The Kogi State Government on Monday directed people living in flood prone areas to evacuate and relocate to uplands immediately.…
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The Federal Government has summoned the Commissioners for Environment in states likely to be affected by flood in 2015…
Two persons on Wednesday died, while one was missing following floods caused by a heavy downpour in three communities in…
The National Emergency Management Agency has alerted the state governments and communities along River Benue of possible flooding. This followed…
No fewer than 148 houses had been destroyed by flood, which ravaged various parts of Gwadabawa Local Government Area of…
Houses and crops worth N46.16 million have been destroyed by flood in Misau town and surrounding villages in Bauchi State.…
No fewer than 120 lock-up shops were submerged by flood at the International Electronics Market, Onitsha, Anambra State following a…
No fewer than 30 houses were destroyed while 70 households were displaced in Mangwarori community of Dandume Local Government Area…
Commenting on the highlight of the report, Beckley listed the states as Niger, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Anambra, Taraba, Nasarawa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Adamawa, Kogi and Benue
He said an explosion occurred at the petrol station in the city centre during heavy rains late Wednesday, and flames spread to nearby houses
The storm did not spare their only Etua-Ise Primary School building, Community Town-Hall, solar-powered water scheme, a new generation church and some economic trees
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the city had witnessed continuous downpour since Thursday and the victims had relocated to nearby schools and other places for safety
An eyewitness, Akinola Onabiyi, said on Monday at Igarra that the rain, which started about 5pm, lasted for about eight hours and rendered hundreds of people homeless.
Onabiyi said: “The flood occasioned by the rain swept people off the road into a nearby bridge where the two persons died
Dr. Abubakar Kannike, the Chairman Flood Committee Prevention and Control, said this on Friday while on a visit to Patigi and Lafiagi communities in Edu Local Government Area of the state
The state Commissioner for the Environment and Forestry, Usman Mora, disclosed this an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Ilorin
Maradun said that the deliveries were recorded in the last three months.
He said that each of the 17 women gave birth to single babies while one had a set of twins
Residents of Anua, Nsikan Eduok and Atan Offot on Olusegun Obasanjo Way were mostly affected as some of them lost household items, including clothes, chairs and beddings
Ejike Okpara, who was also at the scene on Nike Road, told the News
Agency of Nigeria that another pupil was earlier saved by bystanders
after she also fell into the gutter
Chinansa Oluchukwu, a widow and mother of four, said that she also lost everything in her room, including her children’s school books and uniforms
The downpour, which was reminiscent of the August 26, 2011 flood disaster, resulted in the death of at least seven persons across the city