We are dealers in high quality safety shoes, American make. You have to state what exactly it is you want. What quantity you want. Is it Pull-on or normal shoe-like safety boots.
Let me know and I will be able to give you a quote.

femmy2010:

I presently do not have any on ground but we can both head to Cotonou auto market to buy it.

Cotonou? Ok. So what budget should I look at?

esedadon: I can get your rav4 for you direct from Canada if you can wait 8 weeks for shipment and clearing @ d port. If you're ok with that call me +16478384216 1pm Nigerian time will be 7am Canadain time cheers.

I think I'm ok with this arrangemment as long as it will be worth the wait. Eight weeks duration is ok by me. So in the meantime, can you send me the full specification/pictures/VIN of what I should wait for? The email is abmulocresources@yahoo dot com.
looking forward to reading from you.

I am in need of a decent Toyota RAV4 2001 or 2002 model. It must be black in colour and American spec. Any good dealer with this offer should get in touch with me with a reasonable price. I can more speedily be reached on abmulocresources at yahoo dot com.

@Femmy, can u pls get me a clean '01 or '02 or '03 RAV4. Very neat. Black preferred. Can u? I'm awaiting ur response

29k mileage. Is it direct toks?

I always wonder how a serious buyer would just start pricing a car he hasn't physically inspected. I don't get. Seller where can we come look this ride up?

Is this the end of this thread? Almost two weeks, no update. I hope all is well with the prof

Ruqaya:
i don't have/need to answer ur question
i'm telling u dat dis BH crisis is not a religious crisis but political crisis and our govt also knows dat, but dey keep mute and every one accuses we muslim as terrorist.
Demolishing of mosq do not and will never make sense but anyway, time will tell.

@Ruqaya, I agree with you about BH being a political problem but may I ask you, 'Why can't politicians also use other religions in Nigeria to end the lives of hundreds of thousands of harmless and innocent human beings? Why? If we want to tell ourselves the truth without sentiments and bias, we will readily agree that there is something fundamentally wrong with this kind of religion. Tufiakwa!

OMG! I love this. Other State governors should follow suit and dislodge these viruses from where real humans stay.

Emperoh. confirm this baby has seen some bit of Naija roads?

spyder880:

Concrete has a high binding quality that is even stronger than gum, remember the outer part is made of cement solution, it can never seperate, do you know that we are nailing wood on the standing pillars today and it was not breaking, it is just solid.

Very very interesting and much of an eye opener for me. I never would have thought I would fall so much in love with the Property section.
Spydo, you have completely changed the colour of this section. It's no more just about innumerable agents trying to sell unverifiable property.
Ride on bro

sam(obo):

ABA indigenes ARE ANGRY AT TA! The Aba crowd is giving Governor Theordore Orji a raw deal at the Ojukwu Burial Rites. They are mad at him. They are booing him continuously and not allowing him to speak. UMU ABA ARE ANGRY! He practically had to cut his speech short.


The stadium is filled. The overflow is filled. Ikemba was dropped by helicopter into the stadium because there was no way in. Amazing Enyimba town!

but in my entire life i have never seen such a hostile situation like the one melted out on T.A this afternoon from ABA BOYS.



Situation report BY Igboist John Okoye

This had better start happening to all state thieves governors.

Let them use their esteemed positions to better the lot of the school.
A situation whereby  students pay for books and other study materials and yet do not get them is extremely pathetic and frustrating. This has been a perenial problem in the school. Year in year out the school authority makes sure they collect monies for study materials from students and yet such materials are not provided to them. If this is not executive fraud, I don't know what else to call it.

Also when are we going to see the first set of graduands from the school? Even the first set of students that were admitted as far back as 2004 are still in the school due to no fault of theirs but entirely due to management's seeming unseriousness.

Open University systems work very efficiently in other climes. But in Nigeria it's in a big mess.

Ogbefi_007:

Spyder, I have some reservation on using the glassy tiles on your walk way, kindly put into consideration when u r old u could slip off u know ( God forbid) and kids also should be considered incase their is water spill or something, just thinking it's wise for tiles on the walkway or stirecase should have some rough edge cos of frictional impact !

The glass blocks are supposed to serve as part of the wall, not as floor tiles. Or am I missing something?

VIPICO:

@Spider880, Could you explain how it is that the outter part of the pillar that also serves as the mould is able to stick so firmly to the poured concrete part, after the binding wires are removed, without coming off. I have always wondered.
Thanks. 

