Flood kills 3, destroys 2062 houses, 6000 farmlands in Bauchi
The Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (BASEMA) says flood has killed three people, destroyed 2062 houses and 6000 farmlands in the state this year. Dr Abubakar Gabarin, the Head of Operations, BASEMA, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Bauchi that the flood-affected many communities in the state. The BASEMA head of […]
Kogi flood a great concern to President Buhari ― Minister
By Boluwaji Obahopo – Lokoja The Federal Government said President Muhammadu Buhari is greatly worried and disturbed by the persistent flood disaster that has ravaged some part of Kogi state. The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs Sadiya Farouq stated this in Lokoja yesterday during the donation of relief materials to […]
Flood: Bayelsa community seek state, federal assistance
By Samuel Oyadongha – Yenogoa Indigenes of flood-ravaged Adagbabiri community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have called on the State and Federal Governments to provide them relief materials. According to community sources, the rising water level has exceeded that witnessed in 2018 and may reach that of 2012. Most houses in the […]
FLOOD: Save our souls, Gov Obiano’s aide appeals to FG
Special Assistant, Liaison, Abuja, to Governor Willie Obiano of of Anambra State, Barr. Nonso Nwaebili has made a passionate plea to the Federal Government to come to the aid of his kinsmen in Odekpe community in Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State over the menace of flood.
Oba’s palace submerged in flood, scores of residents rendered homeless in Ekiti
The palace of the Alawe of Ilawe-Ekiti, Oba Ajibade Alabi, was among the many buildings sacked by flood in Ekiti, on Thursday night. A NAN Correspondent reports that the Thursday rain which began at about 6 pm and lasted for hours, rendered many residents homeless as their bouses were submerged in the after rain flood. […]
Flood sacks Anambra communities as philanthropist demands urgent action
By Victor Ajihromanus Over 20000 residents of communities in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, barely 10 kilometers from the bank of River Niger, are facing imminent extermination if nothing urgent is done owing to flooding. They have lost their homesteads, farmland, dear ones, agricultural products etc following regular flood upsurge from the river […]
