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They would soon rush to nairaland to say accident free. Babanla flooded cars

So constructing a massive modern drainage system that will drain all these waters to the atlantic ocean during raining seasons is like building a space rocket to tinibu and his ruling lagos gang?

The true Lagosians are not surprised, na una wey no get sense. Yoy leave dry land go buy land for island, when rain fall wetin you think say go happen?

Next year and year after, Island go flood again and again.

Olamideayomide:
Lekki people may God comfort unah o.....

But government needs to come to their aids nsh

The government can't do anything. That area is below sea level, so whenever it rains and the ocean swells, the water flows back onto land instead of moving into the ocean.

Onegai:
Nobody in their right mind should buy a house in Lekki for the next 20 years. The whole area is sinking, bad drainage, dredging has messed up the natural protection it had and sea levels are rising.

Your kids won't see that house as adults.

Either go to Ajah or move to the mainland.

Real estate developers should start making estates like the ones they have in Lekki (fully serviced, 24-hr light and water with gated security) in Gbagada, Ikeja and Surulere and more businesses should move there (though a lot of businesses have left Lekki).

Lekki is nothing. Surulere is cleaner, Gbagada more central, Ikeja has better roads. If I were their LG chairman, I'd offer tax incentives to businesses and real estate developers in Lekki (to attract high income earners) to move to my area, all the roads will be tarred and I'll drive the area boys to Lekki (there are more beggars in Lekki than anywhere else in Lagos).

There's nothing in Lekki anymore. All the people who have money are running from there to Ikoyi and VI.

I don't even know why people from outside lagos are spending billions to buy properties in lekki?

Mrexcell:
So constructing a massive modern drainage system that will drain all these waters to the atlantic ocean during raining seasons is a rocket science to tinibu and his ruling lagos gang?

No kind of drainage can stop this deluge. They should consult the Dutch on how they were able to tame the ocean from sinking their land. They are masters in that field.

expensive houses in canal

dem don say am blacks cannot govern themselves. sanwo-olu no go even talk again

Nice One , I Wish And Hope The Rain Continues Today, Everybody go Collect WOTOWOTO

They should appease gods of the sea especially mermaid!

This is a challenge sanwo should take on.

No wonder my town's guy, who is big on spare parts at Ladipo, opened another spare parts at Ikate axis, Lekki. The dude has seen "potential" along that axis. He earlier told me that many mechanics and car owners comes to his shop at Ladipo to pick up parts. He has now decided to bring his shop closer to that population. He deals on high-end spare parts for luxury cars.

Mrexcell:
So constructing a massive modern drainage system that will drain all these waters to the atlantic ocean during raining seasons is like building a space rocket to tinibu and his ruling lagos gang?

they can't do such projects because once Tinubu & co see capital expenditure needed to build massive underground water drains, they'd just rubbish it and give inferior local companies with zero modern expertise needed to redesign and rebuild. Until then, lagosians should pray for "miracle".

demolagilbert:
Normal something.

Lekki-ites are already used to this

Are they also used to paying expensive rent and huge taxes for zero government services and zero public utilities like water supply

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

EyeCumInPeace:
This same Lekki wey the inhabitants dey drink sewage water as borehole water.

...and someone dey whine us say Lagos is the MOST AMAZING CITY IN THE WORLD.

They drink sewage water cos most of these buildings have no more spaces around them. Hey mostly build up to 80% of their spaces and the next building is the same , so when the next building sinks his own borehole it won't be too far from the other guys sewage system.

No planning at all but all filled with greedy people including pastors and imams parading themselves as developers. Some inner lekki streets you can't have two cars side by side on them. A complete modern slum been built up there.

CodeTemplarr:
This is a challenge sanwo should take on.

Should he take on the challenge of employing enough well paid teachers for the free education of all children first, as a progressive?

anonimi:
Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner
September 4, 2022

The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

EyeCumInPeace:
This same Lekki wey the inhabitants dey drink sewage water as borehole water.

