•Flood The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has warned 21 states at high risk of flooding. The agency, in its latest heavy rainfall forecast, listed the states at high risk of flooding between today and tomorrow, reports The Nation. The states are: Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu, Benue, Kogi, ...
•Emergency workers moving some flood victims to safety in Lagos The Lagos State Government has issued a fresh warning to residents in parts of Lekki, Ikorodu and Ajegunle areas of the state to relocate from lowlands to highlands to avoid being victims of flooding. “Those around the Ajilete axis of Lagos, that’s Ajegunle, they have […]...
•Scene of the recent flood in Mokwa, Niger State No fewer than 220 people in Nigeria have been killed and over 8,000 displaced following a series of windstorm, rainstorm and flooding across Sokoto, Kaduna, Taraba, Cross River, Ekiti, Ogun, Niger and Imo states between March and June 2025. An analysis of reports as compiled by […]
•Former President Goodluck Jonathan The All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, distanced itself again from an alleged splinter group, Team New Nigeria, after the group flooded Kano metropolis with the campaign posters of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The ruling party insisted the group did not emanate from its fold and were not known me...
•Bayelsa school flood The Bayelsa State Government through the Ministry of Education has extended the 2024 flood break resumption date by one week. This is to allow flood water that took over most schools in the state recede, reports Daily Trust. The state government had earlier scheduled the schools to resume from flood break on […]
•Aerial view of houses submerged in flood The federal government, through the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), has advised Nigerians living around river banks along the River Benue Basin to quickly move to safer grounds. In a statement today, NIHSA Director General, Umar Mohammed, warned that water on the River Benue has reached t...
•Babagana Zulum Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has said he is worried that some Boko Haram leaders serving jail terms might have escaped from the correctional centre in the state following a flood disaster that ravaged Maiduguri, the state capital. It was earlier reported how flood claimed lives and destroyed properties ...
Severe flooding in Liberia has led a group of senators to propose relocating the capital city away from overcrowded and poorly managed Monrovia, a suggestion met with a mixture of enthusiasm and hesitancy in the West African country. Flash floods triggered by torrential rains between the end of June and early July left nearly 50,000 […]
•Flooding The federal government has predicted that 94 towns are at risk of a five-day flooding beginning yesterday, Tuesday, July 16, and ending on July 20, 2024. The Minister of State of Environment, Dr. Iziaq Salako, disclosed this to our correspondent yesterday, reports The PUNCH. Salako said the identified locations and their environs wou...
•Flood The federal government has warned that the increasing level of flooding and continuous rainfall may worsen the spread of cholera in the country. The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof Joseph Terlumum stated this while addressing a press conference today. According to him, a total of 63 deaths and 2,102 suspected cases have...
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