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Beorn:
WTF did I just watch? 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

Crazy stuff. She initially got a default judgement against Tosin because he ignored her frivolous lawsuit.

Tosin later got his lawyer to contest the whole nonsense and had the case thrown out. Now she's lamenting Tosin spent over 20k pounds as legal fees just to avoid paying her 11k pounds as child support

raumdeuter:
While on the subject of getting away with it

The investigation cleared Paul Adefarasin of wrongdoing

“Findings revealed that the object seen in the viral footage was not a firearm but a stun gun, a non-lethal device.

https://www.nairaland.com/8521174/police-clear-pastor-paul-adefarasin

Funny thing is when the police reacted to the initial story they claimed stun gun is a weapon which is prohibited/illegal. Now they are saying it is non lethal device.

They can't even be consistent all in a bid to sweep the whole thing under carpet. Anyways it's not like we were expecting anything diffrent Sha.

She tried to sue Tosin for child support for his brothers child wtf 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Vb93eRRthF

— . (@Ktbffh_cfc__) September 16, 2025

This crazy lady sued Tosin for child support for her daughter. Tosin is her daughter's uncle because Tosin's brother is her baby daddy.

So she's suing Tosin for child support for his brother's child 🤦‍♂️

All these oyinbo Craze gan o.

Tochex101:
Sometimes we talk and act like we live in an utopia where the law is upheld and actions carry measured consequences.
The only time proper steps are taken is when the dons loose their money like what happened at First bank with the over 40billion theft....

When it comes to these kind of issues involving the lives or health of mid/low level staff nothing meaningful happens.
I mean it's this same Nigeria that the police connive with families to release muderers quietly, frame innocents and vanish into thin air.

I already acknowledged in my previous post that proper justice may not be done because of the Naija factor.

BlueRayDick:
There are people who would have serious health complications much long after this incident is forgotten due to the smoke they’ve inhaled before they were rescued .

Normally people like that should be able to sue the bank in the future but I doubt if such lawsuit will go anywhere if they file it in Nigeria . That’s Nigeria being Nigeria

Still on still , I'm saying there's no way the bank will be able to pin the incident on a low-level staff except maybe the staff was either responsible for starting the fire or was the one that failed put out the fire at the initial stage knowing that is his primary job. Every finger points to the negligence of the management from failure to provide emergency exit to failure to implement/enforce safety measures.

GloriousGbola:
they have legal liability

and they cant pull a TB joshua in this case

right now they are likely looking for the scapegoat who will go to prison for negligence

if they can pin this on a lowly employee naija sty;e they will do so

but in reality this goes all the way to elumelu or at least the facility mgt ceo

the culture you create as oga is what leads to issues like this

penny pinching and dismissing safety issues as unnecessary overhead

How will they pin it on an employee? The company/management should be made to take the fall because clearly they didn't take health and safety of their workers really serious from the shiit show of yesterday.

How can they not have emergency exit? What happened to fire extinguishers and hydrants? How did the fire get that serious without an alarm being raised at the initial stages for people to evacuate?

How do they want to pin all of that on a low level employee?

GloriousGbola:
people about to come to the reality that Tony Elemelu is a stone cold capitalist

nigerians love to deceive themselves that these guys are somehow altruistic

but Elemelu has fked up MAJORLY in the response to this

this shows you UBA corporate culture

they must think they are sending out internal office memo

I've always known the guy behind that cloak of philanthropy and aspire to perspire mentorship image Tony Elumelu puts up.

There was a time one ex-banker on LinkedIn took it upon himself to run a crusade against Nigerian banks using graduates as contract staff with poor terms of service for years. The guy called most of the banks involved in the practice out and somehow UBA's name just keeps popping up as one of those banks. A lot of contract staff shared their experiences with the guy his inbox and he was posting their complaint while protecting their identity. A whole lot of the UBA contract staff had bitter tales to tell.

At some point the guy tagged Elumelu himself and he promised to look into it. I doubt if he did eventually because the other banks that either converted their contract staff or increased their salary the guy mentioned them, but I can't remember the guy mentioning UBA for doing likewise.

iamoyindamola:
Chai
Short of words
Now they blocked comments on my SM

U can see how dishonest they are with their press statement claiming they ensured safety of all the workers. Smh

They know people will drag them, especially relatives of the victims; that is why they blocked comments on their social media pages.

YoungB1a:
Lost a friend yesterday in this tragic incident

Eeeyah. Sorry for ur loss

Apparently people died in the incident. People are already calling UBA out for the terse and ambiguous statement they released.

https://x.com/ourfavonlinedoc/status/1968106939767988663?s=46

popizaino:
Lost my mum this morning. 💔

Sorry for ur loss bro. Praying for u and ur family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

iamoyindamola:
It's becoming recurring
Could be target attack

I don't think so. The electrical wiring of most of those houses they converted to shop in that axis is terrible. Also, some of them keep their generator and fuel on their respective floors instead of the ground floor.

