MANAGING A HOME IN NIGERIA

This topic may be startling or funny but managing a house any where in the world is very important.Managaing a house consist of two aspects ;the home and activities in it.House mangement is simply the way a house is organised , ran, and generally structured for effieciency.A typical house in Nigeria is not well organised.It is common to see documents scattered all about the house or crammaed in a cupboard only for rats and cockroaches to feast on them.It´s day to day management is by coincidence, trial and error or not even thought about at all.In contrast, in a European country like in Germany, organising a home/house is almost compulsory.The house /home there is a an office which needs to be well managed. A house which is simply a dwelling can be divided into different departments depending on individual and families.There could be the health , the social , the electricity , bookkeeping , kitchen/house keeping ,rent department , official or external transactions, internal transactions and family correspondence. The head of this house office is normally the husband and father of the house.If it is a home where there is just an individual the office organisation may be different. The important thing here is , a house should be organised in a structured way by opening a file for each department .These files must be well labelled accordingly and placed on shelves or in a good cupboard devoid of insects , pest or rodents. The gains of organising a house this way will help reduce chaos and the problem of locating documents no matter how irrelevant they maybe.It will help a long way to help keep records properly.For example if records of electricity bills of a house are well kept, they could easily be retrieved any time an official requests for them.Because the bills were well kept, it will save time and prevent arguments ( putting the issue of corruption aside).The single drawback to organising houses in Nigeria , is the level of literacy.The uneducated and people living in villages may not be able to apprecite the need for an organised home.Enlightenment programmes maybe organised by the government,NGOs and churches.