FACT-CHECK: Trending Video of Flood In Sango-Ota, Ogun State Affirmed by Satellite Image Search
By Toheeb Babalola
CLAIM
A claim displayed that residents of Sango Ota area of Ogun State experienced a heavy downpour which submerged a car in a flood.
VERDICT
It indeed rained in the Sango Ota neighborhood. Satellite imagery, marching videos, and a credible resident all confirmed it.
FULL TEXT
A 29 seconds video, showing people clamouring on a bridge while watching a group of men pushing out a submerged vehicle in a heavy flood, was posted by an X user, franeb on June 21, 2025 around 04:41 pm WAT.
The post was captioned,”This is Ogun State. Anyway if you talk, they’d tell you to go back to your state. Look at this rubbish”, raising tribalism discourse in the comment section.
It has garnered 987 retweets, 300k views, 1,310 likes, and is still counting.
VERIFICATION
FactcheckAfrica inserted the clip on Google lens, a tool for reversing back imagery contents.
The results brought out the original video created by a TikTok user, @Makahfoh44, speaking Yoruba dialect and mentioning Sango Ota in the background.
A similar video with different angles posted by another user who also tagged the location as Sango Ota.
Both visuals were shared on June 21, 2025, without specifying the exact place of the flooding in Sango Ota.
This fact-checker placed a frame part of the viral clip on Google Earth satellite, a tool for detecting street view and 3D imagery. He found out marching location views here and here , indicating that the natural disaster occurred under Akowonjo-Ifo-Sabo bridge opposite Fidelity and Zenith banks in Jọju area, Sango Ọta, Ogun State.
Aderoju Noah, a Sango-Ota resident and journalist with the Media Career Development Network, confirmed to FactcheckAfrica that there was rain on Saturday, June 21, 2025, attesting that “the area shown in the video is around the Joju Area end of the Sango bridge”
He said, “the original sharer of the video @Makahfoh44 is a music artist in Sango, he is popular for collaborating with @Fela2 another Sango Ota artist.
“I also checked the frames in the video and compared it with Google Maps Satellite Street View. We can conclusively say that it is in Sango Ota, Ogun State”
This fact-checker researched further that the residents have been witnessing this natural disaster in Sango Ota for a long time. A 2017 report showed how properties flooded around Joju bridge.
In 2024, heavy downpour destroyed infrastructure; and posed a threat here and here at that same location.
CONCLUSION
There was heavy downpour Sango Ọta on Saturday, June 21, 2025, that led to the flood, Satellite Image and a resident confirmed it.
