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EgunMogaji2:
My first born. Full ride at Stanford.

Definitely didn’t get the brains from me but like you said I slaved to provide the enabling environment.

Egun please don't fool us or me, about not getting the brain from you. Every time you write I have to go get my dictionary to look for definition of your words.

MMotimo:
Se NYU wa keere ni? I get excited when I hear/see kids of Nigerian immigrants doing well because that is proof of what our people can achieve, given the right environment. Plus you know you will never have to chase or beg anyone to give your child admission or a job or any other advantage.

America rewards talent and all we need to do is set them on the right path to eat the good of the land.

That same year 25 of them from different families in our community graduated from top universities here, to mention a few MIT, STANDFORD, JOHN HOPHKINS, CORNELL, DELOITTE, AND DUKE. Nigerian kids are among if not more educated in terms of higher degrees today. Their siblings maintain the tempo as well. We as parents don't have money to give them, one thing we owe them is good upbring and education

MMotimo:
Yesterday, someone mentioned that 4 of his kids graduated from an Ivy League, Columbia university and there are 2 others currently in university? At the minimum, assuming the remaining 2 are not in an Ivy League, that is 67% of your kids attending one of America’s topmost universities.

It was a post I read fleetingly as I was in and out of the thread, replying to mentions and I didn’t get a chance to respond to it. Well, better late than never. I thought it was Kopell but I checked his post history and apparently not. To that gentleman, my arms are raised, I hail you, I give honour to whom is due. In my neck of the woods, those are the kinda things we recognize as “doings.” Awon omo ire bi custard, wonderful kids like custard that make your head swell. Those are the kinds of achievements that impress me, that I seek - kids that make their parents proud and make a difference in their generation. Whoever that Oga is, your feat is marvellous in my sight. You are doing extremely well

Some would say shebi it’s the kids that had the intellect to attend and graduate an Ivy League school but I say to parents: Never underestimate the power of the upbringing, the motivation, the direction that you give your children and the conditions you create to help them succeed. May our offspring make us proud, may we have the resources to help them achieve their purpose. Well done, Sir!

2 Graduate from Columbia 4 years, 2 more to go @ NYU. Not easy Alhamdulilahi we thank God so far for the journey.

mufutau55:
Imran, you have been scammed for real.
This is Wunmi aka @shopclue who has been duping people internationally and married to Carl Allen, a Black American and scammed him too.
You have enter one chance o. But you contact a Lawyer and get an injuction on that her house, or go to her project with Areaboys and remove the whole house roof including the wood.
Damn. I really feel bad for you. She is a serial scammer since 2013.

Hajji M.

No be since @bold, SINCE FAR BACK 2008

mufutau55:
Thank you Ma'am, I will surely like to read that.
I can surely relate to everything you have written from the experience of being un USA for many decades.
After more than 40 years of service, I just fully retired, so I have been thru some good and bad times. Thank you.

Hajji M.

Hummmmmm see @ bold don't let it shock you ooooo, for those young mind that want to ban ban, you want roll with big boys don't drink water and break the glass cup. You most put the sweat and had work and be blessed

sonnie10:
Oga, were you expecting to see "us" at the romance thread?

Hahahah lol to old for that

sonnie10:
Being outdated should be my least worry. That golden palace that king Solomon built is now know as archaeological findings. Every house will be outdated some day. Take for example my current house, just yesterday I was reading one of Spyder880 posts and I discovered he is now doing 10 couches of block before lintel instead 9. My house which is still in progress has 9 (already outdated) even before completion.

I will always use myself as example. The reason I bought a house in an upscale neighborhood in the US is for my kids to get access to the best rated elementary school. Rich neighborhoods have good school system and you can't send your kids to school outside your zip code school zone. Some ignorant people would think it about showing off, and most don't even know this secret about US housing and how it influences your children's foundational education.

