How Fire Razed Female Hostels In Zamfara College Of Education

A female hostel in Zamfara State College of Education, Maru has been razed by fire.

News Rain Nigeria gathered that the Registrar of the college, Dr. Abdullahi Haruna, in Gusau on Saturday, reportedly said fire outbreak in the school razed a female hostel.

According to him, the fire incident occurred last Thursday, while one of the students was cooking food over a kerosene stove.

He said that a block of female hostels comprising 20 rooms was completely destroyed by the fire.

The Registrar said: “Students’ items comprising clothes, documents, bedding materials, and other valuable items, worth millions of naira, were also lost to the fire.

“We thank God that no loss of lives or casualties were recorded, the school management has provided relief materials to the students,”

Haruna therefore, appealed to the students to remain calm and consider the incident as an act of God while calling on governments at all levels to assist the students that were affected by the fire incident.

Meanwhile, the registrar dismissed the suggestion that some unknown gunmen were responsible for setting the hostel on fire, describing the information as the work of mischief-makers that should be disregarded by the public.