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Walter Emiedafe
Wednesday, 28 January 2015 / Published in How To's

Why Buildings Collapse In Nigeria

This is our maiden publication on the UniteNigeria platform for social change. I signed up as an advocate for CHANGE and started this conversation that MATTER about Why Building Collapse in Nigeria.

Enjoy!

Nigeria is so blessed as a nation that we rarely ever experience natural disasters such as earthquakes, Tsunami, or Tornadoes. But yet, despite the absence of all these collateral damaging natural disasters, our buildings still collapse in Nigeria.

Why?

Because of our own man made infrastructural disasters.

Since we didn’t have our own natural disasters to bring down our buildings, we simply created our own version through sheer negligence.

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    October 19, 2015 at 10:10 am

    […] Building collapses is also one of the top issues affecting Nigeria real estate industry. From 1974 – 2010 as a result of over 60 building collapse in Nigeria, 401 people have died and several more haven’t been reported or accounted for. […]

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    December 9, 2015 at 9:26 pm

    […] One of the advantages of choosing a reputable building contractor or construction company is avoiding a poorly done building construction work. Poor quality of construction has been identified as one of the major reasons for building collapse. […]

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