So some of those fire incidents are caused by electric spark when NEPA brings light and then the fire is escalated by the fuel and generator they keep on their shop floors. The fact that the buildings are too close to each other makes it difficult for the fire to be put off by fire service and volunteers. I have witnessed some of those fire before.

iamoyindamola:
BlueRayDick
I think another fire happened at mandillas yesterday

Yes, the market side. Some shops were affected

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It's possible that they don't own it oh

They could be tenants sha. That one sef dey.[/color]

Baba na Tony Elumelu get that building. I dey marina the day Sanwoolu commissioned it around 2020 before Covid lockdown

Amigoss:
United capital,Heirs insurance,His wife owns Avon are all allegedly in the building.....Technically they own the building

Omo ! 😲

See how statement lack any form of empathy . They even referred to building owned by their oga as “ a building on broad street “ 🤦‍♂️

Theflint1:
The amount of unavoidable deaths that occur in this country is just crazy, people are basically one health or situational emergency away from losing their lives.

There are people who would have serious health complications much long after this incident is forgotten due to the smoke they’ve inhaled before they were rescued .

Normally people like that should be able to sue the bank in the future but I doubt if such lawsuit will go anywhere if they file it in Nigeria . That’s Nigeria being Nigeria

Ibime:
I have a keen interest in following in-depth survivor stories from major disasters especially Titanic and 9/11

I suspect there will be a few more deaths from smoke inhalation in that building from the video I saw of them crowding around the windows, and expect more stories like these over the coming days and weeks

You may not be wrong. The person I spoke with told me one of the workers who escaped "unhurt" was coughing and spitting out black Saliva/Phlegm in her presence.

Somehow the local media has been quite on reporting number of deaths from the incident. I have a feeling the safety concerns as per this incident will be swept under the carpet and nothing will really come out of any investigation/inquiry.

Tochex101:
Sprinklers and auto smoke detector systems are usually designed and provided for at the blueprint level......... post construction addition is difficult to achieve.
This fire incident clearly shows it wasn't preconceived.

Then it’s a shame that a big organization like that declaring over a trillion Naira in profit will have such big office space that lacks basic safety and emergency measures .

iamoyindamola:
They are mental, why won't they be staircases or emergency exit
Fatalities as in deaths?

Yes death o.

I was told a nursing mother who just returned from maternity leave was stamped in the scramble when everyone was trying to find an exit. (PS: This is an unofficial report but an eyewitness account )

Also , there were those who passed out due to the heavy smoke and were rushed to the hospital and yet to be in stable condition as at yesterday evening .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I don't think Afriland built it from scratch

They probably bought it or leased it. That building has been there before Afriland was formed.

Maybe Facility manager don complain, but nothing was done. This is Nigeria sha.[/color]

Even if they bought the building, they could’ve modified it to include safety futures like smoke detector and automatic water sprinkler system na .

Dem really fumble in that aspect and obviously didn’t do enough to safeguard the life of their workers.

As recent as last month we had the fire alarm go off in the tower housing our office and we all had to make it down to the assembly point downstairs ASAP via the emergency exit . It was discovered it was just a minor incident caused by electrical issue on one of the floors that made the alarm go off sounding for everyone to evacuate the building . The floor was isolated by the facility managers , the incident was properly dealt with and we were later allowed to go back to our respective work stations after everything had been sorted out.

I believe if that kind of system is in place in that Afriland towers , they would’ve evacuated the building and the whole fire incident won’t have gone that bad like it did .

GloriousGbola:
That building has facilities managers.

Them go hear am

There is going to be a fkton of blame passing

I read somewhere it is an inverter issue

Which may mean my pet fear has become flesh - lithium battery explosion

But the building must have have piss poor design or may be carpet everywhere. Because your fire is usually contained where it comes out unless you have carpeting to spread it

I just got off the phone with someone who works close to the building , I was told the building has just elevator (lift) and no staircase for emergency evacuation . I don’t know how true that is but if that is the case , it means the building has poor design as far as safety is concerned like u rightly pointed out.

I was also told all doors to each floor are accessible via ID card key/biometrics . Immediately the fire started , those stopped working due to the outage of power . So the workers were confined to their respective floors hence why they were jumping through the windows of their respective floors .

Omo! The facility managers have a whole lot of questions to answer , but then again this is Nigeria sha anything goes .

I learnt there were fatalities due to the smoke some of the workers inhaled . If that is true , I wonder why it has not made the news yet ; maybe UBA is using their influence to suppress the news sha

E be like say Obasa and Sanwoolu wan start round 2 of their battle for the soul of Lagos.

Singapore1:
this has always been Madueke's problem. 99% of the time he want to dribble to the right instead of cutting inside and shooting

That was why I said during the last match that if he can work on his shooting , he will give Saka a run for his money . He already has decent dribbling skills to his advantage

Tochex101:
I read the fire started at the inverter room which I think was at sub floor level, its quite disturbing........... My money is on shoddy installation.

