{"id":66924,"date":"2025-05-30T09:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66924"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:48:44","slug":"flood-21-confirmed-dead-10-missing-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/30\/flood-21-confirmed-dead-10-missing-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood: 21 Confirmed Dead, 10 Missing in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least 21 people have been confirmed dead and 10 others declared missing after a devastating flood swept through Mokwa town in Niger State in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Triggered by a prolonged and intense downpour, the flood wreaked havoc on the Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa communities, submerging homes and washing away residents in its path.<\/p>\n<p>The Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Abdullahi Baba-Arah, confirmed the disaster, revealing that over 50 houses were destroyed and many families displaced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, 21 corpses have been recovered while 10 persons are still missing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>NSEMA, in collaboration with Mokwa Local Government authorities and local volunteers, launched a search and rescue operation immediately after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt present, three survivors, a woman and her two children, are receiving treatment for wounds and shock at the Mokwa General Hospital,\u201d Baba-Arah added.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, the rescue operation was still ongoing, with efforts focused on locating the missing and providing support to affected families.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has also begun compiling reports to assess the full impact of the disaster and determine the next line of action.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy unfolded on the same day Niger State marked the second anniversary of Governor Mohammed Bago\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; At least 21 people have been confirmed dead and 10 others declared missing after a devastating flood swept through Mokwa town in Niger State in the early hours of Thursday. Triggered by a prolonged and intense downpour, the flood wreaked havoc on the Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa communities, submerging homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66924","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\/66924","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66926,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66924\/revisions\/66926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}