The female hostel of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has been destroyed by fire. A student, Joy Uwalaka, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident happened on Wednesday night.
According to the witnesses, the fire started around 7.30 p.m. from the last floor of the two-storey building as soon as the EDDC restored power to the campus.
“It was when some of the students around the hostel started shouting fire! fire!, that I jumped out from my hostel which was close to Okeke Hostel. “There was a big smoke and fire burning on the last floor of Okeke Hostel,” she said.
Speaking with NAN, Mr. Patrick Aro, the Chief Fire Officer in charge of Enugu North District, said that his men responded promptly to the distress call by some members of the public. Aro, whose office was close to UNN first gate, however, said that shortage of water to extinguish the raging fire made it to cause serious damage to the hostel.
“My men tried their best, as we rushed to the scene soon after we received calls that there was a fire outbreak in Okeke Hall. When we have exhausted our water, we were unable to get a refill from the two boreholes in UNN as they had no water,” he said..........
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