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A building collapsed in a suburban area of Nigeria’s capital over the weekend, killing at least seven people, police said Monday. The building, located in the Sabon-Lugbe area of Abuja, had ...
Since 2005, at least 152 buildings have collapsed in Lagos, according to a South African university researcher investigating construction disasters. The Associated Press contributed to this report ...
Nigeria has become notorious for serial building collapses to the extend that virtually no month elapses without one incident of collapse structure or the other with the associated loss of lives ...
Twenty-one people died as a school building collapsed in central Nigeria on Friday, a Nigerian Red Cross spokesperson told CNN, in what local authorities have called an “avoidable tragedy.” ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A two-story school collapsed during morning classes Friday in north-central Nigeria, killing 22 students and sending rescuers on a frantic search for more than 100 people ...
Nigeria experienced 135 building collapse incidents and at least 26 deaths between 2022 and 2024, with the most recent incident occurring in Kubwa, a suburb in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja ...
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has recorded 22 building collapses between January and July this year, according to the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria.
(CNN) — Twenty-one people died after a school building collapsed in central Nigeria while students were sitting an exam in what local authorities called an “avoidable tragedy.” The two-story ...
Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least seven people have died when a building collapsed in Nigeria's capital Abuja over the weekend. Police in ...
By Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-one people died after a school building collapsed in central Nigeria while students were sitting an exam in what local authorities called an “avoidable ...