Six retail shops at the Ogudu Police Barracks in the Ogudu axis of Lagos were razed in an early morning fire, the Lagos State Emergency Management LASEMA has announced.
It said six from the 17 shops were razed in the incident, while 11 were salvaged and the fire totally extinguished by combined efforts of the Agency’s Response Team and the Lagos Fire Service.
Investigations are ongoing as “The cause of fire is however yet to be ascertained and no life was lost.”
Spokesman of the agency, Nosa Okubor, noted that “activities conducted in the razed shops by the fire outbreak at dawn involved two fashion design services, a pawn shop, event planning wares shop, a sport betting outlet and a Barber’s shop.
“The fire outbreak has been totally put out by combined efforts of the Agency’s response team and the Lagos State Fire Service.”