Tragedy struck the Alakija area of the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State on Thursday after a residential storey building collapsed, leaving at least two people dead and 16 others suffering from varying degrees of severe physical injuries.
The building, an existing residential structure occupied by multiple families, suddenly caved in on Old Ojo Road, located right by the Alakija Bus Stop off the busy Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Satellite Town.
The sudden disaster triggered mass panic as neighboring residents rushed to the scene to frantically claw through the heavy rubble before official help arrived.
Confirming the casualties, the Controller General of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, stated that the agency received an emergency distress call at 11:37 AM regarding the structural failure.
First responders from the Ijegun-Egba Fire Station were immediately mobilized, arriving at the disaster zone by 11:49 AM to initiate a structured rescue operation.
While eyewitnesses at the scene initially feared a higher death toll, official numbers confirmed two bodies recovered from the debris, while sixteen survivors were successfully extricated and rushed to nearby clinical facilities for urgent medical attention.
A heavy deployment of multi-agency rescue teams arrived at the scene to manage the environment and ensure all trapped victims were accounted for.
The joint operational team included the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, the Federal Fire Service, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Navy, the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC), and the Nigerian Red Cross Society.
Heavy duty excavators were brought in by the state to lift concrete slabs, a process that severely disrupted the local logistics network.
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) confirmed that the recovery operations caused a severe traffic backlog extending down to the Oluti axis, prompting officers to divert motorists to alternative routes.
This incident marks the second major structural collapse recorded across Nigeria within a 24-hour window, highlighting deep-seated worries over structural safety, sub-standard materials, and regulatory failures in the real estate sector.
Just a day prior, a building under construction along Odili Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, collapsed, killing one person and trapping several others.
With a separate building failure also reported earlier in the week within the Iwofe area of Rivers State, engineering experts are renewing urgent calls on state building control agencies to crack down on poor workmanship and corruption to prevent further avoidable loss of lives.
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