EKO CHRONICLES

 Collapsed Building: Sanwo-Olu Condemns Developers' Illegal, Reckless Activities  •Governor Inspects Banana Island Collapsed Building Site •Orders Demolition of Buildings without Appropriate Approvals  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has condemned the illegal activities of developers hiding under agencies of the Federal Government to build illegal structures at Banana Island in Ikoyi area of the State. Governor Sanwo-Olu blamed the collapse of the recent seven-storey building on First Avenue, Banana Island on 'reckless' operations of some developers hiding under the pretense that Federal Government agencies had issued approvals to hoodwink unsuspecting property owners. He said his administration will no longer tolerate the activities of greedy developers who reclaim land from water illegally in connivance with some government agencies. Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke on Saturday during an on-the-spot assessment of the collapsed seven-storey building and other proper...

 RTEAN: LASG Sets Record Straight on Industrial Court Judgement ...Corrects Unwitting Attribution to Parks Management Committee Re: Industrial Court Judgment on Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria & Ors v. Governor of Lagos State & Ors. Our attention has been drawn to reports on various media about a judgment delivered by Honourable Justice Maureen Esowe in respect of Suit No NICN/LA/381/2022 between the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria and The Executive Governor of Lagos State and 36 Ors. The reliefs sought from the Court by the Claimant include a declaration that the purported dissolution of the Elected Executive Committee of the Claimant operating in Lagos State and the appointment of a Caretaker Committee to run its affairs in Lagos State by the Lagos State Government is unconstitutional, null and void. It is on record that what the Lagos State Government set up is known as the Lagos State Park Administrators Ad-Hoc Committee on the Operations...

 Update on Banana Island Building Collapse One body has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi. Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) workers’ search and recovery efforts unearthed the remains of the adult male hitherto unaccounted for by site supervisors.   The excavation of the site, using the architectural designs, continues. The site has been divided into quadrants for a painstaking search and rescue operation. Quadrants 2 and 3 have been levelled to ground zero, with the search operation completed. Quadrant 4 is ongoing. Twenty-five people were rescued from the site when the building went down on Wednesday.            They are all doing fine. When a roll call was done by the site supervisors, everyone was accounted for. Nobody could ascertain whether the victim whose body was found this morning was on the site – as of the time the roll call was taken. Gbenga Omotoso HC, Inf...

A seven storey building collapses in Banana Island, Lagos State, Nigeria. The building gave way while casting was ongoing on site. Some people have been rescued while the emergency workers are still in thorough search for more people under the rubbles.  The PS, LASEMA, Osanyintolu was quoted as saying that, there are no casualties. Lagos State government has given a directive to investigate and also probe the incident to know the cause and profer solutions to avert subsequent occurrence. We awaits more information in due course.

 Culled from Eko Chronicles publication of Monday 16 January, 2023.  ARSONS, MAIMING AND GRUESOME MURDER IN NIGERIA... The Causes Terrorism, banditry and other vices had eaten deep into our daily retinue in Nigeria and these after a considerable and indepth analysis of the causes we are able to bring more out of socio-religious sector of the entire nation.  One of the numerous churches/mosques burnt in the country. Boko Haram, ISWAP, Unknown Gunmen and other trado-social groups were all borne out of one social agitation or another. They have destroyed so many vallages, maimed and kill so many people, burnt churches and mosques, all in the name of religion, but they hid under entirely different motives which could be cultural and/or political.  One of such is the incident of Saturday 14 January, 2023 where a Christ Apostolic Church in Isota village,  a suburb of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State was set ablaze for the Sunday service not to take place.  Aft...