Fire Guts CBN office in Lagos

Fire guts CBN office

The recent reports of fire incidents in Nigeria has called for an immediate action to forestall future occurences as the most powerful bank in Nigeria was not spared in the sad news.
Though investigation is yet to be concluded, let's hope the findings is not concluded as an act of arson.

There was fire yesterday at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Lagos complex.

Report reaching us has it that there was dusk fire outbreak that  affected the administrative offices on the third floor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Lagos.

In the course of battling the fire, on the third floor, a fire service official collapsed, no thanks to suffocation.

According to National Emergency Management Agency’s (NEMA) Southwest spokesman, Ibrahim Farinloye, the yet-to-be identified fireman was rescued and rushed to the hospital.

Farinloye said nobody died, adding that the Lagos State Fire Service personnel were on ground on time to contain the situation.

Lagos fire service Director, Rasaq Fadipe, said his men were clamping down the offices and breaking the windows and doors to check for any small fire that might not have been put off.

In a statement last night by Isaac Okorofor, the CBN said: 

”The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) wishes to inform its stakeholders and the general public that a fire incident occurred at its Lagos Branch Office at about 5:30 this evening (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)"

The fire, which occurred on the first floor of the building, has been put out by a combined team of fighters from the CBN and other institutions.

“We wish to assure our numerous stakeholders that the records of the Bank are intact, as the Bank has an effective backup of all its records, as part of our disaster recovery infrastructure”

However, two photojournalists with the National Mirror Newspapers, Yinka Adeparusi and Samuel Adetimehin, were yesterday brutalised and had their cameras vandalised and confiscated by men of the Nigeria Police Force at the scene of the fire.

Both photo journalists were ordered to surrender their cameras and were beaten.

Adeparusi was later whisked to the Area ‘A’ Police Station where he was detained before he was released later.

Adetimehin, who was the first to be attacked was left to writhe in pain after he had received punches from the policemen.

The two photographers have been placed under medical care.

Let's see how the Nigerian police reacts to this, was the fire scene barricaded.

Fire Razes Lagos Market

Some sad news but real.

Traders at the popular Iponri Shopping Complex in the Surulere area of Lagos State had gone home after Tuesday’s sales in anticipation of another prosperous market day.

However, they had barely gone to bed when they were jolted with a shocker: The goods they left in their shops were up in flames. The cost for accident remains costlier than accident prevention.

Seventeen shops filled with goods were consumed by the fire, which reportedly started around 11.18pm, destroying goods worth millions of naira before officials of the Lagos State Fire Service (LSFS) arrived to put it out.

The LSFS’ Director, Mr Rasak Fadipe, who said the tragedy was caused by an electrical surge, added that the losses could have been more but for the intervention his men. “We battled the inferno when it was still raging. Officers at the Sari-Iganmu Fire Service Station were quickly mobilised and they came with their service tanker containing 10,000 litres of water to quell the raging inferno,” he said.

He said the intensity of the fire prompted him to mobilise more men from Ilupeju and Onikan service stations, who promptly came with 10,000 litres of water each, for the rescue efforts.

Most of the items burnt in the affected shops, he added, included power-generating sets, different types of textile materials and plastic materials, among others.

Fadipe noted that some of the electric cables in the market were ruptured, adding that he had warned the traders to get a good technician to adjust them.

The General Manager, Lagos State Management Authority (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said no life was lost in the incident.

It was a moving tale of agonies when the site was visited.
Most of the victims were too embittered to talk on the incident. Shell-shocked, many simply beheld the charred remains of their wares in hopelessness.

A trader, who was identified as Mama Sikira, living a stone’s throw to the market, said: “I heard people shouting fire …fire … and running towards the market in utter confusion. And because of various interventions, the fire was put out around 9am this morning (yesterday).

Mrs Mary Ulo, a victim, said sobbing: “I sell foreign household/gift items; I just took delivery of some goods as did many other traders in this complex. Now, everything is gone. Over 17 shops were damaged, while stationery items, kitchen utensils, fabrics worth millions of naira went with this disaster.”

The Iyaloja General of the state, Chief (Mrs) Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, was visibly moved by the victims’ ill-fate. She said she would ensure that a good policy insurance is put in place and also talk to the government to look into the situation. “Only God knows how it happened; so, no human should be held responsible. This shouldn’t restrict daily activities in the market,” she added.

But what about the integrity of the electrical connection in the market?

If shabby electrical connections were carried out in the market, can't the authorities put a stop to that.

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