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Barely a year after the devastating report that Lagos, Nigeria is sinking and the govt has done absolutely nothing about it..

The report read as follows:


Africa's most populous city is battling floods and rising seas. It may soon be unlivable, experts warn

Residents wade through flooded Ige Road, in Aboru, Lagos, after a heavy downpour on July 6, 2020.
Lagos, Nigeria(CNN) — Cars and houses submerged in water, commuters wading through buses knee-high in floods, and homeowners counting the cost of destroyed properties.

Welcome to Lagos during rainy season.

Residents of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, are used to the yearly floods that engulf the coastal city during the months of March to November. In mid-July, however, the major business district of Lagos Island experienced one of its worst floods in recent years.

"It was very bad, and unusual," Eselebor Oseluonamhen, 32 told CNN.

"I drove out of my house ... I didn't realize it had rained so much ... There was heavy traffic on my route because of the flood. The more we went, the higher the water level. The water kept rising until it covered the bumper of my car ... then there was water flowing inside my car," Oseluonamhen, who runs a media firm on the Lagos mainland, recalled.

Photos and videos posted to social media showed dozens of vehicles inundated with water after torrential rain. The floods paralyze economic activity, at an estimated cost of around $4 billion per year.

Home to more than 24 million people, Lagos, a low-lying city on Nigeria's Atlantic coast, may become uninhabitable by the end of this century as sea levels rise due to climate change, scientific projections suggest.

The problem is exacerbated by "inadequate and poorly maintained drainage systems and uncontrolled urban growth," among others, according to a study led by the Institute of Development Studies.

Nigeria's hydrological agency NIHSA has predicted more catastrophic flooding in September, usually the peak of the rainy season.

Eroding coastline

Lagos is partly built on the mainland and a string of islands.

It is grappling with an eroding coastline that makes the city vulnerable to flooding, which Nigerian environmentalist Seyifunmi Adebote says is attributable to global warming and "human-induced action over a prolonged period."

Sand mining for construction is a major contributor to shoreline erosion in Lagos, environmental experts have said.

Manzo Ezekiel, a spokesman for Nigeria's emergency management agency (NEMA), told CNN that the riverbank of Lagos' Victoria Island is already being "washed away ... particularly in the V.I area of Lagos." "There's this problem of the river bank being washed away. The increase in water level is eating into the land," Ezekiel added.

In Victoria Island, an affluent Lagos neighborhood -- an entirely new coastal city christened 'Eko Atlantic' -- is being built on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean, and will be protected from rising waters by an 8-kilometer-long wall made from concrete blocks, developers say.

A cargo ship passes along a waterway during construction at the Eko Atlantic city site in February 2016. A cargo ship passes along a waterway during construction at the Eko Atlantic city site in February 2016.
While the ambitious project could contribute to reducing housing shortages in other parts of the city, Ezekiel fears that "reclaiming land from the sea will put pressure on other coastal areas."

Other critics have argued that adjacent areas not protected by the wall will be left vulnerable to tidal surges.

David Frame, the Managing Director of Eko Atlantic told CNN the project "isn't creating a problem" for coastal communities.

"When dredging, we go between 20 and 25 kilometers out into the ocean because it is important to ensure the process does not impact the coastline and create erosion. This requires us to go further out to sea, beyond the 'Minus 15 Contour', which means we have to dredge in waters deeper than 15 meters," Frame said in a statement.

"During this process, we are not digging trenches. Instead, we trough along the seabed for half a meter to one-meter strips of sand. That way, we ensure we are not creating a problem," he added.


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/01/africa/lagos-sinking-floods-climate-change-intl-cmd/index.html

Till this very day, the govt of Lagos state or Nigeria has not even reacted to this report..

Does it mean we’re ready for Lagos to sink?

An entire city is going underwater Bt the residents seem not to be bothered

Even “big man area” where land cost a minimum of 1billion naira and above isn’t left out

Damn, i deh worry for Lagos.

citizens and Govt should do something about it na

Na to buy boat keep for backyard

Noah where art thou ? But action taken in time could curtail this but oh i forgot we got clueless people in power

Its not sinking.
Adequate water is needed to grow agbado and cassava so its a deliberate move by the state government.

