datola:
All these so called billionaires that cannot afford to build with quality materials.

They brag living in Banana Island but turning Nigeria to Banana Republic.

most likely faulty design. They build with the best material..learn more about building and ask questions before commenting about something you know nothing about

Hmm.... is it a coincidence that the camera man focused on that building before it collapsed? ... did he know something? Whatever the case ... it is the responsibility of the city to enforce building standards.

Wodu89:
Always perform all necessary tests before una build na. How can you buy lands billions per SQ meter and can't or rather refuse to conduct integrity tests at every level of your building.


Do people bother to ask about how integrity tests applies and matters to construction projects especially in high rising buildings at all?

If we say that as a society all buildings from certain heights must have integrity tests at every levels, are these tests not supposed to be scrutinized by the governing authorities from before and during building processes ?


And to think it's Banana island, written about on Wikipedia as the home to Nigeria's brightest minds and the cream of the society, yet in such quintessential issues fail woefully ?


How can Africa be ever redeemed how?


From the pictures, it's clear to see that it's yet again Chinese building technology.

I've always maintained that I don't trust modern Chinese architecture that focuses on material and cost reduction over safety concerns. No be me go stay for those buildings that looks like houses constructed over bamboo sticks

What has China got to do with this?. It is your country that allows cutting corners that causes these. China has some of the tallest buildings in the world. How many have collapsed? Have you seen the longest overeater bridge built over the Pacific from mainland China to Hong Kong? What is a high rise compared to that. Let's face facts and stop chasing Shadows please

alabo1:


What has China got to do with this?. It is your country that allows cutting corners that causes these. China has some of the tallest buildings in the world. How many have collapsed? Have you seen the longest overeater bridge built over the Pacific from mainland China to Hong Kong? What is a high rise compared to that. Let's face facts and stop chasing Shadows please

Don't meddle into arguements and debates about your IQ pls

Wodu89:



Chinese architecture technology is mediocre. Americans aren't daft to incorporate heavy pillage in their building constructions

Let the truth be told. I am privileged to have worked at banana island in recent times and I must say that I am not surprised that this happened. Too many work-related vices like child labour, employee disenfranchisement, poor wages, employee abuse, to mention a few, occur in that place. You can't pay a worker 3K for a job of 7K or more and expect him to give his best especially in a rich neighborhood like banana island.

This is not good.

When Universities will go on strike for one year on and of then graduate structural engineers, architects etc . This is the result.

lilrel:


Let the truth be told. I am privileged to have worked at banana island in recent times and I must say that I am not surprised that this happened. Too many work-related vices like child labour, employee disenfranchisement, poor wages, employee abuse, to mention a few, occur in that place. You can't pay a worker 3K for a job of 7K or more and expect him to give his best especially in a rich neighborhood like banana island.

God bless you for this exposee.

Wodu89:



Don't meddle into arguements and debates about your IQ pls

Don't be insultive please. Why not give clear differentiating arguments than result to this. I posit- China has the highest density of high rise buildings in her major cities with virtually zero collapses.

It is our own failings here that allow everyone including the Chinese you stated to do what they do? Is that too much to understand? Read slowly please. I remain civil because I was well trained

tobenuel:
Saint Paul should write a letter to Lagosian asap

Who has time to read his long epistle?

IF you need criminals in all sectors please called Nigeria citizens

alabo1:


Don't be insultive please. Why not give clear differentiating arguments than result to this. I posit- China has the highest density of high rise buildings in her major cities with virtually zero collapses.

It is our own failings here that allow everyone including the Chinese you stated to do what they do? Is that too much to understand? Read slowly please. I remain civil because I was well trained

hhhhhhhmmmmm

clockwisereport:


The man that built osibona's collapsed building withdrew halfway when they started going against regulatory standards. That is integrity.

If you tell them and they refuse to listen, carry your kaya and run

The company has integrity and concience.They know the risk involved and do not want to take chances at all

MatrixCircle:
When Universities will go on strike for one year on and of then graduate structural engineers, architects etc . This is the result.

No. This is not the result.
Useless people at Alausa is the result.
Planning permission and materials testing is done there.
The Engineer can only tell the client how much material to buy.
The client will run and call one "bastard" builder.
The builder will mix materials anyhow, Alausa people will come and see the error, but collect bribe and give the builder pass mark.
Then the building will fall.
So how does that concern the original Engineer? He calculated everything and specified the required materials. But nobody took his recommendations.
Should he take cane and start flogging the client, builder and Alausa people?

Na only grace site workers dey see ooo, may God save their lives

CaptainFM1:
Na wa ooo! All these fake rainbowing and sand-fillings on the Island!
They are building high rise on soil that's not compact & stable.