@spydo880, one of your very loyal and humble students had earlier asked a question here o. Biko, throw some light.

When I will eventually start, I will send you my plan for review before I commence.
More concrete grease to your elbow!

[b]For those of us that will decide to buy your blocks from the block industry, please note these points.

1. Buy from a stock produced a long time before you come for it, the longer the better.

2. Don't allow the owner of the block industry to talk you into waiting while he makes you a batch of blocks which you will come to collect in a few days/week time. He will surely reduce the cement ratio if you have paid. That one is sold so he can afford to produce below standard.

3. Buy from a block seller nearer to your site as this reduces some cost, but on one condition, if they have same quality as the one in other places.

4. Use your thumb and index finger to grab at the edges of the block samples, if its easier to breaks of and turn to sand, it is of low quality. And if its strong and will not break up easily, it is strong and will not break quickly on site.

5. Allow the block makers to water the block for some days before you carry from there, blocks that are not very dry are more brittle and will cost you more money in the end.

6. Watch the sand, if they are using sand from a flowing river to make their bloks, it will be more expensive than blocks made using roadside sand. The more expensive the sand, the more the blocks will be cost. Don't let them sell you blocks with lower cost sand at the price of higher cost sand.[/b][size=8pt][/size][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]


I will never forget these points when I'm ready to start. Salient and very helpful point indeed.

Spydo, I'm here rightaway. I'm going to digest everything here word by word to
then go back to complete the 5 Bedroom Executive Duplex thread. I'm loving what you are doing, bro. You can still throw in a word for me on the thread I asked blocks related questions if you have the time. Like Fhemmy, let me concentrate on being a serious student. Exams beckon!
More concrete grease to your elbow!

afam4eva:

English is as crazy as they come. English language defies logic as there is no specific rule for speaking English.

Do I agree with the emboldened part? Nah! Crazy as the English language may seem, there are rules guiding its use.

spyder880:

more pillars

This highly ingenious method of casting pillars make a whole world of sense, Spider880.
Asians, Europeans, Americans and everyone else need to come down to Nigeria and learn this creative way of making pillars instead of trying to sell cardboard and plastic moulds to us.
Nigerians, sometimes we need to sit back and appreciate our own instead of swallowing whatever others throw at us hook, line and sinker.

@Spider880, I have seen the blocks you are using for this project and I dare say they are really solid. I particularly noticed some areas where the workers use as walkways and they constantly step on the erected blocks of the building (the verandah area) and yet those blocks do not char off easily. You can hardly see that in Port Harcourt. The average Port Harcourt blocks (I stand to be challenged if anyone knows where I can get solid blocks in PH) would have completely worn off at those areas where the workers march on repeatedly. Merely hitting the blocks with your closed fist would disintegrate it all.
When I saw the aforementioned part of your building, I thought to myself, "Enugu block moulders sure make better blocks for sale than PH block moulders"

Also are the blocks you use vibrated or ordinarily moulded? Although even as a non-professional I am inclined to believe that the real secret here lies in the sand to cement ratio. Does vibration really matter?

@Spider880, Could you explain how it is that the outter part of the pillar that also serves as the mould is able to stick so firmly to the poured concrete part, after the binding wires are removed, without coming off. I have always wondered.
Thanks.

^^ @ Prince onx, thanks so much for your response.
I am looking forward to starting a duplex buliding later this year so I think I have really benefitted a lot from this thread. A friend of mine is currently buliding and decided to buy vibrated blocks for his duplex. I was on his site yesterday and found out that the so called vibrated blocks, which according to him should be stronger than normal manually moulded blocks, break easily.
Some builders I have spoken with seem to be of the opinion that there is no difference between site muolded and bought.

Well like you said, if one is not in a hurry, its better to mould by oneself. I will not be in any hurry when I start.

I'm still learning from the pros here. Keep it up guys.

OP: I shall be waiting for the the cost of the bulding up to roofing stage, if you won't mind. Ciao.

So there is a school like this on NL and I have been missing out?
Anyway, I'm a new student and I would like to ask a question that has always bugged my mind about starting out a new buliding: Considering the poor quality of blocks i see around displayed for sale these days, is it better to buy blocks or mould by oneself when starting a new building?

I have noticed that the hollow blocks that are for sale now have much bigger holes thereby having very tiny block areas and the ratio of sand to cement is very much in favour of sand.

