Floods: Nigeria Submerged

In the last decade, there has been steady increase in the number of natural environmental insecurity in Nigeria. This ranges from climatic issues such as desert encroachment to erosions and flooding. Even with the number of deaths and destructions often recorded during any of such natural disasters, their domination of our national security discuss is very minimal and short live. Since 2011, Nigeria has been aggravated by incessant rainfalls and their consequential flood disasters. In the first ten months of 2018 alone, ravaging floods had submerged many communities, killed hundreds of persons, displaced several thousands, and destroyed countless homes and livelihoods across the country. On account of these developments, this edition of Nextier SPD Weekly analyses the issue of floods, disaster management culture and provides recommendations to mitigate the phenomenon.

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