{"id":47199,"date":"2024-08-15T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/four-dead-as-flood-wreaks-havoc-in-bauchi\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T09:00:19","slug":"four-dead-as-flood-wreaks-havoc-in-bauchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/four-dead-as-flood-wreaks-havoc-in-bauchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead as flood wreaks havoc in Bauchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has confirmed four persons dead in recent flood disaster in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The flood also destroyed houses, submerged farmlands and washed away some sections of the Kano-Maiduguri expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Masud Aliyu, the Director-General of the agency, confirmed this on Wednesday in Bauchi.<\/p>\n<p>He said the flood affected Shira, Giade and Katagum Local Government Areas of the state, following torrential rains in the past days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flood left thousands homeless, submerged farmlands and cut-off roads,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affected roads Include Giade-Isawa, and Kano-Maiduguri expressway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu said the state government had mobilised contractors to repair the failed sections of the roads, to provide an alternative route for road users.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, urged the people to heed to the warnings by the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) about impeding flood disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Four dead as flood wreaks havoc in Bauchi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has confirmed four persons dead in recent flood disaster in the state. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5002,4286,384,15],"tags":[636,1375,227,1565,22628,387,180,23997],"class_list":["post-47199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bauchi","category-flood","category-metro","category-news","tag-bauchi","tag-dead","tag-flood","tag-four","tag-havoc","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-wreaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}