Tag: #FireExplosion

Jan

2025

NIGER EXPLOSION: Adhere to safety rules, FRSC Boss Shehu to tanker drivers *Commiserates with victims’ families

NIGER EXPLOSION: Adhere to safety rules, FRSC Boss Shehu to tanker drivers*Commiserates with victims' families The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed, has condoled with families of the victims of the recent fuel tanker fire outbreak which occurred at Dikko junction in Niger state on Saturday. He, therefore, charged tanker operators to always adhere strictly to safety standards and observe due protocols in transloading fuel products. In his reaction to the fuel tanker incident, according to a statement signed by the Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal Olusegun Ogungbemide, and made available to the National…

Jan

2023

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Breaking: Fire Guts Ikwuano High Court (Photo + Video) …As Abia Fire Service Shuns Scene, blames lack of diesel

METRO#Diesel, #FireExplosion, #FireService

Breaking: Fire Guts Ikwuano High Court (Photo + Video) ...As Abia Fire Service Shuns Scene, blames lack of diesel A strange fire razed down a High Court situated in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State today, destroying valuable documents in the building. This is even as the people of the Local Government Council were having the second day of the Ahamefula Ikwuano Socio Economic Summit 2023, captioned 'Sustainable Economic Development In Ikwuano: A Road Map For The 21 Century', as organised by some prominent sons and daughters of the area. According to an eyewitness, all…

Oct

2022

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Just In: Fire Outbreak In WAEC Head Office, Many Trapped

NEWS#FireExplosion, #WAEC

Just In: Fire Outbreak In WAEC Head Office, Many Trapped There was pandemonium yesterday, Wednesday's morning, in Yaba area of Lagos State as fire engulfed the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) building. Reportedly, the said fire incident started at about 6.50 am with many people trapped in the building. An eyewitness report has it that a staff of the Council who was perceived to have been confined in between some floors could be seen, trying to jump through the window of the 12-floor magnificent building in his bid to escape suffocation. As of…

Aug

2022

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Tragedy, As Adulterated Petrol Explodes, Burns Black Marketer’s Wife, Two Children To Death

METRO#AdulteratedOil, #Adulteration, #BlackMarket, #FireExplosion, #IndependentPetroleum #MarketersAssociationOfNigeria

Tragedy, As Adulterated Petrol Explodes, Burns Black Marketer’s Wife, Two Children To Death A suspected adulterated petroleum has claimed the lives of a black marketer's wife and his two children. A popular black market operator, David Olabanji has been thrown into melancholy consequent on the shocking death of his wife and two children. According to reports, Mr. Olabanji's wife and kids were roasted to death as some petroleum products the former had stored up in his shop, in Dantata area of Satellite Town, Lagos State exploded on Saturday, August 20. Punch reports that Olabanji who had been dealing in the…

Aug

2022

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Documents, office equipment destroyed, as National Assembly guts fire

NATIONAL NEWS#FireExplosion, #NationalAssembly, Pandemonium

Documents, office equipment destroyed, as National Assembly guts fire Pandemonium struck today at the National Assembly, as a scary fire erupted the new wing of the National Assembly on Thursday. Several documents and office equipment were destroyed consequent on the fire outbreak at the new wing of the National Assembly on Thursday. According to an official of the National Assembly, the fire is suspected to have been caused by an electrical fault. A statement issued by the Director of Information of the National Assembly, Emmanuel Agada, on Thursday, stated that the fire started in room 227 at the new…

Apr

2022

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EGBEMA/OHAJI ILLEGAL REFINERY: FENRAD Mourns Victims Of Fire Explosion

CRIME#FireExplosion, #IllegalRefinery, #OhajiEgbema, Casualties

EGBEMA/OHAJI ILLEGAL REFINERY: FENRAD Mourns Victims Of Fire Explosion Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, through her Director has commiserated with the family, friends and well-wishers of victims of the recent fire explosion which gruesomely claimed over a hundred lives including cars and other properties to in Abaezi forest within Ohaji/Egbema area of Imo State. Similarly, the group sent their thoughts to the Government and the entire state, while also, urging the former to carry out Environmental Impact Assessment, (EIA) within the coordinates of Abaezi forests. According to the group, the conducting the EIA…