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Ocean surge, erosion undercut Nigerian coast
Except urgent steps are taken to address the effects of turbulent ocean tide ravaging Nigeria’s shorelines, the entire beaches and waterfront communities bordering Atlantic Ocean may be swept away by violent erosion.
The climate change-induced threat cuts across communities in Lagos, Bayelsa, Ondo, Delta and Rivers states, among others.
While many people have been affected in the Bayelsa and Ondo states as ocean surge washed away their houses, violent coastal erosion has battered virtually all Lagos beaches from Victoria Island to Ajah and beyond.
For owners of properties comprising commercial, industrial and institutional buildings on Lekki- Epe Expressway in Lagos, the ferocity of ocean surge and coastal erosion in the locality has become a serious environmental concern to lives and investments.
Worried by the ocean surge, residents are calling on both the Federal Government and state governments to come to their aid and save the coastline from further erosion.
From 500 metres away from the Atlantic Ocean in Lagos, New Telegraph’s survey shows that the distance between the shoreline and residential area has been shortened to less than 100 metres in some locations along the waterfront in the last one year, no thanks to devastated ocean surge and coastal erosion.
Investigations further show that more than 200 metres of land were lost to the ocean within six months in 2018, in addition to over 240 coconut trees which used to adorn the beaches, but uprooted by the violent coastal erosion.
New Telegraph, November 22, 2018
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