Govt Issues Flood Alert To 15 States

The Federal Ministry of Environment has issued a flood informing affecting 15 states and 69 circumstantial locations.

The informing cautions that dense rainfall forecasted from 24 to 28 September 2025 whitethorn effect successful flooding wrong circumstantial communities.

The alert was disseminated by the Ministry’s National Flood Early Warning Centre connected Wednesday, nether the signature of Usman Abdullahi Bokani, the Director of the Erosion, Flood, and Coastal Zone Management Department.

This advisory forms portion of the Ministry’s regular aboriginal informing system, designed to mitigate the risks of nonaccomplishment of beingness and spot during the highest rainy season.

Flooding has go a persistent earthy catastrophe successful Nigeria, displacing thousands of residents yearly, damaging captious infrastructure, and threatening nutrient information nationwide. The National Emergency Management Agency reported that by 20 September 2025, 232 individuals had tragically mislaid their lives, portion 121,224 others had been forced from their homes owed to floods that had swept done assorted regions of the country.

Further statistic uncover that astatine slightest 339,658 radical person been affected by flooding, with 681 sustaining assorted injuries. The Flood Early Warning Centre has stated, “Heavy rainfall is expected crossed 15 states nationwide betwixt 24th and 28th September 2025. This whitethorn pb to flooding successful the pursuing locations and their surroundings.”

The locations identified include: Adamawa: Farkumo, Jimeta, Mayo-Belwa, Wuro Bokki, Yola; Anambra, Ogbakuba; Bayelsa, Amassoma, Ikpidama, Kalama, Kolokuma/Opokuma, Odi, Odoni, Ogbia, Oloibiri, Oporoma, Otouke, Peremabiri, Sagbama, Yenagoa; Borno, Damasak; Delta, Abigborodo, Aboh, Abraka, Agbor, Asaba, Forcados, Koko, Okoloba, Okpo-Krika, Patani, Sapele, Ughelli, Warri, Umugboma, Umukwata and Umuchi-Utchi.

Other states are Edo, Benin City, Okada; Imo, Egbema, Oguta; Kano, Bebeji, Gezawa, Gwarzo, Kano, Karaye, Tudun-Wada, Wudil; Katsina, Jibia; Ondo, Akure, Ikare, Ita-Ogbolu; Oyo, Iseyin, Oyo; Rivers, Ahoada, Itu; Sokoto, Isa, Shagari; Taraba, Bandawa, Gembu, Ngaruwa, Serti and Zamfara, Anka, Bungudu, Bukuyum, Gummi, Gusau, Kaura Namoda, Maradun, Shinkafi.

The Ministry has urged each stakeholders to heed this warning, hole adequately, and instrumentality preventive measures successful anticipation of the impending rains.

In airy of the terrible interaction flooding has had connected communities nationwide, section governments and assemblage leaders indispensable instrumentality proactive steps. This includes ensuring that drainage systems are wide and functional, providing exigency structure for at-risk people, and disseminating accusation to residents astir staying harmless during utmost upwind conditions.

With the rainy play successful afloat swing, the value of assemblage consciousness and preparedness cannot beryllium overstated. The imaginable for flooding poses important risks, making it indispensable for everyone to stay vigilant and acceptable to respond to emergencies arsenic they arise. The Ministry’s telephone to enactment serves arsenic a timely reminder that mentation and consciousness are cardinal to mitigating the effects of earthy disasters.