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Where's the flood in the picture?

nlfpmod:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/09/gridlock-as-flash-floods-take-over-lagos-roads/

That's pretty much the whole of Lagos

lapintoz:
Na the same developers wey don go block water canal with illegal buildings that will come here and be shouting......

Meanwhile everyone don pack commot for village, including Obi, to live in Lagos......

Why mentioning Obi. Is Tinubu a Lagosian? No,he is not.

Same way Tinubu left Iragbiji, Osun state, same way Obi left Onitsha to Lagos.

Therefore, reason before you post.

Smartwave:
When Lagos government was demolishing Houses on drainage way, same people crying tribalism

what does that have to do with me, abeg free my mention

Guestmale:
Where is the flood in the picture or am I the only one not seeing well.

could you even see your nose, let alone flood.

It didn't rain in Lagos at all. Are you okay nau?

Small rain wey fall, the African lagoon is overrated

Lagos is an overated city. It's just lucky with it's geographical location, ports and being former FCT.

You know, atimes one does not actually understand the traffic in Lagos... Is it that the flood made the road inaccessible or the flood cut the road into two or the cars in front all got spoilt or what exactly?

Most times, you'll just find out it's two animals who stopped their cars in the middle of the road to argue because one bashed the other, causing traffic that'll stretch from Church busstop to Gate

Even if there's flash flood, I don't think it justifies standstill for up to 3hrs, yes cars might start moving slowly, but THEY'LL STILL BE MOVING, not everywhere just still for hours

franchasng:
Despite the huge IGR, humongous foreign loans Lagos state government borrows, most street roads in Lagos state are nothing but an eyesore. Most Lagos roads and streets have no proper drainage system so when it rains the whole state goes on flood lockdown.


For those that know Lagos, I will list some areas for you to go and check their road network. The areas below have zero street roads. Their street roads are eyesore, some were last paved during military regime yet Lagos state government collect revenue from every street in Lagos and still dont do the roads.


Surulere
Festac
Mushin
Oshodi
Mafoluku towards the local airport road
Ikeja GRA
Ikotun
Alaba area
Ojo
Inner Satelite town
Ajah
Abraham Adesanya area
This is a state with the highest IGR and biggest foreign man want to replicate the same tax master taxation in Nigeria in the name of increasing

I'm just surprised the bold have terrible roads. As for the non-bold, well, I'm not surprised that they don't have motorable inner roads. E get why.

bionixs:
could you even see your nose, let alone flood.

It didn't rain in Lagos at all. Are you okay nau?

No need to abuse this is as clear as day light, there's no flood in the picture. Why are you angry?

No one says it didn't rain in Lagos.

The areas mentioned have one thing in common..

Yoruba!


Hmmm.

kernniejay:
I left office 4.15pm yesterday and arrived home 9.05pm, on just a distance of about 10km oh.
The traffic was tragic.

Just like from Oshodi to Agric LoL. That's really terrible

This is wonderful.

mecuries:
lower your voice... They proclaim that he built a paradise from scratch.

I no go lower my voice o

But..but...but..he built lagos

Gerrard59:
I'm just surprised the bold have terrible roads. As for the non-bold, well, I'm not surprised that they don't have motorable inner roads. E get why.

the guy is capping.

he will be the same person gnashing teeth when lagos enforces bans of pure water , single use plastic or demolishes houses blocking waterways

the flooding is a drainage issue. there is well done a network of drains through festac which leads to a canal. when it rains you will see the drain entry to the canal be COMPLETELY blocked with debris. at which point it starts flooding everywhere

the same issue is replicated through lagos. where there is a clear failure is the way local govts keep botching clearing of road drains. drain speriodically fill with silt esp on teh expr4essway. once in a while you get a half hearted, annoying show where the drains are emptied of silt, which is then abandoned on the same road in large heaps to find its way back into the drains

they are not even doing anything to fix the problem

just renovating their houses and awarding themselves millions to buy new properties. shameful.

donmixc:
small rain now and everywhere is choked, later they'll say north is not developed forgetting that Lagos is a slum

Guestmale:
Where is the flood in the picture or am I the only one not seeing well.

You are shown gridlock, you are looking for flood.

Do you need to look for flood in Lagos downpours?

Habaa.
Maigida

GloriousGbola:
the guy is capping.

he will be the same person gnashing teeth when lagos enforces bans of pure water , single use plastic or demolishes houses blocking waterways

the flooding is a drainage issue. there is well done a network of drains through festac which leads to a canal. when it rains you will see the drain entry to the canal be COMPLETELY blocked with debris. at which point it starts flooding everywhere

the same issue is replicated through lagos. where there is a clear failure is the way local govts keep botching clearing of road drains. drain speriodically fill with silt esp on teh expr4essway. once in a while you get a half hearted, annoying show where the drains are emptied of silt, which is then abandoned on the same road in large heaps to find its way back into the drains

So the blame is entirely on the waste management authority - LAWMA

But this means there exists so much opportunities to recycle those wastes into semi-finished products

Gerrard59:
So the blame is entirely on the waste management authority - LAWMA

But this means there exists so much opportunities to recycle those wastes into semi-finished products :1o

No.

It is Nigerians who regularly throw rubbish indiscriminately everywhere. You will see people throwing bottles from the windows of cars. You have seen videos of Nigerians caught dumping rubbish on bridges as an example.

Lawma is only one leg of the triangle. Responsible citizenry is also part of the equation.


What is a problem is that post Ambode there are not as many psp operators as there should be.

There are already recyclers. I saw a factory doing this in ikorodu last week