For for some ignorant Nigerians, everything is about show off! God forbid. You would hear them gossip about you, "e go carry big house, how much be him salary self?" Those are the people you would see their children ending up in prison due to bad associations developed from poor neighborhood under preforming schools.

The statistic for graduation rates and those for kids that moved on to four year colleges form every zip code are there for everyone to check.

You can't know these things from sidelines.

Its is well. I only have 2 left to graduate NYU. 2 graduate Colombia 4 years ago

spyder880:
The truth is that if I had more money when I was building my house, I would have built a bigger building, because people expect us to build bigger to accommodate other family members. I am even surprised I am saying this, me, an advocate of financial prudence and someone who saved almost all my salary while working and who invested heavily back then.

But when it comes to building houses, my people dont spare anything to make a statement, especially those who suffered to make their money, especially those who grew up in hardship and the whole family slept in one room for many years, that big building is what will change the narrative, and it stays till I am long gone. I am also interested in my peace of mind while alive, I wont like to be thrown around because theirs no room for me to find solace at old age.

But I must also advice people not to rush into building village homes with investment funds, there are funds that must be invested for residual income before venturing into village retirement homes. Failure to invest before building private retirement homes will lead one to retire early, and sometimes into financial problems.

I don't care if my children maintain the house or even return to it, I care about myself for now, and the statement i made when i can, i care about the unlimited joy i feel whenever i wake up from this village house, because that's the real house i have, others could go but this is where i hope to return to, to die in, to be buried around and maybe to be hovering there afterwards (if there's anything like that)

My father built a house, I left it and built mine, if my children dont build theirs, it's their own concern, not mine. In the place I come from, people periodically bring their children home to the village to show them around. Show them the farms, the streams, the local markets and other village customs.

I will forever support honesty and integrity in all business and in everything in life, I can never support people doing crime either in this country or abroad to build houses in Nigeria.

This is deep my oga @ the top, you cant hide ooo by living conservative lifestyle. People will speak for you when you're fully loaded in many cases, expect for those with material lifestyle noise syndrome.

sonnie10:
100% supported. All I owe my children is good upbringing and education. They have to work for money too. Any other addition I would leave is just a bonus.
If you come from a place where even livestock sellers, yam (from the benue)sellers, mgbuka motor parts sellers, cement seller, chemist store owner, bakery owners have all built massive structures and you, a graduate with Phd living abroad for over 20 years comes home to build a 2 bedroom bungalow, its better not to even build and remain a squatter in your fathers house. Don't bring shame to family.

Nobody is going to take money to heaven. If you don't enjoy your money while still alive, when are you going to enjoy it?

Well said@ The bonus thing hummmmm? Who gave you assurance it will not be outdated when your children grow up. I give example of myself the, properties my dad left for us I never step my feet in them for over 30 years what does that tell you. Proper education is what you own your children not inheritance.

MMotimo:
Unpopular opinion (?):

These unhealthy rivalries, ego drives and need to show off are some of the major causes of the current state of our morals as a nation and it is not restricted to the people of the SE alone. I can’t speak for the north because I don’t know enough northerners to make a judgment but these mindsets permeate the whole of southern Nigeria from the Yorubas of the SW, all across our country’s southern regions. Please note the use of the word “average “ in my write up below, I’d hate to see any hasty responses that ignored that qualifier.

These “ideologies “ are one of the reasons overseas prisons, from Asia to Europe to the USA are flooded with Kayodes, Nosas, Emekas and all manner of southerners. The journey to riches at all costs with no boundaries. The average southerner desires wealth , first and foremost to prove that they have arrived. Personal utility/benefit of the riches is secondary. Part of human development is mental development. I’m old fashioned myself in a lot of ways but when it comes to finance, I allow little room for sentiments. Speaking to the SE aspirations already mentioned by several people, it’s interesting that we have a number of Igbo friends, professionals with good jobs, great incomes with the financial resources to build mansions in the village yet have no desire to do such but are content with donating money to fund infrastructure that benefit the villagers. I will admit the ones we are close with were largely born and bred in Lagos so maybe that’s the difference in thinking. It’s easier to embrace certain ideologies in adulthood if they were already instilled from birth if you were born in the region. You more or less grow up with people with the same mindsets and rub minds with them. Similar to the SW asoebi, owambe crew for whom life is “party after party.” If your social circle is filled with people of a certain mindset, chances are high that you would mirror their thinking and aspirations.

