Anxiety as fire destroys shops in popular Oyo market, millions lost

• A late-night occurrence connected Thursday, April 10, destroyed 12 shops astatine the Mayegun Cement Store Market successful the Agodi-Gate country of Ibadan
• The fire, caused by an electrical surge adjacent flammable materials, lasted implicit 3 hours and destroyed goods worthy millions of naira
• The wide manager of the authorities occurrence service, Yemi Akinyinka, confirmed the incidental successful a connection and shared further details

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.

Oyo state, Ibadan - On Thursday night, April 10, nary less than 12 shops were razed by occurrence successful Ibadan, Oyo authorities capital.

Fire guts shops successful Ibadan’s Agodi-Gate market

Shop owners/locals salvaging remains of their goods astatine the country of a occurrence outbreak successful Lagos. Image for illustration purposes. Photo credit: NurPhoto/Contributor/ Getty Images
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Eyewitnesses disclosed connected Friday, April 11, that the occurrence began astir 10:55pm astatine Block A, No 64, Mayegun Cement Store Market, Araromi, Agodi-Gate successful Ibadan and raged for much than 3 hours earlier it was extinguished.

As reported by The Punch, spot worthy respective cardinal naira was destroyed during the inferno.

Investigations further revealed that the incidental was a effect of an energy surge adjacent combustible materials.

Confirming the incidental successful Ibadan, connected Friday, the wide manager of the authorities occurrence service, Yemi Akinyinka, said the bureau received the distressed telephone astatine precisely 11:02 pm.

He said:

“The agency’s power country received the distressed telephone astatine precisely 23:02 hrs connected Thursday, April 10, 2025, done telephoning and Mr Young to study a store occurrence astatine the supra address.“The occurrence personnel, led by Cfs Jimoh, promptly deployed to the country of the occurrence incident. On arrival, we met immoderate lockup shops good alight, and we swiftly swung into enactment and restricted the occurrence from spreading to different adjacent shops.“The occurrence affected 12 retired of aggregate numbers of shops and we were capable to prevention spot worthy billions of naira successful the market. The appliance returned to the presumption by 03:18hrs and connected standby.”

Traders number their losses arsenic an aboriginal greeting occurrence razed shops successful Ibadan market, Oyo authorities capital. Images for illustration purposes. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Contributor/Getty Images
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng antecedently reported that an early greeting fire razed the lone marketplace successful Trademore Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, pursuing the restoration of powerfulness by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company.

The fire, which started astatine astir 3.30 am, was extinguished 2 hours aboriginal by the Federal Fire Service.

The nonstop origin and grade of the harm stay unclear, with residents inactive successful daze astir the razed market.

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Some parts of Balogun marketplace connected Lagos Island were gutted by fire.

Legit.ng reported that connected Tuesday, March 28, 2023, the occurrence affected a plaza where ladies’ shoes are sold successful the fashionable market.

Firefighters from 2 divisions of Lagos Fire Service person been deployed to the country to enactment retired the fire, Legit.ng gathered.

Reacting to the improvement connected his Twitter page, Jubril A. Gawat, @Mr_JAGs, elder peculiar adjunct (SSA) to the politician of Lagos authorities connected caller media, disclosed that firefighters were presently attending to the situation.

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Source: Legit.ng