Évacuate Now, Communities Near Niger, Benue, Gongola Rivers Told

Communities connected the Niger, Benue, Kogi, and Gongola River floodplains country person been told to relocate from their abodes due to the fact that of a menace of flood resulting from a dense downpour successful the adjacent fewer days.

The Federal Ministry of Environment astatine the play issued a caller flood informing to Delta State and 10 different bluish states done its National Flood Early Warning Centre (FEW Centre) successful Abuja.

A circular signed by the director, Erosion, Flood and Coastal Zone Management Department, Usman Abdullahi Bokani,  stated that the underlisted locations and environs are apt to witnesser dense rainfall that whitethorn pb to flooding wrong the play of prediction -14th – 18th September, 2025

Adamawa State, Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba, Niger, and Kebbi State are among the 10 bluish states placed connected reddish alert. Others see Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara, and Delta State, the lone confederate authorities mentioned successful the circular.

The circular warned that immoderate communities on Adamawa’s Numan Local authorities and Lokoja successful Kogi authorities whitethorn acquisition flooding owed to the emergence successful the h2o level of the rivers Gongola, Benue and Niger.

The flood alert further advised settlers surviving on the plains of the River Gongola, particularly the portion that moves up to Numan, including the flood plain of the River Benue and Niger up to Lokoja, to determination distant from those locations to avert immoderate hazard of being affected by the earthy disaster.

Prominent towns listed connected the circular see Ganye, Makurdi, Bali, Abraka, Donga, Okpo-Krika, Gwarzo, Makira, Gusau, Shinkafi, Udoma, Serti, Rijau successful Niger State and galore others.

Zamfara State, which has the highest fig of towns enactment connected this reddish alert, was warned to support ticker implicit Kaura Namoda, Shinkafi, Maradun, Gusau, Anka and Bungudu.

In aboriginal August, Nigerian upwind authorities warned that parts of 21 of the country’s 36 states were apt to acquisition flooding owed to dense rains.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) said “conditions are highly conducive for aggravated and prolonged rainfall, which, erstwhile combined with already saturated ungraded profiles and elevated stream levels, importantly increases the hazard of flooding”

Communities successful the flood-prone areas were advised to relocate to safer areas.