A fire outbreak on Saturday at about 2am has claimed the lives of three persons in Ugwu Chelekwu Village, Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.
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Fire caused by bush burning has razed down two blocks of lecture halls at the College of Agriculture, Lafia, Nasarawa State.
An early morning inferno on Wednesday claimed the life of a 30-year-old woman, simply identified as Nnena, in Tudun Kauri, Lafia, Nasarawa State.
The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State was on Sunday gutted by fire.
The Osun State Fire Service has confirmed the death of an aged woman, Omolayo Kolawole, in a fire incident that razed a house at Alapata Street, Modakeke on Saturday.
The Zamfara Fire Prevention Board said it recorded the death of 13 persons while 42 others sustained injuries in a series of fire outbreak that occurred in 2019.
Fire on Monday razed down a section of the Bridgehead Market, Onitsha, destroying goods valued at millions of naira.
Another Lagos market, this time Okobaba Plank Market, Ebute Metta, has been gutted by fire.
Dozens of shops and property worth millions of Naira were destroyed in Thursday night fire at the Maiduguri GSM market.
No fewer than 300 shops and goods worth millions of Naira were on Saturday night destroyed by fire that engulfed Santana Market on Sapele Road in Benin City, Edo State.
The affected three storey building got burnt on Tuesday.
A staff of TCN, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the fire started at about 8a.m on Sunday morning, adding that the cause of the fire was not yet known.
An early morning inferno on Wednesday destroyed relief materials worth millions of Naira at the Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative’s warehouse, Baga Road in Maiduguri.
The National Emergency Management Agency says 140 shelters were destroyed by fire in two Internally Displaced Persons camps at Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State.
The police in Ebonyi on Monday rushed a 37-year-old man to the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, for treatment after he allegedly set himself ablaze.
No fewer than 12 persons were burnt to death, while several others were injured as a petrol tanker went up in flames in Gombe on Saturday after an accident.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the fire gutted shops where agro chemicals and agricultural materials are being sold in the market.
The Kebbi State Fire Service Department has recorded 46 fire incidents which resulted in the loss of seven lives from January to date, the Director of the department, Alhaji Bello Zagga said on Thursday.
The management of the University of Ibadan has dismissed insinuations that a former lecturer, Aminu Zubair, who died in his residence on the institution’s campus, committed suicide.
Malam Salihu Mahmoud, Deputy Operation Officer, Gombe State Fire Service, says 426 lives were saved while properties worth N388 million were lost to fire disasters in the first quarter of 2019 in the state.