{"id":207638,"date":"2025-09-19T23:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-fire-incident-at-afriland-towers-not-uba-house\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:32:27","slug":"nigeria-lagos-fire-incident-at-afriland-towers-not-uba-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-fire-incident-at-afriland-towers-not-uba-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lagos Fire Incident At Afriland Towers, Not UBA House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>Lagos fire incident at Afriland Towers, not UBA House<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A video of a building on fire in Lagos, Nigeria is circulating on social media with a claim that it is the UBA House, the headquarters of the United Bank of Africa. But the claim is false.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;UBA House Marina, Lagos on fire. Workers in the building have been scampering for safety,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/100044458183076\/videos\/670384822200522\/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXrryKT2-1E28n87Z-iQkrVSAJURoNOz8nZwlyPlAXghJ8U8O9GxljkY1NXG7CjyKiT85Drt20VwXnoUdeS_z0PTa4LYA4hXsR9kVgiKd77NJGehAdJUIi9nXLMxNg2q_StwvmT0RjaADuV7YW1Bg0EpYmfBKca_kQfbfd-FDAzjFIGWqpSitcIQE4fLxE_8wAGhHEAk7YuG7OhBWhjQxxO&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads the caption of a video<\/a> of a burning building, circulating on Facebook in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190471.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos fire incident at Afriland Towers, not UBA House IN SHORT: A video of a building on fire in Lagos, Nigeria is circulating on social media with a claim that it is the UBA House, the headquarters of the United Bank of Africa. But the claim is false. &#8220;UBA House Marina, Lagos on fire. Workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,51131,6600,5110,14345,2477,257,4687,393,254,31924,6836],"class_list":["post-207638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afriland","tag-fire","tag-house","tag-incident","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-towers","tag-uba"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}