ALERT!!!River Niger to Overflow, Leave Now, If You Love Your Lives, NEMA Warns River Bank Communities
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), yesterday warned the communities and settlements along the bank of River Niger to leave now and save lives and properties against sudden over flow of the river due to rapidly rising water level.
Its Director General, Muhammad Sani Sidi, said yesterday that the chances of flooding occurring along the river bank are high in view of intense rainfall and rise in water level.
NEMA, according to him, has received alerts of the flood from the Republic of Niger that the present water level in the river had reached a point that may result in the flood that could be compared with the experience of 2012.
”Niger Basin Authority (NBA) notified Nigeria that rainy season, which started in the Middle Niger (Burkina Faso and Niger Republic) in J...