The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) disclosed, on Monday, that it had partnered with the Council for Registration of Engineers in Nigeria (COREN to curb the rising cases of school building collapse in the country. The Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, spoke on Monday, during the training of staff of the commission’s department of physical planning, on enhancing …

The death toll in a school building which collapsed in Jos, Plateau State on Friday morning has increased from to 22. The Executive Secretary of the state Emergency Management Agency, Sunday Abdu had earlier confirmed 17 persons dead after a rescue operation at the Saint Academy located at the Busa Buji community in Jos North Local Government Area of the …

A one-storey school building in Agbado, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun state collapsed on Saturday afternoon during heavy rainfall. It was gathered that the affected building contained ten classrooms belonging to Agbado District Comprehensive High School in the Ifo area of the state. The building collapsed after the heavy rainfall on Saturday which also damaged some roads …