The fire at the office of the Accountant General of the Federation earlier The fire at the Treasury House located in southeast of Abuja city Premium Times reported that two senior officials briefed on the fire An official said;
“The fire started at the fourth department where federal, state and “We had to suspend a meeting we had scheduled for 11:a.m. via video conferencing.” Another official said the fire did affect their data centre. He said;
“The fire did not affect our data centre, which is actually fully Public Relations Officer of the Federal Fire Service (FFS), Sandra
today April 8, gutted two key departments including the one that
processes consolidated revenue sharing amongst the three tiers of
government.
centre was successfully contained within an hour, as fire fighters and
other first responders including the police and emergency management
officers, raced to the scene shortly after the outbreak.
incident said two key offices were razed by the inferno before it was
put out. The fourth and fifth floors were also affected.
local government allocations and other crucial payments are processed
and then found its way up to the fifth floor where the
accountant-general has his office.
backed up. We have been using computer to process and back up
information for the past 11 years.”
Ugo told journalists that personnel of the FFS arrived on time and were
able to put out the fire before much damage was done to the building.
Update: Fire gutted the payment processing department at the Accountant-General’s office Abuja
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