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Hello People

I want advise on the use of fiber cement roof sheets in Nigeria. I am not talking about Asbestos as this has been phased out even though asbestos look like modern day fiber cement roof tis. Companies like Nigerite and purechem produces these fiber cement roof tiles.

Who have used the fiber cement roofing sheet and their experience with it. I know that Europe and US use this fiber cement roof sheet a lot compare to Nigeria. Share your experience please.

£400,000 per week and Sanchez is in Manchester United collecting £500,000 per week doing nothing.

Who designed this bogus pay scale in Manchester bikonu?

The car as it is will find its way in Nigeria and would be marketed as clean and not accidented. I trust Nigeria car dealers

waleyp:
so whats the latest about you kids sir? and what have you concluded

They are still in their current school and I may likely start them at the public school near by in September when the new session begins . They will be going there with my 13 year old maid who is already in JS2 in that Lagos government school.

Uteghe:
....what has Nnamdi Kanu done with the bullions he's collected from his brainwashed devotees?

He is having the fun of his life, sleeping with his wife, posting the picture online for his brainwashed followers to see and training his children in the best of schools in the U.k while his followers are here struggling in Onitsha and Aba and their children attending community primary and secondary schools.

Mental emancipation remains the best form of human freedom.

waleyp:
Lol they are your kids and you know what’s best for them, Nigeria is not smiling tho and things are getting rough each day, just figure out things you can do sha however all that being said, when last did u leave ur comfort zone to witness or have a feel of ur environment or the street?When last did u leave ur car at home and decided to take a bus to work or jump Okada abi na to queue at the bus stop? If u know u know?

I do that regularly. I see walking as a hobby and walk long distances to get to my destination. Most times, I deliberately enter public transport instead of using my car.

delishpot:
Dont change their school. Just allow them roll with small kids from the hood. Watch that they have good friends tho and they will catch up with time. Also keep taking them out and showing them how to meander though the streets. Do not feel overwhelmed cos it may take time for them to adjust.

If I miss primary school for them, am not gonna miss enrolling them in secondary school.

waleyp:
Na Wa O, FinGErS Are Not Equal Sha, But Am Happy You Reason This Way, You Need To Make Dem Strong For The Future, Do Your Kids Do House ChoReS? Why Not Wait Till They Get To SecondaRY Sch Before You Change Their SchS,

They are eight and seven and my wife hardly allows them. I have instructed them to drop their plates in the kitchen whenever they finish eating rather than keeping it and waiting for Nany. My daughter always try to do her bit in cleaning but my son, very unconcern. Only to cross leg and be watching meeky mouse. I am trying to be tougher these days and they could see it in me

delishpot:
Dont change their school. Just allow them roll with small kids from the hood. Watch that they have good friends tho and they will catch up with time. Also keep taking them out and showing them how to meander though the streets. Do not feel overwhelmed cos it may take time for them to adjust.

Good point. I go evening mass these days with them just to walk unlike the morning service we all go using my car. We started that since last month and I wont stop. After walking a long distance to get to church, my daughter will just be panting as if she ran a marathon , where as I see other children coming from a farther distance without any atom of stress shown in their faces

Divay22:
Like someone already suggested, it's best you change when they're about entering secondary school.
But your kids ain't funny o Crying because of heat and pigeon

That heat incidence nearly got me mad. I almost beat a hell out him before my wife held me. What a Bleep! crying because you were sweating why eating? I had to pull off the AC switch permanently. They should contend with ceiling fan

Hello Great People. Long post

I have watched my kids grew and I always have this feeling that something is missing in their formation. I remember how I grew up, being smart, albeit street smart and very conscious of my environment. The current kids, the millennials, seems not to have the same tenacity, doggedness and strength we had growing up. I remember how I walked on the road to buy crates of soft drinks, carried them on my head and brought to my mum's place of business.

My kids' life starts in the morning, after eating their breakfast in an air-conditioned room, an air-conditioned school bus comes to take them to an air-conditioned classrooms. After the school, the school bus drops them at home and the cycle continues.

