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psalmsjob:
Why do you say that! You mean the FBI or MI5 or Mossad or KGB cannot carryout same operation to prevent breakdown of law and order in Europe, America that you think are blessed? Maybe you guys saying all these things about Africa should read the history of these nations you cherish so much when they were about the average age of most African countries now. For instance go back in history and read what America, England, France, Russia was like economically, politically, and general living standards was when they were between 50 to 60 years as independent nations then you might understand how badly we are doing in Africa.

The DSS just carried out a professional operation by all standard that's if you understand what the rules of engagement are. The police would have broken the law if they conducted such operation but the DSS has the authority to do this.

What most of you don't understand is that without a very efficient service like this from DSS the nation will crumble. Kudos to their operatives may the blood of our hero's past protect them and the protection of God be with them. It's by all measure a dangerous task to do particular when you have to follow rules while doing it.

if I'm to follow your logic, it will take Nigeria over two hundred years to develop while following the same path by America and Britain. please biafra during it's short existence has shown we can achieve much in one generation.

kITATITA:
Same group of people who were praising DSS for the Security report on Magu are criticising the Service for the arrest of a suspect who stayed back in his office at 2am to do whatever.

so it's now a crime to be in your office by 2am with your driver and secretary? please can anybody advise me on how to migrate to Sweden before the 2019 elections? I'm dead serious.

referring to ipob as a small group is a grave mistake, revolutions have been carried out by less. we're no longer interested in the contraption called Nigeria.

smada13:
Had it been you have a full understanding of the Nigerian export n import business environment, you won't have written this cuz Kemi was actually right. The first problem Nigeria faced came from the black market, forcing the exchange rate of dollars indiscriminately through the creation of artificial scarcity so as to make exorbitant gains, and some commercial banks toed that line, offering to sell dollar to bureau de change operators instead of business people cuz of the gains they want to make.

And since that month of September 2014, the economy hasn't recovered.... All other problems compounded the debacle.

Think through before you criticize. Thanks

bureau de change is the parallel or black market. Nigeria adopted a two tier exchange rate after buhari military regime was kicked out. during his regime, possession of foreign currency carries heavy penalty including death and the result was serious dollar scarcity. a two tier exchange rate means that there must exist a parallel market in order for the exchange rate to be determined by market forces.

Whytelyon:
What's the difference between black market and bureau de change?

i thought I'm the only one confused by that.

at the rate these people are going, i won't be surprised if we have a coup d'etate before 2019.

saydfact:
Thanks for the help.... I agree, nice point.

Pls also note that the actions of 'area boys' / community youths in such volatile areas shd be considered before bringing 'foreigners' in.....

quite true.

vodutive:
then you need to go back to school to learn your economics again and while you are at it I suggest english.

while you are awaiting admission for night school, let me help you: there are no "different types of monopoly"

A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos ("alone" or "single" and πωλεῖν pōleîn ("to sell") exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity (this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few sellers dominating a market

there is nothing like "monopolistic competition", it's a misnomer...you may want to check the dictionary for that as well.

As far as Ibeto, correct me if I am wrong but Ibeto was only bagging imported cement. His problems are due to the fact that imported cement is too expensive once Dangote started. There are 5 cement manufacturers in Nigeria lafarge, CCNN, Dangote, UCC and Ashaka. Anybody else in cement is an importer.


Nonetheless Ibeto is currently setting up his own proper cement manufacturing plant...nobody is stopping him, as you can see the chinese company building Ibeto's plant for $390m is the same one that has built $9B worth of cement plants across Africa. If Dangote wanted to frustrate Frustrate Ibeto, he would have prevented them from building cement plants for anybody in Nigeria. Companies have such clauses in their contracts all the time. My compnay has a clause with some of our foreign consultants that they cannot work with anyone in Nigeria while they work for us and for 1-2 years after they leave us.

http://www.financialnigeria.com/ibeto-cement-in-390-million-deal-with-chinese-firm-news-142.html

since you have resorted to insults let's call it a day but Google monopolistic competition and know that ibeto license was suddenly withdrawn without notice or reason because he was selling below dangote price and people preferred his product claiming it stores longer than dangote not to talk of the clannish mentality, his license was only later returned by yardua after he has lost a shipload of bulk cement and suffered a stroke, he's cement business is just recently recovering from that loss.

vodutive:
1st of all go and check the meaning of monopoly. there is no industry Dangote operates in where you are have no choice but to buy his products so he is not a monopoly. I can't remember when last I bought anything Dangote. While you are checking the meaning of monopoly and since google is your friend, just google vaswani, stallion and their numerous scandals

https://www.nairaland.com/244769/1.6b-fraud-efcc-arrests-vaswani

http://247ureports.com/the-vaswani-brothers-dubious-businesses-in-nigeria/

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/senate-uncovers-n447bn-scam-in-import-duty-waivers/148289.html

o level economics explained the different types of monopoly especially under monopolistic competition, dangote is a textbook case monopoly.what about his dealing with ibeto?

