LAGOS FLOODING

Residents and commuters around the Oko Oba, Ekoro, Akowonjo, and Egbeda areas of Lagos State, were on Sunday grounded for hours after floods took over the communities.

It was gathered that the floods, which resulted from a downpour led to gridlock in the communities and also stopped residents from going about their daily activities as they were forced to stayed indoors.

It was further gathered that over twenty-five vehicles were submerged by the floods.

Reacting to the development, the South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, said the communities were flooded as a result of blockage of canal.

Farinloye noted that the power distribution firm in charge of the areas was notified to put off power supply, in order to avoid incident of electrocution.