Madam Theresa Jimoh, the mother of billionaire business mogul, Chief Jimoh Ibrahim, was burnt to death in a fire incident which engulfed her Lagos apartment on Saturday.

Nigerian Tribune reports that the 76-year-old woman was said to be inside her house in the Victoria Garden City (VGC), Lagos, when a fire broke out in her residence at the early hours of Saturday, around 2:00 am.

The helpless septuagenarian was said to have been burnt to death by the strange fire before it was put out by firefighters from the Lagos State Fire Service.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in Lagos, CSP Chike Oti, when contacted on phone by Tribune confirmed the incident.