A popular shopping mall in Abuja's Jabi District, Next Cash and Carry, owned by former Anambra Governor Peter Obi has been gutted by a fire.

The source of the fire has not been ascertained.

Eye witness videos show dozens of looters seizing the opportunity of the inferno to pilfer items of different categories from the burning building.

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Men of the fire service are currently battling to contain the blaze.

This comes barely six months after another similar sized Abuja shopping mall, Prince Ebeano, was completely razed to the ground by fire.