₦airaland Forum

VinnyBaba:
Hope she is not complaining?

That 10K of then is like 200k today.

because I remember watching her First in the Year 2000 in a movie called FUGITIVE
Featuring Ramsey Nouah, Genevieve, Stella Damascus and Alex Osifo.

10k wasn’t a lot a lot of money then. I remember one boy that his Oga settled with 100k that year. He used almost 60k for shop rent and was looking for more fund to stock the place.
I lend him 50k which he paid back after about a year.
Today he is a billionaire (in naira) .

SweetDipBenny:

Or mortuary business

That place is too big for that business. Except he wants to add coffins and ambulance services.

Fast cross the evening tide. Abide!

safariman:
Applying for a Nigerian passport online from someone's home has been in existence for years. The only issue is that one has to go in person to a third party company located here on Parklawn road in Rockville Maryland for screening and they too charge. I think you still have to go the Embassy for biometric. I feel sorry for the Nigerians in diaspora where the Embassy or the third party is no where near their state of residence in the US.

Yea
Boston you go to New York
Texas you make the 10 hours drive to Atlanta.
Crazy!

lexy2014:
but have Nigerians not been applying for passports from the comfort of their homes before now?

the question is when will the passport be ready?

Except if they added the biometric aspect. If not, I don’t see any new development here.
You could apply for passport online before now if you live in the US, but must go to the center for biometric.

gbadexy:
You're are correct sir. When I wanted to open a domiciliary account, I was told to go and buy the dollar outside to fund it.
Subsequently, I buy from the black market. The BDC operators are always inside the banking hall to also buy directly from those that collect western union. Mostly they get it directly from the banks as they are familiar with the staffs there.
The banks are the main culprits. They get the dollar at the official rate and don't let it get to the business people that need it at the official rate so that they buy at higher rate and pass it to the customers.

You are very correct.
But the new CBN policy has changed everything. The dollars sent from abroad is now cornered at the top level by the banks. No one will pay any receiver in dollars anymore. All the banks only pay naira at official rate when you send dollars from outside.
It used to be that when you send dollars, you receive dollars and do whatever you want with it. But not anymore.

Philipgarza31:
I recently returned from the phone market, and the price of a phone that was previously 45k has increased to 100k. I simply took note of every trader's strategy by staring into their eyes. If I go on, someone will accuse me of being a tribalist, but ever since their candidate lost, they have vowed to charge three times as much for anything you purchase from them. They know themselves, so I did not call names now.

Is this why a bag of maize that used to be 40k is sold for 80k now?
Is this why a bag of rice that used to be 45k is sold for 80k .
Or bread that used to be 900 is sold for 2k.
Even cement that is totally local content increased from 5k to 11k. Yet you never saw it from tribe perspective.
Rest please. Igbo man is not your problem!

I hope you realized that those small importers like phone dealers are not able to get dollars from the banks.

Marriage na scam . But, this is a man signing off #50b for the wife’s business.

Abi, the man is also a simp?

This is interesting. Chinesse are making making a kill in this sector in our oceans. With their unrestricted fishing methods and lapses in government regulations, there will come a time when nothing will be left except for polluted water.

LordPherule:
Pls, I need help with name and location of companies to go and be depositing payments for aluminum roofing sheets.

If you have the space, why not be buying small small and keep until you have enough.

Putindbutt:
They were once wealthy before european exploitations leave them at the bottom barrel.

Maybe at the same period when one pound was 65 kobo in Nigeria.

Putindbutt:
A once wealthy nation turned the filthiest of rags, all thanks to the european supremacists.

Haiti has never been a wealthy country. They have always held the title of the poorest country north of the hemisphere.

saydfact:
Thanks boss.
Let's analyse it.

What makes brick more expensive.

1. Block is about 5k - 6k per m2 while brick is about 10k - 15k

2. Block has zero cost for transportation while brick could cost as much as 200k or more to transport the entire bricks needed on a 3 bedroom bungalow (about 20,000 pcs).... If you're in the same state where it's being produced or millions if its Abuja to Lagos and the project is a duplex.

3. For conduit pipes, you break blocks and plaster back, while you'll need mechanical tools and or accessories and ducts to make that possible in brick.

