₦airaland Forum

Stoplying:
I think you don't really understand the subject matter, I got my degrees in France and they were sent to me through the mail at the address of my choosing. I also didn't have to sign a document to prove I collected it. But it is a genuine official document, not a "diploma" which I had printed in a random shop out there.
Nobody is talking about tinubu signing a document to prove he collected the diploma, people are talking about the fact tinubu walked into q random shop and had them print a "diploma" for him. That is a fake diploma.

Because America’s law allows it. How is that an offense?

You can check validgrad.com

Validgrad.com is an example of one of those ‘shops’ as you have said, which you can enter into in America and create your authentic diploma replacement.

And that’s the reason CSU may not sign it because they didn’t issue it.

Let’s leave the remaining matter for court to judge whether such can be termed as forged or it.

We shouldn’t be sentimental on every issues. That’s why some people are hearth-broken when the tide turns against them because they have a fixation to/on/in an outcome.

sulaak:
But Nigeria is unproductive; the country produces nothing and at the same time, liberalised it markets which has opened the country to dumping of foreign goods. Even the USA has strict control over key industries such as AI, semiconductors and Genetic Engr,

Dunlop Tyre which was established in Nigeria in 1961, was forced to relocate to Ghana due to low tariffs for imported tyres now, Nigeria doesn't have a single local tyre factory.

Tinubu World Bank policies will ultimately fail.

Due to the advent of internet, our current generation are obsessed with importing basic things.

In the late 70s and early 80s, you hardly thought of imported things - not because we were fully industrial but we were contented.

World Bank, leave us alone. Na our economy. No be yours.

Our own case is different because of our peculiarities. Please forget about macro or micro economic policies.

Make we do trial and error small. We go get am.

Na so una dey tele-guide us since 1970s so tey we dey value our Naira every week. Now our Naira don enter trench. We dey look for ways to bring am out.

Jail the wheyrhey.

He is one of the reasons these oyinbos see us a bad race.

BafanaBafana:
Did Tinubu present a fake document to Inec? That's the question?
CSU are trying to cover Tinubu from a safe angle. Kole werk!

One point we are missing is this, bereaucratic principles
dictataes you keep a duplicate copy for any documents you issue out. CSU said they don't have any certificate for Tinubu. The original one they made was given to someone else.
How can you give a certificate of your student to someone else?

That bureaucracy, I guess, is in Nigeria but not in the US.

On the day I went to collect by certificate at a business school I attended here in Europe, the office manager told me to keep my certificate well because the school does not have other copy.
I was not even asked to sign any document to show that I collected it.

Why some of us are still confused about this is because of cultural differences.

I am not a fan of APC or Tinubu but I doubt if Atiku can rely on his findings at CSU to get Tinubu nailed.

May be Atiku should take the advice of Farooq, by probing further on Tinubu’s other academic qualifications.

p3timobi:
I wonder why Rauf Aregbesola did when he was there

Routine.

Just to sign documents, pay salaries, and steal.
They lack ideas to turn things around for the masses.

Angelfrost:
Watch how they will claim to have spent Billions there... Place that weed will overgrow in less than 2 years.

Exactly.

These are hospitals that should have been built through public services and volunteers.

What they claimed they spent on this may be able to build 10 standard hospital.

I should have contacted Works Ministry to organize a design context among Imo State Architecture students across their unis and polytechnics and let panel of judges, consisting of Imo State experienced architects, builders, civil and structural engineers, quantity surveyors, etc choose the best designs that meet all criteria the government wants in such hospital.

He should use public procurement system and call volunteers to come and work on all such projects and having their names written in Imo’s Hall of Fame.

This will, drastically, reduce cost of construction of government amenities and infrastructure but they won’t want to do that because of what they will steal and be spending after they leave office.

There are rubber-stamp Works commissioners, Auditor Generals and Accountant Generals across our government secretariats.

All they know is to help the governor perfect how to steal and assist in cooking the books because of their own token.

