COREN seeks probe of serial grid failures, building collapses

The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria has decried the incessant national grid failures and the high spate of building collapses across the country, saying that the trend is due to the lack of effective investigation to find a lasting solution.

COOREN President, Sadiq Abubakar, said this while answering questions from newsmen on the sidelines of a three-day Regional Engineering Stakeholders Summit on Restructure, Reforms and the New Operational Framework, held in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Abubakar disclosed that COREN has been working on finding lasting solutions to these issues through committees that have been set up.

Abubakar stated, “One of our key functions as regulators of engineering is what you call the ERM, that is Engineering, Regulation, Monitoring and Enforcement. Now, we have this ERM in different sectors.

“There is the…