Should one mould or buy blocks?

Tony,
Sequel to the conversation we had when I called you, can you take your time and scout for a very sound and clean 2003 Nissan Xterra, black or wine colour with mileage not more than 50k for me. Between now and end of March will be ok by me. Send me a mail on vipico2000@yahoo.co.uk lets work out some more details. Am waiting for ur mail.

THE DANGERS OF SPANKING A CHILD - A Canadian Report.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Spanking children can cause long-term developmental damage and may even lower a child's IQ, according to a new Canadian analysis that seeks to shift the ethical debate over corporal punishment into the medical sphere.

The study, published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, reached its conclusion after examining 20 years of published research on the issue. The authors say the medical finding have been largely overlooked and overshadowed by concerns that parents should have the right to determine how their children are disciplined.

While spanking is certainly not as widespread as it was 20 years ago, many still cling to the practice and see prohibiting spanking as limiting the rights of parents.

That point of view highlights the difficulty in changing hearts and minds on the issue, despite a mountain of accumulated evidence showing the damage physical punishment can have on a child, says Joan Durant, a professor at University of Manitoba and one of the authors of the study.

"We're really past the point of calling this a controversy. That's a word that's used and I don't know why, because in the research there really is no controversy," she said in an interview.

"If we had this level of consistency in findings in any other area of health, we would be acting on it. We'd be pulling out all the stops to work on the issue."

Durant and co-author Ron Ensom, with the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, cite research showing that physical punishment makes children more aggressive and antisocial, and can cause cognitive impairment and developmental difficulties.

Recent studies suggest it may reduce the brain's grey matter in areas relevant to intelligence testing.

"What people have realized is that physical punishment doesn't only predict aggression consistently, it also predicts internalizing kinds of difficulties, like depression and substance use," said Durant.

"There are no studies that show any long term positive outcomes from physical punishment."

While banned in 32 countries, corporal punishment of children retains at least partial social acceptance in much of the world. Debates on the issue typically revolve around the ethics of using violence to enforce discipline.

With the study, Durant hopes parents will start to look at the issue from a medical perspective.

"What we're hoping is that physicians will take that message and do more to counsel parents around this and to help them understand that physical punishment isn't getting them where they want to go," she said.

She also hopes that countries that allow the practice - including Canada - will take another look at their child protection laws.

Canada is one of more than 190 countries to have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a 1989 treaty that sets out protections for children.

The treaty - which has been ratified by all UN member states except for the United States, Somalia and South Sudan - includes a passage stating that countries must protect children from "all forms of physical or mental violence".

"If we had two or three studies that showed that if you took 500 mg of vitamin C a day you could reduce cancer risk, we would all be taking 500 mg of vitamin C a day," Durant said.

"Here, we have more than 80 studies, I would say more than 100, that show the same thing (about corporal punishment), and yet we keep calling it controversial."

dabriggs:

HI THERE PLEASE I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
I HAVE A BUDGET OF 1.5 MILLION NAIRA,BUT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ADVISING THAT I GET AN S.U.V BECAUSE MY STREET AT OJOTA IS VERY RUGGED.I WAS HOPING TO GET A 2009 COROLLA OR 2010 YARIS.PLEASE WHAT TOYOTA BRANDED S.U.V CAN MY BUDGET GET ME?SECONDLY IS MY BUDGET OK FOR THE COROLLA & YARIS?PLEASE REPLY HERE

@denniseky, pls can u give an open answer to this request so that we can all benefit. Thanks.

@deniseky,

Your refreshingly different approach to doing this business is highly commendable. Keep it up.
I have a budget of 1.4M and madly in love with '06 Toyota RAV4 Limited. I'm i wishing too much?

If u accept 820k,  could make arrangement to come look it up Monday morning. I would also like to have full details like mileage and stuff. vipico2000@yahoo.co.uk

texazzpete:

I must now join voices with those people who suspect that this man may not be entirely ok. This is the same man that went to Imo State and PRAISED a thoroughly useless Governor! This same man went to Oyo and showered praises on the Thrice Accursed Alao-Akala!
This same GEJ has NO significant achievements to his name as a Governor of Bayelsa State. Nothing at all!

He's talking about 'stones'. Did he not see Nigerians carrying mock coffins for him just a few weeks ago? Did he not shiver with dread at the baleful and malevolent curses hurled his way by ordinary Nigerians?

Pathetic!

Well said, man. Well said.