A fire outbreak in a fuel station in Oba Akran in Ikeja, Lagos State capital, has left several vehicles burnt after efforts to extinguish the fire failed to yield results.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says that the fire started at about 06:05am local time on Wednesday after a tanker loaded with petrol, hit an iron rod while trying to make its way into the filling station.
The fire, which resulted from the gushing petrol, left five vehicles and the tanker completely burnt.
NEMA says the tanker had difficulty accessing the filling station because of the vehicles queuing for petrol at the station.
the agency also said that the fire service had put the fire out and that no lives were lost in the incident.
The scarcity of fuel currently witnessed in Lagos State has led to long queues at fuel stations where vehicle users and business owner buying fuel in gallons could get petrol for their vehicles and generators.
Chances are that the burnt tanker would contribute more to the scarcity, that the spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Omar Farouk Ibrahim, had described as an artificially induced scarcity.
He had told Channels Television on March 3 that there were absolutely no reasons for filling stations not to sell fuel to the people.
Meanwhile, the management of Mobil Oil Nigeria PLC said it responded promptly to the fire incident.
A spokesman for the company, Mr Akin Fatunke, in a telephone interview with Channels Television, said that a pole fell on a woman and that she had been rushed to the hospital.
He also stated that Mobil would be carrying out a thorough investigation into the incident after which they will make their finding known to the public and compensate those whose property got damaged.
