{"id":64100,"date":"2025-04-11T11:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64100"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:58:57","slug":"states-race-to-avert-flood-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/11\/states-race-to-avert-flood-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"States Race to Avert Flood Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Nigeria braces for the peak of the rainy season, 30 states and the Federal Capital Territory have swung into action to prevent a looming flood disaster that threatens to engulf over 1,200 communities across 176 local government areas.<\/p>\n<p>This swift mobilisation follows a stark warning from the Federal Government, which has forecasted heavy and prolonged rainfall between April and November.<\/p>\n<p>The alert, issued during the launch of the 2025 Annual Flood Outlook by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency in Abuja, has sparked urgent preparations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Professor Joseph Utsev, revealed that states at the highest risk include Lagos, Bayelsa, Benue, Kogi, Rivers, Delta and Adamawa among others.<\/p>\n<p>He raised alarm over the growing frequency and intensity of floods, blaming climate change for the worsening crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Utsev singled out coastal and riverine regions as especially vulnerable, warning that communities in these areas could face severe consequences if preventative steps are not taken immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a time for complacency,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;The risk is real and the time to act is now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State governments are now deploying emergency response teams, clearing drainages and sensitising residents in flood-prone zones to mitigate the impending threat.<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn that without sustained intervention, the floods could endanger lives, displace thousands and disrupt critical infrastructure across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>With the memory of past floods still fresh, Nigeria watches anxiously, hoping that proactive measures will avert another national disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal As Nigeria braces for the peak of the rainy season, 30 states and the Federal Capital Territory have swung into action to prevent a looming flood disaster that threatens to engulf over 1,200 communities across 176 local government areas. This swift mobilisation follows a stark warning from the Federal Government, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64100","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64102,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64100\/revisions\/64102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}