That building ought to have smoke detectors which should’ve long alerted them while the fire was still at the initial stage . That way, an evacuation of the building would’ve been done quite early and nobody would’ve been injured .

It will be a shame if that modern office building doesn’t have smoke detector and automatic water sprinkler sef .

Ibime:
Israel should release the hostages and bring an end to the false flag

😂😂😂😂

Happening Now : Fire outbreak at Afriland towers (owned by UBA group ) at Marina , Lagos Island .

Moment UBA bank staff jumps from storey building while trying to escape during the ongoing fire outbreak at UBA bank branch in Lagos Island😳🙆 https://t.co/8tIm6tvCRa pic.twitter.com/RiueHYx4dr

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) September 16, 2025

Workers are literally jumping out of the window to escape the fire.

But I don’t want to believe a modern building like this won’t have a smoke detector/ water sprinkler system na . I think this particular building was commissioned around 2021/2022.

raumdeuter:
And in this false flag, they had Hamas confess to killing and kidnapping, they had Hamas on live camera celebrating these deaths, they used this false flag to keep them in Hamas houses and tunnels even when Hamas members are getting killed, they still kept this false flag going

As in.....

The urge to believe anything other than the simple truth in their front will have them imagining stupid line of thought into existence.

We were all here on October 7 2023 when we read the news of Hamas firing over 5,000 rockets into Israeli airspace. Some of them even on this nairaland celebrated it along with the killings which Hamas quickly claimed responsibility. Today we dey read say na Israel use Hamas carry out the attack against its own citizens.

Source: Trust Me , I no fit lie for you.

KingTom:

Awada kerikeri

iamoyindamola:

Wait 😳😳😳 pic.twitter.com/jSsPG6d3e5

— WithAlvin 🇬🇭 (@withAlvin__) September 15, 2025

🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂

The weyrey deserve the slap 👋

izzou:
[color=royalblue]This war is just a case of fighting someone bigger than you.

And i don't mean because of religion. Israel has more fire power than anything Palestine can think of.

When Israel start, hmmmmmm

We all know how it will end. One person will end up crying on World TV for mercy.[/color]

izzou:
Izzou when will u open ur own Charismatic/Prophetic ministry ?

[color=royalblue]I am not exonerating Israel from being troublesome

But forget, there are fights you don't want to want to start.

What Hamas did was foolish, and when people supporting Palestine remove their emotions, they will see it clearly

When Israel start...Make person no come drop pictures of new born baby wey dem kill.[/color]

The people u see today on this thread acting all Anti-Israel/Pro-Palestine were either in joyous mood on Oct 7 2023 or silently pleased with Hamas attacking Israel even when we all knew how it will end from the beginning.

TrebleChamp:
Then IDF should go after Hamas terrorist members and not kill women and children, how do you even justify what Izreli govt is doing? America didn't kill all Afgans because of Osama Bin Laden na, Izrel have solid Intel and technology to track this terrorists and they have killed a lot of them, why murder and starve innocent Palestinians? Abi you think i am supporting Hamas? You don't erase a owe ethnic group because some few miscreants are fighting you.

That is exactly what they have been doing but u keep complaining. They've been going after Hamas terrorists who have been cowardly hiding in hospitals and amongst civilian population.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3y046q91no

Tell Hamas to come out and fight like Jihadist they claim to be and stop martyring their "innocent" brothers and sisters. They even prevented their fellow Palestinians from evacuating from the conflict zone.


https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-tells-gaza-residents-stay-home-israel-ground-offensive-looms-2023-10-13/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-866195
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-hamas-preventing-gaza-city-evacuation-but-70000-have-left-anyway/

When Israel was fighting Iran band for band few months ago and they (Israel) had the upper hand, u kept complaining almost on a daily basis.

Something tells me u don't really care about those Palestinian as u would want us to believe, rather u just don't want Israel carrying out a successful military operation against any of their enemies who have coming for them and getting whipped silly. I have gone back to our discussions on this thread on 7th October 2023 and nowhere did I see you condemn Hamas in the wake of that Oct 7 attack despite the fact that u were actively online o.

Amoto94:
I have exposed your shallow understanding of things and limited knowledge on how things operate, this was how you were arguing blindly about the DR and PHR when I gave you insights you weren't privy to before they became public knowledge. You are here again arguing about the possibility of a false flag attacks/collusion to achieve strategic goal.
Tomorrow when things become clearer you will shift goalposts as usual or go silent about it.

Gibberish as usual.

Tell us how October 7 attack by Hamas is an Israeli false flag operation or run away cowardly like you normally do.

Tell us how the attacks which the perpetrators have since taken credit for was planned by Israel. Tell us how Israel in the so called false flag operation kidnapped Israeli citizens held them hostage, but the hostages somehow turned up in Hamas' custody.

Maybe u don't know some of these conspiracy theories u people are parroting about is just one or two steps away from lunacy.