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.…

Benue State Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Mr. Aondowase Kunde has said that close to 770 households have been displaced due to floods

More than five million Nigerians have been displaced by floods between 2012 and 2022. However, a vast majority of this large number of displaced persons are not accounted for in any form of Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camp, as they simply move into other communities where their influx creates stress on social infrastructure and potentially…

The Kogi State Government has procured massive relief materials for distribution to flood victims in the State to ameliorate the hardship being experienced by flood victims.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has completed the airlift of the relief materials donated by the First Lady, Sen. Remi Tinubu, to victims of the flood disaster in Maiduguri, Borno. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Olusola Akinboyewa, on Thursday in Abuja. Akinboyewa said the…

Around 10 million children across four countries in west and central Africa are being kept out of school due to massive regional flooding, international charity Save the Children said Tuesday. The charity said floods in Nigeria, Mali, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo had driven nearly one million people from their homes. "The unprecedented…