•Woman set ablaze (for illustration purposes only) The Kogi State Police Command has arrested a suspect, Jacob Irewa of Oworo Estate, Felele, Lokoja, for allegedly pouring petrol on his wife, Berida Irawo, and setting her on fire following a reported domestic dispute. The incident reportedly happened on Friday afternoon at their residence over...
•Scene of the fire outbreak Amid panic among residents, emergency responders today contained a fire that gutted the Purple Crown Hotel on Balogun Street, along Awolowo Road, Ikeja, Lagos. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said its response team had contained the fire outbreak with no casualties recorded. The LASEMA Permanent Secretar...
•Fire outbreak Property worth millions of naira has been destroyed in separate fire outbreaks involving a commercial bank, a bookshop and a one-storey commercial building in Awka and Onitsha, Anambra State. The incidents occurred on Monday and yesterday at Keystone Bank on Port Harcourt Road, Fegge, and a bookshop on Venin Ezeani Street, Awada...
•Fire outbreak Two separate fire outbreaks were recorded yesterday in Kano State, affecting an Access Bank branch in Dawakin Tofa and a residential building in Kumbotso Local Government area of the state. The Kano State Fire Service confirmed that the first incident occurred at about 1:17pm at Access Bank, Dawanau, Dawakin Tofa, reports Daily ...
An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Bala Wakili, has been killed during a gun battle between security operatives and suspected bandits in Kebbe Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The late officer was attached to the Kebbe Police Division, reports Daily Trust. Sources told our correspondent that the attackers invaded Girkau and Zug...
A fire last night engulfed the headquarters of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria in Abuja. The blaze reportedly started on the fourth floor of the building, located opposite the Central Bank of Nigeria headquarters, and spread across the upper section of the structure, reports Sunday PUNCH. A Facebook user, Praises Chukwu, who shared photos...
•Registrar-General/CEO of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Hussaini Ishaq Magaji (SAN) The integrity of the Corporate Affairs Commission’s (CAC) electronic registration process has come under fresh scrutiny following a petition alleging that two incorporated trustees bearing the exact same name were registered less than a month apart, i...
A fire outbreak has gutted a branch of Justrite Superstore along Akowonjo Road in the Egbeda/Alimosho area of Lagos State, destroying goods and property estimated to be worth millions of naira. Emergency teams from the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) were promptly deployed to the sce...
•The fire incident The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says a suspected electrical surge caused a fire that destroyed 17 shops at Sabo Market in Ikorodu early today. The agency disclosed this in a statement issued by its Head of Public Affairs, Mr Afolabi Olawale, and made available to our correspondent in Lagos. LASEMA [&hell...
The Kano State government has arraigned one Ali Sulaiman Adam of Gadon Kaya before Kano State High Court No. 15 over the alleged murder of his wife, Maryam Nababa Badamasi. The state counsel filed a two-count charge against the defendant, bordering on culpable homicide and arson, alleging that he set the room where the incident […]
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