National Emergency Management Agency NEMA, has received a batch of 158 stranded Nigerians from Libya. The Returnees comprise 49 adults female, seven female children and five female infants with 83 male adults, six male children and...
One more body was recovered from the rubble after a building under construction collapsed on Saturday in Yaba, Lagos, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said. The recovered body, found by rescue officials at around...
Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum says property worth over $6.9 billion has been lost in the last 13 years to the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-east region of Nigeria. Zulum spoke in Abuja on Thursday...
A midnight fire has destroyed goods worth millions of naira at the popular Ladipo spare parts market in Lagos. It was learnt that the fire started from a furniture workshop along Ladipo street, Mushin, but later...
The National Emergency Management Agency said on Thursday that it had received another 175 Nigerian returnees from Libya through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The returnees are 92 male adults, 53 female adults, six male...
Five persons were killed in the gas explosion that occurred at Ojekunle Street, Ladipo, Mushin area of Lagos on Tuesday morning, Ibrahim Farinloye, the South-west coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has said. Mr...
Two more bodies discovered on Saturday night in the ruble of the collapsed 21-storey building at Ikoyi, raised the death toll to 44, rescuers said on Sunday. The bodies, both males, were discovered and extricated between...
The dead body of the developer of the collapsed 21-storey building at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Femi Osibona, was retrieved from the rubble on Wednesday. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Mr Osibona’s...
The Lagos State emergency responders and their federal counterparts clashed at the site of the building collapse in Ikoyi Thursday when Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu opposed the casualty figures provided by the National Emergency Management Agency...
Emergency responders yesterday prevented a major disaster at Ikeja, Lagos after a massive gas spillage from a pipeline. The spillage, which affected Computer Village, Underbridge Awolowo Way, Oba Akran axis, Onifowose Street and Medical Road, was...