Firefighters have arrived the scene of a multi-storey building, housing many shops, which is on fire in the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island.
A video sent in shows firemen attacking the blaze from an adjacent building while the usual crowd is milling around the trying to catch a glimpse of the scene.
Although there is yet no official word on the cause of the fire outbreak, but a number of video posts on social media shows smoke billowing from the burning building on Tuesday morning.
One shot shows that the smoke can be seen from the 3rd Mainland Bridge.