A source has attributed the Dangote Refinery fire to a leakage in one of the pipes stationed within the facility.
The source, who doesn’t want to be named, said the fire started at midnight.
“It was a leakage on Pipe A13 that caused the fire. It started small: first, a burning cable before people started perceiving some smell. This was around midnight. But it has been put out,” he told FIJ.
An emerging video on X (formerly Twitter) showing that a part of the Dangote refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, was on fire has begun to draw the attention of social media users.
In the video now shared by many users, the first being at 1:22 pm, on the microblogging site, heaps of black smoke from the burning area were visible from a part of the refinery.
FIJ learned that part of the Dangote refinery was indeed on fire in the wee hours of Wednesday.
According to the source, firefighters were only able to contain the fire around noon.
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