Lagos Is.not sinking
Plans are already on the way to take care of these issues

The real estate sector of the Lagos economy is most probably the biggest running Ponzi scheme going on in the world as we speak. Somebody will just wake up and point at a marshy patch of flooded wasteland and tells you he will sell it for a price far bigger than what you will get or a beachfront estate in Dubai and my people will just pay fiaaaam. It's insane! There will be no modern roads, no serious power supply, no serious green areas, basically no internal internet connections, then add flooding, Awawa boys and One million boys...., Yet they get paid the price for structures at Miami beach.

Lagos has all it takes to put Nigeria on the map! This state has been so richly and lopsidedly favored by the Nigerian state with massive investments, that her economy can easily rival that of many African countries.. Inspite of this, Lagos has no sort of underground metro system that can carry huge quantity of people from say the mainland to the island. No serious internal train or bus system that is near, efficient and quick enough to take care of the ordinary folks going to work every day. As a result workers get up as early as 4 too 5 am just to make a commute that wouldn't have taken say 15 minutes if these transportation modes are available. Yet inebriated partizan hacks with their primitive standards, will always want you to see agbadorianism as the way forward..

VeryWickedGoat:
Its not sinking.
Adequate water is needed to grow agbado and cassava so its a deliberate move by the state government.

u ipob abi Obi supporters sure knows how to turn everything into bittered politics.

there was a thread about Anambra having most gullys in Africa, it was still u people that turned it into politics.

how God use create ona sef?

Rugaria:
The real estate sector of the Lagos economy is most probably the biggest running Ponzi scheme going on in the world as we speak. Somebody will just wake up and point at a marshy patch of flooded wasteland and tells you he will sell it for a price far bigger than what you will get or a beachfront estate in Dubai and my people will just pay fiaaaam. It's insane! There will be no modern roads, no serious power supply, no serious green areas, basically no internal internet connections, then add flooding, Awawa boys and One million boys...., Yet they get paid the price for structures at Miami beach.

Lagos has all it takes to put Nigeria on the map! This state has been so richly and lopsidedly favored by the Nigerian state with massive investments, that her economy can easily rival that of many African countries.. Inspite of this, Lagos has no sort of underground metro system that can carry huge quantity of people from say the mainland to the island. No serious internal train or bus system that is near, efficient and quick enough to take care of the ordinary folks going to work every day. As a result workers get up as early as 4 too 5 am just to make a commute that wouldn't have taken say 15 minutes if these transportation modes are available. Yet inebriated partizan hacks with their primitive standards, will always want you to see agbadorianism as the way forward..

As in, it is crazy. I have been waiting for the price crash for years though but it doesn't seem like it will happen. It may not be artificial price inflation after all, the demand for accommodation in Lagos is mad. From 10% agency only, they have added 10% legal and people are paying.

Michelle70:
u ipob abi Obi supporters sure knows how to turn everything into bittered politics.

there was a thread about Anambra having most gullys in Africa, it was still u people that turned it into politics.

how God use create ona sef?

coming from a resident tribalist…that’s rich

More drainage channel need to be opened. Also,. people should stop filling the drainage with dirts or even sealing it.

Tinubu is a curse to lagos

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SocialJustice:
As in, it is crazy. I have been waiting for the price crash for years though but it doesn't seem like it will happen. It may not be artificial price inflation after all, the demand for accommodation in Lagos is mad. From 10% agency only, they have added 10% legal and people are paying.

I think the Lagos state government intentionally allows all kinds of loopholes in this area in other to make enough room for Awawa boys and One million boys to collect their owamade.. No other reason makes sense.

diadem10:
More drainage channel need to be opened. Also,. people should stop filling the drainage with dirts or even sealing it.

The drainage network should be normally sealed off. Open gutters only hallmark squalid existence..

Again this idea of preaching to folks to stop throwing dirts around is so old fashioned and seldoms produces results..

Make relevant laws, educate folks on what to do and apply severe and decisive punishments on offenders. Kapish..

Others will learn from the way you handled previous offenders

Rugaria:
The drainage network should be normally sealed off. Open gutters only hallmark squalid existence..

Again this idea of preaching to folks to stop throwing dirts around is so old fashioned and seldoms produces results..

Make relevant laws, educate folks on what to do and apply severe and decisive punishments on offenders. Kapish..

Others will learn from the way you handled previous offenders

It should have some gaps for easy run off from accumulation of water on the roads, not totally sealed.