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A day after flooding havoc, special team clears shanties on Lagos-Badagry Expressway

Following a day of devastating floods that wreaked havoc on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, a Special Intervention Team, established under the guidance of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, swung into action on Sunday to address the issue. The torrential rainfall had triggered flooding in numerous areas across Lagos, including sections of the vital expressway, causing significant distress to Read More…

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Disaster Featured Nigeria Notes Owei Lakemfa

Nigerians can’t breathe

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 per cent 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 Read More…

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Why are this year’s West and Central Africa floods so bad?

A Reuters Analysis Since June, parts of West and Central Africa have been getting unusually heavy rains for this time of year. This has caused terrible floods that have hurt millions of people and buried farms in 19 countries. The causes of the flooding as well as information on their impact, according to a Reuters Read More…