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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 20, 2019 a public transport bus drives in a flooded Agege Motor Road, in the local Government Area of Mushin town, Lagos. – Severe climate impacts will unavoidably ravage nature and humankind by mid-century or sooner, according to the draft of a landmark report from the UN’s climate science advisory body obtained by AFP.Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, crippling health impacts from disease and heat, water shortages, migration from cities devastated by rising seas all will accelerate in the coming decades no matter how rapidly the carbon emissions that drive global warming are cut, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)The massive floods that brought movement and commercial activities to a standstill in Lagos over the previous weekend did not come as a surprise given that efforts to stem the recurrent annual flooding in the teeming mega-city have been less than adequate.
Rains pound Europe, US, China, houses submerged, cars washed away, over 200 killed The Punch
Published 24 July 2021
People affected by recent floodings in Lagos and some parts of the world have yet to get over the incidents, Afeez Hanafi and Percy Ani report
A homely apartment sheltering Mrs Dorcas Nicholas, her husband and their children became a desolate ambience last Friday. The family squatted in their neighbour’s room for three trying nights elongated by uneasy sleep.
They were among several households temporarily displaced by floods that rocked Jakande Estate and other parts of Lekki, Lagos State last Friday. Furniture, clothes, electronics and household equipment were submerged, leaving Nicholas helpless.
Prepare for severe floods in Sept, NIHSA warns Lagos residents The Punch
Published 19 July 2021
The floods that were recorded in many parts of Lagos on Friday may be far less than what residents of the commercial city will experience in September, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency warned on Sunday.
The agency also stated that no new holding dam had been constructed across the River Niger in Nigeria and the course of the Ladgo Dam in Cameroon to mitigate the impact of flood arising from the possible opening of the dam.
The Director-General, NIHSA, Clement Nze, told our correspondent that a dam was being designed by experts for that purpose ahead of the actual budget preparation for the facility.
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