Our decking reinforcement details in pictures

These are the update pictures of our decking works at Ibagwa Nike in Enugu state, enjoy......

The choice between metal and concrete handrails?

The terrace or the balconies in your house deserves the best care you can give it, but between the metal handrails and the concrete handrails, which do you prefer and why?

Udenweze street, New Haven Enugu

These are the pictures of a street in New Haven, Enugu. This is Udenweze street and the houses are standing tall and looking good, the people of this area of the city have pipe borne water and good security. Enjoy the pictures.

Nigerians suffering under the sun to buy kerosene

The pictures are self explanatory, the suffering that Nigerians go through in order to buy ordinary kerosene for domestic use. Many people have been here from early in the morning collecting heavy sun tans under a hot African sun. On the other hand, the action of the buyers are condemnable, I mean, how can one be buying kerosene for domestic use with such a big container, abi they wan cook for the whole village?

Picture updates of our duplex building in Ebonyi state

Card readers not working at my polling station

Of course the card readers failed woefully in my polling station.  Right from early in the day,  it was a complete confusion galore as many polling booth stations had their card readers mistakenly taken to other locations.  Right until now the one they claimed to be right for our polling station is not accepting any cards, rejecting all the cards of everyone in this polling station in Enugu state.  Very bad for our elections. How can anyone be sure of the next problem

Sketch of our planned estate at Ugwuomu Nike

This is the provisional sketch of this site, this has been measured and demarcated to create the roads on this virgin plots of land. After we completed this work, another member of the family with a land bordering this on the western side called me and asked that my surveyors return to measure his own land. He wants to sell too. I will be sending back my men to go measure this new land and add to this sketch so we can get additional plots to be allocated. I do not know the size of his land but it will become clearer after the measurements.

What else, there is a rumor of a new road coming this way, and I think its long overdue, if this happens the community will become more demanding and start asking for a higher price.

The amount I put up there for the surveys cannot get us a survey plan on the current rates in the surveyor's council new tariff. They have raised individual lifting with your personal names to N90,000 per plot. (just saw it today in the surveyor's office) This means that we have to pay more to get the survey plans, plus this current perimeter survey and plotting. I think we might have to raise this survey fees to around 130,000 to cover for every survey issues and you get your survey plans issued.

Please wait till all the measurements are in before committing to this financially, there might still be some adjustments. For larger plots of lands, we might have to charge more, this is the plans for now.

Do we want a complete perimeter fencing of this plots? I am sure most of us wants it, I will cost the perimeter fencing and add to the list so we can start fencing this site as soon as we complete the clearing of the whole land. I await more contributions.

I am optimistic of the success of this estate, it is still far from town but trust Enugu, development is speeding towards this area, and if we wait till it happens, we might not be able to buy anything here. Thanks.

What is the name of this wild cat?

What is the name of this wild cat?

Should women do hard work?

The trend these days is to have a family where both man and wife work to make ends meet, but are there ways to keep the "weaker gender" from doing tough jobs which were supposed to be left for the men, or where do we draw the lines? Again, should women work at all outside the home to make additional money for the family?

What do you think?

Co-Pilot intentionally crashed German airliner?

PARIS (AP) — Passengers with moments to live screamed in terror and the pilot frantically pounded on the locked cockpit door as a 27-year-old German co-pilot deliberately and wordlessly smashed an Airbus carrying 150 people into an Alpine mountainside.

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3. French prosecutor: Co-pilot wanted to 'destroy' plane Associated Press
4. Co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing Germanwings jet Reuters
5. Lufthansa CEO stunned that co-pilot apparently crashed plane Reuters

The account Thursday of the final moments of Germanwings Flight 9525 prompted some airlines to immediately impose stricter cockpit rules — and raised haunting questions about the motive of the co-pilot, whose breathing never wavered as he destroyed the plane and the lives of those aboard.

"We have no idea of the reason," Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin said, revealing the chilling conclusions investigators reached after reconstructing the final minutes of the flight from the plane's black box voice recorder. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's intention was "to destroy this plane."

French, German and U.S. officials said there was no indication of terrorism. The prosecutor did not elaborate on why investigators do not suspect a political motive; instead they're focusing on the co-pilot's "personal, family and professional environment" to try to determine why he did it.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose nation lost 75 people on the flight, said the conclusions brought the tragedy to a "new, simply incomprehensible dimension." Devastated families of victims visited the crash scene Thursday, looking across a windy mountain meadow toward where their loved ones died.

The Airbus A320 was flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on Tuesday when it lost radio contact with air traffic controllers and began plunging from its cruising altitude. Eight minutes later, it slammed into the mountainside.

An analysis of transponder data by Flightradar24, a flight tracking service, showed that the autopilot was re-set to take the plane from 38,000 to 100 feet.

The prosecutor laid out in horrifying detail the final sounds heard in the cockpit extracted from the mangled voice recorder.

