Fire guts radio station

An online radio station, Agidigbo Radio located along the Iwo-Ibadan Road in Monatan area of Ibadan, Oyo State Capital has been gutted by fire, with the transmitter, studio equipment and office material destroyed.

Penpushing reports that the station owned by Oriyomi Hamzat, an Ibadan-based radio presenter, is located along the Iwo-Ibadan Road in Monatan area of Ibadan, and sources said as at the time of fire there was nobody in the station.

The Director, Oyo State Fire Service, Moshood Adewuyi, said the fire was reported to occur at about 11.00am on Saturday, when his officers were alerted and immediately raced to the scene, adding, “It is true that the studio of the online radio station caught fire this morning’.

‘The place was under locks and keys on the arrival of our men. None of the workers of the radio station was around at the time of the outbreak. You know, a studio is always padded with foam. That aggravated the fire’.

Penpushing further reports that,  Adewuyi said no one died from the fire,but said it was learnt that one person was injured, and he  also confirmed that the broadcast equipment was destroyed, adding, “the transmitter, the studio equipment, and office materials at the station were damaged by the inferno’.

“The people around there alerted us around 11 a.m. One man was electrocuted. But, thank God, it was not much. What happened was that as soon as our men arrived at the scene, we directed our control room to instruct the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company to cut power supply to the area’,he stated.

“Without getting supply from us, they restored power supply to the area. Majority of the people were already wet, and you know, water is a conductor of electricity. But thank God there was no casualty,” he said.