Enyioha Opara, MinnaOver 70 shops were on Friday razed by fire at the Abdulkhadir Kure Ultra Modern Market in Minna, Niger State. It was learnt that the fire, which started at about 6am from a locked shop, destroyed clothing, palm oil and groundnut oil worth millions of naira. Some of the victims told our correspondent that they lost goods and cash stocked in the shops because they could not go to the bank on Thursday evening. The Chairman of the Kure Market Traders Association, Alhaji Yusuf, said he lost goods worth N40m. Another shop owner, Alhassan Husseini, said he lost goods worth over N1m in addition to over N300,000 cash to the fire.

Source: Punch January 05, 2019 00:11 UTC