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youngest85:
Ehya......rip in advance

Diseases caused by sugar and salt kill more people a year than HIV. Get an education, HIV is not the killer it use to be due to medical advancement.

Humility is really a virtue sha. Only few possess it.

Only if we don't point fingers and get offended and simply carry on with what we have been tasked to do, how sweet will everything be.

To be honest Op, Nigeria is underdeveloped and labour productivity in some states is close to less than $10/month. Lagos state is arguably the only state that attracts major investors in Nigeria apart from oil producing states that have the western companies coming in to invest in oil infrastructure.

Infrastructure investors are not encouraged to invest in our energy, utilities, aviation sectors because of several key factors such as socio-political, corruption, security issues. How can states such as Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Kwara not have credible power plants, how many MWh of electricity do these states deliver to customers per year?. If you have a choice as an investor of investing in Kara, Togo with no violence and kidnapping OR Ibadan, Oyo with kidnapping and vandalism, you will select Kara, Togo of course.

One solution is that government should work more with both local and international investors and provide them with attractive incentives where infrastructure will be built. Infrastructure drives business and fosters economic growth which will in turn increase employment.
We need private investors coming in to build power plants at a rate of 20/year around various states. There are several infrastructure funds around the world seeking where to invest but they are always traumatized by Nigeria because of its instability.

So people still stoop so low to this Lagos is better and posh while Ibadan is local and underdeveloped argument.

My advise to Lagosians is to be careful what you wish for and please do know that people in other countries don't rate your city that much. They call it a slum where goods and people movement is nothing but chaotic.

Jungle justice at its highest peak, the ironic thing is they have actually committed a criminal act in causing an injury to another human being that has not physically harmed them (yes he harmed their daughter but burning his manhood is not protecting yourself from him whilst attacking you). Two wrongs don't make a right. Now his conscience cannot condemn him anymore, why?, He has suffered for his sin.

gbegemaster:
Doesn't it get wide with childbirth?

No

1.) Its linear elastic and non linear plastic.
2.) Hooke's law

mickeyenglish:
The grandson of the great capitalist himself John D Rockefeller.

Rockefeller along with his "partners in crime" JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, And Vanderbilt through a lot of competition to out perform each other, unknowingly built the modern day America. Just name anything synonymous to modernisation now, and you eventually discover that it started with these crazy men. Kerosene, Gasoline, steel, skyscrapers, rail, electricity, (both DC and AC) automobile etc... Just name it. These men created a crazy networths for themselves while enriching Americans and the Economy also.



Meanwhile, here in Nigeria, the alleged billionaires are busy looting us dry, improvising the masses, draining the economy, and still killing us untop. People like Otedola that supplies diesel at killer rates to Nigerians and still complain about the meagre selling price or "Oil tycoon" Alakija that got an oil well as a trophy from Babangida for a "job well done" .. Google her company and see how many people she has in her company.. Not more than 70 people, and she's the richest black woman in the world. All they know is luxury offshore homes and badass private jets from Boeing and Gulfstream. They are living the live of gods.










Post No Bill

They were rubber barons who provided capital to fund many projects and in doing so enhanced industrialization which help in fostering the rise of the middle class in late 19th and early 20th century in America. They got ridiculously rich in the process.

To be honest, you cannot compare those times to now. In 1900, people did not think it made sense that one day:

Most people will be able to afford a car
Most people can produce iced drink in their homes by not storing blocks in wooden boxes but through 24hr runnign refrigerators.
Most people can fly on a plane to go on holiday
Internet was more than a dream.

Btruth:
....and some houses in London can be so dull. Me to buy this thing in the picture for £2m, no way, naa lie.

TUFIAKWA!

Architecture and UK don't exist together for homes. You might be very impressed with the interior though.

Data Analyst
Machine learning jobs if you know how to program
Business Analyst
Software Developer

OR a MSc in computer Science/Data Science

The list goes on.