In the old days, it was possible to achieve certain inspirations without crime but in Naija of 2022 with an economy that is all but comatose at this point, a person would still be panting and sweating to build white elephant projects in a village of 1500 people or less while some other southerners just want the money so that they can throw multi million naira parties with KWAM1 and Sunny Ade on stage as they celebrate 10th, 20th, 50th death anniversaries of loved ones or so they can buy an AMG G63 they are not capable of maintaining or make it rain dorime at the clubs so they can be hailed. Is it any wonder our morals as a country is in the pits when we have high end desires that cannot be supported with economic realities? Realistically, what are the chances of the average person in these groups, in Nigeria, being able to achieve such misplaced priorities through honest labor with zero criminal acts? Again, I say average. I know there is a very tiny minority that is capable of achieving without resorting to crime.

Abroad, even if they are not into crime, they are leveraged (in debt) to their eyeballs. Credit cards are maxed out, multiple loans are being serviced, little or no savings compared to incomes earned. They even patronize pay day loan lenders that charge astronomical rates because they are living pay cheque to pay cheque. With a take home pay of USD10k or more after deductions, some cannot save USD1k a month and I’m not exaggerating. It’s called “doing pass yasef.” You no fit drink water drop cup. For some, that is all on top of working 2/3 jobs to make ends meet and complete the village white elephant project back home or fund the next owambe at Eko Hotels. Even in the abroad, they are the “house poor “ Nigerians with the biggest houses that are mortgaged to the hilt, occasionally even unable to make mortgage payments. Cars nko? Multiple leased luxury vehicles to keep up with the appearance of wealth. At Naija parties, they are the braggarts, always ready to make grandiose announcements that may not even be rooted in fact. Picture people like N3xt. With no prompting, they announce all these assets that they own but they won’t say pim about their debts. Ladies and gentlemen, the koko is the net worth (assets-liabilities). That is the real wealth if you are looking to measure. Some of these people have declared person bankruptcy one or more times in the US because their debt load became uncontrollable but their people in Naija have no idea.

I’m going to touch on the swimming pool idea that has become so popular now with detached homes. I can understand pools in apartment buildings that have the population and hopefully traffic and maintenance funds (service fees) to keep them viable but these tiny, soak away sized “swimming pools “ in detached homes are the ones that baffle. Note, I’m not talking about the ones you find in homes that have plenty land to accommodate beta pools. If you cannot afford enough land to accommodate the house and a proper-sized pool, why must you build a pool that is going to end up breeding mosquitoes and drowning lizards? To start with, it takes money to maintain those pools and that is on top of the house’s maintenance. Half the time, these pools are not even built to international standards but we like to copy international ideas. The average Nigerian’s idea of relaxing has nothing to do with wearing swimming trunks or being in a pool. It’s strictly isiewu/peppered snails/nkwobi/small chops, etc with alcohol but we build a pool as a status symbol even if it ends up in disrepair within a few months.

Gbosa LBT, sister you to much, facts remains same oooo. It looks like people are competing with themselves in our society showing off wealth without sweat, that's what's driving criminality on social media especially between the youth, may the lord help us out of this calamity.

obinnanwozuzu:
Please which is cheaper? This roofing or the other common type of roofing?

And also which is better?

