Overall Green alert Flood for Nigeria
in Nigeria

Event summary

Flood Nigeria can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1101078
Death: 5
Displaced: 75
Countries: Nigeria
From - To 09 Sep - 14 Sep

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Ebonyi State, Nigeria, September 2021Floods affected several villages in Ishielu Local Government Area (LGA) of Ebonyi State, Nigeria on 11 September 2021. According to local media reports, 15 homes were badly damaged or destroyed, displacing around 15 families. Crops were also destroyed.Mon 13 Sep 2021FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

‘The climate crisis is a reality’: Africa’s summer of extremes2021-09-09T14:39+0200.

Over the past few months, there has been deadly heat and wildfires in Algeria, devastating flooding in countries including Uganda and Nigeria and severe drought conditions in southern Madagascar, driving widespread famine in the island nati
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Flood Destroys 4 Houses, Church in Akwa Ibom2021-09-03T16:40+0200.

Heavy rainfall at Eket in Akwa Ibom on Thursday destroyed four houses and a church. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the torrential rainfall lasted for 14 hours between 4a.m. and 6p.m. and also destroyed many
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Flood destroys 4 houses, church in Akwa Ibom2021-09-03T16:13+0200.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the torrential rainfall lasted for 14 hours between 4a.m. and 6p.m. and also destroyed many shops. Testimony expressed displeasure at the early rainfall in September saying i
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Flood destroys four houses, church in Akwa Ibom2021-09-03T14:50+0200.

Four houses and a church were on Thursday destroyed after a heavy rainfall in Eket, Akwa Ibom. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the torrential rainfall lasted for 14 hours between 4a.m. and 6p.m. and also de
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),