Last week, we got a look at just how much of an infrastructural failure Lagos - and Nigeria, as a whole - really is. Non-stop rain rolled back the false layer of wealth and civilization to reveal the sad state of where we live - Nigeria's economic capital has no drainage and becomes submerged when one of the most natural phenomenon in the world occurs - rain.

Lagos - the Island and Lekki, more than others - was flooded, people lost their valuables and incurred unprecedented expenses and most importantly, the citizens, who the government should be protecting, had their safety compromised. But with Lagos' drainage system mostly non-existent, flooding has become an experience that we normalized.

however I would like to state here the major causes of this flash floods and as the Nigerian meteorological agency claims more is yet to come.

1. Global warming. the effect of global warming is seen as the rise in water level and the continuous downpour of rain, Lagos, picked up generally 3.9 to 5.9 inches of rain July 2-8 which resulted to the flood.


2. Eko Atlantic city.Eko Atlantic, the 5-mile new city that is supposed to be the saviour of Lagos' economy. Eko Atlantic was built by dredging and filling more than six miles worth of land in the Atlantic.a sea wall was built around it to protect it from the surrounding Atlantic and its “worst storms.” this wall built to protect eko Atlantic have left the remaining part of low level areas in Lagos very vulnerable and susceptible to flood, since water as to finds its level.

3.POOR infrastructure and infrastructure maintenance, lack of credible infrastructure to maintain events such as floods does not abound in Lagos and also Lagos is known as the center of excellency as well as a center for indecency, the cultural decadent of the average lagosians to just throw dirt's anywhere as left drainages blocked and canals non functional, this resulted in water not flowing properly through its right channels

4.also, one must note that poor planning structure on the Lagos island added to the flood, places which are meant to be flood plains where water is supposed to find its level as been turned to megastructure and shopping malls, illegal structures and poor housing plans, the elite arrogance of "we would sandfill it" on the island is instrumental to this event


in my humble opinion this is just the beginning of the floods in Lagos island, due to global warming this events are going to reoccur more often and I don't think the Lagos state government as the capacity to manage it for now.

Why should we on the mainland know about flood on the island


They should better go and beg the mami water on the Atlantic to pity them

You're right - this is just the beginning.
It would be terrible if the Lagos State government refuses to take measures to prevent the same thing from happening in 2018.

May God save us... And we should always take precaution

hakeem4:
Why should we on the mainland know about flood on the island


They should better go and beg the mami water on the Atlantic to pity them

because soon properties on the mainland would be very expensive, the floods are coming, it would increase every year until the government do a proper work

Wetin concerns me with lagos

That no4 point is d major reason n nothing more..

Homeboiy:
Wetin concerns me with lagos

Wa gbayi.

Oluyole for life.

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