{"id":47864,"date":"2024-09-10T08:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T08:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47864"},"modified":"2024-09-10T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T08:50:43","slug":"maiduguri-flooded-as-alau-dam-breaks-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/10\/maiduguri-flooded-as-alau-dam-breaks-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Maiduguri Flooded as Alau Dam Breaks Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Maiduguri in Borno are on high alert as a flood has submerged many homes following the alleged breakdown of the Alau dam, which has been filled to capacity for the past week.<\/p>\n<p>A statement in the early hours of Tuesday by information commissioner Usman Tar, titled \u2018Flooding Alert for River Bank Residents\u2019, called for immediate evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cDue to the unusually high volume of water this year, we urge all the residents living along the river bank to take immediate action to protect themselves and their properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Alau Dam water has broken down another channel that is currently destroying farms and the water is heading toward the river bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tar also urged the residents of the affected areas to follow evacuation routes to ensure safe passage.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the dam had such a problem was in 1994,\u00a0 resulting in unprecedented flooding in Maiduguri when almost half of the town was flooded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Maiduguri in Borno are on high alert as a flood has submerged many homes following the alleged breakdown of the Alau dam, which has been filled to capacity for the past week. A statement in the early hours of Tuesday by information commissioner Usman Tar, titled \u2018Flooding Alert for River Bank Residents\u2019, called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":47865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47864","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\/47864","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47879,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47864\/revisions\/47879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}