{"id":54215,"date":"2019-09-09T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.140.144.153\/2019\/09\/09\/how-nigeria-is-preparing-for-anticipated-september-floods\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:56:16","slug":"how-nigeria-is-preparing-for-anticipated-september-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/how-nigeria-is-preparing-for-anticipated-september-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nigeria is preparing for anticipated September floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"dailymotion-responsive-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k1xwP6DEhW5yAouBtgF\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><\/div><br \/>\nHow Nigeria is preparing for anticipated September floods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (HSA) says more flooding is expected in September. Meanwhile, emergency agencies have called for more funding from the government to face the challenges ahead. To discuss this development, Timothy Iwuagwu, Chairman of the Lagos State Branch (LSB) at the Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria (ISPN) joins CNBC Africa for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1077,1076],"tags":[3060,23028],"class_list":["post-54215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-flooding","tag-hydrological-services-agency","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Nigeria is preparing for anticipated September floods - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How Nigeria is preparing for anticipated September floods\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/how-nigeria-is-preparing-for-anticipated-september-floods\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Nigeria is preparing for anticipated September floods - 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