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Browsing: Flood
Maihaja upon his arrival told newsmen that he and his team were in the state on the directives of President Mohammedu Buhari to assess the flood situation and find ways of assisting the victims.
The Waziri Adamawa said that the catastrophic flooding in Benue also happening as the nation marks Eid-el-Kabir (eid-al-Adha), places an even greater duty of care on all of us who participate in this feast of sacrifice, which marks Prophet Ibrahim’s (Abraham) willingness to sacrifice his son.
NEMA Director-General, Mustapha Maihaja, made this known in a statement signed by Sani Datti, Head of Media and Public Relations, in Abuja on Friday.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Boniface Ortese, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Makurdi on Wednesday that over 2, 769 households were also affected.
Ortom said the empty International Market and the Presidential Building at Agan Toll Gate would become camps for IDPs, pending when water level would subside.
In a statement in Asaba on Thursday, Sam Ijeh, the Media Assistant to the Commissioner for Information, said the government’s action followed the warning by Nigerian Meteorological Agency that 16 states, including Delta, would experience heavy flooding within the year.
Chioke, who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Shiroro, added that the company has already commenced awareness campaign on dangers of flooding to the affected communities.
The Director-General, FEMA, Alhaji Idriss Abass, told newsmen that a man and two of his children: a boy and girl, died when their Toyota Highlander SUV entered into the flood.
Some 35 people were still missing and 39 injured as emergency workers scrambled to supply relief to areas devastated by the floods.
The increasing menace of flood has forced the Kogi State Government to declare a state of emergency on environment and decided to give priority to environmental issues
Police and military personnel were at the scene in the mountain town of Regent searching for people trapped in the debris.
Sunny Jackson, the Head, Planning, Forecasting and Operations of the agency, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Umuahia on Monday.
In Benue State, the Commissioner for Water Resources and Environment, Joseph Ustev, told NAN on Saturday in Makurdi that five local governments had been affected by flooding in the state.
Malam Mohammed Garba, the Acting Head of Rescue and Rehabilitation of the agency, made the disclosure to journalists in Gombe on Monday.
“The flood disaster happened following a heavy rainfall that persisted for several hours which destroyed over 150 houses in the area,” Hajiya Umma Abdullahi-Mahuta, the Acting Sole Administrator of the local council, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaita.
The floods caused by torrential rains across the hilly states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur over the past two weeks, have also triggered landslides.
Witnesses had said that eight members of a family were suspected to have died in the flood, which affected Suleja and Tafa Local Government Areas of Niger State
Witnesses said eight members of a household were suspected to have died in the flood, which affected Suleja and Tafa local Government areas of Niger.
A check by the News Agency of Nigeria in the affected villages indicated that hectares of farmland with crops were washed away