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biodunid: Synagogue: Fashola orders church staff out

Chukwuma Okparaocha -Lagos, with Agency Report

LAGOS State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday, directed all staff of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun Egbe, to leave the site of the collapsed building, to allow rescue workers do their job.

Fashola, during his visit to the church, on Sunday, expressed sadness at the loss of lives, adding that the incident was unfortunate.

He urged the General Overseer of the church, Prophet Temitope Joshua, to ask all his staff to step down from the collapsed building site until rescue work was finished.

“When we finish, if you have any person, whether an engineer or a medical person who you want to be on the site and working with them, so as to know what they are taking there, then it is easier; they can report to you and then report to me. But we can’t continue rescue operations with your men hanging around here,” he said.

While commiserating with Prophet Joshua, who came to meet him at the site of the collapsed structure, Governor Fashola, however, directed that the staff of the church should give way for the rescue workers to be able to carry out the job of evacuating the debris and rescuing possible victims still trapped under the collapsed building.

The governor, who was received at the site by the state Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Olutoyin Ayinde, told Prophet Joshua “what you need to understand now is that this place is now an accident scene and so all your staff must leave this place. We need to take control of this place and let people who are trained to do this job to do so.”

Meanwhile the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Sunday, said 44 dead bodies had been recovered, while 130 people trapped in the collapsed building had, so far, been rescued.

The Public Relations Officer of the agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Lagos.
Farinloye said 80 per cent of people rescued from the building were women.
He said two female children, aged four and eight, were also among those rescued.

According to him, the continued rescue exercise had increased the number of dead persons from 17 to 44.

God will strike back at my enemies –TB Joshua

Pastor Joshua has said God will get back at those he believed were behind the building collapse incident recorded on his church premises on Friday.

The cleric insisted that the incident was the handiwork of those bent on destroying his reputation and the church, saying that “God will get back at them.”

According to him, the collapse of the guest house which had, so far, reportedly killed over 44 people, was part of a grand scheme to destroy him.

“A big head wears the lion heart. Don’t quickly forget the incident of Boko Haram here, even though it was televised, they said it was a lie, but they later realised it was true. Don’t also forget the Ebola issue here too, they sent messages to all of you, to scare you from coming to this church,” he stated.

“Don’t be scared, you are not the target, I am the target,” he told the congregation, adding that “I know my hours have not yet come. I have not yet finished my job; I have not finished my job.”

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/16062-synagogue-fashola-orders-church-staff-out

allisonluvsu: The Lagos State Government has indicted Prophet Temitope Joshua, General Overseer, Synagogue Church of All Nations, over the collapse of a 6-storey guest house in his church.

Death toll in the tragedy which occurred last Friday has hit 80 as rescue workers intensify efforts to evacuate the remaining victims trapped under the rubble. There is likely no hope of any more survivors.

•Prophet T.B. Joshua: Indicted

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Lagos State Government insisted that Joshua did not have approval for the building, therefore the addition of more floors to the existing two-storey building was illegal.

Source: http://naija247news.com/2014/09/lagos-implicates-t-b-joshua-as-death-toll-hits-80/#.VBvKs6Oh-XU

[b]The government, however, said investigations were still on as to why the building collapsed.

Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Olutoyin Ayinde said government would not shut down the church until investigations were concluded.

Ayinde expressed sincere condolences and sympathy with those that lost their loved ones and those that were injured in the unfortunate incident.

He said the Government and indeed the Ministry was particularly saddened that innocent lives were lost.

The Commissioner clarified that no plans were in the offing to take over the collapsed structure site until thorough and detailed investigation as to the cause(s) of the collapse had been concluded.

According to him, government is conducting a preliminary investigation into the cause(s) of the collapse and would leave nothing to chance to unravel what cause the building to collapse.

He added that if there was any violation of relevant planning laws, government would take appropriate action.

To this end, Ayinde said a team of engineers from the Ministry and other state government agencies were taking samples from the foundation and materials from the wreckage of the building for detailed analysis.

He stressed that government does not arbitrarily take over properties when testing to ascertain the structural integrity of any building that collapses.

On the veracity of the “Strange Plane Theory,” alleged to have dangerously flown low over the building 50 minutes before the collapse, he said the Ministry had submitted the video clips, as provided by the Church to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) with the coordinate of the collapsed site for investigation and professional comment.[/b]

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on the Environment, Tobun Abiodun, has expressed belief that some government officials may have allowed themselves to be compromised and influenced to allow the church construct the collapsed building illegally.

Ordinarily, officers in-charge of physical planning in the state are supposed to act where buildings become defective or where they do not follow laid-down procedures, he argued.

Tobun, who described the incident as a major disaster and a great loss, however, condoled with the families of the deceased and said the government needed to be more careful and pro-active to prevent a similar incident from happening again.

Quoting a report by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Tobun said that the building ought to have only four floors instead of six, according to the foundation of the house.

“But my concern is that we have town planning officers that should supervise buildings in the state, they are accomplices. There is no way someone would build a six-storey building instead of four and they would say they were not aware. I believe that they compromised standard.

