The Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Abakaliki, was gutted by fire yesterday at around 9pm.
Broadcast equipment and furniture worth millions of naira were destroyed by the fire. Video cameras, three monitors, microphones, props, underground cables and studio lights were also destroyed.
DailyPost gathered that the fire started from the studio section of the complex, spread to other sections and switched the station off air.
Eyewitnesses who attributed the cause of the fire to electrical sparks in the studio claimed that the Ebonyi State Fire Service ran out of water when they arrived to savage the situation. The Fire Service had to run back to their station located about eight kilometres away to refill while the devastation by the raging inferno continued.
On their arrival nearly 45 minutes later, the entire studio had been consumed.
Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi state, while paying a sympathy visit to the television station in Abakaliki, described the incident as unfortunate.
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