vodutive:
They are not people e you want having any part of your economy, take it from me. Their atrocities in Nigeria are unbelievable. Selling expired rice, removing airbags from cars, round tripping forex, import waivers, etc etc. if there is any scandal in Nigeria they have a hand

That said every big business uses their influence to gain favour. But which industry does Dangote operate where he is the only one? Is he the only one in cement or Sugar....which?

can you substantiate your allegations? dangote is the dominant one because of government backed monopoly, only the likes of bua can compete with him now.

vodutive:
Did you try to open your own cement factory and govt said no, your own refinery? No? How about your own sugar factory?

dangote have used his contacts to frustrate his competitors in the most shameless ways, the most visible been the stallion brothers and lbeto.

let's start with the monopolizing of essential goods like cement, rice, sugar, salt etc by dangote through the selective awarding of government licenses/crony capitalism. mr liar.

AlphaStyles:
Make them pick up arms na at the end we go see who go lose.

how old are you?11?

nairaland94:
What d soldier did was wrong but i think this situation would av bn avoid if:
1) He (d diseased) obeyed d restriction on movements on d election day and
2) He hadnt tried to run when he saw d soldiers n d flag(whch i think is illegal) worsened his case too

soldiers shooting an unarmed civilian is non excusable, remember operation wetie in the then western region, with the drama playing out between tinubu and buhai,it could be the southwest again soon. call what is evil by it's name.

ShegzyB:
@saydfact,

thanks for this thread. I really appreciate It tremendously. It is really helpful cos I lately started considering building my own house. I thought my income is too small to think of building now but after reading this, im really motivated to start.
I already have a target plan sketched in MS powerpoint, it is very similar to what you posted here. I have taken what you posted and gone ahead to make changes to it with MS Paint (just the way I want it, your suggestions would also be welcomed and considered).
I have 2 plots of land each at 2 different locations in Port Harcourt. My plan is to sell 2, use the proceed to build on 1 plot and let the other plot appreciate over the coming years (future investment for my kids).

of course, the plan needs the professional's touch to bring it up to scale. One major difference now would be the cost of materials in PH compared to your case study.... it can be significant.

What do you think?..... definitely following this and if all goes to plan, I will keep you abreast of my intentions.

thanks again for sharing this. Oh, let me also state that I like the fact that you go with the professional options.... way to go, buddy.

the cost of materials is always the same but the cost of labour in ph is extremely high, the solution would be to hire a builder from let's say anambra or enugu to come with his own crew that would charge you anambra rates to work in ph.

Rayhutar:
Remember that Emir of Kano told Nigerians that the North need Lagos more than Niger Delta,saying that lagos is more important to them. The battle for control of lagos will go to the side that have more fire power. Amodu Bello also tell the North to fight until they dip koran in the Atlantic ocean of lagos.
Time will tell
Kiss the truth

even in the event of a national break up,the north would never give up Lagos as they see it as their only access to the sea through offa in present day kwara state, Google about the one mile corridor request to awolowo.

I'm always amused at the way non biafrans would carry biafran matter on their heads like gala.

ojuolu:
my colleague just said "Inflation shit" is what to expect from Aso rock next year.The question i am forced to ask is' Is it shit alone or food and shit maybe that these people in house rock do on daily basis? We want to use 409M for sensitisation? If we judiciously spend the 409m and other budgeted expenses on something meaningful and impactful, i dont think we really need any sensitisation of 409M. But come to think of it, why are these people mortgaging the future of this nation? Repairing and renovating buildings year in year out with unthinkable and incredible amount of money. The rate at which we are going, car and buses will be more than the occupant and workers in the state house.

and buhari wants to borrow more than our national foreign reserves to sponsor this budget.

yahmohy27:
Abeg shut up !

here is it.www.nairaland.com/895692/northern-states-get-13-derivation

saydfact:
contd:

No4: Super Structure (Block-works)

By super-structure we refer to all civil works above the German floor; this comprise majorly of block setting, lintel and columns.

From the design total numbers of blocks needed is calculated as:

9" Blocks = This particular design has 6" blocks used all round, however if what is preferred is 9", just multiple the factors by the price of 9" blocks as stated above.

6" Blocks (less openings) = 2000 blocks (including 10% waste)

* We'll work with the assumption that a bag of cement should set about 100 blocks.
hence: Cement needed should be approximately 20 bags

Its common practice to have your lintel tied round the external wall, while this is not equivalent to a beam (storey buildings) in bungalow it is not a bad ideal, If you're building a storey or more, I would not advice you do a lintel round the external walls because its total waste and it would never serve same purpose as a beam. Please take note.

For the purpose of this design, we would do a lintel on all external walls and the usual door, arc were required.

