Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
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Nigeria: Death Toll Rises to 18 in Mubi From Cholera Outbreak
Yola — The death toll following the cholera outbreak in Mubi, Adamawa State, has risen from 16 to 18, the Incident Manager, Kabiru Sadiq, has said. Speaking with THISDAY in Mubi Wednesday, Sadiq said
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Nigeria Has High Tuberculosis Burden, Ranks 7th Globally
The minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewale has said that Nigeria emerged 7th amongst the high TB burden countries globally and second in Africa, which has further underscored the need for concerted efforts
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Nigeria: 165M Nigerians Lack Basic Hygiene Facilities, Say Unicef, WaterAid
Abuja — The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and an international non-governmental organisation, WaterAid, have revealed in separate but unified documents that 87 per cent (165.3 million) of Nigerians
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Nigeria Mulls Strategy to Phase Out Non-Bio Degradable Plastics
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed a plan to commence the recycling of waste polymer notes. The announcement came as the bank marked World Environment Day 2018, yesterday. The United
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Three decades of poverty mobility in Nigeria: the trapped, the freed, and the never trapped
Individuals do escape poverty during periods of overall rise in the poverty rate; they also transit into poverty during periods of overall decline in the poverty rate. A static poverty estimate drawn from
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Three persons killed, 20 houses destroyed as flood ravages Gombe
Flooding caused by heavy rainfall has killed three people and destroyed 20 houses in Gombe State. Eight other persons were injured from the effects of the rainfall, an official said. Some of the
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Nigeria: Govt Rescues Abia Community From Erosion Menace
Umuahia — SUCCOUR has come the way of erosion ravaged Amachara community, Umuahia South Council of Abia State, as the Federal Government, last week, commissioned a N400 million flood erosion control project
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Nigeria: Floods Render Boko Haram Victims Further Homeless
Maiduguri — Flooding has left more than 12 000 refugees displaced by the Boko Haram terror group homeless in northeastern Nigeria. The Borno State, which is the epicentre of the terrorism by the Muslim
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Africa50 to participate with developing the Desert to Power Programme
Africa50, Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are set to develop solar projects in the Sahel through the Desert to Power Programme. On the sidelines of the African
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Nigeria: Vaccination Still Eludes 75 Percent of Nigerian Children- Report
Children under the age of five maybe facing a bleak future as the 2017 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, MICS, show that over 75 percent of Nigeria's children age 0 to 59 months were not fully immunized