Olushola RichettsThe Chairman, Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers, Lagos Chapter, Engr Lola Adetona, has insisted that the engineer, who was in charge of the recently collapsed three-storey building on Mercy Street, Ita-Faaji area of Lagos Island, is not their member. Speaking with our correspondent at a press conference in Lagos yesterday, Adetona said they had checked all their records and saw that the engineer was not a member of NICE and the Nigerian Society of Engineers. But we say boldly that the engineer who supervised the collapsed building is not our member. The engineer stated, “We are not happy with the way things are. The school was on the third floor of a residential building and we heard that they were about 100 students there.

Source: Punch March 16, 2019 17:37 UTC