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9icetoo:
The nigeran police force does not make laws.

They enforce and protect the laws enacted by the national assembly.

For vehicles, the law that controls their use and other details about them including appearance is in the road traffic act.

The road traffic act also stipulates what colours you cannot paint your car, what colour of number plate you will use, where to affix your vehicle license sticker, who to apply to for change of vehicle color.

The NPF does not make laws with regards to vehicles or properties or the likes.

Know this and know peace.

Knowledge is power my good friend. Arm yourself with it and stop encouraging these men in uniform.

I am still waiting for the law that gave the Nigerian police the right to issue and approve tinted permits.

The tinted permits issuance was stopped because it was not supposed to be in the first place.

If any state or local govt modifies it's laws on the road traffic act (as Lagos has done), it may choose to indicate clearly the conditions for obtaining a tint permit. So far, none has done anything about tint. Until they do, the police has no right under the constitution to harass you over tint permit.

If the police takes a driver to court over the tint issues, which section of the Nigerian constitution will it cite as the contravention?

Have you seen the list of offences in the road traffic act and the act that set up the FRSC and their fines?

Is tint or tint permit there?

Your guess is as good as mine

And no worry about me, I use the road regularly, south south to south east, south east to south west and south west to south east na my regular routes and I encounter all manner of policemen.

If a 5 hour delay is your justification for giving and encouraging bribes, then continue but please do not advice others to do same.

You make the roads more stressful for the rest of us by making these policemen feel entitled..

Thanks.

Hello Bros.
The law restricting tinted glass in vehicles was a military decree self-contained not as part of the road traffic laws.
I particularly think it is a useless law and should just be repealed.

Oh certainly reinforcement will not be replaced with structural steel sections in RCS since concrete almost has zero tension capacity. Rather R.C and SS can be designed together to work together as you have expatiated. I totally understand you now.

adanny01:
You actually missed the original question i was replying to.

The question was if a structural steel member can be used to replace reinforcement steel in a reinforced concrete design?

In composite design, the structural steel and reinforced concrete are independent of each other but used together to achieve a combined and greater load carrying ability.

The second picture you posted has A, B C and D composite structural members having both reinforced concrete and structural steel. All four structural members carry reinforcement steel and structural steel. What the original question asked was if the reinforcement steel could be removed and then the structural steel serves as reinforcement to the concrete.

Removing the reinforcement steel as the op suggested will reduce the composite member to an effective structural steel member since the reinforced concrete is reduced to just concrete.

Think of it this way, op asked if a car's engine can be replaced with a horse, you are saying a car can be even made to fly.

Oh damn bros. Take this keynote sir.
Depth of Structural Engineering enables a mix of Structural steel with Reinforced concrete and in fact many other materials such as acrylic, carbon fiber, glass fibre, engineered lumber... you can name the rest. There exists elaborate design codes for designing and constructing these structures e.g Eurocode 4 (BS EN 1994)
It's a more common practice than you imagine and it's called RCS - Reinforced Composite Steel. Many bridge decks are RC slabs sitting on steel girders; Slab decks in some industrial buildings compose of thin concrete layer on corrugated steel sheet which acts as permanent formwork and bears tensile stress in the slab elements; Supercolumns and sometimes driven piles consists of regular R.C column with embedded steel section or in fact concrete poured in hollow steel section.
I'm sorry for replying an old post. But I believe people can use some more knowledge in future.

adanny01:
H/I beam is called Structural Steel. Others are T, L, C, Round,Hollow, rectangular beams etc.

On the other hand, there are 4 types of steel reinforcement bars for concrete.

1. Hot rolled deformed
2. Cold worked steel
3. Mild steel plain
4. Prestressing steel

These are the only reinforcement types i know used with concrete.

What you are suggesting is subject to research. I will not advice my enemy to try it.

Reinforced Concrete Design (aka RCD) and Structural Steel Design (SSD) are 2 different branches of Civil/Structural Engineering.