Wow this flat roof finishing make me thinking to change mine mind, I'm not in a flat roof fanclub. Brave to the builder .

sonnie10:
There is mantra in Igboland known as Aku ruo ulo. Any true rich Igbo that does not build a well befitting house in his village is considered an “efulefu” .
Are these people not successful in all standards?
From Peter Obi, Obi Cubana, E money, Orji Uzo, Hope Uzodima, Emmenike, Jowe Zaza, Fkavor, kanayo o Kanayo, Dr Godwin M,
Check the internet for pictures of their houses.?

It is a tradition. One that should be encouraged. Let some of the wealth come home.

Hummmm, it is well. Kwara people do the same not with the same meaning though, years ago I was in kwara, I saw this edifice I thought it was a government building when I made enquiries I'm told is one industrialist business man house. After he pass his children are living abroad, they try to donate it to local government to used it as their secretary, they rejected it due to fear of maintenance bill, the garden alone has 7 people working full time on it lawn. The place is a town on its own, maybe one university will pick it to better use as campus that is the only thing I thought it can be used for in my opinion.

EgunMogaji2:
Yes o.

Na inside one village I dey in the outskirts of Ibadan. I no want Lekki, VGC prices.

There are villages inside lekki / ibeju too, the prices is what is difficult ooooo. You cant get one if you want stop, deceiving us lol

Dennis3D:
A shot of how far we have come... Decking leveling from the exterior done. Doing lintel from the interior parts now.

You this boy with speed and perfection sha, I fine its difficult to believe its happened under 5 days, you have proof me wrong many times. GOOD JOB

michlins:
Do you know that I can do this for you right?

Yes I just got the picture from Pinterest but I am confident that I can replicate it to 95%

Yes you can, I personally design something similar few years ago. You never know someone may like the design. see attached

Born2conquer:
I swear, igbos build to make a statement, it's more like MANSION or nothing.

Reverse is the case for the yorubas, yorubas kinda hate attracting attention through their builds, simple design outside with good interior and that's all, you can confirm this with the houses in lekki and VI and other prime locations in south west.

Average successful yorubas: Bungalows
Successful yorubas: Simple Duplex
Average successful igbos building in the east: GIGANTIC MANSION
Successful Igbos: GIGANTIC MANSION WITH PILLARS AND SPACIOUS COMPOUND.

IGBO KWENU

Smile, I like the way you define it' in categories, you're right about average successful igbos displaying wealth that they have arrived with high roof mansion. Very very successful Igbos with money bags, I mean money big money NEVER display their wealth they play safe underground. I knew some of them that have branches in Nigeria, have main companies in China where they don't display wealth. Do you guys know the card reader that Nigeria used for election is made by Igbo man form Anambra. You don't what to know how much Nigeria government pay him for that software. Yoruba man hummmm, don't know about simple duplex. I remember 2011 when I went to Abuja Agis office with my friend for land documents, on our way back to his office I saw people sharing money in his office, he work's with one of the big real-estate agent. When I asked my friend in the office he get 250k from his boss, I then asked for mine they kuku give me 50k that day after sharing, I then ask what is going with this money sharing they told me Mike Adenuga just brought and paid them 1billon to buy his neighbor house to make room for his garage, imagine that.

EgunMogaji2:
Oga mi, I don’t fully understand Sir. My WhatsApp is I my signature.

Thanks.

Looking for recommendations for a Finish Carpenter. For doors, cabinets, etc Sorry, I mean this your request for the job

flexyonline:
Good afternoon folks. Please who knows where I can get these home theatre chairs at a price that will not send me back to the village? Any o pointers will be appreciated

You're funny, village people no need those kinds of theater chairs to bring one back to village. They see through the wall. May Almighty contenting to protect us from them ni oo

EgunMogaji2:
Looking for recommendations for a Finish Carpenter. For doors, cabinets, etc

How far Egun, get the best premium at minimum cost baba. Your plastering guys did justice to those wall. Chart me up as soon you get them.

