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TRIXIA:
EVERYONE BE CAREFUL OF THIS MAN
You're a conman and a fraud. Shameful 419

THIS MAN is a confirmed Scammer!!!!!! Avoid him by all means possible.

I don't know how to deceive people. When he just started I gave good commendation.

HE IS INTO scamming and defrauding people. He took 50k for Scuml certificate.

After about 3 months. Different stories. I had to contact someone else who told me I should have received an email from efcc scuml office. After I asked Mr. Gbenga for a copy of the email. He claimed to have used my email.
If he used my email, how come no communication regarding that in my spam or Inbox.
How come you're telling me to expect certificate that was not completed.

It hurts me that I wasted my money and most especially my time.

This hurts me. Really hurts




You're a conman and a fraud

Sorry about your experience with him.
It’ll be difficult to believe that he intentionally did this to you.
He’s been on here for some years and no one has ever accused him of such.
I contacted him anonymously when I needed to register my NGO and he did that seamlessly. He facilitated CAC registration for vendors here and I didn’t read about anyone called him out.
I believe that you can both reach out to each and resolve this amicably.
Engineer Gbenga, pls do the needful.

I was informed there and then.

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Phineky:
Please guys/everybody. Una good evening oo.
Abeg I have a question.

Some weeks back I bought like 30 bags of cement @ 5800 from a seller and the money has been paid in full. Secondly I told the seller to keep those cement for me in his shop which means that I have not gone to carry the cement because I have not gotten other materials ( like gravel etc) that I would need on the site. So the cements are still with the seller.

Now the price of cement has gone up, hope the man won't tell me to add more money b4 I go carry my cement oo
I am asking so that I go know whether I have right to display madness in his shop if the man try to act funny or I should just keep my cool.
Please I need response on this from professionals in the house.

Nobody can predict what this seller will do. Individual integrity and greediness plays a major role.
I had similar experience with a seller back in 2015 when the price of cement went up from 1,150 to 1,350 naira. The greedy lady insisted that I must pay the difference. Meanwhile, a seller in Abeokuta clearly wrote on his invoice that the existing price would have 90 days validity period upon full payment and receipt issued.

bnanny:
He will pay little and pay the rest on installment over many years.
It's goes like this. He will help the auto dealer on advertising as ambassador and the price will be leasing or half, he can decide to pay for installment for many years or return it anytime he is unable to meet up with installment agreement.

Don't let skit maker or so called celebrities fool u, they're just packaging most of them are so broke more than ordinary man on the street. That's why their true color shows when they're not in limelight. They start begging for money. Fake life.

Na wa. You don see them finish.

Vocals:
Not challenging your knowledge, but Abeokuta is sub divided into basement and sedimentary formations, so it was quite early for you conclude for Abeokuta generally.

Places like ; laderin, woke soyinka forest, oke mosan, lukosi, some selected areas of obada, etc. are not recommendable for air compressed rig drill. But it's possible to execute only that the it would be shallow; less than 60meters in most cases and its prone to collapsing of hole except you opt in for case down, which would still result in limited water supply quantity and quality (mud sediment are very likely to be seen time to time, and you would barely get clear water.(and you would expend more in terms of cost), and also the well & storage tanks would need frequent maintenance.

You are right. Each location in Abeokuta has to be addressed in a unique way.
Deep well would probably be the best option in ijeun Titun, which is near to laderin.
I was advised against drilling borehole in laderin. I went for deep well.
Obada alone has different terrain. I did deep well but failed. Had to do boreholes in two different locations.

sonnie10:
My cousin is a real estate attorney in Surulere. Let me know is you need his contact. Very trustworthy.
But I don’t know whether or not he has your specifications right now.

I’ll need his contact. Thank you sir.

Hello house, do we have in-house person actively building and selling apartments in Lagos?

Any link to a trusted developer currently building to sell 2bedroom apartments within reasonable distances to city center will also be of help.

May I know how much can be considered a fair deal for a newly built 2 bedroom apartment in surulere?

