Goods and property worth millions of naira were destroyed by fire at the timber section of the Industrial Market, Umuahia, Abia State, on New Year’s Day.

However, the timely intervention of the men of the state fire service extinguished inferno saved what could have been a catastrophe in the market.

One of the firefighters, Mr John Ogbonna, said they responded immediately on getting information about the inferno, whose cause he said had yet to be ascertained.

The Chairman of the Industrial Market, Mr Ndubuisi Nworgu, described the incident as unfortunate, adding that machines for cutting wood worth over N10m were consumed by the inferno, and appealed to the state government for assistance for the victims.

Efforts to get the Commissioner for Information, John Kalu, proved abortive.

Osaze007:
One would have thought after the first fiasco they would have gotten their acts together

Today another market has gone up in flames
They spend their time attacking everyone else while their territory blows up


No single fire service in all of Igbo land that’s the size of Oyo state


https://punchng.com/fire-destroys-umuahia-industrial-market/amp/

Dulcinea:
Nawa oh

All these fire outbreaks in January, I'm not understanding o

Kingspin:


Curse be upon any leader that brought tribalism in Nigeria.

Ayoswit:
Its the harmattan season, and the fire service should be alert for incidents like this but trust naija, nothing ever works

CzarChris:
Hold up.

In the last two months, different markets all over the east and other parts of the country are being razed to the ground by fire.

What is going on? Is there a group of people somewhere going around lighting fire on people's properties? To what end?

Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist, but this is no longer a coincidence.