Goods worth millions of naira destroyed as fire razes Abuja building materials market

A occurrence outbreak connected Subway destroyed shops and goods worthy millions of naira astatine Eda Plaza, a gathering materials marketplace located other Chida Hotel successful Jabi, Abuja.

In a footage posted by the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, store owners were seen racing to salvage their goods.

According to an eyewitness who spoke to the NTA connected the information of anonymity, an alarm was raised astir 3:00am erstwhile his brother-in-law, who owns 2 shops and a packing store wrong the affected plaza, received a distress telephone from a workfellow astatine the market.

The eyewitness, however, said determination were nary casualties successful the incident.

“We were astatine location this morning, arsenic aboriginal arsenic 3:00am, and my brother-in-law received a telephone from 1 of his colleagues present successful the plaza that the plaza was connected fire. So we had to unreserved down there. On getting here, we discovered that the concern was truthful bad,” the eyewitness said.

According to him, by the clip they arrived astatine the scene, the occurrence had already dispersed extensively, leaving lone 1 of his brother-in-law’s 2 shops standing.

“In this plaza, my brother-in-law had 2 shops and a packing store. Unfortunately, lone 1 of the shops was saved. The different store and the packing store were wholly damaged by the f...