Despite warnings from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) about the impending floods, the Kebbi State government failed to take...
Death toll from the floods in Libya have hit 6,000 people, with over 10,000 reported missing after whole villages were swept into the Mediterranean Sea following...
In the last of this three-part series, ARINZE CHIJIOKE looks at the devastating impact of the 2022 flooding on households across communities in Anambra State and...
The Lagos State Government has issued a fresh flood alert for the month of September, warning residents of listed areas to immediately evacuate for the safety...
In this first of a three-part series, ARINZE CHIJIOKE takes a look at the devastating impacts of the 2022 flooding in Kogi State and how the...
The Delta State Government has warned residents in low-land and flood-prone areas to relocate to higher planes due to expected flood from the release of water...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Wednesday issued an alert on imminent flood in 11 states in the country following the release of water from...
The Taraba State government on Monday issued a flood alert to residents of six local government areas in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Information and...
At least 116 houses have been submerged by flood at Trademore Estate in the Lugbe area of Abuja. The Director-General of the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun demolition of structures built along waterways in Abuja. The FCTA Director of Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima,...
Over seven months after the opening of the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon on September 13, 2022, which displaced many Nigerians, especially across the North-Central regions, many...
At least eight people have been confirmed dead following floods caused by days of heavy rainfall in the Zambian capital, Lusaka. Lusaka District Commissioner, Christa Kalulu,...
The death toll in the Christmas day flash flood in southern Philippines has risen to over 15 while the search for those missing continues with the...
The federal government on Wednesday increased pressure on state governors to account for the funds they collected, this time focused on ecological funds. President Muhammadu Buhari...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Saturday at least 600 persons died and 1.3 million others were displaced by floods in Nigeria this year....
In Nigeria, flooding has displaced millions of people due to climate change effect that is intensifying rainfall. KEHINDE OGUNYALE takes a look at the situation, in...
The House of Representatives, on Monday, urged the Federal Government to make swift request of N100bn as supplementary budget for the Ecological Project Office as intervention...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has told Nigerians to accept natural disasters in the country in good faith and ‘God-ordained’ as nothing happens without...
The presidency has backed the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, on the statement credited to her about the flood situation...
Members of the House of Representatives from seven Niger Delta states have called on the Minister of Humanitarian and Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, to immediately...
Ninety-three people have been killed while 1.3 million were affected by the floods in Bayelsa State, according to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). The agency,...
Amid the flood ransacking major parts of the country, Nigeria is in need of N834 trillion ($1.9 ttillion) to tackle climate change, as well as transition...
The Bayelsa State government has disputed the Federal Government’s claim on the flood situation in the state. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social...
The Bayelsa State Government has called on its federal counterpart to work closely with flood prone states in the planning and implementation of feasible measures to...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), on Wednesday, charged states and local governments in the country to deal with the challenges of flooding in the country by...
No fewer than five host communities in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State have received relief materials from the United Nigeria Airline in a bid to mitigate the effects...
The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) said on Tuesday at least 40 people had lost their lives and 50,000 others displaced by flood in 382...
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that Nigeria is already feeling the effects of climate change, as seen by the widespread flooding in the country, creeping desertification,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has given the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, a 90 days ultimatum to develop a comprehensive plan of action for the prevention...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Monday urged the Federal Government to save the country from another flood disaster. The NMA President, Dr. Uche Ojinma, made...
A new era of claims settlement is set to hit the insurance industry as flood take over offices, farmlands, and roads in many parts of the...
The members of the House of Representatives, last week, lamented over the ravaging floods experienced in different parts of the country. We selected two other top...
The Otuoke country home of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has been submerged by the raging flood that has devastated...
Traders at the popular Onitsha Main Market have been lamenting and counting their losses after over 700 shops were submerged by floods that ravaged the state,...
The Kano State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said on Friday at least 23 persons have so far lost their lives to flooding and windstorm in the...
The Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has called for the Federal Government’s intervention in the devastating flood ravaging the state. Diri, who made the call in...
Residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have been thrown into panic after several corpses were washed up from the Azikoro Government Cemetery by flood that wrecked havoc...
The Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has warned about an imminent humanitarian disaster due to the nonchalance of the Federal Government towards the plight of Nigerians...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Thursday urged private organisations and individuals to join hands with the government in providing humanitarian support for persons...
The North-East zonal sector of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that not less than 150 families have been displaced by flood in Buni...
The Nzam community in Anambra East local government area of Anambra State was on Tuesday, thrown into mourning after six family members drowned as flood took...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday called for the airlift of people trapped by flood in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with the leadership of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum over the reported cases of flood in many parts of the country....
Nigerians have taken to social media to react to the recent flooding that took over a new bridge being constructed around Kotonkarfei town in Kogi State...
At least 18,406 people have been displaced by flood in 14 local government areas of Borno State. The Director-General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA),...
Stranded commuters in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital on Monday morning resorted to using canoes to get to their destinations in the metropolis as floods submerged...
At least 361,000 persons have been displaced by flood after the recent heavy rain in Nasarawa State. The Executive Secretary of the state’s Emergency Management Agency...
The Executive Chairman of Toto local government area of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Aliyu, said on Wednesday at least 17 communities in the area have been submerged...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Monday over 300 people died and 500 others seriously injured in floods this year. NEMA’s Director-General, Mustapha Ahmed,...
The lawmaker representing Jam’are Constituency in the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Saleh Muhammad, has revealed that raging floods in the local government area has led...
