While expressing concerns for victims of the devastating flood across the country, Nigerian Environmental Society (NES) has admonished the Nigerian government to be alive to its responsibility to protect its citizens. The society said that the government should develop and implement a National Flooding Mitigation and Response Master Plan. In a statement by its Interim National President, Victor Imevbore, the NES …

Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege has urged on the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, the National Emergency Management Agency, and the Delta State Emergency Management Agency, as well as other relevant agencies to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to affected flood victims in Delta State and other parts of the country. Senator Omo-Agege, who is also the …

No fewer than five people have been confirmed dead after last Thursday’s heavy downpour in Ilorin, Kwara State while property worth millions of naira were also lost to the flood. It was gathered that two human bodies and a Toyota Yaris car with registration number APP 544 E were removed from a river opposite Olusola Saraki abattoir, along Sobi Road …