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BUILDING CODE: As reactions continue to trail last Wednesday’s collapsed building at Ita Faji Street, Lagos Island, killing several children and injuring scores of others, professionals in the built environment have noted that strict enforcement of building code by developers is the panacea to the unabated menace of building collapse in the country, Blaming incessant building collapse on shoddy building ...

Worried by incessant building collapse in the country, the Federal Government has concluded plans to review the National Building Code (NBC) as part of measure to end the menace. Speaking on the NBC, the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Akon Eyakenyi, said that serious moves were being made to curb the menace of building collapse in the ...

The Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria has asked the National Assembly to pass the bill for the enforcement of the Nigerian National Building Code, and they want it done urgently. CORBON, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Prof. Kabir Bala, said the loss of lives through building collapse had become a national embarrassment due to failure of infrastructure, ...