Police investigates Supreme Court’s inferno

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has said officials are investigating the cause of the fire incident at the Supreme Court in the early hours of Monday morning.

While noting that the intervention of police officers and firefighters helped to put the situation under control, the command stated that two chambers belonging to two judges were affected by the inferno.

SP Josephine Adeh, the spokesperson for the police in FCT, added that the properties destroyed during the outbreak were yet to be determined as of the time of filing this report.

According to her, “On September 25, 2023, at about 7 a.m., there was a fire incident at the Supreme Court. The situation is under control, and the fire service and police officers are all on the ground.

“Only two chambers of two judges were affected, at the moment properties destroyed yet to be ascertained. The cause of the fire is still being investigated by appropriate authorities, and further information will be communicated later,” Adeh clarified.

In the early hours of Monday, fire had engulfed a section of the Supreme Court in the Federal Capital Territory.

Though the cause of the fire is still unknown, firefighters were reportedly at the scene to quell the inferno.

The offices of some justices were burnt down, as the inferno forced some occupants of the building to scamper for safety.

The recent fire incident is one of many that have impacted government offices in Abuja.

Some parts of the Nigerian Air Force Base located along Airport Road in the FCT suffered some damage in May 2023.

A fire broke out at the Ministry of Finance building in Abuja in February 2022.

Fire burnt a portion of the Nigerian Postal Service building in the FCT in May 2020.

Fire gutted a building housing the office of the accountant-general of the Federation was gutted by fire in April 2020.

According to the Federal Fire Service in 2018, Nigeria lost about N5 trillion to fire incidents in four years.