Abuja Is Drowning In The Consequences Of Its Own Government, By Nnamdi Prince

For years, the warnings arrived like clockwork and were dismissed with the same rhythm. Environmental activists said the sale of Abuja's green belts and waterway buffers to developers would eventually flood the city centre. Investigative journalists documented, in granular detail, who was receiving those plots and how. And each time, the response from the Federal Capital Territory Administration amounted to a shrug — until Saturday, 15 August, when the rain fell as it always does in August, and Nigeria's capital went under water anyway.

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