Mustapha Umar, the Director Relief and Orientation of the Sokoto State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) disclosed this at a stakeholders meeting on disaster management on Thursday in Sokoto.
Browsing: Flood
Omeluigboma and Oko communities are situated by the bank of River Niger.
Tanko Lawal, Information Officer to the SSG, in a statement in Minna on Monday, said Matane said this during an on-the-spot assessment of the flood situation in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state Governor, Abubakar Bello, had set up an Information Committee led by Alhaji Ibrahim Panti, Commissioner for Works to assess the level of damages by flood in the state.
They made this assertion in separate interviews with News Agency of Nigeria in a national survey on flooding and its effects on lives and property in the two geo-political zones.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who visited the flooded parts of Lokoja on Thursday, reports that the flood had covered a section of the road at Ganaja village, thereby making it difficult for motorists coming to and fro to pass .
News Agency of Nigeria recalls that a commercial vehicle, carrying 14 passengers on Thursday, plunged into the river as water submerged the road including the bridge.
The Director General of NEMA, AVM Muhammadu Mohammed said this when his team paid a visit to the 26 Battalion, Nigeria Army, Ginginya Barracks, Sokoto.
Sale Jili, Executive Secretary of the Agency, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Kano.
Abbas Idriss, Director-General, FEMA, gave the warning in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Dododo, who made the disclosure at a meeting with stakeholders held at the Cabinet Office in Birnin Kebbi, described the situation as worrisome.
Head of Imo-Abia Operations office of NEMA, Evans Ugoh, made the call in Owerri on Monday during a sensitisation visit to some flood prone communities in the two states.
Alhaji Ibrahim Farinloye, the Acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, made this known at the flag-off of the “Door to Door 2020 Flood Awareness and Sensitisation Campaign on Prevention, Management and Mitigation of Flood” in Mushin.
The Special Adviser to Governor Bello Matawalle on Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Fa’ika Ahmad, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau.
The Chairman of the local government, Alhaji Abdullahi Maje, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday.
Ortom made the plea in an interview with newsmen shortly after inspecting the flooded areas in Makurdi.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the heavy downpour destroyed many property in the affected areas, especially houses at the back of Ogun River.
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who went round to monitor the situation in the Edo State capital, reports that several houses were submerged by the flood and others destroyed.
A community leader, Joel Okanyi, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in a telephone interview that heavy flood had cut off the community from other neighbouring areas.
No fewer than 3,000 houses in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo were submerged by flood, following River Niger surge due to the release of water from Lagdo dam in Cameroon.