Fire broke out on Sunday, June 25, 2017 at the Abuja branch of the House on the Rock Church sited along the Umar Musa Yar’Adua expressway that leads to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Yomi Shogunle, an assistant commissioner of police and head of the Nigerian Police Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit, tweeted a video of the building visibly ablaze while firefighters were struggling to put out the fire.
House on the Rock Church, Abuja on fire 🔥. 7 fire trucks 🚒 at the scene.
Caution needed if you are driving towards Airport, cause unknown. pic.twitter.com/zKIRikIOZN— Abayomi Shogunle, 𝘧𝘴𝘪 (@YomiShogunle) June 25, 2017
According to an online newspaper, Signal, a member of the church who worshipped there Sunday morning that the main church building has been under renovation for a while and services have been holding at the church annex building.
Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, House on the Rock was founded by Pastor Paul Adefarasin.
The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained at the time of this report.
Read more at Signal.
