Jos school collapse: Nigerian parents mourn child deaths at Saints Academy

Government promises to curb rogue building practices are too little, too late for grieving parents.

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Chidera Onovo, 15, was a caring boy who loved to draw and was his mother’s unabashed favourite.

"He saved up his lunch money to buy biscuits to share with his siblings," Blessing Onovo recalls. "And he was always the one who noticed my moods and would ask: 'Mummy are you fine?'."

Last Friday morning Chidera went to secondary school with his younger sister Chisom but only one of them would return.

Official reports from the Nigerian government say 22 students were killed in the building collapse at Saints Academy, a private school in the central city of Jos, but local residents say the number is closer to 50.

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