BREAKING: Fire guts Okobaba plank market in Lagos

Firefighters and emergency workers are currently battling a fire at Okobaba in Lagos.

Details about the fire outbreak at the plank market, are still sketchy and updates are expected.

Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Sanyintolu, in a statement, said the agency’s fire unit has been battling the fire along with the Lagos and Federal Fire Services.

The LASEMA DG, however, said that he was concerned that the activities of hoodlums would slow down progress.

“The agency has made a request for security cover as hoodlums and miscreants are hampering the efforts of the joint responders,” he said.