Is true

There's a tall building between marina and cbn bank area...that uncompleted building Is about 20 storeys n still standing strong till date..
What's wrong with millenial engineers??

Finesse247:
Does the Lagos State govt do concrete cube test to verify the test of buildings they approved for development? If they rereally do strucural and integrity test. All these wont happen. And if they do, there is corruption somewhere, for such development to continue

shame to Lagos state government

They keep building nonsense in Nigeria called It house. New 37 storey project they are building in front of my tower for the past 3 months they are still laying basement pillars.. even me dey confused the kind of pillar they are laying because u will see all kind of machine and formation u haven't seen before

We just like wasting innocent lives in this country. Shoddy job, what do u expect?

Thank God I don't have land there

To make matters worse officials of Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory Agency will be collecting money from building owners in order to issue fake test results.

Wodu89:
Always perform all necessary tests before una build na. How can you buy lands billions per SQ meter and can't or rather refuse to conduct integrity tests at every level of your building.


Do people bother to ask about how integrity tests applies and matters to construction projects especially in high rising buildings at all?

If we say that as a society all buildings from certain heights must have integrity tests at every levels, are these tests not supposed to be scrutinized by the governing authorities from before and during building processes ?


And to think it's Banana island, written about on Wikipedia as the home to Nigeria's brightest minds and the cream of the society, yet in such quintessential issues fail woefully ?


How can Africa be ever redeemed how?


From the pictures, it's clear to see that it's yet again Chinese building technology.

I've always maintained that I don't trust modern Chinese architecture that focuses on material and cost reduction over safety concerns. No be me go stay for those buildings that looks like houses constructed over bamboo sticks

But their own skycrapperd in china do not really colllapse

Building collapse has become a normal thing in Lagos, you can't stay up to three months without hearing that a building collapsed in Lagos

Scrap Private Universities a.k.a Glorified Secondary Schools now to save lives.. or at beat restrict them to only Economics, Actuarial Science, Education and likes..

You see anything Engineering be it Civil or Building or Architecture, those glorified secondary schools can't cope.. they are just producing killers to the society. Reason we have a rise in building collapse and whatnot.

FG should revamp our Ivory Towers and reposition our prestigious citadels of learning to their former glory. A stitch in time saves nine.

chokekachy:


https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-eight-storey-building-collapses-in-banana-island/

Video:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0UPbRLDnfcQMxL2L7HsD7gTpsC8kY44KCXJe1w7oB7mkcQGmQrbGHqBdrYVFV715gl&id=100071648022961&mibextid=Nif5oz



Watch the moment the building collapsed https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1646218056849391616?t=2yHbQEZIqmLCNB4rn_35kA&s=19

Under Sanwo, whose touted experience included heading the Lagos States works and housing ministry, Lagos has seen the most spectacular building collapses and remains the building collapse capital of Nigeria.

ghettochild:
There's a tall building between marina and cbn bank area...that uncompleted building Is about 20 storeys n still standing strong till date..
What's wrong with millenial engineers??

It's less of millennial engineers and more of a lack of/poor development control allowing for unprofessional-ism and corruption.

You hardly hear about building collapse in Abuja because El-Rufy,( whom I don't particularly like) established a strong culture of development control there.

Banana island na flooded community.

In Lagos, you need STEEL Frame for HIGH RISE. With the level of water surrounding lagos, the ground will continue to shift, and it is a disaster waiting to happen now or in the near future. You can do concrete pour to humongous depth, but even concrete fail over time...Steel frame plus concrete pour is the key...the whole building will never collapse vertically like this.

chokekachy:


https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-eight-storey-building-collapses-in-banana-island/

Video:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0UPbRLDnfcQMxL2L7HsD7gTpsC8kY44KCXJe1w7oB7mkcQGmQrbGHqBdrYVFV715gl&id=100071648022961&mibextid=Nif5oz



Watch the moment the building collapsed https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1646218056849391616?t=2yHbQEZIqmLCNB4rn_35kA&s=19

uuzba:

No. This is not the result.
Useless people at Alausa is the result.
Planning permission and materials testing is done there.
The Engineer can only tell the client how much material to buy.
The client will run and call one "bastard" builder.
The builder will mix materials anyhow, Alausa people will come and see the error, but collect bribe and give the builder pass mark.
Then the building will fall.
So how does that concern the original Engineer? He calculated everything and specified the required materials. But nobody took his recommendations.
Should he take cane and start flogging the client, builder and Alausa people?

You are right.

diplomat058:
Hmm...Africans! Ordinary buildings that we are to live in, corruption still found a way in by way of substandard quality production. Terrible!

Erm..leave Africans out of this, this is a Nigerian problem