PHOTONEWS: Dramatic Collapse Of Another Lagos City Building

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A citizen reporter, Edgal Enahoro, captured this six-storey office building develop cracks and eventually collapse shortly after. The building is located directly opposite the former offices of Channels television in the Maryland area of Lagos

Cracks in the building were noticed in the afternoon hours and occupants were evacuated before the building collapsed between 6:30pm and 7pm Nigerian time.

No casualties reported as at the time of the report.

Photo credit:   Edgal Enahoro.

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Sitting here, in a cosy rent

Sitting here, in a cosy rent apartment in Russia, all this life in Afrika seems so terrible. I hope soon thing will change for you people... Femmes russes

Oh my God, I wonder how these

Oh my God, I wonder how these people can be so calm knowing that they are living in such unsafe conditions, with buildings collapsing randomly. Sometimes I'm amazed by the power we have to adapt to a certain lifestyle, to live according to the environment we are forced to accept. It's weird how some people have to get used to building collapsing and I'm so obsessed about my health that I used the television disposal Milwaukee services to protect myself and the environment.

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another igbo theif hoping

another igbo theif hoping that nigeria breaks up so he can get his hands on the oil wells of the niger delta.

if yoruba culture is backward then why are ur kind so quick to copy it . u lot are a bunch of criminals who are still salivating over the lands of others . that is what led u into a deadly war.

WHATEVER GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN

Whatever goes up must come down, so the saying goes. And whatever it is will come down fast if the foundation is weak, built with inferior materials and poor workmanship. You don’t need a PhD to figure this out. I rest my case.

Empty vessels make the most

Empty vessels make the most noise. Megacity built on top of trash and blood. Name one thing in that city that came from the sweat and ingenuity of the Yoruba who claims to own it. Those people have nothing civil or civilizing or useful in their core - it is either what they stole from other people or what they stole from each other. It has been this way and it will always be this way until Nigeria is no more. In fact, the only thing shielding their core is Nigeria. Once Nigeria is no more, the rest of the world will see their real core - backward culture that lives and breathes backwardness.

Think

Think before you talk. Those bill board weight has nothing to do with the building collapse. Think of the weight difference.

@ayt..u really no go kill

@ayt..u really no go kill usss...lolo@anonymous

@ ayt..Dont break our head o!

This your grammer too much o..Abeg dont break our heads with your grammar o!..

SIESMIC POSSIBILITY

Do we even have instrumens for neasuring siesmic anomalies in Nigeria. the collapse of this building may not be due to subsidence or faulty construction alone.

Building Collapse in Lagos

Buildings will keep collapsing as long as the contractors and owners keep cutting corners instead of doing a good job. What do you expect when a contractor mixes two bags of cement with a tons of sand? What do you expect when a contractor uses less iron rod than required? God forbid should earthquake happen in Nigeria.

God saved my hubby

Thank God for Saving my husband from this building, Thank you Jesus, You will forever be praised.

Thank God for saving my husband!

I thank the Lord Jesus for saving my husband from this collapse building, i bless the name of the Lord, I will forever praise your name. Thank you Jesus! Tee from Alakuko.

STOP ERRECTION OF BILL BOARDS ON BUILDINGS

The frequent collapse of buildings in Nigeria is becoming too alarming. One of the major contributing factors, I guess, is the errection of bill boards on most of these buildings especially in Lagos city, which automatically put more pressure on the buldings that were already built/constructed with sub-standard materials by unqualified Engineers.Govt. should look into this and save innocent souls from falling victims.

collapse building

Though we can not blame the govenment outrightly but the ministry of housing and urban development or the so called ministry of work and Housing should be able to act and be doing propare assessment when a project is going on before complexion not to just sit in the office and be collecting the building fees alone like the ministry of town planning office

report frm a staff in d building

: It was just abt 2pm today when d pillar in 1st floor came down so tht wht alert everybody in the own building, so we just went to fire station to call them if we can able to get our valuable things b4 we come back from there the whole building hav came down tht was around 6pm

a frend's report

It was just abt 2pm today when d pillar in 1st floor came down so tht wht alert everybody in the own building, so we just went to fire station to call them if we can able to get our valuable things b4 we come back from there the whole building hav came down tht was around 6pm

Apt Imagery

What an apt imagery on the state of our nationhood.

Buildings are falling apart

Buildings are falling apart when there is no earthquake. I wonder what will happen if God forbid, an earthquake were to happen in Nigeria especially in a city like Lagos.

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Dramatic Collapse Of Another Lagos City Building

Your reporter deserves an award for capturing the process. Kudos to Fahara Reporters. As for the collapsed building, what a man sows he will reap.

This was a rush job by the

This was a rush job by the owners of the building. I remember thinking, when they were putting it up, that they wanted to rush so they could quickly collect rents from tenants.

Fasola this Fasola that. When

Fasola this Fasola that. When will we Nigerians accept our shortcomings rather than blame the Govt. always. The building has been there even before Fasola came to Govt. even as the HOS. There is Coren i guess, who has a right to oversee the activities of its members and liase with Govt. agencies to ban fraudulent Engineers. Cleansing of Nigeria starts with you and me not the Govt.

God help us!

The spate of collapsed buildings within the lagos metropolis has gotten to a point where only God knows which building is next and when.
Fashola should get off his fat ass and do something now!

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