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Grid Collapse: We’ve Rectified Nationwide Blackout – FG

March 16, 2022 1:15 pm

The Federal Government on Wednesday, declared that it has solved the power outage being experienced across the country following Tuesday’s blackout.

Meanwhile, the apex government blamed pipeline vandalisation, grid collapses among other challenges as causes of the recurrent nationwide blackout.

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, made this disclosure while briefing State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

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‘We have recovered the grid now. The grid is back and we are trying to get more megawatts to push …

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Anambra: One Collapse As Fire Guts Another Onitsha Market

January 11, 2020 1:12 pm
Properties worth millions were on Saturday destroyed in a fire incident at the old Automobiles spare parts Market Awada, Anambra state.

According to the Nation, one person reportedly collapsed during the incident, which occurred around 01:30: am.

The Police spokesperson, Haruna Mohammed who confirmed the incident in a statement said the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained.

He said the Commissioner of Police, John Abang has sympathized with the victims of the inferno.

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He said, “Today, 11/1/2020 at about 01:30: am, there was a fire outbreak

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Search For Survivors As Cambodia Building Collapse

January 4, 2020 3:48 pm

Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers frantically picked through the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Cambodia on Saturday looking for bodies as the death toll from the disaster rose to seven.

They used excavators, drills and power saws to clear concrete the morning after the seven-storey hotel under construction in seaside Kep province crumbled to the ground with an estimated 30 workers inside, prompting an all-night rescue.

It was the latest deadly accident to mar the kingdom’s poorly regulated building sector even as hotels, high-rises and casinos spring up in a construction boom.

Cambodian leader Hun Sen, who …

Niger Bridge At Risk Of Collapse, Igbo Group Cries Out

December 27, 2019 10:29 am

Ochie Igbo has raised the alarm that the first Niger Bridge is at risk of collapsing. The umbrella socio-political group of young Igbo professionals lamented that while work on the second Niger Bridge was proceeding at an impressive rate, the current bridge connecting the South East to the South West was being overloaded.

President-general of Ochie Igbo, Dr. Chuks Orji, accused the Delta State Command of Nigeria Police of imposing undue stress on the old bridge, raising a checkpoint at the foot of the bridge, causing vehicles, especially articulated and haulage trucks, to spend much time on the bridge.

Orji …

At Least Five Dead In China Restaurant Collapse

Synagogue Collapse: What Happened In Court On Friday

December 21, 2019 9:57 am
Defendants in the case of the collapsed Synagogue Church Guest closed their case on Friday with the cross-examination of their last witness in a Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere.

The court heard further evidence that the mode of collapse of the church guest house had no characteristics of a building which collapsed due to structural defects.

Professor Patrick Nwankwo stated this while being cross examined by the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution, Mr Yequob Oshoala.

Nwankwo, a Professor of Structural Engineering and Construction Materials, gave his expert analysis as a witness at the instance of Engr Oladele Ogundeji,

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2 Sisters Trapped, Rescued From Ebonyi Mine Collapse

November 29, 2019 9:17 am

A lady with seven-month old pregnancy, Chinenye Mbam, and her sister, Anurika Mbam, narrowly escaped death following earth crust that collapsed on them in a mine at Ezzagu village, Inyimagu in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

Daily Sun gathered that it took the swift intervention of the owner of the site, Mr. Chukwuebuka Nwosu, other miners and sympathisers before the trapped sisters could be rescued on Tuesday. They were immediately rushed to an undisclosed medical facility for treatment.

The expectant mother, who managed to speak, told our correspondent that both of them were busy digging and scooping

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Building Collapse: Lagos Seals Off Houses In Ikeja

November 12, 2019 3:54 pm

The weekend began the sealing of suspected substandard buildings in the state. Officials of Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) on Saturday sealed off several buildings in Ikeja area for breaching the building control laws of the state.

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Some other structures suspected to have changed the residential approval granted to them and converted for commercial use were also served notices to present their documents within 48 hours for regularisation.

LASBCA General Manager, Ms. Abiola Kosegbe, who led the enforcement team to parts of Ikeja, said structures found to …

No Casualty As Building Collapse In Ojuelegba - LASEMA

No Casualty As Building Collapse In Ojuelegba – LASEMA

October 25, 2019 7:52 am
Lagos State Friday said its emergency management agency rescued five persons from a building that collapsed at Ojuelegba area of the state.The state government said the building collapsed in the early hours of Friday, October 25, 2019, at Rufai Street, off Makinde Street, Ojuelegba.

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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Brazil: 1 Confirmed Dead As Residential Building Collapsed

Brazil: 1 Confirmed Dead As Residential Building Collapsed

October 15, 2019 5:28 pm

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.…

Labour Braces For Strike As Talks With FG Collapse

Labour Braces For Strike As Talks With FG Collapse

October 15, 2019 2:09 pm

The threat by the organised labour to embark on a strike tomorrow gathered momentum yesterday as the meeting between the federal government and labour failed to agree on the terms for the implementation of the ₦30,000 minimum wage signed into law on April 18.

Following yesterday’s stalemate, both sides are expected to meet again today in what labour has described as a decisive moment, which will either result in the suspension of its planned industrial action on Wednesday or make it happen.

At the resumed negotiations chaired by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, which had representatives …

Thomas Cook Collapse: UK To Repatriate 16,000 People

Thomas Cook Collapse: UK To Repatriate 16,000 People

October 1, 2019 6:54 am

Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said more than 70 flights were scheduled for Thursday to bring back 16,000 people to the country following the collapse of Thomas Cook.

The authority also said more than 150 Thomas Cook crew and 30 percent of the total number of passengers, in the first three days of the operation, had already been flown back.

CAA said its flying programme would continue until Oct.ober 6, with more than 1,000 flights planned in total.

The aviation regulator launched the largest peacetime repatriation on Monday.

The aviation regulator launched the largest peacetime repatriation on Monday.

Similarly, Germany’s

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After deadly collapse, Congo vows to remove illegal miners

After deadly collapse, Congo vows to remove illegal miners

June 30, 2019 12:02 am

Congo’s interior minister vowed to remove all illegal miners by Sunday from a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore following a landslide this week that killed at least 43 of them.

Thursday’s accident at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession near Democratic Republic of Congo’s southern border with Zambia has focused attention on the dangers run by informal miners, who burrow dozens of meters below ground in search of ore using rudimentary tools.

Glencore estimates that some 2,000 diggers enter KCC property each day. Tens of thousands more work in and around other major mines across Congo’s copperbelt.

“From …

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