The picture tells it all. This is 21st century fire fighting in Nigeria. The firefighters don't even have fire fighting gears wearing rainboots to fight fire. What a shame?
A scene of the carnage along Ibadan-Lagos expressway where many lives were lost this morning 2007/10/29. Photo: Emma Osodi.

OH MY GOSH!!! TAKE That picture down please, this is horrible !!!! LMAO!!!

nigeria we hail thee!

Those fire fighters never chop! They dont look like they wanted to fight that fire at all.

Sweet wind of change!

Please, egin we take God/Sango/Amadioha/Osanobua and Chineke beg you, take down that picture. Foreigners are browsing this forum. . . make them no take eye see this kind epitome of embarrassment. . . I know wind don blow and dem don see fowl nyansh (Naija) but this time, hurricane don blow and they are about to see fowl intestine. . .

Are those people fighting fire or just posing for a picture.I don't see no water running

Federal Government of Nigeria, check out this site and buy the right gears for our fire service.
http://www.edarley.com/?&s=google&kw=fire__fighting_gear

thanks for the picture.

This is a country with $40BILLION foreign reserves.

shames OBJ + yaradull.

The thing tire me o. And we have some leaders spending millions(N500 Million) on lipsticks and nail polish.

in Nigeria, to really enjoy:

1. you must build your own road

2. create your own water corporation

3. create your own NEPA

4. buy bullet proof car


and oops you now need to have FIRE-PROOF car against 'death-trap highways'

Safety is not an issue in My contry. how can a firefighter try to put out a fire with no helmet and small hose with no water?

This is the issue in Nigeria, we misplaced our priority long time ago. That brings me back to the issue of security. we have policemen with flash lights and no batteries.

That brings me back to the issue of security. we have policemen with flash lights and no batteries.

may be you can help us ask your Uncles 'Enhindero & Mr Tafa' what they did with money allocated to 'Police Equipment purchase'

I bet theres no water in that 'rope' they call a hose, _{wey my people never see water take bath and drink na to quench fire.}
Used to love the scene near the Ojuelegba fire office in the 80's now it looks like a dead place.

This may not be real because looking at the scene, the hose is sopposed to be attached to the Fire truck but that is not the case here as the fighters are facing the fire truck while another host is lying down supposedly comming out 4rm the truck, secondly, the fear of mob action would not allow them parade a host without water.
I am not trying to say that we are having a well developed fire fighting system in this country but lets try and be real, constructive and objective in our criticism.
And if there is a better explanation to the above claim , I would like to hear.

You can not blame those guys. This is Africa and until the mentality is off we can not progress in anything.
Blame the govt for not just let me stop here