4. Labour for block is readily available at about N1000 per m2 while Labour for brick is scarse and more expensive (even worse if its the local home baked bricks)

5. Any error on laying blocks can be concealed with plastering, while you'll need to condemn the brick and start afresh or end up with a bad looking structure. WINK!

6. For the locally made bricks, available of clay soil is an issue....

You're right.
Brick makes the indoor cooler on hot days and makes it warmer on cold night.

We all shd be using brick in 9ja... But the cost is killing ooh... Lagos Poly started with brick at their permanent site but had to abandon the project and completed it with blocks.

I'll like to read about your research, we can learn from it also.
Thanks.

This is comprehensive and well detailed information.
As you pointed out, getting the expertise for bricks laying and transportation of the bricks especially burnt bricks, would be very expensive.
Recently, we got some marbles and granite from Lagos to East, about 200 sqm. Transportation alone was #500k.

Nothing is left

xjiggy:
All these old women forming youngie. Will never act their age. See the grown up man that is her son yet she will be forcing herself into tight clothes to decieve all those yaoyao money men in the southwest.

Oga, rest!

MEGAWATCH:
You don't know anything please stop disgracing yourself here.

Instead of you to listen and learn, your ego won’t let you.
I repeat, that yam would be thrown in thrash and you will still be fined.

armadeo:
Oga dem carry yam well well. Beans, dried fish many things. If dem "catch"you you'll pay one stupid dues like that for food stuff.

Nothing when dem never carry. Na palm oil dem bounce one time and na because I talk true sef.

Person when don roast full goat carry. No wahala.


But na me must buy all for market myself. I no dey for help me

Beans and dry fish is allowed. But for, they will throw it in the thrash. It’s agric quarantine issue. Nobody will let you go in with yam. They will fine you and still throw it away.

debossng:
I doubt this story. it's just staged social media viral content. how can someone send a tuber of yam abroad as in.....? e no make any sense at all

You dey mind them!

MEGAWATCH:
Stop saying rubbish abeg

This one has never left his village.
Who in their right mind will carry two tuber of yam of almost 5kg for another person ? When the total allowed is 25kg.
You no get sense.

Ordinary, that yam will not pass customs.
It is not dry . People should stop posting what does not make sense.
Only those that have never been to the airport would believe this.

mariahAngel:
I understand what you mean.
Turkey can be stingy with releasing its flavour into food.

Use onion powder to cook it first. It brings out the flavor. Although, I don’t like turkey.

Izuchukwu70:
That Bottled water is average of 2$ in America. Na 3k be that.

But in the same America, you can buy 40 bottle pack of the same size for $4 at Costco. That is like 10 cents each.

Any one that cannot manage himself on a 200k salary is not being prudent.
I even earn less than that, but my family is not complaining.
We buy food in bulk to last for the month.

oloyedewaris:
Shut up, no be so una dey talk, una con dey find empathy now

What is empathy?

RockHard:
Elections have consequences. I wonder who they voted for.

Like play, like play, you enter market.

topsy23:
Check this out

Can this be used for external parapet?

Bullfallo:
501 miles? Is this a brand new or a roll back?

2015- 2017

I would like to know a good mechanic for this type of vehicle in Nigeria

2shure:
80k is worthless. I had 130k .After doing shopping buying fuel.cway.....beer..gas...dstv..data I'm left with 15k. 80k is worthless. When u withdraw 10k.it will remain 70k u withdraw another 10k.e go remain 60k.b4 u know it na 10k remain.i give u 2weeks max.

How much would have been enough?

Tellmeastory:
Typical dumb IPOB village Igbo man with no brain.

Shebi on your Biafra Nnamdi Kanu radio, you sellout House Negros display your black self-hate on a daily basis, making derogatory remarks against your own skin colour like some cursed, rootless, lost souls.

So I'm not surprised by your slave reaction to racist insults against your own kind.

Repulsive, self-hating Uncle Tom Coconut.

what is the difference between you and all these people you described?

spyder880:
This design is costlier than most other designs, I have never seen it done anywhere else before.

I like it. Better soup na money.

spyder880:
40 tons of granite, and 320 bags of cement, we may still buy 25 bags to complete the work.

Thanks a lot. 12k x 320, chai!
This thing no be moi-moi .