Two persons on Monday suffered life-threatening injuries from a gas explosion in Orile-iganmu area of Lagos.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency , in a statement by its Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the State’s Emergency Response Plans was activated, with the prompt arrival of the Lagos Response Team from Onipanu Base to the incident scene.
“The building which comprise of six residential flats on two floors, also served as illegal storage facility for about 30 gas cylinders of various sizes used in the storage and sale of cooking gas in a residential area. As at the time the statement was issued, he said efforts were ongoing to evacuate all the gas cylinders from the residential building within the next 24 hours, to eliminate the occurrence of secondary explosion.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities. Your username will be shown to the moderator, so you should only flag this comment for one of the reasons listed above.
The Office of the National Security Adviser has disclosed that Nadeem Anjarwalla, a Binance official, escaped from custody and fled Nigeria using a smuggled passport. ONSA spokesperson, Zakari U. Mijinyawa, confirmed this in a statement on Monday, stating that a preliminary investigation shows that Anjarwalla flew using a smuggled passport. “Upon receiving this report,…
The Office of the National Security Adviser has confirmed that Nadeem Anjarwalla, a suspect in the ongoing criminal probe into the activities of Binance has escaped from custody. The NSA has now activated its dragnet involving Interpol and other MDA's to apprehend the fleeing suspect. News of Nadeem's escape had spread like wild fire…
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