Greenarrow01:
Lol me and you reason the same thing and types it the same time

God has answered his prayers, maybe we are angel God sent to him, don't give your money to those fake pastors and alfa's in process of getting spiritual help ooo. Your God is as close as vein of your neck to you, continue praying, God will deliver you from the bondage. We type the message alike and posted exactly at 12:53 from different parts of the world. Brabus, please seek spiritual help, the lord will keep protecting you. This is one to many, it's a serious matter. Please pay attention to it.

n3xt:
I kuku understand everyone have one or the other issues they manage on their project and I also know when it’s a Brabus issue, it’s always an epic series with lots of intriguing cues and moments.

Everyone wants to have a bite and we end up blowing things out of proportion.
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Sincerely I no get money, that’s why I’m unable to commit to a date or figure BUT I’ll definitely do a refund.

What a shame, isn't this what you could have told your client before this issue became a subject of debate for close to 6 months now. This is a big lesson for other contractors to learn, money is not easy to raise. When clients send you money please try to manage it prudent manner. Brabus you understand very well as a computer science student that the internet does NOT forgive and forget with this additional damage, you must understand what this issue has done to your reputation trying to proof a point. You wasted your productive hours and many other mediating on this matter. Please check yourself out. Are sure your village people are not behind you bros, this does not make any sense to me.

rotecch77:
Good morning house.
Here is the mediation update about the construction saga btw mr brabus and somehow which I stand as mediator btw them to see how the matter can be solved amicably.

As I said last time that I will update the house, here we go, straight to the point in short paragraph

The mediation start on 28th/ 29th of dec 2021.
After much time on call coupled with sms and whatzap messages with mr brabus.
Like 20min, 40min, 30min and so so, the last time we talk on phone was about 80min (1;20min) straight talk, ( I almost get hear problem that day)
I also reached MR somehow” through messages etc.

I tried to get two things done.
- the amount due to pay back
-time to pay back

On the amount due to pay back, MR brabus said he can ONLY pay N1m back based on his own calculation against N2m QS valuation .

Now after much discussion with him (brabus) he said he will do something by adding to the N1m when his head cool down, plus when meet with his cleint one in one to run mind together ( I suggested this to him)

Let me say I won this part of battle halve way.

Now to the second one “ time to pay the initial 1m, after another serious discussion MR brabus said the said N1m and is not ready at the time we discussed this ( 6th of January) and I asked when bcs its urgent and he promised to get back to me on the time, but up till now he as not get back to me, I message him but no reply yet.

I always report our discussion to mr “somehow” he do also follow up.

At the moment NO penny as been paid ( I don’t achieved my aim fully on this matter, do I called it failed mediation, hmm No bcs I I gain some I loss some. But generally I get something about life on this matter.

So as it’s now I don’t know if the client ( mr somehow will use another form to retrieve his money back or still go back to mediation. As I will take a small break about the matter and leave it for the cleint to decide.

I thanks MR somehow for his gentility and understanding toward the matter.
I also thanks MR Brabus for his time also, I will not forget others good people here who want the matter to be settled amicably.

Thank you all for your time.

Rotech.

Thank you Rotech, this is SAD, one to many. WHY? . People are making fortune here without any drama. Honesty is a secret to success in life.

mufutau55:
I have always use Johnytec and have recommended them to several people here. The Metcopo that I mentioned that never leaked was corrugated by them. But I will still never use Metcopo again o, due to the fear of leakage regardless of who corrugated it.
Thanks.

Hajji M.

I'm one of their satsified customer. I used them 7 and 5 years ago back to back same metcopo 0.55 thickness never have any issue till date

visaland:
Omo I don't just know what to do!! I have though as fircthe salaries. It's 30k each I pay them. Is that too much

Bros think about it, you don't need overhead lability as a new business, ability for them make you x3 of their salary is what your business needs to survive. You don't need PHD in business to know that. Question, how much do you pay yourself as owner? Do you work along with your staffs or they do all the job? My humble advised or opinion to you as new business, do the job and pay yourself that amount reinvest your profit in to the business to rebuild your capital base.

spyder880:
Yes sir. The ground space covered by this building is massive, this floor space can contain 2 different duplexes of 6 bedrooms without any issues. So the foundation of this house can finance the foundation of 2 duplexes.

