The project board of the Ikoyi collapsed building hid sensitive and import details, a report by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has said. According to Mr Tomide Akinnawo, Chief Engineer and COREN’s Head of Lagos Liaison Office, a COREN investigative panel noticed that the project board mounted at the site Read More…
The Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), said before a Coroner’s Inquest to the collapse of the 21-storey building at Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, that construction of the three high-rise blocks began before provisional approval was granted. Counsel for LASBCA, Mr A.S Odugbemi, made the assertion while questioning Mr Muritala Olawale, the Managing Director of Read More…
A structural engineer, Mr Muritala Olawale, has told an Inquest he cannot vouch for the integrity of the remaining two high-rises (Block A and C) at the site of the collapsed 21-storey building at Ikoyi. Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering Nigeria Ltd, made the revelation while answering questions at the Coroner’s Inquest constituted to Read More…
Death toll now 43 With an additional body found on Saturday evening, after the announcement of the official figure of 42, the death toll at the collapse of the 21-story building at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi is now 43. The additional figure was announced by Channels Television in its news broadcast at 10pm on Saturday. According Read More…
A report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) says the casualty figure at the collapsed 21-storey high-rise building at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, now stands at 39. Among the dead, according to NAN quoting a reliable source, is MD/CEO Fourscore Homes, owner of the collapsed building, Femi Osibona. The report says the bodies retrieved from Read More…
In picture above: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (second right), Commissioner for Special Duties & Inter-Government Relations, Engr. Tayo Bamgbose-Martins (right) and Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu (left) during a revisit to the site of the Ikoyi building collapse, on Thursday, November 4, 2021. Credit: LASG The Lagos State Read More…
In picture above: People react as they gather at the site of a collapsed building in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja Various sources are citing increasing casualty figures as salvage work at the collapsed 21-storey highrise building continues. While the Lagos State government on Tuesday said 14 people were dead as at Read More…
A luxury residential highrise under construction in Ikoyi collapsed on Monday, and witnesses say that several workers were trapped under a pile of concrete rubble According to workers who escaped the collapse, it is possible that about 100 people were at work when the building came crashing down. Building collapses have become frequent in Lagos, Read More…
They were told not to bother about going to Ikoyi because Ikoyi was meant to be clean, but by the time they had spent three hours there, members of the Statewide Waste and Environmental Education Foundation (SWEEP) had picked up 136kg of plastic waste. The clean-up is part of a new environmental sustainability initiative, titled Read More…
The Lagos State Government ordered the stoppage of construction of illegal buildings within the old Federal Secretariat premises in Ikoyi. In a statement by Mr Mukaila Sanusi, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, on Thursday, the Commissioner, Dr Idris Salako, who gave the order, also sealed off the premises, where Read More…