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josite: for now don't bother yourself .bother yourself with becoming financially strong for now and whenever you are strong,then begin to ask the right questions demanding the right answer.anyway the man too has same blood,exactly the same blood with your late dad so let it occur to you that his interests in your date predates your interest and therefore should be wisely accommodated. Adopt a common sense approach conceding some properties to this greedy uncle while asking the rest be given to you.be wise ,make the man no send u follow ur dad.lol

What kind of answer is this. The brother's interests precedes the son? What kind of reasoning is this. So if you are in a sinking boat you rescue your sibling, lose your seed and destroy your lineage, your future.

This family is clearly dysfunctional. The father had land in Nigeria, the son is stranded in the States. The father died there without a will. The son cannot prove relationship. These are the loopholes exploited that make the aberration possible.

Without further details such as where his mother and siblings are and his childhood story it is difficult to say what can and what will happen.

How is that offside. Anyway that Yahaya guy is wasting chances. That is not good.

Ishilove: Fine fine. And you? You are scarce in these parts

I'm okay. I read a lot when I can but like you said cannot contribute effectively due to the obvious. Its wrong, doesn't help but.... Have a lovely day.

gurnam: The best optician will be helpless in your profound blindness....you must have been sniffing at your man stinking anus...perhaps...you've been rimming him too. Fool! I will make your life miserable in this community...I've marked you.

Where in my post did your blind sight figured out Igbo land!

Mumu....you should be thrown to wild animals to make them happy for few hours.

See what I mean. This is the way this country goes. Be it ASUU, plane crashes, pipeline vandalism, vote rigging, name it. It always ends this way. No solution.

Ishilove: True, but your 'tribal buttons' can only be pressed if you allow it. I for one try as much as possible to avoid all these very primitive and idiotic tribal confrontations that go on here on NL, but the few times I have been attacked, I just simple shook my head, amazed at the level of imbecility I was witnessing, and exited the thread. Shikena.

Fine. But then what becomes of the thread - it dies without logical discourse. What becomes of the government - corruption abounds. What becomes of the building - like the thread, it collapses. Tragedies occur when good people walk away. That building didn't collapse because there aren't good people but..

Anyway. Hi, how are you.

nerodenero: The thread is getting derailed.Thank God my own building under which I lay my head is still standing.Let me quickly drop message and say my goodnight before more tribalistic warlords invade the thread with senseless submissions.RIP to the dead.

This is exactly what I am saying. Sectionalism is such a strong force in Nigeria that in EVERY aspect of life and living we have totally neglected ethics. Our faulty national foundation will not allow any other structure to stand (the test of time). It creates room for corruption. It undermines the kind of professionalism that will keep that building standing. It even undermines our ability to logically discourse on this forum. It ruins everything.

I am sure when you get to the bottom of the collapse you will find the weeds of nepotism and ethnic bias choking the system. "I/we only give jobs to those I/we know."

The solution that I have advocated for years is simple. We will let our society deteriorate to the point of realisation then we will fix it. When the COST of tribalism becomes to expensive to bear then we will find alternatives. It happened in America. It can happen here.

Ijebulogic: I saw a whole convoy of ambulances about two hours ago on Muri Okunola and was wondering what happened, so was hoping to get the full story on this thread, only to see some children arguing about Yoruba, ibo and Hausa. I mean...seriously?

Nairaland CEO (and moderators) - Kudos for taking Nairaland so far BUT it is really time for you to put a stop to the uncontrollable tribal rage that floods almost every thread nowadays.

Trust me, you can not build a long term sustainable social media business model by relying on traffic generated from hatred and tribal bias. Such minorities will generate good traffic in the short term but contribute very little to Nairaland in the long run. Sadly what I see is an excellent business model about to be destroyed by tribalism and bigotry. Nairaland Mods - zero tolerance on unwarranted tribal exchanges on Nairaland. Don't become a statistic of "great business ideas that failed" - There are plenty of case studies out there.

