•A collapsed building An unknown number of workers have been reportedly trapped at a collapsed building in Kano State. The building is located in the Kuntau area of Gwale Local Government Area of the state, reports Daily Trust. At least, 11 persons are trapped under the rubble, sources disclosed to our correspondent. Rescue operations are [&he...
•The demolished Yoruba Nation agitators’ building Oyo State Government, today, Wednesday, demolished the building where the Yoruba Nation agitators led by Modupe Onitiri-Abiola are operating from in Ibadan, the state capital. Some masked persons, who invaded the state secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, on Saturday morning, were arrested by the joint ...
•Scene of the building collapse Less than two weeks after a building collapse at the Oduigbo section of the Ochanja market, Onitsha, a five-storey building, this morning, collapsed at on Garden Street Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State. Confirming the incident, the Chairman of the Anambra State Physical Planning Board, Chike Mmaduekwe, decried the ...
•An explosion An explosion occurred in a five-story residential building in the northeast of St. Petersburg today. The local publication Fontanka reports that the explosion was caused by a drone. The Telegram channels Baza and 112 wrote that the drone crashed into the building. According to the Telegram channel Mash, debris from the drone fell...
•Site of Anambra collapsed building The Anambra State Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of six people in the building collapse incident that occurred in the commercial city of Onitsha yesterday. According to the agency, about 20 other people were rescued from the rubbles of the collapsed building. Most of them sustained vario...
Tragedy struck when a 3-storey building, under construction at No 1 Isalegangan Street by Ita-faji, Lagos Island Local Government, collapsed in the early hours amidst heavy downpour. Fortunately, there was no casualty recorded in the incident, reports Vanguard. The collapse, sent panic among residents of the community, running helter skelter i...
•Construction Like every other sector, the building and construction industry may be witnessing one of its worst moments, as exchange rate, building materials, and labour prices have triggered an increase in construction costs by 200 per cent in the last two years. Nigeria’s inflation rate as of December 2023 climbed to 28.9 per cent, reports ...
Electronics and documents worth millions have been lost to a fire incident in a two-storey building in Kwata junction in Awka, Anambra State capital. The incident, which occurred yesterday, affected the roof of the structure housing several offices, reports The Nation. Eyewitnesses said the entire building could have been razed but for the qui...
•Mandilas building on fire A warehouse in Mandilas Building, Broad Street in Lagos Island is on fire. The fire according to the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service originated on the first floor and has now reached the fourth floor, reports Channels TV. No casualty has been recorded thus far. While emergency workers are in […]
•Ibadan explosion A survivor of the explosion which occurred in Ibadan, on Tuesday, Mr Abiola AbduIsalam, said he jumped from a storey building on Dejo Oyelese Street, Adeyi Avenue, Ibadan, where the explosion happened, to save his life. AbduIsalam spoke with our correspondent at one of the wards of the University College Hospital where he [&h...