A popular furniture market in Kugbo, along Abuja-Keffi express way was gutted by raging fire on Sunday.
It was a day most occupants of the market didn’t open their shops.
On being alerted of the destruction caused by the fire incidence, the shop owners and sellers who couldn’t control flowing tears amidst trauma lamented extent of damages.
In Nnewi, fire engulfed a multimillion factory of Louis Carter Industries Nigeria Limited, producers of motorcycle spare parts and allied products at Akaboukwu Uruagu Nnewi, Anambra State.
The fire outbreak according to reports started by 10:00 pm on Saturday and lasted about six hours despite the intervention of the men of the fire service.
Commenting on the incident, the General Manager of the company, Mr Ndubisi Okoli said the company’s security men alerted him and informed him that the magnitude of the fire could not be put out with fire extinguishers at the factory, adding that the information prompted him to call emergency operators.