One can imagine Aregbesola said he built 11 mega secondary schools for N11billion.

A closer analysis and object valuation of each school was not more than N150million.

Go and check the schools now. Over 75% of them are not used and have been overgrown by weeds.

creativehubb:
Government should impose import ceilings on goods we don't really need, we must drastically reduce our imports. If we don't demand dollars, it's value will drop. QED.

That’s what Afghanistan is doing. The country even banned its neighboring country’s Rupee. No Dollar, Euro, GBP etc spending. They don’t even allow domiciliary accounts and their currency is coming stronger against the USD and other currencies.

It may likely climb higher, once the US releases Afghan’s foreign reserve confiscated during Taliban’s take over in 2021.

It’s good we ban having domiciliary accounts in Nigeria.
All foreign payment transactions should be done through official forex windows in our bank.

https://www.ft.com/content/d16675fa-8882-46bb-a31a-216e1626f507

They have sc.ammed us.

Won ti gba wa.

How much did this village clinic cost o?

See photo filter effects.

Building worwor. No medical equipments. All I seee na one short-time room.

Who did we offend sef?

Paraman:
The federal government have been giving out license for people to build refineries fore more than 15 years now.

More than 19 individual/firms have been giving license to build refineries since Buhari first tenure, where are the refineries?

Since GEJ’s tenure.

No more free foods in Freetown.

Owó ti fé’é tán lówó àwon olè marketers.

Gbengais:
It is boldly written in the disposition that the registrar disowned the Inec certificate.. the question was asked severally
In different ways and he said he cannot authenticate the Inec certificate... when did we start allowing fake news on Nairaland? Let
Me me guess, we now have retards as MODs? What’s all this ffs

Which deposition, please? The one riddled with errors being circulated online?

That’s why I don’t believe most things they copy and paste.

Why are the same newspapers who carried one false news yesterday changing their mouths today?
I guess they too followed the bandwagons of not verifying docs before being published. They always want to be the first to break news - wether f.ake or genuine.

What will N2m do?

Is it for agbado, eba, garri, or cassava? 😁😁.

DMerciful:
Read!

I have read it. What you attached don’t address the point at hand.

More so, the document is not authentic.

Look at how they wrote AWARE as AWE WEAR.

This is just cross examination, fabricated by sone unscrupulous elements amongst us.

Please point me to the original source of the document. The source has to be authentic. Don’t just screenshot or screen-grab an excerpt which we don’t know it’s source.

DMerciful:
Read the deposition. They said third parties produce fake certificates!

Supreme Court must disqualify Tinubu, but Nigerians will not wait for Supreme Court

That’s why I said, to Americans and the university that Tinubu attended, such document is not deemed to be forged.

To we Nigerians, we may think otherwise.

So let’s wait and see how Atiku proves his case and see how the court interprets such situation and gives judgement.

DMerciful:
This is the bunkum APC is sharing to you guys. Go and read the deposition, Tinubu presented a forged certificate to INEC and the CSU confirmed it

This is not what APC said. It is what’s in the documents released and the depositions made by the university’s representative.

It could look forged, since I guess it’s from a third part vendor but the university, where he graduated, and the American education system do not have any objection to Tinubu getting the certificate elsewhere. So far the transcript was not tampered with, I feel the university was/is fine with it.

What is now left is to wait to see whether our Appeal court will accept it.

DMerciful:
Now explain why they say they cannot authenticate the certificate Tinubu presented to INEC because its not from them.

You think this your few lines is what they deposit for over 6hrs?

May be I should help you explain in a way you would understand better.

You see in the US, once you graduate from their university, they print just only ONE copy of your certificate. They do not make copies or copy and put in your records (file).

When you go and collect the certificate, they give you the only one they have and you don’t write anything like ORIGINAL COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT COLLECTED BY ME, the way we right here.

So anytime you lost or misplace your certificate and go back to your university to request for a copy of the OLD one you lost, the university can’t give you the exact copy because they don’t keep duplicate copy.

