Flood: Bayelsa govt extends school resumption date
Bayelsa State Government, through the Ministry of Education, has extended the 2024 flood break resumption date by one week. This…
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Don’t blame Oyan Dam for flood – River Basin boss cautions
The Managing Director of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority, Dr Deji Ashiru, has cautioned residents of Isheri in the…
Benin residents seek Obaseki’s intervention over flood, as landlords abandon houses
Residents of Express Avenue, Benin City ravaged by flood have called on the Edo State Government to come to their…
Bauchi Govt orders clearing of blocked waterways to prevent flooding
Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has ordered the immediate clearing and cleaning of all blocked waterways in the Bauchi metropolis…
Kogi govt calls for help as flood sacks 200 communities
The Kogi State Government has again called on the Federal Government and international donor agencies to come to the aid…
Kwara govt launches flood campaign in riverine areas
In a bid to avert the loss of lives and property due to flooding, the Kwara State Government has launched…
Flood: Yobe Govt approves over N1.4bn for 25, 500 victims
Yobe State Government has approved N1.4 billion to support 2024 flood victims across the 17 local government areas of the…
Flood destroy homes, displace over 80 households in Plateau communities
Following the heavy downpour which started on Friday till the early hours of Sunday, over 80 households have been displaced…
Kogi: 70 communities submerged by flood – Deputy governor
Over 70 communities have been submerged by flood, the Kogi state government has revealed. Mr Joel Salifu, the Deputy Governor,…
Again, Zulum assesses roads, bridges destroyed by flood
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has conducted an assessment of some vital infrastructure, including roads, bridges and hospitals damaged…
Nepal Monsoon floods claim 104 lives, thousands displaced
Residents in Nepal’s flood-hit capital began returning to their homes on Sunday to survey the devastation after heavy monsoon rains…
Residents urged to relocate amid flood threats in Taraba
Residents of Karim-Lamido, Lau, Ardo-Kola, Gassol, Wukari, and Ibbi LGAs of Taraba State have been advised to relocate to safer…
Nigerian GenCo gives Borno flood victims N100m as donations rise to N12.5bn
Nigerian electricity generation company Mainstream Energy, operator of the Kainji, Jebba and Zungeru hydropower plants in Nigeria, has donated the…
Motorists stranded as flood cuts off Gombe-Yola highway
Thousands of motorists and commuters have been left stranded along the Gombe-Yola-Jalingo highway after a severe flood washed away a…
Over 1m Nigerians affected by flood, 634,035 displaced NEMA
The Director-General, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Dr Hajiya Zubaida Umar has revealed that so far, 1,061,254 Nigerians have…
Relocate to safer places – Benue Govt tells residents in flood-prone areas
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency, Benue-SEMA, has asked residents living within a one-kilometer radius of riverbanks to relocate immediately…
Flood: Tinubu arrives Maiduguri
President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has arrived in Maiduguri to sympathize with the government and people of the state over the…
Kano donates N100m to Borno govt, flood victims
The Kano State Government has donated N100 million to support victims of the recent floods in Borno State. The cheque…
Borno flood: Police recover eleven decomposed bodies
The Borno State Police Command has recovered eleven decomposed bodies from various locations in Maiduguri, the state capital, as rescue…
NANS condole students, other victims of flooding in Borno
The President of the Senate, National Association of Nigerian Students, Afeez Akinteye, has condoled victims of the recent floods that…
Peter Obi seeks support for flood victims
The 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has called on the Federal Government to swiftly support the victims…
Bauchi pledges Intervention for flood victims
The Bauchi State Government has pledged to provide urgent relief to communities affected by recent floods in the state. DAILY…
Akpabio commiserates Borno, Bauchi people over devastating flood, death toll
The President of the Senate, Godswill Obot Akpabio has commiserated with the government and people of Borno and Bauchi States…
Flood: Ex-Senate President, Lawan tasks NEMA on provision of relief materials to victims in Yobe
Ex-Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan has tasked the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to provide additional relief materials to flood…
