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Goods worth millions of naira were, on Sunday, destroyed by fire, which wreaked havoc on over 30 shops in the Owode-Onirin Market along the Ikorodu Road, Lagos State. The fire, which started from one of the shops in the metal section of the market, spread to other shops and destroyed goods worth millions of naira. The shop owners were left ...

Housing professionals and other experts in the built industry would gather in Lagos for a summit of suppliers of construction products from around the globe with the aim of reducing the huge gap between demand and supply in the nation’s housing value chain. According to the organizers of the event, ‘Big Five Construct Nigeria’, about 100 international companies and over ...

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 ...

According to eyewitnesses’ account, the inferno, which started around 1:45 am. on Wednesday, lasted for four hours and completely destroyed more than 25 shops, affecting the livelihood of over 300 people. Speaking to Daily Trust, Chairman of the market traders’ association, Alhaji Uba Abdullahi, attributed the inferno to electrical fault when electricity supply was restored to the market. He said, according to ...

Few hours to the visitation of President Muhammadu Buhari to Lagos, an early morning inferno on Wednesday consumed no fewer than 13 shops located at the Agbara Market, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Lagos. The fire began at about 4.35 a.m. from one of the container shops opposite the expressway. Its cause is yet to be ascertained. The 13 shops ...

Onitsha – Traders of Building Materials International Market, Ogidi, Anambra State have cried out to the Federal and State Governments to construct a pedestrian bridge at the market site, along Enugu/Onitsha Express road to end avoidable road accidents involving pedestrians attempting to cross the opposite side of the road which also accommodates cluster of markets. The construction of the bridge ...

Tears flowed freely yesterday, some in anguish of their loss and others, for being lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping a tanker explosion. It was a horrible tale as victims and property owners recounted their losses after a tanker loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, ran into a flour garden on G.U.-Ake road, Eliozu, in ...

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 ...

Traders at Bridgehead Market, Onitsha, Anambra State are excited following the construction of the link road by the leadership of the market. The one-kilometer road which runs from Drug market through the Power Tools and Allied market to Tinker and Timber markets has been in deplorable condition for decades, which has brought hardship and low patronage to the traders at ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Monday disclosed that the state government would extend the reconstruction of Oshodi-Airport road to Ladipo Market, West Africa’s largest spare parts market along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway. Ambode also appointed a former Deputy Governor of the state, Femi Pedro, as the Chairman of the Governing Board of the Lagos State Sports Trust Fund (LSSTF) and ...