{"id":1226438,"date":"2022-10-17T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/watch-nigeria-floods-toll-has-passed-600-government\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:13:29","slug":"watch-nigeria-floods-toll-has-passed-600-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/watch-nigeria-floods-toll-has-passed-600-government\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Nigeria floods toll has passed 600 &#8211; government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/b784a0ce-410b-5caa-bd67-35ad80879856&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x288&amp;resize=5500x3090\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lagos, Nigeria \u2013 More than 600 people are now known to have perished in the worst floods in a decade in Nigeria, according to a new toll released Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster had also forced more than 1.3 million from their homes, said a statement by Nigeria\u2019s ministry of humanitarian affairs, released on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, over 603 lives have been lost as of today October 16, 2022,\u201d said Humanitarian Affairs Minister Sadiya Umar Farouq.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Media briefing by the Hon Minister,  Sadiya Umar Farouq on the recent flooding in the country.  https:\/\/t.co\/QsuzhL49pm<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs (@FMHDSD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FMHDSD\/status\/1581645470648086528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The previous toll from last week stood at 500, but the numbers had risen in part because some state governments had not prepared for the floods, said the minister.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding also completely destroyed more than 82 000 houses and nearly 110 000 hectares (272 000 acres) of farmland, said Umar Farouq.<\/p>\n<p>While the rainy season usually begins around June, the rainfall had been particuarly heavy since August, said the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2012, 363 people died and more than 2.1 million were displaced by flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Sub-Saharan Africa is disproportionately affected by climate change and many of its economies are already struggling from ripple effects of the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>Rice producers have warned that the devastating floods could impact prices in the country of about 200 million people where rice imports are banned to stimulate local production.<\/p>\n<p>The Food Programme and the UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization said last month that Nigeria was among six countries facing a high risk of catastrophic levels of hunger.<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria \u2013 More than 600 people are now known to have perished in the worst floods in a decade in Nigeria, according to a new toll released Sunday. The disaster had also forced more than 1.3 million from their homes, said a statement by Nigeria\u2019s ministry of humanitarian affairs, released on Twitter. \u201cUnfortunately, over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}