Some sections of the popular Sabo market in Sagamu council area of Ogun was razed by fire in the early hours of Tuesday.
Agency Reporter, who visited the scene reports that no fewer than 100 shops were burnt.
The fire also destroyed goods and valuables worth millions of naira.
An eyewitness told Newsmen that the inferno started at 1 a.m. from the cloth sellers’ section and spread to other sections of the market.
Mr Adetola Soyemi, a shop owner in Sabo and Chairman of the Remo zone of the Ogun chapter of the Table Water and Beverages Producers’ Association of Nigeria, said the traders were counting their losses.
“It was the electricity that was the restored that created a spark around 1 a.m. and if not for the men of fire service, it would have spread to all the sections of the market,” he said.
He listed the affected sections as including cloths, yam flour, grains, herbs, kolanut and building materials sections.
