A blaze that started in Le Grand Café bar in the early hours of Monday burned through four floors of the Ibis hotel above it over 15 hours, driven by wooden cladding and a change in wind — all 130 rooms were evacuated with no injuries.

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Monday, ordered a full-scale investigation into the building collapse in Gudu area of Abuja that claimed five lives, directing that the premises be sealed off immediately.

Naija News reports that Wike also disclosed that an engineer linked to the collapsed structure had been arrested, while the developer would also face arrest, and that a panel had

Earlier reports said that at 3 a.m. on Sunday, May 24, at least 30 to 40 people were trapped in the construction of the nine-story hotel at Brgy. Balibago, Angeles City, Pampanga.

City information officer Jay Pelayo told AFP the nine-storey building's walls and scaffolding had buckled, likely trapping people in a pile of debris.

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have expressed concern over the increasing cases of building collapses in the nation's capital, calling on authorities to strengthen monitoring and enforcement of building regulations to avert further disasters.