Are you in Nigeria? Do you realize not long ago...churches and mosques were screening people for bombs...so you want skyscrappers to be open to public when there are children of hate everywhere. I think NOT

Raydos:
Why are Most buildings in Nigeria especially commercial towers fenced off?

From the Downtown of Lagos, To The most Affluent areas of Abuja, They all have something in Common, All the Skyscrapers are all fenced off and not open to the public!

This make the city look ugly, In modern society, Skyscrapers down floors are rented out for restaurant, Boutiques, e.t.c, Which makes window-shopping possible!

Photo 1: Madina towers, Lagos

Photo 2: Eko hotel towers, Lagos

Raydos:
This is how modern society look like, I watch a video of a foreign YouTuber recently, who complained about this in his first ever visit to Nigeria!

He was so surprised, every building is fenced off!

Window shopping makes street look beautiful,

Affluent areas can afford all the security to keep this place safe, at night, But it seems like they just don't give a damn, They all okay with their sub-standard tower!

in the pictures you provided, are all those buildings skyscrappers?

are you saying that every single skyscrapper in your "modern society" are not fenced in and all have supermarkets?

so you think because a guy on youtube said it, that makes his assertion true?

Raydos:
Why are Most buildings in Nigeria especially commercial towers fenced off?

From the Downtown of Lagos, To The most Affluent areas of Abuja, They all have something in Common, All the Skyscrapers are all fenced off and not open to the public!

This make the city look ugly, In modern society, Skyscrapers down floors are rented out for restaurant, Boutiques, e.t.c, Which makes window-shopping possible!

Photo 1: Madina towers, Lagos

Photo 2: Eko hotel towers, Lagos

Even Banana Island is an eye sore not to talk Lagos and Abuja
Nigeria is a prison yard

We don’t live in a consumerist nation. Leaving the lower floors of skyscrapers to businesses makes no sense. In the event of a robbery, a gunshot will clear out a crowd of a thousand people. Na security sure pass, last last. Let those buildings remain as they are.

CodeTemplar:
Imagine renting the down floor out to restaurants as you opined. That's a good place for angry jihadists to drive in trucks and bring down the whole building in protest to a perceived jewish guy who farted in front of a holy tree in Saudi Arabia.

Maybe they are rather scared of IPOB terrorists, who could come and slaughter personnel for opening on Monday.

When you build your own, don't put fence u hear? This is Nigeria not Europe or America.

Coolgent:


It depends on the contribution your friends made during your quest for success.
In my case i normally assist my friends and acquaintance based on their contribution towards my success.

Was that the question I asked ?

Interesting thread. Some amusing responses. Some heartbreakingly sad.

codemaniacs:




Thats a Big lie. Houses always had doors in Africa.

Col:onialists houses didn't have fences some of them used small or short trees as fences they never used cement as fences.

Stop spreading lies about things you don't know.

maybe you can't differentiate between door and doorway

codemaniacs:


That's a fictional story.

If there were no doors in houses in Africa then there won't be indigenous words for door in the indigenous languages.

Why would Eu:ropeans sail through the oceans when they could just land in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria e.t.c or whatever those countries were called then and head downwards to West Africa.

No eu:ropean sailed to West Africa.

You better stop believing their fictional stories and fictional books they are fake stories.

you are a very bold but dangerous illiterate.

Raydos:


Read the post above you!!

It's called affluent areas for a reason, With CCTV camera, All these issues can be curbed!

the black lives matter protest is an example of keeping the riff rats out. This is Nigeria not Europe or USA. The only thing I can agree with you is the renting out of floors to restaurant and boutique but I am okay with the fence.

You want an investor leave his multimillion naira project unfenced cos of aesthetics in a country that can not account for all the citizens talk more foreigners. As long as we don't have efficient data capturing mechanisms, just forget!!!

The fear of area boys and thugs

Godmademan:
You want an investor leave his multimillion naira project unfenced cos of aesthetics in a country that can not account for all the citizens talk more foreigners. As long as we don't have efficient data capturing mechanisms, just forget!!!

You too know book, you said it all

Sha no try it in Lagos If agbero boys no go use stone scatter the place for you overnight. U put high fence self Dem still dey find way to enter and scatter everywhere. Put security first in everything you do in this country.

Insecurity nothing more..

Reason? Simple!
# INSECURITY
welcome to the Shyyythole

CodeTemplar:
Imagine renting the down floor out to restaurants as you opined. That's a good place for angry jihadists to drive in trucks and bring down the whole building in protest to a perceived jewish guy who farted in front of a holy tree in Saudi Arabia.

