Sunday, January 27, 2002. NTA News.

Explosions from the Ikeja Cantonment saw residents in Lagos fleeing for safety under the assumption that a military coup was underway. Governor Bola Tinubu soon went on a national broadcast to inform the nation that it was an accident.

Brigadier-General George Emdin, spokesperson and commander of the 9 mechanized military brigade in Ikeja, apologized and explained that the series of explosions were due to a storage system incident

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