No fewer than nine classrooms have been destroyed after a fire outbreak at Grace International School on Awolowo Street beside Kobiowu Mosque in Tanke, Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. According to reports, the incident occurred around 6:00 pm on Sunday and destroyed a substantial part of the 14-room facility. Hassan Adekunle, the…
A Toyota Previa bus transporting 100 containers of 25 litres of petrol on Friday caught fire in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to reports, the incident, which occurred around 7: 27 am, happened at Guniyan junction, Isale Banni, Alore area in Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman of the Kwara…
Kwara State High Court complex located in the Government Reservation Area, Ilorin, the state capital was on Tuesday gutted by fire. According to reports, the fire which was noticed at around 7.25 am affected main building and offices located in the complex, whereas the inferno damaged the 40 offices and three open courtrooms, the Registry…
No fewer than 44 rooms were destroyed while at least 120 people were rendered homeless on Monday in Megida Onikahun compound, Edun Isale in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State, as fire gut the ancient compound and the market in the area. It was learned that some good Samaritans evacuated four aged people…
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…
N19.3m worth of property has been destroyed after two separate fire outbreaks occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday, ruining no fewer than 14 shops in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to reports, the Tuesday incident happened at about 6 p.m., where seven shops located at Zion Overcomer, Opposite Duro Suleiman house, University Road, Tanke, were…
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…
The body of a seven-year-old boy identified as Abdul-Haayi, on Tuesday, recovered by the men of the Kwara State Fire Service from a domestic well in the Akerebiata area of Ilorin, in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara state. The Informant247 gathered that the boy was said to have fallen into the well on…
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…
The Kwara Fire Service on Monday said, an unidentified 80-year-old woman was on Sunday, died in a fire outbreak in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Mr Hassan Adekunle, the spokesperson, Kwara State Fire Service, while confirming the incident, said smoke emitting from the fire suffocated the octogenarian who could not trace the staircase to escape….
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…
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…
A cooking gas explosion has reportedly killed a housewife, one Mrs Adeola Adewale at Terbanacle 2c Area, Egbe Garage in Omu-Aran Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State on Monday. It was gathered that the incident happened at about 10:35 am while the deceased was trying to prepare her family food. The authorities of the…
The Kwara State Fire Service, on Friday, has recovered the bodies of two boys who drowned in Asa-River at Laola Salasi Street, Mubo area, Ilorin. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Thursday evening at about 16:36hrs (04:36pm), when one Alhaji Eleja suddenly called on the fire service personnel to the scene of the…
The Director of Kwara State Fire Service, Prince Falade John Olumuyiwa, on Friday, rescued two persons involved in a road crash. The incident occurred at about 19:47hrs, at CBN Quarter’s Junction, along Pipeline Area in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. “I met them helpless on the road with blood seriously gushing out from their bodies…
In order to reduce frequent road accidents, the Kwara Fire Service has warned tanker drivers in the state to limit their speed on the road. The Director of the service, Mr Falade Olumuyiwa, in a statement on Thursday, described a “near dangerous incident that would have involved the State’s Fire Service from petrol tanker explosion,…
The Offa Descendants’ Union says nobody set the North-bound train on fire in the community. The Head of Media and Publicity of Kwara Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, in a statement on Wednesday, said that the Service rescued about 13 coaches as an unknown person set train ablaze in Offa on Tuesday. However, some newspapers reported…
Fire gutted a two-storey building along Obo-Road in the Ilorin capital of Kwara, on Thursday. Officials of the state fire service were however able to quash the ravaging fire in time. “Only two flats in the building (each flat containing four bedrooms) only two rooms were affected,” the fire spokesperson, Hakeem Hassan Adekunle aid in…
…says billions of naira saved The Kwara State Fire Service says property and valuables estimated at N1.9million naira were lost to the fire incident at First City Monument Bank (FCMB) along Murtala Mohammed way in Ilorin on Wednesday, while valuables worth billions of naira were saved. The spokesperson of the state fire service, Hassan…
Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed on Wednesday when fire gutted a paint chemical company along Lubcon Avenue Street in Ilorin, Kwara State. Although the cause of the fire, which started around 10:26 pm, could not be ascertained, it was learnt that the factory building was razed. Confirming the incident, the Head, Media and…
