A fire outbreak has engulfed the popular Monday Market in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. Hundreds of shops, with goods worth millions of naira have been razed down during the inferno.
Sources said the incident which started at about 2 am on Sunday did not record any casualty, as firefighters battled to put off the fire.
As at the time of filing in this report, firefighters were still making frantic efforts to put off the fire as traders and sympathizers thronged the scene at 7 am on Sunday.