•Fire Properties worth billions of naira have been lost in Yobe, Kwara and Taraba states after a fire incident razed down a market, shops and a lounge yesterday. In Yobe State at least 200 people lost their means of livelihood, after fire razed 46 shops at Bayan Tasha Market in Damaturu Local Government Area of […]
NAFDAC raid on wine shops The National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized counterfeit wines valued at ₦41.2m following in Nasarawa State. According to the agency, the seizure followed a raid in shops in some parts of the state. “NAFDAC has conducted a major raid on wine shops in Mararaba Market […]
A market in Ajah in the Lekki area of Lagos State has been gutted by fire which destroyed properties and goods worth millions of naira. The fire was said to have started around 9 pm yesterday, with several shops and stores affected. The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, [&hell...
•Terrorists Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have looted and set ablaze shops and houses in Mafa village in Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe. DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the Yobe police Command Spokesman, made this known in Damaturu today, reports NAN. ”We are yet to ascertain the number of lives lost in the incident, […]...
•Scene of the fire Several shops have been affected as fire ravaged a seven-storey building in Lagos. The incident happened early today on Sanni Adewale Street in Lagos Island Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the incident in a statement, the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, said firefighters ...
•Shops Traders, especially of the northern extraction at Igbudu market in Warri, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, have dissociated themselves from the August 1 planned hardship protest. This is just as the traders have built a security architecture around their stores and wares against looters who might want to hijack the prot...
The Ekiti State Police Command has been instructed to launch a crackdown on vulcanizer shops across the state, seizing all unused tyres in preparation for the upcoming nationwide protests. The protests, scheduled to begin on August 1, 2024, under the hashtag ‘#EndBadGovernanceinNigeria’, have gained significant attention on social media. A pol...
•Cholera patients In the wake of the cholera outbreak in the country, Nigeria has initiated discussions with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, Gavi, towards obtaining emergency supplies of the oral cholera vaccine (OCV) as the country battles the disease amid a global shortage of the vaccine. The Director-General of the Nigeri...
Igbo traders and businessmen in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, under the aegis of the Igbo Traders Association, closed their shops today in protest against alleged intimidation and over-taxation of their businesses by the state revenue agency, the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS). It was gathered that the development left many tr...
•Fire razes market An early morning fire yesterday destroyed goods worth millions of naira in Oja Tuntun, the biggest market in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Between July 2019 and December 2020, the market experienced three fire incidents, which destroyed many shops and goods, reports The Guardian. Although the cause of the latest incident was not know...
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