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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