The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says that about 1,200 artisans who specialise in assorted fabric making have been rendered jobless by the inferno that engulfed the Tejuosho Market on Tuesday.

The Director-General, NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Ahmed, said this in a post-disaster loss and needs assessment report on Wednesday in Lagos, where he was represented by Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the Zonal Coordinator, South West.

Ahmed said that the fire, which cause cannot be confirmed, but rumoured to have been caused by someone trying to fill up a working generator which caught fire along the line.

He confirmed that over 1,600 industrial, weeping and straight sewing machines were lost in the mid-afternoon fire disaster that struck the popular Tejuoso Market.