They two start at the same principle during analysis but end up miles apart in design. I have never seen the two being mixed at elemental level; say a beam having both concrete and structural steel.

A Structural steel section is designed to [s]replace a reinforced Concrete member entirely[/s] whether as a column, beam or other structural member. The 2 are interchangeable but together as a single member, i have never come across.

Wood is also a structural material used to replace both reinforced concrete and structural steel. Its design is also different.

Basically, i am saying if you use structural steel, concrete is not required. If you use concrete, you must choose 1 of the 4 reinforcement bars above.

Steel design will cost you an arm and a leg while the structural steel will break the bank. Concrete and wood are far cheaper compared to steel.

Excuse me. Which building is "Ministry of communications building" in Lagos.
I suppose it's not P & T at Obalende (that houses NIPOST today).
That's not nearly anywhere in the order of 1st ten.

Cocoa House Ibadan was the first skyscraper in Africa before being overtaken and deserves the 3rd or 4th rank at 23 floors.

Stallion building (Union bank HQ) is architecturally taller taller than any other building.
Nitel building is all-winner structurally only due to its antenna spire.

mallam mum mom tot

Yemmyteespeed007:
just be very carefully with those batteries.
find a way to check dead cells so you won't mix them up. if can get voltmeter fine.

In fact one can't emphasise this enough. Here's a cheap good tester https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=v_RtSspY1Js you will find it on Aliexpress too. It is most essential that matching capicities be combined in Lithium cell assemblies.
Before testing the capacities, give each cell initial charge with a good 18650 Lithium cell charger e.g TP4056 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ggxvZ0C1l4.
Above all be careful and don't mis-do any shorting or someth. else an explosion

Neither of the jobs is in fact good. In the first job, why will the quit notice be 45 whole days...hello! In the latter, resume instantly like wtf? Not like 2 weeks to 1 month gap? Are they both one-man coys?

Explorers:
Lamborghini

This must be the Lambo Kuntash Countach... isn't it

https://www.nairaland.com/3704019/nigerians-now-get-drivers-license

ariesbull:
In the spirit of the continuous revamping of processes of public ventures and ease of making transactions which has seen the Nigerian Immigration service launch a 48-hour online visa application system for businesspersons, the Federal Road Safety Corp has introduced a new and easier way of requesting and renewing driver’s license in all the states of the federation.

The improved means which was announced by the Director-General of Bureau of Public Service, Dr Joe Abah through his Twitter handle (@DrJoeAbah) has the official costs of a driver’s license at 6,350 naira for 3 years validity and 10,450 naira for 5 years validity.

Explaining the costs and the process, Dr Joe Abah stated the price above is solely for the license and not for any other thing. In essence, the process may incur other expenses which are by no means catered for in the 6,350, and 10,450 price groups respectively.

First-time applicants are expected, as a norm, to have gone through driving school where they must have taken driving tests and issued certificates of proficiency which will allow them to apply for the license. All costs incurred during this process are not covered by the license fee.

Dr Abah explained further that it is possible for Vehicle Inspection Officers who control the issuance of driving certificates at states level to charge certain amounts on certificates, which vary per states for driving certificates, different from the license fee. The state internal revenues board may also charge certain amounts for each license. This also varies by state. Taking driving lessons and tests are the normal procedure for the procurement of a driving license. The will to fraudulently bypass this process is taken as the main reason some applicants pay touts and fake officers double the stipulated fees.

The process for renewal is similar to that of new applicants except for the tests and certificates. For renewals and new applications, motorists are to log on to www.nigeriadriverslicence.org where they would initiate their renewal and pay the appropriate fees. The data page is then to be printed and taken to the nearest FRSC office for the necessary confirmations and affirmations.

