No fewer than 351 shops have been destroyed by a fire that razed a section of the plank market in the Amukoko area of Lagos. The fire which started around 1am on Wednesday also displaced over 1,000 traders in the market. Co-ordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the South-West, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has stated that a total of 351 shops and about 1,000 traders have been gravely impacted during the early morning inferno that occurred at the Ladipo Plank Market Fire disaster on the 1st of November, 2023. which started about 1am. SaharaReporters had reported that several goods and property worth millions of naira have been destroyed after a midnight fire razed the popular Ladipo Plank Market Amukoko, at the Iganmu Road, Orile, area of Lagos State.