20:0218 Nov2019

Lion removed from posh Lagos apartment block

Damilola Oduolowu
BBC Africa, Lagos

A lion has been removed from an upmarket residential apartment block - opposite a school - in
Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.

Officers from the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit tranquilised
and captured the animal, which had been kept in a cage in the residential compound in
Victoria Island. It has been taken to a zoo.

Officials have urged the owner - believed to be an Indian national - to report to police by the
end of Monday or risk arrest.

It is unclear why the two-year-old lion was kept in the complex, but local media have reported
that it was guarding the property.

Officers had been monitoring the apartment block since Friday after receiving reports from
other residents that a lion was being kept there.

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What: lion removed from residential apartment block

Where: Lagos, Victoria Island, Nigeria

When: 18-11-2019

Why: Law Enforcement

Who: Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit