Tag Archives: Building Collapse

Some residents of Lekki Garden on Thursday urged the Lagos State Government to improve on its pre-building regulation to avoid recurring cases of building collapse. The residents said such a measure would prevent avoidable incidents which often claimed lives. They spoke against the backdrop of a move by the state government to carry out integrity test on buildings constructed in ...

A Professor of Building at the University of Lagos and the Vice Chairman, Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria, Martin Dada, has attributed the cause of building collapse in the country to human greed and corruption. Read excerpts from his interview with Punchng Correspondent. A lot has been said about building collapse. What in your opinion are the main causes ...

A pregnant woman, Kafayat Somoye, and her five-year-old daughter, were on Thursday killed when an old building at Onifufu/Aderupaba compound in Oke-Ijeun area of Abeokuta, caved in on them. A witness said the mother was taking her child, Ganiyat, and her brother, Ganiyu, to school, when a cracked wall of the building located near their home suddenly collapsed and fell ...

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sani Sidi, yesterday described the increase in building collapse as worrisome. He said lives and property have been lost as a result of building collapse. According to him, there is need for contractors to abide by the rules and regulations while building houses, to protect them from collapse. The director-general ...

Wife of the popular comedian, Elsie Okpocha, took to her instagram page to make a case for the embattled Managing Director of Lekki Homes, Richard Nyong. Mr. Nyong, 34, was apprehended on Thursday, following the collapse of the building at Kushenla Road, Ikate Elegushi area of the state on Tuesday which killed 35 people The building crumbled around 3am on Tuesday ...

An Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate Court on Friday ordered the remand of the Managing Director of Lekki Gardens, Richard Nyong, for 30 days, as police investigate the deadly collapse of a five-storey structure handled by the firm. The building collapse at Kushenla Road, Ikate Elegushi area of the state, Tuesday, killed 35 people. The court also ordered one of the contractors ...

The influx of substandard building materials into our market is worrisome. It seems to have saturated the market and sometimes comes easy and cheap to builders and owners of building projects. Albeit the first source of concern for every builder should  be Material Quality and Sustainability. It is appalling and thought-provoking how a newly built structure suddenly undergo repairs and ...

Due to the increasing incidents of building collapse, building construction experts have called for more awareness on the role of foundation in sustaining a building. At a stakeholders’ forum conveyed by the Building Collapse Prevention Guild, Kosofe Cell, for foundation experts, drillers and other professionals, it was noted that the foundation was one of the major causes of building collapse ...

The Synagogue Church of All Nations, led by Prophet Temitope Joshua has dragged the Lagos State Government to court over the criminal indictment of the church by the Coroner court in relation to the collapsed building that killed about 116 persons on September 12, 2014. Joined as defendants in the suit are the Coroner, Magistrate Komolafe Oyetade and the state Attorney-General ...

In this part of the world little emphasis is placed on soil test before a building is erected, hence, there is a need to bring this aspect of structural engineering under radar and this article attempts to do justice to that. Not doing a soil test to determine the right kind of foundation for your building could spell doom for ...