Ayotemide:


Irani WO leleyi nso?

You would say all these if your relative died in that avoidable death abi.

MondayOsunbor:


na inferior material . university with engeering department can not construct a bridge!

Abdul9025:
dis VC is crazy...Selfie in the night? .. in dat Forrest, oh please.. let him go and fine another excuse.. this useless people and the media keep hiding the number of people die.. we are talking about more than15 people they keep saying 3 to 5 people..Nigeria my country

Mightyhaiz:
What does it matter what they were doing on the bridge,..? Taking pictures on a bridge is now a taboo? Was there a signpost against taking pictures on the bridge?

tundemania:
The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, has denied it is searching for missing students after the collapse of a bridge in the school reportedly claimed the lives of four students.

A metallic bridge linking the hostels and lecture halls collapsed at about 11.45pm on Monday following a downpour which caused flooding in the school. Seven students were reportedly injured, with some missing.

But ATBU Vice-Chancellor, Muhammad Abdullazeez, who conventional Bauchi official head Bala Mohammed, who rewarded him a concern outing on Wednesday, held they shortly establish out that three students died.

He said, “The management felt that it was necessary to construct a metal bridge for between 10 and 15 people at a time. It was not meant for static loads but for dynamic loads, that means, you don’t stand on it, you just pass.

The reports we received from some of the students were that when the rain had stopped and the students were about crossing, they found the scene excellent for them to take selfies.

So they started from two and before you could realise it, there were more than 30 students on the bridge standing, and that bridge was not meant for people to stand.

Some of the students could not pass and had to also stand, and the bridge suddenly collapsed and that was how we lost three students. As of today we don’t have any student missing.

Based on our records, no student is missing for now. Three students –two from Kogi State and one from Benue State – were confirmed dead. Two females and a male and they were all from the department of business education and management studies.

Abdullazeez said they had set up a committee to investigate the incident.

He thanked the state government and the security agencies for their intervention.

The governor commiserated with the families of the deceased, the school authorities and students over the incident.

Mohammed said the visit was to assess the areas that required urgent attention, pledging that the state government would fix the collapsed bridge.



Source; https://maniagist.com/2019/08/08/30-students-were-on-bridge-taking-selfies-abtu-vice-chancellor/

tundemania:
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But ATBU Vice-Chancellor, Muhammad Abdullazeez, who conventional Bauchi official head Bala Mohammed, who rewarded him a concern outing on Wednesday, held they shortly establish out that three students died.





Source; https://maniagist.com/2019/08/08/30-students-were-on-bridge-taking-selfies-abtu-vice-chancellor/

success1smyn:
Why on earth will a bridge on school campus not be able to hold 30 students at a time?

africanusvu:
,so to u it doesnt matter 30student standing on a suspention bridge at same time static?even river benue dnt need such static load,so bridge that have been there for long it is only that day they remember selfy,what sense ar u making,these ar uni students for that mattet even if not engr student they shld av known it is dangerouz

unite4real:


Read the bolded over and over. Am I the only one that couldn't understand it

success1smyn:
Why on earth will a bridge on school campus not be able to hold 30 students at a time?

Enyimbamercedes:


Depends on the design criteria! They probably never expected 30 people would ever be stationary on the bridge. It’s called static load. If they keep moving, it probably would not collapse but them staying stationary on the bridge at once.

The engineer never thought a scenario would play out that 30 students would be so captivated with a flood and all stand on the bridge at one... I’m sure if he did he would have over-designed it to hold 50...

Darkseid:
30 students were taking selfies around 11pm, make this old men take softly dey lie na.

deltateam:


Are you a student there?

Naijafull19:
1. Basically the bridge was bearing a load it was not designed to bear, hence the collapse.

2. Which makes sense....though when the folk were designing the bridge, they should have taken into account possibility of higher load ie..buildiing it with adequate planning for any eventualities.

Modified

I advise anyone quoting me to insult me to read my points slowly, especially point number 2. Thank you very much.

You can also criticise me without personal insults. I think I have made my point without insults. Thank you again

Finally...here is what the VC said...



Which validates my two points...that a heavy sudden load caused the collapse, and that in building the bridge they should have taken that into account..the possibility of a heavy load.