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segzy14:
We finally handed over the keys to the client on the 26th of July, 2016 ,who came all the way from London and that was the first time of meeting them after about two years of communicating via email and phone calls.

It was joy all the way from the airport to Benin.

We thank God it was successful and we thank some nairalanders who worked with us as subcontractors (muyesky , stainlessH, edisani).


THANK YOU ALL.

beknown:
My wife and I are very happy with the finished work of segzy14 in our new home. Segzy14 did a brilliant job even though we met on nairaland few years ago. We gave him the job on trust and he kept his integrity as he delivered the building successfully. We physically met for the first time on 26th July 2016 when we collected our bunch of keys.

On behalf of my wife and family, I strongly recommend segzy14 for building projects in Nigeria. I am confident that he will do a professional job in any building project. Our new home is now like a show home within my family in Benin city.

Please segzy14 do keep the excellent work and continue to seek opportunity to do better.

Good testimony. This is what we like seeing and hearing on this property forum. segzy14 baba, keep up the good work and trust. Our diaspora brothers and sisters need this type of trust and honesty from builders

segzy14:
As for the stairs railings, "stainlessH" here on n. L did it. You can reach him on tel/whatsapp 08068966121
The steps are about 17 in numbers.
Thanks.

Thanks

segzy14:
stairs.

@segzy14, iam thinking of changing my stairs railings to something like this. Can you give me what it cost you to do this if you do not mind. I think iam seeing 10 steps here and i believe there are also 10 in the other one after this making a total of 20 steps.

mufutau55:
Very nice. You can paint it later like mine... but I like the color combination of that tiles..

BTW.. may be you go allow me to come put a nice bungalow in that extra space... since me and you dey discuss that I go come marry the Chief daughter for that your town o.

Hajji M.

You are free and welcome to come and put a nice bungalow in that space but i cannot guarantee you that i will not use it as my palace when i eventually become the village head of my village.

mufutau55:
Na wah o. My place for Sango-Otta nah only 150k, the water dey commot like lagoon for the past six years now. The only problem I had was with Chinese pump they put in it... I changed that to good Italian submersible pump... and sice then nah water yanfu-yanfu o.

Hajji M.

Was this a borehole or a well?.

3strikes:
Make una help me thank Engineer AbdulwasteCX for sending some God fearing workers to my rescue o regarding the yeye roof that Bosun Brabus /N3xt of Next home did for me. roof leaking from day one for almost one year now......we had to redesign and re-roof the thing. so far am confident the roof wont leak again unless bosun go climb am for night and make holes on it. . but i trust my abooki maiguard ....na bow and arrow he kuku dey use.

bow and arrow vs prayer stone, na who go win?.

mufutau55:
Oga mi. Don't look at Rottecch77 as expensive guy o... he is very affordable o.
Wow! They did a good job on that interlocking tiles o. I love it...
Yes, combination of interlocking and concrete reduces the expenses and they serve good purpose o. Good work.
We will discuss privately on the cost o... You have done good on the house since last time we spoke. Thanks for sharing.

Note: Can you show more areas of the concrete flooring too... Thx.

Hajji M.

Hajji,

See the attached.

EgunMogaji:
I agree that no one would say what I wrote.

But one can infer.

I'm working with a Nairalander in my roof right now. One that has impeccable workmanship. My opinion.

My local baba lati that screwed up my other roof gave me an estimate that was hundreds of thousands less the Nairalander.

I'm prepared to pay the Nairalanders price but it will be sacrilegious if at the end the quality is the same as baba lati.

Reason why I even brought this up was my total dissatisfaction about a job I saw on here. I can't even believe that the builder would let the job be seen in daylight.

Was it this local baba lati that did the 'Orule Abule' roof?.

FreeWorld23:
if you were a spoilt brat and you also had the opportunity to attend boarding school, you will understand

I attended boarding school but i was not a spoilt brat.

FreeWorld23:
I have the legal right to be on a dating site (agarawu never marry) .

I have the legal right to upload my beautiful daughter any day anytime. This our cry cry baby mu mu small sha! were u expecting a six year old girl to graduate from university Boda ode!!!

