‘Government is concerned about the health needs of the victims’ The Anambra State Government has commenced healthcare intervention services for displaced flood victims staying in holding centres across the state to ease their sufferings. The victims received cartons of drugs and mosquitoe treated nets at their various centres. Speaking on Tuesday during a visit to
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‘Agricultural produce like rice, cassava, groundnuts and others have been completely submerged’ Over twelve communities in Etsako Central Local Government Area, Edo North Senatorial district have been submerged by flood as a result of torrential rain in the last few days that has resulted in the River Niger overflowing its banks. Some of the communities
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‘The flood turned out to be more than expected or predicted‘ Thirty seven persons have lost their lives to flood induced heavy downpour across Adamawa State. The Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA) which confirmed the human casualty, said 58 other people sustained injuries. The agency said that in all, 171, 000 persons were affected,
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‘Fish farmers in Egbejila, Akerebiata, and Asa dam axis had their fish farms washed away by the heavy floods’ The Kwara State Fire Service on Saturday recovered two corpses along Sobi road in Ilorin, the state capital, following Friday’s downpour that led to heavy flood. Personnel of the fire service removed the two human bodies
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‘Many residents of the affected areas have been lamenting over the havoc caused them following the flooding in the localities’ Residents of many flood-prone communities in Delta State are groaning as their areas have been submerged following two days of heavy torrential downpours. The early morning heavy downpours on Monday and Tuesday, which lasted for
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The people of Olubodun community, Ipaja in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State have been thrown into mourning as a rampaging flood swept two men into a canal in the area. The men, simply identified as Alfa and a Mallam, were residents of Ajayi Street in the neighbourhood. An eyewitness claimed that the flood,
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ISLAMABAD, The American actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie visited Pakistan to meet victims of the recent floods and raise fundings for the relief and rehabilitation of millions of people of Pakistan. As part of Angelina’s tour, she visited the National Flood Response Coordination Centre on Wednesday. Ahsan Iqbal, who serves as the deputy chairman of
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Flood has displaced over two thousand persons in some communities of Nasarawa State. The Chairman, Doma Local Government in Nasarawa State, Ahmed Sarki-Usman revealed this in an interview with journalists. Sarki-Usman actually embarked on an assessment visit to the affected communities on Friday. He said his visit was to ascertain the level of damage caused
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About fifteen thousand farms have been destroyed by flooding in five local government areas of Kano State. The Director General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mustapha Habib, made the disclosure during an on-the-spot assessment tour of communities ravaged by flood in Warawa and Wudil LGAs of the state on Wednesday. He listed the affected communities as
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Following the devastating effect of flooding, which has rendered many residents homeless, the Nasarawa State House of Assembly has appealed to the state government to provide relief materials to flood victims across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state. This, the assembly said, would reduce their suffering and improve their standard of living. Speaker
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Early morning rain on Monday caused flooding which flowed over a large portion of the Yola-Mubi highway, cutting off the capital Yola from the northern part of Adamawa State. People travelling from Yola to major northern Adamawa towns such as Song, Gombi, Hong, Mubi, Maiha, Michika and Madagali and those travelling from those places to
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The secretariat area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, was on Monday flooded, thereby worsening the existing traffic on the expressway in Lagos. The gridlock spanned the flooded secretariat area to the Long Bridge area of the expressway. Our source claimed that vehicles struggled to wade through the flood. In turn, motorists, passengers and pedestrians groaned at
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TORKHAM BORDER: To stand by with Pakistan in the hard times, Tajikistan has sent 81 truckloads of relief goods for flood victims in Pakistan, officials said on Thursday. Custom official at Torkham Amanat Khan said that a convoy of vehicles containing relief goods from Tajikistan capital Dushanbe on Thursday entered Afghanistan through Sher Khan border.He
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PAKISTAN: The torrential rain followed by floods have washed away an ancient graveyard in the Battagram area of the Charsadda district in Khyber Pakhunkhwa, residents said. The local people said the graveyard was spread over 50 Kanal of land and had over 600 graves. The people from five villages around had laid to rest their
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PESHAWAR: Five school going children were swept away in flash floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Upper Dir city while returning from school on Wednesday. Residents said bodies of four children were recovered by the locals, whereas, the fifth body was pulled out by the rescue team. A number of houses collapsed and damaged while several
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