NIHSA’s 2024 Annual Flood Outlook reveals that 148 local government areas across 31 states, including Lagos, Rivers, and Kano, are at high risk of flooding.
“This is to foster partnership, collaboration and cooperation among relevant stakeholders in emergency management in the country,” he said.
The minister gave the early warning, following earlier predictions by the NIgeria Hydrological Services Agency.
Flood related disasters would only be minimised by strict adherence to warnings from relevant authorities, the agency boss warned.
No less than 232 local government areas in Nigeria, cutting across 32 states and the FCT, would suffer severe flooding in 2022.
“The Lagos situation is made worse by the rising sea level from Arctic ice melting in the last decade.”