You guys Wont let me be even after ignoring you but I have time for shyts too. Agarawu isn't part of the ppl u can pick on........I am different. #fact!!!

I hope you wont kill yourself one day ontop my matter, infact kill yaself

Chai, you mean you did 'tales out of school'?.

n3xt:
MyTV, HiTV, Startimes, TrendTV are all alternatives to Multichoice's DSTV. Where are these companies today?

Why are they not able to survive the same market DSTV is monopolizing?


Malls and Shopping Centers, I don't want to go down that route but if you'll agree more shopping centers and retail supermarket have closed down since the rise of Shoprite.

Doing business in Nigeria only requires reflective thinking and having a good structure in place. A fail safe approach.

Think of how we (as homeowners) jealously watch over our investment here on Property Board. When it comes to business, it should take a lot more effort to stay afloat in the very hostile yet lucrative business environment.

Shoplifting is one of the major prob of most shopping malls in Naija faces but the South Africans (Shoprite) brought RFID tags and they were able to stop this. They were not just talking about the problems, they acted on it and ensure it worked.

Whether you're starting small or big, you need a good fail safe plan and an exit strategy in case things go south.

HiTV won EPL rights from DSTV and the thing went into their heads and the owners started throwing away money like it is going out of fashion. Customer service became zero. You pay and you are not credited and connected and you start going to their offices everyday and the personnel insults you to nonsense. Alas, what happens, DSTV went back to the drawing board and won back the EPL rights and that was when the eyes of HiTV opened but it was already too late and they crashed.

abouzaid:
what i can't just understand is why somebody living in a sane and safer society like Ireland, Europe, north America etc would even retire to this hell hole, forgive my ignorance but i won't hesitate to leave this country without looking back if i have the slightest chance, i still regret lost opportunities for a first degree abroad and I'm try to understand why this folks can't move to more affordable parts of their adopted countries and spend their retirement in peace.

Because if everybody moved from all the insane countries of the world to the few sane countries of the world, the few sane countries would become insane and if that happens, where else will you move to, the moon?. Europe opened her borders but see what is happening there now that even Britain had to do a Brexit. Anyway, do you think the sane place you are currently will be sane if just about 10% of the people in this insane Nigeria move there?.

n3xt:
I love engaging in intelligent discussions like this.

One of the ills of this country is TRUST issue and it is eroding a lot of goods from us. We can't even trust the system not only the people.

But before now (during the 56k dialup years and analogue telephones), I used to think a lot of things are impossible in Nigeria. In fact, I used to think they're only possible abroad until the Internet came and the whole world became a connected community.

There'll always be a clog in the wheel of progress. There'll always be square peg in a round hole but when the system is well designed you can always separate the wheat from the chaff.

Take a cue from the banking industry, gone are the days of mind-boggling frauds. Nowadays, everything is in the open. There's almost no hiding place.

Now the question I'll like to ask is how do you think Chinese survive in this environment. They owned a lot of businesses here and they're doing good.
There's control and they didn't go to sleep with the negative mindset of "people will milk you dry."

They were up to something and are ready to do everything to make it come to fruition. A can-do attitude.

________
Fola Adeola saw a good business proposal from a diasporan (Funke) and they did the maths and came up with a good system that will sell the business.
They knew their challenges and did everything to make people see the difference.

Why will Mainone go into promos when they're not a last mile ISP? They knew there will be problem with ISPs reaching there customers and blames may be shifted on the backbone so they decided to give people a direct taste of what real broadband service looks like.
The integrity of the Chairman and the CEO is one thing but it is nothing if you do not have a good understanding of your local market and how to get it served the professional way.

Till date, Fola Adeola and Funke Opeke are still dealing with the people (the same people the Chinese are using) to do the job. The difference is the system and the processes.

_________
Co-creation Hub is another one.

The Chinese invest a lot in technology and IT to have this control. Tell a Nigerian business man and he will tell you that it is a waste of money to invest in IT and that manual process can do it. It is when he is milked dry that his eyes will now open but by then, it will be too late.

mufutau55:
Oga mi. Don't look at Rottecch77 as expensive guy o... he is very affordable o.
Wow! They did a good job on that interlocking tiles o. I love it...
Yes, combination of interlocking and concrete reduces the expenses and they serve good purpose o. Good work.
We will discuss privately on the cost o... You have done good on the house since last time we spoke. Thanks for sharing.

