Until a visit to the Abule-Ado community, it is easy to dismiss the extent of residents’ loss as little, especially as the world – and – Nigeria – is focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residents of Abule-Ado, a community near FESTAC in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, woke up to a deafening explosion on the morning of March 15, 2020 after a truck crashed into gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant.