Fire Guts NSCDC Exhibit Storage Facility In Lagos

The storage facility of the Lagos Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), housing exhibits recovered by the command through various operational activities was on Saturday morning gutted by fire.

NSCDC Spokesman, Oluwaseun Abolurin, who disclosed this, said the incident happened at 3:30am, on Saturday.

Abolurin added that a team from the Lagos State fire service alongside Corps personnel on duty helped put out the fire.

The NSCDC image maker further disclosed that no casualty was recorded and reiterated the commands commitment to unravel the cause of the fire.

The NSCDC spokesperson said the Commandant, NSCDC Lagos, Usman Alfadarai has promised a total repair and rehabilitation of the engulfed storage facility to ensure continuuos operational activities at the command.

The incident comes days after some buildings within the Nigerian Air Force Base along Airport Road in the Federal Capital Territory,  were also engulfed by fire.

In other news, Kanyi Daily reported that the Adamawa State Police Command says it has arrested a couple identified as Kamal Idris, 24, and Ambasiya Idris, 19, for brutalizing their 11-year-old nephew identified as Fahad Abdulkarim.

The command said the couple was picked up on Friday.