An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Rijiyar Zaki Kano, on Monday, ordered the remand of a 38-year-old man, Shafi’u Abubakar, in a corrections centre for allegedly setting a mosque on fire, killing 14 people. The defendant, who lives at Gadan Village in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano,...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, on Wednesday escaped an assassination attempt on him at his Abuja residence. The LP Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, who disclosed this in a statement, said Abure’s residence was also gutted by a mysterious fire in...
Kano State Fire Service says a fire has razed 37 shops at Zawaciki area in Kumbotso Local Government of Kano State. The Spokesman of the service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the fire occurred about 01:37 a.m. on Wednesday. According to Abdullahi,...
The main building of the Kwara State High Court complex in Ilorin was on Tuesday morning gutted by fire. The Spokesman for the State Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to newsmen in Ilorin. Adekunle stated that the agency received a distress...
An early mor , on Wednesday, gutted the popular Roky Fella Night Club, located at Udoji Street, Kpirikpiri, Abakaliki, destroying property worth millions of naira. The Ebonyi Chief Fire Officer, Mr Raphael Ibiam, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said he received distress call about the incident around...
Some staff and students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) on Thursday night fought to extinguish a fire outbreak that engulfed the institution’s central stores. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), gathered that the fire incident was reported at about 8.30 p.m. but the courageous students and staff...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Oyo State has confirmed a fire incident at its Ibadan South East Local Government Area Office. The Oyo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Adeniran Tella, whi confirmed the incident in statement made available to newsmen, said...
Properties estimated to be worth N150 million, on Tuesday, were destroyed by fire at the GSM market, popularly called “Kasuwar Jagwal,” in Damaturu, Yobe. Confirming the incident to journalists in Damaturu, the Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Fire Service, said that no fewer than 30 shops...
Some senior federal civil servants have expressed displeasure over the portrayal of directors as incompetent after the recent release of examination results for the position of permanent secretaries. The senior civil servants criticised a comment attributed to the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOS), Mrs Folasade Yemi-Esan,...
Property worth over N50 million was lost in the fire which gutted Radio Nigeria Gold FM in Ilesa on Sunday, the Federal Fire Service Chief, Mr Kehinde Fatukasi, has said. Fatukasi, the Chief Superintendent, Federal Fire Service Training School, Ilesa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday,...
A late Saturday night fire has gutted leather products, raw materials and machines estimated at over N3 billion in Aba, The fire affected over 30 shops at the Mansion Zone block of Powerline Leather Products Industrial Cluster. The Chairman of the affected block in the industrial cluster, Mr...
A fire broke out at a nursing home for the elderly in Milan, Italy on Friday, killing at least six and injuring some 80 people, local media reported.Ffire The blaze occurred at the facility in via dei Cinquecento in southern Milan at around 1:20 a.m. local time (2320 GMT...
An early morning fire has gutted the popular Soprom Hotel in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra, and property worth millions of naira were lost to the inferno. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
A building apartment within the courtyard of the palace Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, was at about 11:30pm on Friday engulfed in flames. This is contained in a Press release, signed by the Director, Media & Public Affairs, Ooni’s Palace, Mr Moses Olafare, on Saturday, in Ile-Ife....
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Properties worth millions of naira have been destroyed following a fire outbreak that razed 5 shops in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The incident occured in the early hours of Thursday morning at Akerebiata, opposite Bovas filling station Ilorin, Ilorin East LGA of the...
Lagos State Fire Service said one person was injured when an explosion was recorded at an independent marketing filling station in Badagry, Lagos state on Monday night. Mr Abel Husu, the Station Head, Badagry Fire Service, Lagos state, who confirmed the inciden to the News Agency of Nigeria (...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Barely 24 hours after alleged assassination attempt at Hon Sagir Attahiru Bafarawa, the first son of former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, an early morning fire has razed down Garkuwa FM, a radio station owned by the former governor. Sagir Bafarawa, believed to...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Makurdi cash office is on fire. The cause of the fire is not known but fire fighters were yet to arrive the building located in old GRA in Makurdi as of the time of filing this report. The CBN building in Makurdi is...
The Director, Benue Fire Service, Mr Donald Ikyaaza, has confirmed the fire incident at Obasanjo Mango Farm at Howe, Gwer Local Government Area. Ikyaaza confirmed to journalists in a telephone interview in Makurdi on Monday that the fire gutted the farm at 2 p.m. on Saturday. He said that...
A 45,000-litre petrol tanker exploded on Tuesday, setting SAO Petrol Station on fire at Falana, Challenge area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred when the tanker was offloading its fuel content to the underground storage tank of the station. NAN...