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Congrats Jarus

Planning for your decking is one area people spend too much of time because of the finances involved but we can as well prepare our minds for the probable costs by doing a rough estimate ourselves from the plan. This will help you to plan ahead and also save cost.

http://buildingcontractorsecrets.com/2013/10/decking-or-suspended-concrete-floor-estimate/

tellwisdom: Keep quiet my friend ... He is not successful cos he doesn't have money yet . He is a poor man, trying to be rich

Hehehehe..lol How that one come dey vex you like this now..

The owner of a 1966 Volvo has clocked up three million miles to claim a place with Guinness World Records.
Irv Gordon bought the red P1800 47 years ago on June 30, 1966 - and has been driving it ever since.
"The day I first bought the car I picked it up on a Friday night and started driving around town and showing it off to all of my friends and local pubs and wherever else," Mr Gordon said.
"Before I knew it, I was up in New Jersey and up in Connecticut and went back to my college in Massachusetts."
He said the qualifications he was looking for in a car were simple: reliability and dependability.
"I was very happy when I figured I got a car that's going to be reliable and dependable, and well, I am still driving it today," Mr Gordon said.
On March 27, 2002, he was awarded the world record for the greatest ever recorded mileage by a single owner of a vehicle when he hit two million miles.
In just over 11 years, Mr Gordon was able to add another million to his odometer.
He reached three million miles while driving in Alaska.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1966-volvo-clocks-three-millionth-mile-010546046.html?vp=1#8G4tO0I

Many do mould blocks onsite using masons and labour to do the job and claims is cheaper but I don’t think so when you consider the advantages the engine moulded has over hand-moulded.

http://buildingcontractorsecrets.com/2013/09/advantages-of-engine-moulded-blocks-to-hand-moulded-blocks/

Haaaa!! Graduates don suffer for this country o...na wetin una dey face be dis?

I believe the pastor actually slept with you ESE, but spare me the crap of being the victim you are actually an agent of darkness carrying out the mission from the devil himself. I have no doubt you were jilted by the pastor and when you couldn't take it you decided to expose and bring him down. Fine, clap for yourself mission accomplished.

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South African police said Wednesday they had arrested a 50-year-old woman for ordering the assassination of her two sons as part of a suspected life insurance scam.
Police said the woman from Port Shepstone, south of Durban, recruited a relative to carry out the double murder, but the man reported her to the police.
The job was to be done for around $2,400 (1,800 euros), but she had requested a family discount.
“The alleged motive for the killing was that she wanted to claim on insurance policies she had taken out on her sons,” police said in a statement.
The woman promised the hitman three more jobs if he successfully pulled off the two murders, the statement said.
Police also found her in possession of insurance documents and four other identity cards.
The woman has been charged with a conspiracy to commit murder and will appear in court on Thursday.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/50-year-old-mum-arrested-for-planning-sons-assasination/

Why must it always be from China? Ah!

Despite their military name, it is hard to see how an eight-strong delegation from Nigeria's branch of the Boys' Brigade posed much of a threat to this country. They are, after all, members of a Christian youth group that is championed by our royal family and had been invited to a prestigious global event to recognise civic leadership. But the handpicked teenagers and their two dedicated leaders were barred from Britain.

The group was gutted. "We are not happy at all," Arastus Mbamoh, national secretary of the Boys' Brigade in Nigeria, told me. "It is very annoying and highly disappointing for everyone." They were not alone – 43 other delegates were barred from the international gathering this weekend at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. With depressing inevitability all were from Africa; only eight applicants from the continent were allowed to join the festivities.

This is the flip side of our toxic immigration debate, with those vile "go home" posters and racist talk of bongo bongo land. Each day, thousands of Africans are turned away from Britain, wrecking carefully laid plans to trade, visit relatives, attend conferences, see the sights or simply enjoy some shopping. They lose costly visa fees of up to £772 and go elsewhere; we lose goodwill alongside much-needed business in key sectors.

This official hostility makes a mockery of politicians who talk of competing in a global race as they corrode links to some of the world's fastest developing nations. And nowhere sums up Britain's anachronistic and contorted view of a rapidly changing world better than Nigeria, a country cobbled together by our Victorian ancestors a century ago that is emerging, for all its flaws and internal rifts, as Africa's potential superpower.