IamAirforce1:
Nice

Love is sweet when you have money

Love is sweet when its true love

eph12:
Summary is that grace came to complement the law not delete it.

Hebrews 8:13
English Standard Version
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

The New Covenant is stand alone.it is not complementing anything o.You cannot be under two covenants.It's not possible.You can only be under one.

DickDastardly:
Christianity is living like Christ. Christ lived a pure life, 10 commandments observation inclusive. To follow Christ we must be like him. Stop teaching people wickedness. This kind of write up is the reason todays Church is a total mockery of the life of Christ. GRACE this, GRACE that, bla bla bla. How can one ignore Gods 10 Commandments and expect him to be pleased. GOD has not changed. He remains the God of old. And Christ warned against twisting the words of his father when he said, do not add nor subtract.
Stop creating ANTI CHRISTS with this kind of senseless and silly teachings. Christians must learn how to live piously like Christ, if not we will sooner or later erode Christianity by our own very hands while ignorantly waiting for an immaginary ANTI CHRIST. There is no amount of grace that can save a sinner.

My brother, I appreciate your point but I think you might be wrong.

GRACE is even harder than 10 commandments. Ten C says do not murder.Christ in New Covenant says do not be angry in your heart(If you do you've The murdered already) The thing is Ten C... deals with outer actions, New Covenant Christianity starts from the heart then outer actions.

So is is not eating pork or cutting our hair that makes us holy(The law in old covenant says these things) but rather pleasing and doing the will of God in all areas (Even in areas that is not directly stated by the law), for example what does the law says about smoking,but in New Covenant when you have the holy spirt,you can get an answer.I hope you get me.

But to be realistic, the issue today is most christians are not truly filled with the Holy spirirt,hence the whole notion of Grace and empowerment of the holy spirit is becoming more of a theory everyday, that's why people go back to the law that looks "practical" but at the same time does not make you whole like the holy spirit does for the pure reason that the law does not give full redemption,Grace under Christ gives.

Ashleydolls:
Nigerian men need proper orientation on the dangers of battering their wives. Some men are beast in human nature. You're meant to be her protector

I agree my you my sister o.It's a mentality of entitlement of a lot of African men(Even the way they talk to their wives is military).Anger needs to be eliminated in a man in order to have a successful marriage. (WHY? Because he's the leader and the strongest physically)Yes our spouses can do awful things but we need to be calm and walk away. I've thought of it several times and there is absolutely NO REASON why a husband should batter his wife.

No point in destroying them. These are still capital resources that could either be sold or used for state welfare provision. All the government needs to do is to use its power to confiscate the properties.

nanizle:
See this guy sha.... you think say self control na beans.

Even catholic priests in Rome and beyond still dey missbehave up and down.

I get your point that you should have a grip of your sexual urges before considering being a pastor, but I ask, how realistic is that??

Of course not all pastors are that weak but I believe that majority of them are... just like majority of men cheat.

And God sef did not make it easy for men to resist temptation

Just go and look at Daniella Okeke's pictures... you will understand why the Apostle had to dash her a Mercedes Benz SUV although I don't know what exactly he 'collected' in return.

Let me tell you bro, we have a backslidden church, but we don't know. Compare our results to the churches of old(with all our technology and money). What is the difference between believers today and the world.

In Acts of Apostles, when they wanted people to share food (share ordinary food), they sought after men filled with the holy spirit who have certain level of maturity in the christian faith(not Babes), See below:

3 Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; 4 but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

The problem today is we have carnal impostors as leaders who would not even pass a test of a 17 years old girl living in their house for a month, they would defile her. Bro self-control is a requirement for the work of God. Pastor job is not easy and the same time not for weaklings or Mr "I cant keep my eyes off women". If you check 1 Timothy of the requirements of a Deacon, talkless of a pastor. It not by force o.

