Alright... same building

#Modified

We should stop cutting corners in this country!

rip to the dead

Rip

Olukokosir:
God save us all in this country

Which country has God saved

Where do you guys generate this thoughts?

You ignore realistic options and choose to input your support via fiction

Dont you think God would have held that building for sometime and sent an angel to tell the pupils to go out if he wanted to help

And you here begging for safety from one who has no realistic track records

Even the other houses close to it dont look healthy

donstan18:
Why do I have the feelings that the initial plan and foundation of that building was not actually for 3 storey.

Those developers go just come erect one or two pillars and do some patch patch then repaint....house don stand again...

Even the one next to it looks dilapidated.

lonelydora:
The foundation of that building is not for 3 storey. Why put kids on the 3rd floor?


Most times, i select the kind of building i enter whenever I'm in Lagos. It's in Lagos you see houses built by great great great grandfathers handed over from generation to generation. Different landlords at different times. They hardly renovate the houses.


RIP to the Innocent kids

Instead of renovation landlords used their savings to marry another wife or invest on new slay queens.

May God save Us from our own self destruction.
Even the other buildings around that place still look sub-standard and could come down anytime soon given the impact of the collasped building to the ground.

And Nigerians can be unreasonable, why stand on the collasped building again? Is it that people do not value their lives?

A very shabby and frigile building that shudnt be more than 1 story was made a 3story with a roof house as children skol. What a recipe for disaster in waiting.

tosyne2much:
Even the other houses close to it dont look healthy

All house inside Lagos island don't look healthy.I am even surprised how this 1 just collapse without affecting d 1 beside.they just build house there, no space. Weak foundation carrying like 3 to 4 buildings with over 100 people on it everyday.shops and residence

Any building marked for demolition should not be allowed to stand more than 48 hours before bulldozer enters it.
Why mark a building for demolition and allow unscrupulous elements the chance to collect bribe and sweep the whole thing under carpet until a disaster befalls people?

freeze001:
Nigeria shaaaa! Like someone said, Nigeria is its own natural disaster. A lot of the tragedies experienced in this cowntry are purely avoidable, man-made, unforced errors that we end up suffering for due to wicked leadership and perpetually compromised regulatory authorities/systems. What a shame!

Tennis fan?

Is it not the rubbble these people are standing on? I think this was meant to be a storey building but this is Nigeria and LAGOS ISLAND in particular!

Haa! Children left home for school only to be met with this tragedy?
Teachers went to school only to be met with this..
Man is wicked, this is the cause of someone's ignorant and selfish interest years ago.

Hope those trapped comes out alive. Amen.

Ok, so why are those people on the debris/rubbles; adding more weight on the still-alive victims

WHERE DID WE GET IT WRONG IMAGINE A SCHOOL THE BUILDING WHERE IS THE PLAY GROUND ONE BUILDING DIVIDED INTO 3 SEGMENT AND A SCHOOL IS SHARING ONE OF THAT SEGMENT

ThothHermes:
Tennis fan?

Quite, not an avid one though...

ignis:
God...Please save your children

Kids have already DIED

At this point is is obvious god has other things to attend to

Imagine this congested isale eko area of lagos island a total slum

Look at the building there why won't it collapse when there are too many people occupying the building

Imagine a school here wat a mess

Mehn all these houses in Lagos island
I fear them all
May God save us

Why are people allowed to stand right on the collapsed building mounting more weight and pressure on the debris. The weight of all those people will further ensure that the debris get more compacted thereby reducing the chances of any survivor trapped underneath.
Just my layman's common sense though

But the Nigeria culture is about tolerating substandard facilities because we nurse the sentiments that people are just trying to make a living.
There are numerous examples.
1. Taxis and buses, knee and bikes plying our roads.
2. Trucks, cranes and other equipment available for hire.
3. School buildings like this one.
4. Clinics and maternity centers
5. Abattoirs or slaughter.
6. Beer palours bars and hotels without any safety equipment or emergency exits.
7. Some gas stations and the tankers that carry petroleum products.
The list is too numerous.
But when disaster strikes....... Lives are lost

But the Nigeria culture is about tolerating substandard facilities because we nurse the sentiments that people are just trying to make a living.
There are numerous examples.
1. Taxis and buses, keke and bikes plying our roads.
2. Trucks, cranes and other equipment available for hire.
3. School buildings like this one.
4. Clinics and maternity centers
5. Abattoirs or slaughter.
6. Beer palours bars and hotels without any safety equipment or emergency exits.
7. Some gas stations and the tankers carrying petroleum products.
The list is too numerous.
But when disaster strikes....... Lives are lost

Terrible. My heart goes to the babies kept on the ground floor who may not survive this.
Someone needs to go to jail for this.

Strat632:


All house inside Lagos island don't look healthy.I am even surprised how this 1 just collapse without affecting d 1 beside.they just build house there, no space. Weak foundation carrying like 3 to 4 buildings with over 100 people on it everyday.shops and residence

There are several houses in Lagos in the same state who have decided the day they will collapse

DMerciful:
How can a school be in a top floor building of this nature? Have you heard of resonance and forced vibrations? Children following a particular rhythm can cause resonance!

Explain further

Those people on top of the collapsed building are worst than the builder.

Why will such a crowd be on top of a collapsed building with people underneath.

This type of stupidity can only be found in Nigeria.

RIP to the dead especially those who were alive and were eventually killed by the weight of those crowd.

Sorry for those children oh

na2016:
That building looks ok but i suspect vibration n resonance effect of the numerous children at the top floor can cause the collaspe. Rest in peace to those we lost.

Na from the painting?

coolestchris:
may their soul rest in peace . .
lemme teach nairaland members as a practicing civil engineer..
this building was built with a design to serve as a residential building but was converted to a school..
the implications is that the live loads has been increased from the designed loads..
that is why the building was cancelled..
so the people who went ahead to allow such conversion of purpose for the building should be brought to book.
in such cases the civil engineer is exonerated

From a residential building to a school? What's the difference in load? I didn't get it? Elucidate more!

cardoctor:
Those other two buildings standing there look frail. God help us.

Noticed it too