Residents and shop owners counted their losses at Amassoma, the Niger Delta University (NDU), Bayelsa State following an outbreak of fire in Friday evening.

It was gathered that the fire broke out from one of the shops located close to the NDU main gate.

The fire was said to have spread to other stretch of shops consuming goods and other valuables belonging to the victims.

Hundreds of residents besieged the scene but were helpless because of unavailability of fire fighters.

It was learnt that the university, which is located in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area had no fire bay and no firefighting equipment and personnel in the entire university community.

The only state fire service is located in Yenagoa, the state capital, and it takes a journey of over an hour to get to the community.

A student of NDU, who spoke in confidence, said it was not the first time a section of the community was gutted by fire.

“The last time it was a section of the market before a firefighting truck arrived the community from Yenagoa, the entire area had been razed.

“We dont have a fire service in the university and the entire community and it will take over an hour for a firefighting truck to get to Amassoma from Yenagoa”, she said.

Also, Faith Joe, a final year student of Accounting, said her project work, which she took to one of the shops for binding was destroyed by the fire.

“I have spent a lot on this project but the fire destroyed everything”, she cried.

She said the fire incident started from a heap of refuse set ablaze by some residents.

She, however, said residents battle the fire and brought it under control after it had destroyed many shops.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-millions-lost-as-fire-razes-shops-in-bayelsa-varsity-community/

Poor people




Empty store self burn...lolssss



May God help us all

Government can use this opportunity to build a more befitting one

2020 has begone, more are coming shortly. we need to be carful in this trying time, may God safe us.

How come these fire incidences are only happening in the Southern part of the country despite the fact that the Northern part is drier?

Fire here fire there.God biko have mercy .

My dear Amassoma. Been decades. Strength to those that lost.

ofalu047:
How come these fire incidences are only happening in the Southern oart of the country, despite the fact that the Northern part is drier?

worth thinking about

Obaseki would find a way to blame Oshiomole for this even as it happened in Bayelsa

God have mercy

Its pitiable people build and hire wack electricians, drogba should not coach while messi is still alive.. May God give them double what they've lost.

ofalu047:
How come these fire incidences are only happening in the Southern oart of the country, despite the fact that the Northern part is drier?

Do fire outbreak occur in deserts?. Na where things dey na where fire fit catch something..

millioms in those huts? lol

Shithole

in the ijaw mans tongue.... APO!


check my signature to learn how to make over $20 weekly

FIRE burning is becoming rampant,God please have MERCY

hopeless nation. common fire, we can't handle fire everywhere

CyberEBOLA:
millioms in those huts? lol

That's what our yeast brother are doing. Small kiosk, they will build mansions buy many big cars from kiosk calling shop.

Must of them dey carry AK 47 at night.

CyberEBOLA:
millioms in those huts? lol

What if a car dealer who sells bugatti parked his cars in one of those huts?

K, I school in NDU, the name Wilberforce island confused me, I thought the place will be like a love garden so I choose the school over Uniport with the thought that I could leave port Harcourt a bit and live somewhere else.
U see those huts that burnt eh, even in the year 4053, amassoma will still have huts, there is no competition whatsoever, even if ur shop is mud, students will still patronize u cos we can't go out and buy foods, landlords who knew that every October, their houses will sink and students will pack out (not completing their stay) will still put rent at N100-150k.
Please if u are thinking of coming to Amassoma to study, pls just choose another school.

For the past 5yrs in Amassoma, I av neva bin happy.

Though I think this picture is not Amassoma

Not again

freedomchild:
Do fire outbreak occur in deserts?. Na where things dey na where fire fit catch something..

Unless this was an attempt at sarcasm ooo, I don't get the reasoning here. Are there no shops in Kano, Kaduna , Sokoto ,etc.

So sad, only fire calamity have been making front page this morning

..

That is amassoma, see RCF there

dukeprince50:
K, I school in NDU, the name Wilberforce island confused me, I thought the place will be like a love garden so I choose the school over Uniport with the thought that I could leave port Harcourt a bit and live somewhere else.
U see those huts that burnt eh, even in the year 4053, amassoma will still have huts, there is no competition whatsoever, even if ur shop is mud, students will still patronize u cos we can't go out and buy foods, landlords who knew that every October, their houses will sink and students will pack out (not completing their stay) will still put rent at N100-150k.
Please if u are thinking of coming to Amassoma to study, pls just choose another school.

For the past 5yrs in Amassoma, I av neva bin happy.

Though I think this picture is not Amassoma

ofalu047:
How come these fire incidences are only happening in the Southern part of the country despite the fact that the Northern part is drier?

You won't read, you won't research.

You have access to the internet and a smartphone, but a villager with a transistor radio is by far more informed, and intellectually honest than you are.

You do sit and spew rubbish though. And you can't do critical reasoning too.

I guess that's one thing you are exceptional at.

https://www.360nobs.com/2020/01/revealed-the-number-of-people-who-got-burnt-to-death-in-kano-in-2019-will-shock-you/

No fewer than 111 people have been burnt to death in series of fire incidents in Kano State, State Fire Service disclosed on Friday, NAN reports.

The losses were recorded in 813 fire incidents in Kano between January and December, 2019, Saidu Muhammed, Fire Service Public Relations Officer said.

Also, the fire service said its men saved 1,055 lives and property worth N1.9 billion from 813 fire incidents during the period.

Muhammed, however, said that 111 lives were lost during the period.

“597 people were involved in road accidents, seven in collapsed buildings, 54 fell inside well, 58 fell inside open water and the remaining 97 were involved in flood, domestic fire incidents among others,” he said.

Muhammed said that property valued at N679 million were destroyed during the period, while the service received 744 rescue calls and 180 false alarms from residents.

He told the News Agency of Nigeria that road accidents, inferior electrical materials; use of boiling rings, as well as poor handling of electrical appliances, cooking gas and fireplace were major causes of the inferno.

ofalu047:
How come these fire incidences are only happening in the Southern part of the country despite the fact that the Northern part is drier?

The south or east are more careless it seams, its not everything that should go according to federal character

CyberEBOLA:
millioms in those huts? lol

I swear millions are in those shops, I graduated from that school, dos shops even tho they look local house lots of computers, photocopying machines printers and the rest, some of Dem are bookshops with up to a thousand books, u know university books Dy cost, millions must have been lost in those shops. A lot of millions.

thats not even amassoma and there are no hurts in amassoma

.

most of you saying that; this is not Amassoma , Don't really know Amassoma, the zinc building over there is RCFNDU worship center, the frontage is were young boys stay to bind people's project work and that wooden shop is a business center, some said our eastern brothers are riding big cars and see how there shop look like , uncle you Don't need a fine shop to make good sales, Igbo's dominate amassoma when it comes to business because they have the right strategy to market there goods well more than the Ijaw indigenes, how will your business grow when you make Woman your priority over your business...... is a black Friday in the city of amassoma but I pray God will replenish the victims because no life was lost

snowking:
That is amassoma, see RCF there

that is Amassoma brother, that's my fellowship over there, RCFNDU