Midnight fire destroys property in Ilorin

Date: 2018-02-03

A midnight fire wiped off property worth millions of naira including a block of rooms around the Odoota area of Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State on Thursday night.

Saturday Tribune gathered that the affected building located along Kilometre 1, Lagos-Ogbomosho bye pass, was used mainly as office and workshop by some artisans.

The affected occupants, who bemoaned their losses, have appealed for help from government and philanthropists to ameliorate their situation.

One of the victims, Alhaji Akindele Moshood, who said he lost one Toyota Hilux Van, Caterpillar spare parts, six generating sets, heavy duty tyres, fridges and other valuables including huge amount of cash, said that the fire started around 11.00pm long after all of occupants had closed for the day.

Moshood, who is President of Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), Kwara State chapter, said although eyewitness and neighbours helped to call men of the fire brigade in the state, their arrival was much too late to salvage the situation.

When our reporter visited the scene yesterday, officials of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, who owned the burnt Hilux Van that was under repair at the workshop, were seen inspecting the premises. They however refused to speak with newsmen on the incident.

Residents and eyewitnesses appealed to the state government to make the fire service more proactive in cases of emergency arguing that if the service had arrived on time the situation might have been saved.

Some of the victims of the incident were observed packing debris of their losses from the site as at the time of filing this report.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kuliyan Geri     Alapado     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Umar Saro     20 Billion Bond     Kwara Liberation Group     Yahaya Muhammad     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Ilorin International Airport     GANZY     Basit Olatunji     Ghali Muhammed     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Ilorin East     Segun Adeniyi     Salihu Yahaya     Split Diamond Interchange     Kwara State Fire Service     Alaiye     Harrison Osauwagboe     Ajase-Ipo     Aro Yahaya     Funmilayo Oniwa     Sayomi     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     VADA     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Kwara Politics     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Trader Moni     Isiaka Danmeromu     Mustapha Olanipekun     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Fatai Olodo     Ilesha-Baruba     Folaranmi Aro     JMK Construction Company Limited     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Minimum Wage     Kwara Volleyball Association     Babaloja-General     Ojuekun Sarumi     Okin Malt     Idris Garba     Balogun Fulani     Aisha Gobir     Salake     Halimah Perogi     Shagari     Jelili Yusuf     Frootify     Lola Ashiru     Bola Shagaya     Kulende     Ishaq Salman     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Elections     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Okanlawon Taiwo     Ibrahim Akaje     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Wahab Isa     Kwara 2015     Baba-Isale     The Herald     Modibo Kawu     Bukola Saraki     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Ajike People Support Centre     Bayo Lawal     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     SAPZ Project     Halimat Yusuf     Saka Isau     Hauwa Nuru    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Facebook     Ayodele Shittu     Oluranti Idowu     Iyeru Grammar School     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Afolayan     Wasiu Onidugbe     Musa Alhassan Buge     LABTOP     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     KWSUED     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     JMK Construction Company Limited     Tunde Akanbi     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Kayode Alabi     Matthew Okedare     Bureau Of Lands     Lateef Alagbonsi     Pakata     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Abatemi-Usman     Adewuyi Funmilayo     PharmAccess Foundation     Kwara Apc     Kayode Laro     AGILE Programme     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Sadiq Buhari     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Nagode     Shuaibu Yaman     Saba Jibril     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Salman Suleiman     Emir Of Yashikira     IEDPU     Olusegun Adeniyi     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Olabode Towoju     Ladi Hassan     Quarry Royal Valley     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Ita-Ore     Busari Alabi Alausa     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Kwara Politics     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Isiaka Oniwa     Solomon Edojah     Centre For Digital Economy     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Local Government     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Okin Biscuit     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Moremi High School     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Peter Amogbonjaye     Ilorin Curfew     Khairat Gwadabe     Ilorin     Ado Ibrahim     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Orisun Igbomina     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Adaramaja