If someone tells me that I have to go and fix the columns on the 1st floor, on a building that's not even finished I'm handing in my resignation and going home...
@xxdesertstorm Really??? What!?!? That is not how the real world works? I didn't know... Watching this video where people died, didn't give me enough of a hint that the real world is f**ked up... You should maybe use a xanax or two and calm down... Also woke? What does not wanting to die have to do with wokeness?
The fact the first-floor columns were beginning to crack while the building was still under construction should have been a huge red flag that something was seriously amiss.
Designed to withstand 15 floors adding more than 1/3 of the weight will overcome the safety factor. And using tofu-dreg materials wouldn’t help either. The problem of using imported technology from the Far East.
Seriously. I travel to Central America quite a bit, and I'm all too aware of it when I'm going over a bridge (constructed when, inspected ever?) or staying in a high-rise apartment (in a country with world famous corruption).
Same guy also built buildings here in South Africa? I've been avoiding large malls and high-rise buildings for exactly this reason - and this I started a long time ago after they seriously expanded the one mall in Pretoria, and another, unrelated mall had a roof collapse. With this lovely government of ours, and corruption out of control it is only a matter of when and where...
if you have spent any time in Africa and Asia, none of this is a surprise. Collapses like this can happen when everything is being done correctly. But in a low/no governance environment--or what one might call a high corruption system--the real question is not why did this collapse, but how does anything actually keep standing.
Jeez, I was pretty young when i figured out that if support beams are removed the blocks go boom. Please send baby building blocks and tinker toy to nigeria stat.
"let's add floors, until " test columns " brokes, then make new better one's on no more floor's... " whooooop, I go back to my shoe business..., byyeee! "
So he built 50 projects in London and Manchester before going to Lagos and continuing ....... That means an average of 6 months per project and does not include "several estates" built abroad! Does anyone else doubt this timeline?
no wonder that one firm dropped out of the project. they knew something wasn't right. I'm also starting to wonder about the credibility of his education in the UK.
It said he was studying for a HND, that’s a higher national diploma, which is equivalent(ish) to the first year of a degree. Even if the subject was engineering he was no where near qualified to supervise construction. I agree it’s no wonder the other firm dropped out
@@ChristmasCrustacean1doesn’t greed (for money, power, or popularity) count for a lot of people’s ‘faith’. Yeah, if someone thinks they have ‘god’ on their side, I do NOT trust them.
11:37 Replacing column can be done, with extensive planning by engineers on where to brace the building to take the load before doing it. Check out the Davenport Hotel collapsed, the collapsed happened after a repair on the load bearing wall, investigation found it was not done properly, the load path was not redirected to where it should be and it blown out.
It's coincidental that I just found out about it through a Nigerian content creation a couple days ago. Crazy how immense the collapsed was, yet I knew so little about it (in contrast to the Surfside Condo collapse just months earlier). The only silver lining is that it collapsed during the construction phase, and not when it's already completed and fully occupied.
Has that Prince of Nigeria ever sorted out his financial difficulties? Apparently, he stood to inherit a vast inheritance but first needed to pay some fees. He needed just enough to cover those fees, and then he would happily reimburse anyone who "loaned" him money to pay his troublesome fees. 😢 I hope he's doing alright 👍 😂
I knew that Lagos is a corrupt place but I never dreamed it went as far as dangerous and over ambithios construction methods or if anyone could even be that plain stupid. First there was six floors then twelve finishing with twenty one. No wonder it fell down. Removing lower level surpport coloums didn't help. This one was a shocker. Thanks for posting John....
It feels like people wake up and suddenly become whatever they want , you don't need qualifications, just become a construction manager, get a few cowboys to knock up some concrete posts and you have started your career in building a high rise block of flats. I don't think i would ever go in a building above one floor if I was in Nigeria now
Greed, arrogance, ignorance and corruption, all great ingredients in making a pancake stack of concrete death, only this time, for once, the person behind it was actually caught up in it, I guess 'god' wasn't on his side like he thought... :P
Maybe "Faith" should be added to the bingo card. It seems likely Femi Osibona's hubris was his religious belief that he was supernaturally destined to be successful and exempt from the physics of mere Earthly engineering.
