By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Following the incessant attacks on firefighters in Mararaba, a town in Nasarawa state bordering the Federal Capital Territory FCT, the Controller General of the Federal Fire Service FFS, Ibrahim Alhaji Liman has suspended further operations in the town. Spokesperson of the Service, SF Ugo Huan in a statement on Sunday said […]

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja Following the incessant attacks on firefighters in Mararaba, a town in Nasarawa state bordering the Federal Capital Territory FCT, the Controller General of the Federal Fire Service FFS, Ibrahim Alhaji Liman, has suspended further operations in the town. Spokesperson of the Service, SF Ugo Huan in a statement on Sunday […]

By Omeiza Ajayi The Federal Government said it has succeeded in establishing a Command of the Federal Fire Service FFS in each state of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory FCT. This was as it announced its resolve to arrest and prosecute anyone who attacks fire service personnel in the line of duty. Minister […]

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Monday reiterated his government’s commitment to the safety of lives and property of citizens in the state. The governor made the remarks during the inauguration of fire trucks by the Federal Fire Service (FFS) in the state. Obaseki said the event was part of plans to provide fire appliances […]

Fire Service told us they didn’t have diesel ― Victims By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar Items worth millions of naira have been gutted by fire which wreaked havoc on over 100 shops in the popular Marian market in Calabar, late Friday night. The fire, which started from one of the shops in the fruit section […]

The Kano State Fire Service on Friday said it had saved 77 lives and property worth N820 million from 108 fire incidents in April. The Kano Fire Service’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, disclosed in a statement in Kano. Muhammed said that 26 died and property worth N254 million were destroyed by fire […]

 The Lagos State Fire Service (LSFS) has averted another fire outbreak from a 45,000 litres petrol-laden articulated vehicle along Lagos State University (LASU), Igando Express Way, Village Bus Stop, Lagos.

…Effect massive, several people trapped By Olasunkanmi Akoni Following the widespread speculation of a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC pipeline explosion in the early hours of Sunday in Lagos, the State’s Fire Service has dispelled the speculation, saying it was an implosion that occurred and “everything is being put under control.” In the reports going […]

By Dennis Agbo ENUGU — GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, last week, advanced the public utility sector with five made-in-Nigeria mini fire fighting trucks to enhance the services being rendered by the Fire Service in Enugu State. The augmentation was not the first time Governor Ugwuanyi improved upon the fire service from where he met it. On […]

By Omeiza Ajayi The Federal Government has commissioned no fewer than 2, 200 Regular Fire Service Cadet Officers as well as 150 drivers and 96 new firefighting trucks. At the event which held at the National Fire Academy, Sheds in Abuja, Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola directed the Federal Fire Service to carry out measures […]