The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says that about 1,200 artisans who specialise in assorted fabric making have been rendered jobless by the fire that engulfed the Tejuosho Market on Tuesday.
NEMA director-general Mustapha Ahmed said this in a post-disaster loss and needs assessment report on Wednesday in Lagos
Mr. Ahmed was represented by NEMA southwest zonal coordinator Ibrahim Farinloye.
He confirmed that over 1,600 industrial, weeping and straight sewing machines were lost in the mid-afternoon fire disaster that struck the popular Tejuosho market.
Ahmed said the cause of the could not be confirmed, but it is rumoured to have been caused by someone trying to fuel a working generator which caught fire along the line.
The director-general, while consoling the traders, urged them not to see the situation as a temporary setback, but as a challenge that would bring greater success.