BrickDevo:
Am short of words, I have nothing to say but apologies and patience from Rawgold300,

True he engaged me, I visited his site, we video called and exchanged Ideas with him, the engagement was to produce interior and exterior designs for his building.

I first designed the kitchen and sent him the 3d, which I did with the office computer, but along the line, right after I paid rent, I lost my full time job, I was struggling to complete the drawings, feeling depressed, detached and over my head, there was delays because of the complexity of the job, I promised him high quality designs, my computer couldn't meet up.

I however pleaded with him to give me time, hoping I could find a way, he was not having it, after the deadline have been reached. When it's clear to I can't continue after the threats he dished out, I have to send him all the complete Interiors 3d renders I have done, which was of all low quality, I felt bad, just to show him I was struggling with it and did put it in work.

I also told him to give me time, I will refund him in parts, told him that I want to sell that pc and make up money and buy another pc, I also offered to be indebted to him and work for him in any future build till the debt is repaid. At a time I offered to drop the PC as a collateral, but if I do that how do I make up the money for the dept I am owing him.

I apologize to Rawgold300, and to anybody that feel disappointed in me, all am asking for is patience for the payback, there was no intention for scam from the beginning, If so I would not video call him, visited the site, up till now, we still chat on WhatsApp. There was no intention of scam and will never be.

Sorry about your current situation. May the Lord grant you a better and more rewarding job.
You don't have any reason to touch your client's money in as much as you've not delivered the Job. Kindly look for money and pay him back his money. This event has only shown that you are a risk to peoples hard earned money, which is not healthy for this thread.

enigma0:
I saw all the red flags and stop contacting him then,
It wasn’t because it’s cheap offer. I bleeped up but how do I go about it

Report the account and flag the transaction at your bank. If you worry the bank well, the owner of the bank account will be tracked and whoever scammed you will be produced, that’s if he’s not the owner of the bank account.
I blv that the bank can put you through.

mufutau55:
MrOkenwa. Please ignore this guy. He is trying to be relevant and I will not give him the time.
I will not allow anyone in this Property Forum to be cheated or scammed wheiter I am a Moderator or not. I will not allow anyone to stain my reputation either. I am sure Mr. Lawyer himself can testify to my reputation.
The project was eventually taken away from him to another Contractor. Same Client has built several other big houses and apartment complexes thru other Contractor/Builder on this forum, and he is still active on this forum. He may chime in later.
Mr. Opalu, please get real. Thank you.

Hajji M.

It’s alright sir.
I usually don’t react to such allegation but I found that comment really preposterous. It’s on the front page People that don’t visit your thread may not know.

opalu:
When I was a young boy, I use to ask God "Why do you allow the Bad people to be so many and good people so few"?
But when I went to school to study Civil Engineering I understood the answer to that childhood question. I spent years to study Civil Engineering from a Federal polytechnic. Then with Direct Entry entered a Federal University to study Civil Engineering. And after NYSC went to study MSc Structural Engineering and became COREN-Certified.

When I started building houses and roads, I noticed one strange occurrence. When client come to a real professional, they price tiny amount. But when they go to Fake business people with sweet mouths, they spend huge amounts. And when they get duped they blame "Nigerian Engineers" or "real estate companies" generally. Thus they lump the good with the bad.

The bad people are there to attend to clients who don't value truth spoken by the good.

I have built houses for more than 100 Nairaland users out of more than 1800 houses I have built in my 4 and half decades on earth so far. I have run adverts here also. But one incident that happened was when a client I got here was owing me an amount and he reported me to one Mufutau55 who appeared as a Mod then. That Mufutau guy without hearing me out started shouting on phone "You Nigerian Engineers like duping Foreign-based clients". I was so pissed with that statement. It was the my UK-based client that was owing me more than N2m for a particular milestone in his building. Yet he kept reporting me here and there. So I went to my bank and printed out my statement. When I extracted the facts and sent to him, that evening he sent me N1.5m out of my money he was owing with apologies.
Yet that Nairaland Mod called Ahajj Muftau had insulted me and even deleted my major post on Nairaland for what I did nothing about.

