Ayetoro - the Nigerian coastal town drowning under seawater

(23 Jun 2024)

NIGERIA COASTAL EROSION

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

LENGTH: 8:30

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ayetoro, Ondo-State, Nigeria - 4 April 2024

1. Wide drone shot of Ayetoro ++MUTE++
2. Waves lapping over concrete bricks
3. Various of waves and ruined buildings
4. Various of ruined buildings
5. Man working on ruined building
6. Various of Victoria Mofeoluwa Arowolo, Retired Civil Servant, Resident
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Mofeoluwa Arowolo, Retired Civil Servant, Resident
“Ayetoro was like a paradise. A city where everyone lived joyfully, happily. That you really would enjoy living here”

8. Wide of waves lapping at shore
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Mofeoluwa Arowolo, Retired Civil Servant, Resident
"More than two-third of Ayetoro has been claimed by this sea erosion. Where we are is a new settlement, the old Ayetoro has been taken away by the sea and if you look where the sea is now, that is the end of the former Ayetoro."

10. Aerial drone shot of Ayetoro coast showing destroyed buildings reclaimed by the sea ++MUTE++
11. Wide of residents and houses
12. Wide of ducks and river, houses
13. Wide of people in boats, houses on stilts
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Mofeoluwa Arowolo, Retired Civil Servant, Resident
“Most of our children now cannot go to school, because the building has been taken away by the sea.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ayetoro, Ondo-State, Nigeria - 5 April 2024

15. Mid of a child sitting in a ruined building on the shore
16. Wide of ruined building
17. Mid of waves lapping over wooden posts
18. Various of Stephen Tunlese standing by the sea
19. Cutaway of coastal destruction
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Tunlese, Resident
"The erosion affected me badly because I lost my shop, I lost my house. Even though I was in a business before, running a boutique, the value of my shop was about eight million Naira (US$5.5 thousand in today's exchange rate). So, since the erosion came, it flooded it away and I came back to learn the fiberglass work to survive with my life."

21. Various of Tunlese working on fiberglass boats

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ayetoro, Ondo-State, Nigeria - 4 April 2024

22. Various of Professor Dada with another man
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Olusegun Dada, Marine Geologist, Federal University of Technology in Akure
"Coming here from time to time I discovered the changes that are happening in the environment and there is a need to really understand the marine processes that are actually occurring, as you can see in this environment we have the ocean surge, and also we have erosion. And at the same time we have flooding from time to time.”

24. Wide of waves lapping over concrete wall
25. Mid of Professor Dada walking towards the waves, then retreats
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Olusegun Dada, Marine Geologist, Federal University of Technology in Akure
“Between thirty and forty meters per year, in terms of erosion. So it is very, very intense. And very very severe.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ayetoro, Ondo-State, Nigeria - 5 April 2024

27. Wide of abandoned houses on stilts
28. Wide of Oluwambe Ojagbohunmi (centre), traditional leader of Ayetoro community, with other residents
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Oluwambe Ojagbohunmi, Traditional leader of Ayetoro community

30. Boy filing bucket with water from tap
31. Wide of homes built on water
32. Wide of residents on boats
33. Mid of ruined furniture
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Mofeoluwa Arowolo, Retired Civil Servant, Resident

36. Mid women seated eating


Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...