Nigeria: The Ibadan Flood Disaster

31 August 2011
editorial

At about this same period in 1980, Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo state went under the waters with an unprecedented flood which killed hundreds of people and destroyed property of a whole generation of residents.

To memorialize that 'Omiyale' tragedy, many songs were rendered by leading fuji and juju artistes of the time while politicians bickered about whose responsibility it was to ensure it would never happen again. At the end, the Ogunpa River which overflew its banks and resulted in many of the deaths was channelized and many people believed a lasting solution had been found.

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