No fewer than four communities in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State have been ravaged by flooding, displacing residents and destroying houses, household property, shops, goods, rice mills and farmlands worth millions of naira. The affected communities are Mpu, Okpanku, Ndiabor and Oduma. The flooding began expanding after torrential rainfall on Sept. 20 and…
…As SEDC, Enugu begin development of 200-Hectare Integrated Model Farm at Nomeh Unateze Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, on Tuesday, officially flagged off the South East Agro-Development Programme (SEADP), a 200-hectare pilot integrated model farm by the South East Development Commission (SEDC) at Nomeh Unateze, Nkanu East Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu…
|By Emmanuel Okonkwo (ABS News) AWKA — Torrential rainfall has caused significant damage in Awka metropolis, with two buildings collapsing at Umudioka by Agu-Oye and four electricity poles falling near the Old Government House area. An ABS News crew that visited the affected areas observed that the two buildings at Umudioka collapsed after a nearby…
Japan is on high alert as powerful Typhoon Dujuan approaches the country’s eastern Pacific coast, with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning of torrential rain, violent winds, flooding and landslides around Tokyo and the wider Kanto region. The storm, the 25th typhoon of the year, is expected to pass near the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture,…
AWKA— Residents of Oduke, Ugwuagba, Obosi, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra, have appealed to the state and Federal Governments to urgently intervene in a devastating gully erosion threatening homes, roads and other infrastructure in the area. The residents said the erosion had cut off the road linking Awada and Electrical axis of…
Four members of the same family have died after a three-storey building collapsed at Popo Giwa, Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday morning. The building, located at No. 41 Popo Giwa Street, beside Gogoro Mosque, collapsed at about 5 a.m., trapping eight members of the family beneath the rubble. The Kwara State Fire Service later confirmed…
A five-month-old baby girl and her mother have been rescued from a canal at Abule-Ado along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway by operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, popularly known as KAI. The rescue was carried out on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, during routine clearance operations in the Abule-Ado area, according to the agency’s spokesperson,…
AWKA — The Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC) has approved a series of measures aimed at strengthening environmental sustainability, economic development and urban regeneration as the state prepares to mark its 35th anniversary. The decisions were reached at the council’s 10th meeting of the second term of Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s administration, held at the Light…
EKET — Residents of Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have appealed for urgent government intervention after torrential rainfall triggered severe flooding, submerging homes and destroying property worth millions of naira. The residents spoke after heavy rainfall lasting more than four hours from Saturday night into Sunday caused flooding in several parts of…
