FarahAideed:
Seven floors with inconsistent concrete mix on all floors cannot be safe

Building collapse doesn't always necessarily mean bad practice. A significant earth movement just 20ft below the foundation of the building is enough to bring it down.

freshvine:
a case of too much money available and contractor promising to deliver a 7 storey highrise in 3 month and this leads to concrete not curing.

that location is waterlogged, i guess they didn't do pile foundation.

Women will always get gist for a nice gossip.

Smh

Dronedude:

Women will always get gist for a nice gossip.
Smh

are you ok?

OP, lemme help you with pix sent to my whatsapp.
indeed it was a sad day as this building collapsed.
Reports has it that more than 60 persons were in that building. I also heard 11 persons were rescued alive.


Rip to the dead.

The last pix is one of the survivor

ObinnaObinna:
It looks strong from the outside...
But is the foundation strong? The concrete used for the building is it of top quality? Ask yourselves these questions.

From a reliable source, the foundation was piled 18m.
I passed there some time ago and I think it could be poor supervision.

freshvine:


are you ok?

Madam . Calm down.
He was joking

Someone's hard earned money - wasted.

Several breadwinners- gone.

What a tragedy..

I think it'll boil down to wrong or inadequate calculations.

Useless engineer .

Imagine the lives wasted

Imagine the cost on the owner .

This thing is painful o .

majekdom2:
Who constructs storeys these days using ladders?may the lost souls Rest In Peace.

Na for where you see ladders?

RobbStark:


From a reliable source, the foundation was piled 18m.
I passed there some time ago and I think it could be poor supervision.

Could sabotage be a possibility then?

arrestdarrester:


Could sabotage be a possibility then?

Design fault.

The structural engineer most likely did one joint calculations and superimposed for all the beams

It collapsed on it self.... structural failure
1. The frame design is redundant meaning if one structural member fails the whole structure fails
2. A structural member failed, I am guessing at a beam to column joint.what naija designers do is design just for one case of beam column joint and superimposed on the rest
3. There should be noticeable deflections in the beams before collapse; like a warning. It shouldn’t have yielded immediately. So either the beam was under reinforced or over reinforced.
4. In conclusion; design error. The building failed in serviceability state
5. Rest In Peace fallen ones

Lets put conspiracy theories aside, this is probably caused by wrong structural design. As an architect with about 8 year experience and about 5 years post graduation experience(yes, I started practicing in school), I can tell you that it isn't enough to create structural designs. Infact, it will be erroneous to create structural drawings and then become wholly dependent on those drawings while on site.

Apparently, incompetent supervision is responsible for this catastrophe.

So what are you saying now?

Arrest the structural consultant on the project fast!

My observation in the pre-collapse pics is the number of umbrellas just on the other side of the fence. obviously they are selling one thing or the other. If authorities ask them to leave their position they will cry foul but really sites like these are death traps and one should site business at safe distance from such.

nastyesco:
Front page again...I dedicate this to my Nurse girl who left me for an okada rider back in School, Now I drive a Camry pencil light

and what does the okada man drives now?Lexus?

R.I.P

TEDHorsePower:
I was in PH just last month. Along Woji Road GRA, I saw this high-rise under construction. I took particular interest because a friend is a sub contractor there. Fast forward 3weeks later, the building has now collapsed.

Sincerely speaking the building doesn't look like it is not being built by incompetent contractors.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863749/breaking-30-dead-many-injured

Well, the collapse exposed them as incompetent. There wasn't tremor or earthquake, no sunami, no tornado. No heavy rainfall, no nothing.

Rip to the dead

nastyesco:
Front page again...I dedicate this to my Nurse girl who left me for an okada rider back in School, Now I drive a Camry pencil light

If they leave una for rich men una go cry if they leave una for poor men una go still cry. For her to dump you for an Okada man shows that you were a thorn in her flesh. She was not looking for wealth but happiness which you did not give to her. Stop complaining and work on yourself else another will leave you and your camry and go for a truck pusher that gives her peace of mind. How long after she dumped you did you buy your car? Pride written all over you.

nastyesco:
Front page again...I dedicate this to my Nurse girl who left me for an okada rider back in School, Now I drive a Camry pencil light

Camry, dat rubbish car..

and ya happy

nastyesco:
Front page again...I dedicate this to my Nurse girl who left me for an okada rider back in School, Now I drive a Camry pencil light

I learnt the okada rider is now driving keke, so both of you are making progress.

delishpot:
If they leave una for rich men go cry if they leave una for poor men una go still cry. For her to dump you for an Okada man shows that you were a thorn in her flesh. She was not looking for wealth but happiness which you did not give to her. Stop complaining and work on yourself else another will leave you and your camry and go for a truck pusher that gives her peace of mind. How long after she dumped you did you buy your car? Pride written all over you.

U go like write Newspaper article about it oh nonsense

nastyesco:

U go like write Newspaper article about it oh nonsense

If you go fit read am na. Cos I suspect you to be one of those who beg people online to help them summarize articles cos they can not read more than ten sentences in a year

delishpot:


If you go fit read am na. Cos I suspect you to be one of those who beg people online to help them summarize articles cos they can not read more than ten sentences in a year

Oral diarrhea dey affect U na why you dey type nonsense for hia...don’t u have something stupid to do

nastyesco:

Oral diarrhea dey affect U na why you dey type nonsense for hia...don’t u have something stupid to do

No. If I had I will not be doing something not stupid like rehabilitating you into a sane society after Mmpu (You know that maggot that sometimes go under people's skin ba?) drilled a hole in half your brain.

delishpot:
If they leave una for rich men una go cry if they leave una for poor men una go still cry. For her to dump you for an Okada man shows that you were a thorn in her flesh. She was not looking for wealth but happiness which you did not give to her. Stop complaining and work on yourself else another will leave you and your camry and go for a truck pusher that gives her peace of mind. How long after she dumped you did you buy your car? Pride written all over you.

So much Sense in what u have written here, but typical of we Nigerians we blame the next available person. No introspection

i cant believe Nigerians can tell why the building collapsed by just look at the Before and After pictures. We are intelligent in this country o.

TEDHorsePower:
I was in PH just last month. Along Woji Road GRA, I saw this high-rise under construction. I took particular interest because a friend is a sub contractor there. Fast forward 3weeks later, the building has now collapsed.

Sincerely speaking the building doesn't look like it is not being built by incompetent contractors.

https://www.nairaland.com/4863749/breaking-30-dead-many-injured

OP, you threw me off with your double negatives in the bolden portion above.

So, from opinion, first hand experience and personal knowledge and interactions with one of the sub-contractors, were the builders incompetent?

The implied rendition of your double negatives means, the builders were incompetent. I don’t know, if this was the impression that you were trying to convey.