It is either you get the latest design of the certificate which the school is using currently, which may be different from the type of design you got years ago when you collected your first and only certificate OR YOU APPROACH A THIRD PARTY COMPANY IN AMERICA WHICH WILL GENERATE ANOTHER CERTIFICATE FOR YOU. This one from a third party company or vendor may not be 100% similar to the first one you got from your university.

The practice of approaching a third party vendor to get this type of certificate IS ALLOWED BY AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM. It is only your academic transcript that you can’t get from 3rd party and that’s the only record your university recognizes and can print and reprint for you anytime you go.

Your university sees or gives credence to ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPTS than CERTIFICATE or DIPLOMA (as it is being called in the US).

I guess what TINUBU did was that: he approached a third party vendor to get another certificate so that he can submit it to our own INEC since that’s what we prefer to see here as Tinubu cannot go back to the university and get another copy.

Africa remains the untapped natural resources. There is money and huge opportunities in Africa.

The west has already developed and it’s reaching saturation point, in terms of business opportunities. All they are just doing there is routine of running their already established business empire.

But you see Africa, enh, babaa gold mine if one has money and better business sense.

Plus the law is very very relaxed and outdated or non-existent. So you can do so many things and get away with it and that’s the freedom human being wants.

michlins:
3500 is factory price. When you add transportion(1100/l of diesel) plus warehousing and profit, expect around 4200 to 4500.


Someone made an in depth analysis of the whole thing

The report said ‘ex-factory’ price.

n3xt:
Please don’t forget to share the link with me. I want to do window shopping.

enquiries@nexthomebuilders.ng

Ok. Good morning.

n3xt:
We will check it out! I have one cordless circular saw with Ni-CD that I’m planning to convert to lithium soon.

It’s a game changer on multi-floor projects. You know how it feels when you work with cordless tools.

If I have my way, I want to go cordless and brushless 💯

Cordless tools are great for on-site jobs. It’s convenient. Just invest in original battery power systems with high volts and amps.

n3xt:
Can you let me into some of the stuffs you do in woodworking? I get challenged and inspired seeing what others are doing.

I am an all-rounder in woodworking.
Throw up any topic or issues and we can talk it over and consult, where it’s beyond us.

n3xt:
Even though I have the passion, I do not have the energy and time and my joiner, Mukaila is too rustic and layback. He’s not hungry at all!

Let me just be juggling fatherhood and construction biz jejely.

There are more ambitious guys out there than Mukaila.
Your destiny is in your hands. Not in his hands.

Be ambitious too and set higher targets for yourself and your business.

This is the right time to build your business empire. You would be able to negotiate an all-on-one contract and you would win big.

n3xt:
Very correct! 💯

Another business unit can even spin-off from the ones you currently have, due to having great tool. You can start making solid doors, cabinets, floors, cornice (coving), etc. for your clients.

I hope you see my tools soon and how I juggle accounting/finance with woodworking.

n3xt:
The only thing I don’t have are the things I really don’t need.

I have a mitre saw (though dated now as it always sit down most times) and those Malaysian circular saws can do nice crosscuts as well.

They’re not as bad as projected though. I think investing in a good blade really helped those toys come out with smooth cutting with outstanding accuracy.

Total is really doing great. I pick their rotary hammer drill recently and it performed excellently well. I was just eating concrete with finesse like shortbread.

It’s nice having you around bro!

Thanks for sharing 🙏


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On Mafell and Festool, I’d read them up and see if I can add them to my tool bank.

You are welcome bro.
It’s when you try great tools that you would know the ones you have haven’t been good enough.
Mafell and Festool are the industry leader but they are super expensive - both their battery-powered and electric.

FEGEITOK:
How much can you get me a Mitre saw and a table saw?
If you were to import instead of buying locally.

I am thinking Bosch Mitre saw but what do you recommend?

I have nearly everything else except those two.

It depends on the brand you want and the diameter of the saw and the motor (whether brushed or brushless). Brushless is better but may be expensive.

