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The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said no lives were lost in the recent school building collapse at Yemco Schools, Aguda, Ogba, Lagos, which occurred on Monday.
The school building reportedly collapsed around 11 am on Monday. Some residents who live near the school saw cracks in the wall and alerted school staff, who began evacuating the students.
Punch had reported that some students were hospitalised on Monday after sustaining injuries during the building collapse.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, LASEMA’s Permanent Secretary, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed that he visited the school after the collapse.
Oke-Osanyintolu said emergency responders from LASEMA were deployed to the collapse site and conducted a search-and-rescue operation, but found no casualties, adding that all persons within the vicinity were accounted for.
He described the incident as an emergency rather than a disaster, since no casualties were reported.
The Permanent Secretary assured Lagos residents that the state government would enforce regulations to protect lives and assess building safety across the state.
Building collapses are a recurring safety and urban-planning problem in Lagos State. As a result of rapid urbanisation, weak enforcement of construction regulations, and poor building practices, Lagos records several building collapses.
A 2025 report revealed that Lagos State accounts for 53.9 percent of the recorded building collapse incidents in Nigeria, making it the most affected state in the country.
Building experts have linked the high incidence of building collapses in Lagos to substandard building materials, such as low-quality cement, steel, or reinforcement, which weaken structures. weak regulatory enforcement, and other factors.
