Fire razes 300 shops in Oyo market

There was pandemonium on Monday morning erstwhile occurrence razed astir 300 shops astatine Oranya Market successful Ibadan North-East Local Government Area of Oyo State.

Traders affected by the incidental see golden sellers, furnishings dealers, second-hand apparel sellers and others.

The Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde connected Fire Reforms and State Chairman of Fire Services, Morof Akinwande, confirmed the incident.

“Yes, it occurred. That fig we cannot ascertain, but what is known is that immoderate shops were destroyed and the occurrence incidental started successful the mediate of the marketplace with an explosion.

“Whether it’s a state detonation oregon different things. And erstwhile you person a state explosion, it would spread, but arsenic I americium talking to you, the concern has been nether power since 1 am,” helium said.

DAILY POST recalls that a occurrence incidental on Saturday, August 22, 2026, razed 9 locked-up shops astatine the Nigerian Railway buying complex, located on the fashionable Aleshinloye Market successful Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of Oyo State.

It was further gathered that the occurrence started astir 5: 00 americium on Saturday and...