National Emergency Management Agency says more than 300 have been killed by flood across Nigeria

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says more than 300 people have so far been killed in flood disaster across Nigeria in 2022.

The Director General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmad, disclosed this at a strategic workshop with stakeholders on disaster risk reduction and management held in Abuja.

He said over 50 flood disaster alerts were received by the agency on a daily basis, with more 100 communities affected.

Noting that 2022 flood disaster will be worse than that of 2012, Ahmed blamed state governments for not heeding to the warnings, which he said makes disaster reduction and management very difficult.