Fire: ‘No serious damage to CBN office’

Acting Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Sarah Alade

The acting Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Sarah Alade, on Wednesday said no serious damage  was recorded in the fire incident at the bank’s  office annex in Lagos on Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Alade disclosed this to newsmen  in Lagos while on a visit to the affected building to determine the extent of the damage.

She attributed the cause of the fire to “electrical spark,” which she said destroyed some furniture and personal effects of some Lagos staff.

The acting CBN governor promised that some records destroyed by the fire would be recovered by the Disaster Recovering Unit of the bank.

“There was no loss of life. In terms of documents, only few were lost and we have back up for that.

“Mostly, personal effects were lost and which can be replaced,” she said.

The CBN boss, however,  said that the incident affected foreign exchange trading for one day.

She said the workers occupying the affected building, which she said had already been earmarked for demolition, would be relocated to a new building in the premises.

Alade also said that the fire did not affect the governor’s office as earlier reported by some media.

She said that the incident affected the first floor of the affected building housing the banking hall.