Maybe we even have too much churches. if the criteria to open churches are high, not just i know the word, everyone knows the word these days.

It leads me to people that will open there mouth and say men are naturally polygamous by nature, well human being are naturally insatiable, go and be stealing then. We need self-control in all proportion in life to gain god's approval.

nanizle:
Sighs.

People fail to realize that the so called pastors are still ordinary men just like you and I.

If they commit crimes, they should be investigated and persecuted. But Nigerians no go gree, they go about victim blaming and refuse to entertain any idea that their pastor can commit a crime even with evidence staring them in the face. It's sad that this guy is only now making noise because his sister may have been a victim.

That been said, if the kini was mutual and consenting, I see no reason why these girls should disturb us with their private affairs.

As for Suliamon, I don't have any issue with the guy. It's obvious he likes big nyash and he's very generous to his babes.

Konji does not discriminate against anybody... pastor or not.

No I disagree, its not by force to become a Pastor. If you don't have self-control and still suffer when you see sexy young girls in shorts, don't become a pastor.The same way you can't join the army if you are not ready to go to war.ITS NOT BY FORCE.

DON'T PLAY THE "THEY ARE ORDINARY MEN CARD".

Christians shouldn't even be ordinary people (No be royal priesthood Bible call us) talkless of a leader/shepherd defiling the sheep. Evil upon Evil x 1,000

Even a child will know the name was added to the website as a proof.I'm not supporting him though but the alledged proof is just an amateur work of adding someone's name to a website source code and then screenshot it.

frank043:
Piling is NOT the last resort to overcoming a weak subgrade.

I said potential solution and not last resort.If you see my other comments you will see I said reinforced raft founded on a more stable soil layer.

COOLDK:
The main purpose of adopting a raft foundation is to prevent differential settlement.

Even if you are adopting a raft foundation, the technicality and logics shouldn't be compromised. You still need to carry out soil test/investigation to ascertain the suitability. Otherwise piling will be best here.

If the weak soil is excavated to quite stronger soil at about -1.5m with better bearing pressure and then a reinforced raft can be adopted.But in very loose sand with high water table, piling might be the only option.

jeftalene:
Engr. Osaz' Enobakhare (Lagos, Nigeria)

As construction cost rises due to attendant rise in prices of building materials, the trend of building houses directly on sand has been observed to be on the increase especially by unscrupulous developers and contractors. Having carried out an independent monitoring of construction activities in some areas in the Ajah axis of Lagos lately, it became obvious that in order to save cost people have resorted to constructing buildings directly on sand.

The awkward idea been adopted in most of the cases under study is to sand-fill the land, level and compact it with the use of machines and the construct a reinforced concrete strip foundation directly over it without recourse to minimum construction/engineering standards. They do so very quickly so that before any of the regulatory bodies saddled with the responsibility of building control gets wind of their ill act, they are already on super-structure level at which point it is burdensome to ascertain how the foundation was actually built.

On a particular site, using this vague method the entire foundation including the ground floor slab was put up in one week and by the next week, they were already building up the walls and frame. Dishonest developers thrive in such indecent acts and sell or lease these buildings to unsuspecting prospective buyers who in-turn occupy them or cause others to do so by way of lease/rent too. There is no consideration for lives and properties put at risk of an imminent collapse even as some of the buildings observed are already exhibiting symptoms of instability and sick building syndrome pre-occupancy.

Five years post-occupancy, the building over-settles (or sink) and then tilt in a particular direction. When asked, some of these developers claim that before there will be any major issue with the building they would have recouped the returns on their investment and its left to the new owner to do a repair by way of underpinning as the need arises. To know that some greedy professionals have joined the bandwagon of quacks in delivering such poor structures is condemnable. This act should not be encouraged in any form.

