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Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed last week Tuesday at Uwelu motor spare parts market in Benin, the Edo state capital when fire razed down over hundred shops at the market. It was gathered that the fire which started late Monday night, lasted till early hours Tuesday, before it was put off by combined efforts from fire service and ...

A 26-year-old unemployed man, Izuchukwu Bertram, was on Tuesday docked in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Ikorodu, Lagos, over alleged malicious damage. The accused whose address was not provided is charged with willful damage. READ ALSO: Robbery suspect in Ikoyi nabbed for stealing N14m property The Prosecutor, Sgt. Adegeshin Famuyiwa told the court that the accused committed the offence on ...

The Police on Monday arraigned a 42-year-old man, Adams Dokse, in a Karu Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for destroying property worth N511,500. Dokse was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on trespass and mischief, offences he denied committing. The prosecutor, Vincent Osuji, told the court that one Robert Ach-Ugbede of Supreme Court Quarters, Karu, Abuja, reported the matter at the Karu ...

A windstorm has destroyed 1,536 rooms and properties worth millions of naira in some communities in four local government areas of Jigawa. Alhaji Sani Yusuf, the Executive Secretary, Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, made this known in Dutse on Wednesday. Yusuf said the disaster, which occurred between May 3 and June 6, affected 833 people in 12 villages in Babura, ...

A morning fire outbreak has razed properties worth N2.6 million in Gurjiya village in Daura Local Government area of Katsina State. Malam Abdulmumini Shuaibu, the Officer in-Charge of the Fire Service Sub Unit in the local council made this known in Daura on Tuesday. He said it took his men six hours to quench the fire which started at about ...