I will now go to another online forum to get info on the collapsed buildings.

They are not minorities whether on Nairaland or in Nigeria. This forum is a microcosum of the reality called Nigeria so instead of sweeping the problem under the carpet to fester it is better aired and tackled. Afterall I am dead certain your tribal buttons haven't been pressed yet that's why.

Jakumo: While it may not be the case in this particular instance, there have been a number of incidents where gunmen busy robbing victims became trigger-happy when one of the victims decided to start shouting "Blood of Jeesus!", or some such challenge, only to be silenced with a shot before the second verse escaped their lips.

When confronted by armed men, and with no escape path in sight, do NOT start shouting for Jeesus to come down from heaven in a helicopter gunship and save you, because frankly, you are not that important to Jeeesus, but more to the point, He expects you to think survival first, and slogans a very distant second, preferably AFTER the shooting stops and the gang have departed.

So, in a nutshell, if you ever find yourself among a captive audience held by men vested with the supreme power of firepower, keep your dialog with Jeeesus SILENT, or you may find yourself seated on Jeeeesus' right or left side a lot sooner than would have been the case if you had only just shut the phuck up and emptied your pockets as ordered.

And what is the loss when dying with a witness, that of Christ. What is so important or desirable in this world anyway. To share it with such vile creatures. I think not.

Where are they going to get the gas to run the plant. Gas fields are over 1,000 miles away in the hands of...while the sunlight right on their heads is neglected. Look at what the South Africans are doing on the CNN promo - 300 hectres, 600,000 solar panels - 96 mega watts of clean, practical energy.

If they win the tournament I will smile. If this team then proceeds to win the next U-21 tourney then I will clap. If the team then finally lifts the FIFA World Cup for us then I will cheer. Because that's the purpose of it all.

But this is a smashing good team no doubt...if..

The Premiership is cruel. Like I told someone at noon today. It is not mathematics. It is complex geometry. I do am last week no dey work there oh.

What's that proverb again about bringing a termite infested wood into your compound... That pastor or whatever he is should be held totally responsible. He is an accessory.

NLC is not interested in private sector corruption. Even when it interfaces with the public sector such as the fuel subsidy saga, they choose to shield their members. To us, it is only political leadership that is corrupt. The rest of us are poor hustlers so we can be excused to destroy one another.

seedgie: hey guys! Nice to see the house growing. But why think of pile foundation when you are planing to build just a storey building. Pls tell your friend to use raft foundation without delay. Pile foundation is for high rise building.

No sir, piles can be used to support ANY kind of load. Those shanties built on the lagoon are resting on 'piles'. The shacks weigh practically nothing. Why don't they use rafts: one - cost, piles are cheaper. Two and you raft lovers better know this. If the density of the soil changes particularly if the density falls due to water ingress (flooding), the raft can fail by submergence and this has happened in Lekki and happened in Bayelsa during last year's flooding.

Fadelex: the length varies from 300mm to 3.0m and you said they don't have to reach d bearing strata, then what's d essence of using pile when it won't reach d bearing strata.... bearing strata in dis case could be a rock or more solidified soil... if the pile is gonna be suspended then there's no case using it cuz the aim of d pile has been defeated

No you have friction piles that do just fine. Just like trying to place a nail into a very soft wall. You can either use a longer nail, drive a short nail at an angle to increase surface area or use a screw nail that also offers higher surface area and better grip. The key is 'friction' which generates 'pressure' which carries load. There are many types of piles. Like the ladies say. It is not the length. It is how you use it.

Mr Aboki: Rafts are alternatives, not low tech or inferior to pile foundations.

Did not say they are inferior but in our largely unsophisticated engineering environment we often go for rafts which are more expensive but more practical. We lack equipment in this country. Piling is far cheaper.

The building is small so I think a very important factor is the availability of equipment. If you can somehow lay your hands on a rig piling may be cheaper and quicker. Rafts are low tech solutions but are grave money pits.

