Fire Guts Popular Lagos Hotel, Properties Worth Millions Lost

There was a fire incident at Ibis Royal Hotel around Ajao Estate at the Airport Road, Lagos State on Wednesday evening.

Videos posted on social media revealed what seems to be a two-storey building engulfed by raging flames.

Jubril Gawat, the Senior Special Assistant on New Media to the Lagos State Governor, Babjide Sanwo-Olu, in a post on X, said that the fire was reported at 4:50 pm.

Gawat further stated that the Isolo and Bolade Fire Crews of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service curtailed the fire to prevent substantial damage.

“Operations concluded without injury nor death recorded. Well Done to our Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service,” he wrote.