The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has warned that the floods recorded in many parts of Lagos on Friday, July 16, may be far less than what residents of the commercial city will experience in September.



In their Annual Flood Outlooks for 2021, NIHSA predicted that the year 2021 will record more flood cases than any other year, since 2012. The report was made public in May 2021 during the 2021 Annual Flood Outlook in Abuja.



Following Friday's flooding, NIHSA asked Lagos state residents to brace for severe floods in September, the peak of the rainy season, by taking all necessary measures now to mitigate the devastating impact.



"The peak of the rainy season in Lagos is projected to be in September and has always been in that month. So, what was experienced across the state on Friday might be far less severe than what will happen during the peak of the rain," The Director-General, NIHSA, Clement Nze, told Punch.



The agency also stated that no new holding dam had been constructed across the River Niger in Nigeria and the course of the Ladgo Dam in Cameroon to mitigate the impact of flood arising from the possible opening of the dam.



Cameroon had advised Nigeria to build holding dams across River Niger and the course of the Ladgo Dam so that the annual release of water from the facility would not cause damage in Nigeria as witnessed in 2014 and 2016.



Nze said that a dam was being designed by experts for that purpose ahead of the actual budget preparation for the facility.



Nze also explained that the Oyan Dam in Abeokuta would have to be opened if the water level in it becomes high, adding that its opening to release water would be necessary to prevent it from rupturing.



He said once the Oyan Dam was opened to release water, the floods in the South-West states might worsen.



"If the Oyan Dam collapses, the flood situation in that region will be worse. So, it is better to release water from the dam once its water level gets to the point of allowing some of it to flow out," he explained.



The NIHSA boss also spoke about the agency’s flood predictions.



He said: "Lagos and surrounding areas were included in our prediction in terms of the flooding that occurred. Also, Lagos is one of the 10 mega cities globally and there are six cities that are sinking and might sink or disappear in 50 years based on meteorology. Lagos is one of them.



"In fact, one of my cousins sent me a voice message in 2019 after reading one of my posts, telling me that they told her in school in Germany that Lagos State would disappear by sinking in the next 50 years."

https://punchng.com/prepare-for-severe-floods-in-sept-nihsa-warns-lagos-residents/

Igbos and Yorubas are the groups that benefits more from Lagos. It’s time they come together and discuss the future of Lagos. If things are still the way it is in Nigeria, Lagos might become an underwater world or Lagos might jump into the lagoon in the 50 years.

Maybe a new nation is the only solution.

Maybe we should deport all non indigenes


Awon t'oro kan will soon quote me

Wahala be like Lagos that will disappear in 50years time.

In another news if you know you are a resident of lagos and you think the people predicting this to happen in 50yrs time will still be alive by then kindly signify and state your reasons in one single sentence i have a giveaway for you.



@Seniorwriter

Sammy07:
Maybe we should deport all non indigenes


Awon t'oro kan will soon quote me

Why so much hate in you even when the topic is talking about flood problems in Lagos.

Disappear to where?

Odingo1:

Why so much hate in you even when the topic is talking about flood problems in Lagos.

Ati dafa le, ifa ti n se

Lagos don turn titanic now abi.

not only Lagos, many other coastal towns and cities in the world shall have similar experience.

For better for worse, We developers are not going anywhere. If Lagos sinks, we sink with it.

Sammy07:


Ati dafa le, ifa ti n se

no come cause wahala here o

temitope27:
no come cause wahala here o

No mind that boy, every reasonable human being knows it all joke.

And they thought we at Upland don't have sense

Fake news

It might not be up to 50 years

chai 50 years...

Living in Lagos during rainy seasons comes with a lot of headache. During the downpour of last week, a friend's living room was flooded because water was coming into it through underground. He discarded over 30 budgets of water within 2 days. There's nothing we haven't seen in this state.

Odingo1:

Why so much hate in you even when the topic is talking about flood problems in Lagos.

... He thinks Lagos is the End of the World

Before then . I'll sell my House..

tinubu house will be carried away by flood

ibo new Mediterranean sea to abroad by then

By that time, there would have been solutions, I will remind you then.

Abeg, stop the panic and enjoy today, you never can tell if Na Camel God will create you in the next world.

Odingo1:

Why so much hate in you even when the topic is talking about flood problems in Lagos.

That's how god created them

Odingo1:

Why so much hate in you even when the topic is talking about flood problems in Lagos.

Where's the hate ?

Dovegrey:


That's how god created them

This osu shitgbo sef. Did he mention whatever tribe you belong?

He said indigenes..
I don't understand you in secure lots sef

I heard this for the first time in 1985 and they said that it would sink by the year 2000. That was back when we had problems with ocean surges and the Atlantic was regularly taking over parts of Victoria Island (that problem is gone now).

Idamond:
tinubu house will be carried away by flood


ibo new Mediterranean sea to abroad by then

Ngige house in VI will be under the lagoon maybe them he will respect the boy from kogi oo

How about Eko Atlantic City?

Frontail:
... He thinks Lagos is the End of the World

Pack your load and go to the end of the world.

If that was true the Netherlands would have disappeared 100 years ago

30 % of Netherlands is Land reclaimed from the Ocean

A worst form of Ahmadu Bello way Flooding by the Bar Beach in the 1960-80s is here again especially in the Lekki-Ajah axis.The Atlantic is fighting back seriously.The effect of climate change no be am.

It's actually by 2050.

Finally, the dot nation would be where most people will run to when it reds.