Browsing: Flooding & Estate Risk

The man showed me a notice on his phone, standing outside a half-built compound past Eleko junction in the late…

There is a compound going up on a street off Abraham Adesanya, three floors already done, no signage on the…

Sola called me on a Wednesday morning, voice flat in that particular way people speak when they have moved past anger into something quieter and harder. Sh

The first thing I saw when I got to Mama Kike’s gate was the waterline. It was still there, three days after the rain, a brown stain running along the comp

The Ikota Disaster Nobody Warned You About The first time I saw Bisi’s living room, there was a waterline on the wall. Not a small mark. A full horizontal

The gate was still hanging open when I got there, the padlock lying in the mud where somebody had dropped it in a hurry. Three mattresses were propped agai

We Paid N85 Million to Watch Our Living Room Flood Every October The first time I saw the watermark on Chukwuemeka’s wall, I thought it was a design choice

The first time I understood what was really happening in this part of Lagos, I was standing in a ground-floor flat in one of those gated estates off Abraha