Here are some structural considerations; normally after leveling and compacting operation has been carried out on a sand-filled land it still remains a made-up ground. Although the land becomes stiff at sub-surface levels, this doesn’t in anyway erase the fact that the underlying bad soil (or peat) remains intact and retains its poor attributes. Peats are highly compressible soils and will naturally compress upon the impact of load. As this happen, the building will settle indifferentially, especially during seasonal changes and mass movement of the earth; which occurs at various times of the year. Such structural anomaly often leads to poor stability of the building and eventually a collapse if unable to bear the load, especially for single or multi-storied structures.

Rising cost of building materials should not be a yardstick to adopt poor construction methods in the construction of buildings and estate infrastructure anywhere. The authorities should not turn a blind eye to such activities that jeopardizes or threatens the lives of people as well as the overall health of the built environment. Project owners and developers should not connive with contractors or builders to manipulate well established engineering prinicples. It is important to select a good contractor for your projects. Yes, there is room for adopting cost-saving methodologies like the use of dry construction methods, cold brick construction, etc but bad construction methods is never the way to go.


Source: http://engineerosaz..com/2017/03/why-it-is-structurally-wrong-to-build.html

I enjoyed reading your post. CFA piling is a potential solution to overcoming a weak soil with poor subgrade reaction and bearing pressure. The problem with construction in Nigeria is there are no strong Building Controls,Health and Safety Executive and Construction regulations that punishes poor construction. People are more concerned with getting the building up irrespective of the ground conditions and the construction methodology adopted.

Tomjazzy2:
As tereble as this may sound, but the earlier ladies started accepting the fact that men generally speaking, are polygamous in nature, the better for their sanity.



If you eventually find a man who is faithful- there aren't much around nowadays- you'd consider your self lucky, but if you don't, you just try as much as possible to device a means of handling him

People should stop popularising "Men are polygamous by nature" statement.Yes but there is something call self-control.

It's like saying humans have a natural tendency for insatisfaction, yes but you need to find contentment unless you will become a thief.

DaudaAbu:
nice


So he is the only one Idahosa has ever prayed for or blessed abi?

I couldn't just click like,I had to say thank you and help me ask him o

davidif:
My Goodness! The way some Africans think at times is just amazing. You guys just seem to think in absolutes. The fact that a guy is handsome does not mean he is broke or have less prospects in future. He can be handsome and wealthy (and also living, faithful and God fearing too). Having good looks does not mean that you don't have other equally appealing qualities. Beauty and work ethic do not have to be mutually exclusive. They can both come together.

Same thing with women, it's possible for a woman to be beautiful on the outside and inward. It doesn't have to be one or the other. People are not always one dimensional you know?

It's not only Africans that says what I said.Obviously you can be fine and wealthy.Opps I am not aware of that before.

It's funny when people hear opinions contrary to theirs and they will start saying it's because of your Africannes.The worst ideology of life is not even in Africa but in Europe and North America.

Again, I repeat looks should not carry anybody away.I don't care if you are broke or not.

pocohantas:
Don't speak for women o.
So many women have married a guy just because he is a fine boy, you won't understand if you're not fine sha.

Ok stay there and be eating fine boy after 10 years then. In my opinion, looks will hold a woman down for about 3-5yrs, when looks now become negligible, what next?.

A lazy fine boy don't even deserve to have a had-on.

I am very pro don't marry for money but love. I am also not blind to what is going on around me.

Kaymaxine:
d guy sef wowo na!!!
if u want to be cheated on,let it be d likes of
john dumelo
chris attoh
RMD
jim iyke
chidi mokeme
alex ekubo(jonnie)
yemi black
obasanjo

I hate to admit it and I cant believe I'm saying this, being handsome is only needed when you are broke.

Ask Noeimie Lenoir and Beyonce that what do they see in Makelele and Jay-Z respectively.

I'm not saying they will love you either but most women nowadays seem to want a guy that can provide the good life.

The quest to enjoy the riches that you have not worked for has gripped people across the world significantly. We now call the older generation old school and fun spoilers for emphasizing hard-work. People want to be like the Jones. Where are the ideals of hard-work, diligence, and contentment?

