What is the best way to waterproof a wall?

I tried Super Sikalite last November, but water is already penetrating the wall this rainy season.

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They've been laying off minimum wage government workers, so as to keep paying the few people at the top.

The USA is the size of West Africa.
Nigerian Parliament has 469 voting members - 360 in House of reps, 109 Senators.
USA Congress has 535 voting members - 435 in House of reps, 100 Senators.

Why does Nigeria have so many representatives? Merge many of the representatives, and let them represent bigger constituents. That would reduce the cost of governance to even one-third of what it is now.

China has destroyed the world with their virus.

If you can afford it, build a solar generator. You won't have to rely on the grid again for the next 20yrs.

The purchase price of a solar gen, with LiFePO4 battery bank now rivals the cost of a Diesel generator. Yet, solar does not have the overhead cost of purchasing diesel, and servicing the machine.

Electricity in the USA is 24/7, but it is expensive. For this reason, a lot of Americans are opting for solar, and sometimes wind turbines. So if Americans are going solar, why not Nigeria where sunshine is even more abundant?

Nigeria is broke.
The greedy are suddenly realizing that their fat salaries are in jeopardy. So they want to layoff the little guys, to keep the big guys' salaries intact.

If debt is cancelled, will they demand austerity measures?

I don't know if it's been Buhari that has been stealing. But massive stealing has been going on since he took power. All those billions of $$$, what happened to them?

Nigeria has been behaving like a child.
So a grown up (USA) needed to moderate its actions.

I don't like unserious outfits. Where did Jubril idea come from? It is from the same people now cooing about their leader being dead.
What is good for the goose...
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Nigeria can do all these things. It should not even be headline news at all.
If we can learn about IC boards, and understand how resistor, capacitor, potentiometer, diode, transistors, etc work, electronics designs today are automated.
Just get arduino, and start practicing.
Our Physics teachers are excellent. They need to do more than theory. The components we're talking about are not expensive at all.

The world cannot do without oil. The current problem is temporary.
Airplanes fly on oil,
Ships run on oil,
Semi-trucks,
automobiles,
farm tractors,
factories,
making electricity,
asphalt,
About 6,000 things are made from oil https://www.ranken-energy.com/index.php/products-made-from-petroleum/

Oil is not going anywhere. Once the world returns from lockdown, oil price will start to creep back up.

If these thieves have any brain, now is the time to open Ajaokuta, and start industrializing Nigeria.
Now is the time to voluntarily cut high salaries of those in govt, and start developing the country.

Warning to thieves in govt: CoronaVirus is here to stay. It is like influenza, and will return periodically. So you better quit the stealing, and prepare Nigeria for what is to come. This is not the same Nigeria you're used to.

That is the latest strategy now used to destroy evidence.

As much computing power as Nigeria wields, every government activity should have been digitized by now. So that a fire incident becomes inconsequential, since all the data resides on a central server, with automated offsite backups.

Anybody who tries to implement digitization within government would probably be abducted and locked up like Sowore.

codemaniacs:


you're forgetting external interests.. easy oil money is not an excuse.. which countries would have been and will be affected if Nigeria's steel industry was working. that's what you also need to consider.

buhari has been a military president before so he could have resuscitated it then..

It is not an either or. Easy oil money is a factor too.
Why did Nigerians abandon agriculture? Was it because of external influence too, or because of easy oil money?

codemaniacs:
buhari has been a military president before so he could have resuscitated it then..

Yes he didn't then. But he is now. Does his past conduct invalidate his current actions? Or are you saying Buhari did not approve $1 billion for getting the project working?
what is the point you're trying to make exactly?

Izigha:
Shagari dnt start anything in Ajaokuta. Shagari became president in 1979, the contract was awarded in 1967.

