BREAKING: Popular Benin market on fire

A fire outbreak has happened in the Popular Oregbeni market in Ramat Park, Benin City, Edo State.

Eyewitnesses said a huge part of the market behind the Nigeria Immigration Service Office caught fire on Sunday, February 28, 2021.

As of the time filing this report, the cause of the massive fire and the extent of damage it has caused in terms of lives and properties is unknown.

Oregbeni is a market where foodstuffs brought from outside the South-South State, as well as locally grown food items, are sold at quite affordable rates in this particular market.