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Sad! Another two confirmed dead at Lagos collapsed building
The death toll from the two-storey building collapse at Arowojobe Estate in the Maryland area of Lagos State has risen to five, as confirmed by Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA).
The building collapse occurred on Thursday, with search and rescue operations still ongoing.
There have been building collapses in Lagos, including a 2021 incident where a 21-storey building under construction collapsed, resulting in at least 42 fatalities.
Recall that three persons had been confirmed dead following the building collapse which occurred at No. 13, Wilson Mba St., Arowojobe Estate, Maryland, Lagos, in the early hours of Thursday.
Oke-Osanyintolu had said that three males who were recovered dead at the building were site workers.
In an update on the incident, Oke-Osanyintolu said that by initial response early Thursday morning at about 3:40 a.m., LASEMA and other responders rescued three victims.
Oke-Osanyintolu said that during the search and rescue operation, two more male adults were rescued and stabilised before being transferred to the hospital.
“The first 3 victims that were rescued were taken to Gbagada General Hospital. The other 2 victims that were rescued were ferried to the Trauma Center at Gbagada after being stabilised.
“In all, the four adult Male victims that were recovered dead, have been handed over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU), for further processing.
“Search and Rescue Operation is still ongoing to Ground Zero,
Famous American actor, Denzel Washington has revealed he has Nigerian ancestry.
The ‘Gladiator II’ actor disclosed that his heritage test shows that he is 90 per cent Irish and 10 per cent Nigerian.
Washington spoke in a recent interview with British-Nigerian media personality, Ada Enechi.
“I am 10 per cent Nigerian and 90 per cent Irish,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Denzel Washington has hinted at retirement.
The 69-year-old thespian disclosed during a press tour of his latest movie ‘Gladiator II’ in Australia that ‘Black Panther 3’ is one of his last films before retirement.
He said he would be retiring after shooting ‘Black Panther 3’, ‘Othello 2’ and ‘King Lear.’
About 20 suspected criminals arrested for various crimes across Osun State, including three suspected highway armed robbers, were on Friday paraded by the state police command.
Presenting the suspects to journalists, the spokesperson for the police, Yemisi Opalola, said the armed robbery suspects, Olajide Kareem (28), Mike Emmanuel (33), and Godwin Emmanuel (23) were arrested along Osu/Ilesa road.
Opalola said the suspects, during their operations robbed many people of their jewelries, phones cash, and other valuables.
She added that during one of the robbery incidents, a bus driver was shot in the leg, while a female passenger was raped by one of the suspects.
Also paraded was Emmanuel Anthony, accused of using military uniforms to rob passengers along Ekiti road, where he forced a victim from Esa Oke, to transfer a sum of N3m to his account.
Anthony was also accused of robbing other people of their mobile phones valued at N1.25m.
Seven other suspects arrested for conspiracy, armed robbery and receipt of stolen vehicles, were also paraded.
Four northern states of Gombe, Bauchi, Benue and Plateau have been thrown into darkness, due to a fault on the 330kV double circuit transmission lines of Ugwuji-Makurdi-Jos.
The states are among the franchise area of Jos Electricity Distribution Company.
According to the Head of Corporate Communications, JEDC, Friday Elijah, the tripping of the lines occurred in the afternoon on Friday, resulting in the loss of power supply on all the 33KV feeders.”
He disclosed that the Transmission Company of Nigeria engineers were working to rectify the fault.
“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the fault is rectified and power supply is restored back to normalcy,” said Elijah.
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