Traders in Anambra were left to count their losses as fire engulfed Nnewi Timber Market in the Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state on Thursday.
It took the timely intervention of firefighters from the state Fire Service to contain the fire and stop it from spreading to the Nigerian Bottling Company depot’s office complex.
Fire gutted the chambers of Lagos State High Court Chief Judge, Justice Funmilayo Atilade on Wednesday, temporarily paralysing judicial activities within the premises.
About N450m worth of goods was estimated to have been lost to a fire incident that gutted Erisco Foods Ltd warehouse in Lagos on Monday, according to the company’s General Manager, Mr. Tokunbo Agbede.
A woman identified as Comfort Agboloshie has been arrested in Ghana for subjecting two Nigerian men – her husband and his brother – to third degree burns as she allegedly set them ablaze for unknown reasons.
Many have been left to lick their wounds as a result of a brutal clash between some Yoruba and Egun youths in Lekki, which has reportedly left well over 200 structures razed to the ground.
According to the suspect she had a relationship with the husband of the victim, a Mustapha Ayodele, for three years, but he jilted her and married the victim.
