Tamale: Fire has gutted a dormitory block at the Northern School of Business Senior High School (NOBISCO) in Tamale, displacing about 900 students and destroying their personal belongings.
According to Ghana News Agency, the fire, which started at about 1400 hours on Wednesday, ravaged the dormitory block and burnt students' mattresses, books, clothes, and other personal items into ashes. Assistant Divisional Officer Grade I (ADO I), Mr. Hudu Baba, Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Northern Region, stated that personnel of the Service responded swiftly, but the fire had engulfed the entire dormitory block by the time they arrived.
Mr. Baba mentioned that the firefighters managed to bring the fire under control to prevent it from spreading to other school facilities. He noted that the cause of the fire was not immediately known, and investigations had been launched to determine the origin of the blaze.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ali Adolf John, Northern Regional Minister, in collaboration with the authorities of the school, has directed the affected students to go home for one week as measures are put in place to facilitate their return. He said final-year students affected by the fire should be temporarily accommodated in other dormitory blocks to enable them to continue their academic activities as efforts are being made to address the situation.