<strong>National Emergency Management Agency has declared flooding a national disaster. </strong>
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<strong>The agency declared the emergency in four states including Kogi, Delta, Niger and Anambra. </strong>
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<strong>The Director General of NEMA, MUSTAPHA MAIHAJA says eight other states have been placed on the agency’s watch list. </strong>
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<strong>The declaration by NEMA comes after President MUHAMMADU BUHARI gave the directive following the major alert issued to states across the country of further incidents of flooding. </strong>
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<strong>More than 100 people have died in series of floods across the country over the past two weeks after heavy rains caused the Niger and Benue Rivers to overflow. </strong>
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<strong>Thousands of people have been displaced and vast swathes of farmlands have been destroyed by the floods in central and southern Nigeria. </strong>
