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Hey People!

It's been rather too quiet with this thread.
Any show

blink182: lol, don't make me laugh. Where have you heard that bamboo scaffolding failed. Let me describe it like this, bamboo is like the egg shell-side impact will destroy it but vertical impact can do nothing. If you still don't understand then get a raw egg, lock your two palms together like you want to open cherry fruit, put the egg in there with vertical points facing the pressure points from your palm, now try crushing that egg.

OK! Thank God it's friday! that will be my assignment this weekend. LOL!

Fhemmmy: I can make call on my phone like that one, i can text and do other stuff, so the diamond will save my life if i choke on bones, what a waste of money . . .

What do you want the rich to do with their money
Hide it

You cannot hide wealth!
Why do people keep looking for more and more money

I think it's to show off more and more!
Think Exotic cars! (LOL!)

I once entered a terrible taxi in Nigeria many many years ago and I complained bitterly to the driver and the man said:
"Oga! but the car de move"!

The thing is this: the man was right! We FINALLY got to our destination! LOL!

mufutau55: Do they have RV in Nigeria or it will be exported from here abroad?
I have not seen any in Nigeria.

Hajji Mufutau

LOL! Even toothpick is imported in Nigeria!
The only things not imported are those Spyder fine houses!

Anyway, I saw a beautiful RV in Nigeria once but I suppose that will be very expensive as it was the up-market luxurious bus type.
Spyder team need something smaller, say 10 people as I understand he employs the locals as well and 'imports' only his top guys to other building sites.
You can actually convert a good Hiace bus into an RV with your welder and carpenter and some architectural skills with space management. Make it multi-functional as in: bed and storage at night and transportation means after the job!
But don't forget the mobile-toilets so that neighbours wouldn't complain of people 'doing it' in the nearby bush. LOL!

Scaffolding versus Bamboo:

You can reuse them like forever and you have reliability interms of strength and accuracy.
If someone like Segcy.Moor who is doing alot of projects can buy Scaffold set and 'rent' them
to his contractors and colleague would you not recover your money in say one year

I'm just saying because whenever I see people on very tall bamboo 'my body dey shiver'

There are a few things missing:

- How did he do it (method)
- did he do fund-raising
- was it his personal fund

- Did other corpers assist re labour or intellect (architecture, surveyor, building engineers, etc)

- What did this man study in school himself

Why all these questions
Because it will serve us no good if someone else cannot replicate this great achievement elsewhere if they have access to all the above.

It will encourage any youth-corper with same or similar 'resources' to do atleast the same or much more.

Regards!

spyder880: Can you tell me a little more about the RV? I am about to put up a wooden batcher for my boys.

RVs are mobile homes!
You can even convert a bus into an RV if you like.
You can drive it from place to place and at short notice.
It's cheaper in Nijja because you don't need the heater.

Google: RV

Believe it or not, I just did a search and found this:

Search results
Dr Evil’s Baby Farm Raided 32 Pregnant Teens Rescued
... a baby-selling business under the watch of Dr. Hyacinth Orikara of the Cross Foundation. It was the second such arrest for Dr. Orikara who claims that his clinic is an adoption agency where girls with ...

News Page - saharareporters... - Jun 2 2011 - 23:12 - 63 comments

Somebody should just search saharareporters.com directly and see for yourself.
Maybe I'm seeing double.

This man has been in the 'business' for long and was arrested before in 2011

spyder880: . No, this site will not require raft foundation, but if you call me to Lagos and give me a raft job, I will come. The soil in this part of PH is hard and firm, almost clay in nature. More about the land when we start digging. We need a borehole and a work house for my boys as soon as possible. I will open the new thread next week.

Great and Thanks.

I am sure I will be watching, please God.
N/B: You might need to buy an RV for the spyder team.
It's a mobile home with toilet/kitchen and anything you like.

Good job!

Just wondering: is bamboo cheaper than scaffolding metals

spyder880: Just left PH, discussed well with the new client and work might start anytime soon. I might be going back to PH this weekend.

Correct man!

Hope the owner will consent for you to 'share' as usual.

Hope you will be doing a 'raft foundation'there in PH. I just want to see the 'Spyder-way' of doing raft foundation that's all and I am not saying the place needs one as I don't know.

This thread causes Home-sickness!
Some of the descriptions are so vivid and I just imagine myself in Nijja!

Nostalgia!

Jamesqu: ^^^^@segcy.moore....unlike most of you I am not a builder, talk less of professional one...please don't misconstrue my statement as "enemy of progress" labeling....while it is obvious to the EVERYONE that Brabus messed up, the approach of seeking his qualification, researching his background as a computer science graduate, looking for precedence to refer to about his "atrocities" in the past could have been better handled as elders and professional people in this field.

