Millions Of Naira Lost As Fire Razes 34 Classrooms at Kano Animal Health College

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

A devastating mid-day  inferno at the Kano State Animal Health School in Kabo Local Council of Kano state has left no fewer than 34 classrooms and several other properties worth several hundreds of Millions of Naira razed.

There were, however, miraculously, no fatalities from the incident which occurred at about 2:30 pm on  Monday.

A statement on Wednesday January 21, 2026, from the Spokesperson for the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Yusuf Abdullahi, informed that the swift Intervention from fighter fighters from the Rijiyar Zaki Fire Station assisted  in preventing the fire outbreak from engulfing more parts of the School.

“The fire service control room received a distress call from one Jamilu Abubakar on the fire outbreak in the school premises. Fire fighters from the Rijiyar Zaki Fire Station were immediately mobilised to the scene.

“On arrival our men discovered a ground-floor building measuring about 500 by 500 feet, used as an Animal Health School, engulfed in flames” Abdullahi stated .

According to him, out of the 34 classrooms affected by the inferno, 16 were seriously burnt , while 18 were partially damaged.

The efforts of the fire fighters paid off, as the situation was prevented from further spreading to other classrooms and offices of the College.

The Fire Service spokesman attributed the relative success recorded during the rescue exercise to the equipment deployed and the resilience and the prompt response by fire fighters.