{"id":2234,"date":"2025-12-26T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:37:33","slug":"sanwo-olu-commiserate-with-victims-of-gni-building-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Sanwo-Olu commiserate with victims of GNI building inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lagos State\u00a0Governor,\u00a0Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commiserated with the victims affected by the tragic fire incident that engulfed the 25-storey Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) Building on Martins Street, Lagos Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanwo-Olu conveyed his message in a Thursday statement posted on his official X handle following his visit to the scene of the inferno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yemi Alade - Tomorrow (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4u2yMsPdG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanwo-Olu wrote, \u201cI am deeply saddened by the fire incident that occurred yesterday at the Great Nigeria House. My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI went to Balogun today for an on-the-spot assessment to better understand the situation. No written report can truly reflect the pain or the full extent of this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added, \u201cI want to thank our firefighters, emergency responders, and all the agencies that worked tirelessly through the night to bring the fire under control. Their courage and dedication saved lives and prevented the damage from spreading further.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to assess the situation and provide support to those who have been impacted. Lagos has always shown strength in difficult moments, and I believe we will get through this together,\u201d he expressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvcnews.tv\/sanwo-olu-commiserate-with-victims-of-gni-building-inferno\/\">(TVCNews)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos State\u00a0Governor,\u00a0Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commiserated with the victims affected by the tragic fire incident that engulfed the 25-storey Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) Building on Martins Street, Lagos Island. Sanwo-Olu conveyed his message in a Thursday statement posted on his official X handle following his visit to the scene of the inferno. Sanwo-Olu wrote, \u201cI am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[391,429,2604,2605,175],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-fire","tag-great-nigeria-insurance","tag-lagos-island","tag-lagos-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sanwo-Olu commiserate with victims of GNI building inferno - Tona Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lagos State\u00a0Governor,\u00a0Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has commiserated with the victims affected by the tragic fire incident that engulfed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2234\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sanwo-Olu commiserate with victims of GNI building inferno - 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