They don't know what happens in the immediate environment, in the streets and on the road. I deliberately started going out with my eight year old daughter just for her to see how the roads are and how to even have a feel of the outer environment, outside the home or school. Mind you, I still take them out on family outings for sight seeing.

I still have the feeling that something is missing. I see street children and how fast and smart they are with things and reasoning. They move within the neighbourhood and knew everything happening. Mine seems caged and I have been trying to see how to adapt them with the environment.

The other day, I deliberately went to barb hair with my son without using my car. He saw some pigeons picking their foods on the ground. As we got close to the pigeons, of course, they would want to fly off. As they did, my son ran away and started crying. He was so afraid of the pigeons and the speed they flew off on our approach. The other time I walked around with my daughter, she saw goat and it's kids and my daughter refused moving an inch again because of the goats.

Any time I dragged her out for us to stroll, She would be walking on the road without even watching to see if cars were coming. But for those street children, very sharp and attentive to the happenings within their vicinity.

Their current school over pampers them and ensures maximum comfort. I want to start scaling down comfort for them. In my house, I have an inverter and so enjoys 24hours power. There is always light. There was time we had 3 days black out and my inverter got fully discharged. There was no AC. One day, my son was eating and all of a sudden, he started crying and I asked him what happened, he told me he was sweating. My God!, so you were sweating has become the reason to cry?

They always feel over -pampered and entitled to certain things. Agreed that parents should provide their kids with good things but I think this is affecting their formation. It is making them not to see the world reality, that it is not all rosy in this world. I am contemplating enrolling them in public school close by in September, at least, let the "hardening" starts with the school. I am sure they will be more disciplined by those public school teachers than their current private school teacher. I don't believe in AJEBUTTER. I want a well- rounded kids, fully in tune with the society and what life is all about and not being mummy's kids. Luckily, a Catholic church has now set up a Montessori school near by, we are now considering that. It makes more sense as I was also trained by the Catholic school from nursery to secondary.

What do you think? If you have alternative suggestions, please shoot!

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Kids everywhere. Face your studies and graduate with a good grade and come and face the world.

when you are successful, all these issues becomes irrelevant. I am telling you from example. I had similar experience but decided to make my studies a priority, graduated, secured oversea scholarship, came back and was doing relatively well.

When she saw me years somewhere in Jakande bus stop, Lekki, where I dropped off someone and behold she was at that Jakande bus stop waiting for Danfo. I horned and she was hesitant to come but I had to alight to go and meet her. She shouted, entered my car and we discussed at length. She came for a call center interview near by. She told me she has been job hunting years after our graduation without success. I could see the stress and hustle of Lagos life - No porn intended.

When she got to know where I was working then, see disturbances every where and I was like "see the babe that some how "dealt" with me", now falling over herself to get my attention. After visiting me like four times, she said that the person she is staying with in Abule-Egba, wants her to leave and if I should allow her to stay till she secure accommodation. I said no, that I will prefer to lend her money to find a small room apartment around Ajah, which I did, but she did not bother to pay for the accommodation but continued staying with the friend she claimed wanted to chase her out. I knew the friend did not want to chase her out. She just wanted to come and take position in my house.

So I tell young men, focus on success first and ladies will surely come.

This is what some Jobless Nairaland user do most of the time. They will go to someone's Facebook or other social media, copy some pictures and comments and bring them to nairaland with a caption, " A Facebook user"

You discuss things with your pal, next, he would go to social media and start with, "one of my friend", and start talking what you never discussed with him just to attract comments and traffic.

I believe that student must have discussed his project ordeals in an informal setting with that his supposedly stupid friend but the friend will couch the story somehow to suit his taste and post online without even informing the friend he was going to post the story online.

Social media is causing a lot of havoc and people need to learn.

Religion is just a big problem in Africa and Nigeria especially. Couple with ignorance and poverty, people are just been misled and are seeking solution to their problems wherever it may be found.

Some even abandon their daily work to attend one church program or the other in search of break through instead of focusing on how to improve their business.

Nigeria's environment is so unfriendly and unforgiving. Any time you leave your house, you are not sure if you could make it back safely. It is either one stupid trailer driver will kill you or you hit a major potholes or arm robber waits for you at mile 2 or one stupid trigger - happy policeman fires mistakenly or intentionally or you hit a broken down truck on the high way without C caution or Okada hit you as you are coming down from your car or a trailer fails break and crushes all in its path.

