Tag: Flood
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Ojota traffic: LASTMA dislodges flood into open drains
The operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has embarked on self help to free traffic by dislodging rain flood into open drains on main carriage way, Odo Iya-Alaro Bridge inward Ojota, Lagos.
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TNG Deal Breakers: 2023 flood forecast: Awaiting another cycle of calamity
Singing this childhood lullaby to adults smacks of irresponsibility or simply childishness. Because, certainly, it will rain. And it rains with indifferent ferocity, taking along with it all that stands in its way, including human beings. It is a calamity officially predicted. But unfortunately without any resilient mitigating plans.
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Omo-Agege promises to address flooding, herders/farmers clash in Delta
Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Delta has promised to address the perennial flooding and incessant attacks on local farmers by suspected herders in the state.
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True figures of 2022 flood victims revealed as NIHSA braces for 2023 rains
As the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) commenced the rehabilitation and maintenance of its manual gauging stations spread on the major rivers and their tributaries in the country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has revealed the true figure of 2022 flood victims.
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IFAD approves $1.7m flood recovery support to farmers
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says it will disburse 1.7 million dollars to support farmers affected by floods in nine states of the country before ending of the year. The intervention according to the organisation
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Floods: SERAP sues Buhari over failure to probe ‘missing trillions of ecological funds’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to probe the spending of trillions of ecological funds by governments at all levels—federal, state and local governments from 2001 to date, and to ensure the prosecution of suspected perpetrators of corruption and mismanagement of public funds.”
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Group donates relief materials to flood affected areas in Delta state
As part of efforts to help alleviate sufferings caused by flood, the Urhobo Social Club, Lagos, has donated relief materials to Olomu, Ewhu, Evwreni, Uwheru and Ughievwen, communities, in Urhobo area of Delta State. The delegation which was led by the President, Olorogun Jacob the Vice President, Olorogun Patrick Emurese and the immediate past President,…
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Flood: 22 newborns delivered across IDP camps in Delta
The Delta State Government has disclosed that a total of 21 Iives were lost as a result of the flooding that hit parts of the state in the past two months.
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Tinubu, Omo-Agege distribute N50m cash, N150m worth of relief materials to flood victims in Delta
Distribution of the N50 million cash donated by APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and N150 million worth of relief materials facilitated by the Deputy Senate President and Delta APC Governorship Candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege for flood victims in the state have commenced. The cash and gift items were given to leaders of the affected…
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Nigerians can’t breathe – By Owei Lakemfa
BAYELSA State was for weeks submerged by floods which damaged or washed away bridges and roads, homes and farms, power transformers, and hospitals, and displaced 99 percent of its over 2.5 million people. Some deaths were recorded with the living clinging to life while the buried could not safely remain in their abode as the…