Floods affect over 4 million Nigerians by 2022 - NEME The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says that more than four million Niger...
Floods affect over 4 million Nigerians by 2022 - NEME
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says that more than four million Nigerians will be affected by storms by 2022.
The Director General of NEMA, Ahmed Mustapha Habib, said that in 2022, more than 4 million people in Nigeria will be hit by floods. He said this on Thursday in Uyo during the launch of a disaster warning program for the people of the country.
He also said that 665 Nigerians died because of the flood, that over 2 million people lost their homes, that the flood destroyed 355,986 homes, and that it filled 944,989 hectares of farmland.
The President said that the agency, the Meteorological Agency (NiMet), and the Nigerian Water Resources Management Agency (NIHSA) have sent experts to the 36 states of the country and the federal capital, Abuja, to find out what caused the floods.
He said that the move will help set up an early warning system for storms before the monsoon season starts.
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