Metro NNPC Not Affected by Conoil Fire- Management

Bolanle Akanji

Moderator
The corporate headquarters of the NNPC was not affected by an inferno nor was it bombed by any insurgent group. The management of the corporation said on Thursday in Abuja following a fire outbreak in a Conoil filling station opposite it and fears that it might have reached the NNPC towers.

Reacting to the news, the General Manager, Media Relations, NNPC, Dr Omar Ibrahim, said the NNPC was not affected by the inferno.

According to him, a fuel tanker was off-loading petrolat the filling station opposite the NNPC Towers, when it suddenly caught fire.

``When the filling station opposite the NNPC Towers Abuja went up in flames on Thursday afternoon, the NNPC, as a socially responsible and responsive corporate body, mobilised its firemen to help in combating the raging inferno.

``I can say without mincing words that the fire incident had nothing to do with and did not cause any explosion in the Towers,’’ he said.
 
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