Four persons were injured when part of a two-storey building collapsed in the Old Port Harcourt Township area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Friday night. The building, located at No. 18 Club Road, is said to be one of the oldest in the area, having stood for more than 60 years. An eyewitness, who spoke on conditio…
As part of efforts to avert building collapse and combat the use of substandard building materials, the Ogun State Building Production Management Authority, OGBPMA, and the Building Collapse Prevention Guild, BCPG, have brought bricklayers, carpenters, welders, architects, engineers, builders, community leaders and oth…
…and her daughter were in their apartment in a nearby bungalow when the three-storey building collapsed and trapped them. Before the building caved in, it made a loud noise as the walls started making cracking noises before falling one after the other. “Some other people who were also trapped in the rubble were later re…
…live with the deaths, trauma, financial losses and unanswered questions left behind by building collapses. As experts blame weak enforcement, quackery, substandard materials and poor construction practices, ANOZIE EGOLE examines why building collapses persist and what happens to the families left behind For 50-year-old…
…Edo State residents to recognise the consequences of building wrongly. He stated that building collapses and incessant flooding were results of poor planning, adding that quacks had taken over building sites. He said, “This year, we have chosen to address a fundamental issue with our theme: Housing is a Right, build it…
…of LASBCA, Gbaye Florence, gave the warning on Thursday at a conference organised by the Building Collapse Prevention Guild, Amuwo-Odofin Cell, in Satellite Town, Lagos. The conference, themed “Building Resilient Lagos through Synergy,” was held against the backdrop of the collapse of a four-storey building on Ladipo S…
…seek sanctions, community vigilance to curb building collapse, legal failures Deputy Registrar, Lagos State University (LASU), Ms Temitope Ladipo-Scott, and expert in built sector, Builder Builder Mubarak Gbaja-Biamila have called on regulatory bodies and gatekeepers to discharge their duties in line with extant rules…
A four-storey uncompleted building collapsed at Independence Layout in Enugu State at about 6am on Sunday, September 13, 2026NEMA confirmed its Director-General immediately deployed an Emergency Rescue Team to coordinate search and rescue operations at the sceneRescue teams found people trapped beneath the rubble and m…
Two young women from the same household have died after a residential building collapsed in the Goron Dutse community of Kano at about 2:00 am. The incident occurred behind the WRECA area of Goron Dutse, throwing residents and members of the victims’ family into grief. One of the victims was reportedly a 20-year-old wo…
…2026. 3. A mother and four of her children have died after a section of a three-storey building collapsed on them at Popo Giwa, Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday morning. The tragedy occurred at No. 41 Popo Giwa Street, beside Gogoro Mosque, where eight members of the family were trapped beneath the rubble. Three people,…
A three-storey building collapse in Ilorin, Kwara State, has claimed the lives of four people, while four others were rescued alive as emergency responders continued search-and-rescue operations. The building, located at No. 41 Popo Giwa Street beside Gogoro Mosque in the Ile Oyan Masalasi Gogoro area of Ilorin, collap…
An unspecified number of people are reportedly trapped after two-story building collapsed in Ilorin metropolis, the capital of Kwara State, Tuesday morning. Tribune Online gathered that the incident occurred at approximately 5:30 a.m. in the Popo Giwa area, Masalasi Zhogoro, off Ajikobi Road, within the Ilorin West Loc…
…collapse in Jigawa Two children have d!ed while several others were injured after a building collapsed following a heavy downpour in Gandun Sarki community, Malam Madori Local Government Area of Jigawa State. According to reports, the rainfall, which started on Friday night, August 21, lasted for more than an hour acro…
…building Families have announced the burial arrangements for the lovers who d!ed in a building collapse. The bodies of Vivian Chinedu Akabuike, 29, and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Stanley Nwachukwu, 32, were recovered from the rubbles of the collapsed Elite 5-Star Hostel in Amaokpala, near the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, in O…
Mother and two children k!lled in Kaduna building collapse A 35-year-old woman, her five-year-old son and a three-month-old baby have been k!lled after a building under construction collapsed on their residence in Dan Mani Community, Rigasa District, Kaduna State.The incident occurred at about 3:30am on Friday morning,…
Hospital building collapses in Calabar after devastating landslide triggered by torrential rainfall (video) Unicem hospital building collapsed in Calabar, Cross River State following a devastating landslide by triggered torrential rainfall. A Calabar based pharmacist Mr Mekzy, who shared the video on X, said the incide…
…at the weekend by its management. At a period where Nigeria is recording incident of building collapse, the management of one of Lagos’ most ambitious premium residential developments has assured prospective investors […] The post Developer boasts of structural integrity of Alexander Tower project appeared first on Tri…
…after striking Colombia. Dramatic footage shows people running for their lives as a building collapses around them. The 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck close to the El Cairo region, according to the US Geological Service. It hit the Choco province on the country's Pacific coast, with the epicentre located at a depth of…
…framework for real estate developers is fuelling fraud, multiple land sales and building collapses across the country. The President of REDAN, Oba Akintoye Adeoye, stated this at the recently concluded National Housing Data Programme Workshop organised by the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development in Abuja.…
Residents of Ajuwon in Ogun State were thrown into mourning after a mixed-use building collapsed during a downpour on Monday, killing three people and leaving 12 others rescued as the Ogun State Government ordered a comprehensive investigation into the tragedy. PUNCH Metro gathered that the collapsed structure, which h…
…sunk and collapsed at Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State. The multi-storey building collapsed on Sunday night, July 27, 2026, while students were inside. People living nearby said they heard a loud noise before the building collapsed. The sound attracted many residents and students, who rushed to the scene. Rescue…
…during the enforcement exercise, Wasiu said the operation was intended to prevent building collapses, encourage orderly urban development and ensure compliance with the Lagos State Physical Planning Law. He reaffirmed the government’s commitment to protecting lives and property through strict enforcement of planning re…
…construction has collapsed on Finbars Road, Umuahia, causing panic in the area. The building collapsed in the early hours of Friday following a torrential downpour, though no lives were lost. The incident occurred about two months after officials of the Umuahia Capital Development Authority (UCDA) declared the building…
Four trapped, three rescued as building collapses in Kano A two-storey building under construction at Sultan Road in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State has collapsed, leaving four people trapped beneath the rubble. The incident occurred around 9 a.m. on Friday, July 10, 2026. Eyewitnesses said construction wo…
…traffic congestion. Whether it’s flooding in Lagos, election violence, a car accident, a building collapse, or a fuel tanker explosion, social media has become the country’s unofficial public alert system. Three young Nigerian founders believe that this behaviour deserves its own platform. Oriekaose Agholor, Adetunji A…