{"id":260539,"date":"2020-09-20T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=260539"},"modified":"2020-09-20T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T08:00:58","slug":"school-collapse-sanwo-olu-orders-integrity-test-on-school-buildings-above-2-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=260539","title":{"rendered":"School Collapse: Sanwo-Olu orders integrity test on school buildings above 2 floors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Sequel to the collapse of a school building in Ejigbo in the early hours of Saturday, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has directed the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development to carry out integrity tests on both public and private schools with buildings of 3 floors and above.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako disclosed that the Governor gave this directive at a press briefing in the State House later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Salako stated that the move became necessary in order to ascertain the structural integrity of all school buildings above 2 floors with a view to preventing future re-occurrence of school building collapse in the State.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner assured that the Ministry would swing into action in earnest so as to actualise the State Government\u2019s aim of saving lives and property, especially as schools resume after a long break due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He explained further that the Ministry would soon come up with the guidelines and procedure for the integrity test on public and private schools whose buildings fall within the stated range.<\/p>\n<p>(DailyPost)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequel to the collapse of a school building in Ejigbo in the early hours of Saturday, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has directed the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development to carry out integrity tests on both public and private schools with buildings of 3 floors and above. The Commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[15644,6425,250],"class_list":["post-260539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-babaj","tag-building-collapse","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}