THE SUN Senator Stella Oduah has advised State Governors, whose communities were prone to floods, to set aside five per cent of their annual budget revenue to mitigate the natural phenomenon. The senator, representing Anambra North Senatorial District in the…
PUNCH The Middle Niger of the River Niger Basin is currently flooded and the magnitude of flood from this area is expected to arrive in Nigeria through Kebbi State around September 6, 2020, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency has predicted.…
LEADERSHIP, Editorial Flooding has remained a re-occurring menace that has continued to devastate the Nigerian environment, leading to huge losses of lives, livelihoods, property and damage to public infrastructure. The impacts of floods in Nigeria include mortality, physical injuries, widespread…
VANGUARD Secretary to the Delta State Government, SSG, Mr Chiedu Ebie, said the State has in four weeks recorded 18,000 persons at the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camps displaced by flood, Lamenting the increasing number of flood victims at the…
GUARDIAN Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has directed public primary and secondary schools submerged by flood in the state to proceed on three weeks’ holiday from Monday. Mr Donald Ojogo, Commissioner for Information and Orientation, in a release on…
THISDAY The Director General of Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Clement Nze on Monday took a swipe at the state governments and various stakeholders for failing to heed the agency’s flood warnings issued before the onset of flooding season in…
VANGUARD ASABA- DETERMINED to address the problem of flooding in the Asaba capital city, the Delta State Government, Monday said it would dredge the Anwai, Iyiabi and Amilimocha river to accommodate floodwater from the storm drainage that is being constructed.…
THISDAY Editorial Government should make good use of data on hydrological behaviour at their disposal The heavy floods being recorded in various parts of the country since the middle of this year have, not surprisingly, caused destruction of lives and…