Maiduguri floods and Majiya tanker explosion DISASTERS OF THE YEAR Nigeria witnessed quite a significant number of disasters this year.

Help Needed After Deaths, Losses in Nigeria's Maiduguri Floods Borno State suffers, as one of the worst floods in 30 years leads to the loss of farmland, infrastructure, and hundreds of homes.

The city of Maiduguri, in Nigeria, had been drought-stricken. Then the rains, amplified by climate change, began and wouldn’t stop, inundating homes and overwhelming a dam.

The city of Maiduguri, in northern Nigeria, has been hit by devastating flooding. But is it due to government neglect or climate change — or both?

‘A disaster’: Homes lost, relatives missing in floods in northeast Nigeria Floods have displaced 300,000 people and damaged thousands of buildings, affecting one million people in Maiduguri.

Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on Sunday.

In Nigeria, the authorities said that at least 200 people had died, but that was before the floods hit Maiduguri, which has added at least 30 people to that toll.

‘Half the city underwater’: One million affected by northern Nigeria floods It’s the worst such flooding in the northeastern city of Maiduguri in 30 years, authorities say.

Nigeria: Shettima Says Maiduguri Floods Most Catastrophic in Decades As Victims, Agencies Assess Impact 11 September 2024 Premium Times (Abuja) By Bisi Abidoye ...

#Gravitas | Nigeria's north-eastern state of Borno is grappling with one of its biggest tragedies in decades. Massive flooding triggered by the collapse of the Alua Dam on September 10 has left ...

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed that some Boko Haram commanders held at the Maiduguri New Prison were among those who escaped. Not fewer than 200 inmates have escaped ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Floods in north Nigeria have killed more than 80% of animals in a large zoo with an array of wildlife from lions and crocodiles to buffaloes and ostriches ...