But the vicinity of the complex remains in pandemonium, Premium Times reports.
A spokesperson for the Federal Fire Service said his agency received
alert on the incident 30 minutes after the fire started.
He said there was no casualty in the incident but that his agency was
yet to establish the cause of the fire.
Read earlier report on the incidence below:
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The complex housing major government offices in Abuja, Nigeria's
capital, is on fire.
A PREMIUM TIMES reporter at the scene said the fire started from the
section of the complex occupied by the Federal Ministry of Education
and fire fighters are battling to save the inferno from spreading to
adjourning buildings.
The fire, witnesses said, began at the sixth floor of the building and
is believed to have affected the seventh and eighth floors.
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, but thick smoke,
billowing into the sky, has engulfed the building and surrounding
ones.
Workers in the building were seen scampering for safety while a number
of staff and visitors are believed to be trapped in the complex.
Premium Times correspondents say fire fighters have arrived the scene
and are battling to put out the fire.
The firemen are however said to be scrambling for ladders to climb up
to the top floors where the fire began.
Some workers at the complex said the fire equipments at the building
were not functional, hampering efforts to extinguish the fire.
"All the fire extinguishers in the building have expired," one
official said. "That could have been used to extinguish the fire at it
first started. But they didn't work."
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