Fire Guts Section Of Kano Varsity Staff School

The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed there was a fire incident at the section of the Staff Primary School of Bayero University Kano on Tuesday evening.

Information made available to newsmen on Wednesday morning by the service said the inferno destroyed a store and toilet at the school.

Naija News reports that the Public Relations Officer of the service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi who disclosed the incident in a terse statement to newsmen this morning said the facility was gutted with fire at about 6 pm on Tuesday evening.

Abdullahi said: “We received a distress call at about 05:53 pm from one Halliru Bello and immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 5:58 pm to stop the fire from spreading to other classes.

“A ground floor building of about 200ft by 200ft used as staff children primary school, one block containing Headmaster’s office, men staff room, women staff room were slightly burnt while one store and one toilet were completely razed by the inferno.”

“The cause of the fire is under investigation,” he added.

A few weeks ago, a fire accident destroyed a couple’s two-room apartment on Tapa Road, Oke-Oko, Isawo in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

Naija News recalls that the incident resulted in the death of four children and has left them inconsolable.

According to PUNCH Metro, the couple identified as Chukwudi and Bolani Michael lost one of the children, Jeremiah, a 12 years old boy in the incident which happened at 1 pm on Sunday, June 26.

The three other siblings, Prayer, 18; Trust in God, 14; and Ebube, 10, all suffered severe burns and were taken to the hospital, where they all died a few days later.

The couple’s eight-year-old daughter, Esther, who escaped the accident was said to have slept in a different room.

Narrating the incident, the father of the victims, Chukwudi, said he was awakened by one of his children screaming for help.

He said: “After waking up, I alerted neighbours who helped me to break the windows of the boys because their door was locked. We were able to rescue three of the boys from the fire, but one had already been burnt to death. We rushed them immediately to a hospital with the help of a neighbour’s car, but we eventually lost them.”