May God help us all.

GossipHeart:

Guys in the UK are just poor

I don't know why people migrate to the UK

They will come dey brag, i live in the UK and i send money to my relatives in Nigeria, maybe that relatives lives in a remote village in Ogun state

No jobs, if you see their house you go pity for them, small chicken house

Even their roads dey tiny

Nigerians and Americans are the only ballers i know

Every country has its own unique normality. Big does not necessarily mean good and small does not mean good too. Everybody knows that if you are looking for luxury, you will likely feel/see it more in the states. Everything in America is big and in your face. When they asked Chimamanda Adichie on why she choose America over the UK, she said America has more money to hand out. She’s right, it’s only in America I see business men giving a university $250M
It’s true that UK houses are smaller and the American houses are big. Their garages are for two cars etc, that’s certainly a luxury in the UK. Many of those UK houses that people see and call cheap are more expensive than some of the USA ones when you directly compare the status of the suburb (there’s no sense comparing NY for example to Leeds, of course, NY is 10 times more expensive).

On the being rich, I can only laugh, yes Americans appear on the surface to live large, big house, big car, big everything.I also find out that most of them have huge debts. Most buy everything even TV on debt. I believe the richest guy is the one that owes no man anything irrespective whether his bed is tiny or not and that person could be living in Abeokuta or New York or Dubai.

I will certainly not use American houses and cars to justify their financial health.

The ironic thing is, this guy carries a religious book with him everywhere he goes, shouldn't the holy book inform him that stealing from the people he leads is bad.

I recommend a book that every African should read, Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu. In that book, most of us will think the author had our leaders in mind when he wrote the book.

OBAGADAFFI:
And African leaders looted Africa for the Westerners.

For education they go to the west
For health they go to the west.
To hide looted funds they go to the west.

Yet we blame the west for our problem.

I'm talking about the very beginning when Africa had a civilisation and the greedy westerners came to destroy and loot.They terminated kingdom and created a new colony.They then handed over an already faulty system to corrupt African leaders through "Independence" who obviously continued with the faulty system creayes by the masters.

You cannot amalgamate people of different cuture, language,religion and beliefs into one gigantic nation called Nigeria and expect not to have problems of soci-economicnissues. European nations like Serbia is only 7.5 million, Estonia,Croatia etc.These are small nations that represents it's own people. I'm not saying a massive nation state of different cuture cannot work but as far as a tribe sees itself as superior to other tribes within a nation there will not be a balance.

OBAGADAFFI:
Did is say they are developed. No
India is part of BRIC, so she is a developing country.

S.Africa is the only country moving towards developing (and we know why).

Other African countries are underdeveloped.

Because South Africa was not looted the way other Sub Shara African countries were looted.

The westerners lived and developed South Africa with the technology they had while they stole from other sub saharan africa, they sent their kings on exiles(Calabar etc),destroy their kingdoms(Kenya etc).That's why

Mr preacher definitely doesn't know his history.

Check Fassil Ghebi in Ethiopia

The ancient Benin Kingdom walls that enclosed 2500 sq miles which was known to be the largest structure ever built by man during that time.

Sub-Sahara Africa had its own early civilisation, we designed crafts,arts that had the same quality as the Greeks, Romans etc,we traded locally and nationally.

If you have a civilisation and some foreigners with advanced military power came to destroy, loot, enslave, acquire your land, colonise and then amalgamate you with other tribes to form a nation-state, by doing that they've successfully discontinued your civilisation and your identity is lost.

For me that's the greatest problem of everywhere that was colonised such as many countries in Africa and India.Check non western countries that was not extensively conquered and enslaved(I mean for long period of time) such as China,the story will be different.

I have no doubt that if Sub-Sharan Africa was not enslaved and colonised it would have been 100 times better than what it is now.