Hi from the London UK, welcome onboard on the shit-wassel. Nearly 40yo… never stopped working still have nothing to show for hardly surviving.. Good luck mates, hope future is brighter there than here.
The problem was in part corrupt regulators. More regulation just gives more opportunity for corruption. If you recall, a private engineering company withdrew because the construction was being done so poorly.
Most of North America is not so incompetent or corrupt, and the entire continent was colonized. Same for Australia. Maybe once having been someone's colony is NOT that important.
@@markh.6687 Surfside was far from the only collapse in Florida, and there are a lot more poorly constructed buildings that are on the brink down there.
And so another developer's customers learn the hard way that gravity is going to do gravity things regardless of how fast anyone talks. Once again a PD video brings to the front of my mind the late Richard Feynman's summation in the appendix he wrote for the Rogers Commission report on the loss of Space Shuttle _Challenger_ : "Nature cannot be fooled."
An unscheduled rapid disassembly… by the way, I hear your rant about those buildings around the East Croydon station, but at least I think they look good on the outside.
Because how do certify anything at that site after one building collapsed? Were the footings right? What about support structure design? Did they use the right bolts/fasteners putting things together? Were welds inspected and certified? Who did the soil load tests? At that point everything is suspect because of the magic word "IF".
this developer as they say shouldn't be allowed to build a s- house. innocent people died due to his incompetence. I question the government official who is responsible for building inspections. Almost beyond belief even for LEGOS.
Is anyone in Nigeria legit, it seems like everyone there just make up their qualifications and credentials and becomes whoever they want to be. The regulations and powers that be don't seem to be clued up either , I can't imagine a high-rise being built in Britain being closed down , but then worked on without them knowing. Although it does feel Britain is starting to head that way.
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If someone tells me that I have to go and fix the columns on the 1st floor, on a building that's not even finished I'm handing in my resignation and going home...
not how it works in the real world woke might want to use some #COMMONSENSE which you lack
@@xxdesertstormare you ok?
@xxdesertstorm Really??? What!?!? That is not how the real world works? I didn't know... Watching this video where people died, didn't give me enough of a hint that the real world is f**ked up... You should maybe use a xanax or two and calm down... Also woke? What does not wanting to die have to do with wokeness?
@ComicMelon I don't think he is okay!
I think we found a shady Nigerian developer.
The fact the first-floor columns were beginning to crack while the building was still under construction should have been a huge red flag that something was seriously amiss.
The chinese architects said it was normal.
its a poor country why would anyone care #COMMONSENSE
Ya think🤪😵💫
@@xxdesertstorm bro stop
Designed to withstand 15 floors adding more than 1/3 of the weight will overcome the safety factor. And using tofu-dreg materials wouldn’t help either.
The problem of using imported technology from the Far East.
You had me at Nigerian High Rise
If you transferred some money via Western Union they could have gotten that prince out of the basement in time
i first read it highschool collapse, fortunately its not
I kept expecting some aluminum cladding (aka fuel) to appear.
He had me at "Like all good disasters..."
ewww😄
Thanks to PD, I got past my fear of radiation, but I can't say the same for my fear of high-rise buildings. Nice video tho
Happy days!
Seriously. I travel to Central America quite a bit, and I'm all too aware of it when I'm going over a bridge (constructed when, inspected ever?) or staying in a high-rise apartment (in a country with world famous corruption).
"Oh, they only fall down occasionally." -- some wag
They only fall down once.
@@markh.6687 "That's not typical, I'd like to make that point."
The dwarves delved too greedily and high, and awoke a terror of gravity and rending metal
Random Public: "So was it his own stupidity, or negligence by someone else?"
Plainly Obvious: "Yes."
😂😂
Knocking out a Support column on the first floor for replacement at a ‘later date’ is so mind numbingly stupid. What? Why?
Like cutting off your own leg in the middle of a foot race.
At least first put in a temporary support column!
"With god on my side" If you're relying on divine support, then you you can't be trusted to be doing a good job.
It sounds like divine intervention😇
And now he can't even say he's on the side of God... 😂😂😂
"god" obviously didn't think much of his construction techniques!
Three seconds in and I am already in tears 🤣 British deadpan humour at its best.
