others are doing, just because they are doing it.
A house with children cannot be designed exactly the same with a house where only young guys are living or where all the children are adults.
Moreover, since this is a personal house, most people dont consider their "old age", when they design their houses.

Some old people are sleeping in the guest room downstairs now, because they placed all the master bedrooms upstairs and now that they are in their eighties, they are too old and weak to be going up and down the stairs, each time they want to navigate between kitchen and bedroom.

Same thing with this issue of elevated dinning area. Time will come when no one will even be eating from that spot, it will be between small side table and the Soffa. ;
I hope you will be able to convince her as l can already sense that its a challenge.

Well said my brother. I have done all I could but she has seen her friends houses with such elevations and she liked them. As for me, I will go ahead with all flat/level living room/dining room arrangement. I am the man!

You made a point with master bedroom been upstairs. My master bedroom and visitors bedroom downstairs are of equal standards with large windows and closet.

When old age beckons, the visitors room will become my masters

The Visitors room will also serve as a place of rest for me or where I could spend calm moments for myself. That's how I planned it. It is not just a normal visitors room, it is a multi-purpose room downstairs with mini library.
From the kitchen, you enter the visitors room straight. She expressed reservation why guests should first pass through her kitchen side to their room, but I had old age in mind when I did the design.

At old age, the kitchen and the person's sleeping room becomes the most important parts of the building to the aged.

For any visitor to stay in that visitors room, you must merit it. Not any how person.

mufutau55:
Personally to me, step-up, step-down are all hazards.
I will make the whole thing parrallel. My two kobo o.

Hajji M.

I agreed with you bro. This is what me and my wife have been quarrelling over. She came to site and was pissed off that the dinning was not on an elevated level from the rest of the living room. I told her to leave the floor as it is as it is safer and will look nice as well.

Madam no gree. That I should see other people's houses and see that dinning always have an elevated floor from the rest. I know that, but I don't like it as it poses its own hazard.

My house plan is a typical European modern architecture without this usual Nigerian elevated dinning and front pillars. She has been insisting on having that elevated floor. If I should do it now, that is more cost as the building is almost at the tiling stage.

Forget it, I am not impressed by the quality of that road. Road construction in Nigeria is always a joke.

That road is not strong considering the nature of that soil.

We should be constructing road base on European standard of quality. Don't you see the thickness of roads and quality of coverings of roads abroad?

Rain and potential portholes will just wash away the road.

We should always aim at quality. I would have even preferred a solid concrete road than this asphalt road.

Would they have given Nigerians and black people these kind of treatment they are getting here?

I doubt if Indian and China would be magnanimous and compassionate to give a stranded Africans in their respective countries these kind of treatment.

Kudos to LASG!

JubrinElSudan:
They were furloughed not sacked but then there may be fears that they wouldn't be called back when the situation is over, they may just recruit new staff with a lesser pay because many out of job persons will be desperate for employment and wouldn't mind the lower pay.

Furloughed is not in the Nigerian dictionary. Have you seen where the verb/word was used by a Nigerian employer?

Some don't even know the meaning. Their own is to sack out rightly once things are bad.

Anyway, you don't blame them.

Nigeria is a savage kingdom! Period.

My kids school did same. Infact they said that third term have started with their online teaching and would allow just 10% discount on the normal school fees.
Mind you, as a parents, you prepare your kids for the learning, burn my data for hours, sometimes stay with them during the online tutorial and follow up with their assignments and mark them.

you are practically doing everything. When we had the online PTA, I had to pour out my mind with anger. Annoyingly, most parents seemed scared to challenge the owner of the school. I was dumbfounded. This Nigerian mentality of showing I am richer or I am better than the next person could be childish sometimes.

Some parents were even praising the school owner and teachers for coming up with the online teaching and accepted the fee structure. I was like what a Bleep!. I told them, 60% discount from the normal fee or nothing.

The owner later called me and accepted my 60% request but said I shouldn't inform other parents as they seemed ok with the fee.

I told myself, wetin be my own, call who? If they willingly accepted your proposal, fine and good with them. I thank him for accepting my 60% and I kukuma maintained myself without discussing anything with other parents. If you are not good with the offer, go and negotiate your own discount base on your peculiar circumstances but some would be forming Dangote at PTA meeting.

I work for myself and business is down for me. I don't hide anything. I will tell the truth, things are tough for me. There is no shame.

DFAMEGUY11S:
Make your choice here

How much do you sell those natural real stones? The ones on the wooden base

OP, I am yet to see the mother of all parliament buildings - the prestigious Westminster building in UK

Please show the iconic UK parliament with the clock, the big Ben, in front of it.

Parliament buildings are supposed to be iconic buildings with gothic- cathedral like structures and not that nonsense in Abuja.

So, Diego Maradona never won the world footballer of the year?

I weep for Nigeria. In the few years, I hope northern Nigeria would not be like Mali or Afghanistan

Ngerians are simply too backwards. It is not about the government. It is about the people

OJURONGBE1:
There's Clay industry at oregun, Ikeja . They produce quality brick tiles .

Please help me with their contact and address. I stay in lagos

I really want to be a Diplomat. I need a link to a powerful man that could nominate me to the powers that be

See castigation! Not everybody wants to live abroad.

I for once have tasted both worlds but boredom nearly killed me in UK even when I did all I could to socialise.

Even as at now, I am not ready to trade off my freedom, comfort and prestige in Nigeria for so called money in UK

Anambra and Shayo! That's why Nigeria Brewery and Hero are reporting their biggest profit from the state above other states

This one na aji buusu

Old age has caught up with the bird. It would soon die any.

If we have a functional zoo, that's the best place for it.

SLAP44:
There's so much food and natural resources in Igboland that they can feed West Africa as soon as they are granted their own country.

Be deceiving yourself!

Millionaire town yet it is still one of the worst city to live in.

Our focus should be on the livelibility of cities and not on the number of each self - made millionaires there.

The town is too congested, highly disorganised, poor road network, crude infrastructure and highly polluted.

These are not peculiar to Nnewi but common features of a typical Nigerian town or city.