So painful one of the school collapse after much recognition all round the word. I will wait and encourage another one been built but with the loopholes in structural calculation FIXED. nice work

Fashola wanted to relocate d community,they cried wolves,wailing that's where they were born and where they would die.Now wu should we blame?

Shumuel. What would you have said if a child had died when that floating school collapsed? This is why planning permission is necessary. The government's engineers need to certify that the building is safe for human habitation. Any structure that is not safe should be pulled down. Human life is involved here.

The government has already unveiled its plans to regenerate the area and provide facilities, but lack of facilities is not an excuse to endanger the lives of children.

lailo:
Fashola wanted to relocate d community,they cried wolves,wailing that's where they were born and where they would die.Now wu should we blame?

Thank you.

herbie27:
Is a society wit an effective government suppose to let an NGO build such a sub-standard structure as school?.

does this look like a normal sane society to you

naptu2:
Shu'muel. What would you have said if a child had died when that floating school collapsed? This is why planning permission is necessary. The government's engineers need to certify that the building is safe for human habitation. Any structure that is not safe should be pulled down. Human life is involved here.

The government has already unveiled its plans to regenerate the area and provide facilities, but lack of facilities is not an excuse to endanger the lives of children.

If a child had died ? So you would rather the kids wait a hundren years for the government before having access to education ?

If the government had done the right thing in the first place would it had lead to this ?

You speak like this because you are not affected and you donot live in that community, so i expected nothing less, i just thank God for your live, i believe you should have heard in the News of a certain person who also did the same in the North but the building later collapsed,, if the government were working, these individuals would use their money on their selves or families rather than spending it to help their communities and still be blamed for it.

Hmm... I rest my case. But honestly its very sad

Shumuel: The very first thing that a serious person should have done was to seek planning permission. There is simply no justification for endangering the lives of children. What would have been the point of any education the kids would have gotten if they had all died when the building collapsed. The principle is the same right around the world. If you want to build something, go get permission from the government. It doesn't make any sense to put the kids in a structurally unsound building. There is no excuse for that, period.

naptu2:
Shumuel: The very first thing that a serious person should have done was to seek planning permission. There is simply no justification for endangering the lives of children. What would have been the point of any education the kids would have gotten if they had all died when the building collapsed. The principle is the same right around the world. If you want to build something, go get permission from the government. It doesn't make any sense to put the kids in a structurally unsound building. There is no excuse for that, period.

How do we even know he didn't get the right and nessesary permission, anyways, bottom line i would forever blame the government.

And lastly, bro, am done with the topic, jare, am sure they are now happy, well it has capsized, isn't it ?
Am sure the guy may not be back to build anything anymore and the kids would be back paddling canoes and fishing all their life.

Lets move on to something else.

Pavore9:
That Makoko is a different world altogether, weaving through the stilt structures being paddled by a 9 year old boy and seeing women comfortably frying akara, yam and potatoes inside a canoe...can't forget my experience!

Please attach pictures and videos...it Will be a nice documentary..

shumuel:


The funding is one part, the guy gave out is time, skills and even made it free education for the kids, mehn... And they had to be this wicked,, hmm! How would anyone else be encourage to help or do something of such in future,, the painful part is; if there were casualities am sure the parents of the kids might even sue him or say he did it for money rituals and had used their kids, Nigerian stupi.d mentality its so sad.

yeah, true that... but thank GOD the pupils were not in school at this unfortunate incidence

TheFirstLady:
yeah, true that... but thank GOD the pupils were not in school at this unfortunate incidence

Yeah, Thank God for that, if not, the same people he is trying to help would had called for his head.

since1914:


The collapse does not necessarily translate to bad PR for him or his work, rather it will offer him and his team an opportunity to go back to the drawing board and do something better. The structure even though functional, was actually an experimental design. The idea was to learn from this and further iterate the concept and have them mass produced eventually. A better-designed replica of this building is currently being exhibited at this year's Venice Architecture Bienniale in Venice, as Nigeria's first ever entry at the event. The terrain of coastal communities in Nigeria has created a permanent need for this kind of Architecture, hence I will be disappointed, if the Architect and his team fail to maximise the opportunity the current publicity offers them.

...hmmm, a spin on this... you may be right about that, reputation is everything as a professional... if all the factors were not taken into consideration like functionality matching design based on architectural integrity? that's where the challenge is, no matter the spin... but like you pointed out, it may turn out to be all the publicity they need...it certainly will pose for revolutionary structural designing to advance for buildings in regions as this.. Like you said,back to the drawing board... The catch is let the improvements come from him.

shumuel:


Yeah, Thank God for that, if not, the same people he is trying to help would had called for his head.

naija for sure...

CNN has aired this school. I guess all the students can swim. Hope no casualties

Dis country...
The very first question I expected was about the status of everyone who was in the building.
But after that, why would anyone side with govt on this?!
Why didn't fashola buy a proper barge- or 2, or 3- and build standard schools on them?
People prefer to live on water, therefore they don't deserve good schools?
And since the formation of lagos state, how many successful relocations have there been? In his 8 years how many successful relocations did he carry out?
We all just LOVE to grandstand when we should be hurling insults at thoughtless, mentally dull leaders- A state like lagos with children out of school- and actually ABANDONED BY GOVT, yet we have the gall to laugh at almajiris?!