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Fire Guts Central Bank Building
Panafrican News Agency - October 10, 2000 - Lagos, Nigeria
A pre-dawn fire gutted a section of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) headquarters building in nation's capital city of Abuja Tuesday, eyewitnesses said. An official of the Accountant-general's office, situated opposite the CBN building, told PANA on telephone from Abuja that the fire affected a portakabin housing some departments of the apex bank. But the official, who sought anonymity, said the fire had been put out.
PANA learnt that the Human Services as well as the Loans and Records units may have been razed by the fire, the latest in a series of fire disasters that have affected public buildings in the country.
The imposing headquarters building of the Nigerian Telecommunications Company (NITEL) and the building housing the former defence headquarters, both in Lagos, as well as the Cocoa House in the south western city of Ibadan, are some of the public edifices that have been gutted by fire in the past. The local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, the nation's main gateway, was razed by fire earlier this year.
Panafrican News Agency. Distributed by allAfrica.com.
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