Monday market fire outbreak: Zulum announces N1 billion for emergency relief

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Following an outbreak of a major fire incident which has largely raised down the Maiduguri Monday Market, Borno State Governor, professor Babagana Umara Zulum has in a quick statewide broadcast, announced an emergency relief of one billion naira to provide urgent support to victims, pending assessment of the incident.

The Governor’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement said Zulum made a broadcast soon after he had visited the scene of the incident and had mobilized armed forces to secure the area to prevent breakdown of law and order.  

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