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So sad. Just saw it on ALJAZEERA.

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

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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.

I don't know why we are different from the rest of the world

Not a single penny has been traced to the man. Is it that he didn't loot like past head of states? Abacha's loot has been coming back to Nigeria since his death

Rest in peace Yar Ardua. You didn't loot like a typical Nigerian leader.

Trust me, very soon the federal government will lift this ban on inter state movement.

Once the northern politicians starts complaining of the "harassment" of northerners by southerners, the FG will lift the ban to allow them move.

I was shocked when I closed work late in lekki phase one around 10:15 and saw a truck offloading people and bike. I wondered how they passed the check points and estate gates.

I always advise employees, if you have a good boss, stick with the company even if the company is toxic. Your good boss will always fight for you.

If you are in a good company but with a bad boss, you will regret your career.

Employees don't leave companies. They leave bad bosses.

I will pick good boss, bad company above bad boss, good company.

Your boss has a great role to play in your career progression.

Your current boss must have donated you for exit on the basis of LIFO - last in first out.

Another avenue for extortion - typical Nigerian government. permit this, permit that

To obtain that permit now, you will asked to cough out 100k minimum

can you install sim card and download whatsapp

TooMuchStuff:
Audio statistics......!

Extreme Poverty should be 90 million

Normal Poverty is around 85 million

Comfortable ones are 10 millions

Rich ones 5 Million

Stinkingly wealthy 25, 000

Mehn, I couldn't stop laughing on reading this - please send this analysis to NBS as a response to their publication. Your analysis vividly captured the current poverty distribution in Nigeria but our leaders and politicians will continue to live in self denial about the enormity of poverty in this country.

FG will soon start wasting scares resources on the containment because of the ignorance of the people the same we are wasting scarce resources fighting Boko Haram because some people felt that Boko Haram should be allowed to exist.

Litmus:
https://www.ge.undp.org/content/dam/georgia/img/env/UNDP_GE_EE_GEF_Kazbegi_tree_planting_youth_20180508.JPG

Over 1000 trees were planted on the mountain slopes near the village Karkucha in Kazbegi municipality to restore degraded land and reduce the risks associated with recurrent landslides.

The tree planting and reinforcement works were implemented by the ecological farming association “Sema” with assistance from the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Small Grants Programme, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Kazbegi Municipality City Hall.

On 8 May 2018, representatives of Kazbegi Municipality, Kazbegi National Park Administration, UNDP and the Public School of the village Sno visited Karkucha to take part in the ongoing tree planting.

Kazbegi is one of Georgia’s unique natural reserves, famous for its stunning mountain views, rich pastures and biodiversity. At the same time, the region is prone to natural disasters, including mudflows and landslides. Excessive use of pastures, illegal tree lodging and degradation of coniferous trees over the years added up to the environmental decline and brought local pastures on the verge of depletion.

In 2017, the ecological farming association “Sema” came up with a plan to address the challenge and bring Karkucha pastures back to life. The initiative was supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme with USD 28,000.

Since then, “Sema” has carried out the geo-ecological and hydro-meteorological assessment of the affected territories and has reinforced most vulnerable slopes against erosion and landslides with the rock-filled gabions and trees. In addition to its immediate benefits, this initiative will contribute to restoring natural forest in the selected areas and raising environmental awareness among the municipality residents.

Restoration of Karkucha pastures is one of over 50 local projects funded under the GEF Small Grants Programme since 2012. The GEF Small Grants Programme is a global environmental action which provides financial and technical support to the local community projects that conserve and restore the environment while enhancing people's well-being and livelihoods. In Georgia, the GEF Small Grants Programme is being implemented by UNDP in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture.


https://www.ge.undp.org/content/georgia/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2018/05/08/tree-planting-counters-landslides-and-erosion-in-kazbegi.html

We are not sustainable in this part of the world. A simple sustainability way of doing things like aggressive tree planting would have stopped all these erosion instead of awarding all these corruption - infested contracts.

We don't know how to engage international development partners like UNDP, UNEP to tackle environmental challenges at a minimal cost.

We like to award big ticket contracts to compnies. The erosion will still come back. Indonesia and some other south east Asian countries have the same erosion menace but are using sustainable mechanism to curtail them.

helinues:
Nice one Gov Obiano

This kind of soil must be useful for something

My brother, I have been saying this but our businessmen and government are not creative. The sand surface of the south east is one of the best in manufacturing the kiln fired red bricks for building.

Go to USA and South Africa and see brick industries producing bricks from red soil. Some south African companies imports red mud soil from Lesotho and Zimbabwe.

Why not set up a brick industries that will use kiln furnace to produce high quality bricks for building.

We spend millions of dollars importing bricks from south Africa for exterior rendering in buildings in Nigeria when we have the main natural resources - the red mud soil.

I bought each pack of red south African brick for 6,500 to use for my exterior covering. I would have loved to cover the whole building with red bricks but the cost is just too high.

I love brick feel of buildings. It brings out long lasting aesthetics than the paintings we usually do here.

Check out Stanford University in US, red brick houses every where.

Nigeria's red soil doesn't need colour addition to bring out the redness as the soil itself is earth red rich already.

If I have money, investing in high quality red bricks production would be my target.

Black man and wickedness.

That's why most times I don't blame the whites for racism towards us.

They devalue the black man when they see these kind of images.