Building collapse: Nigeria records over 1,600 deaths, 650 incidents in 52 years — FG

Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Muttaqha Darma.

The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Dr Muttaqha Darma, disclosed this on Tuesday during a stakeholders’ workshop in Abuja.

He described the statistics as tragic, saying the figures represented lives lost and families devastated rather than mere records.

“Since 1974, Nigeria has recorded more than 650 building collapses and over 1,600 deaths. Those are not figures; they are funerals.

“Almost every one of those buildings had a designer, a builder and an approving officer.