...and someone dey whine us say Lagos is the MOST AMAZING CITY IN THE WORLD.

even the borehole wry them manage dig deep na still rust go full am, you go need to treat am with chlorine and lime before e go dey clear.

I don't like this flood here flood there very now and then in Nigeria mostly Lagos. Our government should be serious with good roads and proper drainage systems as well good waste management systems. I believe if they do so, it will help address the issue to a minimal .

Onegai:
Nobody in their right mind should buy a house in Lekki for the next 20 years. The whole area is sinking, bad drainage, dredging has messed up the natural protection it had and sea levels are rising.

Your kids won't see that house as adults.

Either go to Ajah or move to the mainland.

Real estate developers should start making estates like the ones they have in Lekki (fully serviced, 24-hr light and water with gated security) in Gbagada, Ikeja and Surulere and more businesses should move there (though a lot of businesses have left Lekki).

Lekki is nothing. Surulere is cleaner, Gbagada more central, Ikeja has better roads. If I were their LG chairman, I'd offer tax incentives to businesses and real estate developers in Lekki (to attract high income earners) to move to my area, all the roads will be tarred and I'll drive the area boys to Lekki (there are more beggars in Lekki than anywhere else in Lagos).

There's nothing in Lekki anymore. All the people who have money are running from there to Ikoyi and VI.

Thanks for this wonderful information...💯

Farmsolution:
They drink sewage water cos most of these buildings have no more spaces around them. Hey mostly build up to 80% of their spaces and the next building is the same , so when the next building sinks his own borehole it won't be too far from the other guys sewage system.

No planning at all but all filled with greedy people including pastors and imams parading themselves as developers. Some inner lekki streets you can't have two cars side by side on them. A complete modern slum been built up there.

Why should people dig boreholes for water in this 21st century city built with Tinubu’s lootocracy master plan?

Is this how boreholes supply water to homes in Chicago, Paris, London, Toronto etc?

thewinning101:
PANDORA PAPERS: Buhari visited Tinubu in corruption-tainted London villa acquired by Oyetola

Governor Oyetola, a relative of Mr Tinubu, may have sabotaged his own country by buying the exotic property as Nigeria made to seize it.
ByNicholas IbekweandTaiwo-Hassan Adebayo October 7, 2021 in Headline Stories, Pandora Papers Reading Time: 8 mins read

It was a meeting of two of Nigeria’s most influential politicians in London – President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting political kingmaker and senior member of his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.

In July, the presidency announced that Mr Buhari was heading to London for an education summit. The office also added that the president would also see his doctors for “medical check-up”.

Coincidentally, Mr Tinubu, who had travelled to London earlier, was also receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment in the British capital. So, a perfect setting for both men to meet was created.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/pandora-papers/488537-pandora-papers-buhari-visited-tinubu-in-corruption-tainted-london-villa-acquired-by-oyetola.html?tztc=1

The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.

At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.

The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.

Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/450615-world-water-day-lagos-water-crisis-worsening-group-says.html

AntiChristian:
Most of this is caused by overcrowding and our lifestyle of indiscriminate refuse dumping!

No. This was not caused by over crowding and refuse dumping, lekki itself is below sea level and it is sinking gradually due to dredging.

nlfpmod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_8uzIbn5p8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZh-XlQmYE

Following heavy downpour in Lagos on Tuesday, some parts of the state have been flooded.

Our reporter captures the Lekki-Epe expressway and other parts of Lekki, flooded, with cars and commuters wading through the waters. pic.twitter.com/Thpmi9CGzS

— Nigeria Info FM 99.3 (@NigeriainfoFM) September 23, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nl1TspDmA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt0KuTy0ElM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdMbwRRfY_w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5s8fdpj48

Hmmm d lagos tinubu built.nice one

AntiChristian:
Most of this is caused by overcrowding and our lifestyle of indiscriminate refuse dumping!

I thought it was caused by government stealing our money instead of employing well paid civil servants to make common services and public utilities available?

