With much of Makurdi and other towns in Benue suffering under the weight of unprecedented flooding, the National Emergency Management Agency has received a distressed call of eminent \u00a0flood in Sarkin Noma, Ganaja in Lokoja LGA and Igala mela LGA of Kogi State, among others.
\nFollowing the \u00a0alert, the Agency has immediately established contact with the State Commissioner for Environment, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and other relevant stakeholders while a team from the agency is due to arrive the state for appropriate action to the affected persons and communities.
\nNEMA \u00a0has strongly advised \u00a0the communities living around the flood Plains to immediately relocate to higher grounds for safety to avoid the danger of the eminent.
\nThis is coming as exclusive details of the needs and sufferings of those in Benue was released to everyday.ng, showing that most government agencies were caught napping by the sheer magnitude of the needs of internally displaced persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With much of Makurdi and other towns in Benue suffering under the weight of unprecedented flooding, the National Emergency Management Agency has received a distressed call of eminent \u00a0flood in Sarkin Noma, Ganaja in Lokoja LGA and Igala mela LGA of Kogi State, among others. Following the \u00a0alert, the Agency has immediately established contact with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}