Imagine your body is like a big factory with millions of workers called CELLS. At times, these workers do exactly what they are supposed to do or what they are told to do.
They do their work, stop work when required, grow old and retire (die). But sometimes, one cell can refuse to die and start making several duplicate of itself continiously.
These duplicates grow together and form CANCER. Just like how factories dismisses workers who fails to comply or retire old workers, that is how body kills and destroy those duplicated cells.
The the big question is how can a healthy person get it?
Being healthy or eating healthy does not make your body perfect because cells makes mistake in a healthy person's body. And those duplicated cells that the body failed to destroy is what causes cancer.
So having cancer is not a result of unhealthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of getting cancers, but it cannot prevent it.
It is just like having a brand new Lamborghini and a part of the car develop a problem even when you are taking good care of it.
You bought the house for ₦500 million. Congratulations! Now meet your new landlord: the estate management company.
And service charge is only one part of the conversation.
Take electricity.
The Band A electricity tariff has been ₦209.50 per kWh. Yet in some estates in Lekki and its environs, residents reportedly pay upwards of ₦350 per kWh for electricity supplied through the estate's power arrangement.
You spend hundreds of millions of naira to buy a house. But you may discover that you cannot simply deal directly with the electricity distribution company like an ordinary homeowner. Electricity is supplied through the estate's infrastructure and management arrangement, and you buy your power from or through the estate management company at a significantly higher effective tariff.
So you own the house, but you don't necessarily have complete freedom over something as basic as how you power it.
Electricity is just one example.
There may be compulsory charges for water, sewage treatment, security, waste disposal, cleaning, landscaping, maintenance of common areas, recreational facilities and general facility management. Some of these services are obviously necessary. My problem is not with paying for services. My problem is being locked into expensive services, with little control over the provider, the price or how the money collected is spent.
Interestingly, some estate residents are beginning to challenge these arrangements.
I was in court recently in a matter involving an estate where the residents' association had terminated the services of the existing estate management company following complaints, including alleged failure to properly account for service charges collected over the years. The residents proceeded to constitute their own management structure.
Before buying the house, investigate who will control the estate after the developer has sold the houses.
This is because the business model in some developments does not necessarily end with selling you the property.
A developer acquires land, develops an estate and sells the individual houses. You receive your deed or other title documentation transferring the relevant interest in the property to you. But alongside the property documentation may be an estate management agreement, deed of covenant or similar arrangement regulating how the estate will be managed.
And sometimes the management company is affiliated with the developer.
The developer has made money from selling the houses, but an affiliated company may continue earning revenue from the same homeowners through service charges, electricity, water and other estate services for years afterwards.
There is nothing inherently wrong with that. The problem arises where the arrangement effectively converts homeowners into what I call "upgraded tenants."
You have bought the property, but somebody else may still determine who supplies your electricity, how much you pay for it, how your water is supplied, what services you must subscribe to, what annual service charge you pay and, depending on the contractual structure, how easily residents can replace the management company.
This is why anyone buying property in a managed estate should:
Read the estate management agreement.
Read the deed of covenant.
Ask who owns the management company.
Ask how long its appointment lasts.
Ask how it can be removed.
Ask who determines the service charge.
Ask whether residents approve the annual budget.
Ask whether the accounts are independently audited.
Ask whether electricity and water are compulsory.
Ask whether you can install solar or a borehole.
Ask what happens if you refuse a particular service.
Because paying ₦300 million, ₦500 million or ₦1 billion for a house is one thing. Discovering afterwards that you have bought yourself into an expensive management arrangement that will make you end up as an upgraded tenant is another.
- Chukwuemeka Michael Ugah #EstatePropertyInNigeria
How did you end the first post with
“You will benefit from it more than you think”
Then 2nd frame you’re asking “Why are you expecting profit”?
A ‘Good Woman’ is to be rewarded but the person rewarding should not expect anything ?
You are contradicting yourself @DrJoeAbah
"when you are in a long-term relationship with a good woman, try everything you can to improve her".
"Improve her professionally, academically (if she wants) and financially, and give her security".
Forgetting that good women can turn bad.
Guys, when you are in a long-term relationship with a good woman, try everything you can to improve her. I don’t just mean with material things. Remember: “I even bought her IPhone and “Bone Straight” is for weak and inferior men. Yes, you will do those but they shouldn’t be your claim to fame.
Improve her professionally, academically (if she wants) and financially, and give her security. You will benefit from it more than you think.
