The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) headquarters in Abuja has been razed by fire in the early hours of Sunday.
The Service which disclosed this in a statement on its official Twitter handle said the fire affected some of the offices in the headquarters.
The fire, whose cause is still being investigated, has been put out by firefighters.
NIS said:
A fire incident occurred in our Service Headquarters this Morning. It affected some of our Offices.
The fire has been put out by our Federal Fire Station&support from other agencies around the Airport.
The cause of the fire is being investigated. We assure the public that the incident will not in any way affect the discharge of our services.
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Meanwhile, Nigerians have expressed their displeasure over the fire outbreaking, stressing that measures should be adopted to avert such occurrence in the future.
They further recalled how some offices of government agencies including office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were gutted by fire in the year 2020.
According to them, it is too early in the year to start recording loses to fire incidents which could be averted.
