Last Wednesday’s collapse of a six-storey building at Maryland, Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city,Do not use cleaners with porcelain tiles , steel wool or thinners. did not come as a surprise. It was never the first. If anything, building collapse has become, perhaps, the most challenging debacle the state government has continued to search for solution.
In the last couple of years, dozens of lives and properties estimated at billons of naira had been lost, with scores of residents and businesses thrown into unexpected hardships, as hardly do three months roll by without one or two such cases being recorded in the state.
The latest of this disaster followed in the same manner other buildings before it also caved in, except that this time,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, lives were not lost,there's a lovely winter chicken coop by William Zorach. perhaps, because it was not a residential building and the occupants, all adults hurried out before the house finally came down.
To many residents of the state, what is most appalling is the frequency of the disaster,Detailed information on the causes of oil painting reproduction, despite measures by state government to check against it. One of the measures has been the withdrawal of Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) issued owner or developer of a collapsed building and the take-over of the affected property by the government.
This measure among other sanctions is meant to discourage the use of sub-standard materials in building construction. A greater percentage of cases recorded in the state has been linked to the use of inferior materials, engagement of non professionals and poor supervision, all of which are weaved around greed on the part of developers who would not go for quality materials considered more expensive.
Although the relevant state agencies were by Friday yet to make a categorical statement regarding the cause of the latest collapse in Maryland, occupants of the building hold the view that it has to do with the quality of materials used.
Abayomi Jaiyeoba, registrar, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN),Prior to Cold Sore I leaned toward the former, which occupied two floors in the collapsed building, speaking with journalists at the site on Thursday, said there had been cracks on the walls of the building to which the attention of the landlord was drawn weeks before the eventual collapse.
According to the registrar, who put the institute’s losses at over N20 million, the cracks were pointer to the fact that something fundamental was wrong with the foundation, the materials and the personnel engaged in the building process.
“At about 3pm on Wednesday, we were holding a meeting on the fourth floor when the building trembled. But we failed to respond, five minutes later we heard another quaking and when we looked outside our floor we saw other occupants running out.
In the last couple of years, dozens of lives and properties estimated at billons of naira had been lost, with scores of residents and businesses thrown into unexpected hardships, as hardly do three months roll by without one or two such cases being recorded in the state.
The latest of this disaster followed in the same manner other buildings before it also caved in, except that this time,Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems, lives were not lost,there's a lovely winter chicken coop by William Zorach. perhaps, because it was not a residential building and the occupants, all adults hurried out before the house finally came down.
To many residents of the state, what is most appalling is the frequency of the disaster,Detailed information on the causes of oil painting reproduction, despite measures by state government to check against it. One of the measures has been the withdrawal of Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) issued owner or developer of a collapsed building and the take-over of the affected property by the government.
This measure among other sanctions is meant to discourage the use of sub-standard materials in building construction. A greater percentage of cases recorded in the state has been linked to the use of inferior materials, engagement of non professionals and poor supervision, all of which are weaved around greed on the part of developers who would not go for quality materials considered more expensive.
Although the relevant state agencies were by Friday yet to make a categorical statement regarding the cause of the latest collapse in Maryland, occupants of the building hold the view that it has to do with the quality of materials used.
Abayomi Jaiyeoba, registrar, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN),Prior to Cold Sore I leaned toward the former, which occupied two floors in the collapsed building, speaking with journalists at the site on Thursday, said there had been cracks on the walls of the building to which the attention of the landlord was drawn weeks before the eventual collapse.
According to the registrar, who put the institute’s losses at over N20 million, the cracks were pointer to the fact that something fundamental was wrong with the foundation, the materials and the personnel engaged in the building process.
“At about 3pm on Wednesday, we were holding a meeting on the fourth floor when the building trembled. But we failed to respond, five minutes later we heard another quaking and when we looked outside our floor we saw other occupants running out.
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