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By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n A late-night fire on Tuesday gutted several shops in the Papa area of Alakia Isebo Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, destroying goods worth millions of naira.<\/p>\n The incident occurred in a row of shops beside the Akin-Alamu building, with five shops severely affected.<\/p>\n The Oyo State Fire Service confirmed the incident and said its team responded promptly to the distress call.<\/p>\n According to a statement by the Chairman of the Fire Service, Hon. Maroof Akinwande, the service received the emergency alert at exactly 11:22 p.m.<\/p>\n Firefighters led by CFS Adesina Olusoji were quickly deployed to the scene, where they met the shops already engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n The team successfully contained the fire, preventing it from spreading to adjacent properties.<\/p>\n After extinguishing the blaze, salvage operations were conducted to minimize further loss.<\/p>\n While the fire caused extensive damage to property, no casualties were recorded.<\/p>\n Authorities have yet to disclose the cause of the fire, and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Huldah Shado A late-night fire on Tuesday gutted several shops in the Papa area of Alakia Isebo Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, destroying goods worth millions of naira. The incident occurred in a row of shops beside the Akin-Alamu building, with five shops severely affected. The Oyo State Fire Service confirmed the incident and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69524,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69522\/revisions\/69524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}