Ask yourself this question, "is spyder 880 not aware of these old cases?"....in my own opinion, which is still completely mine, you could have conferred with him offline, like I suspect syder 880 did after the case of stolen phones...that to me would be more helpful to Brabus, to the most important person in this whole issue (jaydacorsair) and to those of us that are onlookers....I wouldn't be able to differentiate a 6" from 9" if you hit me on the head with it....

Like someone wrote, after all said and done, jaydacorsair still didn't fire the guy....despite gbogbo advise he got....why do you think that is?

I sincerely apologize if my comment(s) have made you look like enemy of progress but you could have found a more professional way to be helpful.

@jaydacorsair & spyder880, abeg give us the 411 on all that went down behind the scene, that for me is the koko!

How can you fire a guy who has your 2.1million naira
Job is not done and job done was messed up

I was there before and please tell me how
The man will be there telling you: 'please Oga forgive, it's the work of the devil'! lol

Where's the money

Re: Building A Luxury Block Of Flats: Day-to-day Updates (with pictures) by brabus(m): 8:23pm On Aug 29, 2012

Aventures: I am sure i am going to be attacked by some people for be blunt whenever i see things not comforming to engineering standard. The builder/engineer in charge of this project is taking a great chance which is absolutely not acceptable this day because of incesant collapse now are partly due to chances some people took years back. Now my observation as an a trained structural engineer on this project is that the engineer/builder/contractor as the case may be is using a wall load bearing method in building a storey building, the implication in this case is the building load is majorly borne by the block wall, meanwhile the blocks we have this days do not pass the strenght test of blocks we can use for such a method. another implication in this case is that the columns are directly protuding into the slab this can result in what we called a punching shear. Though this method is cheaper but to reduce the chances, [b]the builder here should have introduce some beams at some critical point [/b]and also engage well qualified iron bender and fixers cos waht i saw is far from a good job. I am not really out to criticise but please let learnt hw to enlightened our clients, if there budget can build bungalow let them build it and have rst of mind rather than trying to save cost at the expense of structural stability and safety.

I just had to search for this to make sure I was not seeing double.
Is it not the same Brabus who was the contractor
Why does this man continue to make money on background of making people suffer

I stand to be corrected.

Declaration of interest: NONE. I am just a former victim of this sub-contracting in the Nigerian way!
Someone give you a job after the 'sweet presentation' and pay premium, you subcontract to an incapable worker and arm yourself for whatever wahala that will follow.
The cycle continues right
They forget one very important thing: GOD DEY!!!!

diordaves: Its nice to see progress at last with this project. Time is a direct correlation to inflation: The more time you waste; the more inflation will eat into your project and wipe-out any efficiency savings. Well done to Client and contractor.

Spyder880 if we adopt your strategy of if not present on site nothing will be done; you will only buttress the fact(?) or belief that the diaspora cannot build at home and also not trusting but must be present to supervise things just like you. And again you will never grow as a business beyond the one man do all; no holiday; no break kind of business. If you will never leave a supervisor in any of your site; it means you are currently struggling to engage capable hands and it is only a matter of time before you will fall victim of the "Brabus" syndrome. How? Because the more jobs you get; the more the pressure will be on you to delegate responsibilities. You must find creative ways to engage capable hands; trust them and mentor them in the safe and confident disposition to execute project even when you are holidaying in North Pole.

Brabus did nothing wrong in leaving Lagos to PH. We all need to move away from being local champions and expand our businesses beyond our comfort zone. Brabus did nothing wrong going into the building trade IF he is a Computer Graduate. I also build and sell for third parties; self and family and run a company into building but a logistics expert not a Structural Engineer. Dangote is into haulage business but not a Mechanic. Such people are called Resource Managers. And this is where Brabus is deficient big time. Resource Management which includes human resource.

All previously known problems Brabus has encountered on NL has a lot to do with the delegation of responsibilities to less capable hands and not until one can overcome the challenge of personnel recruitment and engagement and the smart collaboration with third party contractors; one's business will continue to struggle.

Jaydacorsair going forward I can only add that in any project that's done phase by phase like contruction; its always a sound advice to strongly hesitate to dole out a sizable sum upfront. I can infer you may also be a fellow diaspora and you've violated the first law of building from diaspora: Pay AS YOU GO. The hiccups you experienced its because your project was awash with funds from the word go! Problem will always expand to the degree of funds allocated. If you hadn't allocated such wholesome amount in the first instance; Brabus wouldn't have had the economic power to delegate unwisely. Think about it. Once again well done.