In Nigeria? Lol. Can a fence with hollow blocks really keep "angry jihadists with truck of bomb" out? I don't think so. It is mostly about our mindsets these days. Any building, even if it is "room and parlour self con" without a fence is not yet completed.
Fence, fence, fence everywhere, haba!!

KingOKON:


Even Banana Island is an eye sore not to talk Lagos and Abuja
Nigeria is a prison yard

No more no less. We made it that way. A kid can be easily kidnapped on the street in broad daylight without anyone seeing anything because almost all the houses have been fenced against what is happening immediate outside their doors

capetownboyz:
Ask your prostitute president he built Lagos

Ogun kill you.

We need to evolve beyond "the West is Best and must be copied in all things" mindset. I'm sure we can find ways of ecstatically improving on what we have arrived at now in our cities due to the impositions of our realities.

If we do then our cities will have thire own characters different from the boring sameness of all modern cities around the world currently.

you amuse me!you blv exposing towers to public access is the best way to go?and you think the buildings would be safe from arsonists?hmmmmmm........

I'm sure if the Twin Towers and many sky scrapers around the world had areas around them like Nigeria commercial places do but instead had mote-like lakes, some people that leap from widows during infernos would survive.

You gotta give miracle a chance, concrete will not

SmartPolician:


I think it has to do with mentality.

Every house in Nigeria is fenced but many banks don't even have fence.

So, I don't think it's about security. I think it's about a warped mentality and following a trend.

Will that yeye fence stop armed robbers from trespassing?

Exactly.Gtb does not do fencing,never heared of robery incidence ...

sisisioge:
If you build your own biko open it to the public so that before you wake up, them don commot windows, doors, toilet fixtures and even scrap paint commot for your structure. Them say country no safe, you say why them dey protect their lives & properties

Lol scrap paint

codemaniacs:


Fake drawing and fake story.

You're forgetting that it's eu:ropeans that created ho:llywood which is all about creating fictional stories and drawings.

In the past when there was no video or cameras.. it was drawings, stories and written text that was used to tell fictional stories.

You are obviously a school dropout to type this.

No, you Ill-exposed dullard, the Guardian Newspaper UK editorial board does not indulge in publishing “fake drawing and fake story” to its millions of readers and shareholders across the world.

It’s also tragic that you feel so inferior to the point that you regard any positive report from your history - even from foreigners - as ‘fake’.

Hope you don’t pass your terrible inferiority complex to your kids.

Eko Atlantic is not like that. The buildings are not fenced off, maybe cuz it's an exclusive neighbourhood

Raydos:
There are some streets that you can't even take a walk at night, all because most of the buildings in the street has been fenced off, Before 8pm in the night, It will look like a ghost town!!

But by renting out the down floors of those buildings to restaurant and boutique e.t.c, It will make it more lively at night time!

There are reasons for every action, you can compare the security architecture of the Western world 🌎 to that of Aftica, most especially Nigeria 🇳🇬, that her security prowess is no where to be found...

Again, the greeny environment you are talking about, places where they build matters sometimes, there are some environment that warrant a tree 🌳 must be planted to avert some natural disasters...

codemaniacs:


That's a fictional story.

If there were no doors in houses in Africa then .

Nobody said there were no doors in Africa, you loud cretin.

I said it was customary in Nigeria to build houses without FRONT doors.

Do you know what a FRONT door is?

One of the major disadvantage of this practice is compact pedestrians and traffic into a little space. No room for traffic to breathe with ease, Congestion everywhere.

codemaniacs:


That's a fictional story.

If there were no doors in houses in Africa then there won't be indigenous words for door in the indigenous languages.

Why would Eu:ropeans sail through the oceans when they could just land in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria e.t.c or whatever those countries were called then and head downwards to West Africa.

No eu:ropean sailed to West Africa.

You better stop believing their fictional stories and fictional books they are fake stories.

This guy is a friggin idiot.

The Europeans did not sail to West Africa?

Because they could have simply traveled from Europe to Algeria and climbed on a donkey for a gruelling three weeks journey through the FCKING SAHARA DESERT to get to Nigeria?

How did they conduct trade, or you don’t know they traded heavily with Benin, Oyo, Ashantis and other coastal West Africans?

What an embarrassment of a person.

Complete historical illiterate.

I suppose the trans-Atlantic slave trade never happened either, since Europeans didn’t sail to West Africa.

Please, what school did you attend?

To keep out all the hungry Agberos, thieves and thugs, oh! I forgot beggars and riff raffs who will start sleeping, shitting and urinating on these streets.