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The founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun Joshua, was absent in court on Monday at the start of the trial over the collapse of a refurbished six-storey building inside his church premises in 2014. The building collapse killed116 people, mostly South Africans. In July, Oyetade Komolafe, a coroner, indicted the church and the engineers in charge ...

Building collapse is a disaster that often times does not occur naturally. This piece draws our attention to ten most catastrophic building collapses that shook the world from time immemorial with fatality that could have been worse than a natural disaster. Building collapse has become a constant feature among disasters that has rocked the world. In our part of the world, this worrisome ...

  Those who are clamouring for a halt to the coroner’s inquest into the September 12, 2014 disaster that occurred at the ‘SCOAN’ headquarters killing 116 people including about 84 South African nationals should know this; “Section 74(1) of the Physical Planning and Development Law of Lagos State states inter alia that at any time there is a collapsed building ...

    The major challenge on the issue of building collapse is that individuals differ radically from one another on the professional to blame as the major cause of the collapse of a building. As the battle between the Lagos state government and the Synagogue Church of all Nations wages on, we want to take a moment to analyze the ...

In the light of the incident at the Synagogue Church of all Nations, the incidence of building collapse in Lagos state is now growing at an alarming rate, seemingly uncontrollable or beyond easy control and this should be a source of serious concern to all stake holders – the professionals in building industry, government, private developers, clients and users, as ...

A 37-year-old weapon researcher and graduate of Chemistry from the University of Maiduguri, Mr. Biedomo Iguniewei, has said that the collapsed six-storey building within the premises of the Synagogue Church for All Nations could have been felled with a high energy infrasonic radiation. Iguniewei on Monday told the coroner probing the circumstances surrounding the September 12 tragedy that he was ...

The coroner probing the September 12 Synagogue building collapse, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe, has dismissed an application seeking a temporary suspension of the inquest. Komolafe, while dismissing the application on Wednesday, described it as an abuse of court processes. The Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, filed the application asking Komolafe to put on hold further ...