Note: Can you show more areas of the concrete flooring too... Thx.

Hajji M.

I do not have pictures of those ones. It was done earlier by a different person. However, i will tell the interlocking guy to go and help me take some pictures and send to me.

Maross:
Good morning all and thanks for all your suggestions so far.
I have decided to consider all schools regardless of cost consideration and any prejudice as my daughter's education is paramount.
For this reason, the under listed schools are up for consideration due to your suggestions and my little findings:

1. University preparatory secondary school (UPSS)-day only.
2. Word of faith group of schools (WOFGS)- day and boarding.
3. Presentation national high school- boarding and girls only.
4. Deeper life high school- boarding only and co-education.
5. St. Mary international- day only and co-education.

My preference would have been UPSS since my daughter is currently in the Montessori arm of the school but for some inexplicable reason, my wife does not like the secondary school.
She prefers deeper life high school. I will keep up with my investigations with focus on past and present accolades, WAEC results, school fees, discipline etc.
More suggestions are welcomed.

Also ask around for Our Lady of Apostles Secondary school. The OLA sisters have a strong bias towards education and they always have their own educational institutions (primary and secondary) in any state where they are located. I think their secondary school might be outside Benin city and it is likely to be full boarding. The Rev. Sisters are always in charge of the girls only schools and they are most times full boarding.

Iam a strong advocate of the boarding system if somebody can afford it. So, my recommendation mighty be bias.

@Hajji,

I know say you be poor man but na me poor pass you. That is why i dey do my own project at snail/tortoise speed. Poor man like me no fit afford Rotecch77. See pictures of interlocking i did which were sent to me yesterday. I had to combine flooring and interlocking because of cost. You know say 'Da....' no dey my name. Slow and steady and getting close to the finishing line.

crackhaus:
Cool.

I guess other privately-run schools in Lagos will be much higher than this.

Yes. There is a rush and competition for the catholic schools especially the old generation ones now that they have been given back by the government. Most parents see the fees as moderate compared to the private schools. I forgot to mention that for some of the catholic schools, the 70-80k includes a compulsory 20k mid-break food for all students. I think most of them introduced it in order to remove students buying all sorts of food from food vendors during the mid-morning break and also because of the ebola that came out the last time. Most times, it is parents during PTA meetings that introduced these things. One good thing why parents do not complain is that they see what the money is being used for.

crackhaus:
I don't live in Benin, but I made some calls for WOFGS. I'm not in contact with any of my old friends that attended UPSS.


Current tuition for WOFGS day school is 35k, this is from someone whose son just rounded up SS3 - she says it's what she paid last minus the WAEC/NECO/Graduation expenses...and that it might be lower for the junior classes.
The fees for those in boarding is 100/110k + 35k(tuition).

The current tuition for catholic secondary schools in Lagos is 50k. It was increased last year from 35k to 50k. Boarding ranges between 120-170 depending on the school and location. Development fee is 10k. The other things you pay are things like ICT practicals, home economies, music, arts materials etc which most times is between 70-80k. You know most of the schools were recently given back by the government to the missionaries. So a lot of repairs and renovations are still being done.

crackhaus:
[b]Yea, catholic controlled schools always manage to hike their prices so high [/b]it makes one wonder why they do that when they're supposed to be doing the Lord's work.

WOFGS is a suitable and affordable choice all-round.

Not really school. It is the boarding and most times compulsory boarding that makes it high. For a day, you will be surprised that the amount to be paid in the catholic school will be less than that of WOFGS. Is it possible you do an investigation of what WOFGS and UPSS is currently paying for day students and i will compare that to what the day students in my son's catholic boarding school here in Lagos are currently paying. Mind you, schools fees in Lagos are a little bit higher than those in Benin. When i saw your estimate yesterday which you are not sure of, i quickly went to do a check. Please, is it possible you or the OP do an investigation of the current fees for WOFGS and UPSS and post here for analysis.

BarTr3:
I'm an OND cert. holder (2015), I studied Accounting. I'm supposed to resume HND this year but I had a rethink.

