Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Building collapse in Nigeria

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LAGOS: A three-storey mostly residential building collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos on Monday, killing eight people and wounding 23, according to emergency services. Building collapses are widespread in Africa’s most populous country, where millions of people live in decaying homes and construction rules are frequently ignored. According to Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency … Read more

At least four dead, more trapped after Lagos high-rise collapse

LAGOS – A high-rise building under construction collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Monday, killing at least four people with dozens more feared trapped inside the rubble. A yellow excavator pushed away concrete slabs to search though the wreckage of the 21-floor building in Lagos’s wealthy Ikoyi residential and business district, AFP correspondents at … Read more