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After the state government demolished shops and stalls of traders in Niger State, irate youths on Tuesday, joined traders to attack the residence of the Niger State Deputy Governor, Ahmed Ketso.
A mini-market on Brighter Road in Minna was demolished on Tuesday, in an exercise to clear highways in the state of illegal structures.
A shop owner, Muritala Ahmed, said the state government did not notify them before demolishing their shops, adding that officials of the Niger State Urban Development Board (NSUDB) simply asked him to move out of his shop and started demolishing it without even allowing him to remove his cash, goods and other valuables.
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[FILES] fire Photo: WLOX
Parts of Shehu Shagari Modern Market in Sokoto, popularly called New Market, was on Tuesday destroyed by early morning fire, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
NAN reports that the inferno started around 6 a.m. and continued to ravage shops at the market till midday, as some yet to be affected traders trooped to evacuate their goods before the raging fire reached their shops.
The combined team of Sokoto State Fire Service, Federal Fire Service, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) were battling to put out the fire as at midday on Tuesday.