Flood submerges 12 LGAs in Jigawa as residents fear 2020-like disaster
The Jigawa State Government is concerned about the possibility of a repeat of the 2020 flooding that affected over 90…
Four dead as flood wreaks havoc in Bauchi
The Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has confirmed four persons dead in recent flood disaster in the state. The…
Flooding: 16 die, 3,838 displaced in Jigawa
No fewer than 16 people lost their lives while 3,834 others were displaced as a result of flooding in 10…
Flood destroys houses, farms in Jigawa
Flooding have destroyed houses and hectares of farmlands in Buji Local Government Area of Jigawa State. District Head of Gantsa…
Flood displaces 1,664 persons in four Sokoto communities
About 1,664 persons have been displaced as flood ravaged four communities in Gada Local Government Area of Sokoto State. A…
Hardship: Flood markets with food to ease economic woes – Esther Ajayi charges Tinubu
As rising inflation continues to drive hunger across the country, the Founder of Love of Christ Generation Church, Reverend Mother…
Heavy rain floods homes, farms, brings down structures in Adamawa community
Flooding from heavy rain in Michika, a major town and local government area in the northern part of Adamawa State,…
Edo residents count losses in flood-affected neighbourhoods
Residents of Uffa, Ugbogbo, Afekhai, Orere, Domingo Road, Lawani Road, Momodu Ajayi Road and Ibillo-Auchi Road in Akoko-Edo Local Government…
18 states on red alert as flood kills 15, displaces over 16,000 Nigerians in one week
No fewer than 15 persons have reportedly lost their lives due to the widespread flooding experienced across the country within…
Flooding: No emergency plan – Rhodes-Vivour knocks Lagos Govt
The Lagos State governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, said the Lagos State…
Flood displaces pupils of Bauchi Model School
Severe flooding in Dambam, the headquarters of Dambam Local Government Area of Bauchi State, has submerged the Model Central Primary…
Flood: No lives lost in Trademore Estate – FCTA
The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has reassured that no lives were lost due to the flood at Trademore Estate…
Rain: Flood claims two lives in Abuja
At least two people were on Monday feared dead amid rainfall, which caused heavy flooding at the Trademore Estate in…
Flood: Boy, 16, swept away in Ogun
A 16-year-old boy simply identified as Dimeji, was reportedly swept away on Friday by a flood around St Anthony Secondary…
Flood: APC calls for cancellation of INEC’s Continuous Voters Registration in Edo
The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to…
Flood kills 10 family members in Afghanistan
Ten members of a family were killed overnight in a village in the capital of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province due to…
Edo govt decries negative impacts of flooding despite measures
The Edo State Government has claimed that the measures put in place to control the adverse impacts of this year’s…
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Many rendered homeless as flood submerges houses in Akwanga [PHOTOS]
Residents of Hayin Mada and other areas of Akwanga town were displaced on Friday evening following a severe flood that…
Flood: NEMA cautions Edo, Delta, Bayelsa residents
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has advised residents of Edo, Delta and Bayelsa states against blocking drainages and waterways…
Floods: Death toll rises to 188 in Kenya
The Kenyan Interior Ministry on Thursday said the death toll in the country has risen to 188, as it continues…
Flood: Kenya postpones schools resumption
Kenya said Monday that it would delay the reopening of schools by one week due to ongoing heavy rains that…
Buni tasks World Bank group on solutions to mitigate anticipated flood
Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni has tasked the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes, (ACReSAL), a World Bank programme, to…
Flood: Death toll rises to 50 in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s National Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday said flooding caused by heavy rains over the past four days in the…
Flood: One confirmed dead, another missing in Taraba
One person has been confirmed dead and another reported missing after a flood ravaged Nguroje in Sardauna Local Government Area…
Flood kills one, destroys several houses, farmlands in Taraba community
One person has been swept away in a flood that wreaked havoc in Nguroje community in Sardauna local government council…
Over 151 houses affected by flood after early morning rain in Lagos
The early morning flood on Tuesday in Command and Ipaja communities in Lagos impacted about 151 houses. Ibrahim Farinloye, Lagos…