Also, do you want new or Tokunbo?

I can send you two sites where you can check for either new or used ones. Then you can decide which one you want and from their, we will take it further.

Bosch is good in Africa but it’s not a great brand in Europe when it comes to power tools.
But for the level of job you do, it could still serve you.
I could see you are handling higher projects, from your display. You need to leave job sites faster so that you can go to other projects.

If you want to know more about how powerful and useful many power tools are before you buy, always watch this YouTuber man called PROJECT FARM.

He has nearly 3million subscribers and he tests a lot of power tools for people to see whether they are fit for purpose or not or whether they are worth the price.

Watching his tests would help you make informed decisions on so many work tools you want to buy.

I love to see your (and other people’s companies) grow into household name for better.
Just be transparent enough and invest in tools. Working on site would be like child’s play and you would win most contracts.

n3xt:
You’re right!

You don’t get much of Dewalt and Makitas here. Not even from big outlets.

I’m gradually upgrading my tools though.
We do those Malaysian toys because they’re good enough to get the job done. It’s not like we are running a sawmill.


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Anyone with pictures of original Dewalt 235mm Circular Saw and Dewalt Planer being used on their construction project should please share with me 🌚

I want to learn

I know some shops in Isale Eko where you can get it.
If you prefer to import them, I can get them for you at lower cost while you arrange to pay for shipment.

Job site saws like Hiti too are rugged. You can consider buying original Bosch (blue color, not green).

I didn’t see Mitre saw among your display. You need one for crosscuts and bevels because I doubt if those old Flex and Total circular saws can bevel or score.

Mafell and Festool would be too expensive, I would have said you invest in them. They will serve you for decades.

With the level your work is going, precision, efficiency, and higher productivity are key. Your image is most essential.

Good you don’t display these tools for clients to see.

All the best bro.

n3xt:
Godisgreatest1

Abeg do you have idea of where I can get a 300kg gantry hoist. I’m currently working at a level where it’s no longer easy moving materials up.

You know it’s part of our tradition to automate processes in NextHome.

T for thanks.

No offense meant bro. These are 14th century tools.

Good you don’t parade such out here and to serious clients, bro.

Even the Makita drill/driver is old (brushed version) and Makita doesn’t manufacture its batteries again. Two fairly used of it are been sold at €25 here (with batteries).

The Total is a Malaysian toy and that sander is long gone.

Good you invest in tools like original Dewalt, Makita, Milwaukee etc.

Not only in auto spares. It’s in nearly everything we import from Asia and MiddleEast.

I saw a Makita mitre saw being sold as Makute, in Nigeria.

Original Makita of such saw, in Europe, could cost an average of N650,000 (without shipping) but this Makute is being sold for N70,000.

Rely on that Makute 😁, at your own risk.

There are lots of knock-off power tools being sold as ‘original’ in Nigeria. Our regulatory bodies need to step up their games on prohibiting importation of substandard products.

Nigerians are just loosing money on these products but we don’t know.

Where an original is to last at least 7 years, fake ones don’t last 2 years.

AkinPhysicist:
Out of shame 0k0r0s will not show face on this thread.

😁😁😂😂 for wia? Dem don go hide.

Obi’s investment of Anambra’s money is worth next to nothing - Soludo.

Beer 🍺 drunkards.

wirinet:
It's not importation that's making us lazy, it's government policies, lack of a manufacturing base, lack of critical infrastructure and lack of benign fiscal and monetary policy that making us lazy.
You cannot be hard working with an official interest rate of 19% (actual interest rate is about 28%). And to make matters worse the banks will start demanding repayment the very month you took the loan, and the longest term you for repayment is 24 months. In 24 months most legitimate businesses have not started turning up a profit. If a bank borrows you N10 million and expects you to pay back with interest within one year, the best option is trading - trading imported goods.

Also corruption by government agencies and multiple taxation is a huge disincentive to manufacturing.