Thank you!!
Croydon just jumped to #1 on my list of Cities to Avoid. Lagos rates only a far-distant second.
“Self-deconstructing buildings” 😂
Kind of like "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly or RUD" in Rocketry.
@@drshoe8744 Challenger was certainly RUD in his remarks.
Removing load bearing construction in the lower flor of building that was desighned to be much less tall, what coud go wrong ? 😲
Exactly 😅
Same guy also built buildings here in South Africa?
I've been avoiding large malls and high-rise buildings for exactly this reason - and this I started a long time ago after they seriously expanded the one mall in Pretoria, and another, unrelated mall had a roof collapse.
With this lovely government of ours, and corruption out of control it is only a matter of when and where...
if you have spent any time in Africa and Asia, none of this is a surprise. Collapses like this can happen when everything is being done correctly. But in a low/no governance environment--or what one might call a high corruption system--the real question is not why did this collapse, but how does anything actually keep standing.
All the engineers were also patently incompetent from the start.
Can't stereotype entire continents like that - if something collapses in Japan, for example, it's generally because there was a strong earthquake.
He mentioned a high corruption environment. I don't think Japan qualifies.
Or Florida
I agree with you about South London. When I go back to see family I feel claustrophobic from all the densely-packed "luxury" highrise blocks. 🤢
It's the same deal in every big city, unfortunately. The beautiful bits of Toronto I used to love are just towering "luxury" cubicles now.
@@thing_under_the_stairs reminds me of the Judge Dredd comics/movie.... hmm.... I wonder... was the writer of that setting a Londoner?
@@marhawkman303 Do you remember who wrote the comics? I have a vague memory that they were English, but I'm not sure...
@@thing_under_the_stairs hunh, just looked it up... John Wagner, actually born in the US and raised in Scotland. Hmm.... now I'm even more curious.
Jeez, I was pretty young when i figured out that if support beams are removed the blocks go boom. Please send baby building blocks and tinker toy to nigeria stat.
Also loads of Jenga!
Its basic Jenga!
Was there even time to say 'Jenga' before it, uh, self-deconstructed?
"let's add floors, until " test columns " brokes, then make new better one's on no more floor's...
" whooooop, I go back to my shoe business..., byyeee! "
Apparently his God was NOT with him on this one. :(
@@markh.6687 realistically... He built several buildings before this... some of them still standing AFAIK
Been a while old friend, but glad to see you still keepin' on keepin' on.
So he built 50 projects in London and Manchester before going to Lagos and continuing ....... That means an average of 6 months per project and does not include "several estates" built abroad! Does anyone else doubt this timeline?
I think all of us do. Built 50 projects. You mean laboured on a few building sites more like.
no wonder that one firm dropped out of the project. they knew something wasn't right. I'm also starting to wonder about the credibility of his education in the UK.
I'm also wondering about his supposed faith, considering greed drove his actions
It said he was studying for a HND, that’s a higher national diploma, which is equivalent(ish) to the first year of a degree. Even if the subject was engineering he was no where near qualified to supervise construction.
I agree it’s no wonder the other firm dropped out
Well Boris Johnson was educated at Eton so that should tell you enough😂
@@ChristmasCrustacean1doesn’t greed (for money, power, or popularity) count for a lot of people’s ‘faith’.
Yeah, if someone thinks they have ‘god’ on their side, I do NOT trust them.
@@justsayen2024 No, no, no. Boris Johnson *went to* Eton. I don't think he was educated anywhere.
11:37 Replacing column can be done, with extensive planning by engineers on where to brace the building to take the load before doing it.
Check out the Davenport Hotel collapsed, the collapsed happened after a repair on the load bearing wall, investigation found it was not done properly, the load path was not redirected to where it should be and it blown out.
It's coincidental that I just found out about it through a Nigerian content creation a couple days ago.
Crazy how immense the collapsed was, yet I knew so little about it (in contrast to the Surfside Condo collapse just months earlier). The only silver lining is that it collapsed during the construction phase, and not when it's already completed and fully occupied.
You and I agree with the "ugly highrise" skyline. I like natural shade
"Apart from giving Florida a run for its money in self-deconstructing buildings....."
