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Flooding: Brace for impact
IN Nigeria, the rainy season often brings bad news. As the rains grow heavier and more frequent, both the government and citizens are gripped by the fear of flooding. Numerous areas have already ...
Ecological experts and advocates have tasked the Nigerian government to ensure that environmental rights are made justiciable to avoid the environmental ...
Climate change and its resultant effect on our daily lives is a reality. The effect of climate change is multi-faceted. It goes beyond increased rain, flooding, increase in temperature and drought.
Following the yearly flooding cycle that devastates states and communities, leaving a trail of deaths and destruction, states ...
So to avoid future occurrences, we are probing all the railway lines, including all the federal highways I have been to, to ...
In Okitipupa, Ondo State, ten buildings collapsed after erosion breached a local stream bank. In Mokwa, Niger State, 265 ...
Experts in the field of climate change and other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as well as Academia on Monday called for ...
The worst-affected countries included Chad, where nearly 2 million people had been impacted, followed by Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon, which are also facing severe displacement and damage to essential ...
The global population aged 65 and older is projected to increase from 10% in 2024 to 16% by 2050, primarily in low and middle ...
States including Sokoto, Lagos, Edo, Benue, and 16 others are at serious risk of experiencing flash floods in the month of ...