Huh. The project started in 1979 by Shagari. Watch this video at 5min 5secs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxaHdH6VXk
I stand to be corrected, if you can provide references that proves me wrong.
Here is my reference...
"In 1967, Soviet experts recommended prospecting for iron ore in Nigeria, as the known deposits were of poor quality for steelmaking. In 1973, iron ore of the required quality was discovered in Itakpe, Ajabanoko, and Oshokoshoko. The Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited was incorporated in 1979, and the steel mill reached 98% completion in 1994, with 40 of the 43 plants at the facility having been built."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajaokuta_Steel_Mill

As you can see, the project was NOT started in 1967. It started in 1979 under Shagari.

Izigha:

I like the way you jump from Shagari to OBJ

Fill in the blank. I didn't know I had to mention every single president to satisfy you.
No need for the minutia. Just focus on the big picture, which is that Ajaokuta could have made Trillions of dollars for Nigeria. Why do Nigerians love to argue? You quote dates and can't even get that right.

Izigha:

Kudos for what exactly?

Ah, it's now clear where you're going. Personal vendetta against Buhari.
I'm a more evolved thinker. When people like you hate, you hate 100%. I don't do thta. If I dislike someone, it does not stop me from giving credit where due.
Buhari has been atrocious on security. for that he gets low marks. Nevertheless, he has done some good things, such as Ilorin-Jebba road. Kudos on that.
Ajaokuta is being resuscitated. Kudos on that too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_JoqjDbUk

Politics of hate shows crude thinking. That is something that happens to be killing America right now, where Democrats only attack Trump, and never see anything good he does.

There is no reason to lock down an entire nation. Millions of jobs are being lost, and the nation is close to entering another era of the great depression.

Trump says the solution cannot be worse than the disease. In other words, the solution cannot kill more people than coronavirus.

If the American economy is allowed to enter the great depression, suicides would skyrocket. 7 million people died in the great depression, and the US population was much less then than it is now. That means tens of millions might die if lockdown continues.

Then there would be deaths due to other things such as hunger and disease.

So let's say 20 million people die due to a bad economy, how many would coronavirus have killed without lockdown?

Several Scandinavian countries have already opened their economies back up. Why? What do they know that we don't? Obviously they know they can't keep people locked down forever.

China has also lifted its lockdown.

In the USA, Democrats want the shutdown to continue. That would cause the economy to totally collapse. They can then use that to campaign against Trump. This is why Democrats don't want the shutdown to end now.

Big American companies have already began declaring bankruptcy. Neiman Marcus is one.

American people are right to demand a re-opening of the economy. THE SOLUTION CANNOT BE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE.

Oil has been a curse for the common Nigerian.

Ajaokuta steel complex was estimated to employ about 500,000 Nigerians.
Shagari started it, then Obasanjo, Yar'adua, Jonathan, all failed to get it working.
Easy oil money made them abandon the project, which has been 98% complete for almost 40 years. We've been importing 10 million tonnes of steel ever since with foreign currency. Imagine how many Trillions of Dollars Nigeria could have made if Ajaokuta had been operating for 30 years.

South Korea, and India had a replica steel plant, also built by USSR. Theirs have been working for 30+ years. In fact, SK has increased their output from 10 million tonnes to 45 million tonnes per year.

Kudos to Buhari for trying to resuscitate the project. He pumped $1 billion into it. Hopefully, they haven't embezzled that also.

I'm sure none of them is aware of the bad roads too, since they only drive in Abuja, and fly everywhere else.

Every Nigerian citizen, rich or poor knows the poor state of health care in Nigeria. If even you've never been to a hospital, at least people everywhere lament daily, especially online.

There's coronavirus in every state in Nigeria.
How many people are receiving tests? Very few. That is why infection rates are so low in Nigeria.
The USA has 367,461 because they are conducting 100's of thousands of tests daily.

Many treatments have been proffered. Have they tried Choroquin?
What about the different herbal mixtures of garlic, lime, ginger, mango leaves, etc? Then boil, and let the man breathe the steam in for like half an hour. This is the traditional way Nigeria has been handling malaria, and it has saved millions of lives.

UK better not depend on their modern medicine alone. Try everything people have suggested.

Dear auto experts and mechanics,

Are spare parts available in Nigeria for Ford F700?
See photo.

