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BUILDING COLLAPSE GRADUALLY FADING AWAY IN LAGOS, SAYS COMMISSIONER

The Lagos State Government {LASG} says that it has been putting measures in place to nip in the bud the incidents of building collapse in the state. The Commissioner for Housing, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday. Lawal said that the ministry had been carrying out integrity tests on residential and commercial buildings regularly to avoid a recurrence of building collapse. He also said that the state government had employed engineers to strengthen its workforce for effective monitoring of buildings in the state. The commissioner added that both the old and new staff members had been going on regular training to be in tune with the latest developments in the various fields. Lawal said part of the job of the monitoring team was to ensure no building work could go on at night at any building sites, as such activity would attract penalty. “If the government discovers that any developer is building at night or ob