The Lagos State Government on Tuesday alerted residents that the state will witness a near normal rainfall of between 240 to 270 days this year.
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The Ekiti State government is to spend the sum N334 million to dredge waterways to prevent reoccurrence of flooding that ravaged some areas in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, and other towns during this year’s raining season.
The Ekiti State Government has distributed relief materials worth several millions of naira to students of the Ekiti State University, whose off campus hostels were affected by flooding occasioned by the heavy rainfall last weekend.
Some residents of Eti-Osa in Lagos State on Saturday urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to address perennial cases of flood in the area, to enable them to sleep with their eyes closed in the rainy season.
The President, Nigerian Meteorological Society, Prof. Clement Akoshile, on Thursday, cautioned Nigerians not to block drainage channels or building on water right of ways to avoid flooding.
The Bayelsa State Government has directed the immediate closure of all schools in the state as a precautionary measure to avoid loss of lives in the current flooding in the state.
The authorities had predicted the flooding, saying Kogi State should be prepared for the worst along with three others
The National Youth Service Corps has said that there was no cause for alarm over the safety of corps members posted to serve in the areas affected by flooding in Anambra.
The Katsina State Emergency Management Agency said it had registered 731 victims of flood in Baure Local Government Area of the state.
Ahmed Mabudi, the Acting Director-General of Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, said the rumour making rounds about the release of water from the Lagbo Dam by Cameroonian authorities was untrue.
The Anambra State Government has advised people living in flood-prone areas to immediately relocate to approved Internally Displaced Persons centres across the state.
The Bayelsa Government says it is taking steps to ensure that the anticipated flooding expected in some states does not have adverse consequences on residents.
Massive flooding has destroyed more than 175 houses, rendered at least 3,000 people homeless in Cross River, according to John Inaku, Director-General of State Emergency Management Agency.
Governor Muhammad Bindow of Adamawa on Monday urged the residents to prepare for flooding following the release of water from Lagdo Dam by the Cameroonian authorities.
The National Emergency Management Agency, Kano Operations Office, has warned residents of Jigawa and Katsina states, especially those living in flood-prone areas to desist from dumping refuse in water ways.
The Agency’s South West II Zonal Coordinator, Rufus Onimisi,
in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, said that it was currently fixing some bad roads in Olodi-Apapa, Iganmu and Ijora in Lagos, as well as the Gbagi area in Badagry.
This was announced on Thursday by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency
The Government, in a statement signed by the Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, expressed dismay that the lawless activities of some people was constantly putting the lives and property of residents at risk
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the torrential rainfall, which started around 5am in parts of the metropolis, left many roads and neighbourhoods flooded
The government also predicted that the monsoon wind would bring rain from the West Africa coast around between June 22 and September/October