Contrarily to the earlier reports yesterday night regarding the CBN head quarters been on fire, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last night
clarified that reports that its head office building was on fire were
false.
The CBN in a statement explained that passersby who saw a
pall of exhaust from the generator house far away from the building
mistook the exhaust for fire smoke.
The statement reads;
“The
CBN maintains a total security system that triggers safety alarms in
the presence of smoke and so all fire engines and personnel received the
alert only to discover that it was an unusual pall of exhaust.
“The
affected generator has been rested and normal work has been
uninterrupted while the engineers are working to rectify the issues with
the generator. “We hereby assure the public that there has been no fire
at our building.”