The capacity of Lagos roads has been exhausted and needs innovative solutions to expand, an official said on Wednesday. Mr Adeyemi Adeniyi, Technical Adviser, Public Transport (Road and Infrastructure), Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), made this known in Lagos at a public lecture. Adeniji spoke at the lecture organised by the Association of Professional…

Mud-brown floodwaters have swamped scores of homes and caused "incredible" damage in eastern Australia, authorities said Tuesday, warning of a long-haul recovery ahead. Storms dumped more than 1.5 metres (59 inches) of rain in parts of Queensland in the past week, engulfing homes, businesses and roads, officials said. "The devastation is quite frankly, incredible," the…

An international organisation, the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), has distributed relief and recovery items to 1,100 households affected by the 2024 flood disaster in Kogi State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the items were provided by ECHO through the International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies (IFRC)…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has extended support to approximately 1,000 individuals affected by the 2024

The Borno State Government has successfully distributed food and relief materials to 63,000 victims of recent floods in Ngala Local Government Area (LGA). The distribution targeted Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and members of host communities severely affected by the disaster. The relief items, donated by the Federal Government, included essential food grains such as maize,…

The head of Spain's eastern Valencia region admitted Friday to "mistakes" in handling the country's deadliest flood in decades that killed 216 people there and apologised. The October 29 disaster claimed 224 lives nationwide. The floods wrecked infrastructure, gutted buildings and submerged fields. The final bill is expected to soar to tens of billions of…

Spanish navy diver Alvaro Carrillo donned his wetsuit and prepared a speedboat to scour a normally picturesque lagoon made murky by a sea of debris -- and potentially bodies. As rescuers painstakingly seek victims of Spain's deadliest floods in decades in inland towns and fields, Carrillo's team is shifting the hunt for the dozens of…

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited Joint Venture (SPDC JV), on Friday, announced the donation of $1M to provide relief to over 500,000 affected by floods in Borno. The announcement is contained in a statement by Mrs. Gladys Afam-Anadu, the Media Relations Manager at SPDC. Afam-Anadu quoted the Managing Director of SPDC and…

The Federal government, in a move to address flooding, erosion, drought, and desertification, has appointed the minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Professor Joseph Utsev, to the National Flood, Erosion, Drought, and Desertification Management Council (NFEDDMC). The appointment was approved by the National Economic Council (NEC) at its 142nd meeting at the State House in…

Spain will deploy 10,000 more troops and police officers to the eastern Valencia region devastated by historic floods that have killed 211 people, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. Hopes of finding survivors more than three days after torrents of muddy water submerged towns and wrecked infrastructure were slim in the European country's deadliest…

Residents at the Iyana Ejigbo bus stop in Ejigbo Local Council were left stranded yesterday after an early morning downpour

The Bayelsa Government has confirmed it received N3 billion flood prevention fund disbursed in August by the Federal Government to flood prone states. Mr Timiore Seipolou, Technical Adviser to Bayelsa Governor on Treasury and Accounts, disclosed this on Monday in Yenegoa while giving a breakdown of revenue profile of the state for August and September.…