The government said LASEMA swiftly activated the Lagos Emergency Response Plan for all first responders to move to the site of the collapsed building.
“The collapsed building has now been brought down to ground zero and the area is now safe,” Lagos government said.
The level of casualty and cause of the has not been ascertained
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“You know why we are going to win New Mexico? Because they want safety on their border,” Trump said during a speech in Pittsburgh.
“And we are building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we are building a wall in Colorado,”
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Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated Advisory and Peace-Building Council for the state, charging the members to guide his administration adequately for effective governance.
The governor, at the ceremony in Asaba yesterday, said the council was expected to support the government regularly with expert advice and services without prompting, as its duties included studying the general socio-economic and political situation in the state and advising the government accordingly.
“The council will advise on issues that can lead to a healthy relationship among the three arms of government: executive, legislature and judiciary.
“It will also study the causes of conflicts …
At least one person was killed when a seven-story residential building collapsed in Brazil on Tuesday, an official said, as rescuers searched through the rubble for survivors.
Seven people were pulled alive from the wreckage of the building in Fortaleza, the capital of the northeastern Ceara state, after it imploded, sending thick clouds of dust into the air, cell phone footage broadcast by Globo TV showed.
Rescuers were trying to reach two people trapped in the debris, while 10 have been reported by their relatives as missing.
Vehicles parked in the streets around the scene were covered in dust.…
Nigeria might be losing trillions of naira to the non-review and non-domestication of its national building code. The loss includes the cost of rescue operations and deployment of emergency equipment during building collapse, and the cost of building materials, and treatment of injuries.
Besides, over 309 deaths, preventable by a functional building code, have been reported following structural collapse in the last 10 years.
What is currently regarded as a national building code was bequeathed to the country by colonialists and is no longer applicable for modern-day construction.
A building code, also known as building control or building regulation, is …
A 30-year-old man was crushed to death by a falling elevator in his luxury apartment building Thursday as passengers watched in horror, officials said.
Samuel Waisbren rode the elevator down to the lobby of his 23-story apartment building, known as the Manhattan Promenade, at 344 Third Ave. near E. 26th Street with six other residents about 8:30 a.m., but didn’t make it out alive.
The victim’s devastated father, Dr. Charles Waisbren, made this known to the New York Daily News by phone from his home in Milwaukee on Friday.
“It’s hard to see how you can go on living when …
Rescue workers called off the search for survivors on Thursday, with the death toll at nine and the number of injured who were taken to hospital at 37.
But Lagos State health commissioner Jide Idris said the final toll was now higher.
“Twenty people were killed and 45 people were treated in
Following the building collapse at Baden Private Primary School at no 10 Dagara Street, Itafaji area of Lagos Island, six persons, including a pregnant woman, have been confirmed dead, while 59 persons have been rescued alive.
Many of the pupils rescued by first responders were rushed to the Marina General Hospital. As expected, parents have stormed the school in search of their children.
Personnel …
