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Minister of State for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu’s private residence in Asokoro caught fire on Sunday evening.

Reports stated the fire started in his bedroom. Sources in the know said Mr Kachikwu was not at home when the incident occurred but the Fire Service responded swiftly and put out the fire and which consequently stopped further destructions of the petroleum minister’s properties.

 

The minister has been in the news recently over his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari in which he complained about insubordination and humiliation by Maikanti Baru, the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)

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