How can you say Brabus did nothing wrong
How can you equate Dangote to Brabus

Dangote: check all his departments and see the caliber of qualified staff in ALL departments.
The man does NOT gamble with HIS OWN money!
He even increased the yardstick by looking for graduates to drive trucks and promises atlot of incentives, right

Brabus left Lagos to PH and he is gambling with somebody's hard-earned money and wasting his time.
Did he inform the owner that he will be subcontracting
Did he hire a qualified contractor
Was the job executed according to AGREED CONTRACT

My biggest interest will be to see what sort of financial compensation Brabus is offering the owner.

In a civilised society Brabus and supporters will be begging and NOT bragging and 'rebranding'
This is fraud, right

spyder880: Welcome Mr Brabus.

Welldone Mr Jaydacorsair, everything will be alright in the end.

I have had this type of experience before. I lost a lot of money in that project. I will blame myself for all the problems in that town, and I chose never to keep supervisors on site and operate elsewhere. I wish I will have time to recount the whole story this night, it is long and very interesting.

That is why I have been delaying my movement to Lagos. I can only work in a site if I will stay there in person. Nigeria is a strong place to be.

Wish to to tell the story this night.

Well said Spyder880!

You cannot take a project and subcontract it and expect 'everything to be fine'!
Overseas, there has to be a building insurance in place before anyone start anything.
The insurance is valid ONLY with registered/certified builders.

If you subcontract, you lose alot of money on that project and your insurance will go up on subsequent projects.
Usually, they take a project, finish it or suspend it at a stage before moving site and everything is transparent.

bokowise: Make an offer as u come for inspection.

1,537,532.81 USDollars
1.5 million dollars for the Land.
Then you have to build on it.

Could you please give explanation

Regards and Thanks

payless: He is "fighting for his people" indeed. He has another Mansion in Abuja also. What has he done in his life to build such a mansion? Where has he ever worked in his entire life to have such a house?

Is this not the same guy they said worked in Libya, Pakistan and even Afganistan terror camps

His house is nice shaa but for his background (security) what he needed would have been massive land and not have his house close to the gate.
One can 'reduce' the whole house with only one undriven car loaded with...

[quote author=Cele-pope]There is nothing like having the number 2 citizen in your wedding.It is indeed a rare opportunity.Provided the Vice President was present any other person is inconsequential.[/quote]Yes Oh!
Besides, rumour has it that NO Governor was invited so that the NGF stuff will NOT play out at the wedding!
So, it was the wedding ONLY and no NGF wahala.

Good game Tukur for not allowing them distract your son's wedding!

InvertedHammer: Building a house is one project you do not want to delegate to anyone.
It is your house, it is your money. Treat it as such.

If you cannot leave your job to check out your site, then you shouldn't be building.
But if you do, take whatever u get.

Foundation, decking, roofing need your presence.
Plastering, windows, doors, etc. you can use trusted allies as supervisors after you contract them out.

Information is key. You don't know much about buildings? Google it, use youtube, etc. you will learn a lot.
That's the power of technology.

Keep open eyes!

Interesting topic and very interesting write-up here!

My understanding is that some people cannot leave their jobs even for one day because they will lose alot of money!
Some people live so far away from Nigeria that cost of traveling home is so so much!
Some people are happy to pay a little extra (not 60%) and I heard some say 15% more than 'standard' to get their jobs done!

Wahala here is: what is the standard
why will someone just decide to buy inferior materials
Is this because some people fear neither God nor man

Anyway, I have been in all these wahala situations and they have NOT stopped me from continuing to love my Nigeria and I will continue to invest there anytime God blesses me with money (earned from hard-work!)

My current method is:
- to trust a professional, (DEGREE, I will see your projects, you MUST still be working NOW!)
- pay adequate fees,
- monitor via emails and this has been enough besides, I don't have time. ONLY the professional is incharge and no friends, no families. Anybody you see on-site is working on that site under the professional.
I know a man who was 'monitoring' his wife and she was doing stuff right infront of his nose but he couldn't see.lol
- build within 6months (avoids grammar of Oga price increased!)

So far so good, I thank God.

I leave the rest to God!
If the 'professional' f.cks up, I move on. God DEY!

991: GEJ till 2019

After that NORTH from 2020 to 2027

then SouthEast from 2028 to 2035

then North...

logica: Hahahaha...Land of the Free indeed. So, just 7 years after Nigeria's "independence", I could not go to USA to go marry Oyinbo?

