Traders Count Their Losses As Fire Guts Alaba International Market

By Akinwale Kasali

It was a Black Friday for Traders at the popular Alaba International Market in Ojo area of Lagos State, as the Market was gutted by fire.

The fire outbreak was said to have occurred at the Electronic Section of the Market.  Makeshift shops around the shanties in the Market were mostly affected.

The cause of the inferno is yet to be ascertain as at the time of filing this story.

It was gathered that it took the intervention of the Lagos State Fire Service to arrest the inferno.

According to Margaret Adeseye, Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, an angry mob prevented the firefighters from quelling the inferno on time.

Adeseye said that the cause of the fire was still unknown but goods worth millions of Naira have been destroyed.

Details Later……