Oof. Painfully accurate, though it seems. Carry on.
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Ah, Nigeria, it's a silly place.
Oh those pesky regulations, always getting in the way of progess and visionaries!
Like the titan submersibles way. Who cares of safety regulations when going into crushing depths!
I guess God wasn't on his side after all.
Nobody could have guessed that the cracked column was important.
>Structural engineers quit and concrete samples are missing
> first floor columns need replacing
> "this is fine"
My Lego towers collapse all the time
You must be using cheap concrete then. 😆😂🤣😁🤔
Why would someone in his right mind spend $ 1.5 mi to live in Nigeria?!
If you make money there, potentially lots of money. Nigeria produces quite a bit of oil and is a financial hub for the region.
Has that Prince of Nigeria ever sorted out his financial difficulties? Apparently, he stood to inherit a vast inheritance but first needed to pay some fees. He needed just enough to cover those fees, and then he would happily reimburse anyone who "loaned" him money to pay his troublesome fees. 😢 I hope he's doing alright 👍 😂
Sudden unexpected disassembly.
A building fit for a prince, i guess?
Warning was definitely the repairing of first floor pillars!
I always look forward to Saturday morning when we get to see a new Plainly Difficult video. Nice work.
Ol' Femi is still in Nigeria with his flat mates :]
Very flat mates.
Happy weekend John and mates!
That building looks unnervingly similar to the Surfside building
I knew that Lagos is a corrupt place but I never dreamed it went as far as dangerous and over ambithios construction methods or if anyone could even be that plain stupid. First there was six floors then twelve finishing with twenty one. No wonder it fell down. Removing lower level surpport coloums didn't help. This one was a shocker. Thanks for posting John....
It feels like people wake up and suddenly become whatever they want , you don't need qualifications, just become a construction manager, get a few cowboys to knock up some concrete posts and you have started your career in building a high rise block of flats.
I don't think i would ever go in a building above one floor if I was in Nigeria now
Fascinating video, these are always interesting documentaries!
Greed, arrogance, ignorance and corruption, all great ingredients in making a pancake stack of concrete death, only this time, for once, the person behind it was actually caught up in it, I guess 'god' wasn't on his side like he thought... :P
yeah gotta love when a supposed Christian ignores all the stuff in the bible about greed hey.
There is an obvious inherent issue when you have never invented the wheel.
Has anyone checked his buildings in the UK?
2:20 That's the same look that I had on my face, John, when I found out you hired that famous Safety Director for this project.
Toronto is getting like London too. Overpriced badly built towers with thin interior walls and small units everywhere.
Wow. This is a great documentary. Shocking story too.
Maybe "Faith" should be added to the bingo card. It seems likely Femi Osibona's hubris was his religious belief that he was supernaturally destined to be successful and exempt from the physics of mere Earthly engineering.
Hi from the London UK, welcome onboard on the shit-wassel. Nearly 40yo… never stopped working still have nothing to show for hardly surviving.. Good luck mates, hope future is brighter there than here.
This is why deregulation is a terrible idea.
The problem was in part corrupt regulators. More regulation just gives more opportunity for corruption.
If you recall, a private engineering company withdrew because the construction was being done so poorly.
While the show is called Plainly Difficult, this one was far from difficult, predictable even.
It was Super easy, barely an inconvenience
Best video so UA-cam, keep it up brother!🕸️💯💯
Everything that happen is so common sense, to not do. You don't need a degree in construction.
Nigerian High Rise Collapse? Everybody down for that!
I love finding a PD new video with an hour of work left to fill 😅
Thank you
How does an entire continent become so incompetent and corrupt?
Colonialism.
Being colonized by the British, French, Dutch, Belgians, Spanish, and Italians will do that to you.
@@FayeVert building permits are not needed for mud huts.
Colonialism? Well you got to keep blaming it on something
Most of North America is not so incompetent or corrupt, and the entire continent was colonized. Same for Australia.
Maybe once having been someone's colony is NOT that important.
If God was on his side then clearly this was a case of divine intervention.
A little knowledge is dangerous .
This Floridian no longer living down in the condo heavy south Florida laughed hard at your collapse comparison.