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Lubitz, courteous in the first part of the trip, became "curt" when the captain began the mid-flight briefing on the planned landing, Robin said.
The pilot, who has not been identified, left the cockpit for an apparent bathroom break, and Lubitz took control of the jet.
He suddenly started a manual descent, and the pilot started knocking on the door.
There was no response. "It was absolute silence in the cockpit," the prosecutor said — except for the steady breathing he said indicated Lubitz was not panicked, and acted in a calm, deliberate manner.
The A320 is designed with safeguards to allow emergency entry into the cockpit if a pilot inside is unresponsive. But the override code known to the crew does not go into effect if the person inside the cockpit specifically denies entry.
Instrument alarms went off, but no distress call ever went out from the cockpit, and the control tower's pleas for a response went unanswered.
Just before the plane hit the mountain, passengers' cries of terror could be heard.

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French gendarmes and investigators make their way through debris from wreckage on the mountainside a …

"The victims realized just at the last moment," Robin said. "We can hear them screaming."

Their families "are having a hard time believing it," he said, after briefing some of them in Marseille.

Many victims' relatives visited an Alpine clearing Thursday where French authorities set up a viewing tent for family members to look toward the site of the crash, so steep and treacherous that it can only be reached by a long journey on foot or rappelling from a helicopter.
Lubitz's family was in France but was being kept separate from the other families, Robin said. German investigators searched his apartment and his parents' home in Montabaur, Germany, where the curtains were drawn.
The prosecutor's account prompted quick moves toward stricter cockpit rules — and calls for more.
Airlines in Europe are not required to have two people in the cockpit at all times, unlike the standard U.S. operating procedure, which was changed after the 9/11 attacks to require a flight attendant to take the spot of a briefly departing pilot.
Canada and Germany's biggest airlines, including Lufthansa and Air Berlin, as well as low-cost European carriers easyJet and Norwegian Air Shuttle announced new rules requiring two crew members to always be present.

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Graphic shows aircraft and victims by country; 2c x 5 inches; 96.3 mm x 127 mm;

Some experts said even two isn't enough, and called for rules to require three.
"The flight deck is capable of accommodating three pilots and there shouldn't ever be a situation where there is only one person in the cockpit," said James Hall, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, referring to the "jump seats" all airliners are equipped with.
Others questioned the wisdom of sealing off the cockpit at all.
"The kneejerk reaction to the events of 9/11 with the ill-thought reinforced cockpit door has had catastrophic consequences," said Philip Baum, London-based editor of the trade magazine Aviation Security International.
Neither the prosecutor nor Lufthansa — the parent company of low-cost carrier Germanwings — indicated there was anything the pilot could have done to avoid the crash.
Robin would not give details on the co-pilot's religion or his ethnic background. German authorities were taking charge of the investigation into Lubitz.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said that before Thursday's shocking revelations, the airline was already "appalled" by what had happened in its low-cost subsidiary.

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Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann, left, and Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohrin arrive for a press  …

"I could not have imagined that becoming even worse," he said in Cologne. "We choose our cockpit staff very, very carefully."
Lubitz joined Germanwings in September 2013, directly out of flight school, and had flown 630 hours. Spohr said the airline had no indication why he would have crashed the plane.
He underwent a regular security check on Jan. 27 and it found nothing untoward, and previous security checks in 2008 and 2010 also showed no issues, the local government in Duesseldorf said.
Lufthansa's chief said Lubitz started training in 2008 and there was a "several-month" gap in his training six years ago. Spohr said he couldn't say what the reason was, but after the break, "he not only passed all medical tests but also his flight training, all flying tests and checks."
Robin avoided describing the crash as a suicide.
"Usually, when someone commits suicide, he is alone," he said. "When you are responsible for 150 people at the back, I don't necessarily call that a suicide."
In the German town of Montabaur, acquaintances told The Associated Press that Lubitz appeared fine when they saw him last fall as he renewed his glider pilot's license.
"He was happy he had the job with Germanwings and he was doing well," said a member of the glider club, Peter Ruecker, who watched Lubitz learn to fly. "He gave off a good feeling."
Ruecker said he remembers Lubitz as "rather quiet but friendly" when he first showed up at the club as a 14- or 15-year-old saying he wanted to learn to fly.
Lubitz was accepted as a Lufthansa pilot trainee after finishing a tough German college preparatory school, Ruecker said.
Lubitz's Facebook page, deleted Tuesday, showed a smiling man in a dark brown jacket posing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. It was restored as an "In Memory" site following the French prosecutor's news conference.

At the crash site, helicopters shuttled back and forth Thursday as investigators continue retrieving remains and pieces of the plane, shattered from the high-speed impact of the crash.

The principal of Joseph Koenig High School in Haltern, Germany, which lost 16 students and two teachers in the crash, said the state governor called him to tell him about the probe's conclusion.

"It is much, much worse than we had thought," principal Ulrich Wessel said.

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Eating a lot of seafood in Enugu

Its funny, we live miles away from any major river or sea but the people of Enugu are enjoying seafood, you can but crabs, cod fish, barracuda and even octopus in Enugu shopping mall. (lol) Enjoy.....

What is this building project going on at Awka, Anambra state?

I couldn't see any signpost in front of this building site so it was difficult for me to know what building is going on here in Awka, Anambra state. Is this a hotel or trading center of some kind?  This road is at Ikenga industrial layout.

How we produce and install designed balustrades, handrails.

At the Tigerkenn homes building company, we are always on the lookout for the best of your building pleasure. This is why we are developing and introducing this style of designed concrete balustrade to be used in your balconies and terraces. You can give us a call or send a whatsapp message to 08033350750 or 07081821271.