Residents of 57 Azikiwe street Mile 2 Diobu were rendered homeless as fire destroyed property worth millions of naira.
Our correspondent who was on ground reports that the fire started at about 3am on Friday morning August 15,2025 while many tenants were asleep and shop owners have left.
Mr Wisdom Jack a shop owner who was affected by the fire who deals on Ice block machines said he lost over ten million naira in the incident.
” Both the Ice block machines.Even the ones companies gave me to mould were all affected.I dont have anybody to run to” Mr Jack said.
Another Shop owner,Mr Chigozie who was equally affected by the incident said he lost everything as he was not able to take any of his belonging.
“I have two button hole machines,two weaving machines and three industrial machines,cash of over one million i kept in my shop too,I lost all.But I know my God will make a way for me” he said.
Our correspondent also reports that the fire was spreading to a liquor warehouse but was put off my personnel of Rivers State Fire Service From 3am to 7am,the Rivers State Fire service has deployed five fire fighting trucks to put off the fire.
The Divisional Police Officer,DPO of Aizikiwe Police Division and his personnel were on ground to prevent hoodlums from carting away property some tenants were able to bring out from their apartment.
As at time of filing the report,the cause of the inferno could but not be ascertained about seven large shops and eight rooms were destroyed while the liquor warehouse lost over fifty crates of beer that were destroyed by the fire