Fire Blazes UNIBEN's Postgraduate Girls Hostel

Fire blazes and destroy valuable items in one of University of Benin (UNIBEN), Postgraduate Girls Hostels in Ekehuan Campus. The affected students are yet to be compensated by the school management yet there had been nothing concrete save for the promise of a new accommodation by the Dean of Student Affairs.

On UNIBEN report, fire gutted one of the Postgraduate Girls Hostels in Ekehuan Campus, University of Benin, Benin City. Many of the students are still heartbroken and depressed as the fire burnt their belongings.

The affected students are yet to be  compensated by the school management.

The fire was said to have been caused by an electrical spark from faulty wiring of the hostel. Several students claimed they had reported the problem to the porters, but that nothing was done to address it.

These are distressing times for female postgraduate students at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Ekehuan Campus.

Last week, students living at the Block A Postgraduate (PG) Hostel in Ekehuan Campus lost their belonging to the fire that rocked the hostel.

The affected students are yet to be  compensated by the school management.

The fire was said to have been caused by an electrical spark from faulty wiring of the hostel. Several students claimed they had reported the problem to the porters, but that nothing was done to address it.

The fire had erupted in one of the PG Hostel rooms and had escalated to the others and would have burnt the building, if not for the timely intervention of the Federal Fire Service, Edo State Fire Service and University of Benin Fire Service.

The fire, however, burnt the top floor of the PG Hostel containing 20 occupied rooms, living in its wake destruction, though no life was lost.

Further investigation on the site by CAMPUSLIFE shows that the fire was able to consume the top floor because of the plywood used to partition the walls of the rooms.

According to some of the students at the Ekehuan Campus, plywood should not be have been used to demarcate rooms as they provided fuel for the fire.

So much were vandaslised because of the fire,valuable items like phones and other gadgets. These are trying times for these students and they asked the university management to come to their aid, but there had been nothing concrete save for the promise of a new accommodation by the Dean of Student Affairs.

MySchoolNews reporting.