Dire warning about Coron virus vaccine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sqoCkRA_ag

Nigeria is faced with a lot of problems. Most of it self-inflicted. Based on this, I'm certain the census is the last thing on people's minds.
Nevertheless, a nation needs to know the count of its citizens.
So here I'm sharing info about how the USA does it.
I hope our leaders take a cue from this.

DAVE5:
As far as I remember, this has been put into action since

The rules start April 1, 2020.

DAVE5:
This is Nigeria...

Nigerians are too docile. The politicians know Nigerians won't do a thing about it. And they will still vote the same way in the next election. That is why the people are treated badly.
Nigeria is the easiest country to be a politician. If anybody speaks up, they lock him up.

I think senators should accept lower pay for a few months.

DaInferno:
Imagine a bank deducting 15,000 naira as as processing fee on your 500,000 naira deposit. It calls to question if I am working for myself or I am working for the bank.
What is 5% of 3,000,000 ? What is 3% of 500,000. What exactly is the purpose of financial institutions? Is it to reap people of their earnings? What exactly are they processing with over 15k

You are exactly right. This is daylight robbery.
Developed countries build infrastructure, which help businesses create jobs for the people. The people in turn pay taxes that fund government.
Nigerian government refuses to develop infrastructure. Instead, it chooses to dip into bank depositors' hard earned cash.
It won't be long now before people return to keeping their cash at home, instead of allowing 5% of it to be taken by banks.

Dear Valued Customer,

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in its updated Cashless Policy has directed that all cash deposits above N500,000 for individuals and N3,000,000 for businesses will now be subject to charges Nationwide effective April 1, 2020.

This is in addition to the cash withdrawal charges already in existence.

Going by the above, all amounts in excess of the advised threshold will attract the following charges.

Account Type // Withdrawal/Lodgment Limits // Processing Fees for Deposits // Processing Fees for Withdrawals

Individual // Above N500,000 // 2% // 3%

Corporate // Above N3,000,000 // 3% // 5%

Boko Harams in the making.

The security situation in Nigeria has grown worse in recent years.
One thing Nigerian leaders don't know is that world leaders closely monitor situations in every country around the world.
Buhari has refused to fix Nigeria's problems. Then the most recent event with Sowore really blighted Nigeria.
Couple that with Nigerians being prone to overstaying their visas in the US, and you get a perfect reason to ban the country.

Some are calling Trump racist. He is not. That is just a CNN line they are repeating.
I follow Trump well. He has done more for blacks in 3yrs, than Obama did in 8yrs. Why would a racist do that?

Let's look at some things Trump did for black America...
- He is protecting jobs held mostly by blacks by tightening the border.
- Taking blacks off welfare, and back into the workforce.
- Black unemployment is the lowest in American history under Trump. See this (start from 18m 45s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94gJz6ihors?t=1120
- Trump is fighting against abortion, which disproportionately affects black people.
- Huge increases in scholarships for black people at HBCUs.
Obama gave $8B in 8yrs
Trump gave $25B in 3yrs
- 400% increase in black businesses under Trump.
- Opportunity zones. Trump signed executive order to revitalize black urban communities. $100 billion to be invested into these communities. Democrats refused to support it, so Trump signed executive order.
- Criminal justice reform initiatives.
- Trump pardons boxer Jack Johnson. Obama had 8 yrs to do it, he refused to pardon him.
- Trump sold fighter helicopter to Nigeria, to be delivered soon. Obama refused to sell to Nigeria.
- Trump restored education voucher program, which Obama cancelled.
- Approval rating among blacks:
29% under Trump.
15% under Obama.
- Policies for black people:
Ashanti alert act
sickle cell anemia law
prison reform first-step act
MLK upgraded to national historical park.

- Trump helped Whitney Houston when she was on drugs.
- He helped Mike Tyson.
- Johnson amendment.
- Support for Trump has exploded among black Americans. See this (start from 20m 20s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1NnBA4HMI?t=1222

Foreign investors don't like it when there is no freedom of speech, and the executive branch refuses to obey court orders.

