Nigeria, Jan. 12 -- The Secretariat of Wukari Local Government Council in Taraba State has been gutted by fire.

Confirming the incident, the Chairman of the Council, Bala Usaini, said the inferno started at about 6pm on Friday, January 9th, 2026, when Security officers on duty at the Secretariat alerted him of the outbreak of the fire.

He said that despite all frantic efforts to contain the fire, it raged for almost three hours, destroying seven key administrative departments, sparing only the Chairman's office, and resulting in the loss of vital documents and infrastructure.

"Although the actual cause of the inferno was yet to be ascertained, both the local government and the state government were working together to ensure that admi...