More than 100,000 people have been displaced by floods caused by persistent heavy rains in Nigeria.
In a statement to the press, the director general of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustafa Habib, said that people in the region are going through a difficult time in many settlements due to the flooding in the country.
Habib noted that more than 100,000 people have been made homeless in 29 states as well as in the capital, Abuja, due to floods caused by the country’s torrential rains.
Habib said more than 500 people were injured in the floods and more than half a million people were adversely affected by the disaster.
Habib pointed out that some victims were temporarily sheltering in surrounding schools and public buildings, and said the government had set up temporary camps for some victims.
Habib said he was committed to providing humanitarian aid to the public, stressing that infectious diseases such as cholera and malaria were also caused by the floods.
More than 400 people have died in floods caused by persistent rains in Nigeria.
Climate change and environment experts have warned that 53 million people in the country are at risk of flooding.