…the explosion collapsed the building Four persons were feared dead while twenty were injured following chemical explosion from one of the shops along Progressive Science Union line, Bridgehead market, Onitsha, Anambra State. Over #850 million was said to have been destroyed alongside several shops in the process. when chemical explosion emanated from one of the
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…the fire affected a section of the market Goods worth millions of naira was on Tuesday destroyed in a fire outbreak at the popular Ọgbọ Ọgwụ Market in Onitsha, Anambra State. Lives were also reportedly lost in the inferno which affected a section of the ogbo ogwu. Director, Fire Service in the State, Engr. Martin
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…the fire started from one of the ABS buildings before spreading A section of the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS), the state government owned broadcast station was on Monday gutted by fire. The fire which reportedly started in the early hours of the day, emanated from one of the buildings in the station before spreeding to
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…Smoke was seen oozing at the top of the high-rise WAEC building as the fire rages There was palpable tension in the early hours of Wednesday as fire gutted the West Africa Examinations Council, WAEC building in the Yaba area of Lagos State. Many people are feared trapped in the building as the fire rages.
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‘The Nnewi born physically challenged lady said she was looking up to public spirited individuals to come to her aid’ Tragedy struck in the industrial town of Nnewi, Anambra State as a shop belonging to a physically challenged person, Amobichukwu Amara got burnt to ashes. The popular joint named Lady Whyte Event Planner and Kitchen,
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‘The suspect had taken to social media to react about the death of his wife by posting a series of videos’ Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have arrested thirty seven year old car dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, aka IVD, over the death of his wife, Abimbola, in the Lekki area of the state. The Police
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‘As the fuel tanker fell and caught fire, the driver was able to escape with the head of the truck’ Three buses were razed on Friday while some shops at cattle market were touched in a fuel explosion in Amansea, Anambra State. The incident occurred when a fuel tanker fell along Onitsha-Enugu Expressway and caught
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‘The Speaker of the Kogi Assembly said that he suspects sabotage but fell short of where the suspected sabotage might be from’ The Kogi State House of Assembly complex located at Crusher area, Lokoja was on Monday engulfed by an early morning fire. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that the fire ripped through the roof of
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‘Midnight fire in Somolu occurred in a bungalow housing eight rooms and four shops’ A yet-to-be-identified man lost his life in a midnight fire in the Bariga area of Lagos State. Sources claimed that the fire, which occurred around 3am, razed ten rooms in a bungalow consisting of twenty five rooms and eighteen shops. It was
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“We received the distress call at about 1058hours and our Fire fighters were deployed immediately” An estate is on fire in Nkwelle Ezunnaka in Onitsha, Anambra State. The fire was said to have been caused by fallen petrol tanker. It was however gathered that the fire fighters were attacked by some angry residents who hurled
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‘As we slept, what I heard was my wife shouting fire, fire like a dream, I rushed, passed through the fire to try to rescue my children’ Three children have lost their lives during a fire incident in the Rumuochakara, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Sources claimed that the fire which occurred on Monday
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Ravaging fire engulfed a block of seven flats at Olorunsogo area in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State in the early hours of Sunday and left household property estimated at about N8.5million destroyed. The fire incident which was reported to the state Fire Service at about 02:58am on Sunday by a resident destroyed the building
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Mid night fire has destroyed no fewer than 15 shops in the Mushin area of Lagos state. Thanks to the timely intervention and coordination of men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency ( LASEMA), who were deployed to the scene following an emergency call, loss of lives and other properties were averted. LASEMA, in
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Fire razed scores of shanties at Okobaba, Ebute Metta area of Lagos on Sunday evening. Eyewitness said the fire outbreak started at 7:05 p.m. However, the cause of the fire outbreak has not been ascertained at the time of filing this report. It also rendered thousands of people homeless, with some having to sleep at
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A fire broke out on Mount Kilimanjaro on Sunday afternoon and authorities were trying to contain it, Tanzania’s National Parks service (TANAPA) said. The parks service posted a blurry photograph on its Twitter account of what appeared to be Mount Kilimanjaro with several pockets of flames burning on it, with the message: “A fire emerged
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