“Until they know that if they compromise in any way they are risking people’s lives, there would be problem. They should be more pro-active in the discharge of their duties,” he said.

But the Chairman of the Physical Planning Committee of the House, Mufutau Egberongbe, while defending the officials of the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, urged Nigerians to adopt voluntary compliance to laws as enforcement of the laws is supposed to be a last resort.

One of the challenges facing the ministry, according to Egberongbe, is the lack of adequate staff.

“How many are the staff of the ministry to go round Lagos when buildings are springing up on a daily basis? Voluntary compliance to laws should be our primary responsibility,” he said.

He said the government officials would have faced heavy criticisms from people if they had decided to implement the law to the letter in relation to the building, adding that it even costs the government money to carry out demolition of structures.

To him, if the church had done what it should do, the incident would have been averted.

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Mynd44: I hope this is not to spite CAN else it will be very sad and pointless

neoapocalypse: Did you drink "Green sands shandy" ?

naptu2: Green Sands Shandy

You either had Maltina or Green Sands Shandy.

I can still remember the tv advert (the guys and girls on the speed boat). "Green sands shandy, the refreshing drink with a (insert forgotten word here) of its own."


There was a party at my house (I think it was my mum's birthday). My little cousin drank huge quantities of Green Sands Shandy and slept off. We tried everything we could do, but nobody could wake him up. We had to carry him into their car.

Somehow, the public didn't know that it contained small quantities of alcohol.

I heard a rumour that it was banned when the government found out aboutt the alcohol content. I don't know if the rumour is true, but it had vanished from the Nigerian market by the mid '80s.

Tudor6: This is funny. You are indeed desperate.

Its one of three things, either you are extremely ugly, anti-social or physically deformed or even all three together .

And the way you go around nairaland complaining and wailing that sexually suggestive pictures be removed from a thread in the sexuality section shows the kind of self-righteous nuisance of a person you are. No man is gonna put up with a Holier-than-thou individual.

You also come across as pretty wierd. Declaring fasting and prayer for 33 miners trapped in chile? Shows you're a kind of fellow who doesnt engage her brains/intellect but prefers to keep believing in starving yourself so a jewish magician in the skies can bail you out.

I laugh, keep ''believing and starving in god for your husband''. I guess god throws men with big JT's from heaven for una. Or better still ask jesus to marry you. Dont work on yourself and make an effort, just leave everything to the king of kings.

Bad news for you though, women over 30 have a high risk of giving birth to babies with genetic defects like Downs Syndrome, autisic babies and the rest. All in all, it doesnt look good for you, does it?

Dont worry, our God is a good god and works magic.

Shine1177: I remember how my dad use to enjoy himself playing those cartridge in his Morris (Marina) car. How time flies?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Morris.marina.arp.750pix.jpg
1978 Morris Marina

masonkz: I think she left NL after her near-death experience. Or wasn't it her?

olajide8: my my i watch television on this kind of TV in the mid 80's i was even looking for this palstic colour paper to make it coloured until our things came in - we had to start tropicalizing our TV as we coldnt get any station - thank GOD for Grundiq or is it philips at Ojota

Ishilove: Most likely moved on. There is very little to intellectually stimulate one in NL these days.

naptu2: The greatest and most popular female militant atheist on nairaland was Tudor (also known as Tudor8, etc). I wonder where she is.


https://www.nairaland.com/tudor

Ishilove: That's quite an interesting angle. Surely you must believe in something. Nature abhors vacuums, so there must be something you believe in. Some believe in self, some science, others nature etc.

@op, I know just one female NL atheist. MissMeiya. There may be more

naptu2: I can't possibly name 3, so I'll name 20 (and I'm going to include muppets).

1) Shmoo

2) Secret Service

3) Motormouse and Autocat

4) Clue Club

5) Casper and The Angels

6) Jana of The Jungle

7) Scooby and Scrappy Doo

8 ) Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder

9) Atom Ant

10) The Hillbilly Bears

11) Precious Pup

12) Mighty Mouse

13) Transformers

14) Masters of The Universe

15) She-Ra

16) The Muppet Show

17) Fraggle Rock

18) Muppet Babies

19) Looney Toons (craziest cartoon in the world)

20) Tom and Jerry

POTUS: sure most of yall wont remember secret service
theres also this one about a guy who was a ghost and was always in a white suit,think he was killed or something,my memories about it are too vague,cant for the life of me,remember much about it,been too long.

ijebuman: me too and you couldn't be a bigger TV freak than me back then
off the top of my head i can remember

Captain Caveman
Scooby and Scrappy Doo
Speed Racer
Jason of Star Command
Banana Split
Super Globetrotters
The Cattanooga cats
Skatebirds
The Muppet Show
Bigfoot and Wildboy
Dynomutt (Blue falcon and Dog Wonder)

Then there was a local show on Channel 10 with some guy called 'Uncle Wole', i can't remember what it was called.

Ishilove: Not uncle wole, uncle jimi. Jimi solanke

naptu2: My favourite was that crazy episode in which Daffy was trying to tell a story, but the artist kept changing the scenery.