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Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Nobody: 9:38am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Lagos Flooding: Eko Atlantic City Takes The Blamehttp://www.herald.ng/lagos-flooding-eko-atlantic-city-takes-blame/ 2 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by vanbonattel: 9:43am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Arrest Fashola! 5 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by dingbang(m): 9:45am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Wall rubbish.. Stop short changing projects. To Nigerians, its all about money instead of environment and safety. If Nigerians were the engineers that built that hotel in Dubai, I don't think it would still be standing tall till today. 5 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Nobody: 9:49am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Even the developed countries don't sand-filled a riverine area before building houses on top of it.They will rather build their houses on top of water. 1 Like |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by nku5: 10:12am On Jul 09, 2017 |
I am very sorry for Lagosians. The AD/ACN/APC has done nothing to uplift Lagos since 1999 (18 years!!). How can a coastal state not have an advanced storm drainage system for goodness sake No doubt Eko Atlantic city has caused some impact on lekki axis but have we noticed that sandfilling of lagoons is going on at an alarming rate? If you sandfill everywhere then how will rainwater drain off? On third mainland bridge if you are heading to oworo from obalende you will see plenty of sandfilling on the right. Once they are through they will call it ikoyi and allocate the sand land for estates to their paddy men. All these years LASG big men, APC big men and their cronies have been making big money off sandfilling and dredging and selling sandfilled land, neglecting the environmental impact. Today we can all see the results. Fashola and Tinubu are a disgrace o 11 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Nobody: 10:17am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Watch as AMC - Ambode Media Centre - avoid this thread. I see this hitting fp in the next 24 hours 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Oche211(m): 10:36am On Jul 09, 2017 |
While there is a strong valid points in the write up, we also have to consider the case of poor drainage system in several areas of the lagos metropolis. Even where there are existing drainage system, it is either too shallow or narrow to take in the worst storms or in most cases, even the moderate storm. There is this bad, nasty habits of Lagosians dropping there refuse in d drainages or outrightly blocking it with litters. I think this administration has nt really put in much effort in that area. Open up d drainage channels, construct new old or reconstruct existing ones to accomodate incoming worst case storm, educate d people abt d danger of dumping refuse in their gutters or drainages nd even enforce arrest if possible. Climatic changes globally causes rise in the sea level annually and lagos state that is surrounded with water bodies cannot afford to sleep. Solving this requires massive effort from the government nd d residents. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by IgboticGirl(f): 11:18am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Ambode is working 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Freemancipation: 11:22am On Jul 09, 2017 |
It's too late now. There was a Yoruba professor who was raising the alarm of the outcome of Eko Atlantic project to fashola but he was ignored. Now he has the last laugh. Eko Atlantic is actually a privately owned city. And will be managed by private investors. It might not do much for the real Lagos economy other than isolating the super rich in a fantasy land fill where everything is provided to them. Lekki might be abandoned in the future because of global warming and sea rise. Sorry to all those who built expensive houses there. This will only get worse. 20 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by IgboticGirl(f): 11:32am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Advice |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Agumbankembu: 11:40am On Jul 09, 2017 |
If you bought a house in Lekki or built one, just forget it, the land itself is lower than the surrounding water bodies' level, things will only get worse, forget it. 14 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by IgboticGirl(f): 11:43am On Jul 09, 2017 |
Let me keep quiet for now before those bitter people will tell me how landlocked south east is 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by SirKriz(m): 11:53am On Jul 09, 2017 |
The water can't just disappear like that, it would merely be displaced. This tweet shows the gradual sand-filling and how how the water is pushed away to other regions. https://twitter.com/iDREYY/status/883692119260622848?s=09 It's high time we stopped acting nonchalant when it comes to environmental issues and start asking authorities the right questions. 1 Like |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by 989900: 1:12pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
It contributes, in what measure, we don't know yet (same concern I raised yesterday). |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by rozayx5(m): 1:19pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
Freemancipation: true eko atlantic will mostly create cheap jobs and it was an elitist project from day one 8 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by waledeji(m): 1:25pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
IgboticGirl:You gat no brain at all. Is your region not landlocked? Your people knows that that's why they are doing attache by force with SS states 8 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by IgboticGirl(f): 6:09pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
waledeji: Talk is cheap 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by deomelo: 6:30pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
They've been experiencing flood decades before EA, so what's EA got to do with flood? These endless fake stories are getting out of hand. 2 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Guestlander: 6:41pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
deomelo: This is not a case of ocean surge whereby V.I and surrounding areas are flooded with sea water. The problem here is poor drainage from rainfall. Engineering and money can solve the problem. 2 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Amberon11: 7:39pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
