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January 20, 2013

Nightmare: 9-year-old nearly burns to death after her night gown suddenly goes up in flames

Fabric softener may have caused the nightgown of a 9-year-old girl in Washington State to burst into flames, leaving her near death at the Oregon Burn Center at Legacy Emanuel…

January 17, 2013

Just In: U.S. regulators ground Boeing 787 Dreamliners over fire risk

U.S. and Japanese authorities have ordered airlines to stop flying their Boeing 787s until they can show they've fixed a fire risk linked to battery failures aboard the closely watched…

January 15, 2013

Ikeja City Mall management releases press statement over fire incident

by Isi Esene With regards to the fire incident which happened at the Ikeja Shopping Mall earlier today, the management of the facility have released a press statement about the…

January 15, 2013

Fire guts a section of the Ikeja Shopping Mall

by Akan Ido A section of the Ikeja City Mall reportedly caught fire earlier today. One of the stores in the mall, Mr. Price was said to have caught fire.…

January 9, 2013

Fire guts Alaafin of Oyo’s palace, burns cash, raze 21 rooms

The palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has been gutted by fire. The inferno razed down about 21 rooms of the ancient palace. According to the Media…

January 2, 2013

New Year Inferno: Fire razes 5 houses in Ikoku market in Port Harcourt

by Tari Tamuno A fire on New Year's day destroyed five houses near the Ikoku spare parts market in Port Harcourt. According to an eye witness, the fire started about…

December 31, 2012

Lagos deputy governor’s residence catches fire, electrical fault blamed

by Isi Esene Lagos deputy governor, Orelope Adefulire There was panic yesterday as news spread that the official residence of the deputy governor of Lagos, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire was on fire.…

December 28, 2012

Obasanjo assesses fire damage, bursts into victory song [DETAILS]

by Isi Esene The Hilltop mansion belonging to the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo which reportedly started around 4:30pm on Thursday was caused by an electric surge. The fire…

December 21, 2012

Panic as fire guts Lagos International airport

by Isi Esene There was panic yesterday at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, when fire gutted a section of the 33-year-old aviation facility. Property worth millions of naira was reportedly…

November 22, 2012

Sad Wednesday: Fire guts TheNews office, UNILAG medical hostel

by Isi Esene The headquarters of the weekly magazine, TheNews, located at Acme Road, Lagos, was yesterday evening gutted by fire. The fire reportedly affected the last floor of the…

October 27, 2012

Fire guts Balogun Market in Lagos Island (PHOTOS)

by Isi Esene Fire has gutted the multi-storey Euro-Asia Plaza in the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island. The cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained but huge…

October 24, 2012

TICKER: Hero Alert: Meet the 12-year-old boy who risked his life to save his grandmother from raging fire

Seth Cutright: He risked his life to save grandma. A 12-year-old boy carried his grandmother to safety after a propane heater exploded in their home and started a fire on…

October 18, 2012

TICKER: “I was dreaming of barbeque” – Woman who set house of fire while “sleep-walking”

A Kentucky woman claimed to be sleepwalking when she set fire to her apartment, as her heavily-medicated son slept inside. Lamonica Anganette Hill, 41, told firefighters that she dreamed about…

September 26, 2012

Man sets wife on fire for accepting wine from friend at party (GRAPHIC)

by Akan Ido Janeth Odehgbe, a 35-year-old food seller was recently set on fire by her husband for receiving wine from a man at a party they both attended. According…

September 9, 2012

Hello NITEL? Telecoms operators threaten to leave North

by Stanley Azuakola There are fears that the telecommunications sector in Nigeria, especially in Northern Nigeria will be set back a notch if the recent threat of telecoms operators is…

July 26, 2012

Mystery fire kills woman in Festac Town

by Isi Esene The commander, Festac Fire Station, Mr. Chinyere Azubuike, has confirmed the death of a 67-year-old woman on 511 Road, Festac Town, Lagos. The fire which started in…

July 21, 2012

Oil vessel burst into flames at Abuloma waterfront

by Isi Esene The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Rivers State Sector Commander, Dr. Kayode Olagunju confirmed to newsmen that an oil vessel yesterday exploded at Abuloma waterfront in Trans…

June 26, 2012

Mainstreet bank dismisses 800 workers

by Tolu Orekoya 800 workers from the former Afribank Plc (now Mainstreet Bank) got their pink slips on Friday last week. The firing came despite being told by the federal government and…

May 18, 2012

PHOTO: Tanker explodes in Lekki this morning, traffic at standstill

by Hauwa Gambo Sad news coming from the Sangotedo area of the Lekki-Epe Expressway Lagos this morning. A tanker has exploded burning cars and people - it was reportedly conveying…

February 24, 2012

And the attacks continue; another primary school set ablaze in Maiduguri

A primary school in Maiduguri was yesterday set on fire. This comes in the same week in which another non-denominational school was attacked in the Kolumgna suburb of the north-eastern state of Nigeria.…

February 22, 2012

“Worst in recent years”– Friends of the Earth on Chevron Oil Rig Fire in Nigeria

According to the BBC, a Chevron representative, Lloyd Avram has stated that a gas-fuelled fire burning in waters off the Niger Delta may last for “conceivably months”. The fire which…

January 17, 2012

Chevron: Rig catches fire off Nigeria’s delta

(AP) LAGOS, Nigeria — An offshore rig exploring possible oil and gas fields off Nigeria's coast for Chevron Corp. caught fire Monday, and the oil company said officials were still…

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