Nigeria: Fire Razes Kaduna Central Market

21 December 2010

A section of the popular Abubakar Gumi central market 'Yan Manja' in Kaduna was yesterday razed by fire, with over 150 shops and property worth millions of naira destroyed.The fire, however, was extinguished by men of the Kaduna State emergency fire service with the assistance of security operatives who were at hand to check the activities of hoodlums who might want to take advantage of the situation.

The executive chairman of the Kaduna State Market Development and Management Company Limited, Ambassador Sule Buba, who was there to inspect and have a first hand assessment of the extent of damage, described the incident as unfortunate and the situation pitiable.

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