Saw that coming.

Recently my family and I moved to Abuja and getting accommodation has been a serious issue. Not that there is no accommodation, however, the cost is something else. We tried Orozo, a good one-bedroom flat goes for 400k, total package over 500k, which is very high for a one bedroom flat in such location. We tried one-man-village after Maraba going to Masaka, same story. My budget was even 250 to 300k.

Omo, I am frustrated already.

Funny enough, the houses that can go for 300k won't have running water, ancient houses that you will have to spend money on to renovate.

And you see those Abuja agents, most of them will have a special place in hell. They have shown me shege.

Up until now, we have not been able to secure an apartment.

Personally, I don't normally take SERAP seriously. They behave like NLC

The reason why we have always been loosing best hands in this country. You see why some of those players don't want to give their all?

Eight years ago? How is this going to be proven?

I fell for that fourth point when I was getting my car. I eventually bought the car higher than the market price with series of repairs. I don learn my lesson the hard way.

Presegs:
Thanks for the mention! !!

Go for the Honda Civic because it surpasses the corolla in many aspects.

Just that its resale value is not like that of the corolla.



This is the mistake most Nigerians make.

All Hondas don't have the leg pull issue, and Honda civic doesn't pull legs. But, say, Honda accords from 2003 to 2008 had the issue that often happens due to poor maintenance of Nigerians plus our bad roads.

They fixed the issue in higher models of Honda accords.

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Please how true is this?

Kayberg:
Some neighbours are from the pits of Hell.
They raise false alarms and still very sure they're right.
Silly people everywhere.

You can say that again, the most silly neighbour in my house tells everyone on the street that I am a yahoo boy.

Why, because I am young and making it.

And him, na the wife dey feed am.

I have always wished he call the police on me one day, so that he can look stupid.

yanabasee2:
Used to be that neighbor until I became the president of my estate....


And I've been able to build a good relationship with lots of people In different works of life....


Having a neighbor and knowing them is one thing that we should try to work towards ... because some of your helpers are just your neighbor....

That's true. But how do you handle those ones that behave anyhow ?

Skyfornia:
I have one neighbour that I don't talk with...she is a dirty type, all my efforts to make her stop littering the flat with her trash has not yielded any positive result.

So I decided to stay away from her..

Mine is a neighbour that behaves as he is the landlord, he wants to be lord over everyone. He expect you to greet him first, if you dont, he won't greet you, and if you do, he will answer you as if he is the one feeding you.

Any small thing he wants to off shirt and start fighting...

Me I done bone am. I don't greet him whenever I see him, since he doesn't respect himself.

Only you will be fighting everyone in the compound and will not want to contribute to anything that involves money in the house.

Mind you, na the wife be the bread winner o.

1. You probably don’t see them a lot. And when you see them, you can never decide if greeting them is worth the trouble.
It’s natural to be friendly with your neighbour but since that’s hardly the case for you, you can never decide if you should greet them or not. You don’t want to come off as rude, but you also don’t want them to think you’re desperate for a relationship with them. This dilemma lasts only for a few weeks, though. After a while, your default mood switches to “Why can’t they also greet me first?”

2. Moving your cars for each other is always an awkward moment
If you and your neighbour don’t talk, then the plan is to keep your interactions to a minimum. Guess what can stand in the way of that? Cars.
It’s always stressful thinking about knocking on their door to tell them that their car is blocking your way out. Sometimes, you even consider leaving your car at home that day. And all of this because you’re not fans of speaking with each other. Tough!

3. They will never help you turn your gen off when NEPA brings light
Living alongside each other is almost like walking on eggshells, so nobody wants to cross their lane. But there’s a downside to this: they will hardly help with basic things like turning your gen off when there’s light. But can you blame them?

4. Also, you have to live with the fact that you can’t ask for help that requires you to go into their apartment
You know this, so you have the essentials in your apartment and replace them when you need to. You swear you don’t need them until life comes for you.

