Tag: Fire
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Barber who set self ablaze on Lagos road dies
A barber who set himself ablaze on a road leading to Omole Estate, near Akiode Bus Stop died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Lagos. The barber had reportedly emerged on the road around 4:30pm on Wednesday holding a five-litre jerrycan of petrol. He subsequently poured the fuel on his body; struck a match…
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24 dead, properties worth N13.2bn lost in Delta fire outbreak
At least 24 persons died while 176 were rescued in the fire outbreaks which occurred in Delta between May 2015 and April 2018. Mr Ernest Ogwezzy, the state Commissioner in charge of Directorate of the Bureau for Special Duties disclosed this in Asaba on Monday at an annual news conference of the bureau. He said…
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Hoodlums invade, set Imo APC secretariat on fire
There was pandemonium in Imo State on Friday as hoodlums invade and set the All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat on fire. Though the fire didn’t affect the external parts of the building, the internal parts were engulfed in inferno. The secretariat located at the Imo State University junction in Owerri around 6:30 pm amidst downpour,…
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Fire kills 4 children, 2 women in abandoned warehouse
A total of four children and two women were killed in fire that gutted an abandoned warehouse occupied by hundreds of informal settlers in the Philippines, the Bureau of Fire Protection said on Thursday. It stated that “fire broke out on the second floor of the warehouse in the Manila suburban city of Paranaque on…
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CBN debunks fire incidence at Abuja head office
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has denied the report that its head office in Abuja was on fire on Tuesday. In a statement issued by the apex bank’s spokesperson, Isaac Okoroafor said the report of the fire incidence was false. Read the statement in full: “Reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) head…
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Fire razes NEMA warehouse in Lagos
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) warehouse at Ikeja in Lagos, was on Saturday gutted by fire. The South-West zonal spokesman of the agency, Mr Farinloye Ibrahim who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said that the warehouse was being used to keep relief materials. “We don’t have many materials in the warehouse as at the…
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Lagos fire kills 84, destroys N12.8bn properties
Over 84 persons have died from different fire incidents just as properties valued at N12.8 billion were damaged since the past one year, according to the Lagos State Government. Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations Oluseye Oladejo made the disclosure on Monday. According to Oladejo, 333 victims were rescued while the agency had 202…
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Danjuma’s call for self defence shocking, scary – Presidency
The Presidency on Saturday reacted to recent calls by former Defence Minister, TY Danjuma urging Nigerians to pick up arms and defend themselves against killer herdsmen. It noted that such unpatriotic call by a senior citizen were both ‘shocking and scary’. It also has appealed to prominent Nigerians, who have national influence, to desist from…
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[Photos] Nine feared dead, several injured as fire razes IDP camp in Borno
Not less than nine people were reportedly feared dead after a fire outbreak occurred at the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in Rann, Kala Balge Local Government area of Borno State. This is following an outbreak of fire, which killed nine people and injured many others in the camp. According to information gathered from one…
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Properties worth millions of Naira destroyed as fire razes Ojota market
Fire gutted a section of Binukonu Ultra Modern Market, Ojota in Lagos in the early hours of Friday, destroying goods and property worth millions of Naira. This is the third fire incident at the market in three years. Previous incidents occurred in 2015 and November 2017. Friday’s fire, which was believed to have been caused…