The National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) reported on Monday that the affected states—Jigawa, Adamawa, and Taraba—have seen significant impacts, with 41,344 individuals displaced.
NEMA spokesperson Manzo Ezekiel highlighted the severity of the situation, stating that Nigeria is only at the onset of the peak flood season, especially in the northern regions.
This follows the country’s worst flooding event in over a decade in 2022, which resulted in more than 600 deaths, around 1.4 million displacements, and the destruction of 440,000 hectares of farmland.
The recent floods have also ravaged approximately 693 hectares of agricultural land, exacerbating the nation’s struggle with double-digit inflation, largely driven by rising food prices.
The situation has been further complicated by the fact that farmers in the northeast are abandoning their farms due to ongoing militant attacks.
According to this year’s flood outlook from the government, 31 out of Nigeria’s 36 states are at risk of experiencing severe flooding.
Ezekiel noted that high tide from upstream areas of the River Niger is contributing to the flood risk in Nigeria, highlighting the accuracy of previous flood predictions.
