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…Urges residents in coastal areas to relocate, predicts 261 days of rainfall By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government, yesterday, predicted high intensity of rainfall of 261 days this year, with attendant flooding across the state, even as it directed residents in coastal and low-lying wetland areas of the state to move upland to avert needless
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Alhaji Adamu Fanini, Secretary to the Jigawa State Government (SSG), has disclosed that the government had inaugurated a nine-member flood control committee, with a mandate to assist in mitigating the menace of flooding in the state. A statement issued in Dutse, on Monday, by Alhaji Isma’il Ibrahim, the spokesperson, office of the SSG, quoted Fanini
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Rescuers pulled out nine more bodies from the site of a flash flood in a Himalayan region of northern India on Sunday, a week after the disaster struck. This brings the death toll to 50 with more than 150 people still missing, officials said. The flash flood in Uttarakhand State, triggered by what scientists said
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By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE Executive Director, Centre for Space Science and Technology Education,CSSTE, Dr. Ganiyu Agbaje,Tuesday, said Nigeria has improved on its possession of requisite equipments to better forecast flood, thereby mitigating the effects. To this end,he expressed optimism that the negative socioeconomic impacts of flooding in the country would henceforth be mitigated through effective and
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National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, yesterday, began distribution of relief items to victims of 2020 flood disaster in Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West Local Government Areas of Delta. The exercise was flagged off at Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Governnent Area, by Director-General of NEMA, Air Vice Marshal Muhammed Mohammadu (retd). The NEMA Edo Operations Office
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The federal government on Tuesday, commissioned flood control and swamp upgrading/road improvement works at Ibbi road in Wukari, Taraba State. The projects are among the 18 ecological intervention projects awarded by President Muhammadu Buhari with aim of controlling menace of flood and erosion. The projects which was carried out by the Ecological Fund Office, and
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has donated relief materials to 880 flood victims in Baure Local Government Area (LGA), of Katsina State. NEMA North West Coordinator, Alhaji Abbani Imam, said this while distributing the materials to the beneficiaries on Wednesday in Baure, headquarters of the LGA. Imam said that the materials included 880 bags
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…As group calls for dredging of River Niger By Chimaobi Nwaiwu The Federal Government has been asked to commence the dredging of the River Niger and also step up measures to mitigate flood menace and save over twenty thousand families who have been sacked by flood menace in Anambra State. The call was made yesterday
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The European Union (EU), is providing 400,000 euros ($471,000) to assist flood-hit families in Cambodia, said a press release on Wednesday. The aid would focus on addressing the urgent needs of the most affected people in the worst-hit provinces in the country’s northwest. “This contribution underlines our solidarity with the people of Cambodia, many of
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Governor Aminu Waziri Tambulwa of Sokoto state has praised President Muhammadu Buhari for his intervention after floods ravaged through Gwadabawa, Ilela, Sokoto North, Wammako, Bondinga and Tambuwal Local government areas, destroying farmlands and crops in the state. Governor Tambulwa made the commendation at the weekend when the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social
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