{"id":15424,"date":"2018-09-17T21:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15424"},"modified":"2018-09-17T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:22:55","slug":"nigeria-floods-kill-100-people-across-10-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15424","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria floods kill 100 people across 10 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"94.4622425629\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Torrential rains has unleashed floods in different parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/nigeria.html\">Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0over the past few days, killing at least 100 people and damaging thousands of homes, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A national disaster was declared in four states &#8211; Kogi, Niger, Anambra and Delta &#8211; over the flooding, meaning that the federal government had taken over the search, rescue and rehabilitation of victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Based on the data available, 100 people have so far died in 10 states,&#8221; Sani Datti, spokesperson f<span>or the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Monday<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Delta is an oil producing state in the Niger Delta region, home to Africa&#8217;s biggest energy industry, where the Niger river fans into creeks before emptying itself into the Atlantic. There has been no reported impact on crude oil production.<\/p>\n<p>Kogi and Niger are states in the centre of the country whereas the other two are in southern regions.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s rainy season, which typically runs from March to September, brings with it inevitable flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Such flooding is exacerbated by poor infrastructure and lack of planning to protect against the waters, but this year the destruction has been the worst since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At least 140 people were killed and tens of thousands forced to abandon their homes that year, in Nigeria&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/weather\/2012\/10\/201210129319935818.html\">worst flooding<\/a> in more than five decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE: <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torrential rains has unleashed floods in different parts of Nigeria\u00a0over the past few days, killing at least 100 people and damaging thousands of homes, according to officials.\u00a0 A national disaster was declared in four states &#8211; Kogi, Niger, Anambra and Delta &#8211; over the flooding, meaning that the federal government had taken over the search,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}