Think about this: It’s 10 p.m., and they just took light. Then you tried to put on the gen, and it didn’t come on. Usually, you would take your L and go to sleep. However, your devices are low and you have a deadline to beat.

Your neighbour’s gen is running, but you can’t ask to charge your devices at their place because you’re convinced that they hate you.

5. Being in a WhatsApp group with them is the worst thing ever
You may not have any form of relationship with your neighbour, but chances are that you’re in a WhatsApp group with them. You live in the same building after all. The days the WhatsApp chat comes alive are literally the worst for you, especially if it’s about a repair or maintenance issue. This may not be a problem if you’re not an overthinker. But if you are, you obsess about every text sent to the group and wonder if there is a sub aimed at you somewhere in there.

6. When they help you with something, you question their intentions
Deep down, you know it’s not that deep. But there is a tiny voice in your head screaming at you and trying to convince you they are up to no good.

Some neighbours are mad though, no matter how much you want to live peaceably with them, they are just truckloads of trouble.

https://www.zikoko.com/life/6-stressful-things-about-living-with-a-neighbour-you-dont-talk-to/

Make i no lie, I go dey remember the shape of the yam if i won chop am, omo, i no go fit chop am.

Some clients can be difficult to work for. I got a link to help a client install CCTV, I regretted working for that client.

Words flying out of her mouth can set North and South Korea on fire.

She go blast you for the most irrelevant thing. If you try to explain yourself, she go tell you say you are not professional.

Omo, peace of mind better pass working for some people o. They will give you high blood pressure.

Madam, as you dey see me dey go so, I no dey come back here again.

Ganiyat Ganiyu

Nigerian singer, Olarenwaju Fasasi popularly known as Sound Sultan is dead.
Sound Sultan was diagnosed with throat cancer.

The deceased had been undergoing chemotherapy in a hospital in the United States of America.

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This statement is coming from a Saint

I have this stupid neighbor that is a fool at forty, he does nothing, na the wife dey be the main source of income, yet he will be behaving as if he feeds everyone in the compound, if you see am greet am, he will answer as if he was the one who gave you the eba that you are last night.

If we need to fix anything in the compound, he will categorically say it's none of his business, and when the 3 flats contribute to fix it, he will use it. (Eg, the pumping machine).

He fights around with the most stupid reason, he tried it with me sometimes ago, me give am premium para...

The guy na he goat, am planning on moving out of the house.... The guy is a jealous being that is not always happy when he sees that things are moving well for someone. He begins to throw tantrum.

musicproducer:


yh request for it and tell u will need ur 4 to 6 months Tennant housing agreement to seek for another accommodation if he does not like it he should go to court.

I am saving this comment.

yomi007k:


I contructed my well around march for 95k.

Lack of water can be discomforting.

And the truth is that even if you buy a new pumping machine , it will only take a few years before the same problems start all over.

Honestly, I do not like water problem, that's why I always try to personally fix it, even when other the other crazy neighbor refuses to contribute, I do not mind, I just want to see water, that's my concern.

musicproducer:
collect ur quick notice which is a 6 month extension

You mean i can request for a quick notice? I think that will be nice. That will buy me time, just needed a month or two, so that my wife can deliver and we move out.

yomi007k:
Quite lenghty.

In summary, how much have you guys spent in fixing the moribound pumping machine?


This is the reason I first constructed a well in my building because , I just cant shout.

Personally, between December to January alone, i have spent almost 20k, aside others that I can't even remember right now. Last month alone, another 10k.

This write-up is lengthy…. Ignore and grammatical blunder.

April this year made it two years in the apartment I live in. Within these two years, different things have happened, ranging from living with a crazy tenant that will not want to contribute anything if we need to fix anything in the compound that is for general use (Example is the pumping machine). The same neighbor fighting everything in sight and also having an in-mature caretaker that is never straight forward.
Before moving into the compound in 2019, they have not been using the pumping machine in the house, because it was faulty, and the same tenant that has always refused to contribute to any repair was the reason why the other flats refused to fix it for almost a year. But when I paid to move in, I insisted that the machine must be replaced, else I will take back my money.

