₦airaland Forum

igbo2011: Nigeria has one of the worst halthcare systems in the world but we have many doctors in Europea and America due to the money and the infrastrucutre. Why can't we go back home and build it?

Aza Montana: If you were abroad would you consider marrying a guy / girl from that country or you would prefer going back home to marry. Please give reasons for your answer? Also tell me what you would do when time came for you to come back home.Would you leave your spouse or return with them. Whether you are a man or a woman answer me having your gender in mind.

uchlukez: Am I d only one noticing all these pepo are igbos?

Aza Montana: was he sleeping?

MacLovington: I cannot take this babe seriously. In anoda topic she blames moral decay in all Africa on Nigeria. when Hiv was spreadlng in east africa, Nollywood was not popular then. so all those unclad ladies twisting/winding their waist suggestively 2 makosa/soukous music don't promote immorality, bah?

I beg guys no disappoint me oo. make someone make dis babe touch her toes give am proper nyansh. wey those our people from the north with long thing and burantashi? oderwize she go turn boko on naija men.

miky: hmm except for a bone marrow transplant with some serious high tech stem cell additives, there is no cure in sight!!! even developed countries are hapless,, and i doubt if just a single drug would be the answer... just like cancer you would go through various remedies spanning even months...

PhysicsQED: Well different areas had different belief systems - some were actually a bit tame as far as sacrifices and other ugly practices.

I think you'd first need to list the different belief systems among different groups, their main components and characteristics, their pros and cons, their adaptability and possible relevance to the modern day, what wisdom there was in them, what very faulty ideas they contained, and what ideas would be hard to accept as even a little plausible in modern times. Since there are a lot of different African religions and many seem quite involved, you might want to focus on a small number (at first anyway).

Also foreign religions are different. If someone had colonized us and spread some form of Buddhism among us instead of the two main religions prevalent in Africa today, it would probably be hard to argue that - for many groups of Africans - some sort of improvement wouldn't have occurred in some way.

As for the Abrahamic religions, apart from some of the decent wisdom and moral advice contained in them, they're basically myth mixed with history and philosophy to me and they impose a distorted worldview on both those who are at the core of those religions and those who are on the periphery (such as converts and descendants of recent converts). Also, why blindly follow Semitic/Middle Eastern philosophy/myth instead of developing one's own or continuing where one's ancestors left off?

But of course if people are told that they're condemned to hell if they don't follow those religions, then there's not much one can do to prevent the spread of these religions and their replacement of the old belief systems. I'm not sure whether there were any African religions that threatened hellfire if certain deities weren't followed and obeyed. Nobody wants their friends, family and (good) neighbors to go to hell so once one person is a believer of an Abrahamic religion (although I think there is no hell in Judaism, but there is paradise which only the 'righteous' can experience), many others will soon be believers. I don't think people will revert back to the old belief systems - even if they were updated to fit modern times - in significant numbers unless a drastic break with the outside world somehow occurs.

victorian: , am happy again.. and we v fixd d date.. yeah!.

brabus: At N2.5m, I can have a 2 bedroom self contain

Living Room/Dining: 12 x 22
Kitchen: 6 x 10
Master Bed: 12 x 12
Master Bath: 4 x 6
Bedroom 2: 10 x 12
Bathroom 2: 6 x 6

Basic Finish

Cost Excludes Land Purchase, Site Clearing, Omo Onile, Water, Architectural design and other miscellanous.

brabus: Don't be deceived into thinking home ownership is as simple as buying a car? It isn't. One wrong move, you're gone.

Here's a layman/ruggedman calculation of a simple 2 bedroom house to finishing stage.
Note: Finishing here is just basic.

Land: 300k

Shell Construction

1500 Blocks (foundation to roofing level): 180k
50 bags Cement (foundation/flooring/block setting excluding plastering): 90k
20 tonnes Gravel (foundation/flooring/casting): 35k
Sand: 50k
Iron rods, Ring, Binding Wire, Iron Bender etc: 40k on a paddy-paddy arrangement.
Carpentary works: 25k on a paddy-paddy arrangement.
Bricklayer: 70k on a paddy-paddy arrangement.

Roofing Woodwork

Planks (including internal/external ceiling nogging): 200k
Nail, wall belt etc: 8k
Carpentary work: 60k
Roofing sheet: ?

Windows, Doors and Burglar Proof

Aluminium Windows : 90k don't buy tower, use imported. Its cheaper.
Doors (5 local and 4 imported doors): 100k
Burglar Proof (Simple one using 12mm iron rod): 70k

Plumbing and Electricals

Toilet Seat x 3: 18k
Wash hand basin x 2: 5k
Shower fittings in the master bedroom: 15k
Pipes and other fittings: 30k
750l Overhead tank: 15k
Plumber: 15k

Electrical wires (lighting/socket): 50k
Socket and Switches (MEM): 25k
Distribution board: 5k
Cut-out/Fuse: 3k
Change Over box: 5k
Light fittings[i]normal lampholder in the rooms and kitchen, wall bracket and ceiling light in the living room and dining: 35k
Electrician workmanship: 15k on a paddy-paddy arrangement

Tiles

Kitchen backsplash on kitchen sink area, and full tiles on the floor: 15k
Bathrooms tiles in floor and shoulder level in the wet areas alone: 20k
Living Room: 25k




I got to go and pick my kid in school, more updates later on Plastering, Septic Tank, Well/Borehole, Ceiling, etc

Note: the prices above is generic as a result its non-binding. Just a guide.

Stop Talking. Start Building. Build Simple.

xhero: No bro, i went to benin 4 a wedding in december

E nice: you have blocks for brains. you are so narrow minded and i wonder what a man will find in you to want to marry you.

xhero: If u were rite infront of the car with dat cash, u just mite trigger my consideration...but till den 150k and the discussion continues

bohboh275: Na wa ooh how can we get out of this? especially when our president na fisherman. No be small thing. GOD save 9ja my country.