Lagos Building Collapse On Banana Island Caused By A Truck - State Emergency Agency

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said that the six-storey building that collapsed at First Avenue, Banana Island in Lagos on Wednesday was caused by a heavy-duty truck. LASEMA in a statement said the truck ran into the building, causing it to collapse but added that no life was lost. According to the emergency agency, while recovery operations are still ongoing, the agency is working to make sure no secondary incident occurs on the collapse site.

Situation report on the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi. Upon arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the scene of the incident, a six-storey building under construction was found to have collapsed. Information gathered revealed that the building collapsed as result of truck that ran into the building. Fortunately, no loss of life, however, efforts are ongoing to reconstruct the building to ground zero so as to forestall any secondary incident. Recovery operations ongoing, the statement read.

The area, which is one of the most expensive places to live in Africa, is an artificial island off the foreshore of Ikoyi, Lagos. The name of the posh island derives from the curvature of its shape. Building collapse is a common occurrence in Lagos, one of the most populated places in Africa.

On November 1, 2021, a 21-storey building on Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State, collapsed. According to the coroner’s inquest, it was due to negligence by agencies responsible for the supervision of the building project. This is the story of many cases of building collapse in Lagos.