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The Presidency has waded into the row trailing the flood situation in Bayelsa State and the reaction of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, on the situation. Umar Farouq, during the weekly Ministerial Briefing, hosted ...

The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), on Monday, said it will require N100 billion intervention fund from the Federal Government for urgent repairs of roads damaged by flood across the country. The Managing Director of FERMA, Engr. Nurudeen Abdulrahman Rafindadi, ...

…Ijaw youths fault Tinubu wife’s N50m donation The United Nations on Saturday described the flood disaster in Bayelsa State as a crisis of major proportion deserving attention. The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria and Representative of the Secretary-General, Matthias ...

…As Buhari commits to welfare, well-being of all Nigerians, Bayelsa govt faults minister As the ravaging floods finally recede across the country after weeks of havoc, the natural disaster has recorded about 40 percent increase in the figure of internally ...

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning on Sunday after a Halloween crush killed some 151 people in a packed nightlife area in Seoul. Yoon expressed condolences to the victims, mostly teenagers and people in their ...

…Bayelsa IDPs need food, not soap or clothes, state tells FG The National Emergency Management Agency said on Friday that flood water in some of the affected states was receding, but warned that owners of submerged houses should not be ...

The Nigerian Medical Association on Wednesday raised the alarm over the floods across Nigeria, warning the country was at a high risk of waterborne diseases. The President of the NMA, Dr Uche Ojinmah, in an interview with one of our ...

Flooding caused by torrential rain in Niger has left 195 people dead and affected more than 322,000, an official toll showed on Saturday. This year’s rainy season is one of the deadliest in the West African country’s history. As of ...

The Federal Government is mulling two measures — a Flood Fund and a National Policy on Flood Insurance — to mitigate the effects of floods in the country. A document on National Flood Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (NFEPRP), which ...

The Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has said that States in the North-Central and South-Eastern zones of Nigeria should brace up for more flooding. The director-general of NiMet, Professor Mansur Bako Matazu, stated this on the sideline of the ongoing Hydro-meteorological ...