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...
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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...
About seven people died and 10 others were injured on Monday after a roof of a mosque collapsed in Khairpur District of Pakistan’s southern Sindh Province, local media reports said. According to the reports, the incident took place in Ahmadpur area of the district due to torrential rains. The...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that flood affected 225 communities following heavy and prolong downpour across 31 local government areas of Kano and Jigawa States from July to date. Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, NEMA Territorial Coordinator, Kano/Jigawa Territorial Office, made the disclosure in a statement in Kano...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says floods destroyed 1,750 hectares of farmland and displaced 183 households in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa. Mr Ladan Ayuba, Head of Operations, NEMA, Adamawa and Taraba made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola...
The death toll from the recent heavy rains and floods in Sudan has climbed to 75, the country’s National Council for Civil Defense said Tuesday. In addition, 30 people were injured, while 12,551 homes destroyed and 20,751 others damaged during the rain, the council said in a statement. The...
The Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said that 50 people, including a newborn, were killed in building collapse due to heavy downpours in different parts of the state. The tragedy occurred across the state since the beginning of the rainy season. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Alhaji...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudiness and thunderstorms across the country from Monday to Wednesday. Its weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja predicted cloudy atmosphere over the North-eastern region with prospects of morning thunderstorms over parts of Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kano and Kaduna states....
Fifty people have died with many displaced as flood ravages parts of Jigawa State, authorities said on Saturday. Addressing journalists in Dutse, the Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Sani Yusuf, said the flood destroyed thousands of homes in the state. He stated that the situation forced Jigawa...