INDEPENDENT
Fire on Sunday gutted the popular 10-storey Mandilas Building, located on Broad Street, Lagos Island, destroying properties worth several millions of naira.
According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at about 1:15p.m., when traders were not open for business.
Margaret Adeseye, Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, who confirmed the incident, said that there was no record of any casualties in the incident.
The fire, it was gathered, started from a warehouse on the first floor of the building before spreading to other floors.
Men of the state Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Police, and other emergency responders raced to the scene to put out the raging fire.