People, especially the middle class and the rich, relocate from this country mainly because of glaring insecurity. They will prefer to live a modest life abroad than be rich in Nigeria with its attendant insecurity to life.

See how the men carry hairs full head. Now stress is making it so easy for young men in their 20s to start having bald head.

This what I have noticed. I look at my father and uncles picture in their 40s and see thick black hairs every where. But me and my cousins started having bald hair in our 30s.

What caused this if not stress

Waste of resources. Our designs and standards are just too low in this country. Why not use decent stone coated roof to make it look more aesthetics than using this aluminum for this important edifice. They will go abroad and see how things are done and will come back to continue their mediocre work.

Secondly, all these wacky structures do not bring any development. The real development is on people and not on facilities. Build whatever massive structure you want, if people are not well educated and civilized, those structures makes no meaning to them. Conferences could still be held in other government building or hotel than spending billions to put up this big for nothing.

Money should be used for human capital development. Develop humans and humans will in turn develop and build cities themselves.

Nice move! But I have a serious reservation when it comes to Nigerian Politicians. They have been travelling abroad to see how things are done but will come back and continue in their usual way.

Believe me, who ever lives in this Lagos state knows the things that need to be done to fix it. Harvard will never teach you that. I have noticed that politicians from highly developed countries hardly go for all these so called leadership program. Most of the participants are from poor and developing countries, yet when they go back to their respective countries, the usual trend continues.

That was why my MD in the bank then stopped all these overseas training and started sending people to Lagos Business School, Phillips Consulting, Financial Derivatives Company and all those top local training centers in Lagos. Those ones will teach you bearing in mind the peculiar Nigerian environment, structural and inherent factors which oversea schools will not teach you but will charge you thousand of dollars.

Please I am not hating for those that will attack me since almost all the politicians in Nigeria now have Nairaland attack dogs stationed here in each thread.

I pity this country honestly. In Canada, legislators come to legislative meeting in their own cars, live in their own houses and sometimes ride in public transport to the legislative chambers. There is no Special Assistant, Senior Special Assistant or PA. They are just paid sitting allowance and not monthly salary as we do here in Nigeria.

Here in Nigeria, we squander the little resources we have in funding the lavish life style of our politicians and people see nothing wrong in that action. Some People will even come here to course other people attacking this action of Kano state legislators and ask other people to mind their own business and leave Kano state alone. In this same Kano, we have a lot of out of school children and the legislators have not deemed it feet to criminalize it and bring legislature that will criminalize it.

Some will even go further to type "God Bless Ganduje" in this thread. I shudder when I see our youths insult and fight themselves over these politicians that cares less of them. Majority of the poor and lower class people always praise the politician. You hardly see the rich and well to do fall over themselves for these politicians.

Nigerian politicians are just comedians . See how the guy must have caused heavy traffic in that market. See the camera man the way he was videoing the drama as if it was a Nollywood scene, with " action!". So, the first lady no get ground nut oil and sachet tomatoes for house?

see how people are so excited. Ignorance is a big problem in Africa and Nigeria in general. Wike's drama apart, why do poor people in Nigeria get excited when ever they see governor or some senior government officials in their locality. You see the poor running and looking excited to see the same people that are oppressing them.

The rich hardly does that - they don't give a Bleep about the presence of a government officials. But all these streets people will just be falling over themselves to see their 'oppressor' and receive handshake and probably post the picture.

I hope the husband is not a G - guy or a Southy or Malaysia based. If you know, you know. Pete wont be happy o

Is there a way of stopping poor people or people without means to give birth to Children? I will gladly support that.

I travelled down to village and cried my hearts out seeing how rough and difficult life is for these poor kids back in the village. The miles people of my daughter and son's ages (5 and 4) trek to go to their school and how they were sweating under the current intense sun, looking so malnourished with brown hairs. I came back and looked at my little 8 months son with full thick and black hairs every where. Nutrition has a way of making an infant look healthy and mentally stable.

