Nigeria, June 27 -- Left to battle depression, spinal cord paralysis and deafness, 39-year-old Nathan Umana says he is also contending with the anxiety of official neglect.

A father of four, Mr Umana's high hopes of building a career in engineering, with a beautiful family to complement, was cut short when one month after his marriage, a fatal workplace accident changed his life for the worse.

With tears in his eyes, Mr Umana struggled for strength to tell the story of how the April 14, 2015 accident at a construction site in Jabi lake mall kept him in a state of coma for four days and still threatens to take his life.

"I was inspecting the work because my departmental head was on leave. It was during that time that the building collap...