A 52-year-old man has died in a late-night fire incident that razed a short-let apartment building along Coca-Cola Road in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. New Telegraph gathered that the incident occurred at about 11:38 p.m. on Thursday at the Lafia Hotel area, where a building used for short-term purposes was gutted by fire. A statement issued on Friday by the spokesman of the Kwara State Fire Service, PFO Hassan Adekunle, said the affected structure comprised two flats of three bedrooms each, and was not a conventional residential apartment. “The Kwara State Fire Service responded to a fire outbreak at Lafia Hotel, Coca-Cola Road, Ilorin, at about 23:38hrs on Thursday, 27th February 2026,” the statement read. “It was an apartment used for short-let purposes, not a residential buildi...