Now you know why people classified as 'coloured' especially Blacks feel very very bad when people they classify as 'successful black or coloured men or women' go on to marry people classified as 'white' even these days!

The White did not want 'contamination' so if they want to marry why not marry the 'ordinary or masses' amongst the coloured

People should just follow the work of some builders here like SEGCY.MOOR and SPIDER and a few other guys I cannot remember now.
I think there are very good guys on this forum who know what they are doing and we don't all have to go to Julius Berger.

jaydacorsair: Omo the guy package me like oyibo lol.....

Before paying him 2.1 million naira why you no ask us

Brabus tell you make you no tell us abi

Well, sorry shaa.

Brabus is so smooth! lol

Jamesqu: But you have to agree, brabus has presentation sha...It's the presentation that the client fell for...packaging!

Compare that with the hand scribbled rubbish the other contractor gave...

It's like Brabus modus operadum is to misquote and 'sweet-mouth' and get mobilisation fees and wahala go start.
This seems to be a recurring development.
Whenever there's some confusion, the guy go land and 'sweet-mouth' under-quote and tell the contractor DO NOT tell anyone as I am just doing you a favour. If you tell then I'm out and you lose! lol

Where is the Brabus
where's this guy's money
will you use your mobilisation money and correct the wrongs

Jamesqu: ^^^^sorry sir :-( :-!

I'm not surprised!
Very soon you will hear: 'that was the instruction of the owner'

All this Abracadabra and too much grammar no be the way.
Self respite and dignity is far better than all the millions of naira!

Omen100: Are you so blind that you can't read between the line were the pilot said that such payment can alsways be paid later & that he has being piloting for 37years & 7years in Nigeria airspace? what are even the problems with all you buttlickers? must president jonathan always have his way?

After the man retires you will go to his village and collect the money abi
Ol'boy, part of civilisation is to pay your bills ON TIME! (not later)

Toktee: Governor babangida aliyu and Rotimi Ameachi remain the pdp governors that can look Jonathan eyeball to eyeball and tell him the truth,unlike errand boys like Akpabio,suswan even jonah jang as old as he is,he still indulged in public lies,wonder when he will change,maybe in his grave

it it NOT the job of the govornors to 'look GEJ in the eyeball and...'
that is the job of the house of reps and senators and the judiciary!

Babangida was chairman of the northern forum that produced Jang. He is a traitor! greed
Amaechi was elected governor and not senate president.
Let them work according to their 'pay-grade'!

A driver should concentrate and drive while you let the pilot to do his or her own job.

Bros, let's leave this matter.

dayokanu: In the US remuneration wise Medicine easily doubles or triples petroleum engineering.

I don't think you need any internship to practice medicine.

Pass your Usmle steps get some observerships and externship experience get your application in. And you might Just be lucky and match.

Your residency years you would be making like 40-50k a yr

After residency you can go up to 200k a year which a petroleum engineer with 15yrs experience might not make.

If you now top it fellowship you can be making $400k a yr.

Depending on your specialisation

Traveling most times are to offshore rigs which are very boring

Don't forget to mention that Doctors have to pay tax, insurance and other expenses on this money before someone reading your post go collapse!
Student loan and pay-back to people who sustained you during internship etc or looking after your wife/husband who has had to borrow....

annoymous: Is there any such thing as prosthetic medicine. That's bioENGineering, and trust me - I've checked it out - its as good as starting over.

Theres nothing engineering offers in terms of financial reward that Medicine cant ultimately match or at least almost match - so it ain't for pecuniary reasons

Good you read my post!

BioEngineering is better than what you were talking about because here you build on your current foundation (medicine).
Besides: it depends on where you look:
Prosthetic medicine in Europe is totally different from America. (maybe non-existent in Nigeria).
Try Germany, I know a guy there smiling to the bank!

Besides: Medicine has evolved so much so that you can specialize in so many things particularly abroad.

You sound like you got the money so why not invest it in your program? You will enjoy it if you have money.
If you did 'pathology' or 'internship' once then you can pass that way again provided you're not stopping there.

Good-luck!

I need to know a few things before I can make a suggestion:

1- who sponsored you through medical school
2- who is going sponsor you through 5 years engineering course
3- what about all the specialties in medicine: prosthetic medicine (no blood here), orthopaedic (bone and blood)
radiology (no blood), psychiatry, public health they're so many and if you're abroad...
4- what do you want from engineering salary

Bros,it seems you're a rich kid. Get your folks to send you abroad and go specialise and start making good money!
Engineering etc = zombie around.
Make progress and build on your foundation (medicine which you spent a minimum of 6 years to study)