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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 ...

No fewer than 701 persons have lost their lives in 53 boat accidents in the country between January 2020 and October 2022, The PUNCH has learnt. The fatalities, which involved the passengers and the boat operators, were attributed to overloading, ...

Many states have been submerged by floods with some residents in Kogi, Anambra, Bauchi, Gombe among others in the affected areas currently facing a tough time. The incidents have recorded human and material losses with several sacked from their homes. ...

Thousands of travelers and residents of Lokoja, Kogi State capital are currently stranded as the city has been overrun by heavy flooding. The Lokoja-Abuja road which connects the North and South has practically been cut off, thereby paralyzing economic activities,  ...

No fewer than 850 houses have been destroyed after a fresh flood disaster swept through eight federal wards in Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State.  An official from the Information and Protocol Unit of the Council Area, Mohammed Yusuf, ...