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Glimpsetv:
A major fire outbreak has been reported at the Great Nigeria Insurance House, a 22-storey commercial building located on Martins Street within the Balogun Market area of Lagos Island. The incident occurred today, December 24, 2025.

The high-rise building, which is primarily used as a warehouse for clothing materials, reportedly caught fire at about 5:00 p.m. Preliminary investigations by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) indicate that the fire started in an office on the fourth floor.

The blaze escalated rapidly, spreading from the fourth floor to the sixth floor and eventually affecting other parts of the structure.

Emergency response teams, including LASEMA’s Shark Response Team and the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, are currently on the scene battling the inferno and working to bring the situation under control.
As of 8:30 p.m., the number of casualties remains unconfirmed, as firefighting and rescue operations are still ongoing.
Balogun Market, one of Lagos Island’s busiest commercial hubs, has witnessed similar incidents in the past. This fire comes months after another outbreak in September 2025 that affected a high-rise office building within the same Balogun Market vicinity.


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seunmsg:
The worst judgment in recent memory has to be the judgement that made Duoye Diri of PDP the governor of Bayelsa state. It was a reckless judgement with no basis in law and it was delivered against APC. The Supreme Court was so ashamed they have to announce they’ve departed from the judgement and it can’t be cited as a precedent.

So, quit all the cries about Imo and let’s hear word. Even the judgement that gifted Zamfara to PDP was worse than the Imo judgement and the Supreme Court had also stopped court from interfering in internal affairs of a political party.

seunmsg:
The worst judgment in recent memory has to be the judgement that made Duoye Diri of PDP the governor of Bayelsa state. It was a reckless judgement with no basis in law and it was delivered against APC. The Supreme Court was so ashamed they have to announce they’ve departed from the judgement and it can’t be cited as a precedent.

So, quit all the cries about Imo and let’s hear word. Even the judgement that gifted Zamfara to PDP was worse than the Imo judgement and the Supreme Court had also stopped court from interfering in internal affairs of a political party.

seunmsg:
The worst judgment in recent memory has to be the judgement that made Duoye Diri of PDP the governor of Bayelsa state. It was a reckless judgement with no basis in law and it was delivered against APC. The Supreme Court was so ashamed they have to announce they’ve departed from the judgement and it can’t be cited as a precedent.

So, quit all the cries about Imo and let’s hear word. Even the judgement that gifted Zamfara to PDP was worse than the Imo judgement and the Supreme Court had also stopped court from interfering in internal affairs of a political party.

emkz:
Aliko:

1. Is it true that our refinery cannot meet daily demand in Nigeria?

2. If that is the case, why do you want to monopolize the market?

3. If your refinery cannot meet daily demand, is it not fair for import licenses to be granted to those who can support your own output?

4. You hold press conferences every month as if you are briefing Nigerians on the state of your refinery. In your latest press conference, you published the names of NMDPRA's children and the schools they attended and the fees they paid. You failed to link those fees to corruption. We expected you to submit evidence of him receiving money illegally or engaging in corruption. How will you feel if the details of your children and their schools and addresses are published?

5. You are at loggergeads because he granted import licenses. Why don't you lobby legislators to amend the PIA to ensure NMDPRA cannot grant such licenses?

6. You attempted to penetrate the noodles market and left it as quickly as you came in because Dufil Prima already dominated the market. Are you afraid of competition?

7. Scale up production, plug loopholes and sell at prices Nigerians can afford. That way, you'd take a significant chunk of market share. Engaging in monthly smear campaign and attacking someone's children is not how to run a business. That is introducing political smear campaign in the corporate world. Until the refinery attains full capacity, import licenses are to continue.

We appreciate Aliko for building a refinery to meet Nigeria's energy needs. I suggest he buys out the marketers and take over their assets.

nairalanda1:
The issue is not what we peg the budget on , but on the fact that we cannot or do not set the prices of oil, tin, columbite , gold and so on ( which we don't even produce in sufficient quantities to make economic sense anyway).

Because of that, the prices never favor us which is why we are in debt. Like oyel. We need oyel to be at 150 or at least 100 dollars per barrel to make economic sense

Even when Nigeria was selling a lot of cash crops and minerals in the 1960s, access to education, power supply, potable water and roads were poor.

So no matter what we do, we are going to keep on having problems meeting revenue targets.

Hence borrowing, which can be reduced by improving domestic tax revenues .

But the ultimate goal is an industrialized economy that produces goods for the world. Which is how china went from being a debtor to a creditor

Moroccoguy:
Which junction is this again.

Rita33:
A surgery-addicted social media star known online as 'Mary Magdalene' has been found dead in Thailand.

The 33-year-old, whose real name was Denise Ivonne Jarvis Gongora, died after falling from the ninth-floor balcony of a high-rise condominium on Tuesday, the Phuket News reported this week.

Information released and verified by local police that verifies her identity and has independently confirmed the death with sources close to the family.

The Mexican-Canadian model's body was discovered by hotel staff in the parking area of the Patong Tower after 1.30pm, according to local police, just hours after checking in for one night.

Khaosod English reported that Gongora's body was transferred from Patong Hospital to Vachira Phuket Hospital for a full autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.

