In 2022, scores of Nigerians died victims of insecurity and police brutality. Some were kidnapped before being killed, while some were raided and shot at instantly. A few Nigerians also lost their lives after being hit by bullets fired indiscriminately by men in uniform.

Several other people died in the last 12 months after walls of their houses caved in and became rubbles and dust. Whether partial or full, these building collapses have claimed lives and displaced tons of people from their homes and jobs.

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According to a report from the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), about 61 buildings collapsed within the last 365 days. The guild stated that 541 building collapse incidents were recorded between October 1978 and November 2022, a 48-year time frame.

The association also said that most of the collapses were due to structural failures, methods of construction, environmental conditions and the life span of the buildings, among others.

Here are the six deadliest building collapses Nigeria witnessed in 2022:

YABA, LAGOS

On February 12, five people died in the ruins of a three-storey building at Akanbi Crescent, Yaba, Lagos.

The building, which was then under construction, collapsed during the day and trapped a security guard and some construction workers who were on the site.

Six of the workers were trapped underground. Only one person was rescued alive.

JALINGO, TARABA

Several weeks after the Yaba incident, in faraway northeast, another building in Jalingo, Taraba State, still under construction, fell, trapping most of the workers at the site.

Several of the labourers died under the dregs. Although official reports stated that only three casualties were recovered with several injured, residents insisted they were more.

ALAYAKI LANE, LAGOS

On May 22, a three-storey building around Alayaki lane, Lagos Island, bowed to pressure after a heavy rainfall.

Four out of the nine persons trapped in the debris were recovered dead, while the rest had sustained serious injuries.

KUBWA, ABUJA

Two persons lost their lives after a three-storey building undergoing construction fell on Hamza Abdullahi street, off Gado Nasco road in Kubwa, Abuja.

At the scene of the collapse, five persons were trapped amid the debris, but three of them were lucky to be rescued alive. A large number of people also sustained serious injuries.

The building was said to have given in to pressure after its original structure of a shopping mall was converted into residential apartments.

EBUTE-META, LAGOS

Amid the incessant building collapses that plagued Lagos during the year, the Ebute-Metta-storey building collapse was prominent.

The residential three-storey building collapsed on May 1 and trapped about 20 of its residents. Two of them sustained severe injuries from the collapse, while about 10 were reported to have died.

ONIRU, LAGOS

Another storeyed building in the metropolitan part of Lagos came to rubbles on September 4, 2022.

It was a seven-storey building under construction, and about six persons were trapped in it.

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) stated that it had sent a series of warnings to the constructors of the building earlier, and that people could have vacated the premises.

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The agency said it had also sealed the seven-storey building on February 18, 2021, in a bid to avert the disaster, and that the building was sealed three times before the collapse but the had kept breaking the seal. More than five persons died in the incident.