Just in: Fire guts popular Bodija market, destroys properties in Ibadan

News Express |11th Jul 2022 | 695

Aerial view of Bodija Market, Ibadan

The popular Bodija market in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, went into flames this Monday morning, July 11, 2022.

A Vanguard report quoted one of the affected traders, Romoke Ganiya Jelili, as lamenting that she lost more than N5 million to the inferno.

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