Fire guts parts of Alakoro Ejalonibu Market in Lagos

A occurrence outbreak gutted parts of Alakoro Ejalonibu Market successful Oke-Arin Ebute Ero axis of Lagos Island Local Government Area connected Saturday, earlier firefighters brought it nether control.

The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that the incidental happened connected February 21, 2026, astatine a celebrated marketplace connected the Island.

According to the Controller General of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, the work received an exigency telephone astir 2:42pm and instantly deployed firefighters to the scene.

She said the occurrence progressive a three-storey commercialized gathering utilized for warehouses, retention spaces and shops, adding that the flames aboriginal dispersed to the different gathering down the archetypal building, which besides housed aggregate shops and stores.

Adeseye stated that done coordinated firefighting operations and strategical deployment of resources, exigency responders were capable to enactment disconnected the occurrence and forestall it from spreading further.

“The occurrence was successfully confined to the 2nd level of the archetypal building, while, lone the 2nd and 3rd floors of the adjoining operation were sparsely affected,” She said.

She noted that the contiguous effect of firefighters helped to halt the blaze from escalating to adjacent properties wrong the market.

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