Part of the popular Balogun market has reportedly been razed by fire destroying goods worth millions of naira.
The incident which happened in the early hours of Thursday December 16, left most of the traders selling in the market in shock.
Many of the traders lamented that they had stocked millions of goods for end-of-year sales before the fire incident occurred
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The cause of the fire has not been ascertained as at the time of filing this report.
The spokesperson of the state police command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, who confirmed the outbreak said;
“There was a fire incident at 18, Otigba Street, Computer Village, Ikeja early hour of today. The fire engulfed a shopping complex”.
“As soon as the report was received, firefighters were contacted and they arrived immediately. Policemen were drafted there to protect the Firefighters and others”.
“The fire has been put out successfully. No life was lost in the incident. However, valuable properties which estimates are not yet known were destroyed”