Tag: Flood

  • Flood sacks Adamawa community, destroys 150 farmlands, 66 houses  – ADSEMA

    Flood sacks Adamawa community, destroys 150 farmlands, 66 houses – ADSEMA

    Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), says  66 houses and  150 farmlands  were destroyed by flood in Lababiri village, Bakta district in Shelleng Local Government Area of the state.Dr Mohamed Sulaiman, Executive Secretary, ADSEMA, confirmed the development to our correspondent on Saturday in Yola.Sulaiman said the catastrophe occurred between Aug. 11 and  12, following uninterrupted …

  • Flood displaces 120 families in Jigawa community

    Flood displaces 120 families in Jigawa community

    Flood, occasioned by heavy rain, has displaced more than 120 families at Unguwar Tsallake area of Guri Local Government Area of Jigawa, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Information Officer in charge of the council, Alhaji Sunusi Doro, told on Saturday that the incident occurred after a torrential rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday.…

  • Flood washes cemetery, buildings in Yobe

    Flood washes cemetery, buildings in Yobe

     Flood triggered by days of incessant rains has washed away Low Cost Cemetery and destroyed buildings in Gashua Local Government Area of Yobe. Alhaji Kaku Bulama-Bukar, Gashua Local Government Council Community Development Officer, confirmed this in an interview with our correspondent in Gashua on Tuesday. He said the downpour, which began on July 9, had…

  • Gov. Sule inaugurates flood early warning equipment

    Gov. Sule inaugurates flood early warning equipment

    Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State on Wednesday inaugurated flood early warning equipment at Umaisha community in Toto Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The governor said that the equipment was to alert the flood-prone community to possible flooding in order to avert loss of lives and property. He urged the residents to protect…

  • Vaccine doses rescued from severe floods in Britain

    Vaccine doses rescued from severe floods in Britain

    British emergency services worked through the early hours of Thursday morning to prevent severe flooding damaging a store of doses of the Astrazeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. Workers managed to save the vials of the vaccine, which were being stored in a warehouse in the Welsh town of Wrexham. Council leader Mark Pritchard told the BBC that…

  • 17,000 communities submerged by flood in Niger State -SSG

    No fewer than 17,000 communities have been affected by flood in the Niger State, the Secretary to the state Government, Alhaji Ahmed Matane, has said. Mr Tanko Lawal, Information Officer to the SSG, in a statement in Minna on Monday, said Matane said this during an the on-spot assessment of the flood situation in Mokwa…

  • PDP calls for articulate strategies to mitigate flood

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged the governments at all levels to articulate strategies to mitigate the menace of flood and forestall such devastation in the future. The party made the call in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Wednesday. Ologbondiyan urged the Federal Government and…

  • Flood: SEMA to train 3,000 volunteers for disaster response in Kaduna

    The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (KADSEMA) will train 3,000 volunteers in 23 local government areas to strengthen disaster management emergencies. Abubakar Hassan, Executive Secretary of the agency, made this known on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. ”3,000 volunteers will be retrained and reactivated in various Local…

  • FEMA alerts Abuja residents of severe flood

    The FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has once again issued a high alert on prospect of severe flood within the FCT, especially the riverine parts of the city. The Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, issued the alert in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Idriss said the red alert became necessary following rainfall and…

  • Flood submerges 50 houses, properties in Niger

    No fewer than 50 houses and properties worth millions of Naira have been submerged and destroyed by flood in Gallah ward of Agwara Local Government Area of Niger. The Member Representing Borgu-Agwara Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Alhaji Jafaru Mohammedi, made this known on Thursday after commiserating with the flood victims. Mohammedi, who was…