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Buy industrial generators to avoid fire outbreak, Balogun Market leader advises traders

Ihesiulo Grace 30 January 2020 0

The woman leader of Balogun Market, (Iyaloja), Alhaja Lutifat Ojikutu, has advised market leaders in Lagos to purchase industrial generators for use  to avoid constant fire outbreak. Ojikutu gave the advice in an interview on Thursday.According to her, the traders in the  building can purchase

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Traders count their loses as fire ravage market in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 30 January 2020 0

Traders at Martins Street in the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island are counting their losses following a fire outbreak which affected seven buildings, with goods worth millions of naira destroyed. Daily Times gathered that the fire which started at about 9a.m on Wednesday was allegedly caused by a shop owner who had attempted to […]

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(Photo) Lagos Govt demolishes razed building in Balogun Market

Ihesiulo Grace 8 November 2019 0

The Lagos government has demolished the five- storey building razed by fire at Balogun Market in Lagos Island, which began after fire fighters completely put out the fire on Wednesday morning. This action follows the directives of the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu during his earlier visit to the scene on Tuesday. READ ALSO: (Video) Balogun […]

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Man lynched in Lagos Island

Ihesiulo Grace 23 August 2017 0

An unidentified man, suspected of stealing has been mobbed to death by angry youths and residents on Balogun street, Apongbon in Lagos Island. As of the time of sending in this report, the victim’s corpse is lying close to a PHCN transformer on Balogun Street. Daily Times had done a special report on rising mob […]

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Fire Guts Bread Fruit Street In Balogun Market

Ihesiulo Grace 15 May 2015 0

  There is a fire outbreak at a building on Bread Fruit in Balogun Market. The fire was said to have started from a building used as a warehouse and the cause of the fire is yet to be determined. Men of the Fire service are still trying to put out the fire. Balogun market […]

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Another Mysterious Fire Engulfs Balogun Market

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2015 0

Barely 10 weeks after two separate fires swept through the famous Balogun Market on Lagos Island, another fire disaster came calling in the early hours of yesterday. GBUBEMI GOD’S COVENANT SNR was there and reports. While the nation waited for INEC Chairman, Professor Atahiru Jega to formally declare the winner of the 2015 Presidential election […]