Nigeria: The situation is "out of our control" and the country is currently facing the worst floods in a decade, which will result in the death of more than 300 people in 2022, officials told The Associated Press on Monday. Including at least 20 deaths.

According to Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, floods in 27 of Nigeria's 36 states and the nation's capital have affected half a million people, including 100,000 displaced. It claimed that over 500 people were injured.

The disaster has also destroyed thousands of hectares of farmland, raising concerns about the disruption of food supplies in Africa's most populous country.

According to Manzo Ezekiel, a spokesman for the disaster management organisation, "this (the number of flood-related deaths) is by far the highest since 2012".

Every year, Nigeria is flooded, often as a result of a lack of infrastructure investment and a disregard for environmental regulations. This year's floods are being blamed by officials for local river overflow, abnormal rainfall and the release of excess water from the Lagado dam in neighboring Cameroon's northern region.

According to the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, or NEMA, "contributions from excessive rainfall and outflows" such as the dam in Cameroon will cause more flooding in 2022 than last year.

Two of the country's dams are beginning to overflow, and on Monday Nigeria's disaster management agency warned states of "serious consequences" by more than a dozen states in the coming weeks.

Mustafa Habib Ahmed, director of NEMA, said, “I call on all governments of the frontline states to relocate communities at risk of flooding, identify safe high grounds to evacuate individuals, and ensure adequate stock of food and non-food items. I would like to recommend predefined.

According to Yusuf Sani Babura, director of the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, floods in northwestern Jigawa state have killed more than 20 people in the past week. 91 people have died due to floods in the state this year, more than any other state in the country.

"We are facing devastating floods beyond our control," Babura said. "We gave it our best effort, but we couldn't stop it."
There are concerns that the floods could further disrupt the country's food supply, which is already hampered by armed conflict in the country's northwest and centre. The floods have also destroyed crops in many farms, mostly in northern Nigeria, which produces most of the country's food.

Aondongu Kwagh-bee claimed to have recently visited his rice field in north-central Benue state and found that "everything" had been "depleted" by torrential rains.

“At the moment, there is nothing. The rice has washed away, and only sand has filled the space, said the 30-year-old.

According to Akintunde Babatunde, a climate analyst based in Abuja, poor infrastructure design in the areas of roads, drainage and waste disposal is the primary cause of Nigeria's annual flooding problem.
He claimed that the unusual rainfall is evidence of climate change, so it is no longer a threat.

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