They were all looking underfed and alienated and looking at me for just anything. Yet you will see one wretched woman in Lagos or any city, pregnant and with three kids beside and in front waiting for Danfo driver a bus top. You will just pity those kids as some of them are just waiting to get home at that time of the night to eat whatever they have.

I deliberately told one woman I assisted to stop giving birth at 4 kids if things are this rough for her. She said that Children are gift from God and one day, one of her kids will grow and become somebody and assist her out of poverty. See her mentality of having multiple children without means of catering for them.

BlackfireX:
Life means nothing under the lifeless one

Wetin concern Buhari with this crime now. Buhari must not be blamed on everything.

Reason why I never associated with Nigerian students during my students days in UK. I mingled well and established good relationship with the Scots, those from the far east (Koreans, Mongolians and Singaporeans) and South Americans. They were always willing to share students job opportunities with me and other part time jobs.

But my Nigerian brothers, mbanu!, they will hide every good opportunity from you, thinking that you will pass them or gain more than them. We are always "competitive", albeit in a bad way. All the successes I achieved, student work- wise and academic works were due to my relationship with other nationalities.

Nigerians will only invite to their church fellowship but wont invite you when he would be going for any per-hour student job interview or opportunities.

I pity the citizen of this country. The Indians are the worst con set of people. If only we had a functional hospitals. If you see the amount Nigerians pay in Indian for medical attention, you will be shocked. We experience capital flight in this country from all angles. We go abroad to study, spending millions of dollars in acquiring foreign education, we go to Indian for medicals, spending millions, we go to South Africa for holiday and spend millions of dollars. Yet, all sectors of the country are in a mess.

Let CBN make available from WDAS the usage of FOREX approved for individuals and you will be shocked at what we spend those money on.

If only we could fix our social and physical infrastructure.

Jossyroyal1:

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If things are this competitive and bad in this our time I wonder what will befall generations to come..

Where other countries like US, CANADA GERMANY etc are making employment provisions to cater for the increasing populace and even importing workforce from other countries, 91,000 is hustling for a job of 3,200 slots under 24hrs and in 10days time it will be way above 9.1million

The handlers of this country right from precolonial till now have failed the populace... All they do is amass wealth for themselves and generations unborn at the detriment of others.

Everyone that raped, looted, ruined the destiny of this great country won't go unpublished...

People are migrating to Canada essentially for their kids and unborn generation. A lot of people doing relatively well in Nigeria are opting even for a smaller jobs in Canada just to give their kids a chance in life. The situation in this country is worrisome and I fear for this situation even more when the population must have reached 400million people without job opportunities.

Parents would no longer be able to provide for their children and their would total breakdown of order. crime, prostitution and all what not become the other of the day. Our politicians are not seeing this and there has not been any concrete step to arrest the situation.

I know a man that is so disillusioned that he went through stroke and depression because his two sons that he spent all he had to train are still unemployed 4 and 2 years after graduation, respectively. They are still unemployed as we speak, just doing one small thing or the other to survive and their parents are not happy at all. The two people they were expecting to support them at this their old age with sickness are not able, no thanks to unemployment in Nigeria.

A monumental disaster is brewing! If you can, please take advantage of the Canada federal skill migration program and get out.

Oddsman:
What I know is that a Mourinho's Man Utd will never lose 3-0 to Barcelona. Never. Honeymoon over for Solsjaer

That's what I always tell people. Mourinho knows how to pick his for this kind of difficult opponent and how to make selection for this kind of tough game. He would rather pack bus, choke the middle field and just release one man upfront. He sure knows how to play these kind of big teams

IamAlexander:
Another reason to hold our leaders accountable and demand for good governance...

You think that those who votes for the leaders we have do apply for visa to go to other countries? Majority of Nigerian voters are ignorant and cant make any informed electoral decision. They vote based on mundane things like tribe, religion and other irrelevant consideration.

The middle and upper class are in minority and most of them are the victim of failed leadership. Any unfavorable visa policies from the western government affects the middle class, who in most cases did not contribute to bringing in government in power.

The poor and the people on the street that mostly vote for all these useless leaders do not even know the consequence of their action.