Currently doing my IT in a media firm which has pretty much exposed me to a lot of media related activities which I'm enjoying.

So right now, I can handle cameras for event coverage and shoots, edit videos, MC events or red carpets.

I wish to make this professional by simply studying mass communication. But, I wasn't enrolled for literature in English by that *beeep* principal.

Please, is there any chance of me studying Mass Comm. part-time in UNIBEN (preferred school) without literature?

@OP, as femmkenny has said, you can work in a media without having a degree or diploma in mass communication. You can go ahead and complete your HND in accounting and then continue in the media house with what you are currently doing. I had cause to check the profiles of some broadcasters and i discovered that some of them did not even read any of the social sciences or arts courses. There was one i saw that read Computer Science and another that read Mathematics.

crackhaus:
Absolutely not included in boarding.

The hostel fees alone should be about 100k now, but I didn't think the OP was interested in that because he lives in Benin.
Most of the boarding students usually came from outside the state.

Please note that the 80k I mentioned is not the exact amount, I just know it can't be more than that today because it was approximately 15k per term when I was in secondary (late 90s/2002).

Ok. Was wondering. The boarding fees and other fees(medical, games) associated with boarding in the Catholic schools is what normally make the amount to be high. The expanded curriculum for instance has made schools to introduce amount for things like basic technology, visual arts, home economics, ICT, business studies, music materials.

crackhaus:
I suggest you go for Word of Faith College GRA, you will not want to remove your girl from that institution till she graduates the senior school...

I am a proud alumnus of the aforementioned, right from nursery till my graduation from SS3 .... was even offered the chance to continue into Benson Idahosa University at a subsidized tuition fee for the first two years (I think it was actually offered to every student that started in nursery all the way to senior secondary) - the Uni is run by the same Church of God Mission International, just that I had bigger plans for my university education so I focused my sights elsewhere.

Their curriculum is superb and the fact that it's run by CGMI means they like to instill 'christian values' on students...that doesn't mean there isn't going to be naughty/bad/crazy students tho.

The fees structure is very affordable ONLY because the vision of the founder Late Archbishop Benson Idahosa was to provide quality education not for profit but for an all-round development of the child.
However, fresh entry might cost much more by the time you factor in uniforms, sport gear, books, texts...etc.but after all that, I don't think it's more than 80k per term now.

St. Mary International, Igbinedion Educational Centre, and British Montessori are also very good schools that are all on par with WOFGS.

Is this 80k per term inclusive of boarding fees and that is if it has boarding facilities.

Maross:
UPSS is day only. School fees for new entrants is about 120k to 160k.

Is this just tuition or tuition, books, school bills(pta, ict, clinic, sports, development levy etc)

speed99:
Go to UPSS. If am ever in Benin again as a family, thats the school.

What is their fees like and do they have both day and boarding?.

Qc1:
^!^^

I have about 260 sqm. I don't think I can afford you. I don't want to spend more than N1.5m for landscaping.

Why not do a combination. Something like flooring/interlocking/concrete stamping. When i saw the estimate i was given for interlocking, i had to settle for concrete flooring in some areas and interlocking in some areas.

nabiz:
na so my oga the materials is now very expensive. u can click on this link to see the pictures of the materials so thst u will not fall for all this local contractor.https://www.nairaland.com/2840360/please-visit-office Even if u dont want to give me the job, at least the info will help u in negociating with other clients.

Let me also help u by offering u an average cost of buying a materials that will cover like one hundred sqm i think this will help u.


MATERIALS:
(1)Cements= 65bags@#1,600each= #112,000.00

(2)Granite stone= 15tonnes@ #2,300each= #34,500.00

(3)Transportation of granite from quary= #10,000.00

(4)Stone dust(sand)= 10tonnes@ #2,200.00each= #24,000.00

(5)Transportation of. Stone dust from quary= #7,000.00

(6)Plaster stand= 1 tipper= #14,000.00.

