A raging inferno has consumed a section of the main market in Markurdi, Benue State with about many shops and goods worth millions of naira destroyed.
Benue government spokesperson, Terver Akase, said the fire only touched a section of the market along George Akume Road at about 6:30 p.m. The market, containing row of lock-up shops, was built by former Governor Gabriel Suswam to unclog the Makurdi city centre and easy trading.
The market served as a temporary shelter for victims
of the devastating flood in 2017 and residents who fled their villages at the
height of violence by herdsmen between late 2017 and early 2018.
