A fire outbreak in the early hours of Wednesday gutted several shops in a storey building beside the Ikotun Roundabout area of Lagos State.
Reporters learnt that the shops comprise electronics worth millions of naira.
The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, however, confirmed the incident in a statement by its Controller General, Margret Adeseye, on Thursday.
She stated that the agency received the distress call at about 12:22 a.m., while firefighters arrived at the scene at about 12:32 a.m.
The statement partly read, “It is a fire involving a storey building shopping complex consisting of 24 shops of varying sizes. The affected shops and their contents were severely damaged by fire.
“One class A foam branch from Fire Eagle C12 (LFS 89LA), Enigbo, supplemented with water from FFL 008 (LFS 69LA), Isolo, and FFL 001 (LFS 62LA), Ijegun, was deployed to combat the fire.”
She added that a team of policemen from the Ikotun Division was also on the ground to maintain order while firefighting operations were ongoing
The fire service said the blaze was successfully extinguished and brought under control, with no casualties recorded.
Adeseye stated that the suspected cause of the fire was an electrical surge resulting from negligence.
The incident occurred barely 72 hours after a fire outbreak that gutted a section of Arena Market in the Bolade area of Oshodi.
This is just as emergency responders were still at the scene of the Great Nigeria Insurance plaza, which was gutted by fire on Wednesday, December 24.
