GNI fire: Sanwo-Olu orders residents, businesses to vacate danger zone

The Lagos State Government says it is going ahead to enforce Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s directive that residents and businesses around the burnt Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) building should vacate the immediate environment.

The government had deployed experts who evaluated the site of the fire and warned against the inherent danger to lives and property of residents and businesses within 100 meters radius of the site.

Several buildings around the scene of fire are compromised and must be evacuated, according to experts.

Shop owners are breaking into the no movement barrier zone created at the perimeter of the scene of fire. This is dangerous and must stop.

The 25-storey building got burnt on December 24, with three persons reportedly dead, others injured and goods estimated at billions of naira destroyed.