The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised
communities along the River Niger to evacuate immediately to safer
ground.
The agency warned in a statement it issued in Abuja on Saturday that
flooding might occur at any moment following intense rainfall and rises
in water level.
The Director-General of the agency, Malam Muhammad Sani-Sidi, who
gave the advice in the statement, said the agency had received alerts of
the imminent flooding.
He said information given by the authorities in the Republic of Niger
indicated the present water level in the river had reached a point that
may result in flooding that could be compared with that of 2012.
He said: “Niger Basin Authority (NBA) notified Nigeria that rainy
season, which started in the Middle Niger (Burkina Faso and Niger
Republic) in June, has led to a gradual rise of the level of River Niger
in Niamey, Niger Republic.
“This high level of water in Niger Republic is already spreading to Benin Republic, and invariably, to Nigeria.’’
He further said that the level of water in all the hydrological
monitoring stations across the country, as at August 5, had already
exceeded the corresponding values at that time.
credit:newtelegraph
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