Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm ...

Though again absent, the 91-years-old President was touched by news of the devastating floods in the Far North Region of the ...

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

Catholic leaders across West and Central Africa are calling for assistance following unprecedented and deadly floods that ...

Hyacinth Alia, governor of Benue, says the state is prepared to withstand any potential flooding in the state.

States are taking urgent measures to prepare for potential flooding from the release of water from Cameroon's Lagdo Dam.

The lagdo dam was built in 1982 by a Chinese company to provide electricity and potable water and irrigate farmlands in ...

parts of Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria have experienced some of their heaviest rains in decades. Heavy rains have overwhelmed local systems, Justin Sheffield, a hydrologist at the University of ...

The Committee on Consequential Adjustments in Salaries for civil servants has agreed that the new minimum wage will be ...

The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NIHSA, said yesterday that water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon, has been released into Rivers Niger and Benue.

The four states as well as Adamawa, Kogi, Edo, Delta, Anambra, Bayelsa and Cross River were on Tuesday advised by NIHSA to adopt measures to mitigate floods that might occur as a result of gradual ...