Gridlock as flash floods take over Lagos roads

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

Motorists and residents crossed Lagos connected Tuesday were trapped successful dense gridlock aft respective hours of aboriginal greeting rainfall caused flash floods successful large parts of the city.

The flooding brought commercialized and different concern activities to a halt, portion respective vehicles broke down connected waterlogged roads, worsening the postulation situation.

Areas astir affected included Lagos Island, Ikoyi, Alexander Way, Dolphin Estate, Lekki, and Obalende. Others were Funsho Williams Avenue (formerly Western Avenue), Ikorodu Road, Agege, Ikeja, Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Maryland, Oworonshoki, Oshodi, Apapa, and Alimosho, among others.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) had earlier predicted wide thunderstorms and rainfall crossed the state from Monday to Wednesday.

In its upwind outlook released connected Sunday, NiMet projected thunderstorms with mean rainfall implicit parts of the bluish and confederate states, including Lagos.

The bureau urged residents to instrumentality information precautions, including avoiding driving during dense rain, portion besides advising farmers not to use fertilisers oregon pesticides conscionable earlier rainfall to forestall nutrient loss.

The station Gridlock arsenic flash floods instrumentality implicit Lagos roads appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.