Findings by  Sunday Vanguard revealed that 15 states, identified as being threatened by flooding across Nigeria, are already putting measures in place but are challenged by funds, especially ecological money. Most of the states which were recently placed on red alert by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NIHSA,  are funding the battle against the disaster amid non-release of the funds meant for disaster management.

By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR — A heavy downpour on Wednesday turned many Landlords to tenants in the city of calabar, Cross River state. Vanguard reports that not fewer than six houses and properties worth millions of naira were destroyed by the heavy rainfall at Nyagasang community in Atimbo area of Calabar Municipality. The houses, which […]

Alhaji Umaru Dodo, Acting Chairman, Guri Local Government Area of Jigawa, said 1,380 houses across the area were destroyed by flood due to heavy rainfall on Aug. 23. Dodo said this in Guri on Thursday, when the state Chairman, Jama’atul Izalatil Bidi’a Waikamatissunah, Sheikh Abubakar Jibrin-Hadejia, paid him a visit. He said over 830 of the […]

SPECIAL Adviser to the Delta State Governor on Environment and Marine Transportation, Chief Daniel Yingi has said the state government was not relenting in its effort to mitigate the effects of the predicted flooding in parts of the state on Deltans.

 The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has expressed worries that communities in flood-prone local government areas are not getting ready ahead of the prediction.

Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun says the state  government will remove buildings erected on waterways to avert flood in the state.

IN July 2019, the Nigeria Metrological Agency had issued a warning that some states in the country should take measures against flood, saying the downpour in the months of August and September would be enormous as a result of climate change.

Flood triggered by incessant rain has destroyed over 3,000 farmlands and about 120 houses at Zugo town in Guri Local Government Area of Jigawa.

OUR ‘fire brigade’ approach to issues that affect us has brought us unexpected and incalculable hardships which sometimes result in disaster. We have, as a people, become used to a life of not preparing ahead or preparing within a short time. We prefer to treat symptoms, rather than the ailment.

The heavy rains in the last few weeks have further exposed the bad state of some major roads in Nsukka metropolis and beyond.