On one hand our leaders, who love to cloak themselves in compassion as self-proclaimed saviours of the poor, throw huge clumps of taxpayers' cash at this west African behemoth. As ministers pump taxpayers' money into aid despite a startling history of failure, Nigeria is being handed the biggest increase of any major recipient nation over the course of the coalition. The annual bung is rising from £142m three years ago to £305m by the next election in 2015 – coincidentally the country's target date to launch its first astronauts under an ambitious space programme.

It is daft to pour such sums into a place pockmarked with corruption and soaring inequality. Nigeria is one of the world's fastest growing markets for private jets and champagne: a bottle of Cristal can cost £600 in a club while two thirds of people struggle to survive on less than half that sum a year. The core issues are ones of governance and social justice – yet we prop up a thieving political elite that has failed persistently to deliver public services to its people. This is a major oil producer that suffers crippling power shortages and accounts for one in three children out of school in Africa.

It is worth adding, of course, that it is pinstriped western pimps in finance, law and property who assist the flight of African capital – much of it stolen – into offshore accounts and tax havens. Little is done to tackle this. Now one of our leading banks is about to cut the life support that aids millions of families through the transfer of remittances.

Despite the kleptocracy and growing insurgency in the north, Nigeria is one of the continent's most consistent economic performers, with annual growth rates of more than 5% over the past decade and about to become Africa's biggest economy. This is not just down to oil – it has strong banking and technology sectors, while manufacturing, construction and leisure thrive. The question is whether its energy and entrepreneurialism can sustain a population expected to increase fivefold by the end of the century; if it does, it could challenge even China.

So what is our stance towards this nation that has strong historic ties to ours, speaks English and can be brought to near standstill by an Arsenal match on TV? A sharp rise in the proportion of rejected visa applications, according to most recent figures. And now the government, rattled by Ukip over immigration but impotent to stop those coming from Europe, plans to impose an absurd £3,000 bond on the six-month visas favoured by most of the 142,000 Nigerians who visited these shores last year. This discriminatory idea was, incidentally, first floated by Labour then initially announced by the Liberal Democrat leader.

Yet we will need Nigeria more than they need us in the emerging world order. Over the past decade trade between the two nations rose nearly fivefold, with the value of British exports there doubling. Meanwhile, a study last month found Nigerians to be the sixth-biggest spenders in our shops, which explains the Hausa signs in Debenhams, while they spend £300m annually at our schools and universities. But there is nothing to stop them educating their children in the US, trading with Turkey or holidaying in China.

The bond proposal created a deserved backlash in Nigeria, with fiery calls for retaliation. Newspaper headlines talk of two nations on a warpath – but which one will be the loser in the so-called global race? The African powerhouse growing at great speed – or its former colonial master, struggling to hold its head above water? Britain bleats about bogus development through aid, yet demonstrates hostility that reeks of hypocrisy and damages both our interests. We need to wake up before it is too late.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/09/britain-hypocrisy-nigeria?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

All weird things now come from China.

Nice design keep it up.

Good job.

You can contact me omionick@gmail.com

Just the basic knowledge in staircase construction.
http://buildingcontractorsecrets.com/2013/07/how-to-construct-or-build-staircase/

There was an article like that on factors that contribute to cost of borehole driling may be this will help.
http://buildingcontractorsecrets.com/2012/04/factors-that-influences-the-cost-of-borehole-construction/

I think cases of kidnappings made them to list relatively peaceful states.

The answers are here
http://buildingcontractorsecrets.com/2011/12/basic-measurements-and-conversions-of-feet-and-inches-to-metric-and-plots-of-land-measurements/

