National Telescope national telescope newspaper
A two-storey building under construction has collapsed in Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa area of Lagos State.
Although there was no casualty reported in the incident.
This is coming bearly few weeks after a seven-storey building collapsed at First Avenue, Banana Island in Ikoyi.
The Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Mukaila Sanusi said the owner of the building ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the Agency when a part of the building earlier carved down.
It read, “The Lagos State Government on Sunday said that a three-floor building under construction that partially collapsed on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA and continued construction behind the scene.
“The collapse incident, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries that showed that officers of the States Building Control Agency had issued a number of contravention notices, stop work and seal up orders which the developer ignored and carried on construction without any recourse, whatsoever, to the authorities.”
