As at press time, the spokesperson of Osun State Fire Service, Adekunle Ibrahim, revealed that the cause of the fire could not be ascertained. Ibrahim disclosed that firemen received a distress call from a resident living near the market about 12:30 am on Saturday. 'When firemen arrived at the scene, the raging fire had affected a building that has 16 shops and a container within the market.
gathered that goods destroyed in the inferno were worth about N30 million.