Collapsed building kills mother of three in Ogun
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: A COLLAPSED building has killed a 51-year-old mother of three, Modupe Bankole, in Olomore area of Abeokuta in Ogun State. GatewayMail learnt that while another four-storey building in Leme along Moshood Abiola Way, also collapsed with no casualty, but the railings of the Olomore storey building killed Bankole. Sources […]
Trader, resident linked collapsed Itoku Market to anger by spirits
NIGERIA: A TRADER and resident within the vicinity of the collapsed multi-million naira Itoku Market Shopping Mall in Abeokuta, Ogun State have added a new dimension to the disaster. They said that the collapse may be attributed to the failure of government to appease the gods and goddesses within the area before embarking on […]
NEMA okays collapse Ogun market complex land for reconstruction
NIGERIA: FROM the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has come a clean bill of health on the soil where the collapsed multi-million naira Itoku Market complex in Ogun State was built. The agency has declared that the expanse of land was good enough for construction of skyscrapers, and if the government of Senator Ibikunle […]
Ogun collapsed building: Victims safe, responding to treatment, says Ipaye
NIGERIA: OGUN State Health Commissioner, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, has raised the hope of early recovery of the survivors of last Friday collapse of the multi-million naira Itoku Market Shopping Complex in Abeokuta. Ipaye, who visited the injured persons on Saturday at the State Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta, said the victims of the crash, where two […]
Ogun collapsed building: Commissioner lied as Amosun confirms two workers dead
NIGERIA: CONTRARY to an earlier claim by the Ogun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dayo Adeneye, it has been confirmed that two workers lost their lives after the collapse of the multi-million naira Itoku Market Shopping complex. Adeneye had earlier said in a press release that all the 16 workers were saved and […]
No one died in collapsed Itoku Market complex, says Ogun government
NIGERIA: OGUN State government has dispelled rumour that many workers lost their lives in the early morning Friday collapse of the shopping complex in Itoku Market, Abeokuta, the state capital. But a yet to be confirmed report alleged that one person died under the rubbles following the early morning collapse. The government said that […]
Ogun: Scores feared dead in collapsed multi-million naira shopping complex
NIGERIA: SCORES of construction workers were believed to have been trapped in an early morning building collapse in the popular Itoku Market in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. So far, six victims have been were rescued alive in the rubbles after the supposedly multi-million naira six story-building market complex crashed at 9am on Friday (today). […]