(7)Iron rod or wire mesh= 100meters@ #700.00per meter= #70,000.00

(2mm Iron bar = 6lenghts@ #3,500eah =#21,000.00

(9)Hydrochloric acid= 25lters= #7,000.00

(1)Diamond cutting disk= 3blades@ #2,500each= #7,500.00

(11)Black water-prove= 1role= #3,000.00

(12)Concrete mixer= 2day@ #15,000each day= #30,000.00

Total cost of local materials= #340,000.00

FOREIN MATERIALS
(1)Pave-creat Color hardener= 8bags@ #18500each= #148,000.00

(2) A-Z acrylic sealer= 20liters= #90,000.00

(3)Release agent= 1bucket= #45,000.00.

Total cost of foregn materials= #283,000.00.

Total cost of all materials= #623,000.00.

I dont feed on client material. Sincerity and qaulity job is my competitive strenght..

U can buy all the materials and pay me for my labour alone. If u even need a contact on where to buy the materials, i will give u but on a one condition.
Thank boss

I can relate to the bold as i just did interlocking and N3500.00 was quoted for me for 1 role. I can understand the difference because the project is in the village and some materials are a little bit expensive in the village than in the city.

Maross:
Thanks.
I just enquired and I can tell you categorically that for presentation, the fees plus other materials are well over 400k for fresh intakes. It is also an all boarding school(I don't really mind anyway but this factor is partly responsible for the high cost). I'd really love to send my daughter there but it is beyond me financially.
So I am down to about two options:
Word of faith and UPSS.
I welcome more suggestions.

It is as if the catholic girls only school fees are always a bit higher than that of the boys. I agree that the compulsory boarding also has an effect on the fees but even those that are day students still pay some fees called 'school bills'.

abdulwastecx:
I am opening the thread to showcase different method of duplexes construction in Nigeria.

So many of our job underway in different part of the country will be showcased here.

following

uzolexis:
At the bolded, you are truly well informed. LGHS is to girls as CKCC is to boys, same with HCC and St. Greg. My brothers were in CKCC while I was in LGHS, and same for most other pple too

I have sent you a PM. I want to ask you some questions on LGHS.

mamawin:
well, the hair thing was the least of all. she's in d uni now, can do whatever she likes with her hair. I do not really care, but it was that the school allowed the girl and her brother many things that 'we' must never tried, my reason for calling them that name. And parents these days are something else, dress little kids up like they're going for fashion parade, na real wa.

It is getting outrageous and these parents put these kids through a lot of stress. People do not know that the schools that made this policy did not just wake up one day without reason to make the policy. When Unity schools were allowing casual clothes to be worn as boarding uniform, you need to see what was happening. It was then the Unity schools management came up with a uniform check wear. Some parents protested and complain and said all sort of things. Today, i doubt if even private secondary boarding schools allow casual wears for everyday boarding wear. They have switched to a uniform after school wear for everybody.

8BitGee:
What are you on about. How the fvck does plaiting or styling one's hair compare to sagging?

Again, what is the business of a school in dictating what hairstyle to plait? To what end?

People need to understand their priorities and get serious! This is fvcking 2016!!!

A school says this is our policy and if you are not satisfied with it, take your child to another school. After all, there are several schools that will meet what you need. A school does not have to conform to what you want. As you say, this is fvcking 2016 and i want my boy to sag his trousers and i want my girl to do a Rihanna or a Beyonce or a Jennifer Aniston.

When wearing of casual clothes as normal daily wear were abolished in the Unity schools then as a part of a policy and replaced with check shirts, some parents did not like it as they wanted their kids to always wear the latest fashion trends in school. So, they removed their kids from the Unity schools to schools that were allowing wearing of causal clothes of any type. QED.

Btw, i have a cousin who removed his daughter because of this low cut of hair and took her to the one that allows plaiting of hair. The space she vacated was quickly taken by a parent who was comfortable with the policy.

8BitGee:
Makes no sense. There is absolutely nothing wrong in letting student make their hair. It is stupid policy.

Every organization (a school is also an organization) has its policy. If you are not fine with the policy, you are not forced to go there or put your child there. Will you also say say that there is absolutely nothing wrong in letting a boy sag his trousers in school or tuck-in his shirt and that a school that says that is making a stupid policy. There is what is called a dress code and having a low cut is part of a dress code. In some schools, a hair style is given to the girls at the end of the week for which every student that is not on a low cut has to adhere to. Is that also a stupid policy because a school is not allowing you to braid or plait your own hair style?.