The management of Nigeria’s Apex Bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria has announced that its Head Office was not engulfed by fire as being erroneously reported on the social media.
In a tersely worded statement made available to PMParrot from the office of CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communication, Isaac Okorafor on Tuesday evening, the bank said the reports on social media about the fire incident are false.
Read the full text of the statement here:
Reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) head office building is on fire are false.
Passersby who saw a pall of exhaust from the generator house far away from the building apparently mistook the exhaust for fire smoke.
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 general public that there has been no fire at our building.
Isaac Okorafor
Ag. Director, Corporate Communications
May 1, 2018