In all this, however, the interesting part is that the application can now be self-initiated, with only minor confirmations, certifications, and tests to be completed at the branches of the Federal Road Service Corp. This will not only fast-track the process of applying for a license, it blocks, to an extent, avenues for corrupt officials to extort Nigerians.


http://etimes.com.ng/2017/03/25/nigerians-can-now-apply-for-drivers-license-online/

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Best advise ever... Take this to your blessing.

gamechanger1:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with you and your 2:2; what you need is some experience, i will advise you to look for a small firm and offer your services for free. After about 6 months to one year, the response from the firms you apply to will be different. You just need to have something on your CV and in a little while you will explode beleive me. Thats the same route i went and im a senior manager in a multinational now.

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I took this path some 4yrs ago as a graduate Civil Engineer. All the skills and experiences has gotten me multiple offers.

@OP
Why don't you upload a plan so your explanations get visual.
@Structuralman was absolutely correct. It's purely architectural issue. You should have related your briefs with your design Architect.

There is absolutely no reason to doubt their submission.

Get Tuesday and Thursday GUARDIAN Newspapers weekly.
There are legit vacancy classifieds in them.
It's not compulsory you purchase them anyway, you can rapport a Vendor closeby for short term reading for cheapo.
In my experience in the last quarter I've had over 7 interviews and at least 2 offers.

Very nice @OP While iCloud is 5GB, Google Drive is 15GB free.

Dear @Op
You skipped these major tracks in your listing and they top my favourites anyway.
Cool Temper
Tokunbo
Akebaje
Africalypso
Who Man?
Mammoney
Deja A mi Gente Quedarse[Amnistia]
Fineboy for sale
200million mumu

These tracks span across 6 album releases by the Maestro himself.
Lastly I am most fascinated in his style of releasing albums in twin album batches. That's gangstar mehn..

Greatzeus:
Governance is a continuous process.Any law made by a governor is binding on incoming governors and any deal he signed on behalf of the state is binding on incoming administrations.The bauchi government has no choice but to pay cos they were sent their by the Bauchi government which has a going concern irrespective of whether the governor changes or not

NO SIR,
Executive orders are issued by Governors and are not usually automatically binding on successive administrations.
The only means of ensuring continuity is when such policies are drafted into bills, and when successfully passed and enacted by the Assembly (Legislature), hence they become Laws.
I am only wondering why a State government would bankroll Scholarship for its indigens to a Private University, of what gain to whom?

opalu:
There is no wisdom in saving thousands of houses thereby resulting in the project cost running into hundreds of billions!!
As a Civil Engineer, I understand that when you alter the alignment of the highway leading to the bridge, you automatically increase of decrease the cost of construction. In this case, I could advise the state government to reduce the length of this bridge! There are certain points of closest proximity whereby the 4th Mainland bridge could be the shortest. It is called line of best fit.

I just want to be sure contractor or financier is short-changing the government. My M.Sc project was on the Extension of the Structural Lifespan of the 3rd Mainland bridge. I discovered several troubling issues that both my professors or the professionals representing the FG on the project did not know. Truth is that the 4th Mainland doesn't have any business being that long or that costly. I am entitled to my views. No govt person should call my number!

God help Nigeria.

You're very correct sir.
Shallower depths also increase savings in bridge construction. The third mainland bridge was erected along the shallows of the lagoon.
Longer spans greatly reduce number and cost of pilings and construction time.
I feel compensation for demolitions is such a huge chunk of cost at times even.
When Kainji dam was constructed in mid sixties, the lake formed would flood the thousands inhabitants of Busa, they were compensated and relocated with a quarter of the Project cost of over $200 million.

