Nigerian Floods Claim Many Lives and Destroy Agriculture, Increasing Food Shortages

According to Nigeria’s disaster management organization, weeks of flooding have destroyed houses and farmlands and killed close to 200 people. This has put food supplies at greater risk, particularly in the severely affected northern area.

In 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states, the floods caused by poorly maintained dams and inadequate infrastructure have resulted in 185 fatalities and 208,000 displaced people, according to a Friday report from the National Emergency Management Agency. This has sparked desperate attempts to get hundreds of thousands of people into temporary shelters.

Nigeria experiences annual flooding primarily due to insufficient infrastructure and disregard for environmental regulations. In 2022, the nation had its worst floods in ten years, resulting in over 600 fatalities and over a million homeless persons.

However, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency anticipated delayed or normal precipitation in most regions of the country this year, in contrast to 2022 when the floods were attributed to greater rainfall. The agency stated that human activity was primarily to blame for the current floods.

The chief of the central forecasting unit, Ibrahim Wasiu Adeniyi, stated, “There is a shift from the normal because of what we are doing that is causing this climate change.” “There are people who build houses along the waterways without permission, and there are others who dispose of trash carelessly,” he continued.

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