Women, children suffer as communities battle diseases after deadly flood.
Each rainy season, floodwaters relentlessly engulf homes and livelihoods across Nigeria, turning dreams into despair. From Lagos, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Rivers, Yobe, and beyond, families find themselves battling rising waters that swallow everything in their path, forcing desperate escapes, destroying property, and leaving lasting scars on communities already struggling to survive. IDOWU ABDULLAHI reports
When the rain began on the evening of August 3, 2025, Mrs. Abdulrazaq Suliat did not suspect that her family would spend the night fighting for survival.
The downpour, which lasted several hours, soon turned into a flood that swallowed her Ikorodu home in Lagos State and left her children in danger.
What began as drizzle that formed shallow puddles soon swelled into raging streams, creeping into homes and shops in the area.
For more than seven relentless hours, the rain hammered down heavily, swallowing every path and corner leading to Suliat’s community and others in the Ijede area of Ikorodu.
While battling for her children’s lives in the flood with a phone’s torchlight as the only saving grace, she watched helplessly as their belongings floated past her, and some were buried under the water.
By past 12 in midnight, her home was no longer a place of safety but a cottage of fear. Within hours, the flood had risen above their beds. Her nine-year-old son was the first to sense danger.
“My little child, about 9 years old, was the first to jump up in fear, because the water had splashed all over his face and eyes while he was asleep. He ran to me shouting ‘Mummy!’ When I looked around, the water had reached the bed in the room. In the parlour, it had covered all the electronics like the radio, chairs, things on the floor, and shelves,” she told our correspondent while showing him around the ruins on August 19, 2025.
Each rainy season, floodwaters relentlessly engulf homes and livelihoods across Nigeria, turning dreams into despair. From Lagos, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Rivers, Yobe, and beyond, families find themselves battling rising waters that swallow everything in their path, forcing desperate escapes, destroying property, and leaving lasting scars on communities already struggling to survive. IDOWU ABDULLAHI reports
When the rain began on the evening of August 3, 2025, Mrs. Abdulrazaq Suliat did not suspect that her family would spend the night fighting for survival.
The downpour, which lasted several hours, soon turned into a flood that swallowed her Ikorodu home in Lagos State and left her children in danger.
What began as drizzle that formed shallow puddles soon swelled into raging streams, creeping into homes and shops in the area.
For more than seven relentless hours, the rain hammered down heavily, swallowing every path and corner leading to Suliat’s community and others in the Ijede area of Ikorodu.
While battling for her children’s lives in the flood with a phone’s torchlight as the only saving grace, she watched helplessly as their belongings floated past her, and some were buried under the water.
By past 12 in midnight, her home was no longer a place of safety but a cottage of fear. Within hours, the flood had risen above their beds. Her nine-year-old son was the first to sense danger.
“My little child, about 9 years old, was the first to jump up in fear, because the water had splashed all over his face and eyes while he was asleep. He ran to me shouting ‘Mummy!’ When I looked around, the water had reached the bed in the room. In the parlour, it had covered all the electronics like the radio, chairs, things on the floor, and shelves,” she told our correspondent while showing him around the ruins on August 19, 2025.
Women, children suffer as communities battle diseases after deadly flood.
Each rainy season, floodwaters relentlessly engulf homes and livelihoods across Nigeria, turning dreams into despair. From Lagos, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Rivers, Yobe, and beyond, families find themselves battling rising waters that swallow everything in their path, forcing desperate escapes, destroying property, and leaving lasting scars on communities already struggling to survive. IDOWU ABDULLAHI reports
When the rain began on the evening of August 3, 2025, Mrs. Abdulrazaq Suliat did not suspect that her family would spend the night fighting for survival.
The downpour, which lasted several hours, soon turned into a flood that swallowed her Ikorodu home in Lagos State and left her children in danger.
What began as drizzle that formed shallow puddles soon swelled into raging streams, creeping into homes and shops in the area.
For more than seven relentless hours, the rain hammered down heavily, swallowing every path and corner leading to Suliat’s community and others in the Ijede area of Ikorodu.
While battling for her children’s lives in the flood with a phone’s torchlight as the only saving grace, she watched helplessly as their belongings floated past her, and some were buried under the water.
By past 12 in midnight, her home was no longer a place of safety but a cottage of fear. Within hours, the flood had risen above their beds. Her nine-year-old son was the first to sense danger.
“My little child, about 9 years old, was the first to jump up in fear, because the water had splashed all over his face and eyes while he was asleep. He ran to me shouting ‘Mummy!’ When I looked around, the water had reached the bed in the room. In the parlour, it had covered all the electronics like the radio, chairs, things on the floor, and shelves,” she told our correspondent while showing him around the ruins on August 19, 2025.
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