…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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]