Following hours of rainfall, in most parts of Lagos, a building with over 500 rooms, housing hundreds of residents located at Agboye Estate on Oduntan Street, Ketu, has collapsed in the Ketu area of Lagos State.
The residents experienced more mayhem while still trying to salvage their belongings, the building crumbled again, destroying another structure inside the compound before collapsing completely.
Nigeria witnessed a total of 553 building collapses between 1974 and ending on April 13, 2023, according to the latest report by the Building Collapse Prevention Guild.
The report indicated that Lagos State had recorded a high number of collapses with over 326 buildings caving in the last 49 years.
It showed that 326 collapsed buildings in Lagos represented 59.05 per cent of a total of 553 recorded cases in the country during this period.
The report stated, “Lagos State accounts for 59.05 per cent of the recorded incidents in Nigeria. Taraba, Bayelsa, Gombe, and Yobe states had their first recorded collapse in 2022, and Zamfara had only one recorded building collapse, which happened in 2018. Also, 1971, 1975, and 1981 were years that had no recorded collapses.”
Credit: Punch News
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