Customers panic as fire guts Access Bank

 There was panic and pandemonium especially among customers as fire gutted a branch of Access Bank at Ojo Alaba, Lagos, recently.

SHOWBIZPLUSng reliably learnt that firemen were said to have spent no fewer than four hours at the scene trying to put off the raging inferno.

It was learnt that around the same time, an apartment building in Ozolua Staff Quarters, the University of Lagos, also caught fire.

The Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Razaq Fadipe, told our correspondent that there were no casualties in all the fire cases.

“Around 12.05, we received a distress call that there was a fire outbreak at Access Bank. We were not quickly alerted so the whole building was smoke-clogged. The fire started from the ICT department. We are still battling it.”

An insider who spoke with us on the condition of anonymity said they suspected foul play in the way and manner the mysterious fire gutted Access Bank on a non- working day.