By Gbenga Salau 14 April 2023 | 7:15 pm Lagos State government, on Friday, announced that a body has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi. Banana Island collapsed building Lagos State government, on Friday, announced that a body has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi. In a statement, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso said: “The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) workers’ search and recovery efforts unearthed the remains of the adult male hitherto unaccounted for by site supervisors. “The excavation of the site, using the architectural designs, continues. The site has been divided into quadrants for a painstaking search and rescue operation. Quadrants 2 and 3 have been levelled to ground zero, with the search operation completed. Quadrant 4 is ongoing.” According to Omotoso, twenty-five people were rescued from the site when the building went down on Wednesday and they are all doing fine. “When a roll call was conducted by the site supervisors, everyone was accounted for. Nobody could ascertain whether the victim, whose body was found this morning, was on the site – as of the time the roll call was taken, ”Omotoso said. 1 day ago Lagos State government, on Friday, announced that a body has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi. 1 day ago The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), has said that the Sovereign Wealth Fund has stimulated over 245,000 direct and 315,300 indirect jobs in the last 10 years. 1 day ago The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano state, has said the governor-elect of the state, Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria People Party, NNPP, scored only 178,374 votes in the last governorship election in the state and shouldn’t have been declared the winner. 1 day ago All is set for Africa Soft Power Group’s (ASP) flagship Africa Soft Power Summit taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from May 23rd – 27th 2023. The summit represents the highest-level convening of the African creative, knowledge and digital sectors, bringing together public and private sector organisations, as well as pioneering individuals from the fields of… 1 day ago A coalition of civil society organisations has called on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to consider ceding the speakership of the 10th House of Representatives to the southeastern geopolitical zone of the country for fairness and equity.
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