Then there is the almighty NEPA (power), you cannot manufacture profitably (in comparison to importation) when petrol is N600, diesel is N850.

You could have some points. Even if government hands down to us all those you mentioned, Nigerians still won’t patronize home made products. You don’t know the level of degeneration things have gone.

I beige we can still tame and reverse the ills of we look inward.

Go and read about how Japan was able to conquer something similar to this and became world power today. Also read how Cuba has able to survive through all sanctions meted to her by western powers. Today, Cuba is majorly self-reliant.

I repeat: Nigerians are getting lazy by the day. The earlier we sit up and start managing the little we have to produce little by little, the earlier we will get out of this mess.

Go towards Apapa and fly drone from there through Iganmu, Ijora, Costain, Eric Moore, Alaba Festac, Isolo, Oshodi, Tradefair towards Agbara etc Everywhere is filled with shipping containers. 95% of things in those containers are junks that’s we can manufacture locally here even with the little electricity we have and the high interest rates you mentioned.

Datedoboy:
I had mentioned it in my previous post that it will get to NGN1,000 per Usd if drastic measures are not taken.

Again, I am saying it here that it will get to 2,000 before 2025 if we don't take these drastic measures.

These measures will make the Naira appreciate to at most NGN500 to a dollar in the short term and in the long term, NGN100

What are these measures? I will explain further but note that this is not about Exports.
Even if we export more than China today, the NGN will still decline further. How do i know this?

If you do your research, you will discover that Nigeria as at 2023, exported and earned more FX more than several countries and yet the currencies of these countries are stronger than the Naira.

So don't let anyone sell the idea that our economy is import dependent that is why our currency is falling. Even if we ban all imports and continue with (or increase) our current export, the Naira won't appreciate

A simple question you can answer is, when we banned rice importation, did our currency stop falling? No !!! So sit back as we take a dive to 4 policies which WILL make the Naira appreciate.

1. All domiciliary accounts must be closed.
Can a Canadian or US bank open Naira account for you? No! So why do we open Dom. Accounts for our citizens ? Now you may say what of imports? How do we pay for our goods in foreign currencies?

The answer is simple. Credit your account in Naira while your bank pays the USD or GBP equivalent on your behalf at official rate determined by CBN

2. Ban deposits and withdrawals in foreign currencies and convert all inflows including export proceeds in foreign currencies to Naira (again at official rate determined by CBN).

You don't need to stop people who sell at black market or hoard the USD. Let those who hoard the dollar keep it but once they know that after a said date, you can't deposit or hold your physical dollar, they will be forced to go to the bank to deposit it. Anyone found with physical hard currencies after the deadline, must be arrested

This policy alone will make the NGN appreciate to maximum of NGN600 after first two weeks of implementation and will mop up hidden/excess dollar in the system.

This policy will also discourage buying usd from the black market because there won't be any physical dollar to buy.

3. Increase interest rate for fixed Naira deposits to a minimum of 10%. This will encourage saving in Nigeria. Let a Naira 4 Naira scheme, replace the previous Naira 4 dollar scheme.

4. Increase interest rates on foreign currency deposits to 40% of principal amount if option 1 is not possible and convert all inflows to NGN without the option of collecting foreign currencies at the counter. You can't spend USD or GBP in Nigeria so why do you want to collect your inflows in foreign currencies?
This policy indirectly stops the black market arbitrage.

As the Government has floated the Naira, if these measures are not put in place, NGN2,000 to a dollar won't be surprising to me.

I am just a concerned Nigerian and i am open to constructive criticism.

You are right, to a greater extent.

We cannot, 100%, rule out importation as part of the reasons for Naira’s free fall.

People keep these dom accounts to fuel their penchant for imported products.

You can imagine Nigerians looking for dollar to import China made shoe racks, plastic juice extractors, handkerchief etc.

I expect CBN to also increase the list of products on import-prohibition list while they implement all your suggestions.

Importation is making us to be lazy, by the day.