LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire outbreak, on Sunday, wreaked havoc at the World Assembly headquarters, along Ajase-Ipo Road, in Ilorin. The inferno destroyed the main church auditorium and three other offices within the complex. Kwara State Fire Service said it received an urgent call reporting the fire outbreak from one Mr Akani, according to the…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A nighttime fire raced through a dormitory in Guyana early Monday, killing at least 19 students and injuring several others at a boarding school catering to remote, mostly Indigenous villages, authorities said. “This is a horrific incident. It’s tragic. It’s painful,” President Irfaan Ali said, adding that his government was mobilizing…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female students’ hotel at the Ekehuan campus of the University of Benin was on Tuesday gutted by fire. The inferno, reports said, destroyed some documents and properties at the university. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria that the incident, which started at midday, however, claimed no life. While an…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed a fire outbreak at Queens College in the Yaba Area of the state. In a statement made available to The PUNCH on Sunday evening, the Director of the service, Margaret Adeseye, said the fire started in a two-room quarter located behind the school…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fire gutted a section of a five-storey building in the popular Balogun Market, Lagos Island, in the early hours of Tuesday, leading to loss of properties worth millions of naira. As of press time the cause of the inferno could not be ascertained. Also, there was no causality recorded. There is panic…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A branch of the Guaranty Trust Bank in the Mararaba area of the Federal Capital Territory was reportedly engulfed in flames in the early hours of Friday, The PUNCH reports. The GTBank branch is located along the Nyanya and Mararaba Expressway before Abacha Road, Karu. Mararaba is a border town, between the…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command headquarters at Bompai, Nasarawa Local Government Area, was gutted by fire on Saturday, with many offices and files razed. The state fire service officials were said to have been deployed to the scene to contain the raging fire on the one-storey building of the command. It was…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is still unclear what the loss and casualties are as a fire outbreak on Sunday morning gutted a building at the Balogun Market located on the Lagos Island area of Lagos. This is the fifth time the market has gone up in flames. A similar incident occurred at the market sometime…