Although the cause of the fire is not yet known, a firefighter who spoke to
Daily Trust on Sunday linked it to a generating set. It started around 7am and raged for over 10 hours despite the combined efforts of the federal and state fire service to put it off.
According to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, 60 per cent of the 16,000 shops were razed and an unascertained number of properties were destroyed.
It was learnt that those trading in jewellery, cosmetics, clothing materials, plastic items, secondhand cloths, shoes, agro-allied products, books, bicycles, spare parts and sewing materials were mostly affected.
Alhaji Kasimu Ruche, one of the leading dealers in clothing materials, said he lost everything, including an unspecified amount of money, as all his shops were burnt.
A former member of the House of Representatives and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Moshood Adegoke Salvador, at the weekend came hard on the federal government for its plan to build oxygen plants in 38 locations in the country at cost of N6.8 billion.
I Won t Give Up The Fight For Justice – Wife Of Journalist Killed By Police During Shiite Protest Says
When he left for work, the journalist did not know that he would not return home to see his wife and two-year-old daughter again.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Jan 21, 2021
Francisca Ogbu, the wife of a journalist, Alex Ogbu, who was killed by armed policemen while covering a peaceful protest of the Islamic Movement of Nigerian, otherwise known as Shiites, has vowed not to give up in the fight for justice for her late husband.
Ogbu was a journalist with the Regent Africa Times Magazine. He was shot in the head by the anti-riot policemen of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command who were drafted to maintain law and order on January 21, 2021, during the peaceful rally by the movement at Berger Roundabout in Abuja.
The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje on Tuesday met with all the five Emirs from Kano, Bichi, Rano, Karaye and the Gaya Emirates seeking ways to fight the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Ganduje, while assuring of his government’s commitment to fighting the second wave called for support from the traditional rulers and stakeholders.
He said, “Indeed COVID-19 is back and we have to also be back to fight it relentlessly. It is said that, if the going is tough only tough ones keep standing. We shall be tougher at all times, till when we put a halt to it.”