4 injured in building collapse
FOUR persons have been injured, when a building collapsed, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This came as Governor Siminialayi Fubara of the state has ordered immediate investigation into the collapsed building. The two-storey building, said to be under construction on Okilton Drive, Ada George, Port Harcourt, yesterday caved in, leaving some of the workers on site trapped before rescuers rushed in. Governor Fubara, represented by the Commissioner for Special Projects, Chukwuemeka Woke, after swift inspection, ordered urgent investigation into the incident. He directed that “the Ministry of Urban Development is to take immediate site investigations, destructive and non-destructive tests on the collapsed structural element to establish their strength by determination of the yield strength of the reinforcements and sieve analysis of the soil at the site, to ascertain immediate and remote causes of the building collapse. “If there is any compromise by those invol...