{"id":1336,"date":"2024-08-27T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/at-least-170-killed-in-weeks-of-flooding-in-nigeria-authorities-say\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:01:23","slug":"at-least-170-killed-in-weeks-of-flooding-in-nigeria-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/at-least-170-killed-in-weeks-of-flooding-in-nigeria-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 170 killed in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Northern Nigeria has been hit hardest by the floods, according to Manzo Ezekiel, who speaks for the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA). Other parts of the country however remain at risk, he added, amid torrential rains and the rising water levels of its two largest rivers \u2014 the Niger and the Benue.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            \u201cThe pattern of\u00a0flooding in Nigeria is such that\u00a0it usually\u00a0happens on the\u00a0northern side before moving to the central and the southern parts\u2026 because the water\u00a0flows downwards,\u201d Ezekiel said. \u201cIn the coming days, the central parts will soon witness similar\u00a0floods, and even\u00a0downwards to the southern parts.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Although parts of Nigeria are prone to floods during the rainy season, Ezekiel said this year\u2019s flooding has been reported in areas where it had previously been rare.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Environmentalists partly blame the country\u2019s annual floods on poor drainage infrastructure.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            More than 600 people were killed in floods across the country in 2022, the worst recorded in the West African nation in more than a decade.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Authorities attributed that flooding to above-average rainfall and the overflowing of the Lagdo dam in Cameroon.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Last week, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) warned that flood waters from neighboring Niger and Mali were \u201cexpected to move gradually into Nigeria\u201d while urging states located along the River Niger to be on alert.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            The country\u2019s meteorological agency NIMET has also warned of the risk of flash floods<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>across the country.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Nigeria has been hit hardest by the floods, according to Manzo Ezekiel, who speaks for the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA). Other parts of the country however remain at risk, he added, amid torrential rains and the rising water levels of its two largest rivers \u2014 the Niger and the Benue. \u201cThe pattern of\u00a0flooding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}