Fire destroy goods worth millions of naira in Ilorin shopping Plaza

A Fire on Wednesday gutted a shopping plaza on llofa Road in the GRA area of Ilorin.

Confirming the incident, The Director, State Fire Service, Mr Falade Olumuyiwa told the News Agency of Nigeria said that the fire, which begun at about 1 am, destroyed valuables worth millions of naira.

Olumuyiwa said the fire was immediately put out by men of the fire service under an hour.

According to him, about six out of the 13 shops in the storey building were destroyed by the fire.

Olumuyiwa urged residents to always put off all electrical gadgets whenever they were not at home or their offices.

Mr Azeez Bello, who owned a saloon in the plaza, said he lost all his valuables to the fire.

He appealed for assistance from individuals and organisations to enable him to restart the business because it was his means of livelihood. (NAN)