On the walls, note that the whole walls were reinforced with columns and lintels enough to build a proper duplex, consider the cost of the very high walls and the extra reinforcement as the walls are going up extraordinarily high, that's the cost of half a decking there in the very high walls.

The parapet and roofing of their house can well do the roofing of 2 different duplexes. The space covered with roofing wood and roofing tiles is so much.

Perhaps, the item that costs a lot of money in this house was the scaffolding. To reach up to nearly 6 meters up the walls to work inside or outside this building needed very strong scaffolding to make it safe for people to balance and work.

Plastering this house was a huge challenge, the first team ran away with my money, Togolese boys. I had to bring my Enugu team to come complete this plastering. This is not a normal bungalow at all. This house can complete one and a half duplexes with good change in the pocket.

Amazing hummmmm. @ bold are the challenging's that gives you wisdom to manage very well. Well-done sir

Bakin3:
So, we want to further deepen the slight knowledge you have about the workings of the Bio Digester Sewage System. First of all, the system is an onsite waste management technology that works by providing an enclosed environment for the natural decomposition of human solid waste. Now, how does the system performs this function?

The system performs this function through these 3 steps:

Rapid Separation of solid waste from wastewater.

Aerobic Decomposition of the solid waste

Bio-filtration of the wastewater.

Upon entry of the solid waste and wastewater (flush water) into the small constructed tank, the solid waste rapidly separates from the wastewater. Once that happens, the solid waste will be aerobically decomposed. What that means is, living organisms, which use oxygen, feed on the organic matter. Then, the last stage of the process is the bio-filtration of the wastewater (flush water). The wastewater is filtered through layers of activated charcoal, activated chippings. The wastewater is filtered just so it won't contaminate your groundwater. Upon filtration, it seeps into the ground.


Now, we have had people told or rather asked us that how could the small sized tank not filled up within the shortest possible time. The answer to this question is straightforward, clear-cut. The answer is, IT'S NOT A STORAGE TANK! IT'S A REACTOR TANK. The tank doesn't store waste like the conventional tank does. The tank merely holds the waste for decomposition to take place. And, that's ALL!

Thank you for educating us about this system again, my biggest concern is blockage and decomposed materials that may find its way into the system. I've seen many people wrote about how to maintain the system in case the composed material gets into the system. Many of them wrote about not using chemicals that will kill all the bacteria that are feeding on the feces. Can you please enlighten us more about the subject matter. Continue to come here once in a while and display your work. This issue is a subject of debate few weeks ago which a lot of people show interest in.

Dennis3D:
Hey bro, does this make your action right here?

No need to say anything. let people do the fight for you, its disgusting and disrespectful. What an desperate man, I don't see any responsible person that will entrust him with there hard earned money. Create your own identity, display your work to convince people with ability competence like everyone else on your own page and be patient your time will come.

KolaShangOne:
And another one.. ft Engr Dmj

Nice, smart, simple design. Good job

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smallsmall:
Chinese, just like all people, have a criminal tendency but it is only in Nigeria that they are assured of zero consequences, for their criminal acts.
You think all those Loans they give Nigeria are completely devoid fo kick-backs?
The Chinese are collaborating with "Criminal and Evil" Nigerian business men.

True talk, they can't do its alone

n3xt:
Smiles.

I can’t say you’re robbed. Neither can I say you got a good deal until I see the thickness of what was done for you.

If I should go with the thickness of the POP in one of my build, I think you got a very good deal using 95 bags to cover 166sqm. We did 16mm thickness on the project.

The thicker, the better the POP.

16 mm is the ideal thickness for POP you can go up to 20mm if you have deep pocket, anything below NOT good enough, its may fell off in case of vibration