Tag: flood
Abia recorded more flooding in 2018 – SEMA
Mr Sunday Jackson, the Acting Executive Secretary, Abia State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), said on Thursday that the state recorded…
Flood: Israel sends rescue helicopters to Jordan
Israel sent search-and-rescue helicopters to assist Jordan on Thursday following a flash flood in which at least 10 school children…
Kogi Govt. donates relief items to flood victims
The Kogi Government on Thursday donated foodstuffs and other relief items to victims of flood disaster at Itobe, in Ofu…
Flood affects 140,000 Jigawa farmers – Commissioner
No fewer than 140,000 farmers in Jigawa were affected by the recent flood disaster which ravaged most of the farms…
Kogi Govt. donates relief materials to Ajaokuta flood victims
The Kogi Government on Tuesday donated foodstuffs and other relief materials to flood victims in Ajaokuta Local Government Area of…
Adamawa flood victims call for urgent intervention
Persons affected by recent flood disasters in Adamawa have appealed to the Federal Government to come to their aid to…
Flood: Jigawa Govt. donates seeds, fertilizer to 4,682 farmers
Alhaji Salisu Garba-Kubayo, Chairman, Kirikasamma Local Government Council in Jigawa on Monday said the state government had donated bags of…
Flood sacks Otuoke, ex-President Jonathan’s community
Flood has taken over parts of Otuoke Community, hometown of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa.
Kogi Govt. donates relief items to flood victims
The Kogi Government on Sunday distributed foodstuffs and other relief items to 2018 flood victims in Bassa Local Government Area…
Flood: Katsina govt. gives victims cash donation
The Katsina State Government has presented cash donation of N9.6 million to 671 victims of flood disaster in Maibara district…
Flood kills 6, sacks 35 Edo communities
Flooding killed six people and sacked no fewer than 35 communities in the Esan South East Local Government Area of…
Delta Govt. opens register for farmers affected by flood
Delta Government on Tuesday announced that it has opened a register for farmers whose farms were washed off by the…
4,000 flood victims benefit from Air Force medical outreach
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says it has begun a five-day medical outreach for nearly 4,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…
Flood destroys 280 hectares of rice farms in Edo
Flood has destroyed 280 hectares of rice farm in Iguoriakhi and Iguomo in Ovia North-East and Ovia South-West local government…
Flood: NEMA declares 5 more states as ‘national disasters’
The National Emergency Management (NEMA), has declared five more states: Adamawa, Taraba, Kebbi, Bayelsa and Rivers as ‘National Disaster’ following…
Kano Govt. donates N40m relief materials to flood victims
Kano State Government on Thursday, donated relief materials worth N40 million to victims of flood disaster in Rimin Gado and…
Flood: Air Force embarks on free medical outreach for IDPs
The Mobility Command of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in Bayelsa has embarked on a five-day free medical outreach for…
Flood: Traditional ruler urges govt. to compensate Anambra farmers
Eze Emmanuel Onyia, the traditional ruler of Odokpe Community in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, has called on…
Flood: Over 500 rice farms submerged in Bayelsa
No fewer than 500 rice farms at Okpotuwari and Ondewari communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, have…
Flood: Official calls for proper dredging of Rivers Niger, Benue
Mr Ladein Omiebi, Chairman, Flood Management Committee, Patani Local Government Area, Delta State has called on the Federal Government to…
Kano flood victims cry for assistance
Victims of recent flood disaster in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of Kano State have cried out over lack of…
Flood: NEMA warns Kogi residents against early return to homes
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday warned residents displaced by the recent flood disaster in Kogi against returning…
Flood: Okowa appeals for more relief materials to Delta
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Tuesday appealed to the Federal Government, the organised private sector and individuals to deploy…
Flood: ActionAid gives succour to 1,800 IDPs
ActionAid Nigeria on Monday came to the aid of over 1,800 women from 300 women-led households in communities across four…
Flood: Anambra govt. grapples with needs of victims
Anambra State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says the government is grappling with the food and non-food needs of more than…
6 die in Edo floods
Mr Victor Emuankhagbon, the Chairman of Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo, on Saturday confirmed that six deaths…
Flood kills late music maestro, Osadebe’s son in Anambra
Okechukwu Osadebe, 18-year-old son of late highlife maestro, Chief Stephen Osadebe, has lost his life in a flood disaster in…
Flood: Association appeals to govts to compensate farmers
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has appealed to the federal and state governments to compensate farmers who are…
Flood submerges over 200 houses in llorin
Flood wreaked havoc in Ilorin Township on Wednesday, as over 200 residential houses were submerged with hundreds of victims displaced…
Latest flood data indicate worst is over – Minister
The Federal Government says the latest flood data has indicated that the worst is over as the water level at…