For weeks especially the month of October, the South South states have been impacted by the unprecedented flooding prompted by extreme rainfall. This submerged homes and farmland and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.This can be seen particularly in Bayelsa State where loss of lives, assets and means of livelihood to floodings have been recorded. …

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Although Nigeria has experienced flooding in the past, especially in 2012 when the rivers Benue and Niger overflowed their banks, the flooding especially in October 2022 was on a whole different scale. About 600 people lost their lives while more than a million people were displaced, the Minister for Humanitarian Services has said. Whole communities …

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