Fire has gutted the Jos transmission station through which electricity is being distributed to the fours states – Plateau, Bauchi, Benue and Gombe – served by the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC). NAN reports that the fire, which started around 5pm on Tuesday, razed down the facility, a transformer 150MVA 300/132 KV, located along Zaria […]
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The authorities at Plateau State Polytechnic have shut down its Jos campus for one week following the inferno that razed a female hostel on Monday. The fire, which started around 8.30 a.m., raged on till 11.44 a.m., as the students and members of staff scampered to save the situation. Fortunately, no life was lost in […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC) on Saturday said the death toll in the Friday petrol tanker accident in Felele area of Lokoja, has risen to 13. The state FRSC Sector Commander, Olusegun Martins, told journalists in Lokoja that three other victims died Friday night. He said a staff of the Kogi state Polytechnic […]
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There was Mayhem as mob set ablaze two bank buildings – Sterling and Diamond – located in Apapa, Lagos, after an unidentified policeman attached to one of the banks allegedly shot dead a tanker driver. The fracas reportedly began when the unidentified mobile policeman objected to the parking of a tanker in front of the […]
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About nine people have been confirmed dead in Cross Rivers in a fire outbreak that occurred at Linc Oil and Gas tank farm on Sunday morning. Hafiz Inuwa, the state commissioner of police said several persons who sustained injuries were currently being treated in one of the hospitals in Calabar. According to him, the manager of the […]
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A section of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu’s palace at the Iga Iduganran area of Lagos Island was on Tuesday gutted by fire. The fire was reported to have started from an air conditioner in an apartment inside the palace. The fire started at about 1.30pm after which Lagos State Fire Service firefighters attached […]
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A warehouse in the premises of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Oshodi, Lagos was on Saturday razed by fire. According to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), the fire incident started from the power house around 3.15pm. “Investigation at the incident scene of fire outbreak at Nafdac office, […]
Continue ReadingAn inferno has razed the factory section of Nigerian Breweries Limited in the Iganmu area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. According to officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the fire started at about 5:30am on Sunday. No death has so far been reported in the incident, but the cause of the blaze has not yet […]
Continue ReadingA fire outbreak has been reported at the `Bakassi building’, one of the female hostels of Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. According to reports, the fire had raged for three hours before the arrival of the fire service which is trying to put out the blaze. The college could not immediately put out the […]
Continue ReadingA fire outbreak on Tuesday, reportedly gutted the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mega Station in Dutse, Jigawa State. This is as reported by the News Agency of Nigeria. An anonymous staff of the station, told NAN that a 40,000-liter tanker, which brought petroleum, caught fire while offloading. The source said the incident happened at […]
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