Please God-fearing builders here, keep doing the good and while at it, dont allow fraudulent clients to dupe you because you re based in Nigeria. There are good-hearted highly experienced experts here in Nigeria who will never run away or japa from here for anything. I am one of such.

Hajji Mufutau is our Dad on that popular builders thread, which he opened while he was a mod.
No man is perfect but I can tell you, he acted based on many experiences he had with different artisans and engineers.
For every 1 case like yours, there are 10’s of scammers parading as developers/engineers.
I respect hajji as I’ve been motivated by his contributions to this forum. To the glory of God, I have 19 families living safely in my various builds. I’ll probably would have stopped or got discouraged if I had been scammed when building my first house.

He didn’t encourage it.

The thief on the left side really danced well. He deserved the most entertaining beating . Better than jungle justice though.

MeineMutter:
Oga.

I am not an aluminum person o but let him break down what he will use to make each window.

Go to market ahead and do a preliminary study of costs of materials.

Measure each window together with him and do the recordings. Some up all that would be needed.
Go to market and buy them yourself. Give them to him to use while you monitor it. Just build in like 7% waste into the aluminum material. Waste in other materials may not the up to that or could above that. Max 10% across board.

You see those artisans, they are ev.il.
They pad anything padable.

You would be surprised it will take you half of what he quoted.

This is what I’ll do when next I’m building. Aside from those things that you mentioned, you can also be sure of the materials and most importantly, ALL the aluminum fabricators that have worked in my builds reduced the actual measurements of the windows. All of them took the measurements themselves but they still went ahead to fabricate smaller sizes of windows. I specifically appealed to the guy that handled the windows of my duplex but na same same. We still used over 50 blocks for ‘shocking’.

Beremx:
In a situation that patient tells the nurse to pray for him/her nko? Will she still be sacked?

Well, Nigerians and our religious obsession, una don see am nau

Her conduct is unethical. I work in the NHS. Every Trust has Chaplaincy department with many clergymen working under them.
The proper thing to do is to inform her Seniors about such request. They will make proper referral for faith support.
Different people have different wishes in their last days. Very few of them put religion as top priority. We respect their wishes and don’t assume for them.

HeadNigga:
Most Nigerian men would kill to be in Israel DMW's position. He is doing well in life

I agree with you that most people won’t mind to be in his shoe but That guy is not doing well if I may say.

teewhyhomes:
TGIF! The weekend is around the corner. Enjoy yourself and don’t forget to reach out to us @Teewhyhomes for your next Real Estate investment.

What do you have to offer in terms of real estate investment?

2mch:
Trust you can never afford what they pay for electricity. Most people abroad can barely afford to eat because food has gone up over 100%. Cost of living crises is a global issue. My friend pays electricity bill of equivalent 200k a month for 2 bedroom flat.

This is the lies they tell you ba?
I pay more than this in my 3 bedroom apartment.
Gas, electricity, utility (water) and council tax should be in the range of 500quid. That’s about 600k in today’s naira. We are far from being hungry because we earn far more than we need to survive.
Most food items are cheaper than the price you’ll buy them in Nigeria. What you get paid for a menial job in a day(8-10hours) is enough to feed you and your family for at least 7 days.
For someone earning 250k in naija: Let’s say same person get paid a salary of 2,000 pounds here(worst case) and cost of living gulps 1,500(worst case), the person will still be left with 500pounds, equivalent of 700k in naira. Plus the good life.

It is in our culture to look after our aged ones.
“Ti Okete ba dagba, Omu omo re ni o maa mu”.
It’s a Yoruba saying that when you grow old, you fall back to your children.
Mama’s children are sadly useless.
No form of civilization should make us abandon our parents. We don’t have good care system for our elderly ones as we see in other climes. I blv it’s our responsibility.
I look after my frail dad, even though I haven’t seen him in about 1 year now.
I have a live-in carer on my payroll and he attend his clinic every week.
It cost me about 200k monthly to achieve this. I’m fine with it. He’s frail now, can’t stand on his feet anymore.
I feel bad myself as I had promised him that I’ll personally take care of him myself, which I’m now doing by proxy.
I can’t afford to give him this level of care if I had stayed back in Nigeria, where I can barely earn the amount I spend on him monthly.

olukaygold:
Thanks to Facebook reminder:Today 12th November 2023 made it a Year my Team has been working for (Dr) MrOkenwa. We value yo Trust,Tolerance,Patience and Understanding…Thanks For Patronizing GoldenView Building and Construction Ltd. Gracias.

