ABOUT 500 fish stores were on Tuesday night, destroyed by an inferno at Ogbe-Ijoh market in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State. This is coming barely a year after similar incident happened in the market. Owners of the fish stores mostly built with planks said the inferno destroyed goods worth millions of naira while hoodlums feasted on others. It was reported that the Tuesday inferno lasted for about three hours, before the arrival of the Delta State Fire Service. Leader of Ogbe-Ijoh Market Traders Women Union, Mrs Queen Ajemitolu, in pidgin said: “I don tire for this market wey dey burn every time.
Source: Nigerian Tribune November 24, 2017 02:58 UTC