A new report says that the CIA has been sending bags of cash to Hamid Karzai totaling tens of millions of dollars
It's like something out of a mob movie: Suitcases, backpacks, and sometimes plastic shopping bags packed full of cash, delivered discretely to a willing politician.
The purported money-exchangers: The Central Intelligence Agency and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai. According to a report in The New York Times, Karzai's office in Kabul has been on the receiving end of tens of millions of dollars from the U.S., and is still getting paid to this day.
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Khalil Roman, Karzai's deputy chief of staff from 2002 until 2005, called it "ghost money," according to the Times. "The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan," one American official told the paper, "was the United States."
While the CIA refused to comment on the story, Matthew Rosenberg, who reported the Times story, said on Twitter that Karzai confirmed his account of events:
Karzai confirms @nytimes story, calls CIA #ghostmoney useful. Describes CIA cash, totaling millions, as a small sum nyti.ms/14DAchW
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— Matthew Rosenberg (@mrosenbergNYT) April 29, 2013
The purpose of the cash was to "maintain access to Mr. Karzai and his inner circle and to guarantee the agency's influence at the presidential palace." Most people, of course, would call that a bribe.
Where did the money go? Politicians and warlords, including some who had connections to Afghanistan's drug trade, and even the Taliban. The money appeared to have no restrictions placed on it.
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To be fair, if the United States had not been paying Karzai, he might not still be in power. Steve LeVine of Quartz points out that in 1992, Mohammad Najibullah, the Russian-backed president of Afghanistan, ran out of money to pay off Abdul Rashid Dostum, an influential northern warlord, after Moscow pulled its patronage. The result? Dostum gathered his allies and overthrew Najibullah.
Still, both Afghan and American officials have called the bribes ineffective, saying that the CIA "has greased the wheels of the same patronage networks that American diplomats and law enforcement agents have struggled unsuccessfully to dismantle, leaving the government in the grips of what are basically organized crime syndicates," writes Rosenberg.
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Another indication that the CIA's bags of cash are questionable: Iran had, for some time, been doing the same thing — to little effect. Tehran eventually halted its payments, but, at the very least, Afghan officials tell the Times, Iran was more transparent about its donations, sending millions of dollars through Karzai's chief of staff, who would then have it stored in a state-run bank and the contribution announced at the next cabinet meeting.
Afghanistan, the third most corrupt country in the world, according to Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Index, is well-known for its illicit government dealings — but it seems now we have pretty clear evidence that the U.S. plays a big role in keeping Afghanistan dishonest.

http://news.yahoo.com/biggest-source-corruption-afghanistan-united-states-120500373.html

Today I am introducing you to the new lifestyle estate along Command- Ipaja road, Ipaja Lagos State.

This estate is been built by Prosper Gardens Ltd and I am part of this project from conception to inception and will be through to the finishes as they will be rolled out in batches. It is termed a lifestyle project because we are having infrastructures that can stand and compare with any estate in the Nation yet is done for the average income earners.

http://buildingcontractorsecrets.com/2013/04/prospergardens/

Many questions have been raised on calculating aluminium roofing sheets, this requires some scientific calculations but I have been able to simplify it with this article.


http://buildingcontractorsecrets.com/2013/03/how-to-calculate-or-estimate-longspan-aluminium-roofing-sheets/

Oshiomole-President
Godswill-Veepee.

I thought the richest man in the world inherited substantial amount, and in another thread posted about him it was said to be frugal almost annoyingly. I think is about the values you impart into your children money or not.

And remember those companies you are copying started from garages...amazon,ebay etc

The internet penetration in Nigeria can be faarrrr better but is very okay for any internet business to thrive, but everywebsite owner at once wants to be that CEO with large expanse of office in Lekki, retinues of workers that does not have an inkling what internet biz is all about and arrays of official cars. Any online biz can start from ground zero and passes through the teething stage before profit just like the offline biz but naija webmasters typical would rather seek for immediate gratification at d end they will burst like dotcom bubble. People beleives in you when you can stay long enough, be consistent, be focus, through my blog without any other reffere I have gotten contracts in millions and it won't stop and for a site with such low traffic I promoted Jumia to my subscribers yet people bought products over 2000 dollars through my refferal link alone using atm and credit card- though d commission no even reach 100 dollars..lol.

@Jarus, there is nothing bad about the title honestly I also strived soo hard to be rich then in school, and if the op feels this impresses him/her to post on Nairaland no problem, however I would have loved to see young guys making money doing some businesses or using their creativity I would have been green with envy because I also tried unsuccessfully to do same when I was in school but to see prostitutes been glorified this way with this kind of promotion then something is wrong. And for Seun to now move it to front page is an endorsement. But lets leave it.....

This is a great idea and I also like the criticisms, the professionals I beleive must have considered the safety and have a way of tackling resultant challenges.

You may not delete it, but remove it from front page atleast.

You may not delete it, but remove it from front place atleast.