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With the rainy play intensifying and flood risks mounting nationwide, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has urged communities to wide drainage channels, halt dumping discarded successful waterways, relocate from flood-prone areas, and heed aboriginal informing advisories to forestall avoidable disasters.
Director General of NEMA, Mr Zubaida Umar, gave the proposal successful Yobe State.
She said the 2026 Seasonal Climate Prediction and Annual Flood Outlook bespeak heightened flood risks crossed Nigeria, including parts of Yobe that person historically suffered displacement, farmland loss, and infrastructure damage.
“Communities are encouraged to wide drainage channels, debar indiscriminate dumping of discarded successful waterways, relocate from highly flood-prone locations wherever necessary, and strictly heed aboriginal informing advisories,” Mrs Umar said.
The NEMA DG besides called connected parents to support children distant from flood waters and erosion-prone areas during dense rainfall.
“I besides telephone connected accepted rulers, spiritual leaders, younker groups, and assemblage volunteers to enactment consciousness instauration and mobilization efforts aimed astatine strengthening assemblage preparedness and resilience against flooding and different hazards”, she called.
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