A tanker conveying cylinders filled with inflammable chemical exploded on the Lekki-Epe Expressway in the Shango- Tedo area of Lagos Friday morning.

An eyewitness alleged that a woman might have been killed in the explosion.

The fire service appears to have been prompt on the scene but there is no confirmation on casualties even though eye-witnesses confirm deaths.

Traffic was at a standstill.

The three-story Faculty of Sciences building of the University of Lagos went up in flames in the early hours of Tuesday morning, destroying the Mathematics and Physics departments on the second and third floors, media reports confirmed.

No lives were lost in the fire incident, which started at about 6 a.m., but academic materials, furnishings and personal belongings were lost in the fire.

Fire fighters from UNILAG’s Fire Service, the Federal Fire Service, Lagos State Fire Service and the Union Bank of Nigeria Fire and Rescue Unit combated the fire and put it out at about 9:55 a.m.

Students and lecturers were seen at the fire site desperately trying to salvage their documents and belongings from being destroyed by the fire.

The medical laboratory section of Kaltungo General Hospital in Gombe State was on Thursday razed down by an inferno.
 Speaking at the scene of incident on Friday, Principal Medical Officer(PNO) of the hospital, Dr. Joseph Mathew said the fire started around 9:00pm on Thursday and was immediately reported to the fire service office in Kaltungo. 
“There were series of explosion in the laboratory and unfortunately before we arrived the damage has been done and only few things were recovered,” he lamented.
 He explained that the inferno was caused by a kerosene refrigerator donated to the hospital two years ago by a Non-governmental organization.
 The PNO said the Emir of Kaltungo, Chairman and other important personalities were at the scene trying to put off the inferno.
 Some of the items destroyed are chemistry analyzer, CD4 machine, freezers, desktop computers and blood mixer incubator among other equipments.

The Commissioner of Police for the Plateau State Command, Abdulramman Akano, has refuted reports of last night’s bomb explosion in Barkin Ladi. At around 11.30pm yesterday, an explosion which was thought to be a bomb rocked Barkin Ladi, a town on the outskirts of Jos. Initial reports suggested that a person, thought to be the carrier of the bomb had died in the explosion before he could reach his target. Mr. Akano, however insists journalists got it wrong. According to him the explosion took place in a laboratory in a secondary school when a chemistry teacher at the Islamic Orientation Secondary School was conducting an experiment with his students.

He said the teacher, Abubakar Musa, did not die, but was hurt and is being treated in a hospital. The commissioner also said the explosion occurred at around 4 in the afternoon rather than late at night as reported by media outlets.

Details of happenings in Jos remain very sketchy as movement is still patchy. Residents remain apprehensive and there is very little in the way of public transport, forcing even those who want to move around to stay indoors.

What would have been a major disaster, few days to Christmas was averted  by the combined efforts of  fire service men,members of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, NDSC, the police and staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, when an explosion occured  along the NNPC pipelines around Isheri Olofin in the Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area.
The explosion, on Thursday, though didn’t affect the pipelines of NNPC, occured about 150 meters away in a swampy area and  was caused by bush burning by  neighbouring farmers. According to eye witnesses, pipelines vandals had channeled their pipes from the NNPC pipeline into the swampy area and so  the bush burning only aided the explosion.
Calistus Ukachukwu, an official of Red Cross, corroborated the claim, saying that the explosion was caused by bush burning but added that if the vandals hadn’t chenneled the pipe from the NNPC pipelines, the explosion would not have occured.

Kaduna — The National Emergency Agency (NEMA) yesterday denied reports that two persons died and over 300 hospitalised in the gas cylinder explosion which occurred in Kakuri Industrial Area of Kaduna State. The agency said no life was lost and that it successfully brought the situation under control after much effort. It said the explosion led to the hospitalisation of over 300, people mostly women and children.


However, the Kaduna State government has ordered a thorough investigation of the immediate and remote causes of the explosion. This was directed by Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa.

The North-West Zone Co-ordinator of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Suleiman, told LEADERSHIP the circumstances surrounding the explosion.

He said, "No single life was lost in the explosion, and I am glad to inform you that we have overcome the situation. We realised that it was concentrated chlorine that became poisonous to the people of the area and we used about five tankers of water to dilute it and make it weak and remove the substance that became hazardous.