I am Ezemmuo. I know things.
Guys, when you are in a long-term relationship with a good woman, try everything you can to improve her. I don’t just mean with material things. Remember: “I even bought her IPhone and “Bone Straight” is for weak and inferior men. Yes, you will do those but they shouldn’t be your claim to fame.
Improve her professionally, academically (if she wants) and financially, and give her security. You will benefit from it more than you think.
I am Ezemmuo. I know things.
God dey try oh.
You rig an election, you say it is God that made you win.
You commit fraud and steal millions. You say God blessed you.
You deal and sell hard drugs, you call it God's blessing.
Why not just tell us the truth or you keep quiet.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
With gratitude to Almighty Allah for His guidance, protection and blessings, I hereby formally declare my campaign for the 2027 House of Representatives election open.
In the coming 2027 election, nobody is meant to come out to vote. I mean, nobody.
If you see what citizens in other countries enjoy from their government, you will not come out to vote in this coming election even if your polling unit is in front of your gate.
After securing election victory for his family, with the help of Tinubu and the APC who ALLOWED democracy™ to reign, and going to Abuja to celebrate and renew his loyalty to the billionaire class where he belongs in, now, he’s back to advertising gambling to poor and struggling Nigerians.
This is how they see you. They don’t see you more than pawns who should exist only to labour for them at the top.
The worst part of that you worship them. Sad! sad!! sad!!!
"Prostitution exists because of men's demand."
WHY is prostitution is the only place where men’s ‘demand’ suddenly matters?
If men's demand was that powerful, we would have a world full of virgin, feminine,
fit, loyal, respectful, traditional housewives. Because that's what men have been demanding for thousands of years.
Did we get it? No.
We demanded virgins and got OnlyFans.
We demanded feminine and got masculine.
We demanded slim and got obese.
We demanded traditional and got "independent boss babe."
We demanded respect and got told we're insecure.
So why is the ONE demand you DO meet the one where you get paid to open your legs for MONEY?
Because it's not about demand. It's about what benefits YOU.
You meet the demand for prostitution because it's easy money. No discipline, no commitment, no cooking, no loyalty, no raising kids. Just cash for something you were going to do anyway.
You reject every other demand because it requires actual work. Being a good woman requires sacrifice. Being a prostitute just requires an internet connection.
Don't insult our intelligence. Prostitution doesn't exist because men want it. It exists because women CHOOSE to sell themselves when the price is high enough.
It's not male demand. It's female opportunism. Dumb idiot.
See what an 80 years old man is teaching young men in a generation filled with hoes and ungrateful women.
Another day to remind you age doesn't equal to wisdom.
I have three sisters who I have never bought an iPhone for, bone straight, improve them professionally, academically or financially but I should do all these for
• a woman who's still bearing her father's surname
• who there's zero guarantee that we'll end up marrying tomorrow
• and who's likely to tell me tomorrow after an argument
"What have you ever done for me?"
"I didn't force you to do it"
I haven't improved or upgraded women in my family but I should upgrade another man's daughter and do what he failed to do because we're dating?
So you think we're still in 1960 where women still had a little bit of honor, modesty and integrity?
Respectfully, you're very stupid, Sir.
See what an 80 years old man is teaching young men in a generation filled with hoes and ungrateful women.
Another day to remind you age doesn't equal to wisdom.
I have three sisters who I have never bought an iPhone for, bone straight, improve them professionally, academically or financially but I should do all these for
• a woman who's still bearing her father's surname
• who there's zero guarantee that we'll end up marrying tomorrow
• and who's likely to tell me tomorrow after an argument
"What have you ever done for me?"
"I didn't force you to do it"
I haven't improved or upgraded women in my family but I should upgrade another man's daughter and do what he failed to do because we're dating?
So you think we're still in 1960 where women still had a little bit of honor, modesty and integrity?
Respectfully, you're very stupid, Sir.
@SzosziV26346 I know what i am saying. Women will always test you in one way or the other. It is how you react that makes them respect themselves around you.
You see women, they know how to step on your toes, push you to the wall to see your reactions.
Once you ignore them, they see you as a weak man and take you for granted.
Once you react, they behave and respect themselves around you.
Anywhere this woman sees this man, she will respect him.
When dealing with a woman behind closed doors, make sure you have evidence. If she falsely accuses you of ràpe/sèxual harassment, you evidence will save you.
Learn from Poco Lee case.