Services and utilities like water supply, well maintained drains etc

The Lagos lootocracy master plan has been upgraded to Abuja federal.

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

anonimi:
Why should people dig boreholes for water in this 21st century city built with Tinubu’s lootocracy master plan?
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/450615-world-water-day-lagos-water-crisis-worsening-group-says.html

It's just quiet unfortunate that things are happening this way. For a more efficient water system, government needs to privatize that axis under the ministry of water resources like it is done in Italy and so. This will put a stop to stealing of materials meant for purifying the accessible water in that axis.

The ministry has an avalanche of staffs doing practically nothing and also drawing funds in salaries and allowances cos the water they are suppose to provide to people is been dug individually with reckless abandon with no single permit, inspection and authorization which is a recipe for future underground disaster. Go to any damn in Nigeria you will be ashamed of yourself , those out in positions are a total disaster ..

There's really nothing that can be done when rain falls in that axis , the ocean is higher there.

Central Lagos is there, lots of places are already dry this morning even as another rain is gearing up to fall.

Onegai:
Nobody in their right mind should buy a house in Lekki for the next 20 years. The whole area is sinking, bad drainage, dredging has messed up the natural protection it had and sea levels are rising.

Your kids won't see that house as adults.

Either go to Ajah or move to the mainland.

Real estate developers should start making estates like the ones they have in Lekki (fully serviced, 24-hr light and water with gated security) in Gbagada, Ikeja and Surulere and more businesses should move there (though a lot of businesses have left Lekki).

Lekki is nothing. Surulere is cleaner, Gbagada more central, Ikeja has better roads. If I were their LG chairman, I'd offer tax incentives to businesses and real estate developers in Lekki (to attract high income earners) to move to my area, all the roads will be tarred and I'll drive the area boys to Lekki (there are more beggars in Lekki than anywhere else in Lagos).

There's nothing in Lekki anymore. All the people who have money are running from there to Ikoyi and VI.

Do you know how expensive Ikoyi is ? I doubt if you will find any land to buy there again. That's where you will find old money

What do the two states have in common. There lies the problems.

prinsam30:
What is really the problem of flooding in Lagos for goodness sake, the same thing in PH if small rain fall like this everywhere don full, na wa ooo

EyeCumInPeace:
This same Lekki wey the inhabitants dey drink sewage water as borehole water.

...and someone dey whine us say Lagos is the MOST AMAZING CITY IN THE WORLD.

Lagos is very amazing alaye, but 1 day rainfall can turn everything upside down.

Hope Baba's Coastal Highway is on a higher level? Make Lagos to Calabar for new road no turn 20day

Sold every squae inch of my properties there four years ago. One of the best investment decisions ever made.

Only speculation can take my eyes that way again and I must have my conscience totally dulled.

vislabraye:
Do you know how expensive Ikoyi is ? I doubt if you will find any land to buy there again. That's where you will find old money

My sister and her husband moved from Lekki 1 to Ikoyi. And even Ikoyi isn't that great. Even 1004 in VI have issues with their management and tenants who do annoying things like have gas cookers or carry furniture in the elevators.

Nigeria doesn't really know how to run these things.

Lagos shouldn't be building houses anymore, they should be erecting high rise flats like 1004 but higher. Just that real estate is massively overpriced in Lagos and Ogun state is the most poorly run state in Nigeria (because their state govt should have fought to have rails connection to Lagos or even make sure their state is so developed, people move there and can get to Lagos in 30mins).

Eraddray:
Mechanics don chop for Lagos today.... But wait...many ppl will be complaining about Lagos
..Lagos this Lagos that
...kinikan slum....wetin una dey find for Lagos...wetin...all of get village na...return to ur village... Imagine yesterday traffic.....whr is everybody going ghan ghan....is like the whole Nigeria dey drive go island... kilode ghan ghan 😂😆

and You follow dey abuse vdm

spread federal development and decongest lagos

btw, flooding is a separate issue
blame it on Tinubu who built it