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By Bose Adelaja In less than 24 hours after a three-storey building collapsed on Freeman Street, leaving three people dead and nine others injured, another building has collapsed, Saturday evening, at No 312, Ijegun Road, Ikotun. The building with nine shops and 15 rooms was said to have suffered partial collapse from the rear but
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Dr. Idris Salako, Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, has said whenever the relevant agencies evict some people from distressed buildings, they still find their way back and continue to live in such buildings. He added that the state government would now enforce the law on demolition of distressed buildings. The commissioner
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By Bose Adelaja In less than 24 hours after a three-storey building collapsed on Freeman Street, leaving three people dead and nine others injured, another building has collapsed, Saturday evening, at No 312, Ijegun Road, Ikotun. The building with nine shops and 15 rooms was said to have suffered a partial collapse from the rear
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By Bose Adelaja One person was confirmed dead while six others were rescued alive, weekend, underneath the rubbles of a three-storey building which collapsed on Freeman Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State. The incident occurred at about 4.05 am as the building was said to have suffered total collapse leaving its occupants trapped as they were
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The Lagos State Government, says it has sealed off additional 42 buildings in Lekki to reduce incidences of building collapse. A statement on Friday by Mr. Mukaila Sanusi, the spokesman of the Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, quoted the Commissioner, Dr. Idris Salako, as saying ‘some of the buildings do not
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni An unidentified woman has been confirmed dead in one of the multiple collapsed buildings on Thursday, which occurred at Unity Close off Adebiyi Street, in Magodo phase 1 as a result of mudslide following persistent rainfall in Lagos. The mudslide was said to have pulled down a fence which in turn collapsed
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By Bose Adelaja A Two-storey building in Iju area of Lagos has reportedly recorded partial collapse. The incident was said to have occurred at Shanuaje Street at about 8pm on Sunday. It was gathered that the back of the building caved in due to an apparent lack of maintenance just as its occupants had long
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The Nigerian Institute of Building NIOB, has called for urgent investigation and prosecution of those involved in the recent Owerri building collapse that caused the wanton destruction of property and loss of lives, in order to deter quackery and negligence on building sites in Nigeria.
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni Barely 48 hours after a similar incident occurred, men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, on Sunday, prevented what could have resulted in a building collapse of a three-storey building when they evacuated an unspecified number of residents from a defective building in Lagos Island. Recall that LASEMA had earlier
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At least one person was killed in a building collapse in the Onipasan area of Ibadan, Oyo State, Sunday. The spokesman of the state police command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the incident to journalists on Monday. The deceased was the wife of the owner of the collapsed building located behind Oluyoro Hospital in the state capital.
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