Fifty people dead, many displaced in the Floodings of Northern Nigeria

A least fifty people have died, and a number of them have even been displaced after the recent floods caused by torrential rains in northern Nigeria, informed Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency for Jigawa State, said.

A least fifty people have died, and a number of them have even been displaced after the recent floods caused by torrential rains in northern Nigeria, informed Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency for Jigawa State, said.

“When you go around [Jigawa State], we have lost about 50 people to the flood,” Yusuf informed the sources of a local news channel

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According to him, at least 237 homes had been damaged in the Balangu region alone, which has forced people into temporary camps. He said a total of Eleven temporary camps had to be set up for those displaced.

The Nigerian Federal Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Farouq, also recently visited Jigawa State to distribute relief materials. The federal ministry informed via a tweet.

“This is an unfortunate incident because it has become perennial. The floods are causing serious damage to schools, houses, and the people’s livelihood,” said the minister.

Farouq said that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari had told the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to activate National Emergency Management Agency in order to provide the necessary support to the people affected by the floods in Nigeria.

The floods have followed days of severe thunderstorms, prompting flash flooding warnings from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency.

Many parts of Jigawa are going through a period of vulnerability to flooding after the rainstorms. Earlier this month, seven people died, and many buildings were destroyed following flooding from heavy rains in seven districts in the northeastern state of Nigeria.

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In 2021, more than 120 families were displaced in the state’s Guri district when floods submerged their homes after a heavy downpour.

Water resources minister Suleiman Adamu, who also hails from Jigawa, told local media two years ago that there is no immediate solution to the flooding problem faced by the country,

Adamu said that desilting a river is not a solution to flooding. It’s a temporary solution. It takes a lot of money. If all the budgets of the federal government and Jigawa State are combined to desilt River Hadejia, we cannot achieve it.”

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