•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on Steel Development today, Wednesday, July 31, kicked against the circulation of substandard iron rods in the country. The Chairman of the Committee, Zainab Gimba, said there is an urgent need to address the rising rate of building collapse which could also be traced to substand...
•Tinubu There are indications that Nigeria’s frequent electricity system collapse will continue because of 10 deep-seated problems facing the power sector and the inability of the government and other stakeholders to find lasting solutions to them in the short term. Checks by our correspondent, yesterday, identified the reasons to include obso...
•A victim It was a weekend of agony for residents, students and parents of Saint Academy located in Busa Buji community in Jos as a classroom building collapsed trapping hundreds of students sitting for exams on Friday. Again, less than 24 hours after and over 200 hundred kilometres away, another residential building collapsed in Kubwa [&helli...
•Site of the school building collapse A total of 22 victims lost their lives while 132 sustained injuries in the collapsed school building in Jos, Plateau State capital, yesterday morning. Saints Academy, a secondary school in Jos, collapsed while students were writing their third term examination. In a statement, the state Commissioner for In...
•Rescue officials searching for victims from the rubble of the collapsed building The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed the rescue of three persons who were trapped at a building that collapsed last night at Unity House, Area 11, Garki. A statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said in [...
More than three weeks after a mining pit collapsed in Galkogo, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, over 30 miners have remained trapped, victims’ families and residents said. Recalls that labourers were working inside the 400-metre-deep pit owned by African Minerals and Logistics Limited when it caved in on June 3 after a heavy [&hel...
•Major Baltimore Bridge collapses after ship collision The FBI has launched a criminal probe targeting the container ship that crashed into a major road bridge in Baltimore last month, collapsing it and killing six people, US media reported today. The Washington Post described it as a “criminal investigation,” and cited two unnamed US official...
•Baltimore bridge collapse Rescue workers in Baltimore are searching for as many as seven people after a major bridge in the city’s port was struck by a container ship early today, officials said. “It is an active search and rescue situation and the number of missing people could change,” the city’s fire chief said. Two […]
The Nasarawa State Chapter of the opposition, People’s Democratic Party (PDP ), yesterday raised an alarm over imminent collapse of health sector in Nasarawa State as over 59 resident doctors and health officials in the state are laying down their tools. Mr. Francis Orogu, raise the alarm in a statement while reacting to reported cases [&helli...
•Fubara and Wike Barely four days after Achor Nna, the councillor representing the ward of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, resigned his position to support Governor Siminalayi Fubara, another group of Wike’s supporters have collapsed their structure for the Rivers governor. The latest to join Fubara’s camp is a grou...

