Tag: Femi Osibona

Ikoyi Collapsed Building: Death toll now 40 as Developer, Osibona, American bound Bob-Oseni’s bodies recovered

Yemi Thomas, Entertainment Editor

Corpses of the Managing Director, Fourscore Heights Limited, Mr Femi Osibona, and his friend cum business partner, US-based Wale Bob-Oseni, have been recovered from the 21-storey building that collapsed on Gerrard Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. Their bodies were reportedly recovered on Thursday by rescue workers during the recovery operation at the scene of the incident. Bob-Oseni, a real-estate dealer, was on his way back to the US on Monday when he got a call from Osibona to check out the project. Both friends were subsequently trapped…

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Finally, collapsed Ikoyi building owner, Femi Osibona’s body recovered

Jide Ige

Femi Osibona’s body, the late Managing Director, Fourscore Homes, has been found recovered in the rubble of the collapsed Ikoyi building on Thursday evening. Fourscore Homes is the firm constructing the 21-storey building under construction which collapsed on Monday, on Gerrard Road in Ikoyi, Lagos. The National Emergency Management Agency confirmed this to TheCable on Thursday evening after rescuers discovered the body. So far, authorities have announced 39 recovered bodies from the rubble.

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Ikoyi Collapsed Building: Developer, Femi Osibona, still missing

Yemi Thomas, Entertainment Editor

Celebrated property developer and owner of Fourscore Heights promoters of the 360 Degrees Towers that collapsed in Ikoyi earlier today was yet to be located in the rubble of the building where he was trapped alongside some construction workers. Osibona, the MD of Fourscore Homes, was the brain behind 360 Degrees Towers – three high rise buildings often referred to as Luxury in the Sky and the Shalom Apartments in Ikoyi, among other projects in Lagos and the United Kingdom, where he was celebrated as the first African developer to…

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