Breaking: Fire guts remaining govt-owned girls’ hostel in Adamawa community

The remaining hostel block being used by the boarding students of Government Girls College in Mayo-Belwa, Adamawa State, has been gutted by fire.

The college had two hostel blocks, but one was destroyed by fire last year, and that one was yet to be rehabilitated when the remaining one was gutted fire Tuesday morning.

An official of the Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area, Aliyu Isah, who spoke to the Nation, said, “The only hostel of the school has just been destroyed. It has been consumed by fire.”

Explaining further, Aliyu Isah who is the clerk of the Mayo-Belwa Legislative Council, said, “We have not determined the cause of the fire yet, but we put it to electricity malfunctioning. It is sad because the students will now have to be dispassed. This is the only hostel block standing after the first of two hostel blocks was similarly destroyed by fire last year.”

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