Jokerman:
All these old houses should either be sold or given to developers to reconstruct or rebuild...

Don't expect s house built in 1960 to stand OK to this day

NOwazobia:
Another one.


Shey na only Lagos Waka come?


I fear if Tinubu finally take over as a president, this is how we will be have collapse building allover the country.

Agberolism youth empowerment.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Decongest Lagos

EYESofHORUS:
Make i yarn you as a bonafide ebute-metta breed, dating back to july 18th 2006, about the first building collapse i know of on Bola by Ibadan street, i can confidently tell you that subseqent collapse structures were built between 2004 to 2022. Those are structures under 20yrs. Will you say they are old?

This particular building, i gues it was constructed around 2004- or 2005. I am not too sure. I only know that the landlord of my mums shop was residing in the bungalow that was on the land before it was redevelop.

Those structures are extremely design and constructed to fail. I remember my dad once told me that all this building will start coming down max 15yrs because of the extremely poor mode of construction, substandard materials and low technical know-how, and yes, the old man was damn right.

That year, those developers were kings,. They owe suppliers, workers and also intending tenants. They collect money from different people for a flat and yet none of them will still get the flat. They will use their money to develop the house, increase rent far more than the agreed rent, and those people will have to forfeit their cash or wait till eternity to get refund.

Landlords of those years, gave their old solid buildings to developers to manage which the will be demolish and 3- storey building of extremely failed structure to be manage by him as agreed for 15years or more will be constructed. By then, thats if the structure lives to see 15yrs, the structure is already dilapidated or collapsed. The developer smiled to bank while landlord cry and continue crying after those years.

The face-me and slap you i grew up in was given to developer in 2014 and i can tell u the building is already a shadow of itself. Another structure intending to collapse is on Oloto by Herbert macaulay. Mehn, i was shocked one day when i saw them fixing column to brace the dead building. This same oloto street, about 2 buildings have already gone down.

Untill when we the citizen get rid of our greed, we cannot move forward.

Papichulostunne:
Now who do we blame for this?

A) The engineer who built the place knowing how the foundation is.

B) The stupid block sellers that mix one back of cement with almost half a trip of sand.

C) The landlord who ought to know better as to perform routine maintenance from time to time..

D) The devil.

E) Non of the above.

poiZon:

I'm not sure blocks really play a part in storey building collapse..

Storey building needs good and solid foundation and strong. Pillars, blocks is just for partitions and covering of outer walls..

The weight of the building is on the pillars and foundation not blocks

Papichulostunne:
Now who do we blame for this?

A) The engineer who built the place knowing how the foundation is.

B) The stupid block sellers that mix one back of cement with almost half a trip of sand.

C) The landlord who ought to know better as to perform routine maintenance from time to time..

D) The devil.

E) Non of the above.