A bit of Dangote Petroleum Refinery, situated in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, skilled an outbreak of fireplace on Wednesday.
In a trending video, a PUNCH correspondent noticed a cloud of thick smoke billowed into the sky from the ability.
The sound of an explosion may be heard within the video.
The reason for the hearth is, nonetheless, but unknown as of the time this report was filed.
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Nevertheless, when contacted, the Group Chief Branding & Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Restricted, Anthony Chiejina, confirmed the hearth incident to the PUNCH correspondent in a terse message.
He mentioned the corporate had contained the minor hearth at its effluent therapy plant that broke out within the early hours of Wednesday.
Chiejina additionally confused that the refinery remains to be working and no harm or physique hurt is recorded.
There isn’t a trigger for alarm because the refinery is working and there’s no recorded harm or physique hurt to all our employees on obligation,” he added.
“We’ve got swiftly contained a minor hearth incident at our effluent therapy plant (ETP), at present Wednesday twenty sixth of June.”
SOURCE: The PUNCH