Collapsed Ikoyi building

Richard Somiari, director of Lagos DNA and forensic centre, says one more body recovered from the rubble of the high-rise that collapsed in Ikoyi has been identified. More than 40 persons — including Femi Osibona, owner of Fourscore…

Lagos State Building Control Authority (LASBCA) has revealed before an Ikeja Coroner’s Court that late Mr Femi Osibona, Managing Director of Fourscore Heights Ltd., prevented its officers from gaining access to the construction site of the …

Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said that no one died during rescue operations at the site of the Ikoyi building collapse. Director-General of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Oluwafemi…

Group Managing Director of Oxford Millennium, a subsidiary of an investment firm, Oxford Group in Nigeria, Amaka Enekwe, has reportedly died. Amaka died three weeks after her sister, Onyinye, a personal assistant to the Managing…

Emergency workers have recovered two more bodies from the site of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos State. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos, Gbenga Omotoso, who confirmed this in a statement on…

Death toll in a high-rise collapse in Ikoyi, Lagos State has risen to 43, the state government has announced. Lagos Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotoso, made this known in a statement on Sunday. The 21-storey building which …

Death toll from the collapse of a 21-storey building in the Ikoyi area of Lagos state has increased to 42. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, disclosed this on Saturday when he visited the site of the collapsed building in the…

Nollywood actress, Zainab Balogun-Nwachukwu has mourned her cousin, Samuel Iwelu, who died in the collapsed Ikoyi building. MDB had reported how the 21-storey building caved in on Monday, with many people still believed to be trapped in…

A body believed to be that of Femi Osibona, owner of the company in charge of the 21 storey building that collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos, has been recovered. According to TheCable, an official of National Emergency Management…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has named the members of a panel of inquiry set up by the government to probe the building collapse in Ikoyi, Lagos state. Addressing reporters, family members, and sympathisers when he visited…

Two more bodies were pulled out early Wednesday from the debris of a collapsed Lagos high-rise building, bringing the death toll to 22 people, the emergency services said. The 21-storey building was still under construction when it…

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has arrived at the scene of the building which collapsed at Ikoyi area of the state on Monday. The Commissioner of Police, according to ThePunch, on Wednesday arrived in an…

A two-storey building has collapsed in Lekki area of Lagos barely 24 hours after the collapse of a 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi. The recent collapse, which occurred at Osapa London area of Lekki, was under construction when…

Lagos state government says 14 bodies have been retrieved from the rubble of the 21-storey building which collapsed on Monday. The government also said nine men were also rescued alive, adding that more equipment and personnel have been…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the suspension of the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mr. Gbolahan Oki. The governor also said the government will find out what went wrong and punish those…