Funny enough, the caretaker did not replace the machine, but went ahead to do some shabby repair on it, when I told him why did he do that, he was like saying He did not have any agreement with me to buy a new pump. I was so surprised, and confused at the same time, because this was something we agreed upon before I even transferred money to you. I have moved in some of my things already, so there seems to be nothing that I can do, I just let it go hoping that the pumping machine will work fine. Lo and behold, less than a month, the machine stopped working.

I and the other neighbors fixed the pump from our own pocket (excluding the one that always refuse to contribute to anything). Again, less than few weeks the pump had another issue. Thank God for the other neighbor down stairs. I and the neighbor fixed it again. Funny enough, the caretaker is the plumber that normally comes to fix it, we will fix it with our money and still pay him for his services, with serious harassment from him, that we must pay him, which we always do. He claims the pumping machine is our responsibility and not his.
Three months before the expiration of my rent last year, I called the caretaker, and I told that him I want to pay 70% up front of my next rent, because when my rent will expire, my wife will be due for delivery and all the money on me then will be channeled to that purpose, in order to avoid a situation whereby I will be owing you, have this 70% first, and when this current one expires in 3 months, to pay the remaining 30% for this new one will be very easy for me. He agreed and I made the payment. That was around January 2020.

In March that same year, COVID-19 lockdown started (we all know what happened during that period). Funny enough, when it was May, I received a message from him that he is expecting the 30% balance of my new house rent. I was very surprised, I told him that, I have not been going to work, where does he expect me to get the money from and besides, you already have 70% with you, I am literally not owing you any month, so just calm down. Immediately when the lockdown was relaxed, I got called up for a job up North, the money I was paid from the job, I used it to balance up around August that year.

Going back to the pump machine issue, around December 2020, the pump developed another fault, this time around, those other tenant that we do fix it together were complaining of them being low with cash because of the effect of the COVID-19 things. So, I called the caretaker to come and check and let me know what the problem is, He came, he checked and told me the price that he will use in fixing it, I transferred the money to him personally, He came, he claimed to have fixed it, but the machine refuses to work. He will promise to come today, tomorrow and keep posting me, it got to a point I was feed up, I had to call another plumber who came to fix it, and I had to pay him another money for the job. I didn’t hear anything from the caretaker, he didn’t even care to know if we are able to use water or not. He never cared.

Around February this year, the coil of the pump got burnt, somehow, he got to hear about it, because I have already called another plumber to come and check, I guessed the crazy neighbor told him, he requested that the pump should be returned that he wants to fix it himself, I brought back the pump. Though I lambasted him for what he did in December, He was apologizing and it seems there was nothing I could do since he has apologized. He told us the price of fixing it.

Again, the crazy neighbor was already shouting that there is none of his business with fixing of the machine, that he is not paying anything. The caretaker was making threats that he was going to disconnect his flat from the water source. But I told him that there is no need for that, that’s his problem. (I have once posted a story about the crazy tenant here on nairaland before). Just let him be. I don’t want trouble. I paid the money that he was supposed to pay so that we can quickly fix the pump without delay, the other two flats contributed to fix it except him.

My concern is for the pump to be fixed, because I have a pregnant wife living upstairs, which I can’t allow her to begin to carry bucket on her head looking for water when am not at home. For that period that the pump was faulty, I am always carrying rubber on my head fetching water from the nearby house, because I can’t allow my wife to do that due to her condition. Even without her condition, I cannot allow that.
Again, this caretaker was now stalling the work after we have collected the machine from the rewinder. And keeps ignoring my call. One day I was so feed up and I called him and he picked up and I so much lambasted him. I told him that he has constantly shown the behavior of someone that cannot be trusted with any business dealings. Because aside the pump issue, there are other issues that has come up in time past in the house that he will say A today and tomorrow he will tell you that he didn’t say that.

