•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 ...
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...
Nigeria has plunged into darkness once again as the nation’s electricity grid collapsed. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) managed grid went down at approximately 11:51 AM today, reducing the system’s capacity from 2,407 megawatts to a mere 31MW by noon and reaching zero by 1 PM, reports The Guardian. Despite the federal government pri...
Three people were killed and nine injured after an under-construction hangar collapsed at the Boise Airport in Bosie, capital of Idaho, yesterday. The three died at the scene, and five of the nine injured are in critical condition, said the Boise Fire Department, reports AFP. The hangar, located on the airport property, was owned by […]
•Site of the collapsed building and a dog The death toll on today’s building collapse at Ebute Meta, Lagos State, has increased to three with the recovery of the body of a 12-year-old boy. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the figure to newsmen in Lagos. Earlier, it [&helli...
•Late Pedro Henrique A popular Brazilian gospel singer, Pedro Henrique, died after he collapsed on stage during a performance. The 30-year-old unexpectedly collapsed in front of his band in a concert hall in the northeastern city of Feira de Santana yesterday. In the video clip, before he lost his balance and fell onto his back, […]
•Scene of the incident in Akure Residents of Aiyedun quarters, in Akure South Local Council of Ondo State, were thrown into mourning, yesterday, following the death of a nine-day-old baby and her 30-year-old mother. The tragedy occurred when an overhead water tank crashed onto a one-bedroom detached bungalow housing the baby and its mother, re...
•Electricity grid Nigeria’s electricity grid has once again thrown the country into darkness as the government operated system went down this afternoon. The system collapsed at about 1pm cutting down electricity from 4,032.80 megawatts at about 12pm to 43 megawatts 1pm and a meagre 303 megawatts at about 5:00 pm, reports The Guardian. Most Dis...
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