An early morning fire on Sunday razed five offices of Freedom Radio in Kaduna.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Freedom Radio is a private radio station.
NAN also reports that the offices affected by the fire incident were engineering room, office of the Head of Marketing, conference hall, security office and drivers’ room.
The station’s Head of Operations, Abubakar Usman, who confirmed the incident to NAN, said the fire, which started around 2:30am, was put out around 3:30am by the personnel of Kaduna State Fire Service.
Usman, who said there was no loss of life or injury, however, added that the main cause of the fire incident had yet to be ascertained.
He put the value of the damage caused by the incident at N20 million.
“The fire consumed five offices; we had to go off air immediately, but we later resumed around 10:45am and God willing, we will continue with our transmission,” he said.
NAN.
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