Fire outbreak occurred at Araromi Market, Agodi gate, Ibadan, Oyo State late on Thursday night.
Gatekeepers News reports that some properties worth millions of naira were and 12 shops belonging to traders in the area were destroyed during the incident.
Confirming the incident in a statement on Friday, Yemi Akinyinka, General Manager of the state fire service, said the agency received a distress phons call at 11:02 pm.
The statement reads, “The agency’s control room received the distressed call at exactly 23:02 hrs on Thursday, April 10, 2025, through telephoning and Mr Young to report a shop fire at the above address.”
“The fire personnel, led by Cfs Jimoh, promptly deployed to the scene of the fire incident.”
“On arrival, we met some lockup shops well alight, and we swiftly swung into action and restricted the fire from spreading to other nearby shops.”
“The fire personnel, led by Cfs Jimoh, promptly deployed to the scene of the fire incident.”
“On arrival, we met some lockup shops well alight, and we swiftly swung into action and restricted the fire from spreading to other nearby shops.”
“The fire affected 12 out of multiple numbers of shops and we were able to save property worth billions of naira in the market. The appliance returned to the station by 03:18hrs and on standby.”