Your videos always leave a mark in the heart and mind of the viewers. Thank you for your creativity and depth of thought!🦈🍌👆
5:10 Architect Voltron Company?
Tipical shoddy work trying to build too high and cutting costs and corners
Florida gonna get jealous.
Why?? Surfside stood for decades after being built; but Very Faulty Towers collapsed before it was finished (!)
@@markh.6687 Surfside was far from the only collapse in Florida, and there are a lot more poorly constructed buildings that are on the brink down there.
@@thing_under_the_stairs But the buildings were finished long before they fell down.
Man. All that money that prince made, you would think he would get his act together!
And so another developer's customers learn the hard way that gravity is going to do gravity things regardless of how fast anyone talks. Once again a PD video brings to the front of my mind the late Richard Feynman's summation in the appendix he wrote for the Rogers Commission report on the loss of Space Shuttle _Challenger_ : "Nature cannot be fooled."
"Self-deconstructing building" 🤣 That never fails to make me laugh
No wonder we haven’t heard from that Nigerian Prince for some time. His castle fell down, with him inside.
“God on my side…”
The words of pure ignorance.
At least we all know that he doesn’t really believe in any of that nonsense.
He found out the hard way.
My city on Plainly difficult!
Absolute justice for criminal negligence
You should put something on that card at the end that says "corruption."
An unscheduled rapid disassembly… by the way, I hear your rant about those buildings around the East Croydon station, but at least I think they look good on the outside.
Jeepers. I’m only *related* to engineers, and I would have said taking out supporting columns is a really bad idea.
Engineering 101 Do not knock out supporting columns unless you have something else supporting the floor above you
8:13 I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to try to rescue someone from this concrete lasagna
Oh me oh my...
Having now watched all Plainly Difficult. My biggest take from all these disasters and the death that follows, is "Cow are Bastard's".
I trust cattle more than chickens. No one in my family has ever been attacked by cattle.
If the first two towers had properly certificated concrete, and were the correct height, why demolish them?
Because how do certify anything at that site after one building collapsed? Were the footings right? What about support structure design? Did they use the right bolts/fasteners putting things together? Were welds inspected and certified? Who did the soil load tests? At that point everything is suspect because of the magic word "IF".
I used to bemoan the fact that Africa chased it's best and brightest abroad but I guess it's just as bad when they come back home.
WE WUZ CONTRACTORS AND SHEEEEEIT
1:21 "Lagos, like many capital cities across the world..."
Guess you forgot that Abuja exists
Nothing can go wrong. God is on his side
Thanks!
So what happened to to 4 Score Homes?
Well in the US they would have gotten a $1200 fine and possibly a financial bailout. 🎉
I have an engineering hnd, difference between that and an honours or doctorate degree is huge,soon as I saw that he was in charge 🙈look out
Hi John ! If you have a chance, I'd love to hear your take on the Lac Megantic rail desaster. Have a nice day :)
He did a video on it two years ago - you can find it by searching "plainly difficult lac megantic".
Hey John, you can hear the intro music at 1:12 but there's no plainly difficult text showing on the screen 😂
MY bad!!
@@PlainlyDifficult No worries, we all make mistakes! 😁👍
I wonder how many actual 'investors' there were, and how many scammer calls they made to get them.
Could you do a video on The Ghost of Flight 401?
A classic case of a house of cards.
this developer as they say shouldn't be allowed to build a s- house. innocent people died due to his incompetence. I question the government official who is responsible for building inspections. Almost beyond belief even for LEGOS.
Is anyone in Nigeria legit, it seems like everyone there just make up their qualifications and credentials and becomes whoever they want to be.
The regulations and powers that be don't seem to be clued up either , I can't imagine a high-rise being built in Britain being closed down , but then worked on without them knowing.
Although it does feel Britain is starting to head that way.
Half a million pounds for an apartment? I've seen 200-acre profitable farms sell for less near me.
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No surprise
Thanks :)
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Incompetence and corruption.
@9:18 what is meant by "and the hoarding outside the project."
100 inspectors, for 35,000,000 people. That’s… Jesus fuck the work load 😂 no wonder they take bribes
There are so few largely to keep the bribery going. You can bet they pay heavily to keep the government from increasing their numbers.