But for divine intervention, White House Hotel on Toyin Street, Ikeja, Lagos, would have, by now, been reduced to mere heap of ashes. The hotel, which sits atop a branch of Finbank, almost went up in flames on the night of Tuesday, October 7. The fire, which the proprietor of the outfit that set out for business as a niteclub, before transforming into a full scale hotel, suspected to have started from the laundry department, had already destroyed one of the rooms and was ranging towards the power house where inflammables like two big cooking gas bottles (cylinders) and a 40,000 litre of diesel for the three generators that service the hotel and bank were stored before neighbours in the adjoining streets noticed it and raised alarm.

"Na God o! I was already at the gate of my house at GRA when my manager called to inform me that there.s fire outbreak. I just left the hotel not quite 20 minutes when I got the call," the owner of the hotel told sympathisers, as he conducted them round the affected areas.