Said to be located in an area with mudslide issues, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency in a statement informed that the building collapsed at about 10:54am
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Okoro made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Umuahia on Friday
The NEMA North East Information Officer, Ibrahim Abdulkadir, stated this in a statement issued on Sunday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital
As earlier reported, the bulk of the workers on the site were brought in from Benin Republic and Togo
The initial death toll when The Eagle Online broke the news was one, with four rescued
As at press time it could not be ascertained how many more people were in the commercial building
The Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency in the North East, Mohammed Kanar, said some of the dead have been buried, while the injured have been moved to medical facilities for adequate treatments
The accident comes exactly one week after a similar incident in which eight persons died
The chopper was said to have disappeared from the radar a few minutes after it took off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport
The National Emergency Management Agency says four passengers lost their lives in another boat mishap in Lagos on Saturday morning.…
NEMA said the returnees, comprising of men, women and children, were thoroughly screened and profiled by security agents before registration by NEMA and the Red Cross, which received them
Three of the children are of the same mother, while one belongs to the man’s second wife
The terrorists struck while the Subhi Prayer was in session at a mosque behind the Magistrate Court, Polo Area
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the explosion occurred at about 1pm in a locked-up beer parlour along L & K Road, the Inward Mayaki, Oworonsoki
The explosions occurred at about 10:30pm
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that thousands of houses, farmlands and property worth billions of Naira were also lost to the flood disasters in many Local Government Areas affected in the northern states
Confirming the new figure to the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos, he said that no fewer than 25 children were also injured in the incident and were taken to the Plateau Specialist Hospital for treatment
According to Alhaji Alhassan Barde, the Executive Secretary of the Plateau State Emergency Management Agency, those injured were taken to the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos
Thickman Tanimu , the Deputy Head of the Sokoto Zonal Operations Office of NEMA, said 10 of the victims died in Zamfara State, while a seven-year old boy died at Kuchi village in Kebbe Local Government Area of Sokoto State
NEMA, in a statement by its spokesperson, Sani Datti, confirmed the development on Friday