ucha1:
A case of vanity

Shut up

Arise TV:
* About 50 people trapped.

* Owner of the building allegedly in the rubble as at now.

Quack engineers trying to economize materials 4 dea own selfish interest. Now see wat they hv caused, putting people's lives in danger after collecting huge amount of money
I pray the shud come out alive

ideatoprince18:
Buddha have mercy

will you keep shut

Now people go dey fear to enter the other two high rising building behind

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.

I believe they have building approvals just that d approvals aren't issued on merit. They issue approvals to make money without doing due diligence on d buildings. They come and paint ur house red and ask u to stop work so u can come settle. U no our civil service is terrible

Commotfornigeri:
why are people strolling casually when they should be actively trying to survey the scene and look for survivors?

Probably because they’re scared other buildings would collapse also and get them trapped too. These are similar buildings and definitely same quality

I pray that those trapped inside will make it alive. This is terrible.

fergie0o1:


SOURCE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZNwwQxeCM

A building that is under construction o......when dem no go give professionals work.....na baba mulikah and brother chinedu, who knows less to nothing about construction, dem go dey give work......

Damn. who would survive that? Very sure some people must have been on those top floors.

Viltron:
Whenever I see these high-rise buildings in Nigeria, I'm usually afraid, because of the ineptitude of Nigerians.

We haven't been able to successfully handled anything in this country. Most of these buildings are deathtraps.

In other countries, you'd find buildings that were built hundred of years ago and are still standing..

You couldn't have said it any better

ppogba:
Arise TV:
* About 50 people trapped.

* Owner of the building allegedly in the rubble as at now.

any casualty?

God save them ooo.
For ikoyi, do they use inferio material there too?

21 storey ke

nosiebaba:
Lives and investment. Hundreds of millions gone. So sad.

. Billion

johnshagb:
What a terrible way to start the month. Construction companies should value peoples lives and quit using sub-standard materials for building houses. Erecting houses shouldn't be about profit alone but safety of the occupants also, which should be taken very serious. Make survivors no go sue dem now.

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.

Many had left their homes and didn't know they will be trapped in the building.
May God protect us.

Structures of this magnitude should have been handled by Julius Berger or GCappa

Lagos is not a state where anybody should erect more than a two-storey building. The land is not strong enough to hold such structure. It's a soft, riverine ground

Viltron:
Whenever I see these high-rise buildings in Nigeria, I'm usually afraid, because of the ineptitude of Nigerians.

We haven't been able to successfully handled anything in this country. Most of these buildings are deathtraps.

In other countries, you'd find buildings that were built hundred of years ago and are still standing..

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.

CryptoClub2018:
Now people go dey fear to enter the other two high rising building behind

Those other 2 are already compromised.

fergie0o1:


SOURCE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZNwwQxeCM

It's one of 2 things, either the design of the building is structurally faulty or substandard materials were used and both will never happen if construction of this magnitude was handled by a competent builder with track record. Quality control and competence was compromised somewhere, either the owner of the structure in a bid to cut corners gave a project of this magnitude to baba Shakiru builder. This can easily be compared to our Nigerian project, you just cannot give what you don't have. When you populate the administration of a country with misfits,quota system illiterates and touts and you are expecting structure, economic and social advancement, then you need emergency psychiatric help

How a 21 storey building collapses like a pile of bread?


You mean standards were compromised in a structure this massive?

Nigeria!

Haba...do you know whether the builders are foreign "professionals"?

Viltron:
Whenever I see these high-rise buildings in Nigeria, I'm usually afraid, because of the ineptitude of Nigerians.

We haven't been able to successfully handled anything in this country. Most of these buildings are deathtraps.

In other countries, you'd find buildings that were built hundred of years ago and are still standing..

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.

This is just horrible

So sad!

Check out the news reports on those affected by the collapse here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-MLKQvP3TQ

The owner inside as I heard. So heartbroken. May God help us.

Another World Trade Centre collapse?

Badguy77:
Na 21 story building press like say dem put akara inside bread to chop and u say people trap inside? Lets just forget them, they are dead R.I.P to dem

You be mumu

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.

On the contrary, 95% of the buildings have one form of approval or the other. If you know the number of agencies that will be.on your case before you lay one block, you would not say what you have just said.

If it is possible to get approval before urinating, LASG will want to give sushi approval. The monitoring spirits from the state and local governments na winch.