Over the years, Lagos has had more than its fair share of fire disasters involving markets in the state that a new one seemingly would not generate much anxiety except for those directly affected.

Makoko is one of the slums that will register in anyone’s mind in Lagos.

Walking to the Lagos State University, LASU Motor Park, where he was to board the school shuttle, Mr. Olaosebikan Abdulfatai gazed at the commercial bank where he had previously received his bursary and couldn’t understand why the state government was yet to fulfill its promise to him.

Almost all the houses at the Adeniji Adele Housing Estate, Lagos Island, have been rendered defective by swampy terrain.

Twenty four hours after the explosion at a creek close to the NNPC jetty in Okrika, headquarters of Okrika local government area in Rivers State nobody has been able to say with certainty how many persons perished in the inferno.