An estimated N23.8 million worth of property, including drugs, furniture and assorted drinks, were on Saturday destroyed after a fire broke out at the Alfa Yahaya area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The Informant247 gathered the fire outbreak affected seven flats and two shops at number 5, Ado compound, burning three of the seven…
No fewer than eight persons, including seven students of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Kwara State, and an Attendant on Saturday, reportedly escaped death in a fire incident at a gas filling near a student hostel, thereby sustaining varying degrees of injury during the incident. According to Kwara State Fire Service, the fire incident occurred…
A section of the Supreme Court has been razed by a fire outbreak. The Informant247 gathered that the cause of the fire was unknown as of the time of filing this report, but a source at the Federal Fire Service said firefighters were at the scene. It was also learned that the inferno started in…
Barely 24-hours after the Kainji line incident, there was a fire incident at the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) power transmission station in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi state. According to a report, the inferno was said to have engulfed the 330 kilovolt (kV) facility on Thursday night. Nafiu Abubakar, Kebbi police spokesperson, while confirming the incident to…
A mini shopping complex of 20 shops in Ilorin on Saturday, razed by fire, destroying goods worth millions. The incident occurred at Sabo-Oke, in Ilorin East Local Government Area of the state. Hassan Adekunle, the spokesperson of the state fire service, while confirming the incident, said it occurred at about 05.57 hours, due to a…
Fire outbreak on Monday, razed Sopurum Hotel, located in the Nkwelle community, a commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State. It was gathered that the cause of the fire which started at about 4:30am was not yet known, as of the time of filing this report, but leant that men of the fire service from Delta…
A fire outbreak on Saturday destroyed one storey building and a bungalow in Ilorin, Kwara state capital. The Informant247After INFORMANT247 report, Kwara govt accepts Foundation’s support on road rehabilitation gathered that the ferocious fire, emanated from a paint shop in Balogun Afin, at Ita-Kure area of the metropolis. The rampaging fire also reportedly gutted five other…
Two residential buildings have been gutted by fire, destroying properties worth millions in the early hours of Monday at Akinremi street, off Capitol road, Agege in Lagos State. The Informant247 gathered that the residents rushed to the scene as first responders to put out the fire before the Lagos State Fire Service arrived at the…
Fire outbreak caused by power surge has razed a mosque and four rooms in Ilorin, Kwara state. The incident happened on Tuesday night at Ile-Olowo Compound opposite Children Specialist Hospital in Ilorin South local government area. Hassan Adekunle, spokesperson of Kwara Fire Service put the cost of damage at N16.7 million. Adekunle added: “Firemen were…
10 cars seized by the Abia State Traffic and Indiscipline Management Agency (TIMAAS) has on Thursday got burnt in a fire outbreak, at the premises of the Abia State Meteorological Complex, Umukalika in Obingwa Local Government Area. Informant247 gathered that the affected cars were impounded before a court declared TIMAAS an illegal body. A High…
Four persons have been reportedly kicked in an explosion that rocked the palace of the paramount ruler of Ebiraland, The Ohinoyi, Dr Ado Ibrahim. According to reports, the explosion occurred around 9 am on Thursday. The Informant247 gathered that although no one has been able to identify the actual cause of the explosion, but it…
Kwara State Fire Service had saved property worth at N765.6 million in fire incidents that occurred during Christmas Eve in three different parts of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The fire outbreaks affected three residential buildings in which property worth N37.4million was destroyed. This is contained in a statement by the Head of Media and…
Shops at the Ose Main Market, Onitsha, Anambra State, have on Saturday morning gutted by fire. It was reported that the fire started around 1am while the cause of the fire is yet unknown till this moment of filing this report. The Anambra State fire chief, Martin Agbili, while confirming the incident, said firefighters were…
No fewer than 15 shops gutted fire in Ilorin, destroying goods worth N11.5m. The incident occurred on Monday, leaving five container shops out of 15 container shops located at Lubcon Road Odota Junction, in Ilorin metropolis burnt as a result of fire outbreak The fire incident occurred at about 05:67hrs, according to a statement in…
Conoil filling station situated at Area 10, Abuja has caught fire. Report has it that the fire incident occurred around 3:53pm, Saturday. One of the persons who witnessed the scenario, Ette Samson, has sent message of advice to people living around the affected area to temporarily avoid the axis. Samson says: “The fire started from…
Six shops have been burnt down by fire incident in Hadejia Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, in the state, Adamu Shehu has confirmed the development in a statement released to newsmen. Shehu said: “On Friday, December 2, 2022, at about 01:15hrs, the NSCDC…
Fire consumed many ladies wears, wig, perfume and cosmetic shops in Onitsha market in Anambra State. The fire incident started around 2a.m. as many property worth millions of naira were destroyed. The State Director of Fire Service, Mr Martin Agbili, said the inferno has been extinguished. “The situation is under control, the major fire has…
Fire incident has captured Okujagu slaughter market in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. It was gathered that the fire incident has destroyed items, goods and property worth millions of naira. The Informant247 also gathered that the fire outbreak destroyed at least 10 houses. The inferno was reportedly triggered by suspected smokers of substances…
The Jigawa state Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has confirmed an outbreak of fire, early morning Monday at Birniwa motor park, in Birniwa Local Government area of the state. The NSCDC in the State has said that some stalls and property worth millions of Naira, were destroyed by the inferno. The NSCDC spokesperson,…
Seven persons, who included five children, have been recovered dead in a fire incident which occurred in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. The government officials have revealed that team of rescue workers recovered the bodies while extinguishing the inferno in one of two flats in a small house. Two children were rescued in the fire…
