more(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Structural Engineer, Mr Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. African Examiner reports that Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, made the revelation while responding to questions from Mr Akin George, counsel […]
[By Kenneth Uttih and ‘Boye Shoroye ] Reflecting on the recent building collapse on Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria– a highbrow area reserved for the upper echelon of society, one cannot but wonder at the layers of lapses that eventually culminated in this magnitude of disaster and fatalities. Civil engineers are the custodians of all […]
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It was such a sad day for the residence of Ikoyi as a 21-storey building structure collapsed on the 1st of November, 2021.The structure was one of three high-rise residential complexes owned by Femi Osibona, the Managing Director of Fourscore Heights Limited. The development project, which began in 2020 and was scheduled to be completed in 2022, was believed to have sold several units of flats costing millions of naira to potential homeowners whose dreams were dashed on Monday when the skyscraper collapsed. | Pulse Nigeria