Tag Archives: Building Collapse

Reports show that a two-storey building under construction at 21, Makinde Street, Alausa, Ikeja, collapsed yesterday. Vanguard reports that operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Building Control Agency and Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, moved to the scene in response to a distress call. According to Vanguard, the General Manager of LASEMA, Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu, ...

Due to the rate of building collapse in the country, the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has vowed to sanction erring engineering firms and personnel. The Nation reports that a statement by the Registrar, Kamila Maliki, after its 151st council meeting, said: “Considering the report of the Regulation and Control Committee, the council noted the alarming rate ...

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has warned operators in the construction sector, such as developers and contractors to adhere strictly to building regulations and control, adding that the government would no longer tolerate flagrant disregard of the law, as part of measures to eliminate the incidences of building collapse in the state. Vanguard reports that Ambode, who was represented by his Deputy, ...

Disturbed by the frequent cases of collapsed buildings in different parts of the country, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has called for legislation to regulate the activities of workers in the construction and building industry. Okowa, while declaring open the 18th National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of National Union of Civil Engineering Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers, NUCECFWW in ...

Despite the fact that the economy of the world’s most populous black nation is presently in recession, Observers still believe that Nigeria’s real estate sector still evolves at a tremendous pace. The focus of this article are the factors that constitute a stiff opposition to the country’s emerging real estate industry. There is no doubt that other budding sectors of ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has warned building regulatory agencies that the Federal Government will not condone collapse of buildings under its mass housing project scheduled to commence soon. Fashola said this on Thursday in Abuja at the 6th Annual Building and Construction Economic Roundtable organised by the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria with the ...

We need to stop waiting for buildings to collapse before we start paying attention. Attention should be paid from the very start of foundation. The above statement was made by Gladys Okoro, who is the CEO of BrookHouse International Limited which specializes on Real Estate Finishing. She has been in the Real Estate business since 2009 and ventured fully into ...

SON is threatening a clamp down on manufacturers of sub-standard building materials due to the fact that building collapses is going on the increase in Abuja The incidence of building collapse in Nigeria is now growing at an alarming rate, seemingly uncontrollable or beyond easy control. This in recent times has become a source of serious concern to all stake ...

Lagos State government has approved the reopening of buildings belonging to Lekki Worldwide Estates Limited, owners of Lekki Gardens The buildings were recently sealed after an uncompleted building collapsed at one of the construction sites belonging to the company. Subsequently, the Lagos State Material Testing Laboratory was mandated to carry out integrity tests on all the houses built by the ...

The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure zero tolerance for building collapse in the state, just as it revealed that about 500 buildings that are either defective or abandoned have been discovered, threatening to take appropriate actions on the building if the owners refuse to take ownership of their structures. Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, ...