Now, on the 4th of May, 2021, I received a call from him, He was like when am I going to see him, I said see you about what? He said for my house rent that it has expired 3 days ago. I told him that I will call him. He now made a statement that “I SHOULD BE FAST ABOUT THAT, AND IF I WANT TO PACK OUT NI, I SHOULD LET HIM KNOW AND I SHOULD DO THAT QUICKLY”. The call and the statement were surprising to me, because I have not been owing house rent, my rent just got expired 3 days ago, and I never mentioned that I was not paying. I was not even a troublesome tenant and you are making such statement?

I and my wife having been weight our options on moving out before now, if not for that, I would have even paid the rent before the expiration of the rent. But we weren’t ready because my wife is heavy, and her due date is ending of this month (we lost the first baby last year during delivery). I do not want to stress her with packing out because of her condition and besides, the money I have right now with me is solely for her delivery, because I do not want a situation whereby, I will be out of cash during her delivery.

The truth is now I have really made up my mind to move out, but I need some little time to sort out my delivery first. Which is just in few weeks and after then, we can move out, I do not want to pay a whole year rent, because when I am moving out, I won’t be able to get my money back from him, he is not a straightforward person. Please how do I handle the situation? I am not too versed with tenancy law, so that I won’t make mistake.

You can as well point out my mistakes, so I won't repeat that again.

Thanks.

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Out of the counted charges there, the sin of that school is negligence, and their negligence resulted to the other charges, they have to face the music for that.

Is it that the teachers in question also molested the boy sexually? because I don't seems to understand people's comment here, they seems to take it as if those teachers also molested the boy sexually.


Those officials sin here is negligence, their negligence caused all these, because I see no reason why a teacher will starve a student because he is bedwetting. O wrong naw. Therefore, they should face the music.

Stay strong man. RIP to the father.

Since the doctor has been captured, then that one na simple matter naw, unmask him, reveal his identity and they should ensure that he tell them who sent him. In as much is not a scripted invasion.

pretteemee:
Honestly,its on this matter that have come to realize that a lot of naira land members are so dumb....As in Seun just gather senseless people here.

A boy was allegedly molested by some students of a school owned by a church and the little boy did well by helping his mum and the public mention the names of the perpetrators. Now in stead of his mother to hold on to the names of the students that were mentioned,fish them and their parents out and drag them on the Internet she decides to go for an Innocent elderly man who isn't even in charge of the said school.
She has never for once call out the parents of the pupils that molested her child but if an ant or a cockroach comes close to her she will be shouting kumuyi kumuyi,someone that doesn't even have her time.
Isn't it obvious that there's more to these whole thing.

If this woman really wants justice like she claims why is she not talking about Shalom and the other guys her son mentioned?

Why is she not heading to the court?

From logical reasoning and keeping sentiment and emotions away, I feel this whole thing is a plan to rubbish the church and the name of Christ and I know that most of you here on naira land that are making devilish comments about kumuyi or other pastors,you all are Anti Christians clothed in your wonderful monikers.

I also know someone will make the usual comment that I'm a Deeper life that is why I'm saying this, well I don't have to be a deeper life to reason normal.
It really doesn't cost anything to speak honestly.

I have been reading comments here, I must say you hit the nail on the head, I have been wondering the way some people reason too, as if they don't have the mind of their own to think things straight.

Thanks for this comment, more wisdom.

Note: I no be Deeper life member, before them go start to attack me too.

Those saying cover up, I don't understand, is that the medical personnel should report what they didn't see ni. I no come understand o.

I really regretted not marrying her early enough...

I would have been fixing aeroplane by now, but am an ICT Administrator now.

Seems Plateau strikers are not fit today.

Reading this brought back old memory of same that was done to me in that same Alaba, the same format, they had to force me to take another sound system, which any time I see, I feel so bad, eventually I had to sell it so as to have a peace of mind