There’s a spooky sense in which it is true that neither the devastation already recorded nor NiMet’s warning may be the worst thing to happen.
More than 31,000 households across 258 communities in 17 local government areas of the state were hit by various natural disasters this year.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed relief materials to people displaced by flood in nine local government areas of Kogi.
About 85 passengers were in the boat ferrying from Onukwu Bridge to Nkwo Ogbakuba Market when it capsized on Friday morning.
A total of 16,625 houses were damaged by the disasters, and 1,620 farmlands submerged in Kafur, Danja and Ingawa LGAs.
NEMA asked states in flood-predicted areas, especially in South-South, “to act and mitigate the impact of the flooding on the people.”
It said floods had ravaged more than five local governments, mainly in Anambra East, Anambra West, Ayamelum, Ogbaru and Awka South.
The senate also urged relevant agencies to provide timely warning to flood-prone areas to forestall the loss of lives and property.
The Lagos State Government has vowed to investigate the cause of the building collapse.