Fadelex: the engineer that quoted for pile foundation for a storey building is definitely a quack.... unless you are building an island in a river, Pile foundations are long, slender, columnar elements in a foundation that are installed into the ground.
They aretypically made from steel or reinforced concrete and possibly timber . A foundation is described as piled when its depth is more than three times its breadth.
Pile foundations are principally used to transfer the loads
from a superstructure, through weak, compressible strata
or water onto stronger, more compact, less compressible
and stiffer soil or rock at depth, increasing the effective size of a foundation and resisting horizontal loads

raft foundation is suitable for d design

You are wrong. There is no given length for piles. They can be as short as necessary and no they don't have to reach bearing strata. You can pile just to densify the soil.

Its a good team, not the sum of its parts so to begin this kind of speculation is null. In my opinion the young men are average. There are no stars in the team. And this has helped them.

geeez: Well I don't receive those messages though I know a friend who has been complaining bitterly

I was told by my account officer that my monthly usage is high and excludes me. Whatever that means

I think information is key and I crave for those messages

Your life could be better for it you know

Even when I see a flier tucked under my windshield, I pick it and read

You never know

Yeah. This might be true. The more airtime you buy the less the disturbance. Recieve a few, twice or thrice a week but twenty a day . That's ridiculous.

Vicmama: i prefer palm oil, it is usully very tasty and different. especially when the oil is bleached well.

Very dangerous stuff.

CFCfan: This is a clear case of bad belle from the Iranian coach. Like many posters have said, this is the most genuine U-17 team that Nigeria has paraded in an international tournament. None of the players are older than 20.

Hahahahaha. Nice one.

Just hope the MRI test standards here are up to scratch and can be backed up by FIFA's international standards or stand up under independent arbitration if and only if a controversy erupts. Just like some drug scandals of the past in other sports, what your Federation says is not always sacrosanct.

Even those in aviation circles know what effect a dead engine can have. No just the loss of power but more importantly, drag. The minister is just this and with the headwinds of 2015 coming. All I can say to this government is bon voyage.

Just cut her loose.

Gone through the entire thread. Yet to see the usual suspects appear. Guess this is a bit embarrasing. Anyway hope this is not a pointer towards the future because I yearn for solid political opposition but will never like to see one totalitarianism exchanged for another. These pictures are troubling.

Dee60: The CBN governor and the President of Nigeria should not come from the same geo political zone. I believe GEJ knows this.

See what we mean. If the bank belonged to YOU. Will you care where the governor comes from....good news. The bank belongs to you.

The Chancellor guv. equiv. of the Brit. CBank equiv. is a Canadian. The earnest desire to fix the economy has transcended all their 'fears'. We are gripped and destroyed by ours.

Babzilla: THATS WHY THIS GODFORSAKEN COUNTRY WILL NEVER MOVE FORWARD
EVEN FOR SENSITIVE POSITIONS WE HAVE TO TRIBALISE EVERYTHING
FEW PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT QUALIFICATIONS OR TRACK RECORDS
IT HAS TO BE REGION/TRIBE
AND THATS THE SAME BULLSHIT ATTITUDE PEOPLE USE TO GO AND VOTE
THEN THEY WILL COME BACK GRUMBLING
SMH

That is the reality. Our structure is a dead weight on our existence, the source of ALL our woes and the first thing to tackle if not we can NEVER move forward.

And who was running the central bank between 1967 and 1972??. Gowon ably assisted by his deputy CBN Guv. Murtala. Someone who knows should fill in the blanks because the nation's financial woes a.k.a corruption started then and as I understand started in/with the CBN.

Just so sorry for Wenger. Has to rebuild form, team spirit and momentum everytime he shoots himself in the foot with ridiculous selections. Average tactician.

That's why Spanish clubs always do well. They always put out their best teams. They don't use Cup games to test players.

Knew Arsenal couldn't possibly win. Once again Wenger proves he has no respect for trophies. Mata alone accounts for two to three red shirts and the gunners forward line, a joke eh.