A petrol tanker has burst into flames at the obalende area of Lagos State. The tanker belonging to the NNPC was said to have tipped over before bursting into flames in front of the Oando filling station. Several persons have been reportedly injured while one person has been killed in the incident.
NNPC filling station at Yaya Abatan area of Ogba, Lagos State has been gutted by fire. The fire has reportedly started affecting nearby houses. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. However, firefighters are said to be having difficulties in putting out the inferno. Some nearby houses are also reported to have […]
A section of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters has been gutted by fire. The National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye, confirmed this to reporters on Friday, April 17, 2020, in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He revealed that the inferno affected the Department of Electoral and Party Monitoring […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) headquarters located in Abuja was gutted by fire. This comes exactly one week after the headquarters of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation was gutted by fire. The fire, according to sources, occurred on Wednesday morning, April 15, 2020, at the seven-storey building located in Maitama, Abuja. The […]
Emergency Management Officials have recovered three more bodies as emergency operations continue at the scene of the Abule-Ado explosion in Amuwo Odofin Local Government area of Lagos State. The bodies were recovered from the rubbles of the building which collapsed following the explosion.
The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, has revealed that at least 17 bodies have been recovered, while 25 casualties are being treated for injuries from the pipeline explosion that rocked Abule-Ado area of Lagos state on Sunday, March 15, 2020. Oke-Osanyintolu made this known in an interview with […]
Scores of students narrowly escaped death following a mysterious fire that razed their hostel in Gregorian College, Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The Nation gathered that the students were being evacuated from the affected building which has hostels and classrooms together, on Sunday night, February 23, 2020. Fire fighters were battling […]
Popular Apongbon Market in Lagos was gutted by fire. The Fire outbreak destroyed some sections of the market, at the Ebute Ero area of Lagos, on Sunday, February 16, 2020. Causes of the fire incident is yet unknown as of the time of filing this report.
Lagos state has recorded another fire episode at Mile 12 market in Lagos State, barely a week after a market in Ajah was razed with fire. The fire which stared in the early hours of Thursday, February 13, 2020, ravaged the famous Mile 12 market in Lagos State. Dealers in the market are approaching the […]
A 30-year-old woman, simply identified as Nnena, was burnt to death in Tudun Kauri, Lafia, Nasarawa State. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the woman was killed in an early morning inferno, on Wednesday, which broke out in a four-bedroom flat where she had reside. According to an witness men of fire service […]
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