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A journalist working with the University of Jos Ice FM in Plateau State, Juliana Olajide, has lost her 17-year-old daughter and a grandson in a fire that razed the family's apartment.

Daily Trust learnt that the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, but the family suspected an electrical surge.

The fire incident also left Mrs Olajide and her husband with burns while they were battling to rescue their children from the flame.

“All I could was that I was forced to wake up at a quarter to 12 midnight to realize that the whole apartment was covered with thick smoke,” she said.

"I rushed out to my children’s room but I could not access their room because our sitting room was already engulfed in flames. I ran to my husband’s room. My husband had to walk through the fire to alert neighbours to help us. We had to break louvers to access our children to rescue them from the fire,” Mrs Olajide, who was revived at JUTH, told the publication

It was gathered that neighbours came to the family’s rescue and rushed them to the hospital.

"I lost my 17-year-old daughter and my two year-old grandson. My husband is in another ward battling with his life also,” she added.

It was learnt that the twins of the family, Rhema and Isreal were responding to treatment at the hospital.

The husband, Isaac Olajide, who sustained burns on his face and hands, could hardly talk.

Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Plateau State chapter, Mary Dumtur, who led her to the hospital, appealed to individuals, governments and corporate organisations to come to the aid of the family to recover from the accident.

"They have lost everything including the house and all they had laboured for in life, they need to be assisted morally, spiritually and financially to enable the recovery from this disaster,” she said.

Source: https://dailytrust.com/journalist-loses-daughter-grandson-in-jos-fire/

What Is Really Happening Inside This JOS na

Terrible!

immortalcrown:
Terrible!

Are You Shocked?

UDOKABESTLUV:
What Is Really Happening Inside This JOS na

No JOSTIfiable reason....

Quite sad.

So sad.

Chai

Ogiame:
No JOSTIfiable reason....

Quite sad.

Not the time for jokes, please.

Can't even begin to imagine the level of agony that family must be in now.

Let's have it, wait for it, obi is coming with heart felt condolence... He's now the national CONDOLENCEER of the federal republic of Nigeria... O'Shea...

Worse time to experience trouble

Damn! Pain, hunger and anguish in the land.

Really tough time to be a Nigerian

nairalanda1:


Not the time for jokes, please.

Who's joking with you? Clown 🤡

Damnnn niggar

Too bad

Ogiame:
Who's just with you? Clown 🤡

Grow up, and stop joking about a disaster.

nairalanda1:


Grow up, and stop joking about a disaster.

If my comment sounds like a joke to you, then you're a Local Clown

Ogiame:
If my comment sounds like a joke to you, then you're a Local Clown

Again, better act your age, and stop joking about a disaster, mr man.

May no one joke about your disasters, god forbid.

What a sad news with all the happenings in Nigeria.
RIP to d dead.
May the Almighty God comfort the families and friends.

What a sad news with all the happenings in Nigeria.
RIP to d dead.
May the Almighty God comfort the families and friends.
May the Almighty God not let our enemies mock us

how do you console a woman in this situation?
God gives, God takes away?
God knows best?
It is well?

nairalanda1:


Again, better act your age, and stop joking about a disaster, mr man.

May no one joke about your disasters, god forbid.

Something is eating you up, HEAL...

CLOWN 🤡

Tragic! May this type of disaster never befall me, amen

Wotoporiously speaking

Bleep up situation, damn!!

Ogiame:
Something is eating you up, HEAL...

CLOWN 🤡

Okay, may you have a JOSTIFIED event in your life.

(You said there was nothing to it).

Bye, intellectual.

nairalanda1:


Okay, may you have a JOSTIFIED event in your life.

(You said there was nothing to it).

Bye, intellectual.

Amen to your prayers....


Au revoir CLOWN 🤡

Rip

Nigeria is a death zone

Udoka...na man you be. You just dey serve people bad news 24/7

Ogiame:
Amen to your prayers....


Au revoir CLOWN 🤡

K.