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'We Waited for Hours and No Bus Came’ — Lagos Residents Describe Flooding


Many Lagos residents have complained about flooding that took over the city overnight, complicating road traffic and preventing commuters from finding buses on Wednesday.

Sharon Adenikan, a storekeeper working in Ikeja, told FIJ that she braved the rain for about two hours without an umbrella before she found a bus to convey her to work.

FIJ met Adenikan in a queue at Egbeda Busstop, where she was awaiting a bus en route to Ikeja under the downpour.

“I regret coming outside today, even though I did it because I had to go to work. We have waited in this queue for over one hour now, and it is not my turn yet,” Adenikan lamented.

“My boss is still expecting me but I am already very late for work. I have told him that there are no buses because of the rain.”

The queue had over 40 people in it. FIJ waited with Adenikan for another 50 minutes before she reached the head of the queue and got on the next bus.

Another commuter in the same queue told FIJ that he did not think the rain had caused such mayhem until he got close to Egbeda.

“The road was terribly flooded for the rain I thought was moderate,” he said.

There were varying levels of flooding around the Egbeda area of Lagos. FIJ observed that some cars approaching Egbeda from Isheri had to maintain only one lane because the entire road was flooded.

Floodwater submerged the road so much that it concealed the gutter and pedestrian walkway.

Another Lagos resident shared a clip of flooding which forced traffic to just one side of their road.

https://fij.ng/article/we-waited-for-hours-and-no-bus-came-lagos-residents-describe-flooding/


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Lagos state still remain a glorified slum

The government of Nigeria really need to declare state of emergency on this climate change of a thing💁🏽‍♂️


Secondly, our cities are poorly planned and this is appalling.🤦🏻‍♂️

We keep endangering ourselves and yet we are not ready to talk about this decades prevailing issues 🤔

Johnson5258:
Why is government to be blamed for our negligence? The entire drainage in Orile is blocked, Mushin is the same, you will see people intentionally dumping refuse inside the drainage, do they have to be told not too always? Is the government supposed to use a draconian method of making them do things rightly? Why?

Calm down bro, please don’t misunderstand me. However government would still be blamed for not having prompt responses towards refuse disposal and secondly our town planning at some point failed because there are no strict law towards monitoring of constructions in the Nigerian states 👌🏻

Holly Gram


Kai !!! Lagos nawa


This flood make me spend 2hrs for road while heading to ASHAWO house today


LITE UP my WEED in peace


WTF MAN!

Omo. Hope it gets better o. you don see jean trousers wey get 10years warranty ? Check my thread now

T

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When you reclaim land from the Seas and ocean and push it back it will come in stronger force

We shouldn't forget Lagos is a coastal city irrespective of the axis you find yourself ; mainland or island.

Most of this floods are caused by us. We casually throw plastic and nylons on the roads and in our canals.. This promotes flooding to an extent.

Then the people building indiscriminately on flood passages..

Lagos has a blueprints, Real Estate companies and Private individuals should adhere to this blueprints and we'll have a better Lagos!

God help us

See water na lagos

A city on the brink of total submersion. Tinupoo fought the Atlantic

Lagos oo! upon all the trillions of Niger-Delta money used to develop the state over all these years. sad

leo047:
Lagos state still remain a glorified slum

Ok , na why your people no gree stop to dey sneak in with polythene bag for mild night like thief .

As usual


Next news, please...

Lagos ohhh

Egbeda, na my hood be that. Sweet Lagos

No boat ?

leo047:
Lagos state still remain a glorified slum

if lagos is a slum,what should we call your state

The OP self u must be jjc in Lagos. Why the exergeration now. We all know during raining season Lagos is one of the places in Nigeria that get flooded.

Lagos state need to double up its efforts to get all channels cleared before raining season.

Im just wondering what the people of Ilasa, Ago and Taiwo might have seen today because of this heavy rain.

Dis wan na close to Car wash Bus stop. C GTB n Twins faja for front.

Any small rain like dis, Egbeda go carry flood for head like gala.
Good thing is that it doesn't last.
Egbeda isheri rout get good drainage system but na people dey block am with waste materials.

I knw this area well that is GTB,Area M Police station,Access,Fidelity, FCMB,First banks ,Twins Faja,Cake,those 🐔 rep etc is usually like dat. Those idiots psp mallams and people around there are the culprits. They dumped plastic etc inside the drainage. Gov will use taxpayers money to clear the drainage, idiots will go there and dump refuse.

Balablu's Lagos

Tinubu’s “legacy” in ruins….you can steal a mandate,but can you keep it?

A forest

INDOMIE9090:
if lagos is a slum,what should we call your state

No one could go out of our home zone today mehn. It appears if we residents can't fork out millions to hire a swamp buggy excavator, do the necessary paperwork and get it down here to clear clogged up canals, the government can't do shit about it.

It's either millions or flooding. Your pick.

This wan na flood come asaba Delta state come see flood.

Instead of effectively executing an effective drainage system, they were demolishing our houses because they were defeated in Lagos.

Now the chicken has come home to roost.

Global warming will make Lagos flooding worse. Better plan a good drainage system rather than the pretentious targeting of the houses of people from whence the sun rises