NobleSeed:
what a tragedy
God save the people trapped..

fkj950ax:


Assumption and generalization are the lowest form of objective discourse.

Less than 0.5% of high rise buildings in Nigeria have collapsed. There are buildings in Nigeria built years ago still standing.

Even in developed countries, high rise collapses. This is a report of a building that collapsed in 2021 in Florida, USA.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57592827

Don't throw the baby and the bath water away. One collapse in Ikoyi cannot represent the whole of Nigeria.

jude33084:


Those other 2 are already compromised.

Newboss:
Threads like this shows how easy it's for people to castigate you when something goes wrong. Some are even calling the engineers quack.

When you are constructing something as high as 21 storeys, so many things can go fatally wrong. It has nothing to do with substandard material. It could be from a very simple and insignificant miscalculation.

Take it easy with the judgements.

Pharaohny:



You be mumu

Newboss:


Were you the one who sold the substandard material to them? The chances that a 21 storey building was constructed using substandard material is almost zero.

Most of these are caused by structural design flaws.

Omonigho1976:
trapped ke! My brother I can assure you even the rats in that building didn't survive this crash I'm seeing so! So sad!!!

sonofElElyon:


It takes high level experience and competence to do high rise.. you can't afford to miscalculate

seborrhic:
95% of buildings in Lagos don't have building approval, sometimes due to the unattainable conditions attached.The 5% with approval are shady ones got through influence.
I am sure that building was being erected by a politician or goverment contractor through a proxy property developer that bypassed all building codes.
You will only see these Lagos ministry officials going to hinterlands and developing areas of Lagos marking buildings with red/black "stop work" letters,but become very mute or easily bribed off when buildings are constructed in high brow areas.

Angelfrost:
I knew there was a reason my wealthy uncles refused to use Nigerian Engineers and builders for all their houses... They always went as far as Ghana and Benin Republic to even recruit.

One of them said he didn't want his roof to fall on him while sleeping on a rainy night.

Hideki:
your uncle is not wealthy and doesn't know shit. [s]How many high rise buildings do we have in Benin and Ghana? Nigerian engineers are some of the best brains in Africa. Building collapse mainly because of greed[/s].

Newboss:


Were you the one who sold the substandard material to them? The chances that a 21 storey building was constructed using substandard material is almost zero.

Most of these are caused by structural design flaws.

donpapa:
Quality control should be taken seriously in this country. We can’t keep wasting people’s lives. Casualties might not be much if the Emergency guys arrives early. Unfortunately, this is Nigeria where a pizza delivery is faster than Nigeria Emergency team. Shame!

joetem:


igbos are the sellers of bad materials