An official of Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullah, confirmed the incident to news men on Monday in Kano.

Abdullah disclosed that the incident occurred on Sunday night and it affected father, mother and five of their children.

“We received a distress call at Dakata fire station from one Ibrahim Sani at about 12:25 am that there was fire outbreak in a building at Tudun Wada Quarters.

“On receiving the information, we quickly sent our fire fighting vehicle to the scene at about 12:30 am”, he explained.

Abdullah said seven unconscious victims were evacuated by firefighters from the slightly burnt two rooms and a parlour they were occupying and rushed to hospital.

“The doctor confirmed seven of them dead due to the smoke they inhaled”, he said, adding that investigation revealed that the fire, caused by electric spark, was out of control by the time firefighters arrived.

He advised the general public to exercise caution while handling electrical appliances and inflammable materials to avoid fire incidents and other emergencies.

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Sources said that the grandmother, who resides with her son in the same house, had complained that they starved her of food.

It was gathered that she reportedly set the house ablaze while the family members were asleep, killing three of them, including her son, Victor; wife, Racheal, and one of the grandchildren, while the other child is in critical condition at the Federal Medical Centre FMC, Owo.

Narrating the sad incident to newsmen in Akure, an eyewitness, Korede Michael, said, “We saw the house on fire around 2:00 am at the weekend and had to break the window to rescue everyone in the house.

The woman, her son, Victor Oloro; wife, Rachael; and children, Toluwani and Blessing, were all in the house when the woman set it on fire. She got some dry palm fronds and the little petrol her son kept in a gallon (for generator), spread it around the house and then put fire to it.”

“I was the first person to notice the fire and jumped into the house before other members of the community joined me in rescuing them.

“We got a vehicle immediately to transport them to the government hospital in Akure.

When we got to Akure (UNIMED annex), the doctors and nurses rejected the patients, saying they could not take care of them due to the degree of the burn, and advised that we take them to the Federal Medical Center in Owo.

“Unfortunately, we lost the last grandchild, who was just two and a half years old, immediately we got to Owo.

“The son and his wife, also, gave up the ghost while the only grandchild left is in a critical condition.”

Korede said that the suspect was not in any way affected by the fire.

”The children could not send the woman out of the house when she started behaving strangely because it was built by her late husband.”

Police sources said that the suspect confessed that she burnt her son and his family because they were starving her of food.

The state police spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, while confirming the incident to our correspondent said the case is now with the State Criminal Investigation Division.

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The fuel station shares fence with AMAC Secretariat which borders with INEC Abuja Municipal Office.

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A combined team of state and federal fire services was reportedly at the scene working to prevent the fire from spreading into nearby buildings.

Details later.

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The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the nine persons, all male adults, suffered burns and injuries and were taken to an undisclosed hospital.

“Investigation gathered at the scene revealed the fire emanated from the generator house,” LASEMA said.

Director, of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Adeseye Margaret said that further report will be given as the investigation into the cause of the incident is completed.

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Earlier reports indicated that the building located in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday.

The ministry has now disclosed that a battery pack that was outside the building exploded.

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Daily Dates Nigeria recalled that INEC offices in Akwa Ibom and Abia were recently razed.

Enugu state police spokesperson, Daniel Ndukwe, in a report disclosed that the fire incident occurred at about 9:40 pm on Thursday.

Ndukwe stated that the affected office is located in Obollo-Afor, Udenu LGA of the state.

He said: “The Command received a distress call at its Udenu Police Divisional Headquarters alleging that there was fire outbreak at the Obollo-Afor office of the INEC in Udenu council area.

“Police operatives attached to the Division immediately raced to the scene while contacting Enugu State Fire Service office in the area to promptly put off the fire.”

According to the Police Spokesman, the fire was eventually put off before it could spread to other offices around the building, through the combined efforts of the fire service, the police, and residents.

He added that “Preliminary investigation suggests that the fire may have been caused by power surge due to sudden power supply to the building before the incident occurred.”

Ndukwe noted that the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Aliyu, has ordered an investigation to determine the actual cause of the fire outbreak.

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