Fire Wreaks Havoc Across Lagos

In what many have described as a black Tuesday, raging inferno wreaked havoc in about three places in Lagos.

First to be razed down on Tuesday morning were two buildings on No. 171 Orodu Street and No 1 Freedom Street, in the popular ghetto city, Ajegunle, in Ajeromi/Ifelodun Local Government Area.

Eye witness accounts said the inferno was caused by black-market fuel dealer.

It was said that the fuel dealer, a woman in her middle-age had contracted the services of one Mr. Israel, a welder, to expand her mini fuel store-house, where she stored her products.


While welding, Israel reportedly forgot to remove a 50 litre filled with fuel inside the mini-store-room, causing a spark from the welding electrode to come in contact with fuel, thus leading to a deafening explosion.

Before men of the Lagos State Fire Service could arrive at the scene, property worth millions of naira had already been razed, even as several people sustained varying degrees of burns, and rushed to nearby hospitals.

Eyewitnesses said that Prince Ebeano Supermarket, a shopping outlet which offered a wide variety of items such as shawarma, clothes, foodstuff and even hair weave, along Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, was engulfed in a raging inferno which lasted several hours.