The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and the Disaster Response Unit (DRU) of the Military has commenced aerial view operation to ascertain persons displaced or trapped by the rising floods in Anambra. Mr Thickman Tanimu, Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, South-East, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday...
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The Anambra Government says the ongoing flooding in parts of the state has assumed a monumental dimension. Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, Deputy Governor, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka, Anambra state, on Sunday. Ibezim said the deaths, destruction of property and livelihood...
Driver of the boat that capsized at Ogbaru in Anambra on Friday, Mr Desmond Amugo, says he had 48 passengers on board and not 85 passengers as was being reported. Amugo made the assertion on Sunday at Atani, headquarters of Ogbaru Local Government Area while briefing government officials on...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has condoled with victims and communities affected by flood in Nigeria. Mr. Obi, whose condolence message was contained in tweet on Sunday, said that he received the reports with sadness. He said: “Earlier,...
The Chairman, Ogbaru Flood Committee in Anambra, Mr Ogochukwu Nwasike, has cried out for help as over 20 person were still in a boat mishap that occured at Umunankwo in Ogbaru Council Area of the state State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that about 85 passengers were...
Motorists plying the Abuja-Lokoja Highway may now heave a sigh of relief as the two articulated trucks that combined with flood to render the road impassable at Koton-Karfe in Kogi, have been removed. The two trucks were towed off the road on Saturday. The trucks, one with NNPC inscription...
The Abuja-Lokoja highway on Friday got blocked for motorists as two articulated vehicles broke down adjacent to each other. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has directed motorists to avoid the road for alternative routes not to get into the built up gridlock around Koton-Karfe, Kogi Local Government Area....
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced the diversion of traffic on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway due to the increasing floods in Kogi State. The Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal , Bisi Kazeem announced this in a statement issued on Friday in...
Lagos State Government has alerted residents of the state especially those residing on the banks of Ogun River of high intensity of flooding occasioned by heavy rainfall and release of water. A statement signed by the Lagos state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tunji Bello, on Wednesday...
The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said that no fewer than 18,406 persons have been displaced by flood in 14 local government areas of the state. The Director-General of the Agency, Yabawa Kolo disclosed this in an interview with the News Agendy of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on...
Massive flooding on Sunday over ran Ajaokuta-Ganaja-Lokoja road in Kogi which links the metropolis to the eastern part of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja reports that the flooding covered the portion of the road at Ganaja village such that only by canoes that the...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said that devastating flood has destroyed 14,496 farmlands across five local government areas of Kano State. The Director-General of the Agency, Mustapha Ahmed-Habib made the disclosure on Tuesday during a damage assessment tour in the affected communities in Warawa and Wudil LGAs of...
People of Mariga town of Bariga Local Government Area, Niger state are searching for more than 500 buried corpses suspected to have been washed away by Floods. This was disclosed by the Chief Imam of Mariga Central Mosque, Alhaji Alhassan Na’ibi while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says more than 300 people have so far been killed in flood disaster across Nigeria in 2022. The Director General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, disclosed this at a strategic workshop with stakeholders on disaster risk reduction and management held in Abuja. He said...
No fewer than 15 corpses have been recovered from flooded River Ngadabul in Maiduguri. The North East Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammad Usman, confirmed the development on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri. Usman said the cases of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has directed the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners and Flood Control Committee to come up with a holistic physical development plan for the state. He also pledged to build an underground infrastructure to enable free water flow in the...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he receives regular updates on flooding, which has affected more than 500,000 Nigerians since January. In statement issued by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, on Tuesday in Abuja, the president extended condolences to those affected by the floods. He assured that the Federal Government...
The United Nations has issued a flash appeal for 160 million dollars to help Pakistan tackle devastating floods that had killed more than 1,100 people since mid-June. Officials said on Tuesday that the pledge drive was launched in Geneva and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, simultaneously. “United Nations is issuing...
By SAM ADZEGEH, Makurdi – Residents of Agber, a community in Makurdi the Benue State capital were full of gratitude to the Federal Government and the Hydro-Electric Power Production Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) for the ongoing work on the erosion control project which passes through the settlement. The residents,...
Floods have destroyed many property and rendered scores of residents homeless in Makurdi, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN reports that flood has over the last decade become a yearly routine, destroying property worth millions of Naira and causing losses of lives in some cases. A correspondent...