Tag Archives: Fire

Gombe – Malam Garba Jibrin, Deputy Director Fire Services in Gombe State says, seven lives and properties worth N88 million were lost to fire disasters between January and Sept. 2018. Jibrin disclosed this in an interview in Gombe on Wednesday. He said that during the period under review they were able to save 1, 038 lives, recorded 64 injuries and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday sympathised with the victims of Jos Terminus Market where more than 200 shops were destroyed by fire. Buhari expressed his feelings in a statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Sunday. Reports show that properties worth millions of naira, were on Saturday morning destroyed in ...

The family house of a former chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Mrs. Vivian Anazodo and furnishings worth billions of naira located in Garki have been destroyed by fire. No valuable item was salvaged except her international passport and certificates belonging to her children. She has however refuted the claim that it was a case of arson. In a ...

Fire has consumed a farmer identified as Okafor Thomas, and destroyed property worth millions of Naira in Igbodo community, Ika North East local government area of Delta state. It was gathered that the fire started in the wee hours of Thursday in Illabor quarters and could not be put out. A resident of the community, Nkem Nweke who stays in ...

Properties worth millions of Naira ‎have been lost in Azare, Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi as fire razed the town’s main market. The fire reportedly started around 11 pm Sunday and continued until Monday morning. Over 500 shops were said to have been burnt down in the inferno. The tragedy came a day ‎after a rainstorm destroyed houses and ...

Kano state fire service has disclosed that 19 persons lost their lives in different fire outbreaks across the state last month. The spokesman of the service, Alhaji Saidu Mohammed who revealed this to the media said properties worth over N167m were also consumed in the same fire outbreaks. He said 43 fire outbreaks were recorded within the month and the ...

A 30-year-old man, Idowu Ogunseye, was on Monday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly setting his brother’s house on fire. Ogunseye, a resident of Ajegunle, Lagos, with no stated occupation, is being tried for arson. The prosecutor, Sgt. Godwin Awase told the court that the accused committed the offence on May 15 at Alakuko, Lagos. He ...

As traders of Elele Alimini Market, Emohua local government area of Rivers State are now counting their losses over the fire incident that destroyed goods worth millions of Naira in the market, stakeholders in the Clan have called for the establishment of a firefighting station to serve the villages. Speaking to Journalists at the scene of the incident, Maharaj Augustine ...

The reports that the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN building) is on fire are false, says the CBN acting Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor. According to Okorafor, the rumor started when a passersby saw a pall of exhaust from the CBN generator house and mistook it for fire. “The CBN maintains a total security system that ...

A fire on Thursday burnt the residence of the Yobe State Commissioner of Finance, Mohammed Samaila Nguru, where he and his family live. According to an eye witness’ account, the family escaped unhurt while their documents, clothes and food were gutted by the fire. Despair has taken over the residence located at Housing Estate  Gujba Road, Damaturu, Yobe State capital. ...