Govt Gives Occupants Quit Notice After Part Of The Building Was Engulfed In Fire

The affected building

Five days after a building belonging to Foursquare Gospel Church collapsed in Bashiru Street, Ojodu, Lagos, another building beside it was engulfed by fire on Sunday morning.
The three-storey building with no fewer than 30 flats went up in flames around 8am.

No fewer than four persons were seriously injured while property, which cost could not be estimated as of the time of this report.
Before the men of the Lagos State Fire Service would come to the rescue of the occupants, eight flats had already been burnt.


The intervention of the firefighters prevented the fire from spreading to other flats and buildings.
The cause of the inferno could not be immediately ascertained but an occupant of the building, who craved anonymity, said it was caused by a dysfunctional generator that caught fire in one of the flats.

Following the inferno, Lagos State Government has given the occupants seven-day notice to quit the building in 12/13 Bashiru Street, Berger. The directive was issued by the state’s Building Control Agency.

Some of the occupants, they said they would not move out of the building since their apartments were not affected.

“It is nonsensical to give everybody quit notice. Not every apartment is affected. I think eight flats or so were affected. The building has close to 30 flats – including self-contained apartments,” an occupant, who did not want his name mentioned, said.