Four people were killed and 25 others injured when a four-story building under construction in an upscale area of Nigeria's economic capital Lagos collapsed, the head of the city's emergency services said Tuesday.

"A twin four-storey duplex in Victoria Island collapsed on Monday. We brought out four dead bodies while 25 others with injuries were rescued by our team," Femi Oke-Osayintolu, of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), told Agence France Presse.

A Nigerian charter plane with 20 people on board suffered engine failure shortly after takeoff from Lagos on Thursday, crash-landing near an airport fuel depot and killing at least 13 people, officials said.

The aircraft made by the Brazilian firm Embraer and operated by Nigeria's Associated Airlines took off at 9:30 am (0830 GMT) from Lagos's Murtala Mohammed International Airport, the aviation ministry said in a statement.

Forced evictions in Nigeria's largest city Lagos have cost around 9,000 people their homes or livelihoods, Amnesty International and a local rights group said in a report Monday.

Tens of thousands more could be at risk if the government proceeds with plans to redevelop the slum area of Badia East, said the report, issued jointly with the Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC).

An explosion and fire hit an area of Nigeria's main seaport on Wednesday in the country's largest city of Lagos, shaking buildings in the area and wounding at least four people, an official said.

Details were still emerging of the incident in the Apapa area of Lagos, but initial information indicated there had been an explosion on a ship and fire broke out afterward in an area where fuel was being unloaded at a jetty.

Fire that tore through a district of Nigeria's largest city after an explosion at a fireworks warehouse destroyed 10 buildings in addition to killing one person and wounding 40, an official said Thursday.

Firefighters meanwhile worked to douse the remains of the fire that began Wednesday morning in Lagos, and government officials pledged to investigate, saying storage of the fireworks in the crowded neighborhood was illegal.

Fire ripped through a crowded neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city on Wednesday and wounded at least 30 people after a huge explosion rocked a building believed to be storing fireworks, officials said.

The blast and fire led to panic in the densely packed area of Lagos, a city of some 15 million people, with residents jumping from windows to flee and others salvaging goods from their shops in the neighborhood’s large market.

A Qatar airways flight from Doha safely made an emergency landing in the Nigerian economic capital Lagos on Saturday after encountering a problem with its tires, the civil aviation body said.

"The plane has landed safely," said Harold Demuren, the head of Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority. "We lost one of the tires... We are now towing the aircraft," at Murtala Mohammed International airport, he added.

A 52-year-old Lebanese identified as Habib Youssef Hashem was found stabbed to death in his hotel room in the Nigerian capital Lagos, the National News Agency said Saturday.

The parents of Hashem, who hails from the town of Hasbaya, urged the foreign ministry to cooperate with the Lebanese embassy in Lagos to investigate his murder and help them take the necessary measures to repatriate his body.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced Monday a cut in petrol prices in a bid to end a nationwide strike now in its second week, as soldiers seized the main protest site in Lagos.

Jonathan made the announcement in a televised national address after a week that saw him remain largely silent in public as the strike and mass protests shut down Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer.

Police fired tear gas and beat protesters Thursday to force them out of a square they had occupied in Nigeria's main northern city as part of demonstrations over soaring fuel prices, an organizer said.

"Around 1:15 this morning, the policemen assisted by local vigilantes fired tear gas on us, and when we refused to budge they used gun butts and cudgels to beat us while police vans ran into the crowd," Audu Bulama, one of the protest organizers, told Agence France Presse.