Category: Lagos State

Seven days after a 21-storey building collapsed on Gerrard Road, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, recovery operation is still ongoing by rescue agencies. It was learnt that responders were already concluding their operation as the death toll hit 44 on Sunday. Our correspondents had reported that the 21-storey building crumbled last Monday around […]

Death toll in last week’s Ikoyi, Lagos building collapse has now risen to 42. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who gave an update on the tragedy on Saturday, disclosed that 42 bodies had been recovered from the site as of 6pm. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Alaka, also stated […]

The corpses of the Managing Director, Fourscore Heights Limited, Mr Femi Osibona, and his friend, a United States of America-based Nigerian businessman, Wale Bob-Oseni, have been recovered from the 21-storey building that collapsed on Gerrard Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. Their bodies were found on Thursday by res-ponders during the recovery operation […]

Photo: LASEMA The families of those trapped in the rubble of the building that collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State have begged to join the rescue operations which have entered Day 2. The storey building collapsed on Monday trapping no fewer than 20 people in the rubble. Federal and state emergency agencies currently […]

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has arrived the scene where a building collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The IGP on Tuesday came in an entourage of police cars and heavy security, to the venue of the incident. On arrival, he went straight into the compound and is yet to address […]

The death toll from the collapsed 21-storey building on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi has risen to 15, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday afternoon. “We have recovered more bodies. The death toll now stands at 15, while nine were pulled out alive,” Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency said. Rescue operations were […]

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has suspended the General Manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) Gbolahan Oki. The Governor vowed to find out what went wrong and punish those indicted in the collapsed 21-storey building under construction in Ikoyi. A statement by Commissioner for Information and Strategy Gbenga Omotoso, said the State Government […]