File photo: Oyo State map
A fire incident on Saturday razed nine locked-up shops at the Nigerian Railway shopping complex, located along the popular Aleshinloye Market in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of Oyo State.
According to findings by The PUNCH, goods, household items and other properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in the inferno.
It was further gathered that the fire started around 5 am on Saturday and caused damage before firefighters were alerted.
One of the affected traders, Busari Olayemi, told newsmen that people living around Quarters 4 alerted the shop owners to the fire around 6 am.
