Two male dead bodies have been recovered from a three-storey building that collapsed under construction on Friday night at Yaba, a suburb of Lagos. Mrs Ibitayo Adenike, Acting Head, National Emergency Management Agency (Lagos Operations Office), disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. NAN reports that […]
Four people have died while five others were injured when a one-storey building under construction collapsed on Wednesday at Flourmill Estate, Magbon, near Badagry, Lagos State. A witness, Oluwagbenga Ogundele, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the building collapsed on the nine construction workers on site around 3 p.m. Ogundele, who works as […]
*Dep Gov visits site, says nine persons trapped in rubble rescued alive, 14 dead, three discharged *Total figure of trapped occupants unclear Lagos State Government is setting up an independent panel to probe the collapse of the 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi. Members of the panel will be drawn from the Nigeria Institute of […]
*Emergency responders battle to rescue trapped victims *Gov Sanwo-Olu orders probe, calls for calm *’Owner of collapsed building got approval to construct only 15 floors, but built 21 floors’ Joy Joseph, Lagos A 21-storey building under construction at Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, collapsed on Monday afternoon with at least three persons confirmed dead, and many […]
At least six persons were killed in a building collapse in Egypt’s northern coastal city of Alexandria, an official security source said on Thursday. The accident took place in late hours of Wednesday when a four-story building collapsed in Moharam Bek district, the official said. The rescue team has found the bodies of three men […]
Nearly two dozen people have been wounded while many, including children, remain trapped in the debris of a fivestorey building that collapsed in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Reports reaching Daily Times on Monday said more than two dozen people were pulled out by rescue teams and taken to hospital amid heavy monsoon rains […]
The Imo State Government has vowed to prosecute the erring contractor as well as revoke the Certificate of Occupancy of the land, following the collapse of an 8-storey building in Owerri. Governor Hope Uzodinma revealed this on Friday while visiting the site of the collapsed building. According to him, it is quite unfortunate that the […]
Twelve days after the collapse of a seven-storey building under construction at Woji Road, GRA, Phase 11, Port Harcourt, anxious relatives of some construction workers trapped in the rubble are still hopeful that rescue operators would pull out their loved ones alive. Some of the relatives who trooped to the collapsed building site on a […]
…Survivors cry out over scant medical attention Some rescue workers of the collapsed 7-storey building under construction in GRA Phase 11, Port Harcourt, last Friday are lamenting lack of adequate equipment and manpower needed for the rescue of more persons trapped under the rubbles. Some of the workers who pleaded anonymity said Monday morning that […]
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration has moved to demolish illegally constructed public buildings as precautionary measures to mitigate building collapse. This came to the fore as the Development Control Department of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) has upped plans to demolish abandoned uncompleted one storey building located within Nile Street, in the Maitama […]
The General Overseer of Bible Base Miracle Assembly, Rev. Jerry Nwachukwu, has said it was divine intervention that saved him and 71 members of his church in Asaba, Delta State capital when the building they were putting up gave way. Speaking to newsmen in Onitsha, headquarters of the Church, the cleric said in April 2013, […]
A building suited round Salvation bus stop near Adebola house in Ikeja environs has reportedly collapsed with several fatalities on ground. Although, at the time of this report, the cause of the incident and numbers of fatalities couldn’t be ascertained. Meanwhile, the tragedy as degenerated into Panic and huge traffic on Opebi way / Salvation […]
A three story building of a twelve flats has just collapsed. The building, was located around Ilufe community in Ojo LGA,Lagos state. We have not been able to verify the number of casualties. More to follow
Three people sustained minor injuries yesterday when a section of a four-storey building undergoing restructuring caved in in Ilorin, Kwara state. It was gathered that the restructuring was being done to conform with observation and advise of the state’s Town Planning Authority. The incident occurred at about 10am along Sulu Gambari road in the state […]
Several casualties have been recorded after a building collapsed along Zulu-Gambari road, Ilorin in Kwara State. More to follow
Several fatalities have been recorded in a building collapse in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. More to follow
The Lagos state government on Sunday attributed the building collapse which occurred at 7, Saidu Okeleji Street, Meiran in Agbado Oke -Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the state on Saturday to heavy loads placed on the building and substandard materials used for its construction. Reacting to the collapse, the state Commissioner for Physical […]