The greater problem here is that Lekki is already below sea level. This isn't just about poor drainage. Guestlander: 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by deomelo: 8:10pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
Guestlander: It's always easy for the layman without any studies, data, weather or meteorology experience to spew baseless assertions and offer meaningless solutions to what they really know nothing about. Why not show us the survey data and studies report you based your conclusions on. What you drain ends up in the sea or lagoon, but with high sea and lagoon water level, water heads inland and pushes what you drain back inland. Drainage works when you have low sea level to properly receive water from the drainage system. The only solution to me sounds more like building water basin or reservoirs in neighborhoods to collect and retain rain water and release the same rain water into the sea or lagoon when water level drops. In many cities with the best drainage and city planning, they know drainage can not solve their problem, so they passed laws that mandate new development to construct water retention basin to prevent flood. No drainage can keep up with too much rain and fast moving water. Stormwater management and drainage: If levels are higher and storms are stronger, your community will need to be able to hold back higher levels or water… or retain more stormwater before needing to drain it immediately away. Retention ponds What are retention ponds? Drainage can not save you when you are below sea level, it helps only when you are higher than the sea level. When you flush your toilet and send poo from your poo drainage or pipes into your septic tank, it flows inside your septic easy, but when your septic tank is full, your tank is full and your poo level high, it means your septic tan can not accept any pore poo and no amount of drainage system can help you, you have to reduce the poo level in your poo tank before draining any poo into it. Shey you get the gist? 13 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by anibi9674: 8:15pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
EKO Atlantic white elephant project. |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by deomelo: 8:20pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
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Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by IgboticGirl(f): 8:34pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
deomelo: I agree with u though, u made a valid point The problem is not drainage |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by deomelo: 8:44pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
This is Houston, USA, a well planned city with good drainage system. What we drain in Lagos goes into the sea or lagoon while theirs goes into the Bayou, but just like us, drainage can not keep up with heavy rain and fast moving water when the Bayou level is high just like us when the sea and lagoon level is high. Their only solution is water retention ponds to collect and retain rain water till the Bayou water level drops. This is what we need in Lagos because I don't see any way out, definitely not drainage even though we need to invest in those too. BTW, I saw a thread on NL with Oyinbo man paddling around inside canoe in Lagos because of flood and people are laughing and acting as if this is unique to us in Nigeria as if such doesn't haven in their own countries when inn fact they go thorough the same thing every rainy season. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Karlovich: 8:55pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
more floodings will occur when the zoo Atlantic city has been completed. |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by oduastates: 8:58pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
All the bad Belle for Eko Atlantic. These clowns would rather Eko Atlantic be shared as ram, kola nut, rice, noodle,wheel barrows,radio etc.Who is this clown aka mimi and how does he qualify as a subject matter expert on flooding, drainage. Is he a planner or an engineer ? Whomever allowed people to sandfill the serene habitat that was the former lekki should be tied to a stake and shot. The swamp acted as a natural storm breaker against the force of the Atlantic and was also a beautiful habitat for exotic wildlife/runoff channels of freshwater. I do believe that Nigerians have a natural tendency to believe that there aren't repercussions for their negative actions. From squandering their oil wealth and wondering why their economy is shiiitt to voting useless politicians to whom, you can only attribute garbage strewn Street By simply looking at pictures from the flooding, the damage caused by the prison/like fences and pave stones is enough reason . The ground can't soak the rainwater and the fences box the flood in like a bath tub I would not take a land in lekki if you gave it to me for free. Sandfill as much as you want, the water will take it back eventually. |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Ajibel(m): 9:13pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
Abeggi! This is an just an opportunity for those who were against the EAC from the start to spew rubbish. Year in year out, so called experts would write articles on how EAC is causing flooding in Lagos. Watch out and see this same repeated report released next year when it floods again in Lagos. EAC has come to stay. It's left for LASG to find a lasting solution to the flood issues. And someone please tell Ambode to concentrate more on the Light rail project than his ambitious 4th MB biko! 2 Likes |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by jiangchu: 9:22pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
nku5:sandfilling is not the cause of the problem. |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by Justiceleague1: 9:43pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
oduastates: mental,the 'clown' is mimi ONUOHA,an ipobia and shes speaking on behalf of/for all cone heads....there aint no educated conehead intelligent enough to speak now,hence an ipobian is helping them cover their illiteracy. Conheads are only usefull as agberos and as cheering crowd when the likes of Mc Oluomo is strolling by op,ONUOHA pls help dem o,they are confused.. |
Re: Eko Atlantic City Takes Blame For Lagos Flooding by able20(m): 9:45pm On Jul 09, 2017 |
IgboticGirl:While EKO is floating 1 Like |
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