Flooding in Lagos
26 June 2019 |
8:22 am
Tuesday, June 25, 2019, was another rainy day in the city of Lagos. And as is usually the case when there is a heavy downpour in Nigeria's most populous state, flooding was the order of the day.
Video credits: Benjamin Alade and Ayodele Adeniran
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