Adeniyi said stakeholders from state emergency management agencies, National Emergency Management Agency and non-governmental organisations, among others, attended the training
Browsing: Flood
Mohapatra added that floods also ravaged the eastern state of Bihar, where 38 people died and 2.8 million people were affected in a week of flooding.
He said further that in the north-eastern state of Assam, 34 people died and another two million people were affected
In the central province of Henan, 15 people were killed and eight were missing after thunderstorms and strong winds forced 72,000 people from their homes and damaged 18,000 houses,
Altogether, about 8.6 million people have been affected by the flooding, according state media and local government reports
Barde told NAN: “The destruction is massive; we have carried out on-the-spot assessment of the situation and I can tell you that it is bad.”
He listed Rikkos and Gangere in Jos North Local Government Areas as worst hit by the flood.
According to the statement, the alert has become necessary following intelligence reports from the Office of the National Security Adviser and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Malam Lawan Sani, a resident of Dandago quarters, told NAN that many people, who were affected by the flood, could not leave their home for work on Monday
Noting that the damage was huge, Umahi said the report would be sent to the Federal Government with a view to assisting the state and farmers whose means of livelihood had been severely affected
The Chairman of Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Dr. Nkechi Enumah-Chukwurah, confirmed the accident.
Enumah-Chukwurah, who spoke at the Government House in Asaba, said the Okpai Power Plant in the area is also threatened by the flood
“The water is flowing, they dump everything there, but it is going to block somewhere
Mother Nature has “slated a number of places to significantly shrink or disappear from the earth entirely by 2100 due to climate change, changing soil and sea levels, natural disasters and economic problems.” Some of these cities are Timbuktu-Mali, Banjul-The Gambia, Venice-Italy, and San Francisco-USA
The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of the Environment, Oluwatoyin Onisarotu, was quoted in the statement as saying that the warning became necessary to guard against loss of lives and property
He attributed the frequency of the natural disasters in the state to climate change and said governments at all levels should be properly repositioned to mitigate such disasters whenever they occurred
“As the waters pushed them, some snakes climbed trees, others entered holes, while some just held unto any straw
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The secretary stressed the need to supply farmers with modern seed varieties that were drought-resistant and could grow faster than the conventional seeds
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that thousands of houses, farmlands and property worth billions of Naira were also lost to the flood disasters in many Local Government Areas affected in the northern states
According to the chairman, the flood was caused by the release of excess water from Goronyo dam and that it had affected no fewer than 7,577 farmers
The SEMA Executive Secretary, Alhaji Alhassan Barde, who led experts on the visit, said on Sunday that the mission was to conduct post-disaster assessment to see how government could assist the victim
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