No fewer than 10 persons are feared dead after a 21-storey building collapsed on Monday on Gerard Road in the eye-brow Ikoyi area of Lagos State.

As at the time of this report, many people are still trapped in the rubble.

According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), one body was also recovered from the rubbles.

The rescue was before the arrival of emergency responders of NEMA, LASEMA, and officials from the Lagos State Building Control Agency.

The deputy governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, visited the scene.

Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu said the important thing is to rescue as many people as possible.

The company that designed the structure and supervised the construction, Prowess Engineering Limited, said it withdrew from the project in 2020 because it no longer shared the same vision with the owners, Fourscore Heights Limited.

The Managing Director of the company, Muritala Olawale, in a letter to Osibona on February 20, 2020, said his firm could not guarantee the integrity of the building from anything above the fifteen floor approved by government.

The owner of the collapsed building has been arrested by government.