Officials on Friday predicting the prediction of death, at least 111 people died in a market city, where at least 111 people were killed in a market city, where northern Nigerian farmers sell their goods to traders from South, predicting the prediction of death.
The Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency did not immediately say how much rain was received after midnight of Thursday in Mokwa city of Niger state, more than 180 miles from Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous nation.
Met with dangerous floods in South -East, while braces for snow storm in northeast
Community in Northern Nigeria has been experiencing long -term dried mantras that cause suffering from climate change and excessive rainfall, causing severe floods during a brief wet season.
In videos and photos on social media, the neighborhoods and houses involved in flood waters were submerged, their roofs are barely visible over brown water. In the water, the waist-deep, the inhabitants tried to recover what they could do, or save others.
A person sees in his collapsed house after the flood which forced several thousands of people from his homes in Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria on 31 May, 2025. (Reuters/stringer)
Casem Muhammad, a resident of Mokwa, said, “We lost many people, and the virtues, the production of our fields. Those who have storage, have lost it.”
Niger State Emergency Agency spokesman Ibrahim Adu Hussaini told the associated press by telephone on Friday afternoon, “111 confirmed dead,” more bodies have just been brought and counted so far. ,
About 380 km to the west of Abuja (236 mi) Mokwa, a major meeting point where traders of the south buy beans, onions and other foods from farmers in the north.
Mokawa community leader Aliki Musa told AP that the villagers are not used for such floods. “Water is like spiritual water that used to come but it is seasonal,” Moses said. “It can now come (and) it will reach another twenty years before it comes again.”
Jibril Mici, president of the Mokwa Local Government Area, told the local news website Premium Times that the flood-control operations had been constructed for a long time.
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“This important infrastructure is necessary to reduce future flood risks and protect life and property,” he said.
In September, the northeast city Maiduguri caused severe floods due to torrential rains and a dam declining, causing at least 30 people to kill and displaced millions of people, causing the humanitarian crisis to spoil the human crisis due to Boko Haram Rebellion.
