Emergency response teams have reached the location of a gas tanker explosion along Otto Wharf Road, Apapa, Lagos, South West Nigeria
The road is cordoned off for vehicular movement inward Oshodi from Otto wharf and personnel of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service are on ground to extinguish the inferno.
Yesterday, traders and residents were thrown into panic when a fire gutted the Oko-Baba plank market in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State and destroyed shanties and shops.
In a statistics released earlier this year, Nigeria’s Federal Fire Service (FFS) stated that gas and special services caused 151 fire incidents. Experts say this portends huge financial damage to the economy by worsening the nation’s poverty indices.