New evidence obtained by BBC Africa Eye contradicts the official explanation given by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) following an explosion that occurred Nigeria’s largest city Lagos, in March.

The explosion, which killed 23 people and destroyed a girls boarding school in Lagos, was said to have occurred as a result of a truck that hit gas cylinders near one of its petroleum pipelines.

However, according to BBC Africa Eye, new evidence indicates this official explanation for the cause of the blast, that decimated over 100,000 square metres of Lagos is incorrect.

The blast occurred in Soba, a residential neighbourhood of Lagos on March 15th 2020 at 8:56 am. New video evidence filmed at the explosion site, five minutes before the blast, shows a catastrophic leak of vaporised liquid at the exact location where the NNPC high-pressure petroleum pipeline runs beneath the ground through that area.

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