Volume of concrete = 1.98m3 = Approx 8 bags of cement. (If there is any place where columns should be used, it is at the terraces (entrances) and this should require an additional one bag).

Sand and Stone? Yes to sand (20 tonnes) but we should have enough granite on site to finish the project.

For the lintel its standard practice to have 4Y12 and 8mm rings at 200c/c; there are modern methods however that can save us some cash (we would not discuss those here, but you can ask to know later)

Reinforcement work: There is nothing special considering the building we're working on; see cost implication for summary thou.

Carpentry works: We need a carpenter to do the form-works to columns and lintel, that means we need woods too. (there are also methods we could use to reduce or almost eliminate this process, but conventionally we need to, we'll calculate for this work thou)

In recent years, house owners negotiate with the carpenter to provide the wood for the form works and they are charged appropriately, this is considered to be cheaper than buying your own wood, however the quality of work is by far better when new planks are used or brought by the house owner.

Whatever method you decide to use, ensure good wood is used, although you'll probably lose that power when you don't buy.

If you're buying, you could also buy half of the amount of planks needed - so you cast the first half, and use the same materials to cast the other half - labour charge might increase slightly if you don't have that bargaining power.

We'll work with a provisional sum of N50k for new woods needed in this section. (minus labour charge)


COST IMPLICATION:
Materials Needed:
* Blocks (6" = 2000pcs x N160 = N320,000
* Cement = 30 x N2350 = N70,500
* Reinforcement bars (12mm) = 25 x N1500 = N37,500 + Rings = N45,000 approx (we're spending this much because we decided to have our lintel round the structure; could be less if we choose to have it over openings only - with a slight increase in block-works thou)
* Sand: 20 Tonnes = N55,000
* Wood: N50,000 (provisional)


>> Labour: N120,000 (Bricklayer) personally, I'll pay less; its 6" block remember.
N10,000 (Iron Bender)
N20,000 (Carpenter)


GENERAL SUMMARY: (Using the highest options i.e If cost above says 30k-50k; we'll be using 50k for this section)

TOTAL MATERIAL COST: N540,500
TOTAL LABOUR COST: N150,000



No5: Roofing (Aluminum)

We'll continue from this week next week. Thanks.

nice work, please add the total to the post. the roofing and finishing part would be iinteresting.

but i thought gej have already started this payments? let me for the old thread.

[quote author=onatisi post=52155544][/quote]nice analysis but you ignored the effects of kwakwanso and atiku besides buhari has seriously sidelined many prominent northern politicians who're now bitterly outspoken against him.funny enough, you might not believe this but the north is more or less split 50/50 among Muslims and Christians, even borno state.

ddippset:
o so she's using all these? tomorrow u will not agree that Buhari was joking when he said she belonged to the kitchen. hypocrisy is worse than armed robbery.

even buhari is building a mansion right now.

onatisi:
Ibori na atiku man to the last breath.
The 2 Dons of naija politics ,if they team up with tinubu before 2019,then I must confess anything can happen

ask yourself why buhari,obasanjo,ngige and the rest of the apc are all over southeast? atiku has pocketed Peter obi,soludo and possibly tinubu,adding ibori to the setup would have serious effects, nnamdi kanu is the new bride, the geopolitics of Nigeria is been delimited.

any modest sized4~5 bedroom duplex would cost you approximately 15 million naira.

Earth2Metahuman:
the rebranding has started.

I'm not from Delta or care a bit about the man, he's an ex convict for goodness sake but on this particular case, he was setup and threads following the review of his case have made nairaland front-page.

lalasticlacla please move this to the front-page, injustice to one is injustice to all.

dubemnaija:
ike obosi is PDP and not APC

as an idemmilli man myself, i would be watching him closely, i expect him to have started his campaign vigorously by now, Willie have started with his phony and cosmetics projects while ngige have started by continuously threatening ndi anambra with apc federal might.

Dc4life:


I wonder the kind of reception the criminal will get once he arrives in his hometown. Paid youths rejoicing the chief robber has arrived?? With a welcome party organised by the state and federal government, or is he gonna be stoned and burnt to death on the streets of delta state. Fingers crossed.

he was released by a court order because he's conviction was a set up.it's illegal to call him a criminal now.

dubemnaija:
The time is now
Time for change
Time for new opportunities
Time to harness our potentials
It is Time to make the right decision
It is time for OSITA CHIDOKA 2017.

change in anambra?is he an apc candidate? sorry bro both Willie Willie and apc are bound to fail,we're waiting for a pro biafran activist like soludo.

the same God that broke the Biblical Israel into two kingdoms won't hesitate to do same to Nigeria.

that was before his wife started using 16million naira wristwatches,8million naira handbags and 1.2million naira top dress. did somebody say something about bleaching trousers wearing old women and their bleaching daughters.