Rainstorm destroys houses in Kwara

Date: 2020-06-01

A downpour, accompanied by storm, on Saturday night destroyed property and goods worth millions of Naira in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

The rains, which started around 9pm, blew off rooftops of buildings, including the one housing the popular Olufunmilayo Records on Muritala Mohammed Way, Ilorin.

The storm dumped the rooftops of the building on the rail line, 50 metres away behind the building, damaging some of the gauges.

The owner of the recording company, Evangelist Adedayo Agboola, said: "It is very tragic, but God gave reasons for gratitude. I am grateful to God that no life was lost in the disaster.

"It is a very tragic, unexpected disaster. I've never experienced this kind of thing since I have been here. I came in here since 1971 and such a thing has never happened, but the scriptures admonish us to give thanks always in every situation."

Other victims bemoaned their fate and counted losses.

Hadijat, a single mother living at the residential part of the building, said she had been struggling to survive as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, lamenting: "Why this again? May God forgive me if I sound sinful, but this is too painful."

Forcing back tears, she implored the government and individuals to assist them.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Gambari     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Muhammad Yahya     Omar Gambari     Folorunsho Erubu     Matthew Babaoye     Umar Danladi Shero     Bello John Olanrewaju     Omu-aran     COVID     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Baruba     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Kwara Poly     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Just Law Forum     Sebastine Obasi     UITH     Arandun     Ilesha Gwanara Road     General Hospital, Offa     Minister     Forgo Battery     Yakub Ali-Agan     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Aro Yahaya     Christopher Odetunde     Alaro     Tsaragi     Iyaloja-General     Bio Ibrahim     Idowu Laro     Donatus Ejidike     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Jamiu Oyawoye     Woro     Kwara State Television     Demola Banu     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Ishaq Abdulkarim     KW-GIS     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Dagbalodo     Taofeeq Olateju     Paul Odama     Kayode Ishola     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Bashir Badawi     Yoruba     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Share/Tsaragi     11th Galadima     ER-KANG     Danladi     Yusuf Badmus     Oke-Odo     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Kwara North     Isiaka Danmeromu     Innocent Okoye     Kaiama     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Idris Garuba     Ilorin Durbar     Ajikobi     Omoniyi Ayinla     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Akorede     Hijaab     Belgore    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Wasiu Onidugbe     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Quareeb     Aremu Odolaye     Yakubu Dogara     Raymond Olaitan     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     IEDPU     Isiaq Khadeejah     Owo Arugbo     Chief Of Staff     Cornelius Adebayo     Olomu     Fola Consultant     Olayinka Are     Olokoba Sulyman     Muhammadu Gobir     Kwara State Government     BECE     IYA YUSUF     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Sa\'adu Salahu     Abatemi-Usman     Gbenga Adebayo     Temitope Ogunbanke     Yaman     NAWOJ     Yusuf Ali     Diagnostic Centre     Aliyu U. Tilde     Oke-Ogun     Irepodun     Damilola Yusuf     Magaji Are     Isapa     Bisi Oyeleke     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Ronke Adeyemi     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Turaki Of Ilorin     Raji AbdulRasaq     New Nigeria People’s Party     United Nigeria Congress Party     Suleiman Mora Omar     Olaiya Zuberu     Oniwasi Agbaye     Yomi Ogunsola     Wole Oke     Olushola Saraki     Ishola Abdullahi     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Michael Nzekwe     IQRA College     Kayode Ishola     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Adamu Atta     Shettima     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Alapansapa     Samuel Adedoyin     Falokun-Oja     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Amina El-Imam     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Ariyo     Kola Bukoye     Ado Bayero     ER-KANG Mining     Ike Ekweremadu     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Nigerian Medical Association     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Kamaldeen Kehinde