{"id":74280,"date":"2025-08-27T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74280"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:11:48","slug":"radio-house-building-collapse-claims-life-of-young-labourer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/27\/radio-house-building-collapse-claims-life-of-young-labourer\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio House Building Collapse Claims Life of Young Labourer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado and Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tragedy struck on Monday evening when a building collapse at an excavation site within the Radio House premises, Area 8, Garki, Abuja, claimed the life of a young labourer.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 5:50 p.m., leaving residents and workers in shock.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued on Tuesday by Nkechi Isa, Head of Public Affairs at the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Department (FEMD), part of a foundation wall at the excavation site suddenly caved in while workers were digging about seven feet below ground level.<\/p>\n<p>The FEMD\u2019s Search and Rescue Team, led by Mr. Monday Adie, arrived promptly at the scene and discovered two workers trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims was rescued alive, while the other suffered fatal injuries and was confirmed dead despite rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The FEMD said investigations are ongoing to ascertain the exact cause of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The department also reiterated the risks associated with construction and excavation work, stressing the need for strict adherence to safety standards to protect labourers and prevent future tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado and Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata\u00a0 Tragedy struck on Monday evening when a building collapse at an excavation site within the Radio House premises, Area 8, Garki, Abuja, claimed the life of a young labourer. The incident occurred around 5:50 p.m., leaving residents and workers in shock. According to a statement issued on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-74280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74291,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74280\/revisions\/74291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}