Thousands of migrants flooding Nigeria on foot after visa policy was announced.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN6GwzZfYpI

This is exactly what I said is going to happen. When these people arrive Nigeria, and they can't find work, they'd turn to crime.

BreconHills:
From todays newspaper. As you can see the visa on arrival policy is dynamic and allows for specific targeting and response to emerging threats. It's not an open door policy. It is just a layered one that places itself behind other pre flight checks instead of in front of them.

I quote "They go through security checks and we have a stop list that guides us. On entering Nigeria, the system will alert us of a suspected terrorist because we already have their names with us"

Please read the article below. Have a great weekend.

https://punchng.com/visa-on-arrival-policy-immigration-to-begin-special-screening-of-kenyans-libyans-somalians-others/

Modified for visual ease

Same concerns as I have are highlighted here:
https://allafrica.com/stories/201912160010.html

Let's call this chat an impasse. No way to prove something like this anyway. Even if my apprehension comes to pass in the future, where would you be to do a mea culpa?

BreconHills:
I have applied for visa on arrival for expatriate partners and it is no cake walk.

You just buttressed my point that visa application should be made at the embassy, not at the point of entry.
Nobody can convince me that Nigerian has hit the perfection mark in digital technology, in a country where electricity problems affect even airports.
I guarantee you that the process will turn into rubber stamping for those who can "drop something". Unless it's not the same Nigeria I know.

BreconHills:
We already have free entry to ECOWAS citizen

Free movement for enhanced economic activity has not been without a hitch in the ECOWAS region. We all know what happened to Nigerians in Ghana recently. It's partly because of the liberalized visa policies.

BreconHills:
I can tell you that this policy will not increase risk to national security.

That has not been the experience in the European Union. So what magic wand would make Nigeria's case be any different? Debates raged in the past about discontinuing the Schengen Visa policy due to the increased security risk it poses.
Also, US passport holders enjoy free movement to certain countries. This has been dialed back somewhat due to security threats.
I think being bullish on Nigeria's new visa policy is naive at best. Yes it has some pros. But be willing to admit the cons as well.

BreconHills:
There are several differences between Nigeria and the US that make the security threats against them quite different

Not really. We cannot just sing the virtues of policies arbitrarily imposed on Nigeria without thorough consultation.
We know that ISIS sponsors Boko Haram in Nigeria. Does a weak visa policy not weaken security in that regard?

I maintain that this weak visa policy is knee-jerk in nature, and not well thought out.

Let's lurch to the extreme end of the spectrum and just let anybody and everybody in. Why not? Would that augur well for Nigeria's security?

Part of granting visas involves embassies scrutinizing the individual. A policy of "Visa at the gate" eliminates that step. To what end?

BreconHills:
Also do bear in mind that President Trumps security measures have been wildly derided

Yes, the opposition Democrat party, and their media surrogate CNN deride every single thing Trump does. Like I said before, Obama had the same exact ban, and Democrats never uttered a word of condemnation. Why the double standard? Also, SCOTUS later vindicated president Trump and upheld his original ban.

BreconHills:
The largest risk of terrorism is by home grown terrorists not foreigners jetting on and out of airports

To the extent that this is true, outside threats can be just as potent if allowed to fester. A weak visa policy lays that groundwork.
I gave you the example of ISIS funding Boko Haram. Unchecked movement makes it easy to form terror cells ready to unleash hell at opportune moment.

BreconHills:
It takes a lot of local knowledge including language, knowledge of geography to decide what to hit.

Of course, it does. Collaborating with locals fills that gap well. Nigeria in particular is vulnerable to foreign influence, since there is so much poverty in the land. If Nigerians can fly into other countries and turn to crime, why do you doubt that other people can come to Nigeria and do the same thing?

BreconHills:
Having said this, foreign terrorist movements are tracked across borders by different countries in near real time

Good luck with that within Nigeria's borders. A police ASP was kidnapped recently. A phone call was made by the police to the kidnappers that lasted almost half an hour. What happened to tracking there?

Policies in Nigeria more often than not are "gra gra". Ramifications of the aftermath are rarely considered.