{"id":26393,"date":"2024-04-08T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=26393"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:20:30","slug":"taraba-flood-one-dead-another-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/08\/taraba-flood-one-dead-another-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Taraba Flood: One Dead, Another Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Nguroje Community in Taraba State&#8217;s Sardauna Local Government Area faced unprecedented devastation following a flood on Saturday. This calamity, unfamiliar to the region, resulted in the official declaration of one death, with another person still missing. Nelson Lens, representing the area in the Taraba State House of Assembly, confirmed the casualties and the extensive damage inflicted upon the village.<\/p>\n<p>Lens, speaking from Jalingo, the state capital, on Sunday, expressed profound shock at the tragedy. He underscored its uniqueness in the region and lamented not only the loss of life but also the disappearance of a community member. The floodwaters wreaked havoc, destroying numerous hectares of agricultural land and multiple dwellings.<\/p>\n<p>The relentless rain, lasting for several hours, caused widespread destruction and rendered many residents homeless. Lens emphasized the urgent need for aid and support for the affected families grappling with the aftermath of the disaster. In response to the crisis, impacted individuals have been temporarily relocated to public facilities such as schools and places of worship.<\/p>\n<p>The affected community members have issued a plea for assistance, urging both the state government and the North East Development Commission (NEDC) to intervene and provide essential aid to the victims during this challenging period. This flood tragedy compounds the recent hardship faced by the northeastern state, following a severe windstorm that ravaged the Takum Local Government Area, testing the resilience of its populace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu The Nguroje Community in Taraba State&#8217;s Sardauna Local Government Area faced unprecedented devastation following a flood on Saturday. This calamity, unfamiliar to the region, resulted in the official declaration of one death, with another person still missing. Nelson Lens, representing the area in the Taraba State House of Assembly, confirmed the casualties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26396,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions\/26396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}