You’re doing well. More power to your elbow

gbadexy:
All the major chemicals just increased this morning but I couldn't tell clients that already made payment yesterday and day before.
I'm the one in need of promo now sir.

The premium emulsion or matte if slight sheen is desired.
Premium emulsion: N20000
Matte: N33000
Satin: N40000
Silk:N49000

This is noted. Still fair to be honest.
We still have few things to do before we get to painting.
I’ll be going for matte. The building we painted last year hasn’t fade. The painting is still intact.

gbadexy:
You may use premium grade emulsion sir.
It's durable for external use also it just doesn't have the low sheen or cleanability like the matte.


The premium emulsion or matte if slight sheen is desired.
Matte:
Satin:
Silk:
The previous price included cost for logistics and equipment cost for application during the promo period.

Good evening sir. Kindly give me the current price.
I haven’t seen your promo announced this year…lol.

She worked relentlessly to build and sustain Lawson schools.
May her soul rest in peace.

She loves children and she is passionate about early years education. My RIP mrs Lawson.

twinskenny:
Okay ogami

Do you still use the same number? I will forward you some at the office Tommorow

Not really. I’ll pm you sir, and forward my number to you. Do well to add their prices oga mi. So that I can choose my size.

twinskenny:
Price update available in stock

Gaza 18 inch rechargeable = 53k

Gaza 12 inch rechargeable = 36k

Solar rechaegeable fan =35k

08051355133

All available. This weak price only!!! Delivery is free within lagos and Ogun state
Other appliances available as well

Boss, I need some nice switches, sockets , lights and good, simple and classy Chandeliers.
Kindly post pictures that I can pick from. I prefer real-time pictures instead of those computer-generated pictures.

Gabrokpara001:
This your post was just brought to our notice.

We hold client relationship in highest regards. If truly we have done a costing job for you. kindly expand on more details about it because i don't remember any of my clients complaining.

I gave my feedback in the context of the BOQ you did for me in February 2022. It's for 8 units of mini-flats (room, sitting room, kitchen, toilet/bath), designed by someone on here.
I am happy to discuss this further and I possibly share the BOQs (the first and the amended boq) delivered to me, if you'll consent to that.

bolu1986:
There are some area in Nigeria with cheap labour.. might be possible. Maybe he is from the northern side

Maybe

Iriruaga100:
Outrageous. I got bill of 1.3, 1.1 and 750k. Settled for the guy with 750k and he did a good job. To build house right now get as e be.

You paid 750k for the entire 6 units of 3 bedroom apartments? That'll be at the rate of 125k per apartment. Yeah?
It's NOT possible.

TempleHouse:
So sad 😢

His colleagues are making £72 Pounds per hour and working 37.5 hours per week in the UK
£2700x 4 weeks= £10,800 per month.

I don't know the current exchange rate though

This is not entirely true. No Trust pays an FY1 £72 per hour.
FY1 salary scale should be abt 26-30k per annum. They don’t get to do locum outside their trust, so they’re limited. Max they take home with locum is around £ 2,500 monthly.

ladyteeks:
Thank you for the recommendations.
I have decided to go with Gabropka001 because I love some designs he posted.

If anyone has worked with him in the past and was not satisfied please let me know. I love transparency and don't want issues with anyone because I am also a professional.

Not architectural design. I can remember contacting the person behind the handle sometimes in Jan/Feb last year for a BOQ. The initial estimate he submitted looked senseless to me(and I mean it). I had to tell him to do it again and it didn’t still make sense. Qsfemi gave me a rough estimate for some of the jobs FREE of charge and that made a lot of sense(The tiling job and the pop, which Bolu1986 did). I’ll say qsfemi’s estimate was 95% accurate. God bless you QsFemi.