Tag Archives: fire

A midnight fire on Tuesday gutted some parts of the house of a popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, The PUNCH reports.

A tanker explosion has occurred on both lanes around Toyota bus-stop inwards mile 2, along Oshodi/Apapa expressway.

Suspected hoodlums on Tuesday burnt down the Apapa Iganmu Police Station in Lagos State.

A store of oil and tyres at Beirut port caught fire on Thursday, a military source said, a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and a surrounding residential area of the Lebanese capital.

The men of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service are currently battling to put out the fire that engulfed the two warehouses belonging to Guinness PLC, opposite Sunday Market, Wemco Road, Ogba, Lagos.

The famous Oba Market in Benin City, capital of Edo State, was Monday morning gutted by fire. The fire, said to have started at midnight, affected mostly those selling wears.

A pipeline explosion has occurred at the Abule-Ado area around Festac town in Amuwo Odofin local govt area of Lagos state.

Bayelsa State-owned radio station, Bayelsa Radio, has been gutted by fire.   The fire, which started this morning at about 7:30 am destroyed a critical section of the Bayelsa Radio, which is located along Azikoro Road in the state capital.   Confirming the incident, the Commissioner for Information in the state, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said nobody was injured neither was any life lost …

Over 20 houses and several shops were, on Saturday, destroyed by fire in the Kosofe area of Mile 12, a densely populated community in Lagos State, rendering dozens of families homeless.

Bottles, chemicals, office structures and furniture are reported to have been destroyed by the wild fire that engulfed parts of the Guinness Nigeria Plc, Aba Brewery in Abia on Friday.