Shortly before her death, she had cryptically posted the closing scene from the 1998 film The Truman Show alongside a childhood photo of herself to social media.

merrymike47:
Sometimes we need to sit and study how Fulani thinks.

iwaeda:
They will tell you to tighten your belt, bear with them, impose more taxes, yet spend our common resources frivolously. Any one spend $5M on school have at least fives times, Nlfpmod. When we speak, they call us names, even in days of GEJ, not bad as this egbon.

Hisroyalbadmeat:
Nyerisi of Rivers State,The Slayer of IPOB, The Lion of The Niger Delta,Ekwu eme one of Port Harcourt, The political martian of Nigeria, POS Africa, Some folks think say you dey do juju,but them no know say na Jesus you dey follow,No body get moral reach wike,Wikematics is a movement,Nkelem anu meka

naijapikin2:
Silly police

Something they would just silently kpai him and keep the news to themselves.

Mtcheeeew 😠

yinkus6750:
We have office if the First Lady.
Same with office of the First Son.
Didn't start with Seyi.
During IBBs reign, his son's were visible in power.
PMBs son too,till his bike accident.
That's what our leaders have turned the country into.

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/extra-nigeria-was-barren-before-tinubus-reforms-says-uzodimma/

Salewa97:
This is a serious matter.

Wike should be careful with his utterances. Being a former president of the Nigeria Governors forum, he should know better.

Wike should also be prepared for the legal battle as Cole is not backing down.

valentineuwakwe:
Some flashpoints still need checkpoints sir...pls don't remove al

JASONjnr:
Again, you can never be right about making a budget that's why we have auditors to help checkmate the spendings.

But then, you will always point fingers until you lead a position that you thought your predecessor was not doing fine.

Tinubu might be political about his statements towards GEJ but these politicians are friends on close door.

I can tell you that, GEJ have a good relationship with Tinubu than GEJ supporters thinks.

JASONjnr:
I managed a company some years back and we generated funds to run the company. But then, we still made budgets and ran out of our budgets.

There are certain things that Nigeria will use money for that's not captured on the budget. That's why Nigeria will always sort for supplementary budgets.

Also, the CBN also have its internal maintenance to do. We also pay certain amount of money to world bank and also use funds as giant of Africa to donate to other countries in crisis. Lots of this are not captured on the budget.

But then you have to be a president for you to be able to understand how to run a country and not point fingers simply because you feel you think there's corruption somewhere.

JASONjnr:
You're setting examples that are not adding up...

The oil sector that you bring into this is already corrupt and has a very strong cabal.... Even Dangote who's worldly recognized to be rich couldn't stand them.

The president will do his very best and be rest assured that he will not step on toes.... But he will do his very best.

JASONjnr:
You're setting examples that are not adding up...

The oil sector that you bring into this is already corrupt and has a very strong cabal.... Even Dangote who's worldly recognized to be rich couldn't stand them.

The president will do his very best and be rest assured that he will not step on toes.... But he will do his very best.

JASONjnr:
If na me talk this one na.... Mods for vlban me reach 100yrs

But why's my opinion making you sound uneducated?
How can a president steal money when he's got means to generate funds for himself....

Is like saying that a CEO steals his company's money. Does it make sense to you?

JASONjnr:
Atiku is slamming everything hoping it will remain solid for him to become president and start selling them off to his cronies...

Flangelo12:
Atiku is lying about the figure.

He knows people would NOT care about the truth.

Ttalk:
You guys are poor opposition. Do your opposition with sense and stop embarrassing yourself on SM

Ttalk:
Will you keep kwayet?

Everything to you guys is politics. Don't you have a life out of politics.
If it's not Tinubu, it's Yoruba, is this how you are going to spend the rest of your life thinking one Yoruba man is behind your misfortune,

SeverusSnape:
That's none of our business. TUluMbU till 2031.
If they like, let them kidnap all our traditional rulers, as long as it doesn't hinder our lord tinibu from being president, No wahala.

Saturnalia:
Trump will not talk now oooo, since there’s no crude oil to steal over there. So much for the World Police aka United Snakes of Amerika.

I hope Tinubu too is learning one or two things from the wisdom of Guinea Bissau ?

Let those Traitors with Born-To-Rule mentality from the North continue to undermine your Government with their Terror & Banditry sponsorship.

And let those self-marginalized & No-Joy Tribe from the Land of the Depleted Sun also continue to de-market Nigeria and celebrating chaos & anarchy all over Nigeria.

When it is time for the 2027 Elections, just hand over Power to one brutal & merciless Major General from Ijebu-Ode or Iragbiji and that will be the end of the cinema called Nigeria - which is what everybody secretly wants in the first place.

They can only shout and tag Trump, CNN, BBC & Amnesty on Twitter.

And if Trump wants to do busy body, just invite my very good friend from Russia (Vladimir Putin) to come build Naval and Air Force Bases in Lagos and Abuja. All of them will automatically back off!

fergie001:
I have absolutely no sympathies.
He has tried afterall, he was a Minister in GEJ's Govt.
He will soon go and visit the FCT man, just watch.