Tag: Flooding
Our Partnership With Visionscape, Others Will Help To End Flooding – Ambode
Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has revealed that the integrated waste management services contract recently sealed by the state…
LASG builds retention pond to contain flooding
The Lagos State Government has said that it is building a retention pond to assist in containing flooding in the…
Flooding: Lagos urges residents to remain calm, vigilant
Lagos State Government on Sunday urged residents to remain calm and vigilant in the wake of the torrential rain experienced…
Flood claims 27 lives
Heavy rains and flooding have claimed at least 27 lives in the West African nations of Niger and Cote d’voire,…
Flooding: Lagos orders residents to remove structures on drainages
The Lagos State Government has ordered residents who built structures on drainage alignment to remove them or have them demolished.…
Ilorin residents clear waterways to prevent flooding
Residents of Kilanko Community in Ilorin on Tuesday embarked on the clearing of waterways to prevent flooding. The area, according…
There’ll be flooding in 14 states – Agency
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency has announced that there will be flooding in 14 states and urged residents…
FG set to battle future flooding- Minister
Mrs. Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment has said that mechanisms to respond to the future incidence of flooding in the…
Lagos alerts residents over impending massive flooding
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has alerted residents living in the coastal and low lying areas of the impending…
Hurricane batters Britain
Hurricane-force winds from an Atlantic storm left tens of thousands of Britons without power Thursday and one man dead, adding…
Torrential rains create havoc in Benin, Ibadan
Several major roads and streets of Benin City, capital of Edo state in southern Nigeria were Monday flooded following a…
Flood sacks 5 banks in Bayelsa
It is not getting better, but getting worse in Yenagoa, capital of Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa state, as the ravaging…
FLOOD: Ravaged States To Get N17 Billion
President Goodluck Jonathan this morning announced that some states of the federation including Lagos, which have been ravaged by flood,…
Floods Kill 148
Flooding across Nigeria has killed at least 148 people and displaced more than 64,000, the Red Cross said Tuesday, warning…
79,000 Persons Displaced By Disasters In Cross River
EMMA UNA/ Calabar Persistent battering of Cross River State by climate change disasters have left over 79,000 persons displaced in…
Lokoja-Abuja Highway closed
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Those travelling from Abuja and other Northern states to the Southern parts of the country and vice versa…
Gridlock on Abuja-Lokoja highway over
Mr Sonnallah Ezekiel, the Koton Karfe Unit Commander, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Kogi, said that normal traffic flow…
Rain wreaks havoc in Ibadan again
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN After less than three hours rain, Ibadan, Capital of Oyo State, South west Nigeria suffered yet another…
Death toll rises in Adamawa flood caused by Cameroon
The death toll from flooding in Adamawa state, north eastern Nigeria after heavy rain and the release of water from…
5 Die, 50 Missing in Nigerian flood
No fewer than five persons were confirmed dead and more than 50 declared missing following torrential rains and flooding in…
Nigeria: Flooding kills 10, displaces 20,000
Flooding in north-eastern Nigeria has killed at least 10 people and displaced an estimated 20,000 following heavy rains and the…
Sanitary inspectors coming to Kaduna
Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State has ordered the state Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources to re-introduce sanitary inspectors.…
28 die, many missing as flood ravages Plateau state
Flooding caused by heavy rains in Plateau state, central Nigeria, has killed at least 28 people, with many others still…
Death toll reaches 35 in Jos flooding
More people have died in the flood that followed a heavy rainfall in central Nigerian city of Jos. The heavy…
Marine Geologist Predicts More Floods, Erosion In Lagos
The Director of Marine Geology at the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Lagos, Prof. Larry Awosika, has…
National Assembly Set To Tackle Flooding
The National Assembly has given its commitment to tackle perennial flooding across the country to forestall further loss of lives…
Kudos To Lagos Environment Ministry
For sometime now, the Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of the Environment, has embarked on measures to prevent flooding…
2 Markets Shut To Prevent Flooding, Epidemic Outbreak
The Lagos State Ministry of the Environment has shut Oke-Odo and Alamutu markets in Agbado Oke Odo and Mushin local…
Lagos Govt Issues Boycott Order Against Cart Pushers
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has again warned Lagosians not to use cart pushers in the disposal of their…
Collapsed Gutters Caused Flooding, Bad Roads —Lagos Mainland Residents
Residents of Coates, Ibadan, Abeokuta streets and the Oyingbo axis of Borno Way in Mainland Local Government Area, Lagos State,…