The hostel of the Government Girls College, Mayo-Belwa, Adamawa State, has been destroyed by fire.
The only hostel block was gutted by fire on Tuesday morning, the Nation reports.
Mayo-Belwa, the council headquarters where the Government Girls College is located, is in the Adamawa Southern Senatorial District, about 70 kilometres from the state capital, Yola.
Narrating the incident, an official of the Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area, Aliyu Isah, said, “The only hostel of the school has just been destroyed. It has been consumed by fire.”
“We have not determined the cause of the fire yet, but we put it to electricity malfunctioning. It is sad because the students will now have to be discussed.
“This is the only hostel block standing after the first of two hostel blocks was similarly destroyed by fire last year.”
He could not be specific on the number of affected students, but he said they would not be less than 80, but that nobody received physical injuries as a result of the fire.
