When floods swept through Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri last week, canoe owners volunteered to help move residents ...

Nigeria's hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was ...

STORY: For Alagoa Morris, the trauma of repeated flooding is all too familiar. He says his home and office in southern ...

STORY: In a camp for people displaced by floods in Nigeria's Borno state, Bintu Amadu is among hundreds of people who have ...

The National Youth Leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Muhammad Auwal Musa, has called for action from government, and well-meaning individuals to cushion the impact of the flood in ...

Northern Nigeria's city of Maiduguri has been hit by devastating flooding. But is it due to government neglect or climate change or both?

Bode Saadu is on the Ilorin-Jebba federal highway, a few kilometres from Jebba Dam. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many houses on the river bank in the area were submerged, displacing ...

Flood warnings had been ringing out across Nigeria’s north-east for weeks. Schools in Maiduguri were closed for a fortnight ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has approved the immediate release of $8 million ...

The Federal Government on Sunday received 50 tonnes of humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates. The aid is to support ...

The release of water from the Lagdo dam is an annual event, and has triggered flooding in Nigeria in the past — including in ...

Research has shown that the Alau dam, located 20 kilometres outside Maiduguri, was constructed in 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida for irrigation purposes, flood control, ...