{"id":66545,"date":"2023-09-13T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=66545"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:19:17","slug":"nema-puts-13-states-50-communities-on-flooding-red-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=66545","title":{"rendered":"NEMA puts 13 States, 50 communities on flooding red alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Relying on the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">National Flood Early Warning Systems (FEWS) Central Hub for its predictions, t<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">he National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 13 states and 50 communities, mainly up North, are likely to witness heavy rainfall that may lead to flooding between Wednesday, Sept. 13 and Friday, September 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Lagos Territorial Coordinator, NEMA, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Farinloye listed the states and communities to include Kano State, with communities like Sumaila and Kunchi, likely to be affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">He also said that Kebbi State, with communities like Argungu, and Katsina State, with Bindawa, Jibia, Kaita, Katsina communities would be affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Other states he said were Niger, with Kontagora, Mashegu, and New Bussa communities, as well as Kwara State, and Kosubosu community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cZamfara State, with such communities as Kaura Namoda and Shinkafi; Bauchi State, with Bajoga, Darazo, Kirfi, Azare, Jama \u2018are, Itas, Misau;\u00a0 Taraba, with Bali, Donga, Lau, Serti, Mutum-Biyu, Yorro, and Borno State, with Briyel, Biu, Dikwa, Kukawa will be affected,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">He also said that Adamawa with Ganye, Mubi, Demsa, Jimeta, Mayo Belwa, Numan, Shelleng, Song, communities as well as Yobe, with Dapchi, Gashua, Geidam, Kanamma, Machina, Potiskum would be affceted.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Gombe State with Nafada and Jigawa, with Dutse, Gumel, Gwaram, Miga communities were the other states and communities the territorial coordinator said would be affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Farinloye added that due to the rise in the water levels of Rivers Benue and Niger, communities along the two Rivers, up to Bayelsa were advised to take precautionary measures in the coming days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u25aa\ufe0e Report by <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>NAN<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_230913_161636_554.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relying on the National Flood Early Warning Systems (FEWS) Central Hub for its predictions, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 13 states and 50 communities, mainly up North, are likely to witness heavy rainfall that may lead to flooding between Wednesday, Sept. 13 and Friday, September 17. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Lagos Territorial Coordinator, NEMA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1317,5131,2201],"class_list":["post-66545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alert","tag-flooding","tag-nema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66545","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=66545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}