A mid-day fire on Sunday razed the popular Ekiosa Market with goods and properties worth several millions of naira destroyed in the process in Benin the Edo State capital.
Also affected by the blaze was the five-storey building office complex of the Edo Property Development Agency (EPDA) located on Sakponba Road.
This is as angry youths protest and pelted armed soldiers and policemen deployed to the scene to prevent hoodlums from looting shops in the wake of the confusion that followed. Read more