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In this unbelievable viral video, a woman and several others, including children, found themselves stuck inside a malfunctioning elevator in abuja for hours.
Watch as panic slowly sets in, people sweat it out in the cramped space, and one person even tries to stay calm while feeding a baby.
This terrifying incident raises serious questions: Was the elevator overloaded? Poor maintenance? Or just terrible luck in a busy building? Nigerians are furious, calling out building management and safety standards across the country. Moments like this remind us how quickly everyday situations can turn dangerous.
This incident sparked massive reactions across social media – was it poor maintenance, overload, or just bad luck?

Those who are stuck in the elevator should be rescued soon.

It's not yet time for online gists

If Nigeria was a working nation, the building manager should be in for this because lives can be lost.


Imagine an asthmatic patient in this situation, that's an instant death of course

Never EVER use an elevator when in Nigeria. If you must climb ten flights of stairs to reach an upper floor of any Nigerian building, do so and be glad that you won't suffocate in a tiny metal box in the highly likely event that the electrical grid power fails while that elevator is between floors.

If Papa God had intended Nigerians to operate elevators, the electrical power to ensure that those elevators don't trap and suffocate people would flow without interruption, which is clearly NOT the case.

I repeat, do NOT ever enter any metal box in ANY Nigerian building, if you value your life. If you are not physically fit enough to climb ten flights of stairs, then PLEASE just head back to your village and stay there to wait out the next 50 years patiently, in order to ensure that electricity supplies stabilize in Nigeria.

Overloading and poor maintenance.

Na why I prefer climbing no matter how tall the building to avoid stories that touch

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Elevators in Nigeria needs technicians on standby. Our NEPA brothers

olaiya2007:
Na why I prefer climbing no matter how tall the building to avoid stories that touch

This wisdom you have described will ensure that suffocation in a tiny crowded box will NEVER be your portion.

franchasofficia:
If Nigeria was a working nation, the building manager should be in for this because lives can be lost.


Imagine an asthmatic patient in this situation, that's an instant death of course

Unfortunately Nigeria is not a working country so do not expect any positive justice to emanate from this particular act.

Nigeria as a country is gravely suffering from skill issues, we need to seriously revamp the institution responsible for empowering quality and notable skills to the people.

Abeg, make we no blame the poor woman. She was obviously a victim of circumstances beyond her control.

Perhaps the manager of the establishment has been fantasizing about suffocating people in the metal box for some months

Here is the result

You guys should be out there calling for the investigation of the state of mind of these individuals.

Check for defects in their mental facultues

Thank God for life
Why most Nigerians device
Lacks maintenance

How is this news? Someone is trapped, and you are creating a news out of it? For us to do what?

Hope them don rescue them?

From early age them don traumatized people children, when they grow old anything Elevator na to tear race.

You get mind dey use elevator in a country with epileptic electricity?

Look at the building first b4 u attempt to enter their elevator

It happened in the US with Trump. Make we no dey make our own case seem irredeemable.

chipet67:
It happened in the US with Trump. Make we no dey make our own case seem irredeemable.

Nor mind them. Even Trump joked about the incident.

Elevators can malfunction even when power is available.

End time elevator

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THOSE WHO NEVER HAD THIS EXPERIENCE WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.

I vow to myself that nothing will ever take me to a Nigerian lift either by omission or commission.


Nigeria lifts is not a joke.

Imagine coming out from office in a normal day, then you enter lift to take you down, and you are sealed inside a metal box lift with no opening or escape route and no means of calling people outside because of network, then the lift malfunction and free falls from 10th floor and suspended at the 2nd floor and it begins to vibrate up and down, then the light was off and 30mins the place begins to get hot with limited air. When all hope is lost, power was restore and the lift pickup again......... That was my experience

Awon defenders of Nigeria. Always defending things or situations that do not correlate in anyway. May God have mercy on us Nigerians.

chipet67:
It happened in the US with Trump. Make we no dey make our own case seem irredeemable.

Please tell them before they finally crucify the country finish......this is a machine and can give problem atimes despite maintenance , just like your well maintained car can hold you down by the road side ....the solution is to have a fast response solution to address it and making sure nobody get hurt. This type happens all over the world without much ado......

chipet67:
It happened in the US with Trump. Make we no dey make our own case seem irredeemable.

There are risks associated with everything we use to make life easier...

Sometimes, it's not even the question of regular maintenance, service or what have you.

Machines misbehaves....including blenders, fryers, washers, cutting machines, cars, planes, trains, elevators, cranes, trucks, ... anything machines.

May we not be unfortunate...that's the prayer!

Jakumo:
Never EVER use an elevator when in Nigeria. If you must climb ten flights of stairs to reach an upper floor of any Nigerian building, do so and be glad that you won't suffocate in a tiny metal box in the highly likely event that the electrical grid power fails while that elevator is between floors.

If Papa God had intended Nigerians to operate elevators, the electrical power to ensure that those elevators don't trap and suffocate people would flow without interruption, which is clearly NOT the case.

I repeat, do NOT ever enter any metal box in ANY Nigerian building, if you value your life. If you are not physically fit enough to climb ten flights of stairs, then PLEASE just head back to your village and stay there to wait out the next 50 years patiently, in order to ensure that electricity supplies stabilize in Nigeria.

I take the elevator everyday at work.

I or people using it have ever had reasons to complain.

1. An elevator MUST have an independent backup power for safety should there be general power outage.

The one at my office got three(3) layers of backup. You'd hardly realize power went out

2. It must be periodically maintained. Not just when it breaks down.
Mine is serviced twice(2) a month.

3. On busy days, a security personnel should be stationed close to ensure strict compliance with maximum allowed weights. At times, everyone wants to get on not minding the safety rules.

4. Use stairs occasionally for your health sake and to minimize the possibility of being trapped.

5. Choose the right floors and avoid rerouting during elevation. For instance, you're going to the 4th floor and you press 3 only to starts panic tapping 4 mid-elevation. That can jam or reconfigure settings.

Nigeria and Nigerians are not terrible or slow and backwards.

Some of these stuff can be avoided with proper orientation and strict compliance.

SlavaUkraini:
Nor mind them. Even Trump joked about the incident.

Elevators can malfunction even when power is available.

That was an escavator and not an elevator , besides it was deliberately turned off.. by some rogues

Even if an elevator malfunctions in the US, you think it will take hours to fix? You guys are used to suffering and smiling

Wether it's poor maintenance, overload or pure badluck....
For your information, being stuck in an elevator happens everywhere in the world.

I can imagine what they must have gone through,, claustrophobia is mad 👿 gan!!!

Claustrophobia!

I rather climb the stairs no matter how long than be trapped in an elevator!

Personally if the storey building isn't more than 7 floors then nothing concern me with lift

sue them for force imprisonment and public liability

Those saying overloading have no idea what they are saying.

What is the total weight of those kids and adults put together to call it overload.?

Instead of talking about power failure, you say na overload and maintenance.

No power hence they became stuck in there., I have been in such situations too but for 10 minutes before power was restored, and it's not a place for an asthmatic to be in.