Fire outbreak in Ibadan razes shops

A fire incident at the Agodi Yidi area of Ibadan has destroyed a carpenter’s workshop and other stores in the vicinity.

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The carpentry workshop, situated within the Japata complex, was reportedly razed on Saturday.

According to the Chairman, Oyo State Fire Service, Maroof Akinwande, no life was lost in the incident.

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In a statement on Monday, Akinwande said, “Upon arrival at the scene, it was discovered that 2 fabricated shops used as a carpentry workshop had been engulfed by fire.”

He also confirmed another fire incident where a shop was razed within Ogo Oluwa shopping complex in Challenge area of Ibadan, saying, “On arrival, the crew discovered that a shop out of multiple locked-up shops of one hundred and eighty had been engulfed by flames and thick smoke billowing from the affected shop.”

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