Hmm nice and informative thread Oga @n3xt.
Oga @eisteino nailed the points head on.
Oga @mixratio I can quite relate with the political construction company (via a colleague's)

It is true many Engineers are mentored by quacks. @eisteino made a very valid point about rigorous academics involved in Civil Engineering and it begins with practice indeed.
I had got site engineer job for a site in Lekki, the client (Himself the Project Manager) was slightly eccentric and most inquisitive Electrical Engineer who took quite a few electives in Civil Engineering, studies and reads so much on construction on the Internet to prep quizes to daily bombard me and the Architect about the project WHY, WHAT IF/IS, WHY NOT, HOW IS/WILL, WHICH, WHEN.
This forced me to up my critical study like for academics to ensure no falling of hand. Answers he would get would usually form bases for the following day's quiz..
That site job was my ingress to Freelance, and I by far advanced myself professionally and intellectually than where I was coming from.
One Love brehs.

Without yet running a check on FRSC's web database, the license oozes counterfeit.
*Government driver of over twenty years, and date of first license issue is 2013, no renewals?
*The driver must have patronized touts rather than due process (those VIO and FRSC officials hijacking people intended on genuine transactions) in procuring the license and was even charged extra for the fake piece because it most likely outputs in far less time.
*Having a fake license however is not a primary cause for auto crash. Whatever goals FRSC hoped to score with this attention I can't yet understand.

UrennaNkoli:
Too bad
Who watches a thousand way to die on Sony MAX?

I would tag the episode "Hammer Head of Horror"
So unfortunate... The building must have been erected illegally within the easement of the electrical utility.

ramdris:
There is little difference between Abacha's tenure and GEJ. Both looted massively...

Bros., Abacha's loot dey learn for GEJ's

@QsFemi
The arrangement will be extremely discomforting, but not undoable though if you've got the mind.
Transport to and fro with light feeding will likely cost you close to 40k
You will also meet with MAD vehicular traffic along Lekki-Ajah Road on your return daily. This will wear out most people, adding up stress levels and causing strain on human relations and work output. Trust me it's a big deal.
Ketu however has a lot of affordable one-room accommodations (Face-me-I-face-you). Alapere is adjacent Ketu (across Ikorodu Road) and there abounds these one-room spaces, cheaper supposedly.
If you explore this, your transport will be bike fares only, journey time circa 30mins.
You may give yourself a target to upgrade to flat in a year or two.
You're already on track.
Congrats on your job bro.
Merry Christmas!

dubie92:
Please does anyone know where I can get an arduino the hardware. And the price

Search it on AliExpress.. http://www.aliexpress.com
I don't know what your proposed project is, I suggest you search "Raspberry pi", "Banana pi" and "Orange pi" as well. They're extremely cheap Single Board Computers and run Linux or Android for various creative users with lean resources and footprint.
p.s It's over two years I've bought stuff on AliExpress using my various debit cards. It's no big deal if you're gonna be doing same.

Bare...bush gets unsightly.

$24...Crap! That's how much I'll host a web for one year. I would recommend $5 to $10 instead per year and it won't break a neck.

Misleading Topic... That's NOT a Hoverboard, pls that's a Self-balancing Scooter.
Hoverboards actually levitate but these scooters simply self-balance by acceleration and deceleration.

Republlican:
Nigerians with village mentality, something you can get in amazon at $60 plus free shipping, so what's the big deal
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Oh miss... It's more like $600 actually those ain't quite cheap at all... Look closely this one's got mounted cam even, usually HD.
It's NOT just a toy.. It's a hobbyist gadget.

ironheart:
the beauty of this bridge is that it will cost less than 200k while the state government will spend 10billion naira to build a similar bridge

Bros. You're thoroughly kidding here... Just (2) 20tonnes Hardcores above is slightly around 200k depending how far the quarry is to the site.

In case no. 1 though I've encountered at least two laptops with that symptom. In both cases it happened that the users routinely swept their rug while the pc was left on same rug. I inquired since the beeping was as a result of tiny sand grains lodged in the keyboard underneath some keys. I only popped the key and dust off the particles... No replacement.

Just in case of a next time about the period it took to open up a thread for this discuss and waiting for a supposed reply (which sincerely might not come anyway).
I presume you got a smart phone on which you posted this from.
I'd rather launch Google maps on my device and locate the destination. It works for me though
#JustMyTenKobo